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Name: Michael Van Slyke Date of Birth: 9/23/68 Place of Birth: Tucson, Arizona Race: Terran Human Sex: Yes, please! Hair: Short Eyes: Expressive Height: Tall enough to see my coming dominion on the horizon. Weight: Enough to crush all opposition beneath my iron jackboot. Current location: In front of my keyboard (Duh!) Current state of mind: New York |
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I was born in the turbulent year 1968. My mother was the daughter of an Air Force NCO. She and my biological father drifted apart and mom later married the man who gave me his name and who I consider to be my "real" father. He joined the Air Force himself in 1972 but our only overseas posting was on Okinawa from 1974 to 1976. After that we moved to Texas, where I have lived ever since.
I am a man of many talents and diverse interests. I draw, sew, do leatherwork, woodwork, decorative braiding and knotting, knife making, and plot the overthrow of the entire established geopolitical order. In the Sixteenth Century someone like myself would have been called a "Renaissance Man." Today they just call it Attention Defecit Dis... Oooh! Shiny!
I am a fan of science fiction television, film, and literature. I thank my mother for beginning my early Fandom training with classic Star Trek reruns and continuing to supervise my fannish development through the Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers years. My musical tastes run the full gamut from hardcore gangsta rap and angry Matrix-sountrack style techno all the way to Bach and Enya-type airy fairy stuff. Even musical styles I generally hate (read: country) have a few gems buried within them that will catch my ear.
Politically I am, basically, Liberal. I don't have that much of a problem parting with a portion of my income to see that there is a decent social safety net for the unlucky and in my State, neither will you. That said, I make a distinction between the unlucky and the unworthy. If you and your kids wind up on the street because your employer closed down, your town is in a depression, you've lost your transportation, and have no way to relocate, I beleive the State exists to assist you. If you suffer from schizophrenia, a physical infirmity, or even debilitating suicidal depression, the State exists to provide resources to help you. If, however, you end up on the street because you're too lazy or stupid (not "uneducated",mind you, just STUPID) to take steps towards turning your situation around, well you can just die under a bridge, cold, sick, alone, with no friends. You may then have a useful future in one of my fertilizer plants or in the development of new and tasty forms of Soylent Green.
Do you fear that my ideas smack of thinly veiled fascism? Well, it's not really fascism if the right people are in charge. Those people are, of course, myself and my hand-picked cabal of deputies. If my plans still disturb you please feel free to register a complaint at your local Homeland Security Interrogation Center, or with the office of my personal guard.
Beyond that, I believe in separation of church and state (State office vacation time for national holidays and election days, but not religious holidays). I believe in a woman's right to choose and marriage benefits for all responsible adults regardless of the gender or number of adults involved in said marriage. I support a department of defense for actual defense, basic universal healthcare, basic national educational standards, a competent space program, environmental conservation, and sustainable growth.
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