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If you could...pick a council of 7 people who would make the decisions upon which the world will run, who will they be? 7 historical characters or living people...but they must be real people, not fictional...

my council (in no particular order)

1. Theodore Roosevelt (Minister of War)
2. Abraham Lincoln (Minister of State)
3. Ivan the Terrible (Minister of the Interior)
4. Winston Churchill (Security Advisor)
5. Mother Teresa (Minister of Human Services and Aid)
6. Gerry Adams (Minister of Justice and Counterterrorism)
7. Buddha (Spiritual Advisor)

1. Joseph Goebbels (Minister of information)
2. Conrad Adenauer (Minister of State)
3. Otto von Bismarck (Minister of the Interior)
4. Frederick II the Great (Minister of defence)
5. Archimedes (Minister of education)
6. Salomon (Minister of Justice)
7. Jakob Fugger II (Minister of finance)

President: Booker T. Washington
Secretary of State: Joe McCarthy (no flames, please!)
Secretary of the Treasury: Adam Smith
Attorney-General: J. Edgar Hoover
Secretary of War: George Patton
Security Advisor(s): Otto Otepka and Martin Dies

George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Condi Rice
Aaron Burr
...that al-Zarqawi dude.

George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Condi Rice
Aaron Burr
...that al-Zarqawi dude.
For what positions?

...that al-Zarqawi dude.

Who?

3. Ivan the Terrible (Minister of the Interior)


LMAO...hahaha

Who?
The number one wanted guy in Iraq. Osama is to Afghanistan what al-Zarqawi is to Iraq. Turn on CNN dude.

i would go to various farm communities around america and other nations with noted argricultural industries, then find 7 people, male or female, which ever fit the bill, and i would take the most innocent of them. if they rule the word, they won't need any concept of war, only fairness and a love of living things, so they would do it wonderfully. also, since most argriculture people aren't remarkably wealthy, they have good awareness of the people who need help the most.

George W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Condi Rice
Aaron Burr
...that al-Zarqawi dude.
Secretary of Propaganda
Secretary of Finances
Secretary of Punishment
Secretary of Special Operations
Secretary of Minority/Women Relations
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense

The number one wanted guy in Iraq. Osama is to Afghanistan what al-Zarqawi is to Iraq. Turn on CNN dude.

Thanks! :)

President: Tommy Douglas
Minister for Children and Families (includes education): Larry Spencer
Minister for the Environment: Ralph Nader
Minister for Cities: Olivia Chow
Minister for Women and Minorities: Sheila Copps
Minister for the Economy: Jack Layton
Minister for Security: Ed Broadbent

Note: Many of these people are Canadian; you may not know who they are.

EDIT: My least favorites.

President: Joseph Stalin
Minister for Children and Families: Paris Hilton
Minister for the Environment: Belinda Stronach
Minister for Cities: Osama Bin Laden
Minister for Women and Minorities: Adolph Hitler
Minister for the Economy: George W. Bush
Minister for Security: Saddam Hussein

Note: I'm not putting Belinda Stronach and Paris Hilton in the same category as Hitler. I just thought about who is worst in each category.

George W. Bush - Secretary of Religion
George H. W. Bush - Secretary of the Treasury
Saddam Hussein - Secretary of Law Enforcement
Osama bin Laden - Secretary of Covert/Special Ops
al-Zarqawi - Secretary of Terrorism
Aaron Burr - Secretary of State
Michael Moore - Secretary of Propaganda

^- that list is better.

Me(Emperor)
J Edgar Hoover(Interior Gaurd)
John D. Rockefeller(Economic Minister)
George S. Patton(War Minister)
Joe Mcarthy(Minister Against Communism)
Joseph Goebbels(Propaganda Minister)

That would be a good government.

Or, here's an interesting twist: How 'bout the 7 people you'd LEAST like to rule the world!

Here we go:

President- Stalin
Vice-President- Pol Pot
Secretary of the Treasury- Salvador Allende
Secretary of War- Hitler
Secretary of State- Henry Kissinger
Attorney-General- Ho Chi Minh
Secretary of Agriculture- Mao Tse-tung

Or, here's an interesting twist: How 'bout the 7 people you'd LEAST like to rule the world!

Here we go:

President- Stalin
Vice-President- Pol Pot
Secretary of the Treasury- Salvador Allende
Secretary of War- Hitler
Secretary of State- Henry Kissinger
Attorney-General- Ho Chi Minh
Secretary of Agriculture- Mao Tse-tung

*Praises you for not being stupid and putting dubya on your list*

Or, here's an interesting twist: How 'bout the 7 people you'd LEAST like to rule the world!

Here we go:

President- Stalin
Vice-President- Pol Pot
Secretary of the Treasury- Salvador Allende
Secretary of War- Hitler
Secretary of State- Henry Kissinger
Attorney-General- Ho Chi Minh
Secretary of Agriculture- Mao Tse-tung

I'm not entirely against that list: given sufficient time Stalin would liquidate just about everybody else that holds a position. Not a bad result.

*Praises you for not being stupid and putting dubya on your list*

I considered it, though (for Secretary of State).

Okay, but that's enough 'worst lists,' I don't wanna hijack this thread.

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I considered it, though (for Secretary of State).
Why not education?

Why not education?

Lol :D

Lol :D
I'm sure he can teach the kiddies lots of stuff.
Like,

History:

See, free nations do not develop weapons of mass destruction.
-- I wonder if Dubya is going to try and rewrite the history of the 20th century to agree with this statement, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2003


But it used to be that oceans -- we thought oceans could protect us, that we were guarded by the oceans. And that if there was a threat overseas, as a result of the protection from the oceans, we could decide whether to be involved or not. It might affect us overseas, but it couldn't affect us at home. And therefore, we have the luxury of kind of picking and choosing gathering threats.
-- I guess the oceans protected us from the British in the War of 1812, and World War II was a "luxury choice", Kennesaw, Georgia, Feb. 20, 2003

I don't believe we can afford to have a League of Nations again.
-- The irony of this statement is that the League of Nations failed in part because the U.S. refused to join (respect) it. I guess history does repeat, after all. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2002

There wasn't a lot of protest at Yale in '68. I don't remember that. And I think most people -- I don't know if you found anything differently -- I just don't remember any great days of rage. I think those were mainly in the 70's.
-- In actuality 1967-68 saw the following events: Race riots in Yale hometown of New Haven, antiwar "teach-ins" and protests, students burning draft cards and William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale chaplain, was indicted for helping draft resisters. New York Times, June 19, 2000

Grammar:

This disease leaves suffering and orphans and fear wherever it reaches. Every man and woman and child who suffers from this addiction, from the streets of Philly to the villages of Africa, is a child of God who deserves our love and our help.
-- Another screwup that was wiped from the official White House transcript (first they published it correctly, then later it was corrected to say "affliction"), speaking about AIDS at the Greater Exodus Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jun. 23, 2004

I went to the United Nations and said, he's [Saddam Hussein is] a threat. And they agreed with the fact that he was a threat, by a 15 to nothing vote in the United Nations Security Council. See, the world spoke. Not only America speak, the world spoke.
-- Conjugation issues in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004

Philosophy:

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?
-- I'm feeling a little bit confused by this one, Washington, D.C., Jun. 15, 2004

The solid truth of the matter is, when you find -- if you want to help heal the hurt -- if you want to hurt people and help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.
-- I'm hoping that the advocation for hurting people here is accidental, Bentonville, Arkansas, Nov. 4, 2002

All of us here in America should believe, and I think we do, that we should be, as I mentioned, a nation of owners. Owning something is freedom, as far as I'm concerned. It's part of a free society... It's a part of -- it's of being a -- it's a part of -- an important part of America.
-- Washington, D.C., Oct. 15, 2002

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once -- shame on -- shame on you. You fool me, you can't get fooled again.
-- Dubya attempting to co-opt Texas and Tennessee into his verbal wreckage. The saying he was trying to dredge up was "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Even better, Dubya was speaking at a literature magnet school. I'm sure it was a learning experience for the kids. East Literature Magnet School, Nashville, Tennessee, Sep. 17, 2002

Or, Bush could be Secretary of Idiocy! :D

Or, Bush could be Secretary of Idiocy! :D
no we can make dan quayle the minister of education

Or, Bush could be Secretary of Idiocy! :D
Wouldn't that be a bit to obviouse? How would a ministry like that reflect on your administration? Minister of entertainment would be more up his alley.
Then at least people would think he's clowning around on purpose.

no we can make dan quayle the minister of education

Is Dan Quayle stupid? I don't know much about him.

I would want no one to rule.

Is Dan Quayle stupid? I don't know much about him.
"Thank you Mr. President, my fellow astronauts."

"Thank you Mr. President, my fellow astronauts."

Looked at from a galactic perspective, we are all astronauts.

President: Vince McMahon
Vice-President: Hugh Hefner
Attorney General: Judge Judy
Surgeon General: Jocelyn Elders
Minister of Finance: Ross Perot
Minister of Science and Education: L. Ron Hubbard
Chairman of Governmental Oversight: Al Franken.

:)

Looked at from a galactic perspective, we are all astronauts.
What if your Russian?

What if your Russian?

Then we are all cosmonauts.

President: Vince McMahon
Vice-President: Hugh Hefner
Attorney General: Judge Judy
Surgeon General: Jocelyn Elders
Minister of Finance: Ross Perot
Minister of Science and Education: L. Ron Hubbard
Chairman of Governmental Oversight: Al Franken.

:)

I recognize all those names except Hubbard and Elders. Please elaborate.

Then we are all cosmonauts.
Ah good. Just making sure.

I recognize all those names except Hubbard and Elders. Please elaborate.
Hubbard was the founder of the Scientology cult. Dunno who Elders is though.

Hubbard was the founder of the Scientology cult. Dunno who Elders is though.

Thanks! :)

I recognize all those names except Hubbard and Elders. Please elaborate.

L. Ron Hubbard was an author of numerous Sci-fi books including the well known 'Battlefield Earth'. He was the creator of the religion of Scientology and the founder of the Writers of The Future contest.

Jocelyn Elders was Bill Clinton's first surgeon general. She was asked to resign after expressing her opinion that children should be taught in school sex education classes to masturbate in order to prevent teen pregnancies and STDs.

L. Ron Hubbard was an author of numerous Sci-fi books including the well known 'Battlefield Earth'. He was the creator of the religion of Scientology and the founder of the Writers of The Future contest.

Jocelyn Elders was Bill Clinton's first surgeon general. She was asked to resign after expressing her opinion that children should be taught in school sex education classes to masturbate in order to prevent teen pregnancies and STDs.

Thanks! :)

1. Colin Powell
2. Tom Ridge
3. George W Bush
4. Rusmfeld
5. Cheney
6. Dennis Rodman
7. Condi Rice

1. Colin Powell
2. Tom Ridge
3. George W Bush
4. Rusmfeld
5. Cheney
6. Dennis Rodman
7. Condi Rice
At which position?

6. Dennis Rodman

:eek:

At which position?
It shall be as a Council that makes decisions as a consensus.

It shall be as a Council that makes decisions as a consensus.
Will they have secret handshakes and a codeword? Tatt's perhaps?

It shall be as a Council that makes decisions as a consensus.

If George W. Bush and Dennis Rodman can agree on a course of action, then it's probably either really really right... or really really wrong. Heh.

:eek:
Yeah, Dennis Fucking Rodman!!!

If he is not available (busy cross dressing or whatever), I would choose Charles Barkley.

I would want to rule the world but my ideal advisors would be:

1) Me (Military Dictator or "President")

2) Benito Mussolini (Commander of the Republican Iron Guard) National Guard of my One Party State.

3) Don Rumsfeld (Minister of Defense)

4) Fidel Castro (Minister of State)

5) Milton Friedman (Minister of Finance)

6) Slobodan Milosevic (Minister of "Genocide" and "Labor Camps")

7) Kim Il-Sung (Minister of Propaganda)

Ross Perot President

Prime Minister: Jack Layton
Deputy Minister: Hilary Rothman-Clinton
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Jimmy Carter
Minister of Revenue: Karl Marx
Minister of Education: Bob Rae
Minister of Propogana: Joseph Goebbels
Heritage Minister: Gilles Duceppe
Minister of the Interior: Rene Laveques
Minister of Culture: Chad Kroger
Minister of Indian Affairs: Louis Riel
Minister of Transporation: RB Bennett
Minister of Public Affairs: Lester B Pearson
Minister of Welfare: Mike Harris
Minister of Finance: Paul Martin
Minister of Defence: Winston Churchill
Minister of Agriculture: Mao Tse-tung

Minister of Defence: Adolf Hitler
Why would you pick a lance corporal, who didn't even finish high school, for this position?

Why would you pick a lance corporal, who didn't even finish high school, for this position?
It came down to Donald Rumsfeld, Art Eggleton, Dubya, Stalin and him... he seemed to the least offensive. Rummy is a republican, Art is a freakin' liberal, Stalin is just an asshole and Dubya is too retarded. Hitler... well, he had good strategies, if not counting the mistake of holding two fronts.

President - Pierrie Elliott Trudeau
V.P - Evita Peron
Sec. Of Defense - George C. Marshall
Sec of State - Nelson Mandela
Attorney General - Charles Hamilton Houston
National Security Advisor - William Stephenson
Sec. Of Labour - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It came down to Donald Rumsfeld, Art Eggleton, Dubya, Stalin and him... he seemed to the least offensive. Rummy is a republican, Art is a freakin' liberal, Stalin is just an asshole and Dubya is too retarded. Hitler... well, he had good strategies, if not counting the mistake of holding two fronts.
Well, since "his" good strategies were planned and executed by his generals I would consider one of them instead.

Well, since "his" good strategies were planned and executed by his generals I would consider one of them instead.
Or, Churchill instead... I forgot about him... Eisenhower or Patton would have worked too.

There are no particular order, just labeled to keep track, it's late:

1. Theodore Roosevelt (Sec. of Defense)
2. Winston Churchill (Sec. of War)
3. Margaret Thatcher (Sec. of State)
4. Thomas Paine (President's Speech Writer)
5. C.S. Lewis (Spiritual Advisor to President)
6. John F. Kennedy (President)
7. Tom Brokaw (President Press Secretary)

Tough call: do we go for the Magnificent Seven, or the Seven Samurai?

1. Superman
2. Batman
3. Green Lantern
4. Hawk Girl
5. Wonderwoman
6. Alien-dude
7. Me (Colodia)


and does it really matter what positions they're given? ;P

President: Julius Caesar
Secratary of Defence: Sun Tzu
Secratary of State: Jesus
Secratary of Education: Socrates
Secratary Treasurer: John J. Rockerfeller
Secratary of Public Relations: Adolf Hitler (pre-Holocaust)
Secratary of Environment: Jane Goodall
And an extra:
Minister of Silly Walks: John Cleese :p


If I could choose ficional characters from famous books for these roles, I'd choose:

President: God Emperor Leto II (God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert)
Secratary of Defence: Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card)
Secratary of State: Arek Estraven (The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursulla K. Le Guin)
Secratary of Education: Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Series, Arthur Conan Doyle)
Secratary Treasurer: Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens)
Secratary of Public Relations: Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Rahld Dahl)
Secratary of Environment: Fangorn Treebeard (Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien)

President for Life: Me, and I'd do a damn good job. No joke dream job since i was 7.
Minister of DisInformation: Joseph Goebbels (I hate Nazis, but this guy was good at his job)
Secretary of Defense: Ataturk (against whom? these 7 rule the world!)
Financial Advisor: Milton Friedman
Parlimentary spokesman: John McCain (i like him, but who says the "people" have a say in anything?
Minister of Sport and Health: Lance Armstrong
Founder of the Empire, and all-around awe-inspiring guy (figurehead, baby): Constantine the Great.

eighth pity position: Secretary of Edufication: (Teaching he or her to read so they can pass a literary test): GW Bush

me and 6 strippers

Tough call: do we go for the Magnificent Seven, or the Seven Samurai?

Thats a toughie. Do we want people who'll fuck you up or people who'll errr.. fuck you up..

Wow, this is very popular...I'm suprised and honored..

A good clean non-political BS thread for the most part.

I would want to rule the world but my ideal advisors would be:

1) Me (Military Dictator or "President")

2) Benito Mussolini (Commander of the Republican Iron Guard) National Guard of my One Party State.

3) Don Rumsfeld (Minister of Defense)

4) Fidel Castro (Minister of State)

5) Milton Friedman (Minister of Finance)

6) Slobodan Milosevic (Minister of "Genocide" and "Labor Camps")

7) Kim Il-Sung (Minister of Propaganda)

dude you rule.

heres my list

his supreme excellency to whom all are endebted for their very lives. -me
minister of police/justice- iron felix (cant remeber his last name..the dude who commanded the NKVD and had a statue of him in from of Lubyanka)
minister of defence - ho chi minh(SP)
minister of (mis)education George W bush II (Curent education is just bullshit and propaganda, and hes pretty damn good at that)
minister of culture Maddox (of maddox.xmission.com)

1.Ronald Reagan (state)
2.Theodore Roosevelt (interior)
3.Warren Buffet(treasury)
4.Ezra taft Benson (spirituality)
5.Chester Nimitz(defense)
6.Robert A Heinlein(science + Technology)
7.William J Bryan (health ,education,and welfare.)

I'm not entirely against that list: given sufficient time Stalin would liquidate just about everybody else that holds a position. Not a bad result.

would be great if the nation only consisted of those 7 ;)

President: Me (of course!)
Minister of Defence: Gen. Wesley Clark
Minister of Propaganda: Comical Ali
Minister of Welfare and Social Security: Karl Marx
State Security Director: Saddam Hussein
Ministers of Finance: Gordon Brown and Josef Stalin
Minister of Education: Albert Einstein

Ohoh!

Me
My clone
My other clone
My clone's clone
That clone's clone
The clone's cloned clone
and My clone but with Einstein's brain in it

Leader - Myself
Jim Carrey - Jack Dee - Billy Connolly and Frank Skinner for some jobs. With Shane Macgowan as leader of all entertainment and Stephen King for another job of some sorts... writing stuff i guess :D

President - Vladimir Lenin
Minister of Festivities - Bill Clinton
Minister of War - Georgi Zhukov
Minister of Finance - Pierre Trudeau
Minister of Justice - Ghandi
Minister of Interior - Winston Churchill
Minister of Foriegn Affairs - Franklin Roosevelt

President - Pierrie Elliott Trudeau
V.P - Evita Peron
Sec. Of Defense - George C. Marshall
Sec of State - Nelson Mandela
Attorney General - Charles Hamilton Houston
National Security Advisor - William Stephenson
Sec. Of Labour - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You do know that Marshall was an extremely mediocre soldier, right? The only reason he advanced as far as he did was through political connections (same as Eisenhower and Colin Powell).

Minister of Agriculture: Mao Tse-tung

You do know that tens of millions of people starved to death under Mao, right?

I'll add a few more:

Spiritual Advisor: Jesus
Secretary of Education (assuming I had a Department of Education, which I probably wouldn't, but if I did): That bell-curve mathematician [I know his name, I just don't have a clue how you spell it]
Secretary of Agriculture (if I had one): Ezra Taft Benson
Secretaries of Transportation (if I had any): Orville and Wilbur Wright
Secretaries of Commerce (if I had any): Calvin Coolidge or Augusto Pinochet (no flames! He did, after all, turn Chile into an economic powerhouse)
Special Assistant For National Security Affairs: Douglas MacArthur
Director of the CIA: Otto Otepka
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Robert E. Lee

Western aid that, actually.

Really? I'll have to think of another person then.

Really? I'll have to think of another person then.

No, you don't have to. I mean, it was Western aid, but his use of it is probably a factor, too.

Henry Rollins
Dave Chapelle
Bobcat Goldthwait
Ian McKellum
Conan O'Brien
Brian Dennehey
Ice-T

:p

1. George Patton (War Advisor)
2. Genghis Khan (Secretary of State)
3. Santa Claus (Security Advisor)
4. Frederick Barbarossa (Secretary of swimming safety)
5. Judge Judy (Secretary of Justice)
6. Sitting Bull (Secretary of the Interior)
7. Joseph Campbell (Spiritual Advisor)

1. George Patton (War Advisor)
2. Genghis Khan (Secretary of State)
3. Santa Claus (Security Advisor)
4. Frederick Barbarossa (Secretary of swimming safety)
5. Judge Judy (Secretary of Justice)
6. Sitting Bull (Secretary of the Interior)
7. Joseph Campbell (Spiritual Advisor)

*claps at #4*

That is masterful my friend

Barbarossa is a perfect example...never swim in armor...especially after walking through arabia kids...

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George Carlin
Whoopie Goldburg
Robin Williams
My Aunt Fritz
Billy Connolly
Eddie Murphy
And...Me...just 'cause I want to spend time with all the above, geniuses all.

In no particular order:

Secretary of Internet Entertainment: Peter Abrams
Secretary of Television Entertainment: Molly Sugden
Secretary of Written Entertainment: Terry Pratchett
Under Secretaries of Written Entertainment(Fantasy): Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
Secretary of Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
Under Secretary of Movies(Comedy): Mel Brooks

You may notice that all of the above fulfill roles of entertainment, that is because the chief purpos of government is to give man something to snigger at and, with a one government world, I don't need a Secretary of Pointy Sticks to fight the foreigners. Or you might be a squirrel who fell on the keyboard of a running computer and accidentally loaded up this page, in which case I welcome you to the internet in the hopes that you will make it a better place.

1. FDR (best president ever)
2. Bill Clinton (did good things to the economy)
3. Dennis Kucinich (my favorite for this year's election)
4. My best friend's dad (every time he opens his mouth he's fixing a global problem)
5. Socrates (philosophy can't hurt)
6. Bikram Choudhury (his yoga program is more awesome than sliced bread, so he can't possibly be dumb)
7. Vera Katz (needed a Republican in here somewhere, and she was pretty good at being PDX's mayor)

No special positions, just a council to talk itself out. #4 can be the one who has authority to gong the bell and shut everyone up if people start screaming.