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The DarkHorse2000 Questionnaire

In our relentless quest to bring you the Web's best coverage of ALL the presidential candidates, we created an extensive questionnaire and sent it out to all 235 candidates on our list. We haven't gotten them all back yet, but they're steadily trickling in and we'll put them up as they arrive.

Our questionnaire covered not only the usual personal data and their position on the important issues, but a series of questions designed to give you a unique insight into the character and personality of the candidates.

We think you'll find their answers informative, insightful, and entertaining.

 

 

NAME: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

EMAIL ADDRESS: Candidate_Petry@who.net

BIRTHDATE: July 3, 1951

BIRTHPLACE: E Stroudsburg PA

CURRENT HOME STATE: Hawaii

PARTY AFFILIATION: USA 2000 interParty (operating name; independent)

WEBSITE:

 

 

RELIGION: Christian Scientist

MARITAL STATUS: Single (never married)

CHILDREN / GRANDCHILDREN: 0

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: Executive Production Director, Publisher, (VAR) Author, Scientist, Mathematician, Engineer

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: organizations presidencies, prior President-Candidate 1996, 1992

MILITARY SERVICE: none direct - prior clearance: SECRET/RESTRICTED/CRYPTO

EDUCATION: (PROF) Adult Teaching Credential '82-87 UCLA (math/comp-sci), BA'73 UCSD Mathematics

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: (VAR) astronomical, mathematical, engineering, >Scriptural exegeses discoveries (PUBL)

HOBBIES AND PERSONAL INTERESTS: swim, music-choreography, internet-web distributed computing

WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET,
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A NOVICE, AVERAGE, OR AN EXPERT?
Expert

POSITION ON THE ISSUES

 

ABORTION:

Candidate Petry recognizes parental responsibility for minors, however, once a minor has children, she (and he, where he admits and marries her) must be considered an adult, and given voter-rights as head(s)-of-household.

GUN CONTROL:

Candidate Petry trusts the writers of our Constitution intended a regular logistic record-keeping militia: Candidate Petry supports proper firearm registrations based on the USA Constitutional need for a regular militia. Candidate Petry also suggests the local 24-hour armourizing (and access logging) of extra weapons owned privately, that these may be readily available to their owners, but safely secured in the residential community.

DRUGS:

Candidate Petry does not find drugs a necessity in civilian life, that the extremes where doctors prescribe have been majoritively due the lack of control over intoxicants, often ignored by those same private-service doctors, and the drug industry therefor incapable of controlling itself and its market properly: the drug community, basically whether for health or excitement, is an in-sane issue, and needs greater specific controls: contrary to the popularity that drugs facilitate, the general effect of drugs has been nilpotent avoidances of responsibilities we can as a nation accomplish: whence the need to control both relegation and application. [see also health care]

MILITARY SPENDING:

Candidate Petry sees basically the need to maintain defense spending, and advance the state of the art: Candidate Petry has specifically proposed his "GUMWAD Armada" Guided-Un-Manned carriers supporting Wide-Area-Deployment of "Hyper-RIFT" Hypersonic Remotely-Intelligent-Force-Terminals, as necessary to the future of air-superiority: America must make this now, or disappear from international skies. Also Candidate Petry proposes upgrading commercial, large-body aircraft to secure digital-flight-path data-up-loading from the ATC's, to maintain control of planes and flight-lanes, both for the air-crowds to come, and the air-terrors to be abated and ameliorated. [see also Foreign Policy]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION:

Candidate Petry foresees the curtailment of energy-by-burning, especially in the next decade or two as the Chinese come up economically: Interim solutions include synthesized fuel-air production systems regulation(s), ensuring improved atmospheric conditions as the commuter and construction industries increase their energy loading factor. [see also foreign policy]

EDUCATION:

Candidate Petry feels money is best spent by maximal efficiency imposition: improving the internet to an educational perspective. [eg. browsers that auto-cite references to help students make proper bibliographically linked, and modern cross-linked, documents; and pre-cache rather than post-cache to facilitate research without fresh windows interfering sporadically]

Candidate Petry also promotes funding university enclaves consisting of twin 40-story buildings set on an acre or less within city cores, typically amid run-down ghetto-esque blocks, can revive the community and city within, without infringing on housing developments and long-term residents. [see also tax policy]

SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS:

Candidate Petry is declared neutral on federal support for the arts: mathematics, science, education, computation, the mental arts take precedence in our public schools, to mere substance-artistry.

IMMIGRATION:

Candidate Petry feels that modern society must keep the Constitutional provision for free Persons in modern methods: the present requirements and restrictions on immigration are not overall in need of revision. Our first requirement is to see that the world benefits from our democratic prosperity. [see also Foreign Policy; Trade]

FOREIGN AID:

 

PRIVACY RIGHTS:

 

INTERNET REGULATION:

Candidate Petry understands that the internet web developed from USArmy surplus ARPANet, and is therefor inadequate for public use, and needs replacement more than simple review: secure server-to-server APOP e-mail, simpler HTML language more integrated with javascript, Lynx text browser upgrade to https-secure, compatibility with object javascript, Lynx pseudo-Windows tasking, etc. are a few of the present necessities.

Candidate Petry has proposed the paying of all taxes by the internet, thereby preventing the internet itself from being taxed: Candidate Petry proposes sales-use tax be paid four-way: the seller, the buyer, the FOB warehouser, and the shipping destination, all four share equal value in the transactioned object, and therefore their four States should receive equal shares of tax: the internet distributed computing makes this facile: it could not have been done before. The finish on this is that the persons, or objects may have reduced tangible foot-print, and should pay less tax for this: the seller may be an intermediary wholeseller, who pays smaller intermediary tax; the object may be digitally instantly reproducible from one master-copy and the reproduction-media may be transaction-relatively cheap, and the warehouser should pay smaller master-houser tax.

CORPORATE REGULATION:

 

DEATH PENALTY:

 

ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO ADD?

ELECTION REFORM: To properly implement the Constitutional provision for all persons to vote, Candidate Petry demands we must have 1) face-pictures of each Candidate on the ballot - this has been possible by government artist sketch (eg. the coin face artists) since the beginning of this nation two centuries ago - today we can do color print/xerography; 2) we must have audio balloting for Persons who do not write, or do not read: this has been possible in recent decades; 3) We must restore the proper sufficiency of Representatives in the House: about 540 for this next Election; and 4) We must change the Senate to 8 year terms, and move them off the Presidential Election.

PERSONAL GLIMPSES

ARE YOU A SPORTS FAN?

No

IF SO, WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT?

 

FAVORITE TEAM?

 

WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?

classical, new age, synthesizer, special - for screenwrite choreography

FAVORITE BANDS, GROUPS OR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS?

 

DO YOU SING OR PLAY ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS?

sing, (prev) choir, chamber, madrigals

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?

Haagen Dazs Mango, also several clean 2nd choices: HD Strawberry, Cherry Vanilla, Dulce de Leche, Ben&Jerry Butter Pecan, Totally Nuts, Pistachio, Southern Pecan Pie, Breyers French Vanilla, Pecan, Cherry Vanilla, Peach, Dreyers Blue Ribbon Berry, Peach, StarBucks Vanilla Cashew Crunch, etc... and vanilla

WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU DRIVE?

 

WHAT KIND OF CAR WOULD YOU RATHER BE DRIVING?

Something I'd designed long ago

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR YOU EVER OWNED?

65 Ford Fairlane V8, 2nd was '62 Dodge Lancer with pushbutton transmission

READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?

science fiction, preferring good science

FAVORITE AUTHORS?

ACClarke, GBenford, GBear, IAsimov, WKHartmann, DWeber, etc. (science-fiction)

HOW MUCH TELEVISION DO YOU WATCH?

3hrs/week TV, 60hrs/week internet

IF YOU USE A COMPUTER, IS IT THE MACINTOSH, WINDOWS OR UNIX PLATFORM?

yes: usually PC

DO YOU HAVE ANY FAVORITE WEBSITES?

 

WHAT'S THE BEST MOVIE YOU'VE SEEN IN THE PAST YEAR OR SO?

 

DO YOU LIKE TO GO FISHING?

 

CATCH MUCH?

 

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE BEVERAGE (ALCOHOLIC OR OTHERWISE)?

(my) Soft Milk (recipe) (PUBL)

DO YOU REGULARLY WEAR A WATCH?

none: Made in USA only

IN THE SHOWER?

 

IN BED?

 

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?

No

WOULD YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF MORE A "CAT PERSON" OR A "DOG PERSON"

 

WHO ARE YOUR HEROES?

 


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