All about yourself!

[NeverAgain]

Political Orientation: Liberal Progressive Democratic-Socialist with a hint of libertarian (I feel like I am ordering food at a fancy restaurant)

Pick one.

Hey, I don't want to be defined by a label. I choose to make people cry when they are trying to guess my political affiliation.

[Horsemask]

Age: 24
Sex: Male
Height: 6'0''
Weight: I'm pretty big.
Race: White
Ethnicity: Sicilian, French-Canadian, Anglo/Scottish/Irish, Native American
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Religion: Culturally Catholic, though not truly practicing.
Language: English
Other Languages: Spanish
Current Location: York County, ME
Birthplace: Nashua, NH
Occupation: I work for the State of Maine.
Favorite Politicians: Chris Christie, Jon Huntsman, Joe Manchin, Susan Collins, Angus King
Favorite Politicians (historical): Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, James Madison, Nelson Rockefeller
Favorite President: Dwight Eisenhower
Political Orientation: Centrist/Moderate Republican
Favorite Foods: Pizza, Chicken Tenders, Salmon, Steak
Favorite Books: I read a lot of things...historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies, fantasy, sci-fi, crime thrillers. I wouldn't say I have a definitive favorite book though.
Favorite TV shows: Law and Order, West Wing, Futurama, Arrow, The Flash, Ghost Adventures
Favorite Movie: Dumb and Dumber
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Sports Teams: Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, UMaine Athletics.
Other interests not involving politics: Music (trombone, guitar, bass guitar), reading, history, law
Favorite Bands: Iron Maiden, Rush, Scale the Summit, Guns N' Roses
Favorite Video Game: Batman's Arkham Series
Do you live by yourself? No
Siblings: 4 brothers, 2 sisters
Relationship: In a relationship
What year did you join? 2015
If you could pick a nationality? If not American, then British.
News sources: CNN, here, WSJ, WaPo, Lots of different  news publications.

[bagelman]

Age (earth years): 22
Age (mercury years): 92, will turn 93 next month
Age (venus years): 36, will turn 37 next Feb.
Age (martian years) 11, will turn 12 this Dec.
Age (jovian years) 1, will turn 2 on February 2nd, 2017
Age (saturnian years) Will turn 1 in October of 2022
Gender: M
Height: average
Weight: average to above average
Race: W
Ethnicity: German, Hungarian/Hunnic, English, some possible French or French-Canadian
Sexual Orientation: Don't know anymore
Religion: Non-practicting Christian
Language: En
Other Languages: My conlanguage which is an English creole (I've been told it reads like English with the words spelled as pronounced with a strong northern cities vowel shift). I have one high school Spanish class from years ago under my belt.
Current Location: Summit County, OH (generally a Democratic county)
Birthplace: Akron
Occupation: Lazy student
Favorite Politicians (historical): Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, both Roosevelts, Ike
Political Orientation: Moderate, in flux/flexible, still mostly keep company with Democrats.
Favorite Foods: Skyline Chili
Favorite TV shows: South Park, Late Show, Arrested Development
Favorite Video Games: Sam and Max, Mass Effect, Sims, Darkest Dungeon, Elder Scrolls IV, Mario Galaxy, Red Dead Redemption, MLB: The show, OOTP Baseball 16
Favorite Color: Turquoise. (this is teal though)
Favorite Sports Team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Other interests not involving politics: Roleplaying, sports, alt. hist (that often involves politics)., sci fi.
Do you live by yourself? n
Siblings: 0, unless you count unrelated half-siblings who are twice my age that I've never met.
Relationship: n
What year did you join? last month
News sources: here, various, word of mouth, walking past the TV, Late Show, google news headlines. I avoid the the 3 letter news channels.
Least Favorite politicians: George W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, DWS, Joe Lieberman, anyone who got into office as a result of any family connections especially from the Bush, Clinton, or Kennedy families.
Least favorite video games: Any pay to win game on mobile, most predominantly multiplayer games, Assassin's creed.
Least favorite TV shows: All popular police detective shows, all popular reality shows, most live action sitcoms, Family Guy

[Alex]

year of birth:1993
Gender: Male (for simplicity's sake)
Race/ethnic compostion: White (mostly German, criollo, French and Italian)
Sexual Orientation: Fluid/Bi, currently very strstronggay leaning (Kinsey 4-5)
Religion: None (atheist), raised Catholic,
Formerly: passionate cafeteria Catholic (agnostic, universalist, pantheist, semideist, ocassionaly Christian Unitarian)
Language: Spanish (native), English, Portuñol, basic French
Height: 6'1 (1.84)
Weight: 200 (90 kg)
Location: Buenos Aires
Where you were born: Buenos Aires
Occupation: student/looking for a job
Person you most admire: no one, actually
Favorite Band: I don't have a favorite band per se
Favorite President: JFk
Political Orientation: civil libertarian, left wing socdem, Progressive, green, dove
Favorite Sports team: Boca
Favorite Color: Purple
Siblings: only child
News sources: Maddow, Last Week Tonight, Colbert, several online sources, Atlas

[Figueira]

my cousins Millard Fillmore and The Adams

I missed this the first time (probably in the shock that an Atlas Forum user, especially an active one, is dating ) but you're cousins with the Adams political family?

...[dramatic pause]...

So am I (at least according to Ancestry.com)! My great- (or great-great-, something like that) grandmother's maiden name was Adams, and apparently they go all the way to the Adams family (not to be confused with the Addams family from TV). We might be distant cousins...

Count me in the "related to the Adamses" club.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 193 pounds
Race: White/Middle Eastern
Ethnicity: Arab 50%, English 40%, French 10%
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Religion: Muslim
Language: English
Other Languages: Arabic, Japanese, French
Current location: Volusia County, Florida
Occupation: IT Student
Favorite politicians: Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Justin Amash, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan.
Favorite President: Reagan
Political orientation: socially center-left, fiscally right to far-right.
Favorite foods: Shawarma/Gyro, Japanese food, Spaghetti, CHIPOTLE
Favorite books: Liberty Defined, Harry Potter series.
Favorite shows: Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Dr. Who.
Favorite movies: STAR WARS, The Birds, Inception
Favorite sports teams: Real Madrid, Steelers.
Favorite bands: The Cog is Dead (my friends band), *insert Arab Dabka bands*, Disturbed, Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite video games: Sims, Call of Duty, Anything DBZ related.
Siblings: 3 brothers, 1 sister
Relationship: Engaged
If you could pick a nationality: Canadian.

[Why]

Age: Not as young as I used to be
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: Australian
Religion: Bible based
Height: Short
Weight: Fat
Location: Australia
Where you were born: Australia
Occupation: Nothing important
Person you most admire: The Lord Jesus Christ

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 135-140 pounds
Race: White
Ethnicity: German/Irish/English/Polish
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Religion: None
Language: English
Other Languages: 3 years of High School French, forgot most of it
Current location: Orange County, California
Occupation: College Student
Favorite politicians: John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Christie, Jon Huntsman, Angus King
Favorite President: Eisenhower
Political orientation: socially centrist, fiscally/foreign centre-right
Favorite foods: Cheeseburgers, Chocolate Malts
Favorite books: Dune Series
Favorite shows: South Park, Big Brother
Favorite movies: Fight Club, American History X, The Dark Knight trilogy
Favorite sports teams: None, prefer boxing/collegiate wrestling
Favorite bands: Sum 41, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy
Favorite color: Blue/Grey
Favorite video games: None
Siblings: 2 older brothers
Relationship: Single
If you could pick a nationality: 'Merican.

[JulesDudley]

Hello, my name is Jules from Arlington. Nice to meet you

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

Hello, my name is Jules from Arlington. Nice to meet you

Nice to meet you too!

[The time for charity has passed.]

So here I am.  I first posted here in 2003.  When some of y'all were in diapers, and I was a newlywed 26-year-old.  Since most of my cells have been changed out, I am, like, LITERALLY a different person.  Anyhoo...

Age: 38
Sex: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 185 lbs
Race: Whitish
Ethnicity: Nordic-Jewish
Sexual Orientation: Bi
Religion: Agnostic-Anglican
Language: English
Other Languages: Spanish, trying to learn German
Current Location: Indianapolis
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Occupation: Software Developer
Favorite Politicians: They can all DIE ALONE
Favorite Politicians (historical) I don't know, John Adams? maybe?
Favorite President: Chester A. Arthur
Political Orientation: Micro-archist
Favorite Foods: Sushi, steak, creole
Favorite Books: Harry Dresden series, Slaughterhouse 5, Stranger in a Strange Land, Lizard Music
Favorite TV shows: Red Dwarf, Adventure Time, Archer
Favorite Movie: The Last Unicorn, The Big Lebowski
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Sports Teams: Packers, Capitals, Borussia Dortmund, Newcastle United, Indy Eleven, DC United, Liverpool, FC St. Pauli
Other interests not involving politics: Music, Homebrewing, Sex
Favorite Bands: Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, etc.
Do you live by yourself? No
Siblings: 1 sister
Relationship: Married 2003
What year did you join? 2003
If you could pick a nationality? Scotland
News sources: NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera

[Crumpets]

Hey, an FC St. Pauli fan! Good to know there's more than one of us in the US.

[Drew]

I'm new here so allow me to introduce myself:

Age: 28
Sex: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 180 lbs
Race: White
Ethnicity: Some Austrian, Bohemian, Anglo-Saxon
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Gender Identity: Cisgender Male
Religion: None
Languages: English, Español
Current Location: Madison, WI
Birthplace: Chicago area
Occupation: Accounts Payable
Favorite President: Teddy Roosevelt maybe
Political Orientation: Socially liberal, fiscally moderate-liberal.  Not registered to a party.
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Books: Non fiction, something historical, political, or scientific
Favorite Movie: Back to the Future
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Sports Teams: Cubs, Bears
Other interests not involving politics: Science, video games, history, geography, road trips, sports
Relationship: Single
What year did you join? 2015
News sources: Huffington Post, Daily Beast, Vox, CNN

[Young Conservative]

Gender: Male
Ethnicity: British/Irish, My Grandmother Says we have a supposed Native American ancestor,!
Religion: Devout Christian
Language: English, Spanish
Current location: Prefer not to Say
Heroes: Jesus Christ, My Father, Billy Graham, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa
Occupation: Student
Favorite politicians now: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina
Favorite politicians in the past: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge
Favorite US President: Calvin Coolidge,Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln
Political orientation: Socially Conservative, But Fiscally Libertarian. Foreign Policy is Mixed. (Pro Big Military, Anti NSA-- Has your head exploded Yet?) PROLIFE
Sports: Gym 4 to 5 times a week; , Tennis, Track
If you could pick a nationality...: USA all the Way; Nothing Else
What Year Did you Join: 2015
New Sources: RCP, FiveThirtyEight, Anything With Statistics

[This account no longer in use.]

Hello, humans. I am new.

Gender: Male
Race/ethnic compostion: Irish/French Canadian/English/Scottish
Religion: Atheist
Location: Salem, MA
Where you were born: Salem, MA
Occupation: Student
Person you most admire: I don't admire anybody per se. I believe it is important for me to be myself and not aspire to be the exact same as somebody else.
Favorite Band: I don't have any specific favorite bands. I am a fan of alternative rock, though.
Favorite Presidents: Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelts
Favorite Sports team: Boston Red Sox
Your other interests: Music, chess

[Leinad]

Political orientation: Socially Conservative, But Fiscally Libertarian. Foreign Policy is Mixed. (Pro Big Military, Anti NSA-- Has your head exploded Yet?) PROLIFE

Not sure why that'd make my head explode, seems like a fairly typical conservative set of stances nowadays. Sounds just like my parents, for example, except they'd probably say "fiscally conservative."

[Young Conservative]

Political orientation: Socially Conservative, But Fiscally Libertarian. Foreign Policy is Mixed. (Pro Big Military, Anti NSA-- Has your head exploded Yet?) PROLIFE

Not sure why that'd make my head explode, seems like a fairly typical conservative set of stances nowadays. Sounds just like my parents, for example, except they'd probably say "fiscally conservative."

Most conservatives support interventionist foreign policy but I'm dead center on the issue.. perhaps a 1% tilt toward intervention.

[Leinad]

Political orientation: Socially Conservative, But Fiscally Libertarian. Foreign Policy is Mixed. (Pro Big Military, Anti NSA-- Has your head exploded Yet?) PROLIFE

Not sure why that'd make my head explode, seems like a fairly typical conservative set of stances nowadays. Sounds just like my parents, for example, except they'd probably say "fiscally conservative."

Most conservatives support interventionist foreign policy but I'm dead center on the issue.. perhaps a 1% tilt toward intervention.

Maybe traditionally, but I think they've shifted ever-so-slightly non-interventionist in the post-Iraq War era.

And I was mainly talking the NSA part--lots of conservatives have adopted a more libertarian stance on that.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I made a very bad post here when I first joined. Consider this my replacement. Still overly long, but much shorter than before.

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 135 lbs.
Sexual orientation: #NoLabels
Ethnicity: Italian/Sicilian (Shamefully impure)
Religion: Catholic
Language(s): English
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Place you were born: Edison, NJ
Occupation: Tax Consultant

Political figures you most admire: Barack Obama, Russ Feingold, Brian Schweitzer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bob Casey, Chris Christie, Cory Gardner, Jon Huntsman, Paul Ryan, Susana Martinez. And all the WINNERS of course.
Favorite president: Jimmy Carter

Political orientation: "liberal traditionalist" or something (Pro-life, anti-PC liberal)
Favorite Food:To Cook: Cauliflower; In restaurants: All Seafood.
Favorite book(s): The Corrections
Favorite Show(s): Gravity Falls, South Park, ABC Wednesdays, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Update among those still on.
Favorite movies: Boyhood, Nebraska, Iron Lady, August Rush
Other interests not involving politics: College Basketball, Baseball, gambling, stock trading, tennis, adventuring around the city - of course concerts and other shows mostly, some deranged form of fashion, floral/interior/landscape design, gardening, architecture

Favorite color: Light shades of blue lately
Favorite Sports Team(s): NY Yankees, Villanova Wildcats, Temple Owls, St. Francis-Brooklyn Terriers, Napoli, NY Rangers, Green Bay Packers
Favorite Musical Acts: Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, George Strait, Taylor Swift, John Prine, Sufjan Stevens, Merle Haggard
 
Do you live by yourself? Yep
Do you have any siblings? 1 younger of each gender
Do you have any nieces, nephews? Of course not
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Eh, from time-to-time I suppose
Relationship status: Single
What year did you join Atlas? 2008
If you could pick your own nationality, which would you pick? Italian

[Mr. Morden]

Sexual Orientation: Fluid/Bi, currently very strongly leaning gay

There is certainly a scene in Return of the Jedi that suggests the Dark Side has homoerotic undertones.  Consider the dialog:

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-Return-of-the-Jedi.html

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[Ted Bessell]

There are only three things you folks need to know about me:
-My name is Ted Bessell, as far as you know
-I live in California
-Ah play bass *Ted slappa da bass*

[America Needs Jesus Christ]

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 298 lbs.
Sexual orientation: Straight
Ethnicity: White
Religion: Half Protestant and half Catholic- the distinction is irrelevant
Language(s): English and Spanish
Location: Nashville
Occupation: Student
Political figures you most admire: Ronald Reagan, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee
Favorite president: Ronald Reagan
Political orientation: Traditional Conservative
Favorite Food: Steak
Favorite book(s): Not a huge reader
Favorite Show(s): Sports, Survivor, Last Man Standing, Last Man on Earth, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Amazing Race, The Mole, The League
Favorite movies: Vacation series, Hangover series, We're the Millers
Other interests not involving politics: Sports (particularly college and pro football, college basketball, and college baseball, plus the MLB at times)
Favorite color: Don't have one
Favorite Sports Team(s): Vanderbilt anything, any SEC school's teams (particularly Alabama as a 2nd choice in football, but the one exception being Kentucky basketball, who I'll never root for), Phillies, Eagles, Duke.  Don't really care for hockey or pro basketball, but I'll root for the Predators and LeBron.
Favorite Musical Acts: No favorites, but I'm a country guy
Do you live by yourself? I have a roommate
Do you have any siblings? Younger brother
Do you have any nieces, nephews? No
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? No
Relationship status: Single
What year did you join Atlas? 2015
If you could pick your own nationality, which would you pick? American

[Wolverine22]

I'll go again, whatever.

Age: 20, 21 on Feb. 28

Sex: Male

Gender: Male

Sexual orientation: ♫Men, men, men, men, manly men, men men♫

Race: White

Ethnicity: Italian

Religion: Atheist/agnostic, somewhere in between

Language(s) English and some Spanish

Location: Temporarily back in my hometown

Place you were born: Flint, Michigan

Occupation: College student

Political figures you most admire: Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Ann Richards, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau

Favorite president: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Political orientation: A pragmatic progressive. I fit pretty well into the Democratic establishment, but I'm a hard-line partisan as well.

Favorite book(s) "Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea!"

Favorite TV show(s) Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Rick Mercer Report, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Law and Order SVU, daytime trash TV, The Ed Show

Favorite movies: Shawshank Redemption, Prayers for Bobby

Other interests not involving politics: Traveling, aviation, sports, and psychology.

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite Sports Team: Michigan, Western Michigan, Detroit Red Wings, New England Patriots

Do you live by yourself? For the most part.

Do you have any siblings? One younger brother.

Do you have any nieces, nephews?  Nope, and never will.

Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? See above.

Relationship status: Forever alone...

What year did you join Atlas? 2014

If you could pick your own nationality, which would you pick? Canadian, Australian, or Italian.
[/quote]

[Asian Nazi]

Age: 23

Sex: Male

Gender: Male

Sexual orientation: Straight....very straight

Race: East Asian

Ethnicity: Han.  If I'm being honest, American, though.

Religion: Atheist

Language(s): English, really bad Mandarin

Location: Woodinville, WA

Place you were born: Honolulu, HI

Occupation: Unemployed :/

Political figures you most admire: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg

Favorite president: Uh....Harry Truman?  

Political orientation: Far-left.  Very far-left.

Favorite book(s): Kraken, by China Mieville

Favorite TV show(s): K-On!, Madoka, Haruhi, Lost, Walking Dead

Favorite movies: Mr. Nobody, Baader-Meinhof Complex, Goodbye Lenin

Other interests not involving politics: Fiction writing, East Asia, sociology, demography, geography, anime, taco trucks, teriyaki restaurants, trail mix, abandoned shopping malls

Favorite color: Don't have one

Favorite Sports Team: New York Yankees

Do you live by yourself? No.

Do you have any siblings? One younger sister

Do you have any nieces, nephews?  Yes

Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Not really

Relationship status: Single

What year did you join Atlas? 2012 I think, only became active recently though

If you could pick your own nationality, which would you pick? Chinese

[Illiniwek]

Age: 23

Sex: Male

Gender: Male

Sexual orientation: Straight

Race: White

Ethnicity: Mostly Eastern European (Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak)

Religion: Roman Catholic

Language(s): English and a decent amount of German

Location: Chicago/Suburbs/SW Michigan

Place you were born: DuPage County, IL

Occupation: Law school student

Political figures you most admire: Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Kennedy brothers, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Jesse Ventura, Helmut Kohl, there must be others

Favorite president: As a man? Jimmy Carter. As getting us through a difficult time? FDR. As how good things were when he left office? Clinton.

Political orientation: Probably best name for what I am is a Christian democrat. Just to the right of democratic socialism, socially conservative on some things like abortion, but not a bigot.

Favorite book(s): Don't Start the Revolution Without Me

Favorite TV show(s): Top Gear (Loyalty to CH&M but will watch both new shows), Archer, Doctor Who, Modern Family, House of Cards, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, South Park, Scrubs, lots more

Favorite movies: Dark Knight series, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Miracle, Harry Potter series, recent Bond movies, lots more

Other interests not involving politics: Sailing, sports, law, engineering/science, Knights of Columbus

Favorite color: Navy blue

Favorite Sports Team: Chicago Blackhawks/Cubs/Bears/Bulls, Michigan Wolverines, Illinois Fighting Illini, Miami Dolphins, Georgetown Basketball

Do you live by yourself? Living at home until the wedding.

Do you have any siblings? One older sister with Down Syndrome and Autism.

Do you have any nieces, nephews?  No.

Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Very much no. I like women too much.

Relationship status: Engaged to be married this fall

What year did you join Atlas? 2013

If you could pick your own nationality, which would you pick? British, German, or Canadian. Looking forward to gaining Italian citizenship through marriage!