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Overhauling the health care system is not something the Republicans would do

No disrespect man but this is soooo wrong. Implementation of ANY healthcare reform requires a concerted effort from hundreds of people from both parties, and it was a huge campaigning issue on both candidates running platforms in '08. A tiny bit of Googling could net you some specifics on the strategies proposed by both Democrats and Republicans but I guess if you really cared you would have at least put forth that minimal effort already, so *shrug*

Seriously, saying "this thing that everyone agrees is what our country desperately needs is something Republicans would not do" just makes you sound like a DNC mouthpiece :v and I'm sure you don't want that.

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GREY HAIR

2 terms nearly turned Clinton into a corpse. I envy no president's job.


on the other hand G Dubbs aging is more of a blessing, his confused and bewildered look doesn't seem so out of place now.

Moby Dick is significantly less cool when you actually grew up on Nantucket and had whaling history jammed down your throat every year in school :(

e: also demondestiny yes we had a field day with Moby Dick the white sperm whale :D paging Dr. Freud!

e part deux: the edition of Moby Dick we read contained an illustration of a "dork", or whale penis.

OP, your post made me feel happy inside, even if your summary of the two main political parties was a bit over-generalized (and I can't fault you for this at all, I mean who's gonna write a dissertation on politics in a forum about RPGs :p).

To contribute, and keep in mind I am saying this as someone with a very conservative stance on economic policy: fuck the Republican Party. Furthermore, fuck the Democrats. Examining them on candidate platforms and legislative voting history, it looks eerily like they're just two sides of a larger Let's Enlarge Federal Government Until It Eclipses Everything Party.

I haven't seen the dual-party "system" we have going here do any good at all in my entire life, in fact the only real effect I've seen it have is to create a sort of retarded reactionary backlash against an entire party when a president repeatedly fucks up instead of just against that individual, leading most people not to examine what exactly went wrong during the presidency in question but instead to just vote for the other team next election and think everything will be okay (protip for moronic voters: the president isn't the only person in the government with the authority to act against your best interests).

I've been having trouble sleeping lately so while sitting up in bed at night I've been re-reading one of my all-time favorites, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. If you haven't heard of this book I seriously recommend it, it's one of the funniest things I have ever read. It's set in New Orleans in the 60s and follows the adventures of a morbidly obese 30 year old Medievalist shut-in who lives with his mom. The dialogue is incredibly genuine and all the characters are solid gold. If I were to teach a class about how to rock at writing, this would be a required textbook.

It's good.

http://hukka.furtopia.org/projects/fony/

This works pretty well for me in spite of the fact that the author is apparently a furry.