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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #470 on: September 29, 2008, 02:37:11 PM »
oh, this hasn't come up before but i'm with the left on gun control.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #471 on: September 29, 2008, 02:40:18 PM »
Also today:

UK Gov't nationalising Bradford & Bingley (B&B).

Am I the only one who finds economic meltdown... pretty exciting?

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #472 on: September 29, 2008, 02:41:44 PM »
Also today:

UK Gov't nationalising Bradford & Bingley (B&B).

Am I the only one who finds economic meltdown... pretty exciting?

As in Chronenberg's Crash, running down Wall Street in a trenchcoat kinda exciting?

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #473 on: September 29, 2008, 02:52:30 PM »
No, just... is it just me? I also got quite exited about the possibility of the world ending the other week, when the LHC was turned on. No? I see it like going on a big roller coaster. Basically, I think I'd like to like in one of these Clockwork Orange/Blade Runner worlds.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #474 on: September 29, 2008, 03:04:04 PM »
No, just... is it just me? I also got quite exited about the possibility of the world ending the other week, when the LHC was turned on. No? I see it like going on a big roller coaster. Basically, I think I'd like to like in one of these Clockwork Orange/Blade Runner worlds.

yeah, quite a bust that turned out to be, stupid faulty wiring.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #475 on: September 29, 2008, 03:06:00 PM »
oh, this hasn't come up before but i'm with the left on gun control.

As am I but after reading The Road I am starting to change my mind. :D
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #476 on: September 29, 2008, 03:33:59 PM »
Really looking forward to this week's debate. Biden should bring up dinosaurs.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #477 on: September 29, 2008, 03:42:14 PM »
oh, this hasn't come up before but i'm with the left on gun control.

As am I but after reading The Road I am starting to change my mind. :D

hmmm, haven't done that yet.

Really looking forward to this week's debate. Biden should bring up dinosaurs.

yeah, for some reason I feel that I'll be getting a kind of sick pleasure from this debate.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #478 on: September 29, 2008, 04:57:53 PM »
But what about those of us who are immortal? Why should we be forced to support your measly human immune systems?


You mean, this monkey will never go to heaven?

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Why be immortal to begin with. Life sucks enough as is, imagine an infinite lifetime of suckyness. No thanks.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #479 on: September 29, 2008, 10:51:31 PM »
From the perspective of someone living in Canada, I couldn't help but chuckle when I heard McCain say something in the nature of 'We can't hand the health system over to the federal government.'




Yeah. I really don't understand why the government is worse than greedy insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Our health care system may not be the greatest in the world, and it probably doesn't always work as it should, but at least I can rest assured knowing that if I suddenly get very sick and need extremely expensive hospital care, or even if I just break my leg, I'm covered. Does it cost me more in taxes? Sure. But it's totally worth it.

I particularly liked John McCain's assertion that he is against any federal involvement in healthcare because decisions should be between an individual and his doctor.  For me and pretty much everyone I know, healthcare decisions are between me, my doctor, and my insurance company and what they will deign to pay for.  I want to be someone who is served by my health insurance, not an annoying "cost center" in the minus column, cutting into someone's profit/dividend/stock options/golden parachute fund.