Random Thoughts....

The health care bill passed....

Oh god, we are fucked. IMHO this is the first of many steps on a long, slippery slope to socialism. And I'm not a socialist.

Spectre, help :(
I'm up for a good secedin'.

Our politicians are stupid and deserve to be thrown out of office. I only know a handful of people who actually wanted this--most of the rest of the people I know hate the idea. (Then again, I am in Texas...) EyeMWing's summary seems pretty accurate. Most politicians represent themselves and nobody else nowadays. A lot of 'em deserve to be deported...preferably to a third-world country with no working toilets.


< would post in the politics forum, but that place scares me. seriously, it's worse than the TG one when new episodes are out. all screamy and fighty. { shudders } so, feel free to ignore this post if it's too politimacal.
<< also hates the nasty way politics are usually discussed nowadays, both on and off the boards. I'm sure I'll hear about "communism" and "socialism" and all manner of reactionary talk radio talking points out of my dad, but point is: a lot of us don't want it. that's not communism per se - that's the action of a government that's completely out of touch with the people it's supposed to represent. I can't stand to discuss political anything with very many people nowadays because everyone's so damn nasty about the way they categorize the people they don't agree with.
 
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Oh you mean with posts like "HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE SOMETHING TOP GEAR DID YOU ARE WRONG AND STUPID HAUGHUAGHUGAUGUG I WILL FIGHT YOU" ?
 
I find the Political Section very calm, no fighting going on.

In other news, it feels like I've been punched in the head. Huge sinus headache and it feel like my head is going to explode!!!!
 
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54% of the American people (at least, all but one poll shows this number or higher) DOES NOT WANT THIS.

What we have is a government that just ignored the will of the American people to pay off their vested interests, despite promises to the contrary and lip service to "No, really, we'll get right on that creating jobs thing."

Healthcare isn't going to help much if you can't eat or don't have a place to stay because you don't have a job.

I am just happy that my mom isn't going to have to undergo cancer treatment (which is why she's in Houston and why I'm not in the political section at the current time - I'm helping her while she's being treated) under this Obamacare scheme. Having plowed through the entire 2300+ page document, the only thing I can determine is that she would, in fact, be denied care as 'uneconomical' and be given palliative treatment rather than real treatment as this is her second go-round with colon cancer and she's approaching her 60s. Thanks to the fact the University Of Texas - M.D. Anderson facility exists (which it won't under Obamacare, at least not in the form it does now) and has the treatment programs it does as well as the research it performs, she is now diagnosed as N.E.D. (no evidence of disease - they can't find indicators of cancer anywhere) and going to be going home to live a relatively normal life.

Oh, and if you are saying 'it's not so bad, it's not what people are saying it will be' and you haven't read the entire damn thing and thought about it, SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU HAVE NO GODDAMN IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. What just passed is basically the British system on goddamn steroids - rationing will be coming soon; under Obamacare, my mom would now be dying... Hell, in California, which already has some of the Obamacare-type restrictions on treatment, they told her that basically there was nothing they could do for her there, but here was some medical marijuana to ease the pain.

Nice, huh?

Out here in Texas, with less idiot regulation and more common-sense medical and legal communities, she's either going to be cured or the closest thing to it that medical science can achieve.

Obamacare? Economic determination committees? Fuck that shit.
 
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Oh you mean with posts like "HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE SOMETHING TOP GEAR DID YOU ARE WRONG AND STUPID HAUGHUAGHUGAUGUG I WILL FIGHT YOU" ?
Hahahaaaaa...exactly.

Seriously, though, I hate how politics are discussed nowadays. Some people (...my dad comes to mind) act like getting you to agree with them is a life-or-death matter, and any semblance of civility or sanity in said conversations gets thrown out the window.

Dad tried to convince me of the OMG URGENT NEED to write my congressmen about opposing the healthcare plan. During midterms. When I have other crap to do that's far more urgent than writing a letter that won't get read. I'm no fan of ze plan either, but I also know classmates who've had internships in DC where part of the job is to go through, read, and weed out the letters. A lot of 'em don't even get read by the dude they're addressed to.

'Tis quite clear that this plan was unpopular with a large chunk of the 'mercun populace, anyhow. The problem is that the powers-that-be simply don't care.

Point being: I'm annoyed. I've had many a fine conversation ruined lately by the regurgitation of [insert biased media outlet of choice]'s talking points. Vomit.

/me backs sloooooowwwwwwlllllllyyyyyy awaaaaaaayyyyyy from the discussion of politics
 
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Guys, like others have said, off-topic. Start a topic in political discussion- there really isn't that many trolls/idiots looknig for arguments (It's better than the shows sections, at least! :p)

On-topic, handed my assignment in, tyring to do tutorial questions. This is the week I will become properly organised for uni! *godlike stance*

... Who am i kidding, I'll keep forgetting to do the readings.
 
In other news, it feels like I've been punched in the head. Huge sinus headache and it feel like my head is going to explode!!!!

Take a LONG, hot shower, as long and as hot as you can stand and stay in there with your head tipped slightly forward. Best cure for sinus BS I've ever found.
 
^ That and claratynes, they help me out. But yeah, heat is good. Hot cup of tea, inhale the steam. I get tons of sinus migraines and other sinus problems since I had my wisdom teeth out, but it's also partly genetic :(
 
Can't take a shower, it's 1 AM, if I do my Dad wakes up and gets mad at me. He is a very light sleeper and would rather not get reprimanded.
 
Hum, that stinks. I'd be cranky if you woke me at 1am too so I can't blame him. But hopefully in the morning then.

I had a truly horrible cold a few weeks ago and the only thing that saved me was taking 2 showers a day, which I never do. Kept me off antibiotics. I don't mind ABs, but I also don't just itch to take them.
 
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^ That and claratynes, they help me out. But yeah, heat is good. Hot cup of tea, inhale the steam. I get tons of sinus migraines and other sinus problems since I had my wisdom teeth out, but it's also partly genetic :(

For some reason this post made me think of a scene from the 1980's classic "Crocodile Dundee" where Mick was in the kitchen at a party and saw a guy snorting cocaine. He takes it and puts it into a bowl of hot water, thinking that the guy has a cold or flu.:D
 
...how'd I miss D-Fence's random ancient quote of an IRC log?

I guess this proves that IRC has *always* been about penis. :lol:
 
I like the new forum! It's kinda sexy...

Birthday was pretty nice. Just pretty much hanged out at P.Mall for most of the afternoon with the family. Mom bought me two pairs of boots and a basic but pretty set of deco nails :3

Now to fold my laundry at 3:40ish am...
 
My little sister is officially a whore. She's now sleeping with two men twice her age.

I wish I didn't care. 'Cept caring about everything that's not actually my problem is about all I do these days because I don't want to deal with my own problems. My parents be damned because they're not helpful either.

At least, at least I still have Top Gear and my Styx videos and all that to keep me happy and my best friend to keep me sane. Mostly. *cackle*
 
I've been away the whole weekend and thought I clicked the wrong link when getting at FG. Doesn't feel like the cozy hole I was used to, very hospital like is the new layout. Neath though.

Anyway.
 
This 9-5 morning job makes me more tired and stressed even though i sit in an office doing nothing most of the day, than when i was working on planes, this sucks
 
This 9-5 morning job makes me more tired and stressed even though i sit in an office doing nothing most of the day, than when i was working on planes, this sucks

9-5.... I wish :(

7:45->till when ever the deadline is
 
Any chance you might have a DVR or something? I don't feel comfortable handing my address out to someone I don't know over the internet.
 
I have DV-R, but I'll be buggered if I can get it off the DVR and into internet land...

But I understand your concern

EDIT: I'll talk to bro, he'll have a solution
 
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All the people who whine about their life being shitty........you could live in the German town of Rangsdorf.

Let me paint a scenario for you.


Rangsdorf has a lake.
That lake has fish.
That lake froze over.
We had a record winter.
The fish froze to death.
The lake unfroze.
The dead fish drift on the lake.

Until now, they have cleared over 240 tons of dead fish and still have a long way to go..the smell is so bad you can smell it 3 towns away. Oh and they want to turn the dead fish into energy by burning it in a powerplant.

http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/...-Unmengen-verwesenden-Fischs-Bis-gestern.html
 
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