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Totally hear you. I think there has to be a regular scuffle on the political scene to keep the government types off of the backs of scientists so they are able to work on planet-smacking meteors and crap. Then the next scuffle makes the scientists do their work efficiently. Churning issues on the political scene also makes us look more intently on stuff that is not working on a country-wide level.

BTW, they're working on the bitch-slapping meteor. It seems we need a tad more data on trajectory, but it seems so far it will be a spectacular near miss (as in we will be able to see it very clearly with naked eyes). If it does then hit a few years later the impact site is likely to be the pacific and then 3 miles of coastline will get scrubbed clean - but we have time to evacuate the people not hell bent on "surfing a killer wave." Although large and likely to cause some temporary climate change, this object is not a planet killer. When the trajectory determined, we may be able to send something within the next couple of years to help move it a few inches and change it to a not-so-near miss.

I know a guy in Mensa, and he totally disagrees with everything I believe when it comes to politics and government. Am I that dumb, or is he that smart? Neither. I ain't no moron (though my english may suggest that) and he ain't no genius.

Anyhow, I like your point. If I wanted to install a working health care system, I would look at other countries who have had success with supplying health care and try to emulate them.

Well, this goes against what a lot of people believe. Some of them are smart people. Some have this belief in tags and words and won't do anything of the sort to that would place them in those categories. America is a capitalist country and we MUST always be capitalist. To provide healthcare for all would be SOCIALIST!! We can't have that.

I was watching this guy on Charlie Rose last night and he was talking about how Republicans have the nickname Conservatives, which actually they are anything but Conservative. The Republicans have some pretty radical ideas if you ask me. Invading countries unilaterally, privatizing social security and health care. Allowing capitalism to be our saviour that will provide everything for the poeple.

By definition, Obama is more conservative than any of them. yet, they've tagged him a liberal socialist and that's all they need to do. but when you look at those words definition:

Liberal - open or broad minded, freethinking, generous, cuturally oriented
socialism - a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles

Those seem like good things to me. Yet, the Republicans have hi-jacked those words and turned them into something evil.

EH, I dunno. Just needed to Rant I guess.