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Universal Health Care would be completely government run and available to everyone, I would presume. Obama's health care is just covering the people who can't afford private health care, and making companies responsible for providing health care to all employees. It's a bit more complicated than all that, but that is putting it simply.

Yeah, but how many babies have been eaten by dingoes in the last year, Krezack. The truth is ugly!

Yes, but you seem to be working very hard at pinning all the blame on the US for the woes of Iraq. The US didn't force Saddam to invade Kuwait. The biggest culprit here is Saddam Hussein. I can easily meet you in the middle here and say the US has handled the current occupation terribly. I have no problem saying that the second war was flawed from the start. But Hussein was the ruthless dictator here, and he did everything he could to make the original gulf war happen, the economic sanctions happen, and the eventual regime toppling Iraq war happen.

Why make a distinction? What would be the point? The US attacked Iraq in 1991, then Iraq were put on sanctions for a decade before being ruthlessly bombed AGAIN in 2003. What would be the point of measuring the "well being" of the Iraqi people in that disastrous decade between the two wars? I see it as one continuous period as Iraq never has had a chance to rebuild since 1991, no matter how much the Americans are applauding themselves for bringing "democracy" to the region. What are you talking about? Operation Desert Storm in '91 was in Kuwait, after Iraq invaded them. The goal was the liberation of Kuwait. There was no serious attempt at invading Iraq, other than the pursuit of the retreating army. This is a retreating army that lit 700 oil wells on fire, if you recall, causing a huge pollution issue and costing Kuwait 1.5 billion dollars. You are seriously weakening your argument by including the '91 war. Kuwait pleaded for assistances against Iraq, and a huge coalition responded.

She's Out of My League - Somewhat funny at the start, but my interest wavered at the end. Also, if you are going to release a movie like this with an R rating, I think you should have some obligatory nudity.

My bad, Gftd called it a UHC and I kept saying it. I guess we can just call it Obama's Health Care plan. Taxes are lower than they have been in 30 years, so yeah, I don't get how we can not raise them.

I'm 99% sure he was kidding around. We all know that the world will end in December of 2012 anyway.

PS:T would probably show up as some FPS game in today's market. But I don't see WotC endorsing anything for it, to be honest.

Health care is extremely broken in this country. I have no idea if the Universal Health Care program will be effective, but it would be nice to see both parties working on it instead of using it as a political platform. I like this deficit reduction plan, by the way. If both sides are unhappy, somebody is doing something right. Obviously there is a lot going on there. I think people are making a bigger deal about the Social Security issue than is necessary, in reality if you are relying fully on Social Security as a retirement plan, you are already in trouble to begin with. 69 is when the full benefits kick in, which means if you want to retire at 60, you need a decent retirement plan to cover the gap.

I was just kidding Gorth. I've actually never heard of it, sounds like it was interesting though.

Yep, it was just a black screen in every direction. Very art nouveau. People put hundreds of hours into it, mostly because they couldn't see the exit button.

Ae you breaking up with me?

What's odd is his review of Alpha Protocol was fairly positive. At least, as positive as Yahtzee gets. He didn't seem to really get it though, but as others have stated, it was out of his comfort zone.

Didn't a bunch of studies recently come in putting the Universal Health care costs much lower than expected? I want to say it was like 70 billion (which is huge, but way lower than what was originally bandied about.)

you just had a titanium rod removed from your leg and you're already walking?! +500 man points! Those will come in handy while I knit this scarf on my couch. Kidding, I'm playing the guitar. I've got 5 chords down and have moved from being totally ignorant to moderately ignorant. Progress! Thanks for all the well wishing

Let us know how it is! I'm pretty excited for it, but it's a bit of a wait until January. Still, I'm guessing this means a decent amount of bugs will be ironed out.

We all realize that Saddam had plenty of opportunity to avoid a US invasion, right? The guy did everything he could to egg it on. Still not saying it was the right choice to go in, but if we are pointing fingers, the big middle one should be pointed at him.

The surgery was successful, so I'm just lounging on the couch. I can actually walk a bit already, which is encouraging. I'm still pretty nauseous from the anesthesia though.

It's also pretty much the original blockbuster computer game.

Chuck does have some pretty great music.

It's ok guys, these are all adequate descriptions of me

I'm at the doctors for a pre-op, I have surgery on my leg tomorrow. I broke it last year, and now they need to take out the titanium rod. I hope I get to keep it.

I'm very happy with the route Obsidian has taken. It is a smart business plan, they always have a few active projects and they are getting funding from the IP holder. Troika had a similar talent make up, but they made bad business choices and look what happened. I imagine with NV being so successful, we will see them take a crack at another new IP.

I did mention the nitpicky veterans It's not like there is a progressive story between the Civ games. Starting with Civ5 is a solid way to go, it is a great game and from here on out, expansions, patches, and the multiplayer community will all be focused on it.

Red - Very entertaining. John Malkovich really stole the show.