It's just a word (no it isn't)

So I went for an impromptu drink tonight with a couple of people from
work. One girl is leaving to go back to england after a few months
here on a project, and another guy who I met a few years back is
over for a week to go on a stag-do for a guy who I used to study
Spanish with in the UK.




Anyway a good time was had by all and after 4 beers I decided to call it an evening and head back
and me and the leaving girl left at the same time. So anyway we were having a nice little chat about
nothing much on the way to the train station and I hear a voice:

" I really hate niggers though, I just can't stand black people."

So I'm a mild mannered enough person, and I decided to let it go but then I hear this voice following
us down the street. Well you can piss me off once and I might let it go, but this drunk pathetic
motherfucker piece of shit kept saying it. So I turned around, walked up to him and looked him in the
eyes. "Listen you piece of shit. If I wasn't with this girl you'd be lying on the floor right now. Turn
around and walk away before I kick the shit out of you"

It's amazing how quickly this bastard changed his tune, but he still wasn't playing anything I wanted
to hear. "Oh I didn't mean anything, personal. It's nothing against you, I just don't like black people."

Me: "it's everything to to with me you fucking arsehole." So I pushed him - it was the most I could do
not to punch and keep punching until he would be bleeding and crying so much that he wouldn't be
able to say another word for months.

There's no point to this, other than I need to vent, and it's amazing to me how just one word, that I
can hear in a rap song or in passing from 2 brothers on the street and not think twice about can
conjure up so many playground fights where me and my brother would unite and fight against stupid
kids repeating what their parents had said the night before; can send me into a blind rage, where I
just want to kill someone, but that's the way it is.

I calmed down pretty quickly, and the girl said "The funny thing is, my middle name's nigger (sic)"

Haha, every cloud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wiuG7uego

Healthcare

Ok so here's my take. 90% of the country has been paying 9% of their free time focusing on this, despite the fact that it's worth 25% of their income.

Yeah there was all the republican scare tactics about death panels, pulling the plug on grandma, socialism / fascism / anyism you'd like to pick this week, but at the end of the year and a bit - long debate, they lost. Full fucking stop. Barack Obama is getting some sort of socially beneficial policy through. And while I will strenuously protest the fact that there was no public option, a weak-sauce version of getting any kind of real health care reform which works for rich and poor alike through, he has defeated a republican congress which has not, does not, and will not for the time-being, vote for anything he tries to get through. These people lack any principles.

This man is one of the most intelligent, charismatic presidents for a looong time in this country, and although there are right wing militia groups getting arrested for assassination plots as we speak, at the end of the day, this man is making this country a better place, and somewhere I'd like my kids to grow up, rather than somewhere I'm just visiting for a while.

Do it Obama. You promised change. You're only delivering small change so far, but if you turn this ocean liner around, then your presidency will be truly monumental.

http://www.youtube.com/theyoungturks#p/search/0/sO6JXVBeBgs