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Like I said, yes, it has been put up to debate - generally when people don't like whose in office. Because after the election is when you are stuck with the person you don't like and you will do anything you can think of to try and get rid of them.

Anyhow that's the way I learned it in HS political systems, and in 8th grade civics. That if you are born here, or are born to parents from here (who are still citizens here, even if away at the time), you qualify to hold the offices of President and Vice President. Again up until recently it wasn't as much of an issue as it is now. I mean in ye olden days you didn't travel the world too much, people weren't born all over the place, weren't relocating their lives to other countries - at least not politicians (merchants maybe).

As far as I'm concerned I don't think that matters. I think it's about time/exposure to a countries politics. I mean if you were born on American soil, but were raised in another country, I don't quite think you'd be the best candidate to govern this country. Likewise, say you were born in Mexico, came here at age 2 and never went back. Everything you'd know would be the United States, your education, your community, etc. So I don't see why two years matters.

I mean yes the addendum reads that you must have lived here for the last 14 years. But still. You spent age 5 - 40 in Thailand. And then at age 55 after being back here for what isn't even a majority of your life, and is none of your formative years, you qualify to govern the country? I mean yes, in all likelihood such a person wouldn't be elected. Still, the politics are so askew.

I mean you'd think people would have to realize that the constitution was written relatively early into the formation of a new country, a country still attempting to defend from being reclaimed by a foreign power. Obviously their priorities and our interpretations/needs aren't going to quite match up.

However I don't think we've exactly got the "best" government in the world, despite are boasts and claims. And I just mean the systems, I mean it's not as checks and balances as it's labeled. I mean for one the Executive Branch levees control over several key elements and is made up of very few people. The Legislative Branch is responsible for a myriad of detailing and is made up of too many people to actually function and get much done, majority agreement on anything is a hard commodity to come by. The Judicial Branch is strictly regulated by narrow rulings, yet they work in a world of grey. And all 3 branches are almost entirely made up of a certain class of people, with rare opportunities around this. There is no balance, there are minimal checks. This is not an ideal government. Obviously ideal is not so easy a thing to obtain, and we aren't just flailing along in an obviously flawed system for no reason. Nonetheless it's frustrating. It's why I usually try to stay out of politics, I'd be angry about 103% of the time. Following that percentage, I also try to stay out of math, for obvious reasons. stressed

Yea, but watch any law show, and they'll tell you why that won't work. Why law has to be black and white even if life is shades of grey. Because in the first place, the amount of time and detail that would have to go into case by case wouldn't allow anything to ever get done. Secondly, if we make a certain allowance for one person, the world of "fair," comes into play again. Why is that Cuban born man deemed fit to hold an office another Cuban born man isn't? People are not all the same, and it seems ridiculous to try and hold them all to the same law. Still, can it be in reasonable conscience to make rulings for one category and not another? Case by case is no more ideal than the current system, we'd be tossing out one set of problems for another.

And exactly, the constitution NEEDS to be updated, and not everything should be defended as a constitutional right. I mean look at the world back then. Women couldn't vote, blacks were slaves, immigrants/minorities were second class trash. Sure there are narrow-minded bigots who WOULD like to go back to those days, but most of us wouldn't. So why are we valuing laws from a time period so unlike our own? Yes history and example provide a good starting ground, but people need to learn to accept change. Change is not always progress, but sometimes it is, and we as a whole must learn to distinguish what we need from what we needed.

Hahahaha, trust me, I've thought about it. But on the one hand I don't have a lot of money, and on the other I'd probably be quite tempted to homicide. So no, I'm going to be a writer, and believe me - subliminal or not - politics WILL appear in one form or another. I'll let my voice my own way. ^_~

Haha, I will let you know if ever I manage to get myself published. Life goals. ^_^

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Random, but I was sitting at work today thinking about Yugioh...well at lunch. I was actually working on my fanfic, but then my friend texted me something funny. Which inspired me and I ended up spending most of lunch working on a poem instead. *sigh*...oh well, I wrote a bit! And I updated a few nights ago, so huzzah! Anyhow I was thinking about how like, Atemu is brown but Yami no Yuugi is white. And Theif king brown, Yami no Bakura white. Mana and Mahaado brown - DM and DMG HELLA white. So is the message here, your soul is white?

I'm sure it's been thought before, but that amused me, what with thinking about the whole race thing going on in AZ now. Ya know, amused me in a sad way.

Yea, I think I recall when I first started watching (well after I realized they were souls of Egyptians past) that was my assumption as well. However Yami no Bakura and Yami no Yuugi both look slightly different than their hosts, ya know that mega puberty that changes your hair and makes you magically grow taller or something. So really on that argument, if they look different anyhow, when you see the soul - out of body - it really should look like who they looked like. Again unless souls are white. Although I guess, arguably, souls don't necessarily need to look humanoid, but that's another point entirely.

But that's true, the cards you can blame on Pegasus.

Or we can just be racist and say Asians (including writers of manga/stories dealing with other races) just don't like brown people (brown as in black and/or middle eastern...and/or Hispanic even). razz

So in the manga is Yami really short or Yuugi not so short? I don't recall...maybe it's b/c I'm so used to the anime I automatically implied it into the manga. I guess Yami does stay short. I didn't say faces, because yes I realize faces are explainable, I never thought the faces were different (just different expressions). It may be artistic license, but in that case artistic license would allow souls to be brown. So why no brown souls huh? Artistic license is slated to tell characters apart, but not when it comes to creating ethnic separations hmm? Hehe, I'm totally just kidding.

Although on that, he made most of his characters attractive in some way or other (except for the characters you are suppose to find annoying/evil/etc - but in a minor fashion). Anyhow I think Takahashi Sensei is a little bit insane? I mean he also said none of his characters were gay. Purple belly shirts with gold chains on a straight man? I don't think so! wink