2016 is our best opportunity at breaking a broken system

This election, everywhere you look, the majority of people are saying the same thing.

"It's either Hillary or Trump, and both suck."

But why?  Why does that HAVE to be true?

Can't we just say... No?

Can't we use this as a chance to break away from a two party system?  Aren't we doing a disservice to our nation by forever limiting ourself by saying it's either Republican or Democrat?

We're so convinced anything else is "throwing our vote away."  Because currently, and unfortunately, it's true.

This would be the perfect opportunity to show that when both candidates are terrible choices, we don't have to pick either.

This election is like the episode of The Simpsons where the choices for President were two tyrannical aliens bent on world domination.

When declaring he'd break away from the traditional two-party system and vote for a third party candidate, one of the aliens stated:

"Go ahead!  Throw your vote away!"

If we know both choices are the wrong ones, and we have the capacity to make a third option...

Why don't we?

7 Months A Slave- The Story of Our Anniversary

7 months.

That's 6 more than 1.

We met just before my 29th birthday.  Amanda jokes that she was my best birthday present.  And minus a bottle of 18 year Jameson and the year I got a $25 gift card to Starbucks, she's right.

This lady has stuck by everything.  Where others would have run screaming in the opposite direction, she also ran screaming in the opposite direction... but decided to come back at the last second.

She deals with my being wrong all the time.  My obsession with nerd stuff.  My need to shout at the television at Jeopardy contestants when they mess up answers as if they were Romo in the NFL playoffs and they just threw an interception.

She is the first one who hears the jokes I create before they're made less racist for public viewing.

She suffers through my tangents that will jump from a discussion on fish hatcheries to film theories to the inevitable tie-in to an episode of Smallville.

She's understanding.  Compassionate.  Lovely.  Hilarious.

And even when she's throwing lamps at me for leaving my socks on the floor... or pushing me down the stairs because I left the toothpaste cap off again...

There's a love there that I've never felt.  A foundation of facetious madness, wonderful debates, and never-ending support that I know will last a lifetime.

She's made me into the type of person I can be proud of.  And 37% less socially inept.

Love ya, Harley.  Here's to another 7 months.

Maybe 8.

9 tops.

"She could have used a knife."

After Christy Sheats shot her two daughters, a recurring argument from gun supporters was...

"Don't ban guns.  She could have just used a knife!  They could have been stabbed!"

Yes.  A lot of hypothetical situations could have happened.  But they didn't. 

Al Qaeda uses planes and shoes to create terrorist acts and we have tons of security put in place.  Hours of preventative measures... We even take our shoes off.

You know what people DIDN'T say?

"We don't need security because they could have just used knives."

The ability to kill via other means doesn't mean you neglect the way they DID kill.