Kellermann found people turned those guns on themselves and others in the house far more often than on intruders.

This is great news. I feel we should encourage gun owners to shoot themselves. Maybe even give them a tax break for doing so. Happiness is a dead gun owner.

72%

So, Attaturk, the French voter prefers “milquetoast” over military might. Quelle surprise.

Interestingly, now that the tories have taken beating in the polls, there has been an announced petrol price reduction. I guess in a vain attempt to save the corporate gvt.

against milquetoast Socialist candidate Francois Hollande

Now why would would you describe Hollande as milqutoast is it because he is a socialist.

He is certainly not timid nor is he bland and he is without doubt not easily intimidated. He is willing to take on the corrupt, demagogic, fascist Sarkozy is wiling to stand up to the banks, face off the right wing and, frankly, is engaging to listen to.

If you felt a need for an adjective you could have found one more suitable. How about “refreshing”, “incorruptible”, “caring” “intelligent” “experienced” or how wbout just leaving out the, gratuitous, milquetoast.

Israel is the real danger, their government is totally irrational, run by crazy right wing ideologues and backed by corporate america always eager to invade any country for fun and profit.

They all base their realities on the belief in ghosts, goblins and faeries how could they be anything but crazy.

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

sought to substitute a “secular” agenda for one grounded in faith

One could only wish. The one good thing about the burlesque show known as the primary season is that it is showing just how bloody nutty the godists are.

You too can be baptized by Orrin Hatch!

Jeeze I wonder if will offer to pay for the needed abortions or will they do a Santorum and say tough shit.

Rick Santorum says rape victims should ‘make the best of a bad situation’ if they get pregnant and give birth to the ‘gift from God’

That movie ran for something like ten years in Central Sq. Cambridge. Super movie.

That could work for me too, however I would suggest every generation not every other generation.

Can backbone propel you to the front?

Obviously not if we look at the present occupant of the WH. The BIg Zero has little backbone he could probably lick his own arse.

In this country that used to happen every biennial and quadrennial now we are stuck with the same garbage year after year after year after year…

True but if any of my family found that some ah*&e had thrown godisms at me, dead or alive, they would be horrified.

It is also known the Romney has done this for particular individuals, such as he late father-in-law an avowed atheist.He really must have hated the poor man. What an insulting, self serving, vile thing to do.

Indeed it does. When reading about the clowns during the primaries I kept thinking of The Theatre Of The Absurd
herewith two quotes I found describing the ToA

“They are inhabiting a universe with which they are out of key. Its meaning is indecipherable and their place within it is without purpose. They are bewildered, troubled and obscurely threatened.”

“Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.”

Newt Romney

Ah, Freud.

I’m not a fan of the Iowa Caucuses (or the New Hampshire Primary just to be gratuitous)

The primaries in NH are a boon to our state’s revenues: the primaries bring in millions and millions of dollars to both big corporations and small businesses every year, not just in “primary” years.

In addition we get to meet all those candidates that we wish to meet. We have many of them in our homes sitting down wit us one to one: we get to decide first hand which are the liars, cheats, hypocrites, goof balls, money grabbers and sellouts. We, occasionally, get to meet an honest, sincere and worthy candidate. We, in NH, get to know the candidates without the polish and perfidy of the PR people and the press.

And, besides, it is fun. We do have to put up with the robo calls late at night from RWNFs such as Swine Ricky, we also have to put up with Newts acolytes (serial divorcers, batterers and misogynists) tramping door to door but we also get to laugh at yet another IQ challenged executioner from Texas and the history challenged homophobe from somewhere in the Midwest. We also get to see people at the polls that normally hide in their houses by the wood stove in winter.

Primaries allow crazies to demonstrate just how crazy they are. Allow ballot challenges to seemingly comfortable incumbents so that we may display our displeasure at his deceitfulness. And they tend to bring unwanted sunlight to those weasels (koch brothers) that would corrupt democracy.

All in all primaries are beneficial to the coffers and democracy. Caucuses, on the other hand, are meaningless…just perfect for midwesterners.

Republican Party may have found a champion in Rick Santorum.

Premature evaluation