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  1. avrdsMarch 30, 2013 at 3:14 PM

    I am astounded by how we cannot ban military weapons in this country. If black men were carrying them, the guns (and probably the men) would be off the streets in a heartbeat:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/white-men-have-much-to-discuss-about-mass-shootings/2013/03/29/7b001d02-97f3-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html

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  2. James FergusonMarch 30, 2013 at 7:01 PM

    This love affair with guns is disconcerting. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to get around it. One of the tragic flaws in our society.

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  3. avrdsMarch 31, 2013 at 5:07 AM

    It's one of those things about American life that I simply cannot grasp -- how a nation can willingly allow people to purchase, walk around with, and sadly _use_ military weapons and ammunition. I think it's more than a flaw -- it's a real sickness.

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  4. James FergusonMarch 31, 2013 at 9:23 AM

    When you look at the role of Western, War and Crime movies in our societies, it is not so surprising why Americans demand fire power. It is one of those chicken or the egg arguments, which came first guns or violence?

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  5. Rick DiguetteApril 1, 2013 at 3:06 AM

    I think it has something to do with the fact that most Americans take almost all good fortune for granted. They pay lip service to cherishing their freedoms and rights but seldom have had to defend them. Most Americans will never understand how good they have it.

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  6. James FergusonApril 2, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    It seems that the big spike in assault rifle sales is tied to all these doomsday preppers and Dominionists waiting for the end of the world as we know it, imagining a post-Apocalyptic world of zombies until the lord comes down to take them away.

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  7. avrdsApril 2, 2013 at 3:03 PM

    Oh, you two! April Fools' Day was yesterday! Google nose.

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    1. Rick DiguetteApril 3, 2013 at 3:51 PM

      My point, if you can call it one, is that if we don't understand the true value of something, we aren't likely to know how to protect it. When it seems threatened, our response may not match the threat proportionally: we may either fail to address it or overreact. The continued insistence that assault weapons be unregulated would appear to be a disproportionate reaction to a perceived threat. It is an Elmer Fudd kind of reaction, and Elmer Fudd is a buffoon.

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  8. James FergusonApril 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM

    I wasn't fooling,

    http://www.myfoxal.com/story/20321411/doomsday-preppers-help-increase-gun-sales-at-local-store

    and this from an indisputable source -- Fox News, or Fux News as Jim Carrey calls it.

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  9. TripplerApril 8, 2013 at 11:47 PM

    http://tinyurl.com/cuwqmbz


    Annette Funicello, RIP


    Growing up in Brooklyn me and my buddies all agreed she was the most beautiful girl we ever saw. Always loved her for her beauty, charm, and wholesome personality. I guess I will always adore her as long as I live.

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  10. avrdsApril 11, 2013 at 6:20 AM

    On a total meander, I stumbled on this program tonight and it was amazing. It uses the biological and geological history of Australia as a way of telling the history of life on earth:

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/australia-first-years.html#australia-awakening

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  11. James FergusonApril 11, 2013 at 7:51 AM

    I remember reading Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore many years ago.

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  12. TripplerApril 15, 2013 at 5:06 PM

    HAPPY PATRIOT'S DAY!


    Also, this is National Library Week - please send thank you notes to your local librarian.

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  13. avrdsApril 26, 2013 at 3:16 AM

    Looks like we need a new meander. In the meantime, as they sing his praises in Dallas:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/24/george-w-bushs-presidency-in-24-charts/

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  14. James FergusonApril 26, 2013 at 8:54 AM

    Nothing a few paintings of dogs won't cure ; )

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  15. avrdsApril 26, 2013 at 11:10 PM

    Or portraits of himself trying to wash himself clean in the bath.

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