Now I never criticize anyone who can riff Hamlet, but spoken as an Ophelia who missed the boat, I think more stupider they get, the longer the wait for a spot in line for CCA. Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well, but anyone who thinks prison is a Hilton aint spent a night on an extruded cement "bed" with only one thread bare blanket and a half inch of low density foam. If you're not nuts when you go in, you are when you leave. I've been doing meetings in a women's pod for a long time and Ophelia got the better deal. The only way to keep an Uzi (yes I know, I'm dated) out of the hands of the deranged is to not manufacture it in the first place. But profit is both King and jester in this world now and us poor paeons just have to accept that greed is the stage and I didn't even get a bit part. Daggers, anyone? This is what ya get when Reagan closed down all the mental health facilities. They're on the street because we put them there.

to shoot or not to shoot. to kill or not to kill. to govern or not to govern. that is the question(s)! my real question is why we all go buggers on the issue only when there are "mass shootings" when still everyday someone somewhere is getting shot by someone somehow, hand gun, shot gun, machine gun, bow and arrow! not only have we evolved as a society lacking any civility these days but add in even more lacking in education and what do you get? A stupider nation!!! I can't count the number of times as a kid i wanted to get the ol mans gun out and step out the back door and just shoot it up in the air, or blast crows or just otherwise make noise, but i also knew it was not safe. I knew where he kept them, knew how to load them, new how to shoot them, but? But what? I don't know that boy scouts was really good for much but i am glad i took the gun safety classes. What we need now is hard core regulation. People are just to dumb. You want a gun? Fine, pass a gun safety course, then a mental health evalution and maybe even an IQ test. Get your gun and just like a car? register it every year and also carry additionl liability insurance for each one you own. And as with commercial drivers be required to drug test every 2 years. Also for extre good measure? do a 4 year follow up written exam, you fail? you lose your gun. simple! Now for that lot that have illegal guns? once again get hard core! commit a crime with an illegal weapon equals twice the punishment. oh and by the way? take the hilton out of the prison system and start treating the criminals old school style. You know? three sloppy squares a day no med coverage on my dime, no computer, phone, no nothing. make them suffer like those that suffered at thier hands. Maybe just maybe the gangster and thugs might learn that that jail is no place to be. by the way whats up with the trayvon case!! And one last note as cruel as it may sound. if the cat is clearly guilty with out a doubt? hang em and hang em high, none of this he's mental jive...

"The right to bear guns” in point of fact, is not guaranteed by the 2nd amendment. No one ever points that out.

Taken literally, our ever-so vaguely worded constitution actually implies that every citizen should be allowed to have a nuclear devise in their basement.

It’s not “gun control” we should be debating. Everyone can keep their guns. And their rifles. And their knives, swords, battleaxes and maces for that matter.

Our visionary Founding Fathers never could have conceived of semi-automatic weapons, the A bomb, or any of the rest of it.

Someone should set up the National Atomic Bomb Association, and argue for the constitutionality of it under the 2nd amendment.

Post Exchanges Carrying Guns Now?

While New York is responding to the Newtown shootings, the Army-Air Force Exchange Service is working to get more guns into the hands of service members.

I live in Los Angeles, just a couple of miles from Los Angeles Air Force Base. This very small base has a PX (post exchange) that has taken out its appliances section and is creating a gun shop. A GUN SHOP? You bet. I have a friend who is retired and has PX privileges. He wanted to buy a new fridge and found that the PX there doesn't carry them anymore, and is using the space to sell guns.

While this is just one PX, I would be willing to bet that other--if not all--PXes are doing the same thing. AAFES is a huge chain that supplies all kinds of consumer products to soldiers and airmen around the world. While AAFES is a private concern, not supported by the military, it has a very close working relationship with the Pentagon.

I cannot believe that just one PX is going off on its own and starting a gun store. The guns sold there would be for a service member's private use, not official use. The Air Force and the Army keep their weapons and ammunition in heavily secured arms rooms.

What in God's name--in the wake of Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Portland, Tucson--are these people thinking?

In Canada our Liberals started a long gun resgistry that was supposed to cost a few million to start up and after a total flop and over a billion dollars the whole program was cancelled. You will never stop the bad guys from getting guns. Never. I can only speak for Canada, but a lot of our problem is we don't lock up the people we know have a mental problem. We had a guy here on a Greyhound bus lost it and cut a guys head off with a small knife. On the bus. He wasn't taking his Meds. What is someone like that doing on the streets? The same reason we put killers back on the streets because we rehabilitated them or at least we thought we did.

The Hell hounds, who are they and why not talk about them. America’s University system is a government funded research domain that is fat with tax dollars. Then these same professionals that use this free money turn around and charge for a copy right fee and sales royalties. The basic University system was based on land grants and tax payer dollars on its inception now looks like it is a self-centered abusive parlor game.

A research article that is sold on the open market, for profit that has a tax payer funded base is that part of the “Dark Thread of Evil” in not only the American system but carried over from the old European system. My personal studies in Mathematics show a change happening likely because of the internet. Exampled now by a mathematics era that has a dynamic view of things that the old European ways did not realize but now is more than a quantum consolidation in a whole system view of math rather than parsed into a matriculated daisy chain leaving it to the reader to figure out the proof.

So, America has another buried industry that is established by the American tax payer, abused by the one percenters. Here free money in many topics that can include huge, large sums from every corner of the medical, pharmaceutical, Legal, science, and military research and development projects over decades that resulted in nifty jobs for special people at special values.

Here an industry that takes the cake, the best part of the derivative, and then slumbers away to a media reflection that it was a good job. In fact Aaron Swartz, points out the unfair practice in the copy right fee and royalties in public funded research. These institutions likely should pay American’s interest of return on successful achievements, but don’t.

Make no mistake these Universities have huge investment banking institutions not talked about. Harvard being the one of the richest. Actually here America has the new age industry, the factory of minds with unlimited areas of places to research, the brick and mortar of equipment, a Fermi lab in every city or suburb, with the sharp sword of talent gives way to a new industry where the mind is needed in a new brotherhood, camaraderie, community, of intellectual expansion beyond anything man dreamed of. One of the reasons to forge ahead with fiber optics for every American connected as in an electronic mail box done with fiber. Foreign influence is an obstacle too. Rather than moving ahead in technology America is in a rhetorical knot with sedition connotations driven by that very media, cable, that would likely lose control of the power and money it now makes in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Perhaps in dedication to Aaron, a different open system that can be used by everyone free to little charge. Aaron’s internet, all fiber optics, with free education through k18. All American have a mail box. By using fiber optics medical applications would leap frog, identity safety would be enhanced, legal systems would expedited, government can be more responsive and more citizens can participate. The caveat to Aaron’s internet would be no porno, no Hollywood, nor twenty four hour news they could stay where they are. Aaron’s internet could wipe out poverty. Yes the discussion is enormous, so let’s get going.

Nora, Ed Schulz is also talking about the destruction of the USPS.

All over the news Aaron Swartz is being dismissed as a 'depressive'.

Please see my post where I point out how VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE in the USA have a history of being labelled mentally compromised. It is a political tactic long used against those who are discriminated against, such as women and men of color.

Aaron was a SENSITIVE person who cared, and INJUSTIC GRIEF is not a mental illness, it is the response of a caring human being!

Link to my post--

http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/nora/blog/2013/01/aaron-swartz-was-not-depressed-he-had-injustice-grief

Why are ALL the progressive talkers on this subject only?

Isn't anything else happening in the world?

Are there no lother priorities?

I am beginning to wonder if we progressives are going to smother under this avalanche.

Just wondering....

Some of us can't take the flu shot, because we suffer a variety of adverse reactions. For instance, I get an off-the-charts migraine that can only be cured with an injection of Demerol followed by an injection of Imitrex.

Hello friend's, Once again I'm amazed that this to has somehow gotten past our dear friend Thom who for whatever the reason is still in his self impossed mental coma and flat out refuses to look at this as the desperate act's they are from the one's in power. Thom continues to talk about what is taking place as if it's some Political debate as he rant's on and on about the left and right when that line has long ago blurred into the same one. Our very freedom & liberty is under constant attack by the true masters of this country as law by law get's past to feed the same agenda that when finished will become so terribly clear people will drop to there knee's in utter disgust , step back and look at how slowly and completely how magically "the project for the next American century" agenda is unfolding before our very eye's . All even the most skeptical need do is be honest about what has already taken place then flip open there {Bible} book and learn in what direction they want this to go in . Our War's will get worse while law's to say anything negative about them will grow as they consolidate there power. Alex jones broke the story about DHS ordering millions upon millions of rounds of ammunitions and today new laws are in place to keep anyone from doing so themselves , now tell Me something friend's Obama can order insane Drone attacks on innocent people killing women and children but then want's you to buy into his heart felt simpathy for our kids being killed by these insane random killings that make no sense but are somehow magically connected ? I'm sure of one thing the month's ahead will get much worse as these very people {elected} force total control over the public in general as we become more aware of what's really going on and what the agenda really is and with the help and complete cooperation of All the Major News media outlet's they will keep people divided by marginalizing us as they have done since the Bush Cheney coup of 2000 . FSTV and other's can play a very important role in opposition to this but instead report on it as if it were taking place on some other world while Thom has his guest speaker's on to discuss what's wrong with republican policy completely overlooking what the underlying forces are behind it all . Friend's do you know Thom to this very day still talks about 9/11 as if Osama bin laden had anything to do with it ignoring completely all that had to take place for that day to even occur which is the infamous "catalizing event" that the Agenda book speaks of but that to was overlooked. Look friend's when I finally realized that Chemtrails were NOT contrails it to was hard to swallow and when 9/11 happened I to was outraged and shocked I'm from NY and have family working in NYC but even with all the smoke and mirrors something still just didn't look right then we were forced to swallow the WMD nightmare and when that to became obvious I to had rethink my own emotions and then the bubbles began bursting and Wall street happened I was forced to deal with the realities of what was actually going on right under our noses and still NOBODY wanted to connect the dots. Friend's listen there are NO COINCIDENCES and nobody can force you to open your eye's but if you truly feel in your heart that your somehow magically going to be safer because they take away liberty's or push more law's that restrict free people well then your just naive ...Our Freedoms are under attack from within OPEN YOUR EYES...