Bart........I'm on the same page with you. I intuit that a gun speaks to the owner and says "Here I am, grab me, use me." I taught a student who when 16 went out after midnight to egg cars with his friends. Just his luck that one driver of an egged car had a gun within easy reach. 16 yr. old dead.

About Barack Obama, what can one say except that he has fulfilled every expectation I ever had of him. His speech last night in Tucson takes its place with the greatest healing moments in American history. Not quite the Gettysburg Address--what could be?--but close enough. Even Fox News had to agree, and that's quite something.

As for Sarah Palin, I hope she becomes a pariah to people everywhere, a universal symbol of stupidity and insensitivity. She is far worse than a moron; she is a moral leper.

If this be "uncivil discourse," I plead guilty. But Palin deserves it.

....Bi-polar is a different field for me as I know a number of people with this disorder and I know about their history with it and their current situation. The only reaction against taking Meds that actually eliminate the disorder (People are very lucky when they find one), that I have seen, is when the subject believes that through force of will they can stave off the disorder. That is nonsense of course, but some people believe nonsense, and as a result they end up in a bad state. I've never heard of a bi-polar's med being one that left them in some kind of "out there" state.

About Barack Obama, what can one say except that he has fulfilled every expectation I ever had of him. His speech last night in Tucson takes its place with the greatest healing moments in American history. Not quite the Gettysburg Address--what could be?--but close enough. Even Fox News had to agree, and that's quite something.

As for Sarah Palin, I hope she becomes a pariah to people everywhere, a universal symbol of stupidity and insensitivity. She is far worse than a moron; she is a moral leper.
If this be "uncivil discourse," I plead guilty. But Palin deserves it.

All week long, Mathews, O'Donnelll and Olbermann were trying to make the connection between the shooter and the use of all the gun metaphors of the right, while saying they were not doing it.

When the Great Depression struck America in 1929, Pelley became active in politics. After moving to Asheville, Pelley founded Galahad College in 1932. The college specialized in correspondence, "Social Metaphysics," and "Christian Economics" courses. He also founded Galahad Press, which he used to publish various political and metaphysical magazines, newspapers, and books.

On January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, Pelley, an admirer of Hitler, was inspired to form a political movement. On that day, he founded the Silver Legion, an extremist and antisemitic organization whose followers (known as the Silver Shirts and "Christian Patriots") wore Nazi-like silver uniforms. The Silver Legion's emblem was a scarlet L, which was featured on their flags and uniforms. Pelley founded chapters of the Silver Legion in almost every state in the country, and soon gained a considerable number of followers.

Pelley traveled throughout the United States and holding mass rallies, lectures, and public speeches in order to attract Americans to his organization. Pelley's political ideology essentially consisted of anti-Communism, antisemitism, racism, extreme patriotism, and isolationism, themes which were the primary focus of his numerous magazines and newspapers, which included Liberation, Pelley's Silvershirt Weekly, The Galilean, and The New Liberator.

Pelley was also a committed Protestant and opponent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, and founded the Christian Party, running for president in 1936. His pro-fascist advocacy angered Roosevelt and his supporters, and charges were drawn up against the Silver Shirts in 1940.