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The city of Milford, CT seems determined to take the lead as  Connecticut's most backwoods backwards city by  coming out with an "interesting" calendar for the 2013-2014 school year. Looking for a hedge against snow days they decided to cut off two particular holidays, the first being Veterans Day and the second being Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. I'm spelling out what Rosh Hashanah is because it's possible people from Milford reading this might not know. In any event under pressure they immediately backed off. But as a Vietnam veteran who is Jewish I am compelled to ask, Milford how don't I love thee, let me count the ways, While you're counting snow days.

When you see food, look for sea food

Survey after survey is showing a preponderance of evidence that people who eat sea food at least once a week have a 30% lower rate of dementia. What was our subject again? Oh yes, when you are looking to see food, make sure it is sea food.

This week in Who'd of thunk it

"Concerned conservatives" on the debt crisis might have a way to deal with it in the future, politically that is. That's because since World War II only three presidents have left office with a higher debt to GDP ratio than when they came in, and their names are Reagan, Bush, and Bush. So how do Republicans improve the debt ratio? Based on history, vote for Democrat Presidents.

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Pierre Lapupu of the NRA said to the convention in Texas this week "how many Bostonians wish they had a gun the day of the Boston Marathon?" Ok, and what would you have had these armed Bostonians do exactly? Shoot randomly at flying bomb fragments? Shoot the young man mistakenly identified as the bomber on the cover of the New York Post? Or maybe every kid with a backpack running away? Hey Mr. Lapupu why not wonder how many New Yorkers on 9/11, 2001,wish they could have shot the incoming airliners because guns solve everything? Or seriously now, how many wish they had a president was not so obsessed with allowing assault rifles to again be legal and clearing brush, that he actually took the time to read memos such as "Osama bin Laden determined to attack United States"?

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Granted the state of Mississippi is still one of the tardiest brain groups on the planet having taken until 1995 to ratify the 13th amendment and then until 2013 to forward it to the federal government. But there's a close second, well...make that seconds, namely Japan and Russia. It seems that these two "enlightened" countries have decided that maybe, just maybe, it's time to officially call an end to World War II. That's right a state of war still "officially" exists between them and they are "thinking" that maybe it's time to wrap things up. What gave it away that WWII was over? That's right, it was in all the papers. And that's this weekend dumb da dumb dumb, dumb.