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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.

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A trickle-down mystery: Believe it or not, over the weekend police in Newtown found an abandoned house with 200 to 300 gallons of - and this is the truth - urine.
We'll eschew the obvious puns, but suffice to say according to the authorities it's not illegal so why drain local resources. Sorry, we couldn't help it.

The 60% solution

So it has happened, the post Newtown gun legislation has been defeated U.S. Senate. And now as before, 40% of the gun sales in this country (i.e. gun shows and over the Internet) will go on with no background checks. But that begs the question; in what other context would the Senate and House find such a 40% gap acceptable regarding the safety of their own families? Would it be okay if the FAA only inspected 40% of the airplanes for safety, or if the FDA Left 40% of our food uninspected? Would the NRA devotees in the US Congress feel safe if the airlines only screened 60% of the luggage going on board our flights? Probably not.

 President Obama was spot on when he said to those who would consider this a victory “a victory for what a victory for whom?” Well those against this legislation, ignoring the actual wording of the bill might well answer; for the survival of the Second Amendment. Really? How about considering the survival of our country’s second grades.

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April 15, 2013 is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alice Lewin  Bender, The music school at Yale '34. She is the lady in whose memory the Chabad House at Yale will be named. That is a singular honor for a woman of Yale, ahead of her time, of her time, but will be remembered in these times and for future times.

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Donald Trump has dropped his suit against Bill Maher when he suggested that due to the obvious physical similarities, and in full birther spirit, how could people not consider the possibility of a goodly amount of orangutan DNA in Mr. Trump. In any event Trumps reason for discontinuing legal action is because he now claims he has a sense of humor. We kinda sorta believe it's because he knew, at least after his lawyers told him, that there was no way in hell he was going to Dar-WIN in court. Anyway, we are glad to see Mr. Trump is undergoing some sort of personal evolution of his species.

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Recent polls (and there are number of them) show that basically due to right-wing fringe groups one third of Americans believe that Muslims should carry a special ID. Kudos to Muslim spokesman Reza Aslan, author of "No God but God: the origins evolutions and future of Islam" who said it's also unfortunate the Jews and Catholics who went through this have not led a groundswell to resist it.

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 There's a number of very unhappy men in Kabul, Afghanistan (at least, it seems there always are), but they have a new "reason" to be upset. That is because women, appropriately dressed by their standards, fully arm and leg covered women, have formed a bicycle riding team and are competing and winning local metals. Some of the more "traditionally brained"men say this is not women's role, and we at RFN say let them roll. You go ladies.

Off-color humor department

We're not sure if this is true, but there's a rumor that when Donald Trump sued Bill Maher for saying Trump was related to an orangutan (referencing among other things his hairstyle coloring) that Mr. Maher got a change of venue to (drumroll) Orange, California. That's this weeks off-color humor.

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At CPAC the Republicans attempting to "become more relevant" with "all of America" broke down their speaking time as follows: Donald Trump with more speaking time than Marco Rubio and Chris Christie with zero speaking time since he wasn't invited.

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The tea party intellectuals (forgive us the term) assured us four years ago that once Barack Obama's policies were in place the stock market would surely plummet. Now anything that goes up always comes down as the stock market has shown from time to time although historically there has been basically one direction. But can't  they (the tea party) look at what has happened in the last 4+ years and even if they won't admit they're wr-wr-wro-wro, well they can't say the word. Can't they at least allow maybe they weren't right?

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FOX News (always a contradiction in terms) said about Chuck Hagel that one of the sources of his funding that he has not disclosed formerly is an organization called "friends of Hamas", pretty sinister sounding indeed. This originates from a question by a Daily News reporter named Dan Friedman. The "great one" Stephen Colbert said that Friedman called a Republican aide on Capitol Hill with a question, since he was attempting to dig up dirt and asked if Hagel had given a speech to... the 'Junior league of Hezbollah' .."or "Friends of Hamas" feeling "no one could take seriosuly the idea that such organizations even exist". He was asking the question satirically!!!  So again the contradiction Fox .... News. And as Steven said what else is Chuck Hagel "hiding"?

This week in smart smart, smart smart

Many states are weighing whether gun owners should be required to carry insurance umbrellas in case of accidental or intentional self-defense shootings. Nelson Lind a professor of Constitutional law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University school of law made a pretty salient remark. He said "if this were done, the private insurance market would quickly and efficiently make it prohibitively expensive for people with a record of irresponsible ownership of guns to possess them legally". The opposite of that would be dumb da dumb, dumb, dumb.

Ayes to the Newt

We have to give Newt Gingrich credit for two great remarks on the Sunday talk show circuit. First in intellectual political awareness he compared the Democrats to a Super Bowl team and Republicans to a mid-level college team. And secondly he said regarding their political strategy to connect with 311 million people, "if your airplane flies into the mountain you may consider getting a better radar system."

This weekend fun fun, fun fun, fun

On "This week" two military "experts" George Will and Newt Gingrich talked about the importance of possible Pentagon budget cuts in the coming sequester, if it happens. What's fun fun fun fun is that so far what these men have shown is that the only thing they know about the military is that they want to be in it, as they had numerous draft deferments between them. In fact when Newt Gingrich said he is a "deficit hawk" we now realize that in the new Republican dictionary "deficit" equals "chicken".

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Marco Rubio's rebuttal to Barack Obama outside of being factually challenged, is strategically challenged as well. Nowhere did he talk about our #1 ally in the Mideast and the only true democracy there, namely Israel. This surprised us, as Sen. Rubio is from the state of Florida and we hear rumors there's an old Jew or two that maybe retired there.