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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"?

This week on Dumb da dumb dumb

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.

This week in strange strange strange

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.

Real Real News

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"?