WHY the hell do you have to bring a gun to a town hall meeting? Why? Just explain, once, a sane reason why you feel the need to tote deadly force with you to a discussion?

Do you also feel the need to bring a vacuum cleaner? A dishwasher? A large German automobile? A drill press? A flock of pigeons? None of these is relevant to a discussion about medical care, right? NOT ONE OF THESE THINGS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH GIVING PEOPLE A CHANCE AT THE ATTENTION OF A DOCTOR !So why the FUCK do you think a GUN is necessary?

What point is being made here, except that dem libruls is gonna takes our guns, so we're gonna bother everyone at a discussion about MEDICAL CARE? NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR GODDAMNED GUNS UNLESS YOU'RE WAVING THEM IN OUR FACES, OK? GO CARE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE FOR ONCE.

Like, say, the health of a loved one, or our inability to accept that everyone deserves the attention of medical professionals, regardless of their fortune.

JESUS on a cracker. Don't be such DICKS.

...trying to rule us, whether through pitiless cheap-labor forced concessions or draconian, evil activities, spying on, arresting, and otherwise destroying your "enemies."

For the love of God, you don't friggin' run the planet. Maybe try to make a friend of someone NOT out to destroy everyone not perfectly aligned with you, arm-bands, goose-stepping or not.

And the next Rethuglican coworker who thinks it's funny to mock homeless people get a fist of fives. America calling the bully class: Shut the fuck up.

None of you is getting it. In order to make peace, you have to keep trying, over and over. You have to have faith in human nature. You have to not be a cynic. Those of you sniggering into your coffee are assuming it IS business as usual. It is not. Obama means to bring civility back to politics, and isn't afraid to look like an idiot doing it because he knows it's the only way - to be the change we all need. He deserves our backing, because this is the only way back from the abyss - living the golden rule. He is better than this, and he is proving it.

Naive? Nope. The naivety comes from thinking anything will ever get better if we DON'T TRY. And if we LOSE this time, then we have to KEEP TRYING ANYWAY. This isn't the '60s. There's no spending your college years marching in pointless rallys, getting stoned then going off and making your fortunes ripping off the next generation while dismantling the social contract, all in the name of ME ME ME ME.

This is the real thing. It has to work. For all our sakes.

Please. Give it a chance.

When will these people stop lying with every word? When will they stop treating this like it's a game and not a matter of all our lives together?

When the hell will they go away? PLEASE. Just GO PLAY YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE 12-YEAR-OLD GAMES ON SOME ISLAND WHERE YOU CAN'T HURT ANYONE? ARG!

Voting against a bill just because you can, and you like to spoil everyone's lives? That's bullyism and we've had e-fucking-nough.

Clearly pilots are unskilled labor holding innocent airlines for ransom with their petty greed. Anyone can do it, after all.

Anyone here care to make that argument? There's two pilots for a reason. These people are way more trained than most of us, drilled for emergency, unlike, say, your average IT dude or dudette, or you basic CEO greedhead. They should be paid accordingly, and no one should quibble at the price.

Patrick is right to be a little miffed. No one realizes, apparently, that every pilot faces this possibility, and is prepared (each to his or her own ability)and kept prepared because projecting human bodies at high speeds over great distance both horizontal and vertical CAN BE DANGEROUS and DEADLY if it goes wrong.

That our press doesn't get that, and clucks with all the hero noises is a little nauseating. On the other hand, they insist that trains crash into cars at crossings through negligence, never that the car's driver had no business there, the train takes miles to stop, and the engineer doesn't "steer" a train. The fiddly bits of old-fashioned mechanical worlds have evidently fallen out of favor at J-school.

That all these people survived is a story of bad things going unaccountably right. Most times, these people would have had an agonizing, slow death, desperately holding breath, treading water to the light of the flames, before convulsing and finally breathing in the sea. Maybe that's worth writing.

Have a nice flight. Peanuts are now a dollar. You're a criminal unless we can strip search you. Oh, and screw you and our employees.

Maybe that's a story worth writing, too. Nah.

...grate.

I think plumbers should stop plumbing. After all, whenever they show up there's some kind of leak.

And that "they hate the troups" meme is the most infuriating of them. Go home, Joe. Go worship at your Alter of Rove.

...no one must argue for his innocence. It's up to back-stabbing ne'r-do-wells to prove his guilt. And you know there IS a possibility that when someone says "I had no idea" that, oh, wow, could it be? He COULD be telling the TRUTH. WHAT? No one does that anymore. Certainly not Joe, here. Shame, Joe.

Shut the fuck up. Sit the fuck down. Let the guy make some history before you start screaming.