How can democracy work when the people are complete, total, ill-informed and bigoted morons?

“I’ve got 50-some guns, and I wasn’t crazy about Obama’s talk about small towns,” said Sam Vetter, 64, a farmer and lifelong Democrat who regrets voting for Bush in 2000. “Besides,” he added, “Obama just doesn’t sound right for an American president.”

"Obama" may not sound "raht" but bombing and killing and bombing and killing and bombing and killing and bombing and killing, well that sounds just fine.

I hope McCain wins. People get the kind of government they deserve.

Yeah, sorry, I did not really mean that. I am just being bitter...

I really like Obama, he is our best hope.

Within five years there will be internment camps in the United States for those suspected of being terrorists and enemies of the state.

Just watch.

Will the Arab-American vote be good for Obama? Would people freak out if Arab-Americans voted on the basis of whether or not Obama was "good" for Iran, or Syria? You bet they would. Israel of course is different.

Right from the airforce section of Salon. What a journalist. More sex sells crap from Manjoo. Tech blog? Yeah right.

I suppose the girl did use a cell phone camera, and it was on myspace... close enough for a quick buck and some titillation.

We've all had neighbours from hell, which may be why this one got so many letters.

There is a device which emits a hight pitched whine that can only be heard by someone under 25. If you install this, it will drive the kid nuts. Some will say this is cruel, but turnabout is fair play in my book and there is a small chance he might learn that his right to endlessly shoot balls ends at his neighbour's ears...

http://tinyurl.com/qegq4

There is another device (plans available on line) that you can use to zap your asshole neighbour's too loud stereo, it will fry all the circuits. It's expensive to build but the look on your loud and annoying neighbour's face - priceless.

Having said this, you should try talking first... McCain would never talk to his many "enemies", but there is a 99.99999999% chance that you are better man than him.

Our friend is suffering because he feels that he cannot stop the noise...

Experiencing stress over a long period of time can produce a feeling of helplessness. As a result of this people may stop striving for goals. This condition is called learned helplessness (Seligman, 1975).

Hiroto and Seligman (1975) demonstrated learned helplessness in an experiment. Students were assigned to one of three training groups. They all experienced an unpleasant loud noise. In one group, the controllable-noise condition, the subjects were told the noise would come on from time to time and " there is something you can do to stop it." Subjects were able to press a button to stop the noise, which they did. The uncontrollable-noise group had the same instructions and apparatus, except the button was ineffectual in stopping the noise. In a comparison group, the subjects were simply told "from time to time a loud tone will come on for a while. Please sit and listen to it." After this all of the subjects were tested for helplessness: they were told that the noise would come on and off and that "there is something you can do to stop it." The subjects were presented with a different apparatus that had a sliding knob that, when manipulated correctly, would stop the noise. Students in the uncontrollable-noise group performed much more poorly than those in the other two groups.

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but there are a number of barriers that he could build that would reduce the noise, he might want to put in some shrubbery as well.

It's just that I think that you sometimes fail to live up to your potential. Telling me that there there is a world out there is fine, but the truth is, I do enjoy some of your posts. I don't enjoy stuff that is on the top of the page, that's too easy. I look for the stuff that is unusual, challenging and hard to find.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, but they never got any Pulitzers for it either.

I could care less what Lieberman's contributions in the past were. Today he is dangerous and deluded, he is: a bushie, a likudnik, a zionist and a hater of Muslims. He wants to bomb Iran, and start another war. What a man.

Mussolini made the trains run on time. He was still a mass murderer and a fascist. Hitler loved animals. Saddam had universal medical care, and the highest percentage of PHD's in the world. Big deal.

It is because you are vilest, most bigoted, ignorant, rude, callous, heartless creature ever to inhabit these pages. You have one issue and one issue only. You are entirely reprehensible. Nothing you say is of interest to any thinking human being.

I am mystified as to why you even post here. No one likes you, no one agrees with you, and if you hoping to influence anyone's opinion, then you must understand that your methods and hateful rhetoric are completely at odds with that goal.

I do try to scroll past your comments, but they are kind of like vomit on the sidewalk, it's hard not to look sometimes.

For the record I don't hate Jews and support the right of the state of Israel to exist.

You really need to get a job.