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Yikes, what awful news.  Today it sounds like Japan is on the brink of a Chernobyl style meltdown at at least one, and maybe several, nuclear power reactors.  Very scary.  And the devastation caused by the quake and the subsequent tsunami is mind-boggling.  It now appears that the death toll will be well into five digits.  And this in the country that is regarded as the most sophisticated  in the world in terms of earthquake mitigation.

This morning I took mom to the orthopod for another steroid injection in her back.  We can only hope that this one will prove more effective.  Time will tell.

I have also been following the ongoing saga of the Fairbanks Five.  Another article in the Fairbanks News Miner this morning will, I suspect, be the source of nightmares for me for some time to come.

While much of Mr.Cox's tirade is no doubt hyperbole, I also believe it is likely an accurate statement of the contempt for which he and his like-minded pals hold not only the government but the rest of us as well.

“People get all wrapped around the axle about all these dumb ignorant masses. Look, this fight is 5 percent that believe in tyranny and are benefiting from it against 5 percent that believe in liberty and will stop at nothing to procure it. And the rest of those people, those 95 percent, are just inconsequential one way or the other.

“If they’re not going to stand up to tyranny they’re sure not going to give us any problems, they're basically spoils of war to whoever wins.”

And while this guy may represent the most extreme element of America's "conservative" movement, the recent election demonstrated all too sadly how willing putatively legitimate elements of the movement are to give a wink and a nod to these loonies.

What in the world could Mr. Cox make of Ms. Palin's or Ms. Angle's references to "second amendment remedies" other than to believe that they, to one degree or another, support his crazed world view?  Likewise Mr. Limbaugh's, Mr. Beck's and many other right wing pundits' and info-tainers' shameless disregard for any notion of civil discourse, historical accuracy or even simple fair play cannot fail but to give support and comfort to extremists of Mr. Cox's ilk.  

And what does the Republican establishment typically have to say about these folks.  Nothing.  Deafening silence.

Indeed, one cannot help but  suspect that the one common element they all share is a contempt for Mr. Cox's "95 percent."  

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