War Dance,Inc: Newspaper taxis appear on the shore...

The girl in the polka dot dress, etc...

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds...and you're gone...(click)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will not push for stricter gun laws this election year, the White House said Thursday, one day after his impassioned remarks about the need to keep assault weapons off the streets suggested he may plunge into that political fight and challenge Congress to act.(click here to listen to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King debate)

Instead, Obama's stand on the government's role ended up right where it was after the mass shooting in Colorado last week: Enforce existing law better.(click here)

That is same view held by his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, as both reach for broader and more politically appealing ways to keep guns away from killers.

Obama still wants Congress to reinstitute a federal ban on military-style assault weapons that lapsed years ago,(click here) his spokesman Jay Carney said. But the president is not and has not been pushing for that ban, a nod to the politics of gun control.(click here for some jive talkin' out of New Orleans)  

There is no interest among many lawmakers(click) of both parties to take on the divisive matter. Especially not with an election in just over 100 days.(click here for a weekend update)

Sealing the matter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate's schedule is too packed to even have a debate on gun control.(click here)

Asked if the Senate might debate the issue next year, Reid said, "Nice try."(oh, yes, we've been here before. The notebook, the - whatever - CLICK!)