The Observation Post

Following different conversations about gun safety. Whenever someone tries to talk reasonable, they're met with a slew of angry pit bulls who take it to an extreme, including making death threats! Thus proving we DO need to beef up mental health and it shouldn't be too hard to find the people that really need help! I'm especially dismayed by people who say 'I was a soldier and I don't need to foll ... ow YOUR laws', or repeat the propaganda of the fright wing media whores for the NRA and gun makers by saying 'we have plenty of laws. The ATF has been castrated by the NRA shills in Congress. There are so many rules that prohibit them from doing their job, it's a joke. Then to make thing worse, the fright wingers blather on, falsely, about how 'we're already tracked and regulated'. There is evidence that a handful of gun dealers are skirting the law to supply weapons that end up used in crimes. But the ATF is NOT ALLOWED to investigate a gun d

This week is the 'anniversary' of the beginning of the Iraq war part 2 'Mission accomplished' and other horror stories. Bin Laden helped a handful of men kill 3000 Americans and destroyed a couple buildings over delusional dogma. Bush/Cheney/Rove helped kill over 4500 Americans, 100,000 Iraqi's, wounded and crippled thousands more of each, destroyed a whole country, and shot a major hole in our economy, over delusional dogma....now tell me, who's the bigger criminal?

I used to live next to Palo Alto and Atherton, Calif, where you could find houses worth several million dollars. So you know the gardeners were outside those homes, not inside. My experience of trickle down economics was that the uber rich owners did NOT want to pay for sewer upgrades, police, and fire services, but DEMANDED that the police show up as soon as they hung up the phone. When they wanted to upd ate, landscape, or clean their homes, they hired contractors who'd buffer them from the undocumented laborers who did all the work. Meaning they were usually white. They were owners of electronics, later software, companies that didn't mind getting all sorts of tax breaks to build their fab plants. But when they got bigger, they had to please stockholders need for maximum profit by abandoning those fab plants, along with thousands of workers to move overseas. So farmland that disappeared under asphalt to build those facilities became wastelands almost overnight. And small bu