The Observation Post

You ever think about how the GOP tells us that they want to give us 'opportunity', that we can all be rich too?...then tell us that when disaster happens, don't help each other...get your guns? We're sold the idea of money determining or being a measure of our worth, our value, then we see people like Beck, Lush Rimjob, Hannity, making MILLIONS peddling hate, delusion, sedition, and mental illness. One of the richest men in the world made his money off of hard working immigrants trying to send money home to help their families (Mexico). How is that any different than glorifying Bernie Madoff, or a druglord? I think some of the wealthiest people in the world ran toward the victims of the Boston explosions; volunteer for the Red Cross; help people get back on their feet after a hurricane...WITHOUT getting paid to do so. Example- people I knew in California who drove TO New York (9/11) and New Orleans to help after those disasters, on their own dime, while Haliburton an

Something I don't see people talking about, re the sequester- a lot of important programs are getting severe cuts, like research by the NIH, or FDA inspections. Some people seem to think that the money will be restored as the economy picks up, after the books are 'balanced'. WRONG! If you listen to the rhetoric of the GOP, they want to take those 'savings' to cut people's taxes, or give more breaks to corporate gamblers,  thus further reducing revenue. It will take YEARS of fights by agencies to get some of that money back.  Congress will say 'NO, you just want to go back to the old tax and spend nonsense."  And to the people that suck up to the Teathugs, just try to find out how much you will get back in tax savings...you know that 'keep your own money' idea? I would bet that a lot of people will get NOTHING, or so little that if you spread it out over a year, you wouldn't be able to buy a regular coffee, let alone "invest' in a

Open letter to my liberal friends Is it just me, or are others on the progressive side feeling increasingly like talking is over-rated, and maybe WE should be building up our arsenals? At least of baseball bats? It's like the onslaught of hate and stupidity from the fright wing fringies (redundant, I know) is endless! They get away with it, so more pile on and get increasingly more strident to get attention; like a pack of barki ng dogs getting increasingly louder and more rabid. I'm sick of seeing totally dismissive commentary that comes from brain dead assholes like- Palin/Hannity/Beck/Jones/ Malkin/Coulter/Limpnuts/ WorldNetDaily/NewsMax/the whole DumFux Noose angry monkey troop. You can't have a discussion in any open forums without people jumping in to call you names like libtard, obamanot, Nazi, or wishing you dead. If you suggest discussion of a topic, you invite some shit for brains making death threats. I think for a long time the left has tried to be nice an

Stay awake for the next elections! I hope progressives will stay awake enough to work to toss out the fright wing trolls that have infected government at all levels in the midterms. I'm still basically pissed off at the Dems who sat on their hands in the 2010 election to 'send a message' to Obama that they were disappointed. I got in a few arguments with those people online who wouldn't take the time to even go to White House.gov t o look at what had been accomplished, despite all the blocking, and other shenanigans by the TeaOP to sabotage the President. They acted like petulant children who said 'I asked for chocolate ice cream and he got me neapolitan." The result was, the right wing agitated the hell out of ignorant, frightened, people to rush out and vote against the evils of Nancy Pelosi, and gay FEMA soldiers coming to take their guns. And we all ended up with GOP redistricting, so that even if more people voted for the Dems than the GOP, we STILL got