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This Is What Happens When You Don’t Vote

Observations Marion - August 31, 2011 7

I usually try to get back to the Commonwealth once a year. I've lived for the past 30 years in the same part of...

This Is How It Ends: Supervolcano

Observations ADONAI - August 28, 2011 13

Did you hear that? ~Batuwara(Krakatoa Island 1883) This is the first in a series of articles discussing one of my favorite subjects - The end of...

America’s Shameful Culture of Rape

Observations BlueStateMan - August 26, 2011 25

A Cop Rapes a Woman at Gunpoint. An 11-Year-Old Rape Victim is Smeared. KBR sues a rape accuser for $2 Million. What is it with our inability...

Ron Paul: A Rose By Any Other Name

Observations Marion - August 22, 2011 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbV7mURP0I I know all there are scores of too-cool-for-school kids who hang out on Bill Maher's Facebook page and stoke this little man's enormously fragile...

AmeRicka

Observations ADONAI - August 22, 2011 18

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. George Carlin This is...

Separated at Birth…Or the GOP Lineup Revealed?

Observations BlueStateMan - August 20, 2011 5

Coincidence? I think NOT! YOU DECIDE!!! Enjoy!

King of Kings

Observations ADONAI - August 13, 2011 13

I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters In...

Correction: Hillary Was Never a Progressive, but Johnny Reid Was …

Observations Marion - August 10, 2011 53

What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.

The Tale of Two Women and the One Man Who Failed

Observations Marion - August 9, 2011 6

How's this for an oxymoron? Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the...

Do You Want to Live Forever?

Observations ADONAI - August 8, 2011 37

Image via Wikipedia Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ~Emily Dickinson I have...

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This Is What Happens When You Don’t Vote

This Is How It Ends: Supervolcano

America’s Shameful Culture of Rape

Ron Paul: A Rose By Any Other Name

AmeRicka

Separated at Birth…Or the GOP Lineup Revealed?

King of Kings

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