Archive for September, 2010
Special Edition: Report of Mass Voter Fraud in Houston full of holes (Update 2)
Breaking News (story will be continually updated throughout the day/week as information is uncovered.) The rightwing blogs are all a twitter with a story on Fox “news” that “an SEIU (Service Employees International Union) employee, “Steve Caddle” (later corrected as “Sean Caddle”) was behind an attempt at rampant voter fraud, attempting to register “23,207” fraudulent […]
September 29, 2010
Posted in: Election, myth busting, Politics
Republicans PLEDGE to Do Nothing New (Turd polish edition)
Last week, Republicans released their “Pledge to America” (or as Keith Olbermann calls it, a “Lemon Pledge”). Longer than Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract On With America” (thanks to about 14 hilarious full page photo inserts and eight mostly blank divider pages), yet shorter on details, answers, and even leaving many (Conservative) “problems”, like “earmarks”, left totally […]
September 27, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics
Tea Party nominees are Evangelical nuts with no economic solutions
The Tea Party appears to be scoring some major victories in the Republican Primaries this year, challenging & defeating a series of Republican incumbents across the country… not via mass popular appeal, but thanks to heavy Teanut turnout matched with anemic GOP turnout on Primary Day in races that attracted on average fewer than 19% […]
September 20, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Politics, Religion, Right-Wing Insanity
The “Proud to be an American” Test
How any times have you heard some lunatic on national television say something that made you roll your eyes and mutter out loud to no one in particular, “Makes you proud to be an American”? We all have at one time or another. And I had several such moments listening to all the feigned Right-wing […]
September 13, 2010
Posted in: Politics, Racism, Religion, Right-wing Facism
Remembering the (REAL) world after 9/11 (with photos).
Special 9/11 Edition A tiny group of “Christian” Extremists in Florida plan on going through with their “Burn a Koran Day” to protest a tiny group of Islamic Extremists that attacked America on 9/11. There are (reportedly) fewer than 50 members of the Florida church planning this event, yet the Muslim World is already painting […]
September 9, 2010
Posted in: General, myth busting, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism
CEOs: “Reinvest those profits or we’ll tax your bonus!”
(Update: It was pointed out to me that I probably should have titled this Op/Ed: Corporations: “Reinvest those profits or we’ll tax them!” Because the real problem are Corporations paying NO taxes vs. CEO’s whose priority is Corporate Profits over their own. I apologize for any confusion. – Mugsy) While some may question my sanity, […]
September 6, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Money, myth busting, Politics