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 [...]

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 [...]

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% [...]

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 [...]

Remembering the (REAL) world after 9/11 (with photos).

Special 9/11 Edition (Breaking News: This update is also now in question. More information as it develops: It is now being reported that the Florida pastor threatening to burn 200 Kor’ans on the anniversary of 9/11 has agreed to cancel his offensive stunt after meeting with the leader of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in NYC, [...]

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, [...]