Archive for 'General' Category
Not Your Father’s GOP (video)
After all the work I put into last weeks blog entry (digging through years of employment statistics for every state in the nation going back to the start of 2009), I decided to treat myself to something fun. I’ve had the idea for this video sitting on my desktop for nearly a year. Now seemed [...]
My Own Examination Calls Into Question ABC’s “Enhanced” Zimmerman video showing injuries (with photos)
On Monday, ABC News released “enhanced footage” (video available here) of the controversial “George Zimmerman arrest video”, now purporting to show “injuries” to the back of Zimmerman’s head that were not immediately evident in the original untouched video. Upon hearing the news, (on Huffington Post) the first thing I wanted was to see the photos… plural… not “photo” but [...]
Where Have All the Republicans Gone?
[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] I first noticed it right after the 2006 Mid-term election when Republicans lost control of both the House & The Senate after near unbroken control by the GOP since Newt Gingrich’s infamous “Republican Revolution” in 1994. Suddenly, no one (that I *personally* came in contact with) was willing to admit to being a “Republican”. It’s like they vanished from [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and the problem of “false equivalency”
[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] SPECIAL REPORT: After a flurry of controversy erupted over “Politifact” rating the Democratic claim that the “Ryan Plan will kill Medicare” as their “Lie of the Year”, I went looking to see if FactCheck.org agreed. They do (link below). BUT… in their explanation, they concede that “starting in 2022, people would be required to [...]
The List II: Newt Gingrich
This weeks “List” tackles former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I’ve made no secret of my distaste for the former Speaker over the years. In fact, among all the GOP candidates, I don’t think I have a more visceral dislike of anyone more than “Professor“ Newt Gingrich. Even BSC* Michele Bachmann and Rick ”Don’t Google My Name” Santorum, who [...]
“The List” is returning: Mugsy’s Master List of Reasons to NOT Vote for Each GOP Candidate, all December long.
Back in October of 2010, I posted “The List”: A list of 101 Reasons Why the GOP Should Not Be Allowed to Regain Control. “The List” was very popular, and (I’d like to think) played a part in preventing over a half-dozen of the most radical teanut ideologues from winning their respective races (Angle, Miller, Fiorina, [...]
A Brief History Lesson: The Great Stock Market Crash of 1929, 82 years ago today.
A brief history lesson: It was 82 years ago today that a real estate bubble allowed unregulated banks to engage in WILD speculation on Wall Street. Many people don’t know that the economy had actually been turning bad for nearly a year prior to the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. The Market had its [...]
Was Perry’s “jobs plan” really only his “energy policy”? No one seems to know. And with good reason.
On Friday, the Perry campaign released a copy of the candidate’s “Jobs Plan”… or did he? No one seems to be able to agree on that one simple point. The Perry website (no link. You know where) still refers to it as a “plan to create 1.2 million jobs”. Fox News Sunday yesterday referred to it as his [...]
A Few Protest Sign Ideas for the #OWS Crowd
The Occupy Wall Street protests have grown considerably over the past three weeks when they first began. They were ignored for a long time until NYC police officers went on a rampage, hauling away protesters and in one dramatic unprovoked incident caught on video, indiscriminately doused protestors with pepper spray. The Media keeps asking, “Why [...]
The Sunday “Unintentionally” Funnies
As my regular readers know by now, I spend every Sunday morning watching three of the four network news Sunday political talkshows: “Fox ’news’ Sunday”, “Meet the Press”, and ABC’s “ThisWeek”. ABC ends their show with a fun segment they call “Sunday funnies”, but this week, the entire show was filled with unintentionally funny moments I just HAD to compile [...]
The TRUE Legacy of 9/11 is the failure of Conservatism.
I must have mulled over a dozen different ways to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 here on Mugsy’s Rap Sheet. Back on the first anniversary, I created a “Tribute video” that was mostly news clips from that day showing both towers being hit and smoking wreckage at the Pentagon and in Shanksville. But I [...]
The Failure of Success. The success of failure.
As I type this, Hurricane Irene is battering the Northeastern coast, leaving 15 35 people dead and more than a million homes without power. Governors of BOTH parties have been praising the response of FEMA… who was already dealing with the rare East coast earthquake from the week before. And in the middle of this mess, GOP Presidential [...]
