Archive for 'General' Category

Anatomy of a One-term President. A cautionary tale.

A litany of dumb moves, failures of leadership, kowtowing to Conservatives while fighting with his base, a military situation with no end in sight, a stalled economy, high unemployment where no ones job feels safe, and an inability to convince people of the urgency to get off foreign oil. A good man elected to replace [...]

The sudden acceptability of racism on the American Right, part 2

Back during the 2008 Presidential campaign, one couldn’t help but notice the sudden surge in racist attacks/jokes/slurs against presidential candidate Barack Obama without a hint of shame. It seemed I would receive about three racist emails a week over the last few months before the election. Suddenly, there was no shame in being a mouth-breathing racist [...]

GOP to Steele: Don’t give our war away to Democrats!

Last week we heard from a parade of Republicans denouncing RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s absurd suggestions that Afghanistan is “a war of Obama’s choosing”, that the majority of the country is now opposed to the war there, and that “Obama’s decision” to send “ground troops” into a region known as “where empires go to die” [...]

VIDEO: Sen. Robert Byrd on Iraq invasion – Mar. 13, 2003

Senator Robert Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92. Here is Sen. Byrd’s prescient speech warning against the invasion of Iraq on March 13, 2003… six days before the invasion (40 min):   While I highly encourage you to watch the entire 40 minute speech, here are a few highlights:   “The [...]

The Official “the LOST finale sucked” thread. Seriously.

I just finished watching the series finally of ABC’s “Lost”, and was seriously disappointed… disappointed to the point where I must break from the usual topic of politics to rant about it (and provide a place for all of you to share your own thoughts.) After watching every episode of the entire six-year series, the [...]

Freepers, Birthers, Morons of all stripe, You didn’t get mad…

The following excellent viral email has been making the rounds for a few weeks now and deserves a link you can direct your friends to. The source of the original message is unknown. I have revised it slightly, corrected a few mistakes, added a couple of lines of my own, and added supporting links. Freepers, [...]

New Feature: “Link of the Day” (updated)

I have added a new page to “Mugsy’s Rap Sheet”: a “Link of the Day” page (see toolbar link above) where I will post links to news stories or sites of interest encountered throughout the day. Enjoy! – Mugsy (Note: I am still working on the email notification problem, which also affects Comments. If you [...]

The “Blame America First” Crowd.

After the Health Care Reform Act passed last week, unhinged Tea-Baggers went on a rampage, trashing the offices of Democratic leaders, blurting profanities and racial slurs, and then claiming that they were being framed by Democrats (no, I’m not kidding). One visitor to my latest YouTube video documenting the outbreak of violence following passage of [...]

Health care bill passes (but I may never eat sausage again).

Hooray! History was made Sunday night as the House passed the (ugly) Senate health care reform bill, as well as the “Reconciliation” bill to strip out all the ugly stuff. The first bill goes to President Obama to sign while the Reconciliation bill goes back to the Senate for them to agree to the changes [...]

Time traveling with Karl Rove and the Bush Rehabilitation Crew

A little secret about me: I love time travel movies. Time After Time, Time Rider, Frequency, Back to the Future, and even JCVD’s TimeCop. I love imagining what might happen if one could travel into the past and change events in the future. But one thing I absolutely DESPISE are people who try to rewrite history by lying about [...]

The Party of NO claims mantle of bipartisanship

More often than you might think, I’ll start off writing the weeks blog entry, only to end up writing something else entirely. This is one of those weeks. This particular blog entry started off noting the eerie similarities between the dramatic rise in Right Wing extremism and the very people they claim to hate: Muslim [...]

GOP: The Party of Lawlessness. Four Decades of Criminal Behavior.

I‘m probably not telling you anything that hasn’t crossed your mind already, but sometimes we just need to say things out loud for them to sink in: For all their talk about “patriots” and “love of America”, the GOP really HAS become a party with a total lack of respect for the law (apologies to [...]