Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Mugsy’s Annual Predictions for 2015
This is arguably my favorite posting duty of the year, where I get to ridicule the so-called “psychics”, blast Conservative prognosticators, a look back at my own routinely successful record of predicting (averaging around 60%), followed by my own predictions for the coming year. Sure, I’ve had my good years (75% in 2008) and my bad (20% […]
December 29, 2014
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Money, Predictions
Ferguson Police Chief vs Prosecutor: Who’s Lying (video)
A week ago Monday, St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced (with a disturbing grin on his face) that the Grand Jury had decided NOT to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed 18 year old Michael Brown. After a lengthy (and strikingly rare & questionable) ridiculing of the veracity of witnesses for the […]
December 1, 2014
Posted in: Crime, General, Guns & Violence, myth busting, Racism, rewriting history, Scandals, Seems Obvious to Me
A Way To Fix the Immigation System (that no one will ever do.)
In the 1996 movie “Phenomenon”, John Travolta’s character couldn’t figure out for the life of him how a wild rabbit kept finding its way into his garden despite building a fence around it. Suspecting the rabbit was burrowing beneath the fence, he kept burying it deeper & deeper only to discover each morning that his plants were […]
November 24, 2014
Posted in: Crime, General, Immigration Reform, National Security, Racism, Seems Obvious to Me
Ebola Is Only the Latest Terror Helping Conservative Find Their Pro-Big Government Roots (again)
Whenever someone whines “both Parties are the saaaaaaame!”, I tell them (after telling them they’re an idiot) that “the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans think government is a force of evil that can’t do anything right while Democrats see government as a Public Service that exists solely for the Public Good. You either believe one […]
October 6, 2014
Posted in: Election, General, Healthcare, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity
Republicans think “the world changed” on September 11th. No it didn’t. 17 months later it did.
The world did not change on September 11th. Maybe for Republicans it did, but for the rest of us, we were just as concerned about terrorism on September 10th as we were on September 11th. Just because Republicans were suddenly & violently awakened as to just how serious a threat “terrorism” was on “9/11” doesn’t mean […]
September 10, 2014
Posted in: General, Middle East, National Security, Politics, Terrorism, War
Both Sides Are At Fault? Democrats Don’t Control the Senate. They Just Don’t.
Every time the news reported on how little Congress got done before embarking on their annual August Recess, some newscaster was always sure to point out the fact that “the Senate… controlled by Democrats…” likewise has been every bit as unproductive as the GOP-controlled House. The obvious implication being: “Both sides are equally to blame!”, […]
August 4, 2014
Posted in: Election, General, myth busting, Partisanship, Politics
John Goodman Explains the Start of WWI 100 Years Ago Today (video)
Exactly 100 years ago today (June 28th, 1914), the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was murdered by Serbian nationalists while visiting neighboring Sarajevo. One week later, the murder of the Archduke precipitated the start of World War I. In the Season 4 cliffhanger of NBC’s “The West Wing”, President Bartlett’s daughter Zoey is […]
June 28, 2014
Posted in: General, War
Must a President Be a Failure to Be a Success?
I was watching former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn pollute my TV screen yesterday on Fox “news” Sunday, and I’m always struck by how stunningly self-UNaware Cheney is about the havoc his administration caused. Naturally, both Cheney’s blamed President Obama for America’s lack of credibility around the world, because he “drew a red line […]
May 19, 2014
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Partisanship, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me
Maybe Howard Dean Was Right on Affirmative Action?
On January 15, 2003, President Bush stopped by the University of Michigan while campaigning for re-election. UMich had recently implemented new state restrictions on the use of race when deciding just who they’d admit enrollment to, and he condemned Affirmative Action measures as “a quota system”. Democratic presidential frontrunner Howard Dean later condemned President Bush’s remarks for injecting race […]
April 28, 2014
Posted in: General, Racism, Seems Obvious to Me
Obama, Putin, and The Right’s Daddy Issues
Conservatives have “Daddy” issues. I’m not making a joke, I’m pointing out a demonstrative fact. For the past week, Republicans have been quick to express their admiration, if not outright praise, for “Vladamir Putin: Man of Action” for the way he (supposedly) bested President Obama (supposedly, once again) by invading the Crimean peninsula without any apparent concern for […]
March 10, 2014
Posted in: General, National Security, Partisanship, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, War
You can always find another lunch counter, er, baker, florist
I‘m fairly convinced by this point that Conservatives just don’t listen to themselves when they speak. How else do you explain Fox’s George Will or ABC guest pundit Rich Lowrey decrying yesterday the veto of Arizona’s noxious “(bigotry in the name of) Religious Freedom Act”, saying, “Hey, if a baker or florist refuses to cater your gay wedding, […]
March 3, 2014
Posted in: fake scandals, General, Racism, Religion
An Unintended Stroll Down Memory Lane
Last week, the company that hosts M.R.S. wouldn’t let me in to update the blog. at first, I thought the problem might lie on my end because my computer had recently started acting funny. As a computer-tech by trade, my first thought was that I had a virus, but several thorough scans pronounced my PC as safe & […]
February 17, 2014
Posted in: General, Infrastructure, National Security, Politics, Right-wing Facism, Scandals, War
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