Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
The List II: Mitt Romney
(Attention: With Ron Paul’s pseudo-concession of the race to Romney [May 14th], I have moved this List to its own page linked on the Toolbar above. For the latest updates, please view that version instead. – Mugsy) Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy […]
December 5, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Guns & Violence, Healthcare, Jobs, Middle East, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes, Terrorism, War
Sour Grapes Make for Bitter Whine.
After news broke that Kadafi/Kadaffi/Qadafi/Qaddaffi/Gaddafi/whatever had been captured and killed by Libyan rebels Friday afternoon, if was only natural for everyone to wonder just how the GOP Presidential Candidates would spin yet another foreign policy coup for President Obama. These were, after all, some of his harshest critics. Michele Bachmann said that getting us involved in […]
October 25, 2011
Posted in: Election, Middle East, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, War
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 & Shanksville. But I decided we’ve all […]
September 11, 2011
Posted in: Economy, General, Middle East, Racism, Religion, Terrorism, War
President Bush called for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders.
This weeks update is short & sweet. President Obama took a lot of heat from Republicans this past week for suggesting that Israel consider a modified return to their pre-1967 borders (prior to the 1967 Arab/Israeli War) when attempting to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians. As President Obama noted, what he said publicly […]
May 23, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics
Why Crediting Bush for OBL’s capture is dead wrong
If you’re like me, you just spent the better part of the past week listening to Right-wingers dismiss President Obama’s great achievement of finally getting Osama bin Laden, and give most of the credit to President Bush. Their arguments for doing so are filled with wingnut torture fantasies and baseless assumptions, not a single one of which holds […]
May 9, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism
If it all weren’t so sad, it’d be funny. On second thought, this IS funny.
There are so many other topics I considered writing about this week. Topic Idea #1: Under GOP rule, the state of Arizona is rapidly becoming the worlds largest insane asylum. First it was the racist/xenophobic “Papers please” anti-immigration bill, followed by the AZ-GOP “Death Panel” that decided a new for-profit, privately run prison system was more important […]
April 18, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, Politics, Rants, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity
The Only Logical End Game for Libya: Elections
On all four Sunday shows yesterday, the common topic was Libya. “Should we of gotten involved” and “should we of explained how we intend to get out before we intervened”, were the questions of the day. The one question NO ONE asked and NO ONE volunteered an answer to was “How do we get out?” Donald Rumsfeld of […]
March 28, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me, War
This All Sounds Terribly Familiar
Right down to the day in fact. March 19th, the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the United States once again engages in military air strikes against a Middle Eastern nation. Only this time, the expansion of our military into a third front is being committed by a President that was elected by a […]
March 21, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, Politics, Terrorism, War
Japan, Iraq, gas prices, and other disasters
After such a convoluted week, this weeks’ Op/Ed may seem a bit convoluted as well, so bear with me. I’ll do my best to tie everything in. After suffering one of the worst earthquakes in history, followed by a massive tsunami that may have caused more death & destruction than the quake itself, Japan’s worst […]
March 14, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Middle East, Money, Politics, War
Special Edition: A Tale of Two Fake Interviews: Walker vs. Schiller
Last month, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker got “punked” by a Buffalo, NY radio morning-show host pretending to be billionaire Conservative activist “David Koch”. And yesterday, Conservative slam-journalist and convicted felon James O’Keefe posted a hidden-camera video interview with National Public Radio’s Senior VP Ron Schiller and Senior Director of Giving Betsy Liley. The video, shot last […]
March 10, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics, Racism, Rants, Religion, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes
Recording History for Pharaohs Who Seek to Rewrite It
Think about those ancient hieroglyphics we’ve all seen carved into the walls of Egyptian tombs. Just about everything we know of early civilization comes from the writings on pyramid walls. But truth was easier to separate from fiction back then. We know that giant “gods” with the heads of birds and dogs didn’t come to […]
February 7, 2011
Posted in: Middle East
Egypt in danger of becoming Obama’s Iran.
Republicans LOVE to bash Jimmy Carter. Ridiculing him as an “abject failure” has become sport on the Right. So much so that I took the time last year to write a column clearly demonstrating that, when you look at the numbers, NO ONE holds a candle to the abysmal failure that was the George W. Bush Administration. The […]
January 31, 2011
Posted in: Economy, General, Middle East, Money, Politics
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