Archive for 'War' Category

Mugsy’s predictions for 2012: “The apocalypse never comes when you want it” Edition (UPDATED)

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Where to start? Every year since 2006 I’ve dug deep into my toy-chest, pulled out the turban from my “Ancient Secrets Magic Kit”, [...]

The List II: Santorum, Huntsman, and The Rest.

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This week raps up our review of the remaining “also-rans” in the GOP primary… the candidates that have never polled out [...]

The List II: The Strange Case of Dr. Ron Paul.

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. It is extremely difficult to summarize the very complex platform of Texas Rep. Dr. Ron Paul without getting too deep into [...]

The List II: Michele Bachmann

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Everybody knows someone like Michele Bachmann. The “Tall Tale” teller, the “Everyone’s out to get you” paranoid, or the Bible-thumper that [...]

The List II: Mitt Romney

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“We Haven’t Seen Spending Like This Since the End of WWII.”

Andrea Mitchell of NBC news interviewed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan Friday on the subject of raising the Debt Ceiling, where he made the following comment: “We haven’t seen spending like this since the end of WWII.”          Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy That comment gnawed at me [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Defending Myself, condemning the indefensible.

Most people know me from one of two places: either my YouTube page or from my weekly reporting of the Sunday Morning Talkshows over at Crooks & Liars. At the end of all my posts is the following tagline: Final Bush tally: 10,300+ DEAD (3,000 on 9/11. 4,500 in Iraq, 1000 in Afg. 1,800 in [...]