Comments for Mugsy`s Rap Sheet http://mugsysrapsheet.com Wingnuts beware. We've got our eye on you. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:39:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on BSC Republicans: A Review of Election Night, Texas 2010. by Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/03/03/bsc-republicans-a-review-of-election-night-texas-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Grant in Texas Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:39:54 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2723#comment-156 I see that Republicans are complaining about Democrats crossing-over and voting a Republican ballot in our OPEN primary state. Democrats had few real contests and in my county, Galveston, only 7 contested positions. We had a 12.5% turnout in our county of 300,000 with nearly twice as many Republicans and Democrats voting. Americans love to complain but don't bother to vote! Rick Casey had a good column today about Hutchinson's poorly run campaign: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/6894315.html What was she thinking promoting the endorsements of the Dick Cheney, the Bush Family, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker, which played into Perry's claims that she was a "Washington Insider"? Perry ran a vicious campaign nit-picking the 9000 earmarks Hutchinson voted for during her 17 years in the U.S. Senate, mostly when it was under Republican Control. http://www.khou.com/news/politics/85254702.html The minuscule "fruit fly research" money earmarked for FRANCE was part of a mostly Defense Appropriations bill (H.R. 2764) in 2008 under G. W. Bush. But the reich-wing loves to hate on FRANCE so Perry pandered to them. So what if a few dollars was given to France contributing to Mediterranean fruit fly research (after all they are on the Mediterranean!) when that fly could devastate the citrus industry in our nation! http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:9:./temp/~c110VkoKPp:: I see that Republicans are complaining about Democrats crossing-over and voting a Republican ballot in our OPEN primary state. Democrats had few real contests and in my county, Galveston, only 7 contested positions. We had a 12.5% turnout in our county of 300,000 with nearly twice as many Republicans and Democrats voting. Americans love to complain but don’t bother to vote!

Rick Casey had a good column today about Hutchinson’s poorly run campaign:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/6894315.html

What was she thinking promoting the endorsements of the Dick Cheney, the Bush Family, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker, which played into Perry’s claims that she was a “Washington Insider”?
Perry ran a vicious campaign nit-picking the 9000 earmarks Hutchinson voted for during her 17 years in the U.S. Senate, mostly when it was under Republican Control.

http://www.khou.com/news/politics/85254702.html

The minuscule “fruit fly research” money earmarked for FRANCE was part of a mostly Defense Appropriations bill (H.R. 2764) in 2008 under G. W. Bush. But the reich-wing loves to hate on FRANCE so Perry pandered to them. So what if a few dollars was given to France contributing to Mediterranean fruit fly research (after all they are on the Mediterranean!) when that fly could devastate the citrus industry in our nation!

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:9:./temp/~c110VkoKPp::

]]> Comment on Putting the “Snowpocalypse” into perspective with maps by Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/02/18/putting-the-snowpocalypse-into-perspective-with-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Grant in Texas Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:13:04 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2608#comment-153 Last Tuesday, on the time/temperature signs that line the beaches of Rio, for a second it actually read 47°C (over 115°F) in a summer there of record breaking heat. This signpost was next to the very hot beach sands, so hot I was burning my feet through sandals. This didn't stop tens of thousands of folks pitching umbrellas over folding chairs on the beach. The beach water, due to South Atlantic current coming from Antarctica, was cool just as is the California coast with its currents from Alaska, so surprisingly not that many were in the water. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1MORJNEkoFFW212KtDumevq_cXwD9DR5IUG1 Besides the sweltering heat being uncomfortable, I was robbed twice during Carnaval in the Ipanema bloco parties where nearly naked people were shoulder-to-shoulder. First a guy tried to cut out my wallet with a box cutter but I grabbed my wallet in time and saved it without getting the back of my hand sliced, however those cargo shorts are ruined. On the next night I left my wallet with credit cards in my room safe and divided loose folding money into several pockets on another pair of shorts. However, during a shoving match a guy was able to rip open the Velcro on one pocket and got $10 but if he had targeted my left pocket would have gotten $60. From then on carried money in my shoes! The city appeared to be half slums so poverty there appears to breed crime. Besides the unsafe streets, Rio's tap water is not safe to drink so spent much money on bottled water. I have now visited 35 nations and Brazil is the worst for finding anyone who can speak English. They didn't even understand my Spanish. Good luck to the tourists from around the world who visit the 2016 Olympics! At least in Chicago with its rich ethnic diversity, I would think it would be more tourist friendly. I grew up in Chicago and was never robbed and I could always drink from the tap there. Did the IOC make the right choice??? Last Tuesday, on the time/temperature signs that line the beaches of Rio, for a second it actually read 47°C (over 115°F) in a summer there of record breaking heat. This signpost was next to the very hot beach sands, so hot I was burning my feet through sandals. This didn’t stop tens of thousands of folks pitching umbrellas over folding chairs on the beach. The beach water, due to South Atlantic current coming from Antarctica, was cool just as is the California coast with its currents from Alaska, so surprisingly not that many were in the water.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1MORJNEkoFFW212KtDumevq_cXwD9DR5IUG1

Besides the sweltering heat being uncomfortable, I was robbed twice during Carnaval in the Ipanema bloco parties where nearly naked people were shoulder-to-shoulder. First a guy tried to cut out my wallet with a box cutter but I grabbed my wallet in time and saved it without getting the back of my hand sliced, however those cargo shorts are ruined. On the next night I left my wallet with credit cards in my room safe and divided loose folding money into several pockets on another pair of shorts. However, during a shoving match a guy was able to rip open the Velcro on one pocket and got $10 but if he had targeted my left pocket would have gotten $60. From then on carried money in my shoes! The city appeared to be half slums so poverty there appears to breed crime.

Besides the unsafe streets, Rio’s tap water is not safe to drink so spent much money on bottled water. I have now visited 35 nations and Brazil is the worst for finding anyone who can speak English. They didn’t even understand my Spanish. Good luck to the tourists from around the world who visit the 2016 Olympics! At least in Chicago with its rich ethnic diversity, I would think it would be more tourist friendly. I grew up in Chicago and was never robbed and I could always drink from the tap there. Did the IOC make the right choice???

]]> Comment on Putting the “Snowpocalypse” into perspective with maps by Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/02/18/putting-the-snowpocalypse-into-perspective-with-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Grant in Texas Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:09:15 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2608#comment-152 I just returned from two weeks in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil and they are having a RECORD breaking hot "summer" there. Of course if one never gets out of their county (let alone the nation), and only read reich-wing websites, they might form the opinion the "WORLD" is just like their small space here on this planet. I just returned from two weeks in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil and they are having a RECORD breaking hot “summer” there. Of course if one never gets out of their county (let alone the nation), and only read reich-wing websites, they might form the opinion the “WORLD” is just like their small space here on this planet.

]]> Comment on Might Coakley’s Loss Become a Democratic Victory? by Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/01/20/might-coakleys-loss-become-a-democratic-victory/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Grant in Texas Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:43 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2446#comment-149 The talking heads keep wagging tongues about Democratic "buyers remorse" re. Obama. Waiting to see how the voters of Massachusetts will feel about "PIMP DADDY" when he brings home "no bacon" for the Bay State. I agree that if the Democrats wake up they can turn this negative into a positive. After watching Coakley in the build up to last night, I was shaking my head over her most sloppy campaign. BTW, did "Brownshirt" run with an (I) after his name on the ballot since I never once heard him utter the "R" word? And the Republicans like McConnell and Steele are gloating over THEIR victory this morning. The talking heads keep wagging tongues about Democratic “buyers remorse” re. Obama. Waiting to see how the voters of Massachusetts will feel about “PIMP DADDY” when he brings home “no bacon” for the Bay State.

I agree that if the Democrats wake up they can turn this negative into a positive. After watching Coakley in the build up to last night, I was shaking my head over her most sloppy campaign.

BTW, did “Brownshirt” run with an (I) after his name on the ballot since I never once heard him utter the “R” word? And the Republicans like McConnell and Steele are gloating over THEIR victory this morning.

]]> Comment on A Dickens of a Mistake: Plot hole in “A Christmas Carol”? by Mugsy http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2009/12/21/a-dickens-of-a-mistake-plot-hole-in-a-christmas-carol/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Mugsy Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:53:10 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2199#comment-148 (Note: I have corrected the spelling of "Ebenezer", as pointed out by readers. Thank you.) (Note: I have corrected the spelling of “Ebenezer”, as pointed out by readers. Thank you.)

]]> Comment on 1.2.3. What are We Fightin’ For? Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan. by Grant in Texas http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2009/12/02/1-2-3-what-are-we-fightin-for-obama-to-send-more-troops-to-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Grant in Texas Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:29:24 +0000 http://mugsysrapsheet.com/?p=2121#comment-146 Although John McCain, Saxby Chambliss and other reich-wingers are now livid about Obama setting an exit date (they’ve got to find something to criticize Obama about), where were they when Bush negotiated an exit date from Iraq last year? The U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was the pact that provided a legal basis for U.S. troops in Iraq and established their DEPARTURE from Iraq by December 31st, 2011 pending any re-negotiations between Iraq and the USA. On November 16, 2008, Iraq’s Cabinet approved the agreement pursued by the BUSH ADMINISTRATION. On November 27, 2008 the Iraqi Parliament ratified the agreement. Obama wasn’t inaugurated until 2009! My how SHORT TERM or SELECTIVE is the memory of the Republicans!!!! Although John McCain, Saxby Chambliss and other reich-wingers are now livid about Obama setting an exit date (they’ve got to find something to criticize Obama about), where were they when Bush negotiated an exit date from Iraq last year? The U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was the pact that provided a legal basis for U.S. troops in Iraq and established their DEPARTURE from Iraq by December 31st, 2011 pending any re-negotiations between Iraq and the USA. On November 16, 2008, Iraq’s Cabinet approved the agreement pursued by the BUSH ADMINISTRATION. On November 27, 2008 the Iraqi Parliament ratified the agreement. Obama wasn’t inaugurated until 2009!

My how SHORT TERM or SELECTIVE is the memory of the Republicans!!!!

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