Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
The Reason I’m Not Buying the Wisconsin Recall Results
Just a brief note on last night’s recall election in Wisconsin. Why I don’t trust the results and you shouldn’t either: I planned on staying up late last night watching the returns of the Wisconsin Recall Election of Gov. Scott Walker go on into the night. So you can imagine my shock when the first […]
June 6, 2012
Posted in: Election, Rants
Some rants: JobsJobsJobs, Oil, Hypocrisy and My Integrity (UPDATED)
There was so much going on last week, that I couldn’t pick a single topic to focus on. First off was (of course) the dismal jobs report for May released last week. Republicans were quick to pounce on the disappointing figures, pointing to it was “PROOF!” that President Obama’s economic policies are a failure. Also, […]
June 4, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Jobs, Money, Politics, Rants, Taxes
Moonbases for Moonbats.
[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] In January of 2004, word leaked that President Bush planned to propose building a permanent base on the moon in his upcoming State of the Union address, to be used as a stepping stone to a manned mission to Mars by 2020. The idea was so poorly received and regarded so incredibly tone-deaf at a time when […]
January 30, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics, Rants
SPECIAL REPORT: PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and the problem of “false equivalency”
[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] SPECIAL REPORT: After a flurry of controversy erupted over “Politifact” rating the Democratic claim that the “Ryan Plan will kill Medicare” as their “Lie of the Year”, I went looking to see if FactCheck.org agreed. They do (link below). BUT… in their explanation, they concede that “starting in 2022, people would be required to […]
December 23, 2011
Posted in: General, Politics, Rants
Gingrich, who once called Obama “insensitive” to unemployed, tells OWS to “take a bath and get a job.”
Of the current eight GOP presidential candidates, I don’t think I loath any of them more than I loath Newt Gingrich. Partly because he’s been around the longest, but mostly because I know of no one that can be both SO SMUG and SO WRONG at the same time. And it wouldn’t be so bad if the Wingnut […]
November 21, 2011
Posted in: Election, Jobs, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity
A Few Protest Sign Ideas for the #OWS Crowd
The Occupy Wall Street protests have grown considerably over the past three weeks when they first began. They were ignored for a long time until NYC police officers went on a rampage, hauling away protesters and in one dramatic unprovoked incident caught on video, indiscriminately doused protestors with pepper spray. The Media keeps asking, “Why […]
October 10, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Jobs, Money, Rants
Those who do not remember history… will simply edit Wiki.
Last year, famed pollster “Maris” conducted a survey in the run-up to Fourth of July weekend, to see how many people knew from whom America declared its independence from. The results were most disturbing: ACTUALLY, the number is 74%, not 76% according to Maris – 7/1/2010. Yes, in a story regarding how stupid Americans […]
July 4, 2011
Posted in: General, Rants
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
Republican Deficit Hypocrisy
Few things in this world demonstrate the stark difference between Democrats and clueless, fiscally-insane Republicans than the issue of The National Debt. Of course, if you live in Republican BizzaroWorld, it’s the Democrats that are the fiscally irresponsible ones while it’s Republicans fighting the good fight to return us to fiscal sanity. Republicans are busy […]
April 11, 2011
Tags: Republican budget hypocrisy debt limit deficit ceiling · Posted in: Economy, Money, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes
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
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 […]
February 28, 2011
Tags: GOP Republican Presidential candidate 2012 Mitch Daniels hypocrite death panel health care HCR rationing · Posted in: Election, Healthcare, Politics, Rants, War
Quick vid: Teabagger morons bussed in to counter protest in Wisconsin
Last Sunday, ABC World News Tonight covered the Union Protests in Wisconsin, and followed it up with… what I’m certain they believed was… a “balanced” comparison of two people on either side of the protest. The first, a teabagger being bussed in from 110 miles away (by whom, ABC never says), the second, a teacher who […]
February 23, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Jobs, Money, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes
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