Mumbling Republican Blog

There has been much ado as to if we are indeed in a recession, a depression, what exact state the economy is really in?  Well I think I may have found the definitive white paper confirming that we are indeed in a recession.  Has anyone bought toilet paper recently?  Or is it just my imagination [...]

Earth Hour almost missed this, not much press apparently prior to today?  The plan is 8:30 pm Saturday March 28th switch off your lights for one hour.  Here is the press I ran across on it this morning from ABC News.   Weekly, monthly, daily could start to make a difference and a a bit of [...]

Sonmething that has kind of flown under the radar in the last couple of weeks is the proclamations of the pope against the use of condoms to prevent AIDS in India.  This is unconscionable.  Years of education to get theses people to understand the neccessity of protecting themselves against the ravages of this disease were [...]

I saw an article on the MSNBC web-site the other day that had pictures and an article about a community of unemployed people in Sacramento, California.

I love the smell of snow in the mornin’

I had forgotten the term ‘Hoovervilles’ but I do remember now my Dad talking about them, squatters camps where the homeless of the last great depression lived.  Now they are back under the name Bushvilles or  Republicamps.  Has anyone done a search on Google Earth around the big cities to see where the blue tarp [...]

Pay prayer… definitely a useful utility to take the pressure of getting all of that praying done during the course of a busy day.  Ran across this on snafu-ed  you can apparently now subscribe to a service which will voice your daily prayer for you for a small monthly fee here.  Information Age Prayer,  text to [...]

Although I am sick of hearing about it, I suppose AIG needs to be mentioned. I was thinking when watching this debacle crowding out the news that America has lost something, lost a piece of its past. Where are the rail, the tar bucket and the feather pillow? We have lost the days when the [...]

Things sort of petered out on the old mumbling republican site, and I took it down on inaugeration day this year, thought that would be an appropriate end.  Bush bashing got old and just too easy to really be any fun after four years of it so we are rethinking the approach starting it off with a [...]