Mumbling Republican Blog

We’ve got health care reform debate going on in the U.S. Senate while 45,000 die each year from a lack of health care. We’ve got the mighty President Obama coming out to announce a troop addition to Afghanistan in the face of a 14 Trillion dollar debt with trillions of dollars added each year. No [...]

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore Monday, November 30th, 2009 Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. [...]

A Republican Senator has said the health care reform should be put off until next year while we deal with funding the expected troop surge in Afghanistan. “The war is terribly important,” Lugar said. “I would suggest we put aside the health care debate until next year … and talk now about the essentials: the [...]

And, it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Hello, Ghaneestan! And, it’s five, six, seven, Open up them pearly gates. Well there ain’t no time to wonder why. Whoopee! We’re all gonna die.    Although created in 1965 by Country Joe, a Navy man just [...]

 “I Feel-Like-I’m-Fixing-To-Die-Rag” Country Joe MacDonald and the Fish, (1965)  Yeah, come on all of you, with all ur’ ken, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He’s got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in ‘Ghaneestan So put down your books and pick up a gun, We’re gonna’ have a whole lotta’ fun. And [...]

Well it is Thanksgiving rolled around again.  Time to take stock of what we are thankful for.  Personally, I am thankful I am currently too old to get drafted which will keep me from spending a Thanksgiving in Afghanistan. Happy Thanksgiving one and all! Dan – Sittin’ in the hood dreamin’ of tryptophan dreams…

A person I know has sent the following ‘Letter To The Editor’ to all of the Minnesota Congressional District 7 newspapers. There are about 125 papers in the District and an average circulation of about 3000 with about 375,000 readers. With 1 out of 100 reading the letters, there may be about 375 that will actually [...]

I ran across this news article from the L. A. Times, customs agents seize 316,000 bongs labeled as Christmas ornaments.  Well that may be well and good for those that think the use of marijuana absolutely needs to be suppressed in America, but in my mind I have to ask the question; what ever happened [...]

I don’t understand this, perhaps I am dense,  but it seems so illogical, so mean spirited that we should continue to have multiple 10s of millions of people without access to medical insurance in this country?  Why do the Republicans stand against it, how can they morally stand against it?  They who are quick to [...]

Another Veteran’s Day has rolled around and by golly I got the day off for this one.  Well I got the day off because I don’t have a job but hey you have to look at the bright side…  It has always pissed me off that this is supposedly a national holiday, the post office [...]