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Mumbling Republican Webmaster, Dan, has brought back a favorite cartoon he created in Vietnam dubbed ‘Paranoid Eyes’. Being in Vietnam back then was an easy place to be paranoid. These days with more sources of information to constantly be rocking a person’s attention, it envelopes with it’s own version of paranoia. There is only one [...]

I have managed to get a new cartoon together.  You can check it out here.  It is a parody of our friend Radio’s thoughts about going to Canada for health care.  It is a diversion from the MR strip, but is based on a series of cartoons I dubbed paranoid eyes that I did while [...]

John Nicols in the column The Beat sheds some light on the nature of Republican politics in the posting GOP Senators Discover U.S. Isn’t Broke, O.K. Billions for Jobs. These so called conservatives are more than willing to spend.  What they are willing to spend on is subject to the behest of their corporate masters.  [...]

The fabulis blog reports that Citibank has put a block on its’ bank account due to what the too big to fail bank has described as “objectionable content.”  Well for starters I think it is wonderful that the fabulis blog has a bank account.  They can count themselves more fortunate than this poor endeavor.  On [...]

Found this picture on a the blog tiagovaz.  Pretty much says who the real losers are… Dan – Sittin’ in the hood pondering how easy it would be to get treatment for seasonally affected disorder in Canada….

A heart of darkness beats in the land.  Governor TPaw (Tim Pawlenty) has vetoed an extension of medical coverage for Minnesota poor folks.  According to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “the House passed the bill 125-9 Thursday afternoon and, just a few hours later, the Senate voted 47-16 to send it to the [...]

You ever wonder why big Pharma spends so much on lobbying?  Check out this site, The Actual Cost of Making Prescription Drugs.  You apparently need to spend money to make money, through lobbying. Dan – Sittin’ in the hood wondering where to get money to lobby so I can make money on something…?

Well Subway, your add campaign has succeeded in one aspect.  That damn $5 footlong song is stuck in my head.  It is playing itself over and over the way songs do.  However your campaign has failed in as much as the last time it played I vowed never, NEVER to eat one of your sandwiches [...]

I watched the opening ceremonies to the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada tonight. It gives me hope that the separate teams of competing athletes can somehow carry their smiles of friendship out into the world and make everything okay. I had seen the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in China in [...]

So it starts, the health care industry is cashing in on its current victory, the demise of health care reform legislation.  Wellpoint is reportedly increasing its premiums by 39 percent, no doable in the wake of its lobbying efforts having paid off our illustrious senators to piss in the soup until no one would eat [...]