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Sheila Samples: Go To The Light!

Saturday, 31 December 2005, 3:43 pm | Sheila Samples

Folks at the White House stay pretty busy these days just trying to untangle the lies George Bush keeps telling every time he opens his mouth. For example, back in April 2004, Bush explained to a cheering audience and an unchallenging press corps ... More >>

Sheila Samples: Cornered By The Truth

Monday, 12 December 2005, 11:58 am | Sheila Samples

It was bizarre at first; even amusing in a hideous little way. When George "Elwood" Bush and Tony "Jake" Blair scrambled up on the international stage shortly after 9-11 and broke into their frenzied Blues Brothers routine, I fully expected the US ... More >>

Sheila Samples: Bobcats In A Brave, New World

Friday, 18 November 2005, 12:13 am | Sheila Samples

Goodness gracious! Henny Penny! Since defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney teamed up to lead the charge to create a New World Order, the whole universe has become untidy. Very untidy. My friend Bernie says Dick and Rummy's ... More >>

Sheila Samples: Hey Harkavy!

Monday, 31 October 2005, 1:21 pm | Sheila Samples

Remember the "Hey, Mikey" TV commercial with two brothers refusing to eat Quaker Oats' new Life cereal until their little brother, Mikey, who supposedly "hates everything" tried it first? Well, I'm not saying I get up every morning and yell, "Hey, Harkavy!" ... More >>

Good Americans -- Democracy's Gravediggers?

Friday, 21 October 2005, 4:41 pm | Sheila Samples

The one thing -- the only thing -- that George Bush has ever done successfully is campaign. That boy sure loves to play dress-up. He's in his element strutting around in various costumes, while smirking and blinking before carefully vetted audiences ... More >>

Sheila Samples: A Horrid Reality...

Monday, 10 October 2005, 1:22 pm | Sheila Samples

While recently watching George Bush's carefully orchestrated performance from New Orleans' French Quarter a week late and a billion dollars short, I was struck by the confused desperation in his eyes, and I was overcome with sympathy. Not at the ... More >>

Sheila Samples: The Man With A SNAFU Plan

Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:12 am | Sheila Samples

It's a good thing President George Bush doesn't read newspapers or watch TV. If he did, even he could see that people from one end of this nation to the other are rapidly reaching zero tolerance with his bumbling ineptitude each time he is faced with a ... More >>

Sheila Samples: The Mothers Are Coming!

Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:32 am | Sheila Samples

It's an amazing thing. Doctors' offices in New York and Washington will likely be standing-room-only in a couple of months. I can see it now -- the look on a nurse's face when she asks the vacuous, target-eyed media twits when they are "due," and ... More >>

Sheila Samples: Suddenly, This Summer...

Thursday, 25 August 2005, 3:59 pm | Sheila Samples

Folks who watch the fair-and-balanced coverage of Fox News or perhaps CNN, the most "trusted name in news," might think Camp Casey is a neat new name for the Gaza Strip in Palestine or even a teenage hideout in Aruba. They would probably be surprised ... More >>

The Revolution is NOW...

Friday, 12 August 2005, 11:38 am | Sheila Samples

The incomparable Raw Story website is publishing a letter it acquired on Tuesday, Aug 9, from 16 Democratic Representatives (whose number has now burgeoned to 38) urging George Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was slain in Iraq ... More >>

Are The Good Times Really Over For Good?

Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:26 am | Sheila Samples

On Memorial Day, George W. Bush, the world's most bloodthirsty and deceitful man strutted to the podium at our National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, to once again regurgitate his woefully shallow and inappropriate stump speech -- "Across the globe ... More >>

The Fantastical World Of Studley McMuffin

Monday, 27 June 2005, 11:00 am | Sheila Samples

Is there a single psychologist or phychiatrist in this country -- in any country -- who would be willing to put his or her credibility on the line and say that George W. Bush is not a bloodthirsty lunatic, a liar and a fool? More >>

Sheila Samples: A Matter Of Education...

Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:33 am | Sheila Samples

Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post tells us that George Bush, who had hoped to spend the summer ramming Social Security firecrackers down our throats, is being forced by his plummeting poll numbers to take a second look at shoring up the lies about ... More >>

Sheila Samples: Who Will Save The Children?

Friday, 3 June 2005, 5:08 pm | Sheila Samples

As if we needed yet one more shudderingly repulsive account of a Republican who is virulently anti-gay by day and an abusive pedophile by night... More >>

Sheila Samples: The Wrong Man...

Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 10:02 am | Sheila Samples

So John Bolton's out there swinging in the wind -- sent to the Senate without endorsement from the Foreign Relations Committee for his nomination as US ambassador to the United Nations. More >>

Sheila Samples: We Are Very Good Drivers...

Monday, 9 May 2005, 12:00 am | Sheila Samples

Even as Tim Russert solemnly announced on Meet the Press Sunday that the "Number three man" in the entire Al-Qaeda network was now under lock and key, the world edition of The Sunday Times quoted European intelligence as saying that Abu Faraj al-Libbi ... More >>

Sheila Samples: They Were Young Once, And Fit

Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 12:02 am | Sheila Samples

My dad always responded to anything that was patently obvious with, "Well, yea-ah. Anybody with half sense and one eye knows that," which was his way of saying don't go with the flow, but look at facts and come to your own conclusions. More >>

Sheila Samples: Pornographic Celebration Of Death

Friday, 15 April 2005, 12:09 am | Sheila Samples

I knew I was in trouble that fateful Saturday when my friend Bernie literally kicked my door open and charged in -- arms bristling with snack food, pizza boxes rammed under his armpits -- a bulging sack from Mickey-D's gripped in each fist. More >>

Sheila Samples: Super Duper George Bush

Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 4:09 pm | Sheila Samples

So this guy Zack says he's been watching me, and I'm at it again. He says the only thing I'm good for is just one ad hominem attack after another on my "favorite of scorn" (whatever that is) -- George W. Bush. More >>

Sheila Samples: 3 Women - The Roads They Travel

Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 11:12 am | Sheila Samples

Three women were released from captivity on Friday, March 4. Depending on your perspective, each could easily be considered a profile in courage. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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