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Sheila Samples: Butt Prints In The Sand
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 10:48 am | Sheila Samples
It's time. Before this obscene, gaping hole gets any deeper, it's time we convinced the media to stop digging. As someone once said...and said...and said -- time is not on our side. More >>
Scott Ritter Gives Bush Another Kick In The Pants
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 2:41 pm | Sheila Samples
It's unfortunate that Bush doesn't understand what is happening in the world he so arrogantly believes he owns. The European trip he's on now is a barely concealed attempt to strong-arm support for his upcoming invasion of Iran. An invasion, according ... More >>
Sheila Samples: Oh Lord, Ain't It Hard...
Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:34 pm | Sheila Samples
The curious thing about George Bush's State of the Union speech is that anybody who's paid attention to Bush over the last four years -- or 40 years -- would find it, or him for that matter, even remotely curious. More >>
Sheila Samples: Dear John...
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:13 am | Sheila Samples
A recent exchange with my new best friend, John, forced me into some serious soul-searching as to why I remain a Democrat. John suggests that the two major parties have morphed into one blundering, inept, very destructive and divisive entity. More >>
USA Today Founder's Resolution Sparks Letter Storm
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 12:56 am | Sheila Samples
USA Today founder Al Neuharth's New Year's Resolution that we should support the troops in Iraq by bringing them home has stirred up a hornet's nest, according to Editor & Publisher Magazine which, after describing Neuharth's Dec. 22 Christmas ... More >>
The Last Man To Concede...
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 4:13 pm | Sheila Samples
On November 3, just hours after Democratic vice-presidential hopeful John Edwards made a national announcement that he and John Kerry were not going to concede until all the votes were counted, Kerry grabbed the spotlight and conceded -- before all ... More >>
Sheila Samples: It's Time To Support The Troops
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 12:14 am | Sheila Samples
George W. Bush, their commander-in-chief, calls them ''the troops.'' He says they're on a ''noble 'n vital'' mission in Iraq. When asked about them, Bush says his ''thoughts 'n prayers'' go out to them. When More >>
Sheila Samples: ''Mr President'' De La Mancha
Friday, 10 December 2004, 1:49 pm | Sheila Samples
"Sir, in regard to --" "Who're you talkin' to?" It was just a split second -- a collective intake of breath -- but reporters genuflecting before George Bush last April at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, got the message. They got ... More >>
Sheila Samples: Stinky And The Vulcans
Monday, 29 November 2004, 12:21 am | Sheila Samples
The kid and I were chatting happily last week about really really important things such as this country's top movie, Spongebob Squarepants, when, suddenly, she pointed at the TV screen behind me. Then, as her face contorted in anger, she said ominously ... More >>
Sheila Samples: Haunted Empire
Monday, 15 November 2004, 3:20 pm | Sheila Samples
''The people have spoken,'' Bush gloated on Nov.4 to an ecstatic White House press corps. ''The voters of America set the direction of our nation for the next four years...They've given me political capital -- and I'm gonna spend it.'' More >>
Sheila Samples: The Last Battle
Friday, 5 November 2004, 3:06 pm | Sheila Samples
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The ... More >>
Pre-Emptive, Pie-Hole Policy Not An Option
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 5:52 pm | Sheila Samples
My friend Bernie says anyone who believes that George W. Bush's war on terror isn't a miserable, howling failure is surely a member of the media, a perp over at the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), or has had ''the lobotomy.'' More >>
Sheila Samples: Freedom To Fascism - A Bumpy Ride
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 10:59 am | Sheila Samples
What is the matter with the Republican Party? As one born within a tiny, tree-shaded Republican enclave in Missouri, raised by compassionate family-values-oriented Christian conservatives, and whose entire family remains staunchly, even militantly conservative, ... More >>
Sheila Samples: When The Fiends Cry, ''Kill!''
Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 12:51 am | Sheila Samples
...So I'm sitting here with a sack over my head, trying to come to grips with reality. Facts just don't compute anymore. For example, it's a fact that on Sept 7 the New York Yankees turned in the worst loss in their entire century of kicking baseball ... More >>
Sheila Samples: The Terrorist Behind That Tree!
Monday, 23 August 2004, 10:46 am | Sheila Samples
George W. Bush once told The Washington Post's Bob Woodward the great thing about being president was that he didn't have to answer to anybody. ''I'm the commander,'' Bush bragged. ''See -- I do not need to explain why I say things... Maybe somebody ... More >>
Sheila Samples: An Open Letter To CNN
Monday, 9 August 2004, 2:29 pm | Sheila Samples
I don't want you to think I'm picking on you, but ever since 2000, when Texas Governor George W. Bush and Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney ran through the streets screaming that storm clouds were gathering on the dashboard of our republic, you've been furiously ... More >>
Sheila Samples: I Know You Are But What Am I?
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 1:46 pm | Sheila Samples
Folks on the Internet are having a field day with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Network finally getting what it so richly deserves in Robert Greenwald's recently released documentary, ''Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.'' More >>
Sheila Samples - It's The Questions, Stupid!
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 3:24 pm | Sheila Samples
On July 4th, Bush told a meticulously selected right-wing crowd in Charleston, W.Va. that war brings security at home. He said it's his duty as our Leader to keep seizing opportunities to make us safer and safer. More >>
Sheila Samples: Truth & Freedom, Slip-Sliding Away
Tuesday, 29 June 2004, 11:54 am | Sheila Samples
So, what's up with the New York Times? Looks like being publicly ridiculed for dumping the WMD crap too close to the house and then tracking it in on the rug in those critical months before attacking Iraq would have taught it something. More >>
Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend God?
Monday, 14 June 2004, 1:42 pm | Sheila Samples
My friend Bernie says he'd fork over big bucks to get a good look at George Bush's god. More >>
