FOOL’S GOAL
By : Sheila Samples - Thursday September 28, 2006 By Sheila Samples [b]I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals." George W. Bush[/b] My friend Bernie says a lot of folks have George Bush figured all wrong. "Sure he lies," Bernie said, "every time he opens his mouth. But — think about it. Even when Bush is lying he ends up telling us what he’s gonna do. He can’t help himself — he just blurts it out. But by the time we understand what he’s saying — he’s already made a stinkin’ (...)
read more, comments... Shadows On The Wall
By : Sheila Samples, Arab News - Friday July 7, 2006 Shadows On The Wall Sheila Samples, Arab News Thursday, 6, July, 2006 And so we Americans sit, shackled by self-imposed chains of fear, captivated by shadowy forms that move discordantly across the walls of our perception. Once again we are eager to accept appearance for reality. The Supreme Court ruling last week rejecting President George W. Bush’s military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees casts a huge shadow on the wall. Many are saying it not only curbed Bush and (...)
read more, comments... Musings from Tom Joad Country
By : Sheila Samples - Monday June 26, 2006 By Sheila Samples I’ve been reading about this "grass roots" phenomenon that’s sweeping the country. It must not have "swept" down this far, because I scoured the prairies and plains of Oklahoma, and the only thing I came up with was a clump or two of Johnson grass, a few scraggly buffalo and some errant loco weed... In fact, there’s not much movement of any kind in Tom Joad Country. Maybe that’s because Oklahoma has always been, or at least has had the reputation (...)
read more, comments... With Friends Like These... By Sheila Samples
By : Sheila Samples - Thursday March 16, 2006 By Sheila Samples "They’re blowin’ this town all to hell" -Bo Hopkins in Sam Peckinpah’s "The Wild Bunch"(1969) Senator John Warner (R-Va.) has the unexpected problem of a foreign state-owned company taking over operations at U.S. ports all figured out. The dour, self-righteous chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee announced from the Senate floor on March 9 that Dubai Ports World (DPW), one of seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), "has (...)
read more, comments... THE WORLD THAT DICK BUILT
By : Sheila Samples - Monday February 27, 2006 By Sheila Samples This is the guy who pulled the trigger of the gun that fired the round that hit his friend that ruined the hunt and shed some light on the world that Dick built... Four days after blasting 78-year-old hunting partner Harry Whittington in the face, neck and chest with birdshot, vice president Dick Cheney emerged from his fortified bunker to make a snarling, unapologetic taped announcement to Fox News’ Brit Hume that basically amounted to what he did on his own time (...)
read more, comments... TALE OF A CONNECTICUT DONKEY
By : Sheila Samples - Wednesday February 8, 2006 By Sheila Samples "Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood...It does not take any courage at all for a congressman, or a senator, or a president to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam, because it is not our blood that is being shed. But we are responsible for those young men and their lives and their hopes." Senator George McGovern, Sept 1, 1970 Jim Bob came out of the feed (...)
read more, comments... Who Will Tell the People?
By : Sheila Samples - Friday January 27, 2006 By Sheila Samples - And who will tell the people that free speech is a ruse; The corporations run the country and then they make the news. Is it media or mind control heroic victories or crime? Who will tell the people... that we are living in these times. Song by Willie Nelson In his essay on "Character" Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." I’ve had such days, many of them through (...)
read more, comments... GO TO THE LIGHT!
By : Sheila Samples - Saturday December 31, 2005 By 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 in Buffalo about "eavesdropping" on Americans — "When you think ’Patriot Act,’ constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because," he said earnestly (...)
read more, comments... BOBCATS IN A BRAVE, NEW WORLD
By : Sheila Samples - Thursday November 17, 2005 By Sheila Samples "Preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader — a dictator — willing to use those dreaded ’extraordinary measures,’ which few know how, or are willing to employ." — Michael Ledeen 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 (...)
read more, comments... HEY, HARKAVY!
By : Sheila Samples - Friday October 28, 2005 By 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!" to see what’s really happening in the news without all the commercial spin — but I’m not saying I don’t either... Either way, there’s no better place to start your morning (...)
read more, comments... GOOD AMERICANS — DEMOCRACY’S GRAVEDIGGERS?
By : Sheila Samples - Monday October 17, 2005 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 whose members sign loyalty pledges and are conditioned to cheer and wave their flags as he gives the same smoke-’em-out-and-kill-’em-all stump speech over and over. And over again. Bush loves to talk about his bold (...)
read more, comments... BUSH — THE MAN WITH A SNAFU PLAN
By : Sheila Samples - Friday September 9, 2005 By Sheila Samples "A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." Michael Rivero, What Really Happened 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 (...)
read more, comments... THE MOTHERS ARE COMING!
By : Sheila Samples - Tuesday August 30, 2005 By Sheila Samples "Sarah, if the people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." Bush 41 to reporter Sarah McClendon, Dec. 1992 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 each one (...)
read more, comments... John Kerry conceded early to spend time with Arnold Schwarzenegger
By : Sheila Samples - Tuesday January 11, 2005 The Last Man To Concede... By 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 the votes were counted. Kerry took the money and ran. Seems he couldn’t stick around because he and the missus were spending Christmas at a holiday extravaganza in Sun Valley as personal (...)
read more, comments... Bush doesn’t ’misspeak.’ He lies. Lies. Lies."
By : Sheila Samples - Wednesday October 27, 2004 "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason." Ernest Hemmingway By Sheila Samples 10/26/04 "ICH" — 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 (...)
read more, comments... When The Fiends Cry, "Kill!"
By : Sheila Samples - Tuesday September 7, 2004 By Sheila Samples 09/06/04 "ICH" — ...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 ass. It’s a fact that the Yanks lost 22-0 to the Cleveland Indians — but is it logical? Believable? Is it reasonable? My friend Bernie says stuff happens, even if only (...)
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