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69 Articles

Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Shattered 2009 American Dream Or A Sack of Coal
(2 comments) "... all you have to do is contemplate a single grain of sand, and you will see in it the marvels of creation," Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist. Our politicians have forgotten to contemplate the simple grain of sand. All they can see is greed.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
As the World Burns and Yearns for Peace Did Obama ever Listen to Mahalia Jackson & Dinah Shore in Down by the Riverside?
(2 comments) Why doesn't Obama put on his long white robe and study war no moe!

Friday, October 30, 2009
The bestiarii (gladiators) vs. Greed
(1 comments) Insurance companies are the new beast,the United States Congress is the new Roman Coliseum, Greed is the new faith, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dennis Kucinich and every voice raised in favor of Universal Healthcare are the new bestiarii a/k/a Gladiators

Friday, October 16, 2009
Ripple Effects Travel Far and Wide
(1 comments) As congress and the president refuse to pass or even to listen to the need for Universal Health Care for All, will Barack Obama contribute any of his Nobel Peace Prize money to the care of Florida's latest burn victim who family is facing a walloping mount of health care bills?

Friday, October 9, 2009
The politicians have forgotten. The people have not
(1 comments) Love flows people to people, person to person.Perhaps LOVE will touch a politician who will then touch other politicians. Congress has forgotten. The people have not.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Health Care Reform? INSURANCE BAIL OUT is more like it.
(3 comments) What the politicians who spew out words like "affordable health care" mean, is insurance bail outs, from our pockets to theirs.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Stop Playing Politics with our Healthcare
(6 comments) It is time for politicians to stop using us as pawns to advance their own power.

Thursday, June 11, 2009
What is it with all the hog-wash these days?
(4 comments) Mr. Panetta's hog-wash continues Bush's dungeons and dragons game.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Out of the Limelight? Not in Your Life!
(3 comments) A good cop/bad cop game. Players: George W.Bush, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney

Saturday, April 25, 2009
"Obama has started an S... Storm" said the woman speaking at the top of her lungs
(5 comments) Speaking at the top of her lungs, a woman claims that Obama has started a S... storm, shrouding in Obama blame, the crimes and consequences of the Bush-Cheney-Rice Torture Era.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people
(38 comments) Standing with a cooler than kool poise before the microphones yesterday, Obama delivers a dagger to the American taxpayer.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Obama's Unlimited Travel to Cuba for Cuban-Americans
(7 comments) Obama's open policy of travel to Cuba opens up a floodgate of memories. This one is connected to my departure from Cuba and to the bay which nurtured me for 18 years.

Friday, April 10, 2009
When Milk Sits Sour in our Stomachs
(5 comments) A travel history through the current political landscape.

Friday, November 9, 2007
What A Craven Way To Sell His War and Defend His Legacy!
True Bush Style--what a craven way to sell his war and defend his legacy!

Sunday, September 2, 2007
Bush the Redeemer ... more Musings at the Midnight Hour
The wisdom of the Midnight Hours.

Monday, August 27, 2007
Well, Yes. Alberto Gonzalez has resigned.
New Leadership based on the Rule of Law to head the Department of Justice? I seriously doubt it.

Friday, August 24, 2007
America is burning and Bush is the Arsonist ... Musings at the Midnight Hour
(4 comments)

Monday, June 18, 2007
He Demands Respect, but he gives No Respect
(5 comments) Fear permeates the atmosphere in Bushland.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
"And he got a little bit of – just a little bit of human flicker in his eye ..."
(2 comments) Having gotten through the carcass of his soul, which for a second allowed "... a little bit of human flicker in his eye ..." George Bush runs away from Cindy Sheehan, but most importantly, from himself.

Saturday, May 19, 2007
New Political Pastime: Casting Aspersions on Iraqi Underachievement

Thursday, May 17, 2007
We Are Being Martyrized by Bush and Blair-They Are Tormenting Us!
(3 comments) What more of the destruction of our way of life than Bush and Blair have already served us with could the enemy possibly want for us?

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Truth presents itself like a void that the Bushes must and do run away from.
Billed as, "an emotional inspiring hour with the Bushes", the conversation with Larry King on April 23rd stayed on facts--not emotions. No surpirse there. The Bushes are, all of them, so very guarded.

Monday, April 30, 2007
The Battle of Wills, the Taming of ... Bush, (or is it Congress?)
iraq is about our congress being courageous enough to tell bush, "again, señor forajido, it is time to end this occupation--what part of no, do you not understand?"

Friday, April 27, 2007
On the Unfolding Plight of Broken Wings in a Land of Forajidos and Broken Dreams
(1 comments) Bush is on an uninterrupted viagra high, riding it on the back of dead Iraqis and on the backs of American soldiers, as well as on the entire fabric of American life which he is destroying.

Sunday, April 1, 2007
It began in the parking lot, an adventure in the Golden Years and the delicate nature of the blooming flower of truth.
(4 comments) ... I thought of the delicate nature of the blooming flower of truth.

Friday, March 23, 2007
"I will not resign. I'm going to stay focused on protecting your kids" ... said Alberto Gonzalez.
Gonzalez digs his heels at the Justice Department so he can continue to rescue and protect Bush from the hands of Justice. His mere words are an insult to every sane American.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
After The teasers, There He Sat, The Apprentice, listening attentively to Donald Trump's take on George W. Bush.
(2 comments) Did Blitzer feel it less dangerous to hear the truth about George Bush coming out of the mouth of the ultimate corporate man--Donald Trump?

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Five Things I believe in, said Alberto Gonzalez, perhaps quite aware that his career had been hit by a Mack truck.
(5 comments) There at the lectern provided for him at the Department of Justice, Alberto Gonzalez knew that his career and his name had been hit by a Mack truck.

Friday, March 2, 2007
Immigrant Daughter
(2 comments) There was no CNN out there, then. There was no LOU DOBBS This Week Program, then. There were no immigration laws here, then, when William Pickens and his wife Margaret stepped on the shores of this country ... which 'for much of its history ... allowed unrestricted immigration ...'"

Saturday, February 24, 2007
Myopic vision, or ... the cow tail's switch: swatting democracy down to a pulp.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The, "war on terror is like the U.S. war for independence?"-Not!
(3 comments) Bush's President Day Speech: a sad act by a delusional lunatic who refused to admit that his ship is sinking.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Two Funerals and a Baby Shower: Reflections on the Changing Face of America
On the way to a baby shower, I was reminded that Bush has turned the words, Federal Police, into unfriendly shadowy words which give rise to a reminder of the derailing of our country, as perpetrated by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice et al ...

Friday, February 16, 2007
Stop the Abuse. Stop the Lies. Stop the Intrusion. Stop the Domination. Stop the Manipulations. Let the Iraqis be free.
Theory has it that intimidation and exploitation of any family member by a family, give rise in that family member to a quest and desire for domination (power) and control. Power-Grabbers a phrase which perfectly describes the Bush - Cheney liaison.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Casey's Confirmation Hearing or The Senate's Confessional Stall?
Senator Carl Levin, D. Michigan, began the questioning of General Casey by stating that there are, "a series of standard questions" which must be asked.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
George W. Bush: War Generating Force
What will the United States look like after George W. Bush leaves or is forced out of office?

Sunday, February 4, 2007
The Insertion of Homeland Security into Super Bowl XLI
The Insertion of Homeland Security Measures into Super Bowl XLI is a Bush ploy to instill fear and a dress rehearsal for the police state Bush is unleashing on this country.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Always Suited in Black
Unlike Benito Juarez who labored to protect the rights of people, Alberto Gonzalez labors instead to take away the rights of others.

Friday, January 12, 2007
There She Goes Again: The word is "Augmentation", she said!
"Senator, the word is Augmentation"! said Condolozzee Rice.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Cindy Sheehan's arrival in Cuba...
(7 comments) A woman of humble heart and high stature, Cindy Sheehan has vowed to pursue an agenda of peace and of holding the Bush administration accountable for their crimes against humanity.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
A neighborhood in the America nobody wants
This is a neighborhood in the New America where many of the neighbors are no longer welcome aboard.

Monday, January 1, 2007
There is a Bird Chirping Outside my Window
What ever happened to 2007?

Friday, December 29, 2006
December 29, 2006, the headline reads: Saddam Executed.

Monday, December 11, 2006
O, the Billy Gloat was out bleating again!
(3 comments) The Bush Family knows that if truth is allowed to stand they would never get to hold power power in their hands--therefore, they serve us a long list of rescuers and deleterious charaters who serve us a constant disfigurement of truth in their efforts to enhance the Bushes, their dynastic empire, and their power grabs.

Saturday, November 18, 2006
We are sitting in deep muck!

Thursday, November 2, 2006
"Study ... Do your Homework. Get Ahead"
(1 comments) Parental sage advise for their children by parents who care.

Monday, October 30, 2006
Showdown at the Early Voting Place
(12 comments) I want to vote but I want my vote to count the way I intend for it to count!

Sunday, October 29, 2006
This Was Never Supposed to Happen Here.
(4 comments) This was never supposed to happen here, that a bilogical father and former president would one day support and endorse with "every fiber of his being" the lying, cheating, stealing, murdering of innocent people his son has seen fit to commit.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Anxiety prevails in Bush dominated world.
(2 comments) anxiety may point all of us into a path for the return of democracy.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Isn't it scandalous--the Bushes thirst for Power & Self Advancement? Yes. Of Course it is!

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Aposiopetic

Friday, August 11, 2006
Fear a la Carte, served courtesy of Bush/Blair
(2 comments)

Monday, August 7, 2006
Stop spinning the merry-go-round. I want to get off!
(1 comments) ...so spins the merry-go-round of Bush's Bushismos and Rice's Cantinflismos.

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Connections
Connections, like the roots which nurture trees, are the roots which nurture people.

Sunday, July 30, 2006
The Bush White House Piano Player
(4 comments) The Bush White House Piano Player keeps playing her score to an audience that refuses her applause.

Saturday, July 29, 2006
No Martyr for his country--No Hero, either.
(2 comments) Her six year old kept asking, "is something bad going to happen?"

Saturday, July 22, 2006
A Mournful Mood This Morning
(2 comments) My thoughts drift out to those under siege by the firepower of bombs, rockets, missiles, gunship-deadly force of any kind raining in on any of the warring sides. Armaments built to kill life and line the pockets of the military/industrial complex men and women with money. With the serene notes of the Chopin music playing inside my house, I wonder who soothes the dying...

Friday, July 14, 2006
No Sage Advice or Calming Words from Bush the Warmonger
(4 comments) Saying that, "Every country has the right to defend itself from the killing of innocent life and terrorists who want to stop the progress of peace," George Walker Bush-stokes the fires of war.

Monday, July 10, 2006
Optimism in the Headlines? Hardly!

Friday, July 7, 2006
DOGMA:Mother Superior & The Rebellious Student

Tuesday, July 4, 2006
How Does One Fight a Liar?
"...I think of us in a prison cell built by an invisible wall of lies..."

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Feeding Fire To Bush's Furnace of Fear
Is Chairman King governed by the use of reason, or by the panic process? Or is he just stoking the fires to Bush's furnace of fear?

Saturday, May 20, 2006
When everything else goes
(3 comments) Where will you be when Bush takes the last drop of liberty away

Thursday, May 11, 2006
The WOW Syndrome of the Bush White House
(1 comments) How interesting, and yet, how not at all surprising, that George Herbert Walker Bush happened to be in Washington, enjoying the perks of the White House, which he often does, as if to fulfill some megalomaniacal dream of power and control of his, on the same weekend that the Kafkaesque Bush White House kicked Porter Goss out of the CIA

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Bush-Tony Snow-The Press

Monday, April 3, 2006
Truth Dawning: Lifting the cup of Betrayal

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
The Revolution Has Begun!
(3 comments) Senators and Representatives of all stripes in each party realize that they can, and must, say, NO, to Bush.

Monday, February 20, 2006
Not Everything Must Be Okay With Mr. Whittington
(1 comments) God speaks in mysterious language some friend told me long ago, and even Pope John Paul II, on his travel to Cuba in l998, wondered out loud if the misty rain befalling the island on his departure, may, in any way, be connected to MaryÂ’s sadness over his departure from the communist island.

Monday, October 10, 2005
Fiction, Fantasy, or Fear Mongering?
(1 comments)

Friday, October 7, 2005
Condoleezza RiceÂ’s Blueprint for a Repressive State
A lockstep blue print by Condoleezza Rice and George Walker Bush for the creation of a repressive state.

 

 

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