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67 Articles, 20 Quick Links, 131 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls

131 comments


Monday, November 23, 2009 at 6:40:09 AM

Quicklink: "Patrick Kennedy Banned From Communion Over Abortion Rights S"

The Bishop, I think, overstepped his boundaries ...


Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 6:17:13 PM

Article: "And They Have 60; Landrieu and Lincoln End First Phase of Se"

Self Praise, I am sure, is the main dish being served in the


Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 9:11:32 AM

Article: "Open Letter to House Progressive Caucus (Except Kucinich & M"

Good For You, Kellia ...


Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 6:24:53 AM

Article: "Hillary Would Have Made a Terrific Obama VP----Bill Notwiths"

There truly are no sadder words than ...


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 7:50:00 AM

Article: "The bestiarii (gladiators) vs. Greed"

Good metaphor ...


Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:27:17 AM

Article: "Not Making This Up: GW Bush to be Motivational Speaker on Le"

Just the fact that


Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 3:56:51 AM

Article: "Ripple Effects Travel Far and Wide"

The burning of 15 year old Michael Brewer


Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 2:06:58 AM

Quicklink: "U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler to Step Down"

Dearest Margaret, I AM ME so i am not just a "whoever" ...


Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 9:32:56 AM

Quicklink: "U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler to Step Down"

i think robert wexler ...


Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 4:44:29 AM

Article: "The politicians have forgotten. The people have not"

On the reading of this article ...


Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 3:44:58 PM

Poll: "Poll: Obama On Racism"

I too voted "wrong."


Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 5:51:27 AM

Article: "In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Liars"

Honesty


Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 5:53:49 AM

Article: "TED KENNEDY, THE LION OF THE SENATE, DIED TONIGHT AT 77. Pl"

For my part,I can neither grieve the passing nor honor TK


Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 6:23:14 AM

Article: "Why Holder and Obama have not fired the Bush Appointed, Rove"

What Ever Happened to Good Ole Time Protest?


Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 10:33:43 AM

Article: "DOJ Prosecutorial Injustice & Misconduct-- We Need to Be Out"

It is too bad that Janet Reno is not our AG at this time.


Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 3:56:52 AM

Article: "Health Care Reform? INSURANCE BAIL OUT is more like it."

Those are very interesting facts that you point out to JJ.


Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 9:00:02 AM

Article: "Health Care Reform? INSURANCE BAIL OUT is more like it."

The truth of the matter is,


Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 4:32:18 AM

Article: "Specter Supports Single-Payer, Sort of, At Teabaggered Town "

Right Wingers have their Act together .. and that is sad.


Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 5:04:10 AM

Article: "Stop Playing Politics with our Healthcare"

I think Bill Maher best answers this ...


Friday, July 31, 2009 at 5:59:43 AM

Article: "Stop Playing Politics with our Healthcare"

Stop with the scare tacticts


Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 4:55:23 AM

Article: "Stop Playing Politics with our Healthcare"

Straight Single Payer on the floor would be wonderful.


Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:34:39 PM

Article: "What's So Scary About Offering People the Option of a Public"

Quoting a friend who, in order to explain Bauccus, wrote:


Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:56:16 PM

Article: "The Sotomayor confirmation battle -- fait accompli ."

Interesting POV ... In jest, or not ...


Friday, June 12, 2009 at 2:13:57 AM

Article: "What is it with all the hog-wash these days?"

Thank you ...


Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 1:52:39 PM

Article: "What is it with all the hog-wash these days?"

On Mr. Panetta


Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 2:10:41 PM

Article: "My Trip to Cuba in 1998"

i envy you your trip to santiago de cuba ...


Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7:09:39 PM

Article: "Out of the Limelight? Not in Your Life!"

Absolutely right on target


Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:49:05 AM

Article: "Out of the Limelight? Not in Your Life!"

Never forget.


Monday, June 1, 2009 at 8:16:51 AM

Diary: "Cons Leave Out CON-TEXT, As Usual So They Can Twist Facts"

Thank you John Lorenz for your thoughts on this


Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 7:12:49 AM

Quicklink: "Remembering Cuba"

A forwarded e-mail ...


Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 6:33:44 PM

Quicklink: "Remembering Cuba"

the truth is


Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 7:52:59 AM

Quicklink: "Remembering Cuba"

A friend I'd mailed this link to, wrote to say,


Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 6:49:04 AM

Article: "Democracy under Attack in Florida"

The Sea of Wreckage left behind by Bush ...


Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:03:51 AM

Article: ""Obama has started an S... Storm" said the woman speaking at"

Might your post imply thatRs want the start of a pity party?


Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 1:22:46 PM

Article: ""Obama has started an S... Storm" said the woman speaking at"

Thumbs Up, Peter.


Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 6:45:51 PM

Article: "Of Black Holes and Radio Silence"

Thank you for this illuminating article.


Friday, April 17, 2009 at 12:54:45 PM

Article: "With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people"

Stiglitz is right on the mark here.


Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 8:54:23 AM

Article: "With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people"

Mahatma Gandhi never gave up.


Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 5:20:22 AM

Article: "With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people"

On the elite of the NewWorldOrder ...


Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 5:14:12 AM

Article: "With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people"

Thank you Zaz ...


Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 6:49:24 PM

Article: "With cool poise Obama delivers dagger to American people"

Agreed


Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 6:15:47 AM

Article: "Incoming!!"

Morning Joe's different approach to the report this A.M.


Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:12:48 PM

Article: "Obama's Unlimited Travel to Cuba for Cuban-Americans"

Mirtha Diaz-Balart was Fidel Castro's wife.


Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 12:34:34 PM

Article: "Obama's Unlimited Travel to Cuba for Cuban-Americans"

Yes. Many will oppose travel to Cuba.


Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 8:49:39 AM

Poll: "Poll: Should Harvesting Sperm Samples From The Dead to Produ"

Let the dead Rest In Peace.


Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 8:05:18 AM

Article: "When Milk Sits Sour in our Stomachs"

I too am with you.


Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 7:58:44 AM

Article: "When Milk Sits Sour in our Stomachs"

"Obama = 'already a failed presidency?'"


Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 6:34:38 AM

Article: "When Milk Sits Sour in our Stomachs"

On this subject a friend writes ...


Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 6:20:07 AM

Article: "Marian Anderson on April 9, 1939"

Marian Anderson


Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 12:40:28 PM

Article: "Buyer's Remorse, Economic Collapse, Oligarchs, and War"

Thank you for your plain speaking truth Cynthia Mckinney.


Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 4:47:17 AM

Article: "Obama - Mr. Opportunity (return of the hollow man)"

Smoke and Mirror? Bill Clinton? O, Wait a Minute!


Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 3:45:25 AM

Article: "In McClellan's Own Words...* (Excerpt from Scott McClellan's"

Was this book/excerpt written by the Bush Twins? Or By a


Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 6:02:45 AM

Article: "Loosen Your Tie, Tucker Carlson!"

Yes. Bush is (the Bushes are) capable of perpetrating a 9/11


Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 4:50:43 AM

Article: "Chertoff: Screw the Environment, We Need to Keep the Mexican"

Disregard for the ecology?


Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 7:50:26 AM

Article: "Democracy is Too Important"

Democracy is to Bush as a flagpin is to a lapel.


Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 7:35:59 AM

Article: "Ellen DeGeneres' Misuse Of The Media and A Challenge To Righ"

ellen's puppy give away


Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 12:58:02 PM

Article: "The Media Has Failed the American People!"

surely you know ...


Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 5:51:47 AM

Article: "Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foile"

Perish the thought, but ...


Friday, September 7, 2007 at 11:38:04 PM

Diary: "How To Embed URL Links in Text, to Make Words Clickable"

Rob,


Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 4:38:23 AM

Article: "Author Mary Pipher returns award to American Psychological A"

A woman of conscience.


Friday, August 24, 2007 at 12:54:42 PM

Article: "America is burning and Bush is the Arsonist ... Musings at t"

"MIke's" question is breathtaking, isn't it?


Friday, August 24, 2007 at 12:17:02 PM

Article: "America is burning and Bush is the Arsonist ... Musings at t"

Sounds absurd?


Monday, August 13, 2007 at 9:05:01 AM

Article: "Karl Rove To Resign August 31"

Might Rove be moving on to a position with Poppy?


Monday, June 25, 2007 at 8:44:55 AM

Article: "The Take Back America Conference and Me, Part 2: Conscience"

Having previously read . . .


Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 11:54:30 AM

Article: "Restricted Military Equipment "Slips Through Cracks" on Way"

Selling "Restricted Military Equipment" to the Enemy?!!!!


Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 6:57:44 AM

Article: "CNN, If You Confront Chickenhawks In Your Debates, Mitt Has"

I don't for one minute believe that GHWB served "valiantly"


Friday, June 1, 2007 at 6:00:13 AM

Article: ""And he got a little bit of – just a little bit of human fli"

hello aloha.


Monday, May 28, 2007 at 5:42:14 PM

Article: "Dear Cindy: The vision cannot die."

Cindy,Now that you have come face-to-face with the empty...


Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:00:01 PM

Article: "Dancing with the Bush legacy of corruption: It may have lost"

Jane, my husband too was rootin for Leila Ali but says


Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:58:19 AM

Quicklink: "Red Alert! Bush Anoints Himself as Ensurer of Constitutional"

When the movie POSEIDON ADVENTURE came out years ago


Monday, May 21, 2007 at 10:38:11 AM

Article: "Gingrich Still Preaching Hate in Wake of Falwell's Death"

Gingrich & books by his night table.


Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 6:53:38 PM

Article: "HALLELUJAH!! REVEREND JERRY FALWELL IS FINALLY GOING HOME"

To all Rapture Hopefuls:


Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 6:35:29 PM

Quicklink: "Joan Baez banned at Walter Reed hospital"

"Marie Fleur" can't "fit in" with the brusque & abrupt


Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:00:52 AM

Article: "Friday the 13th: No luck getting out of the Green Zone -- or"

Jane,


Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 8:34:50 AM

Article: "Sadr City: My fall-back date to the prom"

Jane just a short while ago the television reported an


Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 7:02:58 PM

Article: "Too much stuff: The Paris Hilton rationale for not leaving I"

bush and his army people push the emotional quotient


Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 8:05:02 AM

Article: "Report from Baghdad: MREs, swift-boating & Kevlar"

Hello Jane.


Monday, April 2, 2007 at 4:55:46 PM

Article: "It began in the parking lot, an adventure in the Golden Year"

Dear Mitch in S California


Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1:27:39 PM

Article: "It began in the parking lot, an adventure in the Golden Year"

hello panurg,


Friday, March 30, 2007 at 8:13:02 AM

Article: "A review of the US troop chow hall in Kuwait: Would Michelin"

Jane, bravo for you that you made it over to Kuwait


Monday, March 19, 2007 at 6:50:56 AM

Article: "Iraq, Bush's God-Emboldened Narcissism and Parasitic Militar"

two points


Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 7:53:32 PM

Diary: "Victoria Toensing's real identity!"

victoria bobblehead toensing.


Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 12:38:11 PM

Article: "Fox News Apologizes For Years Of Erroneous Plame Reporting.."

the questioning of Valerie Plame Wilson on the Republican


Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 7:44:42 PM

Article: "Five Things I believe in, said Alberto Gonzalez, perhaps qui"

I agree with you that,"Adios Alberto" is a big question mark


Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 10:15:19 AM

Quicklink: "Effort to Designate Gonzales as Fall Guy in Purge Scandal Ra"

donde está mi sarape?


Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 4:36:35 AM

Quicklink: "Harry Reid says Gonzales will be gone within days."

Bush's stubborness - Gonzalez's shortsightedness


Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 7:39:05 PM

Article: "Five Things I believe in, said Alberto Gonzalez, perhaps qui"

hello mark.


Monday, March 12, 2007 at 7:22:48 PM

Quicklink: "Elder Bush Faints, Hospitalized, treated for dehydration"

bush the elder faints ...


Friday, March 2, 2007 at 3:43:30 PM

Article: "Immigrant Daughter"

Mark, thank you for your comment.


Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 7:38:09 AM

Article: "Courting the Supremes: Justice Roberts' big chance to go dow"

Alberto Gonzalez sold his soul to the Bush devil.


Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 8:00:56 PM

Article: "Take the Sneak Preview of the Bush Library"

like with everything bush ...


Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 11:56:38 AM

Quicklink: "Why so many people are glad Jeb is gone."

good riddance Jeb ...


Friday, February 2, 2007 at 4:22:15 AM

Quicklink: "Ex-President for Sale"

Ex-President for Sale.


Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 5:09:32 PM

Article: "Molly Ivins: A Mighty Voice Is Stilled"

it also hurts to know ...


Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 6:01:20 PM

Article: "OMG! I just interviewed Sean Penn!"

re: "OMG! I just interviewed Sean Penn!"


Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 5:41:34 PM

Diary: "Whoever let Hanoi Jane on the mic at Washington protest toda"

Hanoi Jane lives again. Alleluia and it was about time.


Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 10:46:55 AM

Article: "Huge Antiwar Demonstration in DC"

DC Antiwar Demonstration


Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 10:40:13 AM

Article: "Cindy Sheehan's arrival in Cuba..."

my dear ivan, have i not been civil towards you? i think i


Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 5:11:24 PM

Article: "Cindy Sheehan's arrival in Cuba..."

that sounds like it is coming straight from


Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 12:15:14 PM

Article: "Cindy Sheehan's arrival in Cuba..."

with so many others protesting the repression in Cuba,


Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 5:11:30 PM

Article: "Why Can't Bush Admit We've Failed in Iraq?"

is it a case of, "Bush can't admit HE has failed in Iraq?",


Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 1:36:55 PM

Article: "DOES HE EVEN LISTEN TO HIS OWN BULLSHIT?"

what do you mean ...?


Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 10:49:14 AM

Article: "THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GEORGE P. BUSH"

George P. Bush is as much a Bush as all the others.


Monday, December 11, 2006 at 6:26:49 PM

Article: "O, the Billy Gloat was out bleating again!"

many of us, i think, are "waiting in joyfful hope" too


Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 6:47:13 PM

Article: "Sen. Feingold Comments On the Iraq Study Report"

On the Iraq Study Group


Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 12:38:01 PM

Diary: "Voting Day Open Thread"

Dr. Brenda C. Snipes, Broward County Supervisor of Elections


Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 1:36:12 PM

Article: "Showdown at the Early Voting Place"

i really agree with this, pappy mc_fae:


Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:28:49 AM

Article: "This Was Never Supposed to Happen Here."

I did raise my voice at the Early Voting place on Sunday.


Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:25:27 AM

Article: "This Was Never Supposed to Happen Here."

"who did choose them?"


Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:15:14 AM

Article: "Showdown at the Early Voting Place"

Hi. Thanks for the support. and for the guidance.


Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:09:44 AM

Article: "Showdown at the Early Voting Place"

Thanks for the, "Voting Do Nots".


Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:02:08 AM

Article: "Showdown at the Early Voting Place"

I too don't understand the country's silence on electronic


Friday, October 13, 2006 at 8:27:16 PM

Article: "Anxiety prevails in Bush dominated world."

Thank you for your heartfelt and thoughtful comment, Susan.


Monday, August 14, 2006 at 12:23:48 AM

Article: "The Rovian Political Ploy and Why It Will No Longer Oppress"

the bushes will not go without putting up a fight:


Friday, August 11, 2006 at 4:47:31 PM

Article: "Fear a la Carte, served courtesy of Bush/Blair"

this time around it is george walker bush


Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 8:16:45 PM

Diary: "Open Thread; Discussing Both Sides of The Mid East Conflict"

staying neutral is one of the hardest things ever.


Friday, August 4, 2006 at 11:05:08 AM

Diary: "Mike Malloy interviews Webster Tarply"

thank you for posting the link to malloy's interview of W.T.


Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 11:19:42 AM

Article: "No Martyr for his country--No Hero, either."

family history matters, panurg


Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 9:28:50 AM

Article: "The Bush White House Piano Player"

i concur, panurg,


Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 9:22:02 AM

Article: "The Bush White House Piano Player"

thank you, Hamish,


Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 6:26:14 AM

Article: "Rob Kall: Once the Iran War Starts"

powerless


Monday, July 24, 2006 at 12:25:36 PM

Article: "I Get a Letter from President Bush"

The Bushes like to BLEAT a lot.


Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 6:59:40 PM

Article: "Rob Kall: Middle East Wiggle Room-- To Be Bought at a High P"

That we need aPeace Settlement in the ME is a given.


Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 2:23:33 PM

Article: "A Mournful Mood This Morning"

Thank you much for your comment.


Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 12:04:03 PM

Article: "Part-Time Bush Principles"

the bush, "bleats".


Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 8:00:34 PM

Article: "Casting Blame , Finding Solutions to The Middle East Conflag"

Dear Rob Kall, these are some of my thoughts as requested by


Monday, July 17, 2006 at 10:15:21 AM

Article: "Bush: We got to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing thi"

On: "taking something honest and making it dirty & corrupt."


Monday, July 17, 2006 at 9:53:55 AM

Article: "Florida's fear of history: New law undermines critical think"

Darn if they haven't stepped on my last one good nerve!


Friday, July 14, 2006 at 2:05:00 PM

Article: "No Sage Advice or Calming Words from Bush the Warmonger"

thank you again for your comment.


Friday, July 14, 2006 at 10:04:34 AM

Article: "No Sage Advice or Calming Words from Bush the Warmonger"

Thank you for your comments.


Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 1:52:44 PM

Article: "When everything else goes"

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