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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
Sunday, January 7, 2007 A Matter of the Heart
Those who know Mary Pitt will tell you the largest, the most magnificent thing about her is her heart.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 DON'T GET NO BETTER'N THAT...
Most people don't realize that I am the Jets' secret weapon. It took me a full eight games before it dawned on that they lost each time I watched them play. Since I started "listening" to Jets' games while sitting in front of the TV with a sack over my head, they catapaulted back into action -- and into the playoffs.
Sunday, December 3, 2006 LIARS -- OR FOOLS?
Message to James Baker and Lee Hamilton -- "If your plan isn't ten months or ten years, you're either liars or fools."
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Who Ya Gonna Call?
If you're George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Condi Rice, or any of the rest of the Project for a New American Century gang, and you're slip-sliding around in New World Order slime -- who you gonna call?
Sunday, February 12, 2006 The Great American Dittoheads
I try not to listen to Sean Hannity at all...ever. But I do a bit of cake decorating and, when I'm at the shop, since there's no TV nor computer, I listen to the radio. On Dec 16, 2005,I was too busy to walk across the room and switch channels so listened to both Rush Limbaugh and Hannity.
Friday, February 3, 2006 When It Comes To Reform....
They just can't help themselves. To Republicans, "reform" is to go to great lengths to change their image, to give the impression that, although they didn't do it, they're really really sorry they got caught, and they won't do it again -- get caught, that is. Then they pass some "red meat" legislation to show they mean it this time -- and continue to march down that same corrupt road.
Monday, January 30, 2006 GIVE THAT BOY A STANDING "YO!"
What is it about Kansas that makes people lose touch with reality and go flying off in all directions? In the current issue of Time, Mike Allen teams up with Michael Duffy, Karen Tumulty, Massimo Calabresi, and Matthew Cooper to give George Bush a rollicking standing "YO!" for his sterling performance at Kansas State University last week.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 I Don't Need No Steenkin' Oversight!
In mid-September, George Bush submitted to the Senate a list of his cronies to various positions within the administration. When the Committee balked at the lack of qualifications of some of them -- especially Julie Myers, neice of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers and wife of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood -- Bush did what he does best. He flipped Congress the bird and waited until last week to make recess appointments.
Sunday, January 8, 2006 SENATE GETS AN OIL CHANGE...
Where do you get "holy oil" these days? On E-Bay? WalMart? I didn't even know there was a demand for such an item in the 21st Century. But now, thanks to the right good reverend Rob Schenck, one of God's own evangelical Christians and president of Washington's National Clergy Council, the government machine needs an oil change in order to make the right decisions.
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 AMERICA -- WAKE THE HELL UP!
I think the Republicans would love to see the Dems run Hillary in 2008 because they know, as do we, that this country -- the world -- is not ready for a U.S. woman president. I am not a bigot, but I have half sense and one eye, and I know that it will be generations, if ever, before Americans will be comfortable with a woman telling them what to do. If you don't believe me, take a trip through Redneck country -- hit the NASCAR circuit -- and see where you land...
Friday, October 7, 2005 "ROVING" AIR AMERICA RADIO...
Anybody notice that people are calling Air America Radio hosts every day, every show, plaintively complaining -- "We are losing Air America in this area"..."They're taking Air America off next week"... "Why did my radio station cut Air America?"
Friday, September 23, 2005 U.S. TO FISK -- WE DON'T NEED YOUR STEENKIN' TRUTH!
On September 23, the venerable Z-Mag published a startling bit of news by reporter and media critic Doug Ireland -- news that should be on the front pages of every U.S. newspaper and "breaking news" on network and cable TV -- U.S. immigration officials have denied Robert Fisk entry into the United States!
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 I'M JUST SAYIN'.....
You know, I just got to thinking...these greedy power-mad criminals have no intention of leaving in 2008. Think about it. If we do have an election, it will be because the neo-conservatives in control have confidence that the electronic voting machines will elect Jeb.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 STUFF AND THINGS... WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT HYPOCRISY?
Sunday, August 14, 2005 The Open Portal of Bush's Mind...
On Saturday (Aug 13), writer Peter Fredson posted an intriguing piece on the Bellacaio site, wherein he admits he shares the same problem with George Bush that most thinking people have -- there is no doubt that Bush is a shallow, unlearned, idiotic bully; yet he maintains an eerie control over the entire government.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 KARL ROVE IS GOIN' DOWN...
Thank God for the folks at Raw Story. Although the site has only been around since February 2004, it has caught the attention of a myriad of mainstream media and regularly "scoops" them on issues such as the Jeff "Softballs" Gannon fiasco at the White House, the hiliarous cut-and-paste plagerisms of Ann Coulter and -- today -- the breaking news that Bloomberg News is ready to go with the revelation that Karl Rove and Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby provided false testimony (as in "lied") to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who is conducting a grand jury investigation on the Valerie Plame leak.
Saturday, July 16, 2005 THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRUTH...
George Bush is big on "sending messages" or reminding folks that there are "consequences" for disagreeing with him, especially about his war on vicious terriers and wicked evildoers.
Friday, July 15, 2005 SURVIVING IN A GEORGE BUSH WORLD
Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands. Especially when you are trying vainly to survive in a George Bush world where the government is no longer "for" the people, and the wall that separates the "haves" from the "have-nots" looms as tall and forbidding as anything Israel's Ariel Sharon could dream up.
Thursday, July 7, 2005 The Obvious Solution...
President George W. Bush gives new meaning to being "out for a spin," especially when he's careening along rain-slick pavement on the presidential bicycle. White House propaganda chief Scott McClellan said Bush was going at "a pretty high speed" on Wednesday when he collided with a policeman guarding the Gleneagles golf resort where the Group of Eight (G8) Summit is being held.
Friday, July 1, 2005 Take This Dot and Shove It...
Sometimes I wonder if there's anybody out there who can take a dot in each hand and connect them without smashing them into their foreheads.
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Can you hear me NOW, El Rushbo?
Limbaugh is his name. Drug addiction is his game. He calls himself "El Rushbo." Says any news he doesn't talk about, we don't need to hear. He says his talent is "on loan from God." Maybe that's where he got all those pills he's not talking about -- especially after his former housekeeper, Wilma Cline, and her husband, David, backed out of the deal and blew the whistle on him after years of selling him what they admitted were "large quantities" of prescription drugs they bought on the streets.
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 BUCKETS OF BLOOD...
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Curt Weldon says this whole bloody bucket of Iraqi waste might have been avoided if folks had just listened to him before the September 11 attacks. "Sheesh!" Weldon all but said, "I tried to tell 'em. I tried to tell everybody -- even the CIA -- but nobody would listen to me."
Sunday, May 29, 2005 The Lone Star State vs. the Marriage State
I have maintained for years that nothing Texas politicians, of whatever stripe, can do would surprise me. Texans are notorious for going that extra mile, especially the "long, green one."
Friday, May 6, 2005 Who's in Charge Here?
The Hill is reporting today that the "nuclear option" with which Senate majority leader Bill Frist is threatening to slap the Democrats upside the head so they'll just shut up and take their places in line while Stinky W's right-wing judicial nominees take their places in the courts, will be soon. The Hill's Alexander Bolton says Frist is beginning to "squeeze the trigger..."
Sunday, May 1, 2005 Rehabilitating Tommy...
Sometimes I wonder if Americans are even capable of feeling outrage anymore. As if John Cloud's slobbering ode to Ann Coulter In last week's Time Magazine wasn't enough, that once respected weekly is back out there again this week, cleaning up after House majority leader Tom DeLay and his corporate bitch, Jack Abramoff.
Sunday, April 3, 2005 I Don't Know About You -- But I'm Poped...
After being Shivoed and Poped to a pulp, I get a "Breaking News" email from MSNBC that insurgents had attacked Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, and had "inflicted 18 US casualties." How many of these were injuries or deaths was not clear.
Saturday, March 12, 2005 IT'S B-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-C-K!
Although I am among those who doubt that Karen Hughes ever abandoned Stinky W. to "spend more time with her family," the Washington Post announces today that Hughes is officially back, bigger 'n better than ever, and is taking over the job of cleaning up the world's view -- particularly the Muslim world's view -- of the United States.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
I believe there is no subject more convoluted nor confusing to the bulk of Americans than "Support the Troops."
Friday, February 11, 2005 Oh Yeah? Well, So's Yer Old Man!
Australia is becoming a "nation of thugs and boors," according to George Bush's "other" lapdog, Aussie prime minister John Howard. It seems the jocks are spiriling out of control, exploding in road rage and inciting violence, and Howard says they are responsible overall for a growing culture of aggression -- the "coarsening" of Australian society.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Heil, FOX!
One thing about CNN founder Ted Turner -- he draws a crowd wherever he goes. That's because people know if they stick around long enough, Turner may shock them, he'll amuse them, he might even insult them beause he can be bitter -- but they're going to ultimately hear the truth.
Thursday, January 6, 2005 Nuttin' Honey -- Go Back to Sleep
CBS Market News just released new unemployment figures that gives the lie to Bush's relentless mantra that our economy is "soaring," and that "entrepreneurs" (his favorite word) are creating jobs at an Energizer Bunny rate.
Friday, December 31, 2004 Bring Them Home. Sooner Rather Than Later
USA Today founder Al Neuharth's New Year's Resolution [1] 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 column, [2] was inundated with hate mail.
Monday, December 13, 2004 Even In Death, Insurgents are Evil -- Deadly
The city has been flattened. Deadly insurgents, from those still in the womb to hobbling octogenarians, have been destroyed...
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Annual Bubba Awards...
Each year, many of us eagerly await the annual Darwin Awards which go to people who have done their best to remove themselves from the gene pool. Thanks to Dennis Jackson, St. Louis, MO, for forwarding this year's nominees.
Saturday, November 27, 2004 BREAKING NEWS! BUSH ARRESTED IN CANADA!
Breaking News! This just in from Vancouver's Paul K Jamieson,(www.pkj.ca)who has been monitoring activity leading up to President George Bush's Nov. 30 visit to Canada.
Friday, November 26, 2004 Canadians say, "Bring Him On!"
So Bush is headed to Canada next week and he's afraid to speak to its Parliament because he "might get heckled." That could be the least of his problems, because I'm hearing there's a move afoot to arrest him for war crimes.
Saturday, November 20, 2004 Move On, Evil Conspiracy Theorists -- Nothing to See Here!
Sitting here watching news presidents of the three major networks cover their asses on C-Span, not only for their sorely lacking coverage of the 2004 election, but for their refusal to follow-up with post-election fraud, it's obvious that anchors, reporters and pundits have little choice when they're on-air but to spin around in front of the cameras, trying not to spill the water they're carrying for their corporate masters.
Thursday, November 18, 2004 Just Turn Out The Light -- and Go
He was out there again yesterday. His last hurrah -- warning the world of smoking guns and mushroom clouds. Thankfully, outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell didn't bring along satellite photos, a tangle of obscure recordings or vials of the toxin ricin that spiced up his Feb. 5, 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council, but -- given his insistence that we just have to take his word that Iran has nukes -- it's deja`vu all over again...
