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Dr. Rovenstein's Monster....
The creature that is now stalking the countryside, laying waste the political landscape and terrifying its citizens, we learn today, is the result of a horrific experiment in human cloning gone ...
tjlabs 09/14/2008 4 1 - 9
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....
From www.politico.com Biden hits McCain in Michigan speech Saint Clair Shores, Mich. – As promised, Joe ...
tjlabs 09/16/2008 15 5 - -
Palin & McCain: The Mom & Pop of Populists....
Over the course of the last few weeks we have heard the MSM and the various Poo-Bahs of punditry make reference to the fact that McCain and Palin are running a "populist" campaign for the presidency.
tjlabs 09/17/2008 6 1 - -
Sarah Palin: The First Humanoid Robot Candidate....
A humanoid robot is an autonomous robot because it can adapt to changes in its environment or itself and continue to reach ...
tjlabs 09/20/2008 4 - - -
Lies, Deceit, and Turban Legends: McCain's Game Plan....
From www.politico.com Despite the first black major party candidate for president, the discussion of race in this ...
tjlabs 09/21/2008 4 1 - -
Campaign to Nowhere...Thanks, But No Thanks....
The McCain/Palin campaign couldn't wait to see last week finally end. To say that it was not one of their best weeks is understatement. A week that began with hopes of continuing their domination of ...
tjlabs 09/22/2008 2 - - -
Where There's a (George) Will...There's a Nay ....
From www.washingtonpost.com McCain Loses His Head Under the pressure of the ...
tjlabs 09/23/2008 6 2 - -
What if the candidate's name was Sam Palin?....
Let's pretend that the Republican vice-presidential candidate is named Sam Palin, a heretofore little-known former mayor of a small Podunk town in Alaska and then through an incredible stroke of ...
tjlabs 09/24/2008 5 1 - -
Dear Bill, It would be quicker if you just wore a "Vote McCain/Palin" button...
From www.politico.com Bill: McCain not ‘afraid’ of Obama debate Former President Bill Clinton ...
tjlabs 09/25/2008 41 19 - 14
The Adventures of Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah!....
Our story so far.... Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah have had a really busy week fighting villains who are trying to steal the government secrets that would ruin their attempt to save the ...
tjlabs 09/26/2008 5 5 - -
When McCain Says "My Friends",... Updated With Video
It started with this. Dear Senator Obama: I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your ...
tjlabs 09/27/2008 20 5 - -
Palin May Be the Exception to the Rule...But....
From poligazette.com Republicans Worry: Palin’s a Problem Increasingly more ...
tjlabs 09/28/2008 3 1 - 2
William Kristol: "Today, We Are All Palins"....
Of the seven hundred odd (I use that term advisedly) words spewed out by William Kristol onto the Op-Ed pages ...
tjlabs 09/29/2008 21 5 - -
Petulant Pols: Me, first, then maybe the country....
Take a good look at these four shining examples of Republican leadership who rushed to the cameras to inform the nation ...
tjlabs 09/30/2008 2 - - -
Tomorrow's Debate Is Too Little, Too Late for Palin....
From www.huffingtonpost.com Jed Lewison Why Sarah Palin Is A Better Debater Than ...
tjlabs 10/01/2008 10 - - -
Tonight's Episode: "Little Morphin' Sarah and the Tower of Ifill"....
When we last saw our heroine , her mentor Daddy Warhero was about to do battle mano a mano with their arch enemy the Great ...
tjlabs 10/02/2008 2 1 - -
McCain, the "Gambler", has gone all in....
From www.huffingtonpost.com McCain Planning 'Fiercely' Negative Campaign In Final ...
tjlabs 10/05/2008 14 6 - -
GOP Men's Ultimate Wet Dream: Sarah Palin....In More Ways Than One
From www.nytimes.com Boss Is Not Amused After Columnist’s Humor ...
tjlabs 10/06/2008 15 1 - -
McCain's Latest Appellation...Coward....
So far we have seen John McCain the Naval aviator, John McCain the POW, John McCain the war hero, John McCain the maverick, John McCain the straight-talker. Now we can safely add one more ...
tjlabs 10/08/2008 3 1 - -
Senator John "NoBalls" McCain....
From abcnews.go.com Obama said that the McCain campaign is making personal attacks "the centerpiece of the discussion in the ...
tjlabs 10/09/2008 11 2 - -
McCain's Stockholm Syndrome....
From Wikipedia: Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the ...
tjlabs 10/10/2008 8 4 - -
It's 3 AM...A Play in One Act....
Somewhere on the campaign trail in the middle of middle America in the nearest big city with a Four Seasons Hotel which has a Presidential Suite, the Republican candidate for the presidency is ...
tjlabs 10/11/2008 1 1 - -
JFK, MLK, RFK...Forgetting the Unforgettable....
Frank Rich in Sunday's NY Times: "At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent ...
tjlabs 10/12/2008 17 5 - -
McCain is scared...but not about losing....
You see it in his face. The momentary flinching, The fleeting widening of his eyes. As he looks out over the huge crowds generated by his running mate, he seems at times to be a man trapped in an ...
tjlabs 10/14/2008 40 10 - 1
Staring defeat in the face, will McCain play the race card?....
Pick any analogy you like from sports ("It's the bottom of the ninth with two strikes, the count is 3 and 2 and they're losing by six runs") or history ("Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.
tjlabs 10/15/2008 18 3 - -
Heightened Expectations..Heightened Fear....
I am sure some of my friends at Daily Kos will immediately label me just another "concern troll" but I'm betting they weren't around during the bloody sixties. If they were, they'd be "concern trolls"
tjlabs 10/16/2008 - - - -
NRO: Obama's Mom Would Have Chosen to Abort....
Wanna see just what sort of sewer scum writes for the NRO? When I first ran across this piece of garbage, I was dumbfounded. If you think you've seen or heard everything try this little item on for ...
tjlabs 10/17/2008 61 21 - 20
Giving thanks....
No snark. No sarcasm. No jokes. No puns. And NO politics. In my sixty some-odd years upon this earth, I don't think there has ever been a Thanksgiving Day so filled with hope and promise for the ...
tjlabs 11/27/2008 2 2 - 1
Welcome to Palintown, USA....
The other day Sarah Palin opined how delighted she is to be able to visit the "pro-America" states. Let's take a closer look at Palin's America. Shall we?
tjlabs 10/20/2008 14 1 - -
Helpful Hints To Spot The Losing Ticket....
When you study for the priesthood (RC), you learn that aside from one's role as dispenser of the sacraments, your second most important role is as counselor. And to that end, the seminarian is ...
tjlabs 10/21/2008 3 3 - -
The Will Smith Factor....
As has been often noted by journalists, pundits, and politicians during this current election cycle. there has been a tsunami-size wave of newly registered young, first-time voters. There have been ...
tjlabs 10/22/2008 2 2 - -
November 5th: The Day After....
For the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about what new country we will wake up to on November 5th. If all the polls and indicators hold true, we will be seeing the face of President-Elect ...
tjlabs 10/29/2008 8 6 - 1
And on the Third Day....A Sunday Sermon
Three days from now, at approximately 9:00 AM EST, America and the world will have awoken to find a new President-Elect of the United States. And if we are to believe what the majority of the polls ...
tjlabs 11/02/2008 2 1 - -
Today is Thanksgiving Day....
It's come a little early this year, but today I have so much to be thankful for. And what might some of those things be, you ask? I shall tell you.
tjlabs 11/04/2008 2 - - -
Three more states we won't be moving to....
In addition to the already thirty-odd states that currently discriminate in one form or another against gays and lesbians, as of last Tuesday we can add Arizona, Florida, and California. And Florida ...
tjlabs 11/06/2008 10 3 - -
Little Sarah's Next Move....
From www.politico.com Palin’s tricky path back Palin, who captivated Americans with her meteoric rise ...
tjlabs 11/07/2008 9 - - 3
Truth...But No Consequences....
Baby-boomers like myself who matured during the 1960's were the cause of, and witness to, a true cultural revolution. That period in our nation's history has proven over time to be second only to ...
tjlabs 11/09/2008 9 4 - 1
Bush to Receive 2008 Intrepid Freedom Award!....
Please swallow any liquids in your mouth before reading the following. From www.newsday....
tjlabs 11/11/2008 7 2 - 9
Our Grand National Pitstop...
For the last two years , we have found ourselves careening across the political landscape of America on a wild ride not dissimilar to the one Mr. Toad took in the Wind in the Willows. It has been an ...
tjlabs 11/14/2008 - - - 2
Billy and Sarah sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g....
From www.weeklystandard.com Beyond Doom & Gloom On the governors, Sarah Palin, and ...
tjlabs 11/19/2008 26 9 - -
Traumatic memory...November 22, 1963....
That's a psychological term that describes the ability to remember an event or incident from the past that was so intense and impactful that years later the memory traces of it are immediately ...
tjlabs 11/22/2008 16 12 - 2
Chalabi...that's Arabic for man with biggest balls....
From www.nytimes.com Thanks, but You Can Go Now By AHMAD CHALABI It ends five years too late and at ...
tjlabs 11/23/2008 23 16 - 34
Once again, Billy Blood lives up to his name....
From www.weeklystandard.com Before He Goes What President Bush could accomplish in his final days in office. by William Kristol ...(H)e could tell various admirals to stop ...
tjlabs 11/29/2008 3 2 - -
From those wonderful folks who brought us Abu Gharib & Guantanamo....
From www.nytimes.com Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes WASHINGTON — The Labor ...
tjlabs 11/30/2008 5 2 - 4
Bush has always had the "Sadim touch"....
From www.boston.com Homeland Security in disarray,
tjlabs 12/01/2008 10 6 - -
"Post hoc ergo propter hoc"....
From www.washingtontimes.com MURCHISON: Homicidal maniacs at large For two or three ...
tjlabs 12/04/2008 13 2 - 3
Noonan Nipping at the Nog.....
From online.wsj.com At a sparkling Christmas gathering of mostly Republicans, there was warmth, laughter and a ...
tjlabs 12/05/2008 27 8 - -
Sarah? About your plans for 2012?....
From the NY Times: December 6, 2008 3 Palin Stylists Cost Campaign More Than $165,000 Senator John McCain&...
tjlabs 12/06/2008 15 3 - 11
The Down Side to the Denial of the Down Low....
From www.nytimes.com Last month, Proposition 8 passed, making gay marriage illegal in California, and the ...
tjlabs 12/07/2008 48 5 - 5
Mutual (Mental) Masturbation....
From www.politico.com In scandal, risks for Obama By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN | 12/10/08 7:50 AM EST At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the ...
tjlabs 12/10/2008 10 3 - 3
Senate Republicans' Scorched Earth Policy....
Over the next few days and weeks you will hear many explanations by the Senate Republicans for why they decided to torpedo the Big Three auto makers bail-out plan. They will include pieties and ...
tjlabs 12/12/2008 6 6 - 7
1/20/09...Time for popping corks and bubbles....(Revised)
Richard Cohen in today's www.washingtonpost.com How to Burst a Bubble Obama ...
tjlabs 12/16/2008 4 2 - -
Don we now our gay apparel: How Dickens' made me gay....
Ever since I was a kid I have been seasonally obsessed with the viewing of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Way back in the 1950's in New York City, one of the local TV stations, WPIX, had a ...
tjlabs 12/18/2008 8 1 - 7
N.A.P. Time for Obama: Warren vs Money....
What began a few days ago as disgruntled murmuring among some Obama supporters upon learning of his decision to have Pastor Rick Warren give ...
tjlabs 12/19/2008 22 3 - -
And let's not forget this holiday tradition.....
Depression. After all the weeks of pre-Christmas hype and hoopla which I think now begins some time in August, we have entered the period twixt Christmas and New Year's Day when many of us find ...
tjlabs 12/28/2008 1 4 - 21
Bush & Olmert: Two peas in a blood soaked pod....
From www.washingtonpost.com Israel's new battle with Hamas in Gaza means that ...
tjlabs 12/29/2008 40 8 - 18
Why is it that these pious christianists....
Are so ignorant of the teachings of the Christ that they claim to follow and espouse? posted at 5:13 pm on December 29, 2008 ...
tjlabs 12/30/2008 57 8 - 25
What's that awful smell?...The stink of desperation....
From www.boston.com With Barack Obama anxious to take office, the public ...
tjlabs 12/31/2008 11 11 - -
The Republican Plan for the Next 4 Years: Destroy the Country....
It is becoming more apparent with every passing day, that the Republican party, sulking and licking its wounds from the last election, has decided that their only hope of ever regaining power is to ...
tjlabs 01/06/2009 40 15 - 19
Feinstein & Rockefeller Revive "Duck & Cover" Strategy for Survival....
When Leon Panetta's name was floated earlier this week as President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, a large number of current CIA operatives as well as a number of ...
tjlabs 01/07/2009 15 9 - -
Crime and Bookdeals: Justice and Bush & Co.....
The reactions to the continuing series of revelations concerning the immoral, extralegal, and probably criminal, actions, practices, activities, and policies of the Bush administration have ranged ...
tjlabs 01/11/2009 5 7 - -
Change is palpable....
I have been watching CNN for the last hour or so made less than usually unbearable by the presence of Anderson Cooper and Roland Martin. What has struck me is the undertone of joyousness in their ...
tjlabs 01/17/2009 5 2 - -
Suspended Animation....
Since late Friday afternoon, the country has been in a sort of twilight sleep...not fully awake and not fully asleep. It is that moment when we awaken in the middle of the night, groggy, disoriented,
tjlabs 01/18/2009 3 1 - 2
The Other Inaugural Bawl....
This was too good to pass up. From www.americanthinker.com Bush and the Bush-Haters There is one thing certain to go through Barack Obama's mind during the inauguration: at ...
tjlabs 01/19/2009 8 5 - -
Brother, Can You Spare Some Hope?....
I was talking yesterday after Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States with an elderly friend of mine. My friend, who will turn 86 in a few months, had spent the day with his ...
tjlabs 01/21/2009 5 2 - -
Wingnuttia's Great White Hope....
The citizens of Wingnuttia have been all a-twitter for the last two days over the possibility that the flubbing of the presidential oath by Chief Justice John Roberts (accidentally on purpose they ...
tjlabs 01/22/2009 26 5 - 1
If I had a magic wand....
I would wave it over the Republicans in Congress and turn their bullshit into gold. That would solve our nation's economic crisis in one fell swoop. There would be enough money for universal health ...
tjlabs 01/26/2009 5 3 - -
Dear Mr. President, Don't waste your breath....
I was about to write a post about this just before this piece popped up in my Google Reader. From www....
tjlabs 01/29/2009 33 12 - 2
Beautiful Historic House in Downtown, D.C...Real Fixer-Upper....
Think of the White House as America's largest and most prestigious property as having been on the market for the last two years. The occupant during that time was eager to close the deal and get out ...
tjlabs 01/30/2009 3 9 - -
Just Bad Journalism (Pardon the expression)....
Greg Miller is guilty of one of two things: a) he is functionally illiterate; or, b) he's baiting the wingnuts. Of course it could be a combination of the two. Here's what he wrote in today'...
tjlabs 02/01/2009 8 10 - 2
Republicans' Viagra Stimulus Fantasy....
Democrats Try Trickle-Down Economics By KARL ROVE Democrats are betting that Americans now embrace ...
tjlabs 02/05/2009 - 2 - 1
Fatwad Limbaugh's Cracker Twin Brother....
From www.politico.com GOP govs to Senate: Hold the line Several of the GOP's most prominent governors blasted the stimulus plan making its way through Congress Thursday, ...
tjlabs 02/06/2009 7 11 - -
Byron York...Those slap-happy Repubs!....
Words (almost) fail me. From www.dcexaminer.com The ...
tjlabs 02/09/2009 9 2 - -
"That Party Has Been Disconnected"....
I am of two minds on the subject of the Republicans in Congress. On the one, I'm delighted by their full-frontal balls-out obstructionist response to Obama's attempt to save the country's economy ...
tjlabs 02/11/2009 22 9 - -
On (Political) Death and Dying....
From www.cbsnews.com CBS Poll: Americans Optimistic About Obama Seventy-Nine Percent Say ...
tjlabs 02/14/2009 4 3 - -
Heard of Chicago Deep Dish Pizza? Well here's some Deep Sh*t Toast....
From www.washingtonpost.com Burris Discloses Fundraising ...
tjlabs 02/15/2009 53 3 - 19
The No-Nothing Party....
Deep within the bowels of Congress, there is a heavily fortified area reserved exclusively for the use of Republican senators and congresspersons. Built with secret funds during the Bush/Cheney reign,
tjlabs 02/17/2009 1 1 - 3
Kondensed Krauthammer....
from www.washingtonpost.com Obama's Supine Diplomacy By Charles ...
tjlabs 02/20/2009 34 5 - 20
Slum(ming) GOP Millionaires....
I just love it when the multi-millionaires in the Repugnant party lecture us little people on financial responsibility. Over the last few weeks, while hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens ...
tjlabs 02/23/2009 5 3 - -
Bobby Jindal's To-Do List....
Just like that Jolly Old Elf, Santa Claus, Jindal, the 2012 presidential hopeful (you know that for a fact 'cause he told David Gregory on MTP that he absolutely positively without question intends ...
tjlabs 02/24/2009 21 3 - -
Hate Groups Increasing Dramatically....
From the Southern Poverty Law Center: The number of hate groups operating in the United States ...
tjlabs 02/28/2009 50 14 - 25
Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...Update....
On February 3, I wrote this diary "Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...." In that piece I once again raised the specter of ...
tjlabs 03/01/2009 33 25 - 25
Signed, sealed, and delivered....
David Frum , in one single paragraph, sums up the state and future of the Republican party. And it ain't good. ...
tjlabs 03/06/2009 4 - - 9
Justice for Yoo and me?....
This is wrong on so many levels. from www.politico.com Obama Justice Dept. will defend Yoo The Obama ...
tjlabs 03/07/2009 12 5 - -
Frum the Right....
David Frum is persona non grata within his own party. Here's why. From www.newsweek.com Why Rush is Wrong Limbaugh is ...
tjlabs 03/08/2009 6 3 - -
The fastest rising belief system in America: None....
The issues and questions these numbers raise challenge the very basis of the christianists claim of America as being "One nation, under God".
tjlabs 03/10/2009 48 10 - 16
As ye sow, so shall ye reap....
Of course, this may just be a Chicken Little story, but still.... From www.csmonitor.com The coming evangelical ...
tjlabs 03/11/2009 13 6 - 15
Out of the mouths of knaves.....
And what exactly does the following tell us? From Josh Marshall: Like you, I've been watching ...
tjlabs 03/16/2009 11 4 - 1
The Republican trap....
We've seen this scenario before. From www.politico.com Some Republicans are calling for Timothy Geithner’s ...
tjlabs 03/19/2009 5 1 - -
CNN & MSNBC Merge....Now "The Gossip Channel"....
Sometimes I seem to be a little slow on the uptake. I mean it's not like this started last year or last month or last week. But the obsession du jour on the so-called cable news networks reached ...
tjlabs 03/21/2009 10 5 - 9
Republican view of America...through the looking glass....
Funny stuff. From www.politico.com Three days after Barack Obama became president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...
tjlabs 03/23/2009 9 2 - -
Hey pal, can you spare some change?....
The Republican "Loyal Opposition" might want to take note. From www.swamppolitics....
tjlabs 03/24/2009 2 2 - -
Karl Rove: How dare Obama exert his power....
The guru of the Mayberry Machiavellis , Karl Rove, is shocked...shocked that a president or his majority party would be brazen enough ...
tjlabs 04/02/2009 16 11 - 26
Glenn Beck: FoxNews' In-House Terrorist....
The self-proclaimed "rodeo clown", Glenn Beck whose teary-eyed shtick and ultra-right wing fanatical rants and ravings have won him legions of ...
tjlabs 04/05/2009 28 9 - 19
Get a life: The Right's Gay Obsession....
From the NY Times: Several groups that oppose same-sex marriage suggested Tuesday that the successive victories ...
tjlabs 04/08/2009 29 11 - 37
Gingrich does his best Wicked Witch impersonation....
If the Repugs are wondering why they're in the crapper, they need look no farther than this little item.
tjlabs 04/12/2009 50 14 - 25
Jindal balls, Jindal balls, Jindal all the way....
What's the problem, pal? From www.huffingtonpost.com Bobby Jindal Book Deal: Denies ...
tjlabs 04/13/2009 22 5 - -
Mopey Dick...We need to find Cheney a job....
The former veep has been rather grumpy of late and stories like this only add to the rise in his grumpiness. It seems to me he needs to find some sort of work to occupy his time.
tjlabs 04/14/2009 29 2 - 2
No more Abu Gharib-style scapegoating....
This time around, we should go right to the top. From www.washingtonpost....
tjlabs 04/17/2009 2 6 - 2
Reductio ad absurdum....
Dick Cheney and his merry band of fellow sociopaths are very busy these days proclaiming from the rooftops or rather Fox News how the torture that was used on suspected terrorists was not torture ...
tjlabs 04/22/2009 23 2 - 1