Posting History for tjlabs
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| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| William Donohue: Not so holier than Thou and Me.... From www.nytimes.com
William A. Donohue, the perennially indignant president of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/15/2009 | 15 | 4 | - | 3 |
| Will Tyler Clementi's death change anything?.... Since the tragic suicide of college freshman Tyler Clementi after being publicly shamed and humiliated ... |
tjlabs | 10/09/2010 | 5 | 5 | - | 95 |
| Why the Traditional Media are Whores...Chapter 47.... Having spent the previous eight years drinking the Bush KoolAid, wagging their little butts every time Bush & Co, gave them a pat on the head, and generally acting as stenographers for the most ... |
tjlabs | 02/04/2009 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 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 |
| Why do Republicans fear the truth so much? Here's my question for today for you to ponder with and perhaps offer some suggestions. I can't seem to come up with a definitive answer myself. There are so many possible answers. The question is: "... |
tjlabs | 09/18/2008 | 35 | 6 | 1 | - |
| Who killed Bill Sparkman?..... From www.sfgate.com
Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky
When Bill ... |
tjlabs | 09/24/2009 | 39 | 20 | - | 79 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Where is the outrage?..... "And then we have the President of the United States who won't say he will not pardon somebody who did business with him and might implicate him later on. Where is the outrage in ... |
tjlabs | 08/10/2008 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 21 |
| When you're young and gay.... You never think about getting old. Never. And once again this proves that there really is very little difference between gays and straights. The young people of any sexual orientation all live as if ... |
tjlabs | 04/05/2011 | 7 | 11 | - | 86 |
| 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 | - | - |
| When America ceased to be a democracy.... Yesterday's revelation that former Vice-president Dick Cheney ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold vital information from the legally authorized members of Congress regarding a super-... |
tjlabs | 07/12/2009 | 9 | 7 | - | 3 |
| Whatsamatter?....Can't Ya Take A Joke?.... "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler, |
tjlabs | 08/03/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| What if Whittington didn't mis-speak | tjlabs | 02/20/2006 | 12 | 3 | - | 18 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| We Dems Need A Wake-Up Call...Badly.... One of the favorite rhetorical devices that candidates running for the presidency like to use is to compare themselves to some former president, usually of the same party, in hopes that whatever ... |
tjlabs | 08/21/2008 | 6 | 3 | - | 2 |
| Way back last week at the Republican Self-Abuse Caucus.... ....Remember how the huddled mass of old rich white folk would begin to chant on cue "USA...USA...USA" whenever there was a "disruption" in the hall or some of the sounds from the angry protesters ... |
tjlabs | 09/10/2008 | - | - | - | - |
| Vice Squad.... One can only hope that sometime in the not too distant future that both Obama and McSame will announce their respective choices for vice-president. I say "hope" when what I actually mean is for ... |
tjlabs | 07/30/2008 | 3 | - | - | - |
| UPDATE: Obama-Troops Controversy.... Yesterday, Josh Marshall at TPM Election Central posted the following...
"We ... |
tjlabs | 07/26/2008 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| Unleash the hounds!....The News Hounds.... For years now, the Republican party's Ministry of Propaganda headed by Karl Rove has managed to manipulate and control most of the U. S. media to such an extent that the flame of journalistic ... |
tjlabs | 09/13/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Thus spake Oxycontin.... And the Great GOP God Limbo said unto his people:
From politicalticker.... |
tjlabs | 05/05/2009 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| The Santelli Solution.... In the wake of his angry privileged rich white male rant on CNBC the other day, Rick Santelli has risen from the rightly deserved relative obscurity he has been enjoying there since giving up his ... |
tjlabs | 02/21/2009 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 3 |
| The Republicans' Fifth Column.... Fifth Column:
The term originated with a 1936 radio address by Emilio Mola, a nationalist general during the 1936–39 ... |
tjlabs | 08/16/2008 | 20 | 4 | - | 4 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| The Real John McCain?.... From today's NY Times editorial:
The Real John McCain
On Thursday, Mr. McCain said he would ... |
tjlabs | 09/05/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| The People vs George W. Bush. Richard Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, et al.... Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Of course, it's pure fantasy. At least as far as 'W' is concerned. No matter what iron-clad proof which might be found, the American public just wouldn't have the ... |
tjlabs | 01/16/2009 | 12 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| The Only Ad Obama Needs To Run...Over & Over & Over.... From www.nytimes.... |
tjlabs | 09/12/2008 | 16 | 21 | - | 1 |
| 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 |
| The McCain Vapid Response Team.... It's been a tough week for the McCain Vapid Response Team. First they had the almost impossible task of getting their message heard above the din of the incredible press coverage of Barack Obama's ... |
tjlabs | 07/27/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| The Left Should Look in the Mirror.... From www.politico.com
Liberals voice concerns about Obama
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – ... |
tjlabs | 12/08/2008 | 45 | 8 | 2 | - |
| The Law of Unintended Consequences..... For weeks now, Senator McSame & Co. have taken every opportunity to upbraid Senator Obama for his not having been to Iraq in over two years and of never having been to Afghanistan. The official ... |
tjlabs | 07/18/2008 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| The latest neocon stooge in waiting...Sarah Palin.... Sarah Palin is just the latest show pony straight from the neocon stables of the Republican party. Bred not for agility or dexterity, she, like all the others before her, is merely for exhibition ... |
tjlabs | 09/07/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| The Great (Mental) Depression of '09.... From politicalwire.com
November 11, 2009
Pessimism Grows Among Americans
A ... |
tjlabs | 11/11/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 103 |
| The GOP: "The Grifters' Own Party".... Anyone we know?
" A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, ... |
tjlabs | 01/17/2010 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| The GOP: "Screwing America Since 1968".... From www.rollcall.com
Unable to mount a filibuster on their own and calculating that Democrats are on track to ... |
tjlabs | 10/19/2009 | 15 | 3 | - | 48 |
| The GOP's Fatal Addiction.... They just don't get it.
From www.huffingtonpost.com
The White House hit back at Newt ... |
tjlabs | 05/28/2009 | 32 | 37 | 1 | 167 |
| The Ghost of a Chance: Bush's Failed Presidency.... We see every day now the almost-gone president and the soon-to-be president crossing our TV screens and I am struck by the starkness of their images. Bush's presidency began amidst controversy and ... |
tjlabs | 11/25/2008 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 15 |
| 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 |
| The extinction of the Fourth Estate....How we went from Edward R. Murrow to Bill O'Reilly.... "The term Fourth Estate refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues."
It can be argued that Charles Dickens was the ... |
tjlabs | 06/30/2008 | 9 | 7 | - | - |
| 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 |
| The Days of Whine and Poses.... From politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
McCain predicts 'spectacular' terror ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The Comity of Eras.... "Fast away the old year passes" as the old carol goes. And it is at this time of the year that my thoughts turn to family and friends who have left us over the years and the memories of them and the ... |
tjlabs | 12/30/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | 47 |
| The Chernobyl of Presidential Campaigns.... There was another "Shock and Awe" attack in Iraq this week. But this time it was not the military might of the United States raining down upon the Iraqis but rather it was the political might of the ... |
tjlabs | 07/24/2008 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| The Bush Decade.... From www.washingtonpost.com
America's decade of dread
This decade began and ended in dread. It began with Wall Street -- the World Trade Center -- targeted for mass murder. It ... |
tjlabs | 12/16/2009 | 4 | 4 | - | 140 |
| The Bully's Pulpit.... The Shirley Sherrod fracas is just the latest high-volume, over-blown, misinterpreted, misrepresented, totally fake media frenzy to occur since before and since Barack Obama ran for and was elected ... |
tjlabs | 07/23/2010 | 6 | 3 | - | 20 |
| 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 | - | - |
| The "Audacity of Hope" vs. "The Balls Of Karl Rove".... To quote Barack Obama from his brilliant acceptance speech on Thursday night: "Eight is enough". The Bush administration can be summed up with the motto: "All politics, all the time". There has ... |
tjlabs | 08/30/2008 | 2 | - | - | - |
| TAGG's Diary Epidemic Alert... |
tjlabs | 06/01/2008 | 1 | 2 | - | 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 |
| Summer Reruns - Political Version Well, here we are once again about to begin the dog days of summer. How I long for the summers of my youth when we had a summer house on Long Island right on the edge of the Atlantic. Every day from ... |
tjlabs | 08/02/2008 | - | - | - | - |
| Suicide is painless.... Let's look at Barry Goldwater's comment from a different angle.
From www.politico.com
GOP base rejects calls to ... |
tjlabs | 04/26/2009 | 10 | 10 | - | - |
| Stonewall and me...forty years on.... From www.politico.com
Obama called out on gay rights
During the ... |
tjlabs | 06/28/2009 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 197 |
| Sticks and Stones...And Torture, War, Death & Destruction.... From www.politico.com
A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an ... |
tjlabs | 05/13/2009 | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Speaking the Unspoken: McCain's Mental Acuity.... Almost as volatile as the "race" issue in this year's election is the issue of age. It is as equally impossible to ignore the reality of McCain's age as it is to ignore Obama's being black. The ... |
tjlabs | 08/08/2008 | 20 | 12 | - | 25 |
| Spare change.... From www.politicsdaily.com
"Change you can believe in" on education, ... |
tjlabs | 04/24/2010 | 4 | - | - | 44 |
| Something else 'W' can be proud of.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year ... |
tjlabs | 11/18/2008 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - |
| So what?.... David Brooks: The man who puts the PUB* in rePUBlican....
(Ed. Note: *...Pure Unadulterated Bullshit.) |
tjlabs | 06/25/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Shame on you, John Mccain.... If you look at John McCain's campaign commercials, both his previous ads and his current ones, most of them feature some visual or text reference to his time as a POW during the Viet Nam war. |
tjlabs | 07/08/2008 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Senator McCain's short term memory problems.... Perhaps Senator McCain needs to increase his vitamin B intake which some believe helps slow memory loss in the aged. |
tjlabs | 02/25/2009 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sarah Palin: The Madame Defarge of the Right Wing.... For those of you who have never read Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities or have never seen any of the movies versions, one of the central characters in the book is the bitter, vengeful woman, ... |
tjlabs | 11/02/2009 | 29 | 15 | - | 105 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Sarah Palin: "I coulda been a contender".... From www.washingtonpost.com
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can ... |
tjlabs | 06/10/2009 | 30 | 3 | - | 8 |
| Sarah Palin Begins 2012 Campaign for President.... From www.politico.com
Palin allies report rising campaign tension
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin ... |
tjlabs | 10/25/2008 | 58 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| Sarah Palin and The New Double Standard.... Yesterday, I posited the thought that St. John the Insane's "pick whatever's left on the shelf as long as it has breasts" choice to be his running mate, Sarah Palin, would turn out to be the start ... |
tjlabs | 09/01/2008 | 12 | 3 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin and Jake, My Labrador Retreiver...... Ask any of my friends and acquaintances, and they will tell you that I will talk about our two Labs, Jake and Kara, at the drop of a hat. I am a certifiably, 100%, a total dog person. There has not ... |
tjlabs | 10/03/2008 | 13 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Rove's First Principle of Political Campaigning.... For years, the Republican party has proven extremely adept at winning elections of every type from the local school boards to the presidency of the United States. The key to their winning ways has ... |
tjlabs | 08/11/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Richard Cohen doesn't get it.... From www.washingtonpost.com
The Folly of Hate-Crime Laws
By Richard Cohen
... |
tjlabs | 08/04/2009 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 35 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Racism: Alive & Well & Living Everywhere.... I thought I would share a slice of American life in 2008 with you. My partner and I live in a fairly affluent upscale suburb of New York in northern New Jersey. We're about 22 miles from midtown ... |
tjlabs | 08/12/2008 | 26 | 5 | - | - |
| Racism in 21st century America unmasked.... From tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Obama-Haters Becoming
... |
tjlabs | 07/28/2009 | 28 | 9 | - | 19 |
| Queering the Deal.... When McCain & Co. realized that Hillary was not going to be the Democrat they would be running against but rather Barack Obama, they found themselves in a bit of a quandary. With reams and reams of ... |
tjlabs | 07/31/2008 | 8 | - | 1 | - |
| Punditmania!!!...... Starting around 9:00PM last night, the pooh bahs and pashas of the media's punditocracy went into overdrive. Oddly enough, the pundits on the left saw the election outcome differently from their ... |
tjlabs | 11/04/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 100 |
| Prop 8: "By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them".... From www.nytimes.com
Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage
SACRAMENTO &... |
tjlabs | 11/15/2008 | 10 | 7 | 1 | - |
| Presidential Elections For Dummies..... From the washingtonpost.com :
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John ... |
tjlabs | 09/08/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Pop Quiz: What's wrong with this opening paragraph?.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. ... |
tjlabs | 06/23/2009 | 22 | 4 | - | - |
| Poll Vaulting.... It would be a safe bet to say that by now, most of us have had polling up to our eye teeth. You can get whiplash from looking at them from day to day. The worst of the bunch are the daily tracking ... |
tjlabs | 08/07/2008 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Past His Sell-By Date.... Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times:
Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation ... |
tjlabs | 08/06/2008 | 16 | 2 | - | - |
| Palin's New Life: It's Not Just About Money.... From www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Sarah Palin, says David Frum, "quit to cash in. Her admirers can excuse anything, but to the much larger audience of non-admirers, Palin will look a ... |
tjlabs | 07/09/2009 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 30 |
| Palin really is crazy.... From www.heraldsun.com.au
Sarah Palin creates word controversy, compares herself to Shakespeare
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin defended her newly-created word today, then ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2010 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 37 |