Posting History for tjlabs
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| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kristol's Contempt for Barack Obama.... In today's NY Times (sorry, Larry Craig Rule: No linking to assholes), William Kristol exhibits his utter contempt and disdain for the new President-Elect, Barack Obama. His contempt is so great ... |
tjlabs | 11/10/2008 | 45 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
| 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 |
| In God, Sarah Palin Trusts...Spare me.... From www.timesonline.co.uk
Sarah Palin: God will help me decide what to do ... |
tjlabs | 11/12/2008 | 80 | 11 | 1 | 26 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Beyond Prop 8: Hit the Christianistas where it hurts.... From crooksandliars.com
Proposition 8 Forces Focus On The Family Into
Massive ... |
tjlabs | 11/21/2008 | 14 | 14 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| It's Not George Bush's Fault.... In his Op-Ed piece in Sunday's NY Times , Frank Rich paints a searing portrait of our soon-to-be ex-president. He describes ... |
tjlabs | 01/04/2009 | 49 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
| Chutzpah Redefined.... I almost fell off of the sofa this morning when I saw this Op-Ed piece in the NY Times: "Restore the Senate's ... |
tjlabs | 01/05/2009 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 20 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| Boehner & Cantor...The Republicans' Batman & Robin.... Move over Barack and Michelle, there's another new power couple in Washington these days. |
tjlabs | 01/25/2009 | 22 | 2 | 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 |
| Obama and the Generals...Be Warned.... Be afraid. Be very afraid.
From digbysblog.blogspot.com
CENTCOM commander Gen. ... |
tjlabs | 02/03/2009 | 43 | 17 | 1 | 89 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Life inside the Republican bunker.... Dan Bolt writing in today's Washington Post:
How much more can the Republicans take? |
tjlabs | 04/29/2009 | 79 | 15 | - | 22 |
| Miss USA Loser Joins Oldest Profession.... From www.google.com:
Miss California to campaign against gay marriage
NEW ... |
tjlabs | 04/30/2009 | 91 | 9 | - | 30 |
| Thus spake Oxycontin.... And the Great GOP God Limbo said unto his people:
From politicalticker.... |
tjlabs | 05/05/2009 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| I'm going to type very very slowly..... From www.weeklystandard.com
GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra is upping the stakes of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/08/2009 | 24 | 4 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dick Cheney: The GOP's Miss Haversham.... For those of you who have never read Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" nor have seen the marvelous film version directed ... |
tjlabs | 05/21/2009 | 17 | 10 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| How dare Sonia Sotomayor make something of herself?.... From www.google.com
Debate over who Sotomayor is a sensitive one
By SHARON THEIMER – |
tjlabs | 05/29/2009 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Newt & Huck: The New GOP God Squad Dynamic Duo.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
At an event in Virginia titled "Rediscovering God in ... |
tjlabs | 06/07/2009 | 27 | 3 | - | 10 |