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Sheila Samples
Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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What it's all about...

Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many, they are few. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley My friend Bernie says he can't believe the American people haven't figured out what it's all about. "The whole damn…

Strike the root!

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men"~~George Orwell Recently, Nova M Radio's Mike Malloy suggested the lethargy that appears to have descended on the American people is more "rage fatigue" than a lack of knowledge or…

Surviving at the pleasure of the president

"You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest  he all means."~~James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) My friend Bernie says ever since the…

Chimps in a zoo cage

Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a…
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