Washington DC - June 25, 2009 - No FEMA trailers here, just party tents, as the White House hosts a theme party for Congress. This year's theme is "Hawaiian Luau." Michelle O told reporters that Congress would be treated to "tiki torches" and "all sorts of...
I was pretty shocked when Steve came home in 1976 and announced that he could work at the CIA if I agreed to move to Washington DC. I stared at him probably for about a minute before I spoke. "I don't think so" and "no." I thought that he would remember that he hated the...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 112 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"They'll give me $10,000.00 to re-up!" "I don't think so Popeye." That was my response when Steve suggested that he could stay in the Navy and keep drinking for the rest of his life. Just the fact that the Department of Defense had even offered Spongebob a check to stay in...
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Chapter One (part 2) Spies just don’t pop up at NSA or CIA Headquarters, they come from somewhere else. It’s the somewhere else that should be the major concern. My story is about the man behind the mask. “Don’t pay any attention to the man behind the...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 107 views | 6 recommendations | 3 comments
I met Batman in 1967 after I dropped out of college. It was the Fall Semester after the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The college poetry teacher suggested that everybody drop out and go experience the renaissance. I drove from Los Angeles to my aunt's home in Sacramento....
Before you jump to conclusions, this may be more like a tabloid story where you're drawn into the article at the check-out stand, only to find out that the alien baby was a fake story. It's just that when I was in MacDonald's this afternoon, the man sitting across from me...
So much news has filtered out about Iraq, I feel like I'm watching captured German WWII news footage and reading about all the atrocities each time another story leaks out. Remind me again, how many people and governments comprise the Geneva Convention and the United...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 151 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
Freddie Mac's CFO David Kellermann was found dead in his home. Do you want the details? I certainly don't. Although Officer Shelley Broderick of the Fairfax County PD said there were no signs of foul play in connection with his death, there certainly was signs of foul...
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I was a stand-up comedienne years ago, so I could vent to an audience. Once in a while I just have to get things off my chest. President Obama is driving me completely nuts when he makes value judgments about things people have absolutely no control over. For...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 269 views | 30 recommendations | 11 comments
Thousands of people woke up in the United States on April 17, 2009 to discover they were Canadians! Woo Hoo! After just a short quiz posted on the Canadian Immigration Site (www.free at last dot com) about your Canadian heritage, you were looking at a lifetime of maple...
Following an investigation of my own thoughts, and urged on by comments, I looked into the concept of Uncle Tom a little more and found an article on the Huffington Post that everybody should read. This was written after a German magazine ran a picture of the White...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 50 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
First of all, I have been asked to edit the spelling of Barak, to Barack. Who else never noticed the spelling? Until it was pointed out, I never noticed it. Also, I got a lot of response about the Uncle Tom references. In my opinion, Obama did not become an Uncle Tom...
opinion by Sharon Hodges | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 179 views | 14 recommendations | 9 comments
It was business as usual at the National Security Agency, until Executive Officer Steven W. Grimaud's ex-wife discovered her mysterious ex-husband on the Internet on New Years Day 2007. Grimaud had deserted the...
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I'll bet not too many people caught Limbaugh in the last part of his show this morning, when he referred to Newt Gingrich's brain as "...a garden that sprouts weeds everywhere." He was trying to imply that Gingrich's creative index was the same as Berkshire Hathaway's stock...