Stanek Sunday funnies 1-19-14
Here were my top five seven favorite political cartoons this week. Don’t forget to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!
by Jerry Holbert at Townhall.com…
by Jeff Danziger at GoComics.com…
by Ted Rall at GoComics.com…
by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…
by Steve Kelley at GoComics.com…
and closing with a twofer by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…
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Jan.19, 2014 9:33 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Here are some of the more mainstream ones of the week…
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/
I’m going with #2 this week.
“Congress’ spending bill will pass the buck to our children.”
Yeah; absolutely pathetic bill.
Ex-GOP says:
January 19, 2014 at 10:50 am
Here are some of the more mainstream ones of the week… http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/
Dull. Christie and “bridgegate” are just the media’s latest mis-direction from news that will really affect us.
Del – I actually agree – since this most likely sinks Christie’s ship, the odds of him affecting us are pretty slim.
I think they all really struggle. The subjects they attempt to satirize or lampoon are stale and/or irrelevant.
Ex-RINO, Does it matter to you at all that Obama and the State Department put out the false narrative about the Benghazi attack being a spontaneous demonstration?
truth – not really.
What bothers me is the length that the GOP has gone to, and the amount of money they have spent, not searching for any truth, but to try to smear a possible future presidential candidate. That’s what bothers me .
Ex-RINO,not really? You are ok with your government putting out false narratives and o misleading people? Wow, I want to say at least you are man enough to admit it but to me that is just so unconscionable that you would have to be less than a man to feel that way in the first place. Would it be fair to sum up your feelings on the matter by saying they are in line with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s when she infamously testified to congress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3XTOjZPfg
truth –
All I’m saying it that I’m like the majority of Americans who sum up Benghazi as a political witch hunt. I stopped paying attention to it all when it was clear that the motivations aren’t about preventing another attack – but about trying to make people look bad. I’m guessing you read the whole report when it came out – I’ve just read very high level summaries.
These various probes seem lame if you ask me – GOPers and Dems both have times where they’ve been at fault – but when the blame lies elsewhere, they both quickly forget their past issues with misleading the American people.
What percentage of Americans do you think could find Benghazi on a map? 10%? 20%?
The fact that you are not troubled by Obama and Hillary Clinton intentionally misleading the American people for political cover is astonishing to me. This lie was spread internationally. Does it bother you that in the days following the Benghazi attack Barack and Hillary purchased advertisements in Pakistan apologizing for any hurt feeling the video caused in the Muslim community? Look at this ad. Hillary looks terrible in it. And it was repulsive to me that our president continued referencing the video in the days following the attack. How can it not turn your stomach?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/obama-used-taxpayer-funds-in-benghazi-cover-up/
I find it much more troubling that in all the yelling and screaming by you and your right-wing friends, I hear very little about grief for the victims, as the focus and hope of catching somebody and hurting them politically is much more important.
Multiple posts from you – and your concern isn’t about finding out the truth to prevent something like this in the future – it’s all just a game to you. That is what I find troubling.
I’ll continue the Benghazi discussion if you answer this question – which was more disturbing to you – the Benghazi misleading the public, or the weapons of mass destruction misleading the public and the role of leading us into war?
Your link is more sauce than source truthseeker.
Do you have a problem with the Obama administration demoting and intimidating Gregory Hicks in order to cover up their response.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fielcGbaBY4
According to his testimony he raised questions to people in the administration about why Susan Rice called the attack “a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo and that people had gathered outside of the embassy”. He was number 2 at the embassy in Tripoli. Unlike you and Hillary, there are ‘good’ people in our country care why the attack occurred and would demand honesty about what happened before, during and after the attack.
Hi TS,
The Benghazi attack was the result of an offensive video. Period.
The poor schmuck that produced the video was hauled off to jail. Period.
Its now become a major offense in this country to produce videos. Period. Citizens producing videos the regime deems offensive will be hauled out of their homes by numerous deputies. Period.
The fact no one sees the video is irrelevant. Period.
Hopefully you have the story straight. Period.
What about the recently declassified testimony of General Carter Ham, he was the head of AFRICOM at the time of the attack. He had briefed Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey on their way to a meeting with Obama within about 15 minutes after the attack. It disturbs me that our President headed out to a political fundraiser in Vegas while our ambassador was missing and the consulate was still under attack.
Mary, why, at this point, does it really matter Period?
Hi TS,
Really, what difference does it make? Period.
I wonder what happened to that poor guy they threw in the slammer. Period.
“All I’m saying it that I’m like the majority of Americans who sum up Benghazi as a political witch hunt. I stopped paying attention to it all when it was clear that the motivations aren’t about preventing another attack – but about trying to make people look bad.”
Ex-RINO, you stopped paying attention cause you never really cared. My motivation isn’t to make Obama look bad; he does that all by himself. Obama and Hillary and Susan Rice all thought that a terrorist attack on the anniversary of 911 in Benghazi would hurt their re-election chances. I tend to judge people, and even detailed things, based on larger guiding principles. If it was just incompetence, then you could probably accuse me of just trying to make Obama and Hillary look bad. But they made a concerted effort to lie to the American American people in order to help their re-election campaign Period.
And you show there is no low you won’t stoop to when you bring up the grief for the families and the others involved in the attack. They are the ones who are crying for honesty in this investigation. You really should be ashamed of yourself as a human being. Her is an excerpt of Eric Nordstrom, the Head of Regional Security at the time of the attack, who seems to think it does matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uR5CZMkocc
” I wonder what happened to that poor guy they threw in the slammer. Period.”
Mary,
The guy is actually a Coptic Christian from Egypt and he was making the video to try and his motivation was to stop anything like 9/11 from ever happening again. Muslims attack the American Embassy and Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department arrest a Christian for getting Muslim’s so angry that they did it. The film-maker is free now. I saw some interviews with him and it is really sad how they made him a scape-goat. As a Christian who lived in Egypt he is actually a really good person to express the views against radical Muslim jihad. His perspective is one the US should be buying ads to play in Pakistan. Instead Hillary and our State Department threw him in jail and bought ads apologizing to the Muslim community about it. The Muslims need to hear voices like his. wtf did America do….these Left Wing nut-jobs have another three years to destroy us.
Hi TS,
Thank you for the update.
Poor man probably thought he was just exercising his right to free speech. Did anyone even see or know of the existence of this “offensive” video?
Those pictures of the man being hauled away by deputies would have made one think he lived under some tinhorn dictatorship where citizens can be hauled out of their homes and off to prison on orders from on high. Of course we all know better.
I’m with you TS that Ex does not truly care about anything beyond elevating his party’s line at all costs. But what difference does it make?
Hi Mary: your posts are right on.
Ex-GOP says:
January 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Del – I actually agree – since this most likely sinks Christie’s ship, the odds of him affecting us are pretty slim.
I don’t really care about Christie, one way or the other.
But when we consider the number of times that Obama has outright lied to us (trust in ObamaCare, the “War on Women,” Benghazi) and the number times that he has abused his power to retaliate against his enemies (surveillance of citizens, IRS audits, subpoena of press records)…. he still won re-election.
So political opponents of a Christie campaign have to hope that Christie himself will be scared away from a run by this little scandal. Because if Christie decides to bluster through it, Obama-style, then the rest of America won’t care.
Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose filibuster for abortion rights made her a Democratic superstar and launched her campaign for governor, has admitted to the Dallas Morning News that she lied about key events in her life, including her first divorce. Davis may even have lied under oath, testifying in a federal lawsuit over redistricting that “I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old,” when in fact she was divorced at age 21.
Other missing details have included: her second husband paid her way through law school and she divorced him the day after the last payment was made; her ex-husband accused her in initial court filings of adultery, and was awarded custody of their two daughters; and she first ran for city council in Fort Worth as a Republican.
“My language should be tighter,” she said, admitting her campaign biography has been less than truthful.
It is not clear whether the article in the Dallas Morning News, by senior political writer Wayne Slater, is meant to be an exposé or a defense, presenting embarrassing details in the best light possible to present an overall picture of competence. One unidentified source, who said that Davis is “going to figure out a way to spin herself in a way that grabs at the heart strings,” is also quoted as saying that “she’d be a good governor.”
The media tend to protect Democrats–notably, Barack Obama, Davis’s contemporary at Harvard Law School–when they present false “composites” of their lives. It remains to be seen whether they treat Davis the same.
democRATs are liars.
To put it in ‘pc’ language: democRATs are truth challenged.
the boRAT is a habitual liar.
the o’bamateur is a serial dissembler.
WHERE DOES A democRAT GO FROM HERE?
Marianne Williamson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/where-does-a-democrat-go_b_408557.html
It’s hard to own the disappointment I feel over [the boRAT]. The whole 0’bama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don’t buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
Yeah. Right. Really different.
I see so many people now — many of them men [think Ex-RINO], interestingly enough — tangled up in an almost school-girlish, co-dependent, apologetic relationship with this President. As though “poor baby” should be tacked onto the end of every description of his failures.
Hi Ken,
I saw that article. So tell me, how does one just “overlook” certain major details in one’s life? Also, I have found that liberals are great ones for embellishing tales of woe and hardship. Some years ago the liberal Democrat supporting president of my professional organization tried to proclaim himself some street smart kid raised on the streets of a major city. Being I in fact was raised on the streets of that same city, I confronted him and asked as to exactly where he was raised. Uhhh, he moved to the suburbs when he was 4y/o. However, he lived in the city as an adult! Uh yeah, but that’s not the story you tell people.
Oh cry me a river Marianne Williamson. My favorite analogy of the rich widow and the smooth talking sociopathic con man. Story as old as the human race.
I hear you Ken, people are still caught up in his cult. That’s why trying to convince them any different is comparable to de-programming. Poor old Chris, lobotomized by all those tingles going up his leg and zapping him in the butt.
Hi Thomas R,
Thank you!
I wouldn’t count out Christie quite yet.
As for abortion Barbie, it looks like the media in Texas are trying to give her a thorough venting, something that the national media failed to do with the Community Organizer in Chief.
Thomas -
I actually voted for Scott Walker. Voted for Bush once- voted straight GOP up through the second Bush term. I don’t fit into your label as easily as you would like.
I will say though, regarding Benghazi – it’s clear that there are a lot of people not out for the truth – but out to smear people. That, I find disappointing.
Catching up on posts here – but looks like I’ve answered everything directed at me.
WHERE DOES A democRAT GO FROM HERE? Marianne Williamson http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/where-does-a-democrat-go_b_408557.html
Well, this is from over four years ago, for one thing. It’s also full of crap, even from the perspective of a sensible Democrat.
I see all things political in light of the immense unnecessary suffering in the world. Republicans see it and say, “Wow, it’s sad about all that suffering, but the government has no proper role in assuaging it. Hopefully the private sector will do something. That would be nice.” The Democrats — not all of them but enough of them, and definitely this President — see all that suffering and say, “Wow, it’s sad about all that pain people are going through. Let’s try to assuage it.”
And yet they’re refusing to do anything to challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable.
And she goes on to look toward the same old pie-in-the-sky, blinders-on nonsense that has been impossible all along.
If there is one thing that is bringing us/will bring us “immense suffering,” it is the absolutely heinous fiscal hijinks of the past 70 years. We have already well gone beyond what is possible with what is essentially vote-buying, pork-barrel projects, quid pro quos, tit-for-tats, etc.
Neither Romney nor Obama was going to “fix things,” and I said that right on this forum. Neither will the next President, no matter what. We had one little good thing – the sequesters that had been in place, and now with the latest budget/bill, even those have been largely bypassed, no?
This is more than just “kicking the can down the road” and “laying it all on future generations.” This is Congress having demonstrable scorn for their constituencies.
Most of the members of Congress are old enough and/or are taken care of, well enough, financially, that it does not really matter to them. They are content with holding their place in power, to the exclusion of everything else they have yet considered.
“abortion Barbie” – compared to ‘Rick the Executioner’?
“Community Organizer in Chief” – compared to ‘The Actor’ and ‘The Second Rate Oil Lobbyist’?
hey “reality” –
response to your first comparison: http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/112853/
response to your second comparison:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/obama-breaches-marine-umbrella-protocol/
How is it looking now “old chum”?! :)
Droll. Doesn’t alter the fact that Perry is a fervent executioner, Reagan was an actor or that Bush was a second rate patsy for the…..well, for pretty much everything.
Not even the President of the United States can request a Marine to carry an umbrella without the express consent of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, according to the Marine Corps Manual. – where did it say he requested it? Where did it say that consent wasn’t given?
Droll. Doesn’t alter the fact that Reality is a vervent supporter of aborting developing human beings.
..You have the audacity to criticize someone for supporting legal capital punishment. If there is nothing wrong with you rendering support to abortion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Gov Perry supporting executions. Want to argue that further?
And if you are going to criticize Reagan, its only fair that I bring up Jimmy Carter. That nickname “Jimmy” was very apropos and democrats must be so very proud of him to this day, does the the term stagflation ring a bell, heehee…
Droll. Doesn’t alter the fact that Thomas R. is a vervent supporter of enforced gestation.
..You have the audacity to criticize someone for supporting legal abortion. If there is nothing wrong with you rendering support to capital punishment, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Wendy Davis supporting abortions. Want to argue that further?
And if you are going to criticize Carter, its only fair that I bring up Reagan. That nickname “Ronnie Rayguns” was very apropos and republicans wouldn’t nominate him as a note taker nowadays, does the the term idiot ring a bell, heehee…
“reality” has established himself as a cut-n-paster and a one-liner and now he has added a COPY CAT to his vast CV. In a way I perhaps should be “honored” he copied me only changing the names and some words here and there but nah.
Warning to all: look into copy-right of your posts as “reality” may plagiarize his responses with your words.
“reality” –
Developing human being is a medical term widely used and accepted in the medical community and established as fact (the preborn is a developing human being).
“enforced gestation” is a made-up term by fervent pro-aborts who coined it only to remain free from any responsibility for human life. This term has no verifiable meaning (who is forcing who to do what?) and carries no medical significance.
I don’t expect you to pay any attention to this but there it is to address the lack of credibility. Food for thought for some….
You’ll just have to decide whether you are flattered that what you said was worth copying or whether you feel a little bashful at having your largely ad hominem screed fed back to you won’t you “thomas r.”
Developing human being is indeed a widely used and accepted term both within and outside the medical community. And for about the twentieth time, yes, a gestating fetus inside a human woman is of the human species.
“enforced gestation” is a term coined to clearly describe the fervent anti-choice intent to enforce women to continue with unwanted pregnancies. That is the “who is forcing who to do what?” part. It has significant meaning.
Why does it need medical significance? Which it actually can do in some cases. It also has legal, political, social and economic significance.
You might want to think again before objecting to terms created to describe situations or events or demanding that everything which has an impact on peoples lives must have medical significance.
Food for thought for some.…I think you may be a sandwich short ;-)
So what you are truly attempting to tell me here “reality” is that you got stuck and for lack of any original thought, fed my lines back to me. You’re slipping :)
No, I wanted to see if you were capable of reviewing what you had written “thomas r.” and rethinking it.
Apparently not :-)