Good morning, and Happy Sunday! Here were my top five favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!
by Glenn McCoy at GoComics.com…
by Bob Gorrell at Townhall.com…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by (liberal) Drew Sheneman at GoComics.com…
by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…
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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.
Not super excited about Hillary.
But the GOP has the worst crop of candidates we’ve seen in years (the 2004 Dems was a nicely comparable terrible group).
So cheers to the next year and a half!
#1 was by far the best.
My friends,
A few weeks ago we had a discussion on the Ferguson shooting. After visiting with my brother I stand corrected on a couple of issues and in all fairness want to clear them up.
1. Wilson shooting multiple times under so stressful a situation as defending one’s life is not unusual. During such a stressful situation one’s hand may not be steady, and the slightest deviation of aim can throw off the trajectory of the bullet. It may be easy for the officer to miss his target and need to fire several times to stop a suspect. Unfortunately this does put others in danger and the officer is at risk if the suspect has a gun. Officers are human, and react to fear and panic as we all do. I have often had to remind people that officers are not a combination of Chuck Norris and Dr. Joyce Brothers. Neither are they part Annie Oakley.
2. Wilson’s resignation may well have been motivated by the stress of the situation and not by any wrongdoing on his part.
As for the most recent shooting of Walter Scott, my brother is so sickened by this he refuses to view the video.
That’s funny, EXGOP. I have the exact opposite opinion about the Republican candidates this time around. I guess we’ll see.
Agreed JDC. The grotesque image of DWS is an accurate depiction of her inner man (woman). Her unconscionable and zealous support of the killing of preborn children has turned her heart black and her hands red.
“Agreed JDC. The grotesque image of DWS is an accurate depiction of her inner man (woman). Her unconscionable and zealous support of the killing of preborn children has turned her heart black and her hands red.”
That, and the line about not being viable until they can donate to Hillary’s campaign is a great satire of the arbitrariness of pro-choice standards for when one obtains human rights.
“Not super excited about Hillary.”
Ex-RINO, why aren’t you super excited about Hillary? I thought you would love her. She is an establishment statist with no scruples just like Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Mary: Wilson shooting multiple times under so stressful a situation as defending one’s life is not unusual. During such a stressful situation one’s hand may not be steady, and the slightest deviation of aim can throw off the trajectory of the bullet. It may be easy for the officer to miss his target and need to fire several times to stop a suspect. Unfortunately this does put others in danger and the officer is at risk if the suspect has a gun. Officers are human, and react to fear and panic as we all do. I have often had to remind people that officers are not a combination of Chuck Norris and Dr. Joyce Brothers. Neither are they part Annie Oakley.
Totally agree, Mary. Seems hard to believe, but there have been cases where a “bad guy” and a cop, not far from each other, have stood and fired their guns at each other until they were both empty, with nobody getting any hits.
Hi Doug,
My brother says police and soldiers are the worst shots. He went deer hunting with his buddy and even though a huge deer stood right in his sites, he missed more than once! He accused his buddy of rigging his gun to play a prank on him.
No big brother, you just can’t hit the side of a barn. :)
These cartoons are based on flimsier premises every week. They need to seek out new material.
I thought you would love her. She is an establishment statist with no scruples just like Harry Reid and Barack Obama. – that’d still be about a hundred times as many scruples as any of the gop candidates.
truth
You love every right winger and hate every left winger – so it isn’t even worth my time explaining it to you.
Ex-Rino,
I think it would just pain you to explain why you are not super excited about Hillary. Go ahead and try though, it with be cathartic for you.
Let’s all be fair to Ex-GOP: He does not like Republicans.
A genuine race of several sincere and honest Republican candidates would never appeal to him.
A bunch of guys who desire smaller government, something that fits within a balanced budget, and who respect the ability of state and local governments to handle the concerns of local people…. This would scare a liberal believer. You can’t make change without a lot of centralized, top-down, elitist and dictatorial control.
For most American families, our fear is that the government will not get its financial insolvency under control, and that they will continue to meddle in our private lives, homes, schools, and towns. Our fear is that Republicans will be no better than the Democrats.
Del, Ex-GOP is pretty darn rational, without the posturing that comes from giving lip service to one side or the other.
I do agree with what you say, here:
A bunch of guys who desire smaller government, something that fits within a balanced budget, and who respect the ability of state and local governments to handle the concerns of local people…. This would scare a liberal believer. You can’t make change without a lot of centralized, top-down, elitist and dictatorial control.
For most American families, our fear is that the government will not get its financial insolvency under control, and that they will continue to meddle in our private lives, homes, schools, and towns. Our fear is that Republicans will be no better than the Democrats.
You wrote two really good paragraphs, there. For most Americans, it makes little if any difference who is in the White House, or who controls Congress. As far as the “big gov’t” we have on the federal level, is there really any rational hope that things will improve?
I do not think so, because there is not the political will (and IMO not even the political possibility) of stemming the long-entrenched tide.
When it comes to “cutting the size of gov’t,” it’s like cutting the budget – every darn thing has its supporters, and we all mostly want “our stuff” preserved, i.e. make the cuts elsewhere, and in the end little if anything good gets accomplished.
We cannot even stop the growth of “Big Gov’t,” let alone reduce its size. Most of the federal gov’t doesn’t come and go with different parties in power – most people are there for life, or as long as they want their careers to be there.
Almost everybody in the federal gov’t, whether political appointee or not, wants the status quo to continue. I think that it was long ago that our gov’t passed the point of “no return” as far as serving itself, first, and being “of the people and for the people,” afterwards.
Not to say that “all gov’t is bad” – most of gov’t has a lot of support from most of us. And there are some hardworking, dedicated people. And it’s very easy for anybody – me included – to sit here and complain about gov’t and our tax money, etc.
I will say that for over 30 years now I’ve worked on electrical transformers, all over the US, including many gov’t and military facilities.
One “bad example” is a place I’ve been to in the past – a research establishment on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The way in and out of this place is through a ‘campus’ of new, fancy buildings, fancy landscaping, newly paved parking lots filled with new and/or fancy cars.
And you know what – most people there, all working for the federal government, just want their situation to continue. Not surprising that people want to keep their jobs, but there was such a degree of relaxation and privilege that it shocked me. This thing has more momentum than a supertanker.
I dealt with 3 different people, there, and saw some of the action around them – the norm seemed to be people would be in around 9 a.m., drink a lot of coffee and read a lot of newspapers, maybe have a morning meeting, then lunch, and before you know it – it’s time to leave, since the traffic gets to be murder around 2:30 p.m.
The BMWs and Lexuses rolled out, and I thought to myself, “My tax dollars at work.”
Del –
If they were moderate Republicans (more like Reagan, less like crazy), I would have interest. There are good GOPers. But this tea party crazed race to the fringes doesn’t appeal to me. I find that side of the spectrum fearful of everything, out of ideas, and hateful. That’s my sanitized version.
Christie and Bush have a lot of things I don’t desire – but same for Hillary. A moderate Republican (again, more in line with Reagan) would have some appeal to me and would at least make me think.
I want people that I would trust running a corporation. Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson are not those people. I question the mere sanity of people that support them. I wouldn’t trust them to run a lemonade stand. So if that is what the GOP is going to roll out, then yes, I don’t like those Republicans.
And Del – be honest – most of the guys running now, if they had run 15-20 years ago, would be in some third party. What I think you are calling a sincere Republican is so far right of what used to be normal that they would be laughed at the stage.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lets-be-serious-about-ted-cruz-from-the-start-hes-too-extreme-and-too-disliked-to-win/
our fear is that the government will not get its financial insolvency under control what insolvency? and that they will continue to meddle in our private lives, homes, schools, and towns. – then stop demanding that they do so.
Our fear is that Republicans will be no better than the Democrats. – I think that’s more recognition than fear.
Ex=RINO,
All that and still you couldn’t bring yourself to say why you are not ‘super-excited’ about Hillary. lol
And you can’t say why you think a woman with ‘normal’ hormone levels would make a better president than one whose hormones are altered by medication or whatever. So there’s that.
truth
At this point, I’m really just dismissing you as somebody trolling for fights.
And I’m just dismissing you as somebody trolling a pro-life web site.
“And you can’t say why you think a woman with ‘normal’ hormone levels would make a better president than one whose hormones are altered by medication or whatever.”
Uh, cause it’s normal.
truth
I give thoughtful answers related to conversations at-hand. I feel you are just angry these days at everything, so you say odd things like women not on birth control shouldn’t be president (I think that’s essentially what you said), and that you don’t care if super sick kids get kicked off of insurance. It’s an odd world you live in these days.
Uh, cause it’s normal. – and? That still doesn’t explain why. I doubt you know why, you just wanted to say it.
“you say odd things like women not on birth control shouldn’t be president (I think that’s essentially what you said)”
You have really, really, really poor reading comprehension skills; cause I did not even come close to saying that. But you can take some consolation in the fact that Reality probably agrees with you.
Or it could be your really, really poor writing skills truthseeker, there’s that. Not that you actually write much, given you seem more focused on bloviating than attempting to explain why you’ve said stuff.
truth
Question was (summarizing) – do women’s hormones prevent them from being President. You replied:
“No, not any more. Most take birth control till menopause anyways so women’s hormone levels are generally never allowed to get that high. And it’s a shame if you ask me.”
So I think you are saying that back in the day, before birth control, hormones would have been a factor that would have prevented a woman from being President, but now you’d allow it because of birth control.
Reality – am I reading that right?
Or did truth pull a Scott Walker and say this, but then flip-flop halfway through the convo?
It can be hard to tell with absolute clarity whether we are reading truthseekers scribblings ‘right’ Ex-GOP, because there is so much doubt over whether they are written ‘right’.
But that is certainly what he wrote.
In essence, I think he may have been seeking a subtle way to say that women shouldn’t be president but found he’d put his foot in it and tried to alter his approach.
I think that once Hillary’s had her terms in the Whitehouse the next president will be a black woman in a same-sex marriage. Might even be republican.
The next man to enter the Whitehouse after Hillary and the next lady’s two or three terms will probably be in a same-sex marriage too.
It’ll probably take two generations before another republican male is seen in the Whitehouse. I figure it’ll take that long to breed out the crazy.
Of course once people like the Koch’s move on to greener pastures (or six feet under them at least) and mobs such as that clown posse the NRA shrivel up and fade away out of sheer embarrassment, the republicans position will probably improve.
The more I see the left in a tizzy about Walker the more I like him for president. He won election as governor three times in a moderate state so he has proven he can win the centrist vote. My only worry is that his positions are too moderate to win the primary.
You don’t think Walker is enough of a crazed loon?!?
truth
Your support of walker would literally be the least surprising thing I’ve heard today.
Some of Walker’s positions are very moderate – but then he changes his positions so often, he’ll align with just about any position that you could imagine. He makes John Kerry appear ‘set in his ways’.