Good morning, and happy birthday to our oldest son, Michael! Here were my top five favorite political cartoons for the week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post!
by Steve Breen at Townhall.com…
by Chip Bok at GoComics.com…
by Glenn McCoy at GoComics.com…
by Clay Jones at GoComics.com (also read this)…
by Gary Varvel at GoComics.com…
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I’m voting for #3 this week.
The last one is very sad, but #3 illustrates why so many Americans are bitterly disappointed with the fundraising-partier-in-chief.
The first onee… Since most abortions are first trimester it is highly unlikely the baby feels pain. It’s not an effective argument against abortion imo, makes us look scientifically illiterate.
I think it’s a good argument against late terms though.
I love #3 but I voted for #5 because of the profound, weighty and tragic message that it conveys.
Agree with Jack about the pain thing.
3 and 4 are funny, if pretty much off-target. I mean, really, every Presidency has stuff happen where people can make mountains out of molehills.
Agree with Ed H – there is true horror there, and #5 is on-target. It is stuff like this which makes me think that religion is overall a great curse on the world.
No.1 is looney tunes.
Reality is No. 1.
2, 3 and 4 are boring exaggerated propaganda.
They are comic exaggeration. You are bored.
No.5 shows what religious extremism wreaks.
You make a rare, valid point: The violent extremism of Islamicist zealots is similar to the abortion extremism of secularist zealots.
Real-stupid-ity
Just another mindless variation on the ‘moral equivalency’ diversion.
Set aside for a moment that humanism in its various permutations has murdered and deliberately starved to death more people than all the religious wars, jihads, and inquisitions combined, even when pre-natal children are not included in the total.
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Religious extremism in its Islamic mode routinely murders fellow Muslims who don’t line up with the Jew hating jihadists points of doctrine, not to mention those unfortunate muslims who just happens to be close proximity when the suicide bomber detonates her/his C4 laden vest.
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Then are the children who the muslims sacrifice as cannon fodder and/or human shields to protect their ammo dumps.
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More Christians have been murdered in the last 50 years by humanists and muslims than in all the rest of recorded history. In some cases the jihadist bleed out and collect the blood of Christians and then sell to their fellow pagans.
Then the barbarians methodically dismember the remains.
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I will leave it to Real-stupid-ity to provide the number of people murdered by ‘Christian extremists’, but when she does she has to at least contrast that number with just the number of pre-natal children who were murdered in the third trimester and/or after they were born alive.
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George Tiller and Kermit Gosnell alone have killed multiplied many more people than all the ‘Christian extremists’ combined.
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Progressives are using unaccompanied minor children as expendable political props in order to advance their humanistic social agenda. They have no more concern for these innocent children than the jihadists have for theirs.
“Set aside for a moment that humanism in its various permutations has murdered and deliberately starved to death more people than all the religious wars, jihads, and inquisitions combined” – you have clear and convincing evidence for this of course. In the interim, I shan’t hold my breath.
“More Christians have been murdered in the last 50 years by humanists and muslims than in all the rest of recorded history.” – how many by humanists and how many by muslims? Do you at least have a ratio? How about evidence of humanists being responsible for any?
“In some cases the jihadist bleed out and collect the blood of Christians and then sell to their fellow pagans.” – jihadis are pagans? Who are these ‘fellow pagans’?
“I will leave it to Real-stupid-ity to provide the number of people murdered by ‘Christian extremists’, but when she does she has to at least contrast that number with just the number of pre-natal children who were murdered in the third trimester and/or after they were born alive.” – interesting. Just as a small note, you are aware that children have died, in the US, in current times, because of their parents christian extremism. More to the point, kentheburper2, I said ‘religious extremists’, nowhere did I state to what extent, if any, christians were a part of that. I’d bet the majority of women who have abortions would identify as christian too.
“George Tiller and Kermit Gosnell alone have killed multiplied many more people than all the ‘Christian extremists’ combined.” – some facts please.
Good to see you haven’t changed, my erstwhile colleague. Still struggling with gender eh.
“will leave it to Real-stupid-ity to provide the number of people murdered by ‘Christian extremists’, but when she does she has to at least contrast that number with just the number of pre-natal children who were murdered in the third trimester and/or after they were born alive.”
You really don’t know much about some African countries and their Christian extremism, do you? Or some Latin American countries for that matter. Not even getting into history. Fact is extremists in all flavors are terrible.
And if you’re using “humanist” to refer to Stalin and Mao’s regimes, the word you’re actually looking for is “totalitarian “.
Deluded Lib Pro-Lifer says:
August 3, 2014 at 1:28 pm
The first one… Since most abortions are first trimester it is highly unlikely the baby feels pain. It’s not an effective argument against abortion imo, makes us look scientifically illiterate.
I disagree.
It has long been said that swiftly beheading a person (by such as a guillotine) is a painless death. But popular imagination refuses to accept this. We prefer our “scientific illiteracy,” as you call it. It is hard to imagine a violent death that is painless, and the guillotine remains an image of torture.
We can prove that a 20-week-old child in the womb suffers pain during saline and dismemberment abortions. We cannot prove that a 12-week fetus does not feel pain. The natural instinct of people is to empathize with the child — they imagine the pain is real and they are not fully convinced by statements that there is no pain.
“We can prove that a 20-week-old child in the womb suffers pain during saline and dismemberment abortions. We cannot prove that a 12-week fetus does not feel pain. The natural instinct of people is to empathize with the child — they imagine the pain is real and they are not fully convinced by statements that there is no pain.”
So, we should lie and say that they feel the same pain as those who went through the botched executions? Not following you Del. I’m not one to lie to get my point across, I believe that the pro-life movement is the one with the truth on its side, and there is no need for assumptions, or stretching the truth, or lying. The fact is a baby dies, always, in an abortion. We don’t know and there is evidence against a first trimester baby feeling pain. There is evidence for the later term babies feeling pain.
The pain argument isn’t the strongest one anyway imo, I usually get pro-choicers just saying that painkillers should suffice, or sedation.
First one. The other day saw a video that someone shared on facebook, of a baby that looked like it was in it’s 2nd trimester…still in it’s sac with the umbilical cord cut off. Made me cry.
DLPL: I do not recommend that any pro-lifer should lie for the sake of life.
We don’t need to. It is the pro-aborts who lie about the development of the child, the humanity of the child, and the safety of abortion.
Do not say anything that you are not convinced is truthful.
I am saying that the pain of injury is a truth that is common to human experience. Recall that image of the dismembered hand of a 12-week-old fetus’s, lying across a quarter coin: It is an image of torture and pain. We do not believe that the child died painlessly.
I will continue to say that mothers suffer pain and injury from abortion, and the children suffer pain and death. I am convinced of the truth of this.
Well if someone is going to completely change my posted comments why not turn them into anti-choice rhetoric? Seriously? Is that the best response someone can muster?
It is called “Messing with Reality.” One of the new duties of the new Mod Squad.
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
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“We can prove that a 20-week-old child in the womb suffers pain during saline and dismemberment abortions. We cannot prove that a 12-week fetus does not feel pain” – wrong. All the genuine scientific studies and analyses demonstrate that any ‘feeling’ of pain by a fetus cannot occur before at least 24 weeks gestation.
And yet, no one believes this. Probably because the blowholes making such claims cannot name any actual researchers or produce any actual studies.
“It is the pro-aborts who lie about the development of the child, the humanity of the child, and the safety of abortion” – shallow, sweeping and erroneous.
Liar.
“We do not believe that the child died painlessly.” – you may not believe it but the facts say it did.
May it be said someday that “Reality died painlessly.” Perhaps by a guillotine….
“I will continue to say that mothers suffer pain and injury from abortion, and the children suffer pain and death. I am convinced of the truth of this.” – then you continue to operate outside the sphere of truth.
And how is the weather out there, Reality?
Messing with reality seems a common theme for many here….
The rest of this post was sadly lame. Let’s give Reality another chance to develop something clever.
“And yet, no one believes this.” – well that’s not true. It’s only the denialist, propaganda clinging elements of the anti-choice brigade who doesn’t believe it.
“Liar” – not at all. I leave that to CPC’s and the like.
“May it be said someday that “Reality died painlessly.” Perhaps by a guillotine….” – I’m well past 24 weeks gestation. Although a guillotine would probably be relatively painless. Are you advocating violence against me now? Why don’t you try grasping some scientific facts.
The weather is always beautiful where I live.
“Probably because the blowholes making such claims cannot name any actual researchers or produce any actual studies.” – again, you are less than factual. Go back and look and you will see the clear and unequivocal evidence has been provided previously.
“The rest of this post was sadly lame.” – I guess I’ll be seeing less of your comments then ;-)
I’m sorry Reality, I can’t stop laughing at the additions to your comments by the mods.
About time you woke up, Jack (even though I know you’re on the west coast…)
I have a job! On a break!
S’ok LDPL, I find it quite amusing myself. It tells me something :-)