From Tim Eagan’s website:
Why isn’t Deep Cover more balanced and fair?
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I’ll cop to the lack of balance; I try to be on the other side of the abuse of power and jive sentimentality no matter where it originates. Given that, I do my best to be fair. That does not, however, mean I have to be polite.
Triassic Sands
I just noticed on the NY Times site that the worst person in American history has struck again — “Carter Wins Release of American.”
Is there no deed too dastardly for this monstrous Evildoer?
stuckinred
@Triassic Sands: And Mornin Joe is just cracking up saying that Carter is smuggling a suitcase nuke back from NK.
roshan
Has anyone here ever seen anything scary like this?
Triassic Sands
@stuckinred:
I’m pretty sure Carter has a connecting flight in Tehran.
Triassic Sands
@roshan:
Why do you consider it scary looking? Do you paddle a sea kayak? That first photo looks like it could swallow a small boat.
Those photos are amazing. I’ve never seen anything man-made like that. I have seen large whirlpools in narrow passages where incoming and outgoing tides create high speed currents (up to 16 knots).
bemused
Great cartoon.
JGabriel
Shouldn’t that fox be eating the rabbit?
Or is the fox befriending him so that when he gets hungry, he can just reach out and kill the rabbit with a quick clawstroke to the throat instead of chasing him down?
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JGabriel
@Triassic Sands:
Once you’ve deregulated beer, there’s no turning back.
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roshan
@Triassic Sands:
Dude, it’s a fucking hole in the water! That’s what’s scary, man.
aimai
I had dinner with my Republican sister in law last night and I think I’m suffering from some kind of PTSD. We had a *huge* fight that started with my milquetoast former Dem brother in law tellin gme that he’d heard on NPR from a “political scientist” that “the founders” intended the gridlock we have now in congress so that “nothing could be done.” I blew my stack and had gave them both a ten minute lecture on the history of the 3/5’s compromise, the Senate, the filibuster and the parties and just about everything in between. My sister in law freaked out over whether the Tea Party was, or was not (she said was not) a) racist and b) fringe. She prefers to think (she’s old line Republican, new line christian nutcase) that they are a “fringe” and its Obama’s fault for not asserting strongly enough that he’s a christian. I failed to ask her whether it would help if he got married ina Christian Church, or prayed with Graham? Anyways, it was awful. Someone persuade me that we aren’t going to lose the house and the senate? Someone explain to me how we are loosing to these massive fuckups? Oh, and while you are at it, explain to me why Obama put Simpson in charge of Pete Peterson’s wet dream and now finds himself forced to fight the Republicans by saying they want to dismantle Social Security *and* fight his own party/base in order to dismantle social security? Who is advising this guy?
aimai
roshan
Aimai, let me give you top 3 reasons why we are losing to all these twisted mindfucks:
1.ECONOMY
2.ECONOMY
3.ECONOMY
4.LACK OF MEDIA MESSAGING MACHINE
The fourth was a bonus, so, enjoy.
Oh, btw, about Simpson, I got nothing. The geezer needs a visit from the death panel.
cleek
@aimai:
your lack of faith is disturbing.
as penance, please say 15 “Hail Barack”s and 20 “Our Party”s.
roshan
How much did Bush’ visit to German BBQ cost them?
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8.7 million euros!
S. cerevisiae
Great cartoon! And Aimai I have learned to just stay away from politics with my relatives, but sometimes like you said the wingnuttery is more than I can stand and I end up being the crazy librul brother that they whisper to themselves about. At least I am not the only one in the family.
ChrisS
So, after five days with the new puppy (he’s 6 months old), we have him sitting, down, shake, and come/here (I need to be consistent with one or the other). We’re working on heel (using the Gentle Leader, which is about a billion times better than a basic collar and leash). He likes shoes (and my iphone with its rubber case), so we have to watch him constantly.
We talked to his foster owner and she said that she never really walked him anywhere, just let him run in the yard with her other dogs. He stays in his crate through the night and doesn’t whine when we put him in and go to bed. I walk him twice a day (about 25-35 minutes, which tuckers him out pretty good) and we play in the yard in the morning and evening.
So far I think I’m having a harder time adjusting to life with a puppy than he is with a new home. Sometimes I feel guilty that I don’t spend as much time with him as I should (I work long hours this summer, but we try to make sure that except for nighttime, he doesn’t spend anymore than 4-5 hours in his crate at a time). The cats aren’t hiding under the bed anymore and have started to come out into the hallway. They still won’t come downstairs yet. The cats are probably my biggest concern biggest they had such a run of the house until now.
Once I get the little bastard to sit still, I’ll get some pics up.
stuckinred
@ChrisS: I have learned from working at home for 7 years that dogs sleep 90% of the time. I used to think they sat at the door all day waiting for us to get home. . . nahhhhhhh.
Napoleon
@aimai:
All I know is that if they propose SS cuts, unless they are minor and part of a comprehesive budget plan (ie, raise taxes on the rich) I will not vote for his reelection, even if he is running against Palin. I am at the point where I want the whole government to burn to the ground and the fastest way to that result is to turn it back over to the Republicans.
aimai
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. They actually help a bit–especially “we’re going to lose because of the economy” I mean, yeah. My nearly permanently out of work brother in law finally got a job because of stimulus money but he of course has no real idea how hard Obama and the dems had to fight for it. And if he were asked he’d argue that its probably “not a good use of tax dollars” or something else equally stupid.
Mind you, this is the sister in law who sometime after the 2004 election came to me and apologized and said I had been right about the Iraq war and about Bush. I think she either voted for Obama or abstained. That’s what has me so freaked out. I knew the American people had zero patience and that the economy was bad but this is really a death by a thousand cuts. It doesn’t matter that 30 percent of Republicans think Obama’s a muslim, and some shifting subset of the rest are sure he’s a (forbidden word) or a Nazi, or a gay wimp, or a dominating hetero playboy. The problem is that all of these often contradictory things lead a large enough minority of the country to accept as natural the total fucking over of our entire society to “get the black guy” out of the white house. My sister in law is your classic upper class white racist: she thinks racists are mean southernors who hate black people viscerally. She doesn’t do that. She just dislikes policies that help poor people. She’s just uncomfortable with all the rapid changes,but she can’t tell you what those are. blah blah blah. I’m amazed she didn’t drag out the New Black Panther party.
aimai
JGabriel
As a New Yorker who doesn’t drive, and is so far from being able to afford a car that it’s tragic, I find it vaguely comforting to see an ad for a Jaguar on the front page.
It tells me that corporations haven’t quite yet reached the extent of privacy invasion necessary for perfect ad-targeting.
(Pause.)
Unless they’re doing it on purpose so we don’t get suspicious …
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aimai
Lets try this again without the forbidden word?
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. They actually help a bit—especially “we’re going to lose because of the economy” I mean, yeah. My nearly permanently out of work brother in law finally got a job because of stimulus money but he of course has no real idea how hard Obama and the dems had to fight for it. And if he were asked he’d argue that its probably “not a good use of tax dollars” or something else equally stupid.
Mind you, this is the sister in law who sometime after the 2004 election came to me and apologized and said I had been right about the Iraq war and about Bush. I think she either voted for Obama or abstained. That’s what has me so freaked out. I knew the American people had zero patience and that the economy was bad but this is really a death by a thousand cuts. It doesn’t matter that 30 percent of Republicans think Obama’s a muslim, and some shifting subset of the rest are sure he’s a (forbidden word) or a Nazi, or a gay wimp, or a dominating hetero playboy. The problem is that all of these often contradictory things lead a large enough minority of the country to accept as natural the total fucking over of our entire society to “get the black guy” out of the white house. My sister in law is your classic upper class white racist: she thinks racists are mean southernors who hate black people viscerally. She doesn’t do that. She just dislikes policies that help poor people. She’s just uncomfortable with all the rapid changes,but she can’t tell you what those are. blah blah blah. I’m amazed she didn’t drag out the New Black Panther party.
aimai
Comrade Javamanphil
If he had really learned everything about the woodland animals from fox news, the beaver would have been praised for industriously creating wealth out of raw materials and if we elect Democrats they will pass regulation DESTROYING HIS LIVELIHOOD!!!! ZOMG! MOSQUE!
JGabriel
Napoleon:
The GOP already did that. This is the aftermath.
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Napoleon
@JGabriel:
You know I was actually kind of happy Kerry lost because even in 2004 I believed the economy was headed off the cliff, so better it happens on Bush’s watch. Who would have known that he still made it 3 more years before it happened so that now some people are confused as to who is to blame.
Regardless in watching the Dems since Obama took office they are not much better. I really think we need some serious social unrest and what would amount to a successful insurgency in the Dem party to neuter or remove your Chris Dodds of the world before it is ready to govern.
JGabriel
Comrade Javamanphil:
… paralyzed the fox with terror as he recalled the gory highlights and mutilated corpses of Teeth: When Beavers Attack!
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jinxtigr
I’m a little comforted by the thought that, since Bush used up a lot of America’s military force and the rich looted everything so bad, we’re some kind of hosed but we are too poor to do things like try to take over the world and convert it to Christianity.
Some of our people are that fucked up, and we’re not super in control of them or their actions, so I’ll tolerate being poor gracefully if it means THEY are too poor to accomplish some of the things they want…
Eventually we will swing back to a social infrastructure, a middle class, an economy. The farther off track we go, the more violent and notable the back-swing will be.
demo woman
@Napoleon: The danger of course would be that the tea party might win. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizens United shows how close we are to tilting more to the right and falling off a cliff.
@aimai: When someone says something positive about the Tea Party, I just say that I’m not a libertarian. I can’t imagine a country without public education, a safety net such as Medicare and Social Security, and most important a middle class.
roshan
Aimai, next time you go for dinner with repug friends and family, bring a chalkboard along. 99% of these people don’t respond to facts, so make some up in your spare time that you can use. Also, don’t be nice (see reason here), just not too awful and a little presentable (what’s the name of that charlatan who has a rally tomorrow in DC, yeah, be like him) and then proceed to lecture. Don’t add logic to defense ever. Don’t try to refute republican charges, that’s the worse way to debate, ignore them as baseless in their face or say that those things are very very minor and inconsequential. Fling some of shit of your own and then go on to the next flinging as soon as somebody is trying to refute them intelligently. In other words, overwhelm people with too many conspiracy theories with republicans as the bad guys, and then sit back and watch people wander all over with their defense. Rinse and repeat, my friend.
aimai
demo woman,
that wasn’t the problem. My sister in law wasn’t saying positive things abou the tea party–she was arguing that they, and Fox, are epiphenomenal and unimportant. I agree, and disagree. The worst thing about the entire interaction, to me, is that *as usual* the fact that the Democrats aren’t fighting hard enough, or publicly enough, against the right is used by her and my brother in law to argue variously that “they are all the same” or “if that’s such a good idea why isn’t your party pursuing it.” I can make a darned good case for all the policies I advocate–like publich schooling, medicare, social security, middle class/safe working class, health care reform, etc… but at every turn my arguments are undercut by the fact that the Dems not only compromised (which in many cases they had to do because of the filibuster) but *failed to make the compromise well understood* by the public.
It was one thing to water shit down to get Brown, or Collins, or Snowe aboard. If that had to be done it had to be done. But then you have to get on national TV and blast the fuck out of those suckers and say “For no good reason and with very harmful effect Senator Brown has decided to support the Banksters over the little people.” If you do that, of course, you piss off Brown. But if you don’t do that you leave people like the moron swing voters unclear on what just happened. My SIL actually thinks “Snowe and Collins” did right by voting with the Dems (because she’s totally unaware of what those votes meant, when they happened, when they didn’t and the overall pattern.)
The Dems don’t have Fox, I get that, they don’t have Beck or Rush. That’s obvious. That’s been obvious for a long time. Why have their been no serious efforts by Dems to find a (lone) billionaire to fund the kind of reverse wurlitzer we need? Gore started down that road but detoured to the more important climate issue. But its long past overdue. If we can’t get our message out, or have a botched message, we need new methods and new thinkers. This crashing failure of the message machine has got to stop. At this point Obama could walk on water and have the Republicans drag him under and cut his throat and the vast majority of the country would say “he never even tried to walk on water” or “the Republicans were helping him” or “that blood on the water shows that he wasn’t doing a good job with the whole water walking thing.” That’s a shame, and makes me angry, but its not the Republicans problem–its our problem. And I don’t see the Dems making any serious, party wide, attempt to combat it. They are still acting like a bunch of lone wolves.
aimai
DBrown
Just wait when peak oil fully hits in a few years – we are seeing the tip approching; we are still living on barrowed time and within tens years, this period will look like a golden age; middle class? In ten years that will be any body who has a job that lasts longer than a few months – yes, we will recover but never will there be a world like we grew up in. AGW, will see to that and lack of cheap liquid fuel will futher change the world (but yes, fusion will be available in ten years once a real effort is applied (and a ten year delay in building enough very expensive plants), so doom is not really in the works, just a huge downward adjustment in our standard of life.)
asiangrrlMN
@ChrisS: PICTURES are demanded!
@Napoleon: Not going down that road with you (especially since I don’t think the Dems will cut SS). You may be fine with a Sarah Palin to make a point, but I am not. Take what W. did to the country and multiply it by eleven-billionty. And, if it’s not Palin but is, say, Huckabee, multiply it by half-eleven-billionty.
HyperIon
@Napoleon wrote:
new meme?