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   toasteroven said, 2 months ago

   Ok, no.

   Say what you like about this poem, but the original was written about the darkest era in the last century, hell, possibly the last millennium.

   You petty little complaints are nothing compared to what the original poem was talking about, Asay.

   You’re disgusting.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 2 months ago

   toast, ditto.

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   Kingoswald said, 2 months ago

   Who can’t?

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   Kingoswald said, 2 months ago

   “First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist….”

   Yeah, bet Chuck and his teabagger friends would go for that one ROFLOL!

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   Copperdomebodhi said, 2 months ago

   Yep, that’s the law. If you say things like “I’m praying for the president’s death”, the Secret Service might come and see what else you’re doing towards that goal.

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   parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago

   but they won’t do anything about gun freaks showing up armed at a town hall meeting with the president

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   cdward said, 2 months ago

   This is an offensive ‘toon because the original, by theologian Martin Niemöller was in the time of the Nazis. Back then, they were coming after people.
   I find it insulting to even hint at comparing the present administration with that regime. We openly let the nutcases have their say. Nobody in the government is coming after anyone - far less so today than during the last administration, I’d wager.
   
   And certainly nobody on the right has had any second thoughts about screaming as loudly as possible at the president. This cartoon is a colossal fail.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

   parker–nor left wingers with bully clubs at voting precincts.

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   michael said, 2 months ago

   cdward is right on the money here. Besides that, its inaccurate. Unless when he says “went after hunters” he means doing a half-hearted background check on gun buyers to keep violent felons from being able to buy a weapon in any Wall Mart.

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    cjr53 said, 2 months ago

    I don’t believe in your creator. I don’t believe in your religious laws and traditions. I have my own.

    Why should my life be ruled by your religious beliefs?

    I don’t expect you to follow my religious laws, traditions or beliefs, and I have no interest in forcing them on you or anyone else.

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    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    INanity: If rights come from the Creator, why did He shortchange Americans of their rights to health care when He gave those rights to all other nations?

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    iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

    DrC: Americans have health care, though not tax-funded government-paid health care. And it’s not a “right” to have government monopolized health care; Check the Canadian Charter of Rights.

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    iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

    I also don’t like this notion that rights come from religions. It interferes with the separation of Church and State.

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    Kylop said, 2 months ago

    Hmmm……as ‘toons go I don’t agree with the message but I do see it as a right wing analogue of how I felt for 8 years. I see it in bad taste when compared to the original but this is a political cartoon so I don’t take it that seriously.

    What I find sad about it is when both the Left and the Right feel they are in a terrible situation they don’t decide “We both need to be in a place where this isn’t happening” and both change.

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    WestTex13 said, 2 months ago

    DrC
    So I’m trying to figure out how America got short changed on Healthcare.. Its a key source of innovative new procedures and technological advances. It has above par health care overall, it is not merely taxed and paid for in advance like some countries which though are readily available are behind on the latest medical procedures…

    and in regards to “all other countries” There seems to be a large number of countries without health care at all except what people from charitable organizations provide. Your comment is innane and poorly thought out without forethought to context.. Just though I would point out your Andy moment.. Take care..

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    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    Michael you may want to get caught up with firearms sold at Wal-Mart.

    Wal-Mart quit selling guns a long time ago at their centers. In 2006 they quit selling rifles at their locations. I heard they may still have rifles in a few locations, but I have not been in a Wal-Mart since 2006 that sold rifles.

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    GNWachs said, 2 months ago

    ParkerHouse The second amendment says Americans have the RKBA. So when they gather near where the President is speaking they are exercising their constitutional rights just like you and I are in this written exchange.

    I find it ironic that the strongest advocates of Constitutional protections, broadest possible “welfare clause” proponents, separation of Church and State believers somehow forget we actually have a 2nd amendment. And it means what it says we have the right to keep and BEAR arms.

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    Wildcard24365 said, 2 months ago

    WestTex13:

    Yup. Great medical advances, state-of-the-art life-saving techniques, incredible facilities available to ANYONE…

    Who can afford them.

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    jim12345 said, 2 months ago

    I grew in the 1940s and we have lost.
    A lot of our FREEDOMS over the years !
    jim12345 :^(

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    Magnaut said, 2 months ago

    Hussein’s Tonton Macoute are on their way.

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    GNWachs said, 2 months ago

    @wildcard

    Do I understand you to say you should have free access to someone else’s inventions because it will make your life better? May I demand free meals at Le Cirque? Free living in Trump palace, free clothes from Oxxford all because they will make my life better?
    The drug company literally spent $1B developing that wonder drug and since it is so wonderful you should have the right to obtain it at any price you wish to pay?

    And if you can’t afford it then your fellow citizens should pay. Great deal- send Le Cirque your check for my dinner tonight.

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    omQ R said, 2 months ago

    ANandy said: Incidentally, our Founders acknowledged those Rights enumerated in our Constitution as being endowed on all mankind, not specifically the United States.

    It’s a gift that just keeps on giving.

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    believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

    re the 5th panel — who’s going after the “kooky extremists?” I might want to join them …..

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    HUMPHRIES said, 2 months ago

    Someone mention being a few bricks short a full load … well now who could that be. Our residunt genius displaying his whit.

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    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    C’mon, lorax; you know good and well (or should) that a country’s rights come from laws and governments. There are no “gods” involved. The attribution of rights to the “gods” is just a ploy to give the laws more authority and to buy the obedience of the simple minded.

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    iamthelorax said, 2 months ago

    You’re absolutely right DrC. That’s why I said I don’t like the notion of religions deciding our rights :-).

    But government paid medical bills are not a “right”. And if good medical care is a right, I would say the government is infringing on my rights because they’ve screwed up medicare from top to bottom.

    They had every chance to invest in medicare, cut unnecessary garbage and make it a priority but they don’t. It’s not a hot election topic so it’ll stay on the back-burner; I’m through with them talking to me about being “fair”.

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    lalas said, 2 months ago

    We went after the smokers because there omnipresent smoke is a danger to others.

    We never went after the hunters. (dumb@ss).

    Anyone threatening the life of the POTUS gets investigated. Duh!

    To draw this analogy to the Holocaust is pure dumbassery.

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    Wildcard24365 said, 2 months ago

    GNWachs:

    My point is how great can it be if a good number of people can’t use it?

    You use the analogy of other private “services” and commercial ventures. Fair enough, but you’re comparing apples and oranges.

    Now, if you like, let’s make it apples to apples: how much do you pay for your police protection? It’s included in your taxes? How do you sleep at night?!

    Okay, now how much do you pay for fire prevention services? Really? That’s covered by your taxes, too? I can see Marxism is clearly rampant in this country.

    Wait, wait… you must be paying a HUGE amount of money for the military to protect you from all those terrorists just waiting to… huh? You mean that’s included in your taxes, too? OMG, Stalin won the Cold War,and never fired a shot!

    The idea is that medicine is just like every other “public safety” service, it should be made available to all citizens, not just the wealthy elite who can afford that triple-bypass.

    In the end, besides the moral and ethical arguments, it makes good business sense in the long run: people who can afford to stay healthy with preventative medicine as well as emergency procedures are people who can continue to be a productive workforce, continuing to “add value” to the economy.

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    William Wilkerson said, 2 months ago

    First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist.
    Then the came for the Trade Unionists and I did not speak out, because I was not a Trade Unionist.
    Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
    Pastor Neimoeller (Poland, 1937)

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    GNWachs said, 2 months ago

    WC

    You make the points commonly spoken by liberals. They believe there are certain rights we have by just being born in the US. Food, shelter, clothing, health. But you then go on to say you have the absolute right to the most expensive health care available. Why don’t I have the exact same right to the most expensive food available?

    No, I don’t believe you have the right to every health care option that is available anywhere in the US. No where in the world does that right exist. it is called rationing. We don’t print enough money to cover all the treatments and diagnostic procedures available for the entire 305 million Americans.

    There are going to be many many health care options that Gates can afford and will get that you can’t. And if that means you might die, that is a fact of life.

    The reason health care reform will fail is in your own words. we will have a government plan and Gates will get a $300,000 injection and you wont. You will write to your Congressman and he will pass a bill giving you that injection and the country will go broke- see Medicare today.

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    tizzo said, 2 months ago

    “I find it insulting to even hint at comparing the present administration with that regime. We openly let the nutcases have their say. Nobody in the government is coming after anyone - far less so today than during the last administration, I’d wager.”

    I find your indignation, frankly, to be disgusting. The previous administration was routinely compared to the Nazis, and not just by bloggers and cartoonists but by the mainstream press and even sitting Democratic legislators. This despite the fact that they were never so much as accused of doing anything remotely similar to, say, setting up an email address to which citizens were asked to report those among their peers with different views than those of the president, or daring to cast doubt on some of the untrue things the president has said about his health care plan.

    Also note that while the previous administration has been (often correctly) criticized for the expansion of executive power, the worst they were ever accused of (and they were accused of much worse than they ever did or even attempted to do) never involved the assumption of anywhere near the degree of executive power that would be required to implement either of Cap-And-Trade or Obama-style health care reform, each of which involves almost complete government control over inherently private activities.

    I’ll never understand the logic of people who were ready to impeach (or worse) president Bush over a program that listened in on a total of three phone calls involving persons inside the US, each of which necessarily had a terrorist outside the US at the other end of the line, who are now not only supportive of, but are downright angry at those who oppose, legislation that would REQUIRE the federal government to monitor every conversation between you and your doctor, whether by phone or otherwise.

    At this point I’d like you to just make up your freakin’ mind already.

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    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    With healthcare at an all time, do you think prescriptions will go down in price due to the 2.3 billion dollar fine?

    Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday.

    If I was a conspiracy theory, I may think the government did this on purpose to make the prescriptions go up and help out the Obamacare.

    If he cannot get it passed righteously get it passed by inflating the prices on prescriptions.

    He has a record of cheating. Look at the election and all the crooks Obama is tied to.

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    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    Here is an article on the real Obama change:

    Barrack Obama and the socialist leadership in Congress are working furiously to change America. They want to transform our nation and they’re spending trillions of tax dollars to do it.

    I’m talking about a whole scale, radical transformation of our nation. From our national defense to our foreign policy to our free market economic system - Obama and company have implemented and have plans to further implement massive government control over each of us.

    Today the Obamaites, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid - the small but powerful group of left-wing radicals who are at the controls of this transformation are all disciples of the 1960s radical Saul Alinsky. Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, was the Little Red Book for the college radicals of the 1960s.

    Alinsky’s deep, deep hatred of America. A hate that ran so deep he wrote a blueprint for tearing our nation down. Many agents of the radical left never grew up. In fact, today many of them are leaders in Congress and in our White House, all embracing Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals - the road map for turning our nation upside down.

    With every passing day we see what lays behind the Administration’s piecemeal efforts to take over the car makers, the banks and the health care system: creating a new America that will bear little resemblance to the country in which we grew up

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    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    striper77 said

    Wal-Mart quit selling guns a long time ago at their centers. In 2006 they quit selling rifles at their locations. I heard they may still have rifles in a few locations, but I have not been in a Wal-Mart since 2006 that sold rifles.

    Obviously you have not been to a WalMart in Georgia or Alabama.

    BTW: What colour is the sky where you live?

    Chuck keeps leaving out the second “s” when he signs his cartoons.

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    foxglove16 said, 2 months ago

    Actually, Assay is one of those kooky extremists. When they start showing up to public officials townhall meetings w/ guns and nothing happens, I’d say they have nothing to worry about. God forbid they do anything that would get them arrested, like wearing a “No Bush” T-shirt.

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    omQ R said, 2 months ago

    God forbid they do anything that would get them arrested, like wearing a “No Bush” T-shirt.
    Silly foreigner me, so your First amendment protects Freedom of Speech but people with these t-shirts were arrested.
    And your Second Amendment, protects right to bear arms etc but these armed people at your townhall meetings were not arrested because of …wait, I got something wrong. Explain this to me again? :-|

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    foxglove16 said, 2 months ago

    omQ R, I know you’re not just being dense, but for the benefit of those who are: Just as you don’t yell fire in a crowded theatre, you don’t bring a assault rifle or gun where a reasonable person would worry about an assassination attempt. And I’m highlighting the difference between the ability for staged disruption by the right wing going unchecked vs the arrest of liberals wearing critical slogans on their T-shirts during the Bush administration. Not to mention the fenced in areas one mile away from any political meeting euphemistically called “free speech zones”

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    believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

    omQR, you did understand correctly though, no matter how illogical it is …. two people who wore-T-shirts critical of Pres. Bush (nothing obscene, nothing alarming, just critical) were removed from an outdoor event (I think they were arrested, but not sure right now) … YET …
    a man (maybe more than one) who showed up at a rally where Pres, Obama was going to speak with an assault rifle slung over his arm was not removed, nor apparently, even bothered

    so the lesson is T-shirts are more dangerous than assault rifles apparently

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    NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

    The anonymous (with true intentions unknown) gentleman who carried an ar-15 semi-automatic rifle outside of where Pres. Obama was speaking was no where near him and announced himself to the appropriate authorities beforehand. And in Arizona he has the right to carry that weapon where-ever he wanted as long as it is in plain view. It is counter-productive for you Libs to paint everyone who disagrees with your President as “nut-jobs”. The same thing is happening with Obama’s planned Education-Speech; some citizens view it as an over-bearing political ploy on the part of the Socialists now in power. Why do Americans with legitimate opinions have to hide their concern? When citizens are scared away from airing their views - then democracy has been harmed. I’m not surprised that it’s the Socialists who are trying to squelch honest debate.

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    omQ R said, 2 months ago

    foxglove16: Correct, there was method in my denseness. ;-)
    I don’t wish to comment on the amendments as such (they’re yours to support and/or criticise, not mine).

    I’m just supporting & underlining your and BCS’s position about the hypocrisy but seen from an “uncomprehending” foreigner’s perspective.
    And supporting your positions that this is hypocrisy comes along NoFearPup with his comment.

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    churchillwasright said, 2 months ago

    What’s to understand here? The Secret Service sets up a perameter. The guy legally with the gun was outside the perameter. End of story.

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    NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

    Do you mean like the hypocrisy of planting questions and questioners and “packing” town halls with out-of-town union supporters? Let’s be fair, please. There’s no doubt that there is an unhealthy extreme element in the anti-Obama protests as there was in the anti-Bush-Cheney outrage…but this does not negate the necessity of open free-spirited dialogue and debate on critical political issues confronting our nation.

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    David said, 2 months ago

    Back to the toon….
    One thing you can count on is that given enough time they will come after something that means something to you.

    All you have to do is sit down, shut up, and let it happen for long enough. I hope you enjoy what you end up with.

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    jelindley said, 2 months ago

    When one group’s rights are violated, everyone’s rights are threatened.

    Michael, when’s the last time you saw guns for sale at Walmart. I only know of one in southern Illinois that still sells guns. And yes, I do realize it is not near as bad as when they were literally taking people away and killing them. Now they just do it with taxes. Look at the taxes on cigarettes. I’m a nonsmoker, but I still think the taxes have gotten out of hand. As a hunter, I see the excise taxes we pay (which, fortunately, are requried by law to go towards habitat), plus it’s a lot more than a half-hearted background check. Here in Illinois we have to actually have a firearm owner’s ID card, plus have a waiting period on any firearm purchases. Now they’re going for extra taxes on soft drinks and snacks. What’s next?