Tom Toles for February 11, 2013

Wascawwy pwofits!

I am all for private profit! So long as those who make the profits are same ones who (a) bear the costs, (b) take the risks, and, to some extent, © do the work. “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)

And up until they need a TIF or other governmental financing to “ensure” job creation!

Btw if companies are people then arms manufacturers are too – which means that the rifles are people too. So selling guns is slavery and / or able to be prosecuted for murders.

Hey, didn’t you get the memo: Corporations are people too!

“The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.”—Fred Allen (This really applies to all executives at all corporations, of course.)

I knew this cartoon would bring the pollution-lovers like Ima out of the woodwork. Going on vacation to Bejing this year, Ima?

A local columnist for a free newspaper, Bob Driver, uses the device of a man going to a party and ending up talking to two gun enthusiasts.*After going over the list of how many people died in mass shootings vs how many died due to individual murders, and other statistics, the character comes to a conclusion.He says “I don’t know and neither does anybody else. The best I can come up with is that we’d better accept the inevitable. The guns are out there and they will stay. So are most of the shooters. The same goes for the NRA, the gun manufacturers, the payoffs to the lawmakers, the whole heartbreaking catastrophe. Remember the financial crash of 2008, and how we paid billions of undeserved dollars to gut rotten banks because they were ‘too big to fail?’ Well, that’s what happened with the gun control delemma. It’s become too big a problem to solve.”Then he said he hopes he is wrong.

Ms Ima, your ignorance is showing. Climate change is happening. People are to blame. Then again, you are gullible and naive as a child on every other issue, so it’s not surprising that you’re gullible and naive as a child on this one too.

Hey, I know a great slog: Pollution doesn’t kill…, er,… um,… well…, okay, I guess it does. just like guns.

Cities with the Highest Rates of Total Gun-Related Deaths (per 100,000 people)

1 New Orleans 69.1

2 Detroit 41.43 Las Vegas 36.94 Miami 33.55 Baltimore 33.16 St. Louis 31.17 Richmond 29.98 Memphis 25.59 Cleveland 25.210 Philadelphia 24.3

Table data from Centers for Disease Control [PDF]

You misspelled New Orleans.

Meh, who needs clean and water…

If we disconnect environmentalists from the power grid, then we do not need to build any more power plants.

The electric company in Denver was faced with building a new power plant to handle peak demand during the day. It made a deal with a bunch of home owners: the utility installed solar cells on their roof and ran the DC thru an inverter and synced the sine wave to the AC power grid. The owners got free electricity when the electric meter ran backwards and there was plenty of solar to meet the peak energy demands during the day.

Not true, you attacked me many times, unprovoked.

A neuclear power plant is 1 mishap away from major disaster. Remember Fukoshima.

“… I have never attacked anyone who did not attack me…” Not True. You have fired cheap shots and ‘hate’ at me in subsequent Toons AFTER Global Warming exchanges were over.