Ted Rall for April 02, 2014
March 31, 2014
April 03, 2014
Transcript:
(Man 1: Americans only care about you after you die.) "Soldiers get paid crap. No one cares if they go nuts and wind up homeless. If they get killed? Other live soldiers risk their lives to retrieve their body! Then: tricked-out funeral! Media hat-tip!" (Woman: Thank you, deceased corporal Alex, for your heroic service!) "Mudslide victims? No one paid their doctor if they got cancer. But the whole nation wants their rotting corpses pulled outta the muck. No expense spared to find the bloated carcasses of the Malaysian plane crash victims. When they were alive, the airlines soaked them for a $30 a bag." (Man 2: New data coming in from echo-star-6 satellite, which we've got in modified orbit for the search.) (Man 1: Kill me. I want love.) (Man 3: No. Then I'll get the death penalty.) (Man 1: Death benefit.)
erik.vanthienen about 10 years ago
From the moment you’re born, until you die, you’re just a consumer, and basically toast …
Nebulous Premium Member about 10 years ago
You do realize that BEING loved is different from GIVING love, right?And, to be fair, you should have said “SOME Women want…”
HabaneroBuck about 10 years ago
Nonsense, John Locke. As Ted aptly demonstrates, honoring the LIVING is an indicator of civilization. Public demonstrations of caring for the dead are political theater, and expensive theater at that.
HabaneroBuck about 10 years ago
Jesus excoriated the Pharisees for honoring and decorating the tombs of the prophets, while being, in essence, the very ones who would have killed the prophets in the first place. It was easier to love the prophets after the fact.
moosemin about 10 years ago
The fifth panel of this ’toon reminded me of what I read in a book about the sinking of the Titanic a few years ago. A new employee of the White Star Line was hired, and his first voyage as a worker was on that ill-fated ship. He died during the sinking. He had not yet paid for the suit which WS supplied him. A few weeks after the disaster, White Star sent the bill for his uniform to his mother. THIS REALLY OCCURED!
rossevrymn about 10 years ago
Rall wants us to be ants……..just another pathetic Marxist….Here’s a growny-up thought, individual people have their own agendas………………….But I want to control everyone!