Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 24, 2010

Which one (if any) would you give to?

I’d just buy a latte.

Very cynical, WM

love the holy rollers hat. is that the religious right?

I’d give them a cup of hot water so they could make tea!

Cup of hot water? You mean the one they put the country in?

Thebird55: donations go the the guy or the bear in the alley down the street.

O.K. we’ll just call her a jesus freak.

From the perspective of readers the pair is on the left and leftists are like religious fanatics. “Let us sacrifice ourselves for the greater good of the group.” Kind of like the bunch at Jonestown, Guyana.

Teabagger, conservative voter, and conservative politician.

good one, wiley. keep telling the truth!

Good morning all! :D

I think I’m politically perceptive, but I don’t get the first couple’s sign at all, altho it is clear Wiley is attempting to smear his Leftist straw-man version of the Right.

As for the second sign, if he were an out-of-work government bureaucrat, we need more like him, millions more. Few things would help the economy more than obliging those drones to get productive jobs.

What? There ARE no jobs, you say? Sure, not as long as a good-sized chunk of America’s economy is drained to support that governmental dead-weight. Reduce the government, reduce the taxes, and watch the recovery start.

Ji2m I thought it was political :gasp:

“What do you mean, massive tax cuts for billionaires, perpetual war and minority bashing won’t help the middle class?”

Very provocative. Putting the good of the many before self serving interests led to their demise. Yet the self serving pinhead beside them is laid off as a result.

Wiley, can we go back to funny again?

Wowsers Perfesser shearer spews more opinionated lectures than the Okie!

The folks on the left have demonstrated once again that P.T.Barnum was right: there is indeed a sucker born every minute.

If the rich are paying more than the middle class already, what do you want to do, stop investment in America? Let’s penalize corporations till they lay off more people. Should doctors, lawyers and other professional who paid for years of schooling and work 100+ hours/wk make more than eighth grade dropout ditch diggers? I think not. Just because you put off a family till you were established financially is no reason that family should reap the rewards. Hell no! Joe Schmoe, who works 40 hours and has the luxury of seeing his kids grow should make as much as a man who sacrifices his life and family.

After all, is it his fault that he doesn’t have the ambition and self-denial of the men that made America great?

Gotta take the six little ones down the Government office for their free shots and breakfast.

@LewReader–

If someone is giving out free shots for breakfast, sign me up! I’ll have some Old Bushmill’s, neat…

Anyone should plainly see , the depiction on the left is meant to be a Holy Standing , begging for money or has a bladder problem or hawking the three , what ever is hanging from the hat . Holy Rollers are usually Rolling on the floor or Rolling prone somewhere else .

Just to stir the puddin’.

Looks to me like the couple are saying they voted for Obama, and she’s wearing the old hippie clothes she just couldn’t bring herself to dispose of. Of course, they go to a Reverend Wright’s church.

1: Nobody’s investing in America anymore. It’s getting sold short. 2: The conservative couple “believed” they were dong the correct thing. Obviously it wasn’t for them or anyone. 3: Hoover’s economic policies caused the first depression. They were applied under the last administration and this is what we have. The guy on the right in the cartoon is correct. 4: What rough: I believe Mr. Blake was surely taking about our times. Since the beast will be spouting religion and not real Christianity, he’d likely sign Mr. Wright or Mr. (FOX nets) Murdock EITHER ONE up for his Prophet.

None of which diminished the truth of this comic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm

Aren’t those tea bags hanging from the lady’s hat? No one mentioned that, but would certainly identify their political leanings even more than the holy book.

Perhaps entropy applies to political systems as well as physics.

I’m rather fond of the sinking boat analogy. You can discuss WHY the boat is sinking until it settles on the bottom or you can bail. Talk about it on the safety of shore.

Let’s all be selfish! We’ll all have jobs.

Yep. That works.

I used to sell art on the street till I got in to college.. I know people who play instruments do tricks too.. I say if you’re going to give some one money give it to the person who at least tries to give some thing back..

@lamerandomname.. I’m just a polite Canadian, however your Treasury Department doesn’t support your ascertation. The numbers say you are wrong about the accrued debt of the last fiscal period.

We all have different interests, but that is just the point. We are all in the same boat so bail like hell until were out of this, and let’s talk about it later.

Ease off the coffee…

when i saw the hat, my first thought was “Minnie Pearl.”

@Barbaratoo - great BBC link! Yes folks, that is how the rest of the developed world sees your politics.

Hey pschearer can we put that on hold for 377 days please?

joe, southern baptist - pentecosta, what’s the diff? i’m a medthodist & episcopalian. if its good to believe in one god, its a bleeep site better to believe in two. since when did you have to be a pentecostal to be a holy roller. basically, a holy roller is anyone trying to tell you god is the way, the truth, the light, and hit you up for some change. I still like the hat on the holy roller.

The ones on the left just regret voting for Obushma.

Liberal elites say; do things our way & everyone benefits. Economic elites say; do things our way & you might get rich, too. Buy the donation card or the lottery ticket. Or a gun; do things my way or I’ll shoot you. Terrorists say; it’s your fault I shot you, because you didn’t do as I said.

jsprat said, about 2 hours ago:

“I’m rather fond of the sinking boat analogy. You can discuss WHY the boat is sinking until it settles on the bottom or you can bail. Talk about it on the safety of shore.”

I like your thinking. I would just add that while we bail as fast as we can, we should also be trying to plug the hole. :)

I don’t mind paying taxes. U.S. taxes are the lowest of all developed countries. I’m sure we all love this country, but, some of us are willing to put our money where our mouths are. There is only 12 percent discretionary spending in the budget, unless you count defense spending (23 percent)as discretionary spending. (Wiki U.S Budget, there’s a nice pie chart). 12 percent is all there is to argue over. This is the first year since ‘02, our wars have been included in the defense budget, btw.

Of all the things I could comment on, all I’m thinking about is her hat! What kind of tea do you think she is wearing? If it’s anything good I might give her a quarter for it.

She also doesn’t seem to have any feet… wearing high heels maybe? This does not help my opinion of her at all. High heels are one of the dumbest things women wear, not to mention it makes it hard for the rest of us to find dress shoes that don’t have any kind of heel. I hate shopping for shoes (or any clothes for that matter) as it is, the search for practical decent looking dress shoes is just torture. Not sure what hate more, shoe shopping or jean shopping (I am convinced some man with an evil sense of humor made up the sizing for women jeans).

By the by Wiley, great toon!

California is a the poster child for what happens if infrastructure deteriorates, terrible schools second from bottom in the nation, prisons at twice capacity with Federal intervention likely and very high recidivism, many hours per day wasted on commuting because of traffic jams, social services cut meaning more turn to crime to support themselves and wind up in prison for three square meals. Its been said that California leads the Nation. I sure hope not this time, but it will happen if the tea bagger types take over and infrastructure goes. You have to spend money to make money.

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” We knew back in the 70’s that our reliance on oil would lead to social and economic disaster, but we learned and did nothing once things improved. We knew in the 80’s that “trickle-down economics” (or “Reaganomics”) was a mistake. But once more we learned and did nothing once things improved. The Dot-Bomb recession of the 90’s was an object example of how belief in empty promises could lead to disaster and yet again we learned and did nothing. Now the economic bubble of the first decade has burst and the pattern is ready to repeat itself. Will we finally swallow the hard truth and take the costly, socially-and-economically-painful-in-the-short-term measures needed to ensure sustained social and economic prosperity? Or will we return to our usual short-sighted, immediate satisfaction ways and face the same thing ten years from now? We have the technologies needed, we know what has to be done from the very base of society to the top tiers of government, but we lack the gumption to do what has to be done. Will this give us the proverbial kick in the butt to crack the broken bone of America as a whole back into place and splint it so it fully heals? Time will tell, but the past says, “no, it won’t.”

Phew, that feels better. I just had to get that off my chest.

ronaldmundy said, about 4 hours ago

“joe, southern baptist - pentecosta, what’s the diff? i’m a medthodist & episcopalian. if its good to believe in one god, its a bleeep site better to believe in two. since when did you have to be a pentecostal to be a holy roller. basically, a holy roller is anyone trying to tell you god is the way, the truth, the light, and hit you up for some change. I still like the hat on the holy roller.”

Just one more example of the ignorance in “mainstream” Christianity.

Maybe this isn’t about the past, maybe it’s Wiley’s prediction of the future. If the tea party people really wanted to cut taxes, they’d have to cut their own social security and medicare. That would go against their interests, but that’s what they seem to want…

CA_QUERCUS–but don’t forget that Clinton pushed through NAFTA and other “free trade” pacts that sent all our jobs to China in return for lead-tainted toys. So he’s far from off the hook in my book.

HPM; Well spoken……

And to all you folks who do read and believe; there is a day of judgment coming for those who during their lives turned their backs on the less fortunate among us as well as those who use our labor, manipulate our future and leave us to whatever end we can expect to make for ourselves; our lifetime of labor causing us to become useless in our old age to our community, society and country. I don’t think it will matter whether they call themselves Democrat or Republican; the sentence will be the same.

James 5:1-6.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

Your riches have rotted and your garments have become motheaten.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and with you have withheld, cries out against you; and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

This strip makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, no one exposited it at all. Why did these folks get laid off? Who did they vote for? How did it affect the individual on the right….if they are Righties on the left, why are they asking for handouts, Righties are opposed to handouts. If they are Lefties, why is she holding a Bible? Are we to assume she’s a “tea-bagger”? How did any American who just wants America to honor its foundation get anybody else out of a job? It’s all evidence of one confused little mentality.

The solution is whiskey–in a solution of whiskey in, say, sparkling water. Takes away the pain until morning.

The greatest problem with Democracy is that the people get the kind of government they deserve.

Seems to me that in general “we” have been voting in our own personal selfish interest for most of the past twenty or thirty years. Individually we want all the government services that benefit us personally but do not want to pay for any service that might benefit some else but not us.

Better yet, let’s vote for a new service and pay for it with debt - let someone else pay for it some time in the future.

Folks, the credit cards are maxed out. The bills come due NOW.

The CBO recently projected current trends in Federal expenditures and revenue to 2010. If absolutely nothing changes - all passed legislation becomes affective as passed, no new expenditures are made and no new revenue sources are created - AND the overall economy recovers to robust growth by the end of this year (like that’s going to happen); in 2010 80% of all projected Federal revenue will be spent on payment of national debt, Social Security and Medicare. Figure it out: that leaves only 20% of all revenue for everything else, including Defense and Security.

Mea culpa. Of course 2010 above should uniformly read 2020, Late night, long day, old eyes.<<