Michael Ramirez for January 25, 2015

They’d fix the Iranian mess by imposing more sanctions against Iran during negotiations among our allies, pissing them all off.

No cartoon today is quite appropriate for the following news item, but I thought it was interesting enough to violate the rule of relevance (which is hardly observed, anyway).

“A simple errand turned violent for Clarence Daniels this week when he went to Walmart for some coffee creamer and wound up in a chokehold.Upon arriving at the Walmart in Florida’s Hillsborough County on Tuesday, the 62-year-old Daniels, who is black, grabbed his handgun from his car and slipped it into a hip holster underneath his coat. Watching this from inside the store was Michael Foster, a 43-year-old white man described by the Tampa Bay Times as “a well-intentioned vigilante.” As soon as Daniels walked into the store, Foster tackled him, shouting, “He’s got a gun!” Ignoring Daniels’ repeated yells of, “I have a permit!” Foster proceeded to put him into a chokehold. When sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene, they confirmed that Daniels was indeed a concealed carry permit holder and Foster was arrested and charged with battery.Fortunately, no one was injured in the scuffle, which might explain why the incident was not widely covered and why the local coverage chalked it up to an honest misunderstanding. And maybe it was an honest misunderstanding. But Foster’s instinct to take matters into his own hands and attack a man he thought might pose a threat to his fellow Walmart shoppers pulls into focus the state of vigilantism in the U.S., and Florida in particular.”

I assume that Mr. Daniels would have been within his rights to pull his gun and shoot Mr. Foster.

I don’t mean to nitpick but what ‘fahr’ any way.

All the issues in the world does not make my problems easier to deal with so please excuse me for not caring about them.

Careful, don’t bite your tongue. There’s no vaccine for that yet.

That’s what it looks like from here in Canada.

Same pronunciation in Maryland. Here’s one — in grade four (that was with the teacher who said that whales are fish) we had a class discussion about the proper pronunciation of the word “towel”; the other students and the teacher all agreed that it’s one syllable, “tal”, rhymes with “pal”. What would it be in West Virginia?

Great toon to demonstrate "W"’s and the Republican “successes”.

Nice counter-factual you have going there. If you bothered to actually read the reports, the police arrested the guy who committed assault while screaming about a gun, not hte guy who was legally carrying a licensed concealed weapon. IAW, the police and the law supported the black man’s rights, since he was, in fact behaving legally. But by all means, scream institutional racism while the institution applies the law in a color-blind fashion.

I remember as a child in Idaho seeing men open carrying guns in stores and no one batted an eye. I’m not against concealed carry for citizens as long as they go through training like police. I think the man was in error to take a gun out of his car in open view and holster it. He should have just left it in his locked car. It would have been interesting if he was a detective and came into the store and the man attacked him.

I grew up near Balmur. You know, where the Balmur Orioles play.

Such a mantra and mandate is all the matters, truth doesn’t matter. Reality doesn’t matter. Not having all the facts doesn’t matter. ^^It’s so amazing how day after day you keep perfectly describing yourself!

Love the cartoon though. Very creative to take a current topic about the NFL & apply it to obama & his failed liberal ideals.