Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 27, 2021

I’m fairly sure there’s a few passages in the Bible warning against tempting the Almighty. A passage that’s not explicitly found in the Bible, but should be: “The Almighty tends to favor those who help themselves.”

Jesus says that stupidity is a sin (Mark 7:21-23). So don’t be idiots, folks…

Why wasn’t she content with the bleach injections and chloroquine?

A version of the old joke with many variations. The guy praying to win the lottery. The punch line God saying “Work with me and buy a damn ticket!” The guy in the flood and god exclaiming “I sent a life jacket, boat, and a helicopter! You refused them all!!!” Create your own situations and end with an exasperated supreme being.

reminds me of that old joke….

A storm descends on a small town, and the downpour soon turns into a flood. As the waters rise, the local preacher kneels in prayer on the church porch, surrounded by water. By and by, one of the townsfolk comes up the street in a canoe.

“Better get in, Preacher. The waters are rising fast.”

“No,” says the preacher. “I have faith in the Lord. He will save me.”

Still the waters rise. Now the preacher is up on the balcony, wringing his hands in supplication, when another guy zips up in a motorboat.

“Come on, Preacher. We need to get you out of here. The levee’s gonna break any minute.”

Once again, the preacher is unmoved. “I shall remain. The Lord will see me through.”

After a while the levee breaks, and the flood rushes over the church until only the steeple remains above water. The preacher is up there, clinging to the cross, when a helicopter descends out of the clouds, and a state trooper calls down to him through a megaphone.

“Grab the ladder, Preacher. This is your last chance.”

Once again, the preacher insists the Lord will deliver him.

And, predictably, he drowns.

A pious man, the preacher goes to heaven. After a while he gets an interview with God, and he asks the Almighty, “Lord, I had unwavering faith in you. Why didn’t you deliver me from that flood?”

God shakes his head. “What did you want from me? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”

The old story of the man in the flood, who rejected a canoe, a lifeboat, and a helicopter before drowning. At the pearly gate he confronts god

“Why didn’t you save me?”

“I sent a canoe, a lifeboat and a helicopter”, says god, “didn’t you see them?”

“Stupid is as stupid does.”

– - – - – - – - – - – - – Forrest Gump

Livestock dewormer? Sounds like the perfect treatment for a horse’s behind!

Horse pills… Frikkin’ horse pills… There’s nowhere left to go, folks. Health agencies are just going to have to start writing out lists of all the things that don’t cure COVID.

Hydroxychloroquine, bleach, horse de-wormer, bug spray, floor cleaner, shoe polish, oven cleaner, toilet water, eating bugs, swallowing rocks, paper cuts, drilling holes into your head to let the COVID out, getting more COVID, cancer, leeches.

This could take some time.

Ms Mills is clearly not a true conservative, she didn’t even point out that protecting herself with the shield would make her nothing but a slave of the state!

Besides the old joke that ends with “I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter”, there’s a passage from the Bible that’s relevant. specifically Matthew 4:5-7. It’s from Christ’s temptation in the desert.

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

I think the clear message of that is, “Don’t be stupid and expect God to protect you.”

You want God to protect you? He sent you Dr. Fauci and you bore false witness against him. He sent you three different vaccines, and you chose to listen to false prophets and swallow horse dewormer instead. He told you “love thy neighbor as thyself” and “whatever you do unto the last and least of these, you do unto Me”, and you compared social distancing and face masks to the Holocaust.

You just can’t fix stupid. The only cure for stupid is death. And don’t let them breed nor vote. May Covid avoid you and yours my friends.

God helps those who realize they can’t help them selves.

This is SO DAMN ACCURATE that it’s scary… and rather sad.

I’m ok with the ignorant/stupid people killing themselves off, we’ll all be better for it in the long run. I just wish so many innocents weren’t going along for the ride!

Like the old joke about the drowning man.

Wrong god. Millie seems to worship an orange one.

“I did THIS for you! I did THAT for you!”

“If only your ways weren’t so darned mysterious!”

Don’t people remember the story of the drowning man, who so firmly believe that God will save him, that he rejected the offer to help from a man in a boat, then a ship, and finally a helicopter? When he drowned, he asked God why He didn’t help him. God said, “I sent you a boat, a ship, and a helicopter!”

As I read the many comments and replies, I found the story of the guy drowning and refusing several attempts to help him repeated numerous times. . . Just makes me wonder if people just like repeating rather than thinking, or if they do a lot of commenting with little to no reading!

People who ingest hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and bleach won’t take a vaccine that’s now been successfully tested on a few billion people around the world.

My wife is an Evangelical Christian. Her church, here in Machala is pastored by a gringo husband and wife team originally from Pittsburgh, PA. ( They’ve been missionary co-pastors here for 30 years ).

When the lockdown was finally eased to allow a limited number of worshipers to attend Sunday services, I was amazed at the sensible precautions her church had taken. As well as requiring all of the congregation to wear a protective mask – whether vaccinated or not – the seating was separated, temperatures were taken prior to entry, the entrance was roped off in such a way as to guide the churchgoers to two outdoor hand-washing stations prior to entering where you were required to use a hand-sanitizer before taking a seat.

Apart from the signs posted about wearing masks, there were two posters prominently displayed saying in Spanish, " God Helps Those Who Help Themselves … Get Your Shots! "

I’m friendly with the Pastor ( He tolerates practicing agnostics like myself ), so I asked him if he were contravening the majority thinking of his U.S. Church affiliation. He said that he’d become a missionary to save souls and to save lives where and when he could, but not to “preach politics” or deny common sense.

I’m sure that Freud would have a field day with Green Vaccine in panel 7!

I say we go ahead and build the moron’s wall – but build across the northern border old Florida.

Anybody doesn’t want a vaccine or a mask? Ship them there where the half-wit governor agrees, and let the intelligent, decent people finally get this thing under control (we would have to post 24-hour sentries every few yards to shoot anyone trying to climb over and reinfect those who remained in civilization – but I’m pretty much OK with that; herds need to be culled of the weaker members for the overall good).

Among the droller of the pinheaded antivax comments is the boast that “I don’t need a vaccine, I have an immune system” or something to that effect. As if “immune system” and “vaccine” were alternatives.

This is like that old joke.

A guy is drowning. A bartender pulls up in a rowboat and says “Can I give you a shot? I’m also a pharmacist.” The man says “No, I want to drink livestock medicine.” So a farm supply salesman pulls up in a second boat and pours him a shot of dewormer, which he drinks. Then God flies down in a helicopter to take him up to heaven, but he never bought a ticket so he sinks down to hell!

Based on a true story! Really!

A variation on the Three Boats.

Hey, let ‘em not get vaccinated. It’s evolution at work. Improve the human species. Furthermore, not getting the shot will greatly reduce the number of Godforsaken conservatives on this planet. It’s a win-win.

The genius of this cartoon, however, is that in this pointed retelling of the old joke, the helicopter (or third boat) is God Himself, specifically telling Millie what to do, and she is so dug into her position that she rejects His direct command, the very command that will accomplish what she says she wants! To paraphrase: "Hurry! Let me save you, Millie! “No! I have faith that you’ll save me!”