Mike Luckovich for December 28, 2011

You can clean up the pooch’s droppings off of the top of Mitt’s car next.

Repubtards have lead another Lamda slaughter?

Omigawd, that’s a scenario I’d be happy with. No newt!

Nope,but the new year has spawned a gaggle of new trolls. Maybe howie gave it’s offspring “trolling cash”.

cjr: No Newt is good newt?

So the mere mention of work is hurting the ears of libs? Lol, what Newt was talking about was starting a new government program, which hurts us control spending types…so don’t worry libs, no one will have to work, nor have a job if the Dems keep the Senate and President Obama the wannabe Socialist gets reelected.

If Newt had his way:

SrSeesNosense: I started working in my folks restaurant at age 6. My first “paying” job, paying Social Security tax, was at age 12. It is amazing how “blue collar” folks can ignore all the jobs lost, and sent overseas during the years, and policies, of Reagan/Bush/Bush, and yes Republicans still pushed for more destruction of America’s job infrastructure during the Clinton years as well, at both states and federal level. Child labor is still common around the world, and many firms (U.S.) keep getting caught for fueling the “market”, but still pay no real penalty. Greed may be good, but only for a few, Caesars and CEOs have always shared that view.

MAYBE NEWT WILL BE NAMED SECRETARY OF EDUCATION – WOULDN’T THAT BE JUICY.

I had a paper route for four and a half years – from the time I was eleven until I turned sixteen. Now, you can’t get a paper route until you have a driver’s license, car and insurance.

Speaking of jagoff thieves, there has been a lot of newspaper vending machines having all of the newspapers taken by people into extreme couponing. It’s especially bad on Sundays. For the price of buying one paper @ $1.50 or $2.00, thieves will remove dozens of papers. Most of those boxes are stocked by the individual carrier who had to pay for the papers, not the newspaper.

We have a guy who WALKS a newspaper route, because he used to have a well-paid union job until the mill closed, to move operations to a non-union state. The other person is a lady who uses her car to run the route, because SHE’s 80 years old! Such is the “economy” “W” left us with!

Who cares its old news blown out of proportion by the left. Hang on tho they will surely find out he pooped his diaper once.

and I walked thru the snow uphill both ways to go to school.

Succinct, well spoken, but irrelevant. Newt wasn’t suggesting hiring high school students (or babies, as M.L. suggests), but 10-12 year olds, in violation of child labor and safety laws.

yes, today’s kids are spoiled brats, expecting everything for nothing, no taxes, just profits, and someone else will do the work for you, including fighting the wars you start: Do we need a better definition of REPUBLICAN positions since Reagan took office????

And we were thankful!

And, while your at it, take a bath!

newt says that poor kids should work, but not rich kids? and, what qualifies as rich or a kid? and, shouldn’t kids have a childhood? does newt’s version of kids that shouldn’t work are from wealthy families with a net worth of 10 million dollars, white with a lineage from england only, protestant(anglican), blonde hair, blue eyes, not obese, super athletes, and super smart.

“After our father killed us all.”

You forgot “…and danced on our graves.”

I have mixed feelings on this. When I was a kid, my dad owned a small business, and on Saturdays my sister, my brother and I would do light janitorial work at his office for a couple of hours. It was sort of an extension of “chores”, and while we didn’t get an hourly wage it was figured into our allowances. I certainly didn’t enjoy it, but it never did me any harm.

Drafting schoolchildren to do maintenance is a different matter, though. School should be conducive to learning, and those in the lower income levels — the ones most likely to be called upon to participate in a scheme like this — are likely to be the ones whose homelives are least focussed on education.

As it was asked in “Sylvia” a couple of times this past week, “If poor kids need to have work habits instilled in them, does that mean rich kids don’t?”

Might as well print the whole thing (at least the ‘capper’)…

“I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing ‘Hallelujah.’

“But you try and tell the young people today that… and they won’t believe ya’.”

Let Newt hand a mop to one of the Walton kids, and see how much work he gets out of them.

My GoComics birthday? Yeah, you go on thinking that, if it makes you feel better.

(sniff)

(PS: I accidentally deleted my previous post, so Happy New Year again, to one and all. The weather here in SF is GORGEOUS today; if it holds on another 365 days, I won’t complain.)

Happy New Year, bright sunshine here, and all the way up to 36 degrees!!

Hey Bullwinkle! Not at all! I did respond to sr non liberal above. But I don’t STAY “mad” any anyone very long even if I do. Ah, but for the “good old days” when I could just throw ’em in jail, or the older days, that were, well, more “permanent”.

Anaheim? Might be a toasty day in Pasadena tomorrow too? We used to go up on Colorado Blvd. every year to a friends bakery to watch the parade. My niece is a crew boss on one of the major floats, has been working on them for years. A guy here in town also goes down every year to run a float crew. I have to try and get up early tomorrow to watch ’em.

Have a very happy New Year indeed.

Today didn’t start at all well with the shooting of a Ranger at Mt. Rainier N.P. , definitely upsetting to those of us who’ve “been in the family”.

So is he just cleaning up Obamas mess.

Nut Gingroach.