State of the Union by Carl Moore
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State of the Union is the result of a self-professed "fallen liberal’s" journey from radical socialism to conversative cartooning. Combining startling caricatures with a sly sense of humor and a sharp eye for satire, this innovative new strip will be sure to tickle your funnybone while making you think.
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GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
EWW! Big tongue joke - drawn poorly and in “bad taste.” No surprises here tonight. With all that’s happened in the world, war, economy, health care, etc - this is what Moore comes up with?
Re: Moonbattery link - I wouldn’t click on any link with a questionable tag like that. Be careful and have your security software on “high” to keep out any possible trojans, virus’, etc. You never know by the extremists who hang out there (including Someguy53) what evil spyware may be lurking.
Moonbats was a term used in an old Robert Heinlein short story “Space Jockey”. Today it refers to the left wing liberals (wing nuts are right wing conservatives). My guess is you won’t find signs of intelligence at something called Moonbattery. I’m not going there to find out.
Jor-El said, 4 months ago
After 8 years of Bushisms, we now have to suffer Biden’s gaffes. Some of my favorites:
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’ll get it wrong …”
“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America … Quite frankly, [she] might have been a better pick than me.”
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.”
[The stock market crashed while Hoover was president, and television was only being developed when FDR was president.]
Classic “W” malapropisms:
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
“We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
“People say, ‘How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?’ You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in’s house and say I love you.”
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
“You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one.”
“There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t want you to let me down again.’ ”
“They misunderestimated me.”
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.”
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”
Ain’t that a fact.
jukeofurl
said,
4 months ago
Call Lecter, he’ll hold his tongue for him.
Buzzy-One said, 4 months ago
Seems as though someone here misses “Uncle Dick”.
sablebrush5 said, 4 months ago
Biden is slowly but surely becoming the Dan Quayle of this administration. His gaffes are mounting, his blowhard quotient is rising, and his irrelevance more and more obvious.
His current trip to Iraq is an attempt to make him look like he’s actually doing something. In fact, he’s being laughed at behind his back by the military guys over there.
And this notion that he’s some kind of guru on foreign policy is a joke. He’s been wrong on just about every major issue over the last ten years. Just two years ago he was talking about how Iraq as one unified country was a hopeless case and it should be split into three separate states. Now he’s saying, “Oops… nevermind.”
It’s only a matter of time before Obama truly regrets having picked this turkey to be his vice-president… if he doesn’t already.
3hourtour said, 4 months ago
..He’s ‘Biden’ his time….
LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago
On the “Hillary Clinton would have been a better pick” quote:
The only part that bothers me is that he ended the sentence with “me” and it should have been “I”.
Otherwise, I have no problem with the statement at all.
Radical-Knight
said,
4 months ago
Jor-El - The quotes were funny, should have thrown in a few of Uncle Ronny’s and Dan Quayle’s blunders too.
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
Jor-El - Thanks for the list- I’m having some good laughs ;-)) too! Goes to show why folks have been saying - it’s not the strip that’s entertaining, but the comments!
Laughter heals - common knowledge - here’s more from WebMd:
http://www.webmd.com/video/laughter-heals
Lewreader
said,
4 months ago
You knew from his years in Congress that Biden was a big mouth fool. Why werre we so busy poking fun of Palin?
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
marktrail imposter is back from his “trip to Argentina”! He’s probably fool enough to go clicking on something called moonbattery. Hey marktrail imposter - go follow the lemmings over the cliff and preach to the choir :-))
Jor-El said, 4 months ago
@Radical-Knight:
This one’s for you, but does anybody even remember Dan Quayle? I’ve tried so hard to forget him.
Please enjoy the former Vice President’s wordplay:
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”
“For NASA, space is still the priority.”
“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
“Mars is essentially in the same orbit…Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”
[Sounds like a scoop for Art Bell!]
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.”
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean, in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy–but that could change.”
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’”
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
“I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future. The future will be better tomorrow.”
“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach.”
“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
@Radical-Knight:
I am a Jeffersonian conservative, and often wonder if this nation no longer produces minds as great as Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers.
When JFK hosted a dinner and reception honoring Nobel Prize winners he commented:
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Dan Quayle actually compared himself to JFK.
Quite frankly, Quayle was not in the mold of JFK nor Thomas Jefferson.
That Dan Quayle might have become president…
…well, I shudder at the thought.
The classic Quayle gaffe, though, was when he visited an elementary school. The vice president was in front of the classroom when he was asked to write the word “potato” on the blackboard. He wrote: POTATOE
I would advise people, in the future, to please consider the ‘cringe factor’ when they choose their elected officials.
jmworacle said, 4 months ago
Please! Will someone call the authorities and report that “FarLeftside” is being held hostage and forced to read this strip!
Norman
said,
4 months ago
sablebrush5 said:
It’s only a matter of time before Obama truly regrets having picked this turkey to be his vice-president… if he doesn’t already.
It will only be a bit later before the voters truly regret picking the ‘Messiah Turkey’ for the presidency.
God help the USA
DD FENCE EMET said, 4 months ago
farleftside said, about 11 hours ago
Asians can’t drive, black’s can’t drive, Mexican’s can’t drive, white’s can’t jump and Biden can’t shut up.
Sigh.
**Tiger Woods can drive very well, as can many Asian golfers. ChiChi Rodriguez could drive, but couldn’t putt.
We ‘whites’ can jump high if there’s a snake around, only to come down and pounce on it’s slinky head. **
You, farleftside, can’t think before you type. You are the most prejudiced person we have never met. A.
DD FENCE EMET said, 4 months ago
@Jor-el:
Latin America is so called because of the Inquistition and Cathlicism forcing people to convert or be killed in North America. If they converted, they had to learn Latin, as it was all pre-vatican II. Most converted, quite obviously.
And there should be strong bondage between a mother and a child - otherwise social services steps in and tries to divide the family even more than it does by giving the father no rights in the first place.
As for NASA? I too took up space in college.
Believing you are on a irreversible trend does not preclude CHANGE from happening. Even HaShem ‘repented’ of the destruction of Ninevah (for awhile) when they city repented after Jonah’s warnings.
The ten commandments were spoken to be ‘the ten words’. A ‘word ‘can be a phrase or a sentence.
People compare themselves to other people all the time, thinking they are better than them. i.e. ‘I am not as evil as ……” so I am going to
heaven.
We all grow more practically in certain places as opposed to others. There is nothing practical about California.
Teachers teach, pastors preach, but you can learn from both at times.
Potatoe: potato with energy at the end.
I got Dan Quayle’s back this time. ;)
Have a nice sabbath rest for a real change and forget this ‘indepependence from HaShem’ lifestyle in the Americas.
pbuckland said, 4 months ago
Let’s set the record straight on Dan Quayle’s supposed spelling blunder. Read:
http://www.rightgrrl.com/carolyn/potatoe.html
Potatoe is an archaic spelling of the word that did not go out of fashion until the late 1800’s. Prior to that, either spelling was considered correct. It is still correct to leave it there for the plural spelling which contravenes logic if there had not been some historical significance to it. There are still organizations that use that spelling such as:
Black Potatoe” records, a New Jersey company founded in 1988 and Sun Valley Potatoe Growers, Inc.”, an Idaho co-op. http://www.idaho-potatoes.com/potatoe.html, who should know something about the spelling.
Jor-El said, 4 months ago
@pbuckland:
Who cannot be entertained by the direction that this comment board takes each and every day?
Your point is well taken, but the common–and singular–usage of the word “potato” (which, by the way, Quayle was asked to spell) is, in fact, POTATO.
Regarding the “Potatoe” Growers co-op, many companies will use a word variant for the purpose of brand identification.
For example, Santa’s Factoree is an on-line store that downloads Christmas music. Obviously, they are attempting to draw attention to their name, “Factoree”, which in the past was a plural usage of the word “factory”.
In the context of POTATOE, it is commonly accepted that vice president Quayle misspelled the word.
Oh, and I enjoy reading rightgrrl’s blog.
Jor-El said, 4 months ago
@EMET:
Hope you had a great Canada Day.
[EMET made a reference to HaShem. For those who don’t know, HaShem is a referential name for G*D the Creator.]
Quayle’s comment…
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
…reflects an eternal truth, but was misspoken.
“Bondage”, in this sense, connotes slavery or servitude.
Quayle meant to use the word “bond” as in “the bond (or connection) between mother and child”.
And I agree that a healthy society begins with a strong family “bond”.
Quayle is right about that.
As a historian and political scientist I understand the history of Latin America.
Regarding Quayle’s comment…
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
…I think he meant to say “Spanish”, although French and Portugese would have been useful as well.
P.S. Did you answer my question yesterday at In the Bleachers?
Also, I just posted an article on Sonia Sotomayor at my website:
http://theconservativeledger.blogspot.com/
You’re welcome to visit.
DD FENCE EMET said, 4 months ago
Ok Jor-el - the Latin thing was just a rather curious statement with a bit of truth in the ‘sod’ layer.
Just can’t help wanting to explain the past with a humerous twist at times.
Now I’l check yesterday…
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
It’s ok EMET - farleftside has a style of humor that can be considered “tongue in cheek” that may not be picked up by reading words on a screen.
For those who have not been following along - go back to say, June 26th S.O.T.U. and look at the pattern/flow of material to today’s strip. There are some folks who would be offended by the stereotypes used in each one (I was sorta hoping someone from A.I.M. would join in the discussion on the casino one). Mocking someone’s race/culture crosses a line I wouldn’t cross. Mocking a Mocker is the difference I noticed in the posting.
I have a friend who was born in Canada who looks at me quizzically when I get going on some tangent that I think is funny. She explained to me once that she’s from Canada & didn’t grow up with the “sense of humor” I learned from my brothers (my sister didn’t - (still doesn’t) have a sense of humor about some things).
BTW - my mother’s father was born in Quebec Provence, spoke French as well as English & worked as a lumberjack in his youth. AND I used to watch hockey with my dad when he was still alive - watched alot of Red Wing games. I like the Canadian National Anthem - don’t know all the words, but I can hum along with the music. A
DD FENCE EMET said, 4 months ago
Yes, Jor-el. Check In the bleachers today.
(Bleachers are people who wash their laundry and want to get them really clean and white! hahahah)
boldyuma said, 4 months ago
Joe Biden….”when we want his opinion….we’ll beat it out of him”…thanks to Chuck Norris fot that quote……
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
Plop…Plop Fizz…Fizz Oh what a relief it is. I’m having a picnic with friends and watch fireworks the city provides. Enjoy your weekend Folks!
marktrail imposter U should spend more time out enjoying life instead of being just like an old sour puss__! (rhymes with wussy).
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
4 months ago
Someguy53 - your holding on the paste button(s) toooooo long OR you just like to repeat stuff - Ad Nauseam - to make a point OR you’ve been out in the heat toooo long and got dehydrated. You should drink water instead of “CH3CH2OH”.
http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/alcohol.html
marktrail imposter - perhaps you need more Fiber in your diet - that would help you keep regular and your colon would feel less irritable. A friend of mine used to ask her kid if she was “regular” when she observed her being cranky.