State of the Union by Carl Moore

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SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

Whew… that was close. I really wanted to post first so I could serve up break fast…..

I just got in from a game of Risk. I lost the world but gained my soul. So I’m serving up a little Pep cereal, Life cereal and spam. Since I have no money left after losing the world, its all I have left in my soul food cabinet.

I tried hard to keep Iceland. It was my last stronghold. I then encouraged the vice world-owner to hang onto Ontario as long as possible.

It’s still good fishing there.

California looks grumpy today. They are tring to get to the sole issues of debt.
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 3 months ago

Carl Moore lives in California according to:

http://www.creators.com/comics/state-of-the-union-about.html

Must Feel Real Good making fun of his fellow Californians!

A - Oooh Good One Letter Intellectual Discourse! Makes one want to: ZZZZZZZZZ……
Shaliach said, 3 months ago

The Governator’s approval rating is 28%. Gray Davis, his predecessor, stood at 26% before he was recalled.

Maybe Arnold should have stayed in Hollywood making movies?!

I think he made $30 million for T3, but has refused to take any pay as governor.

Go figure.

FLS

Actually, the legislature is controlled by the Democrats; and the Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Controller and Treasurer are all Democrats so there’s plenty of blame to go around.
NancyPelosi said, 3 months ago

One of the things that really killed California is catering to illegal aliens that have sucked the state dry- health care, education, etc. pouring into illegals.

Check out CNN’s Lou Dobbs explaining the abomination of our governments planned illegal amnesties- on criminals, taxes, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULHHJ62TLG8
NancyPelosi said, 3 months ago

I also love how Obama, lying as he and other liberals always do, was telling people that the AARP has come out in support of the Health Care Plan, yet the AARP says, no they have not come out in support of any plan!

But then dishonest, immoral liberals never have a problem lying, however, telling the truth is nearly impossible for them!
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

FLS - our time? There’s more than one on the FLS? Wow.

No one should really be against types of refreshment. However, I do not know which key that is. I used more basic techniques.
I knew you’d be quick on the draw. I didn’t know you’d be so eager to roll the dice though. Why did you edit your comment? Change of heart or change of clubs?

:)

Have a nice one.
Shaliach said, 3 months ago

Mandalit del Barco reported on NPR’s Morning Edition that illegal immigration has contributed significantly to California’s $24 billion deficit.

60% of undocumented immigrants have no health insurance and use hospital emergency rooms for primary care treatment–the cost of which is borne by the state.

Over 70 emergency rooms and trauma centers have closed because they have gone bankrupt treating illegals. This is due to the fact that they aren’t fully reimbursed by the state.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said the cost of incarcerating illegals exceeds half a billion dollars, while providing health care to illegals costs another half billion–and that’s just the expenditures in one California county.

Additionally, L.A. public schools have enrolled 300,000 illegal immigrant children at a cost of $1.5 billion.

California now spends about $4.6 billion yearly to provide services for–or to incarcerate–illegal immigrants.

This is an issue that affects all the border states–not just California.

Gov. Schwarzenegger said that border security is a federal issue, and he has lobbied Washington D.C. since 2003 to reimburse the state for the burdensome costs associated with illegal immigration.
sablebrush5 said, 3 months ago

California is becoming a place entrepreneurs, investment capital and the people who made it a global leader in agriculture, technological innovation and scientific research are fleeing. This exodus is a sign of something deeper than a national recession. It’s a sign that the attempts by politicians to tax and spend their way back to prosperity are killing California.

Entrepreneurs and investors, seeking the path of least resistance, leave when it becomes easier to make a living in more business-friendly states.

But what to do when the entire country follows California’s example as the Obamians are now doing? Unless they are willing to move to another country, what they’ll do is pull in their horns, sit on the sidelines and wait for a better business climate.

As California goes, so goes the Obama administration.
DavidDow said, 3 months ago

Yes, California, run by a Republican know-nothing has huge problems. Should we be surprised? For eight years, America was run by a Republican know-nothing, and we have acquired huge problems that President Obama & the Congress are now trying to fix.

In other respects, though, California’s government does not resemble America’s. Thus, Carl Moore’s thesis is incorrect.
DavidDow said, 3 months ago

In 1999, California had a high percentage of “illegal immigrants” and its economy was booming. It was crowing about how well it was doing. The “illegals” are an easy scapegoat—just as the Jews were for the Germans. The “illegals” are not the problem.
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

GJ_Jehosaphat (from yesterday)
OK Please understand this. I have only flagged 2 types of messages.

1 All messages that directly and rudely insult someone.

2 Messages that consistently repeat themselves.

Example of 1
Someone either calls someone else a name (beyond an idiot or such) or threatens someone else life.

Example of 2
I can not recall both parties names, so I’ll be fair and not mention either. But there was a time several months ago when these 2 would post the same exact message about 20 times each like a couple of little children. It went on for 2 different days, it was quite annoying.

As for you, I have never flagged a post for the name “GJ_Jehosaphat”. I have flagged I believe his name was something like ronorgegon a few months ago, he was a very wise conservative that had alot of great opinions and facts, but he would not stop calling names. I will never flagged a post just because I do not agree with it. This is a direct violation of the free speech I was talking about. So once again I state very clearly, this IS a public forum, anyone any age can visit it. We need to keep this in mind when posting!!! I have posted a few rough posts a few times and I hope they got flagged and removed as well. I am usually pretty good about editing them before I post, but now and again I let my attitude get the best of me.
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EDIT:
As well when you say:
“For folks coming in after previous comments deleted - SOS a common term for Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast (aka S#!% On a Shingle OR Same Old S#!%). Menu items were mentioned by other commentors. Mytinytown must be having a ball being a ball-busting flagger.”
I have no idea what post you are referring to, I am now very curios so either re post it or somehow send it to me. I want to know if I would flag it or not.
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

DavidDow (yesterday)
I did miss your post saying:
“People use President Obama’s middle name to associate him with the “great enemy to the U.S.A.”, Saddam Hussein.”
I do agree with this.
But you also said “America’s mass media are conservative. ”
Wow!!?? Are you serious? You think CNN is conservative? You can see how happy they are every time they can say Obama, USA’s media is FAR from the right, about as far as you can get. I also believe Fox New is the only hope we have, but in my opinion they are leaning a bit to far to the left for me. So this is probably the only good news source out there.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

Sorry Mikey. The the Arnold is the only Republican. For over 12 years the Democrats have controlled the state legislature and set the agenda on expenditures. If you want the credit you got to take the blame.

The California State Legislature currently has a Democratic majority, with the Senate consisting of 25 Democrats and 15 Republicans; and the Assembly having 49 Democrats, 29 Republicans, 1 Independent, and 1 vacancy. Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

farleftside
Someguy53 said, about 7 hours ago
Arnold is a RINO.
I would repeat this, but it would just fall on deaf ears.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

Shaliach

Caught the same thing. This is done I am afraid by Democrats who want to get illegal alien votes. It is a sad thing to do to keep a crummy job.
Mac said, 3 months ago

Republicans running California? As a former Californian just let me say, the last California Republican that was capable of fighting his way out of a paper bag was George Deukmejian.
Ronshua said, 3 months ago

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. –Robert Frost
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

I like quotes. My current favorite is from Barack Obama.
In regards to Obamacare:
“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”
So he means that the private industries are running well, but the government ran monopoly (USPS) is failing?
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM….
Lewreader said, 3 months ago

Connecticut has the same problem as California, a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature. The governor a woman, wants to cut programs like the Permanent Commission on Women and Latino Studies. The legislature wants to raise taxes. Forty eight states passed budgets. We have not.
We had the first constitution in America. We separated executive from legislative in the 1600s. Thank God we did.
twright64 said, 3 months ago

farleftsh-tforbrains:

WOW! You can spin anything any way you like it. Perfect
freakin’ liberal!
10ZEPHYR01 said, 3 months ago

Doesn’t that debt seem a little red eyed and cotton mouthed?
I know readers of this toon could never agree with legalization, but come on it will give so many Mexicans so many new jobs!
Nozzi said, 3 months ago

@ NancyPelosi

Perhaps you might be forgetting how California was acquired in the first place.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

EMET the U.S. health care is getting kicked around. Can you tell me what your thoughts are on this debate please.
mroberts88 said, 3 months ago

California is a liberal state, California is in debt. There seems to be a pattern there. When is America going to do something about all the illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.
DavidDow said, 3 months ago

Yes, TinyT., the mainstream media are conservative. They are big billion-dollar businesses, and they have much invested in things not changing v very much. Furthermore, the fundament of American television is conservative: It wants us to do two things: Watch t.v. & buy stuff. Radical notions of living within one’s means, of refusing artificial needs, of giving more to charity, of creating a society that helps everyone, of noting how the wealthy in America live off the sweat of the working-class & downtrodden—all these notions have no place on television, which is run by the wealthy.

Fundamentally, of course, what television likes is good t.v. The politics matters less. Thus, when the anti-health-care pawns are shouting at legislators, that makes good t.v. When President Obama gives a speech, that makes good t.v.
I would suggest that you broaden your sources beyond the electronic. Read THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, HARPER’S, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, & THE NEW YORKER—five of the more intelligent magazines still published. Also, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, THE NEW REPUBLIC, & THE WASHINGTON POST are still good.

I like that quote of Obama’s, too, TinyT. It shows that the public option in the healthcare plan won’t kill competition but will allow everyone to get healthcare. My best to your wife.

Emet, please take your squabbles off the page. This is for discussion of current national & world affairs. By the way, 5’5” is on the little side.

Roberts, California is in debt, because it’s badly run by, firstly, an idiot Republican; secondly, an idiot Democratic legislature; & thirdly, an idiot citizenry, who vote in lots of referendum proposals simultaneously with preventing increased state revenue.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

@GJ - didn’t flag you. Sorry to dissappoint.

jack: Preventative care is our responsibility. Doctors really don’t teach it. WE need insight and wisdom from the eastern world and their healing using herbs, foods, etc.
Personally, I’ve been using earthclinic.com. Regular people trying regular things, with honest unsolicited feedback. I also avoid unclean meats and high fructose corn syrup. We can’t spend our time eating and drinking ourselves into sickness and then expect a pill and a $400 bill to fix us. We have to eat and drink our way out of sickness.

If I break a bone, I am going to the ER. Had a perfect necessary surgery done last year by a specialist and my fanily doctor is overworked and underpaid, but truly a great guy. If we start carefully using the God-given remedies, pharmacuetical companies will lose out. GOOD!

And Hospitals don’t need million dollar lobbys or lobbyists to provide good health care.

Personally, I am not signing onto a government health care plan. If they are goin to try and extort money from Americans that want to keep things as is and start looking for ways to avoid having to go the doctor, we shouldn’t have the extortionists in Washington charging us money not to sign up either.

And by the way, let Congress and the President try their own program on a 7 year plan and then they can let us know how it worked for them. Or how about they just use the Veterans Administration for all their health care if ‘the government’ handles so well.

Let them be the guinea pigs, not us.

I’m going on a slow and steady bike ride now - keeping my heart and muscles in shape is the only thing that helps me survive the daily asthma attacks I have. The damage is permanent, as in when a balloon gets inflated over and over again. It will never return to its original elasticity. So it is with my lungs. Its the deck I’ve been dealt in life, Even so, blessed be the name of HaShem.
Radical-Knight said, 3 months ago

As for illegal immigrants, why doesn’t the U.S. just buy Mexico, then they wouldn’t be illegal anymore. There would be more politicians, more laws, more regulation. Mexican would be a 2nd language ( I worked with a guy from Spain and he said Mexicans don’t speak Spanish, he couldn’t understand half of what they said). Pay everyone at least minimum wages and then tax them. Of course one Mob doesn’t like sharing turf with another Mob so Washington D.C. will make the drug cartel economic advisers then regulate them. And in a win-win proportion, If we buy the country, the money goes to the people and they still get to keep the land and property they already own; rather than to existing politicians…Whoops, I think I just found a problem.

Next stop, Cuba!
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

mroberts88
Well we have done something. We built the wall only time will tell if we will finish it or we let it fall in disrepair. Many of the illegal aliens are going home. California may wake up with 100,000 people leaving every year for several years now they should lose a few house of representative seats and Electoral College votes with next years census. Conservatives should pick a few up or they may go to independence people are a little sick of all the back biting just look at this blog.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

EMET I was thinking more on the line of the new private clinics that are opening in Canada.
Norman said, 3 months ago

@RK:
Don’t laugh with the way these insufferable bast*ards are running our country they may just do it.
Buy Kenya also (backdate the purchase) and then we have a legal pres.
Herbabee said, 3 months ago

And just who’s that “economic girly-man” now, Guv?
Shaliach said, 3 months ago

DavidDow hit on a very critical issue:

‘California is in debt because (of) an idiot citizenry who vote in lots of referendum proposals…’

California’s politicos don’t have the backbone or will to do their job so they dump the responsibility of governing upon the citizens of the state through ballot propositions, referendums or initiatives.

Schwarzenegger has basically run California by way of the ballot box thus bypassing the state legislature.

He has sponsored billions of dollars in ballot measures to fund the state’s general obligations. That well has run dry, and now he is issuing IOU’s.

The state owed $42 billion in general-obligation bonds when Schwarzenegger took office. That debt now exceeds
$150 billion.

The service on that debt is close to 6% which is a red-flag to bond raters such as Fitch and Moody’s which have downgraded California’s credit rating to its lowest level since 2003 when Schwarzenegger was inaugurated.

To their credit, California voters resoundingly rejected, by nearly a 2-1 margin, the main propositions Schwarzenegger and the state legislature had billed as “budget reform measures” in the state’s May 19 special election.

There is a famous quotation that has been attributed to different people that says:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America, is sometimes credited with that quote, but it may have been Alexander Fraser Tytler.

In any case, nowhere is that a truer statement than in the Golden State.
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

DavidDow
I get it, anyone who wants to make money is a conservative. Because that is about the only thing in CNN has in common with a conservative.
They are not a conservative news source.
As well TV promotes all liberal values.
They promote Obama.
They promote sex.
They promote gay sex.
They promote abortions.
They are mostly anti god too.
So how is t hat conservative? All your are telling me anyone who wants to be rich is a conservative. I believe, my friend, you suffer from call envy.

satipera4
Please read this slowly.
I HAVE NEVER FLAGGED A POST BECAUSE I DID NOT LIKE WHAT WAS SAID. I have flagged many posts dues to insults, threats and fowl language. As well you may not remember but DrToon was the one how suggested flagging insults and I agreed with him.
As well, I hardly flag posts. I did alot once because you could not say anything but insults and threats. I may have over done it with you a bit do to your threat upon another poster here. DON’T GIVE ME THAT IT WAS A JOKE STUFF EITHER. You should have learned in school you do not joke like that. I routinely flags posts every day. You know nothing.
mytinytown said, 3 months ago

Different kind of repetition. He brings up abortion often, but he did not play cat and mouse re posting the same thing over and over on the same day (you know exactly what I mean here, do not kid yourself). If you want to get technical, i have only flagged farleftside 1 time that I can recall and I have flagged mark a few times.
I have said several times, I do not flag anyone out of disagreement, I flag out of personal attacks, foul language (which usually gets bleeeeped but some have found ways around it) and repetition. Not bring up abortion once or twice a day, but re posting the same thing over and over and over again through out the SAME day.
i am done with your silly games.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

Uhhhhhhhh, DavidDOW:

This, by an act of unusual twist, is still on the COMIC section. I tried answering ’ intellectually’ for jack, however it seems as thought his question was presented in a misleading way.

Now that I have looked into the option of getting private health care in Canada, I am more inclined to move there.
Very informative articles.

Thank you for calling me little. I was thinking I may be overweight. US women are very conscious of weighty issues. It’s easier to get a date night if I’m not overweight.
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

The winner for the Joseph McCarthy award is satipera4. Let’s remember something and tiny was talking about this yesterday. Do we remember when Satipera repeated the same statement twenty or thirty times because some of us (myself included) talked about gasp God to intimate people to stop? What is really cool was that he opened that door himself once or twice.

Now I have flagged one or two here for some foul language myself so I know you don’t know who flagged who. So please stop the insults. You are just trying to intimidate people.
mroberts88 said, 3 months ago

Jack, yes there is a wall, but is that really enough? If I understand what you said, in all states, they are leaving, or did I misunderstand, and its just Cali?
jack75287 said, 3 months ago

EMET no not misleading mistaken I thought your were from Canada from some comments from yesterday.

Sorry.
johnnydoc5 said, 3 months ago

Rad, that was my idea too. Mexico can be the 51st state! I see no flaws, except the politics.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

Were cool Jack. My heart and spirit are in Canada, but I live in the US.

You can see how upset that gets me sometimes.

Is Canada hiring? If not, I’m thinking of running for senator or governor or president or something. Shoot for something really out of bounds.

My plan is this: one week before the election, I’ll post my full name on UCOMICS. I’ll try to win as a write-in candidate. If I lose, just think of all the hate mail I’ll get, which should then boost the USPS quite substantially. Always trying to look out for the little guys working for the feds!

(Don’t send me Christmas or Easter cards, please. Boxing day and Canada day cards will gladly be accepted.)

A.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

@Satipera:

No, the information I get here is very limited. The lack of intelligence flowing into this department is unbelievable!

My sense of humor is hanging on by a very small thread. It won’t be long before its gone and my bowling team will start taking over for me as I retire from the pages of UCOMICS.

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GJ_Jehosaphat said, 3 months ago

Maresha (fka EMIT) - so did U flag my last post regarding EMET being Hebrew name for TRUTH & why I call U EMIT. Not that it matters to me - just be Truth-Full & admit when U flag someone instead of letting someone else being accused - go ahead & run away.
Ronshua said, 3 months ago

satipera4— ” Monarch ” unless your talking about the present government in power now , Bro you lost me . ( NOT a true story ) Did you hear about the little elderly Democrat lady that was looking to buy a hand gun ? The sale person asked for what purpose . She said , I’d like to shot some cans . What kind he asked . Her reply , You know MexiCANS , PortoRiCANS , South AmeriCANS , RepubliCANS …….( Disclaimer NOT A TRUE STORY )

Fi
Nobody said, 3 months ago

satipera4 said, about 3 hours ago

Tiny, yes as I assumed your censorship (which you do not believe in) is different. Wanker.

Sati, you’re the only WANKER on SOTU.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

@GJ_

I DIDN”T FLAG YOU

Got wax?

I didn’t even flag FLS for threatening me - he ran off with his tail before I did.I just felt no need to keep my post calling him out on his BS when he removed it.
mroberts88 said, 3 months ago

Ronshua, apparently very lucky, according to CNN, and the others. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face by the way.
ChuckTrent64 said, 3 months ago

I have gotten AARP e-mails every day for weeks telling me how to help pass Health Care Reform. If that isn’t, “On Board” I don’t know what is.
wyrm282 said, 3 months ago

So many long comments.

Maybe I’m just forgetting that this cartoon is more political than Doonesbury (although that is a opinion).

A - Every A-Team needs a Mr. T. That could be me!
SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

wyrm in Cinncinati-

Yeah, we need a mr .t. Just report to ‘In the Bleachers ‘, Non-sequiter or BC13 from now on. This ‘comic’ is too much like our country - all messed up and full of hatred.

Gotta go, it’s my last day here.

A.

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