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   bromonation said, 4 months ago

   7/10

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   Ripit said, 4 months ago

   Hey Ted, do you ever get tired of the ignorant twats that don’t get your humor posting in the comments section? I don’t - they make your comics even funnier. Carry on!

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   fennec said, 4 months ago

   ^Humor? You call this Humor? Sad…

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   nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

   Maybe it’s a term of endearment.

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   M Kitt said, 4 months ago

   Ted, think you’re falling further behind mainstream public opinion. If the people attending that whitehouse “function” were satisfied with Obama’s reassuring answers to their questions why not at least try to sympathize with the good intentions of both sides of that meeting, they’re in the best possible position to make that appraisal, don’t you think?

   I mean, would you try to tell black readers how they should feel about having Obama elected to office, they’ve most likely got a pretty good handle on that already, right?

   We all understand you’re eager for change and (obviously) disappointed with the rate of measurable results, this administration already has enough immediate issues to contend with, sympathy, right?

   Isn’t the worst possible outcome of the remainder of this administration 10X (OK Matt, maybe only 5X) better than the results of W Inc?

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   mattro53 said, 4 months ago

   My first reaction was to laugh. It’s not PC, but I think it’s funny.

   “Isn’t the worst possible outcome of the remainder of this administration 10X better than the results of W Inc?”

   Better yes, but I don’t know about 10 times. It is refreshing to see analysis used as a policy tool, and despite my dislike for many of his policies, I have to admit that he’s a master politician who already is doing a fine job of positioning himself for re-election.

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   brine said, 4 months ago

   Seems like Ted nailed it!!!

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   iamthemodextremist said, 4 months ago

   Rall is an overly idealistic moron and one of the reasons the far right has gained so much traction. Join us in the real world.

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   HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

   Rall is usually on the mark, but this one is uncalled for

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    Adam Sperry said, 4 months ago

    As a gay man, this rather neatly sums up my feelings.

    I was also not millified by a bunch of Power Gays getting hors deurves at the WH while the anniversary of Stonewall was treated like little more than St Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo (IE- a reason to get drunk).

    Rall is right in tunes with the people that matter most on this.

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    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    OK, Adam, so you’re apparently disappointed as Rall expressed but do you really think Barrack O. didn’t have the best intentions in mind when he conducted that meeting? I support gay rights, the “don’t ask” military policy is a huge blunder that needs to be discarded and equal marriage legislation is making gains across the states (not all), I think that should be revised at the federal level, not on a state-by-state basis.

    Gay federal employees now have “spousal” rights to health care and retirement benefits, directly supported by Obama. Getting these other items of legislation in place won’t happen overnight, health care is the immediate need (and ending wasteful, unnecessary wars), during that whitehouse meeting the president advised the attendees that given time he would show his support, I’m just proposing that you give him the benefit of the doubt.

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    edmondd said, 4 months ago

    It makes much sense to give homosexuals all the protections and benefits the law grants to all individuals from both the state and federal levels, out from the principle of equality and fairness.

    Though there is much sense also in having an honest discussion about sex and homosexuality.

    If sex is a biological instinct that procures the perpetual reproduction of our species, why do we use sex as recreation? Our DNA’s biological instinct is not to seek for pleasure but to seek for replication. The pleasure part is the manner in which our DNA assures its survival. In a way, we are fooled into thinking sex is purely for pleasure, but it’s more like a deception.

    Why is then sex used for pleasure? Homosexuality is the epitome, the apex of this phenomenon. And it doesn’t make much sense therefore either. Why would a man have intimacy with another male when there is absolutely no chance of reproduction? What it’s more striking though, is the passive male’s willingness to receive pleasure through an organ that has evolved only to dispose all that was not possible to digest, and the proactive male’s conscious awareness of said function.

    Yet homosexuality is well documented even on less evolved species, wherein the “cultural nurture” theory is a moot argument, though I wouldn’t be sure if said events have only been attempts at homosexual intercourse or actual ones.

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    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    Ed, there are examples of lesbian couples in nature also, pairings between birds are fairly common, for instance. Some even “couple” with a male to achieve pregnancy, then return to their mate to raise the offspring.

    So maybe you’re concentrating too much on the “mechanics” of sex, after all they do say that the brain is the most sensitive sexual organ :-)

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    churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

    I don’t recall another Rall cartoon where I really LOL!

    A few points:

    KITT: “I mean, would you try to tell black readers how they should feel about having Obama elected to office, they’ve most likely got a pretty good handle on that already, right?”

    First of all, he would. Second of all, blacks (I’m generalizing here about the ones who voted for Obama simply because he’s black) have no idea of what’s being foisted upon them, the media isn’t telling them, and they would follow Obama blindly over a cliff. They will find out 4 (or 8) years from now they are in no better shape than they were before, if not worse. (BTW the more educated blacks I speak with hate Obama’s policies).

    IAMTHEMODEXTREMEST: “Rall is an overly idealistic moron and one of the reasons the far right has gained so much traction.”

    You’ve got to be kidding, right?

    RIPIT: “Hey Ted, do you ever get tired of the ignorant twats that don’t get your humor posting in the comments section? I don’t - they make your comics even funnier. Carry on!”

    What I always find interesting is the large number of comments he gets here for his toons, as compared to his relatively low number he gets for his (some would say much more controversial) editorial columns.

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    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    The comparison I made, Church, was that Rall wasn’t sympathizing with Gays or crediting them with being intelligent or well enough informed to know what to think about Obama, a flaw common enough in bigots, seems to me Rall was stooping pretty low for what I judge he intended to be shock value. I’m not accusing him of being a bigot or anti-gay, just pointing out what I see as a failing of his behavior in this case.

    Hope you do realize that support for Obama is relative, if I were to ask those same black people you referenced whether they would have possibly considered voting for McPain (or ever will) my guess is that this president would do just fine by that comparison :-) Bet Ted would side with them on that too.

    That’s been the opinion of blacks I’ve discussed Obama’s policies with and is reflected by the low poll numbers regarding GOP approval among minorities, pretty sure that’s because prejudice is not prevalent among Libs/Dems. As for anyone “following him blindly off of a cliff” I’d attribute that to your’ opinion, not their’s, or mine.

    Your’ comment about how many may have voted for Barrack based on his color is pretty irrelevant in my opinion not to mention unlikely, they would take his color into consideration but wouldn’t, for instance, have voted for a GOP member simply because he or she happened to be black against a white Dem. candidate. Politics, people, neither are that simple. Well, maybe in the eyes of the GOP.

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    redbank2 said, 4 months ago

    Hmmm, perhaps the African American Lyndon Johnson might do, socially sorta progressive, regressive in foreign affairs - like war…Keep fighting the good fight Ted!!!

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    Tigger said, 4 months ago

    Very Funny

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    pilotx said, 4 months ago

    Churchill, please refrain from generalizing about Black people. Even if you have conversations with “intelligent” Blacks you haven’t even talked to .00001% of us so your opinion is total speculation. This is no different than if I state that the vast majority of white conservatives have no clue how the policies they vote for will have on them. People are people and we all vote with the idea that we are voting for what we believe is best for ourselves and families. As far as I’m concerned the GOP in general and McCain/Palin in particular were inferior candidates and one cannot blame ANYONE for not voting for them

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    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    Thanks for weighing in, Pilot.

    GOP members seem to think they have a line on everybody, they speak for all of the rest of us, then complain when we disagree. No wonder they’ve got about 23% of the registered vote, they’re completely out of touch with the mainstream.