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   toasteroven said, about 1 month ago

   It’s a pity political cartoons can’t be well drawn or funny.

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   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   You really have to do some serious abstract thinking to understand Ted’s cartoons on certain days…

   Basically, it was a hodgepodge containing a gratuitous attack on the so-called “religious right” (the same “religious right” which inspired the American Revolution, though they were just called “Christians” back then), along with the “greed” of the “private sector”. Probably inspired by the health care “reform” debate (with the monsters representing the “urgent” health care “crisis”).

   Oh, and also a jab at Congress’s silly, bureacratic procedures. The one part of the strip I actually agreed with…

   Oh, wait. The first panel. Where Obama is his usual poll-driven, unprincipled self. Yeah, I liked that part, too.

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   harryrkeast said, about 1 month ago

   The Private Sector’s objective is to:

   A. protect you from monsters,

   B. sell ventilated monster-proof safety balls or

   C. make money for its CEO and shareholders.

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   Kylop said, about 1 month ago

   Mr Rall, thank you. This was a good ‘toon, clear message, straightforward delivery. It appears you even managed to engage some people in “thinking”

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   Adam Sperry said, about 1 month ago

   The massage here couldn’t be clearer. Thank you Ted Rall.

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   Palestino said, about 1 month ago

   I Liked it..It deals with many topics..

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   Ted Rall said, about 1 month ago

   Thanks, Adam. The American people aren’t stupid, they just vote that way. They understand allegories.

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   chinawanderer said, about 1 month ago

   Scottfreitas,
   Where did you go to school? The people who inspired the the American Revolution were steeped in Enlightenment philosophy, not religion. Most of them subscribed to the idea of deism, or God as first cause. They were so far removed from today’s religious right as is possible.

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   HARVIN GWIN said, about 1 month ago

   scottfreitas obviously hasn’t ever seen the inside of a classroom unless you count the ramshackle tarpaper and canvas outhouse he was born and raised in.

   However, I am impressed with his use of the “quotation mark” key. Nice going scott.Tomorrow we’ll practice “spelling”.

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    ahab said, about 1 month ago

    Very nice Ted. It applies in Afghanistan, Global Warming. Kind of a U.S. gestalt for not dealing with urgent problems. Sad, curare paralysis.

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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

    Thumbs it up nicely.

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    whitenoise said, about 1 month ago

    I have to admit, this one gets funnier every time I read it. Absolutely on the mark…

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    treered said, about 1 month ago

    harryK, the private sector’s objective is: 1 make money. 2. by any means possible (and legal, if anyone is watching).

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    Ripit said, about 1 month ago

    6/10

    Subject is a little too big to fit in four frames. Worth a snicker.

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    kanjizai said, about 1 month ago

    Only one problem. It’s not a Congressman who will be on the monster’s menu. It’s you and me.

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    rarmai said, about 1 month ago

    You can’t let government get involved in things like this. It would just get too big and make poor decisions and waste tax payers’ money. We don’t need some nanny state interferring with natural activity. Free the markets, just get out of the market’s way and it will come to the best and greatest social solution to the monster problem. And make sure that the tree-huggers and femi-nazis don’t put the monsters on some endangered species list or we’ll end up losing jobs to protect them.

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    DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

    rarmi said: “Free the markets, just get out of the market’s way and it will come to the best and greatest social solution to the monster problem.”

    That’s what Reagan did. And now we suffer the consequences. Sure, let’s do it again and REALLY finish off the American economy.

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    scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

    Why by the time Reagan left office did the US have nearly 50 million more jobs than when he was first elected? Why did the double-digit unemployment, interest rates and inflation he inherited from Jimmy Carter all cease to exist? Why did federal tax revenues more than double AFTER Reagan cut “rich” people’s taxes?

    Canuck, you’re one of the worst posters here. When you lie you speak your native language. If you ran the USA, we’d be as dirt-poor, miserable, and oppressed as the people of Haiti…

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    cx22 said, about 1 month ago

    There’s no right to monster protection, or to anything else that is somebody else’s liability.