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   Ken Warren said, 23 days ago

   I know that from time to time (much to my amazement) Ted Rall checks our posts and comments on them, so I have to ask Mr. Rall these are “self-portraits” are they?

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   wmbrainiac said, 23 days ago

   thanks for the hearty laugh at 2:59 a.m.!

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   scottfreitas said, 23 days ago

   LOL.

   Still, the idea that people only have coverage IF they have government health care… wow. Naive? I mean, somewhere around 170 million Americans are covered by private health care atm.

   Newsflash for liberals: you CAN do things without Girl Government doing them for you. Honest. Have you TRIED? I know this Liberty thing is scary, but it’s worth it! No, really… TRY it. :/

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   slavetofashion69 said, 23 days ago

   Scott, are you an insurance salesman? Do you own stock or something? I don’t know any other reason why someone would be such a cheerleader for an industry that will happily deny your coverage and watch you die when you get sick.

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   scottfreitas said, 23 days ago

   And government bureacrats will be even MORE eager to watch me die when I get sick, of that I am sure. My every encounter with government in my life has been an exercise in frustration, trying to dance through all the hoops and obstacles and red tape they threw at me…. provided i could even scrape up all the money they demanded in the first place.

   Wait. I’m wrong. Government will IGNORE me while I die–not watch me die. Sorry, almost gave indifferent selfish unionized Demoncrat bureacrats anxious to just go home for the day and get the Hell away from all these smelly, annoying dying people too much credit, there…

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   dirtmusic said, 23 days ago

   Ideological and self-serving clap-trap. You don’t get forced into a system which seeks to cover the poor, the unemployed or the just plain unlucky. The “I’m all right, so stuff you!” jerks like you will never get it.

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   Lavocat said, 23 days ago

   Very nice! I’ve been thinking about exactly this the last few days. I suspect that you may see some very interesting (read: disturbing) “states’ rights” developments should an abutting state “opt-out” of the public option.

   There is the very real possibility of this sort of thing radically changing the communities that live along state lines of opt-in/opt-out states. I think the West Coast and the Northeast will opt-in en masse, but what of states like Nevada? This could make the phrase “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” take on a whole new meaning!

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   washton said, 23 days ago

   Ted, being an Ohioan, would have probably heard of the story in Ohio history of the factory workers who worked in a factory which spanned the boarder of Ohio and West Virginia. He was injured in the WVa side of the plant and crawled over to the Ohio side to report the injury. Why? Ohio’s great worker’s comp!

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   sirrom567 said, 22 days ago

   I’d rather get sick and die in a ditch than let some capitalist “private” insurance company make a penny of profit from my infirmity. I refuse to make my survival somebody else’s “business.”

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    rikoshayrabbit said, 22 days ago

    I especially enjoy the box in the bottom left-hand corner. Looks like “Guernica” by Picasso. Ted, what happened to our pal Dale Hopson? He always offered the rare, intelligent, FUNNY observations for us. It seems the comments boxes have been monopolized by some very dreary hate-filled wankers lately who are boring us to death.

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    Ripit said, 22 days ago

    Good comic, Ted. 8/10

    Can we get a moderator on these boards so I don’t have to read idiots like scottfreitas?

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    oldlegodad said, 22 days ago

    or idiots who triple click^^

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    edmondd said, 22 days ago

    I don’t mean to be such a stickler Ted
    but there are several inconsistencies:
    First: the second box should have been placed first so as to have a more cinematic sequence.
    Then, we are seeing here quite an old car– just look at the shape for heaven’s sake– something which is quite appropriate for someone without insurance indeed (not always the case though if you were seduced into buying a new model and then scammed by the car dealer selling you an overprized lemon),but where’s the antenna?
    Also, in the second box the driver looks tired, hasn’t slept well as the dark circles beneath the eye reveal and is sporting the “stubble” look, quite convenient for slackers and out of work gents, but then in the “Guernica” box as suggested before he is suddenly clean cut and well rested, is this an inconsistency or a reference to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in one rapturous moment?

    All in all a funny cartoon though. 3.8/5

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    nemesis-of-empire said, 22 days ago

    @washton - hadn’t heard the story but it only makes sense. Why should ‘venue-shopping’ be limited to big companies?

    Oh, and to all present: You don’t argue with trolls, you flag them. Let the moderators know of this bad behavior. No reason to tolerate it a moment longer. Flag, flag, flag.

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    dtroutma said, 22 days ago

    Scott, and others remind me of a guy I cited once for “disorderly conduct”- smoking a joint in public. Instead of a felony, he paid a misdemeanor fine and came out cursing me, the government, etc. Two days later, I hauled the same guy, with a broken femur, off a cliff. He was really nervous when I showed up as the one who would carry him down off the cliff. He later came back to the park to apologize for being a jerk in court, and thank me for saving his life.

    I’ve always found it interesting how “conservatives” curse government (and many “liberals” too) when they have to do their part,(like taxes) but change their tune when it is the government saving them. That applies to crime and accident victims, and corporations for a “free market” until they shoot themselves in the foot.

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    Ted Rall said, 22 days ago

    Of course I check the comments. There’s always something to make me think, laugh and/or hurl–all at the same time!

    Self-portrait? Well, I have totaled a few cars.

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    nemesis-of-empire said, 22 days ago

    I’ve got no patience for people who whine about how the ‘gummint’ robs them blind, but when their boat without lifejackets is sinking, or their bank is failing, or their house is being foreclosed, or their insurance company has refused to pay their hospital bills AND raised their premiums, or in some other way their tail is in the wringer, they scream bloody murder until the Coast Guard, the FDIC, Fannie Mae, or Congress or somebody else with a big club and bigger wallet comes to rescue them. Such people are burdens on the body politic, and you can bet when there’s work to be done to keep democracy going they’re the first to not be found. Pfui! Not worth my spit.

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    Ken Warren said, 22 days ago

    Ted do you always look like you need a shave, and maybe some sleep. I enjoy the cartoons you do for the L.A. Times Sports, are they just something you do for the fun of it?

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    Tigger said, 22 days ago

    All States will Opt out. The Wicked Witch of the West said the House Health Care Plan will cover 94% of US Citizens. This does not cover ll US Citizens as they told us it would.

    My prayrs are thh Houe and Senate both tell us they will not attempt to pass Health Care reform tis year as they lak the votes. They will not touch this ‘Hot Potato’ at all idn 2010 as it will be Mid-Term Election time.

    We are about to have a Mass Firing of House and Senate Members on November 2, 2010. When the dust settles, The Republicans will control The House and Senate until 2012, then on November 7, 2012, Headlines: Republicans Control The White House, Senate, and House.

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    dtroutma said, 22 days ago

    Uh, Ted, did your pup come out of the crash okay? Figure one must have been in at least one of those crashes?

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    meowdam said, 22 days ago

    Funny ,
    
    Single payer the only answer

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    ahab said, 22 days ago

    Nice Ted, very prescient.

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    4uk4ata said, 22 days ago

    “My prayrs are thh Houe and Senate both tell us they will not attempt to pass Health Care reform tis year as they lak the votes. They will not touch this ‘Hot Potato’ at all idn 2010 as it will be Mid-Term Election time.”

    Tig, you okay? You seem to have either been sleeping or drunk when you wrote that.

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    Ted Rall said, 22 days ago

    Ken, thanks on the Times. In this economic climate, no one works for just the fun of it! But of course it’s a thrill to run in one of the nation’s best newspapers.

    dtroutma: Never owned a dog. Always been more of a cat person.

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    lalas said, 21 days ago

    OMG Tigger you’d best be wrong…. if that happens in 2012 God knows how many wars we’ll suddenly become involved in.

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    dtroutma said, 21 days ago

    At least you believe in seat belts? (in a car) My son is a cat person (3) and racing motorcycles, no belt, but helmet an leathers- he declares there is less to “moosh” you in a crash. HIs cats walk on leashes and ride on the bikes with him- you might give it a try?

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    scottfreitas said, 21 days ago

    I’m a cat person, too. Or really: a SIAMESE person.

    Got no use for cats other than Siamese. But Siamese are just pure awesomeness covered in fur!

    Even without owning a dog, I seem to turn my Siamese into them. My current one–Fleetwood–often follows me around (and no, not because he’s hungry, i’ve tested that theory several times by offering him food and in all but one case he sniffed it, ignored it, and kept on following me around), and also will “fetch” hit catnip balls, stuffed mice, etc, and bring them back to me to throw for him. Repeatedly. Just like a friggin’ dog…

    Siamese are by far the most intelligent pets I have ever owned, or been exposed to. Never owned a chimp, though. I suppose a chimp might beat one…

    Dogs are okay, but too mindlessly slavish for me. Cats at least keep their DIGNITY, man…

    I’ve never wrecked a car. :P

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    Cpt. Jay said, 20 days ago

    You know what they say about a guy that owns cats, don’t you?