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  1. fbrewer

    fbrewer said, 2 months ago

    Better get a bigger brush.

  2. Jim

    Jim said, 2 months ago

    Hmmm … not happy cleaning up the past policy’s of the department , or not happy having to ” cover ” them up ?
    Either way , he doesn’t seem too pleased with the task at hand .

  3. cdward

    cdward said, 2 months ago

    I think the idea is that he’s cleaning up the mess, but if it’s just whitewash, I don’t know how lasting the effects will be. Reminds me of the East Germans who used to reach over the Berlin Wall with a giant machine and paint over the anti-DDR graffiti on the western side. By the end of the next week, it was always covered again.

  4. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    In ‘nam the latrine on our building naturally had solid graffiti.
    A new commander demanded it be painted. and of course when he went in to inspect it, there on the back of a stall door was

    “This wall is in its 35th edition”

    Ballistic

  5. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    Whitewash–yes it goes with Obamacare

  6. striper77

    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    Here is a song dedicated to Obama and the democrats.

    Obama came across the sea
    He brought us pain and misery
    He killed our babies, he killed our creed
    He took our taxes for his own need

    We fought him hard we fought him well
    Out on the plains we gave him hell
    But many came too much for cree
    Oh will we ever be set free?

    Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
    Galloping hard on the plains
    Chasing the conservatives back to their holes
    Fighting them at their own game
    Murder for freedom a stab in the back
    Women and children and cowards attack

    Run to the hills run for your lives
    Run to the hills run for your lives

    Soldier blue on the barren wastes
    Hunting and killing their babies
    Raping the women and wasting the men
    The only good conservatives are tame
    Selling them lies and taking their gold
    Enslaving the young and killing the old

    Run to the hills run for your lives

  7. fbrewer

    fbrewer said, 2 months ago

    And when striper sings I’m sure it’s to the tune of Turkey in the Straw.

  8. vhammon

    vhammonGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    There is a stage in human development where the “I” or “WE” is the center of the universe. “I/WE” cannot understand the difference between actions and being, so if “I/WE” has made a mistake, “I/WE” is bad. People at this stage of development are threatened by the idea of investigating, holding accountable, finding fault with their leader person or with their WE-belong group, because it threatens who they believe themselves to be.

    It requires a more mature and healthy cognitive and emotional development to understand that a person or nation who can face and accept that they have erred is likely to be stronger and to grow stronger.

  9. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 2 months ago

    Not seeking prosecution of past wrongdoing to move the country forward is wrong? Even “blaming” the present problems on the fact the past MADE the present is “mean-spirited”? Seeing a way to make a better America, where fewer people die in war, or a war to get medical treatment, is obviously evil and misguided?

    The left, nearly three years ago, did drop the ball with “impeachment is off the table”. The right considers getting everything they want, accommodation by the left. Cooperation by the “loyal opposition” means false propaganda, screaming fits, and holding their breath ‘til they turn blue(dog).

    Yes, whitewash can cover up past sins, errors, flaws, distortions, lies, and total failures, but it may give a new surface upon which to project a new image, a new future. All it takes is a willingness to work together to form that new image, or remove the obstruction and start over.

    America, tear down OUR WALL!

  10. lalas

    lalas said, 2 months ago

    So Striper in 3-7 years from now when Obama is out of office are you going to admit that none of your BS was right? Are you going to admit that he never really was a socialist/communist/nazi/fascist?

  11. openminded

    openmindedGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I wouldn’t bet on it, LaLas

  12. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Obama is not a communist or a socialist. He is a communitarian. Closely akin to the good statism.

    That is the philosophy as desired by many on both coasts but not in fly over country.

  13. striper77

    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    See images of communitarian
    –noun


    1. a member of a communistic community.


    2. an advocate of such a community.


  14. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    A communitarian believes the state /community should be the preeminent factor for governing. In contradistinction from Libertarian which prizes the individual. Opposite ends of the coin.

    Bottom line is rules should be made for what is best for the community as a whole. I am my brothers keeper. see Amitai Etzioni and

    I, as a libertarian believe in individual authority. I won’t tell you what to do and you don’t tell me. I don’t believe communitarian society ever can work because it doesn’t consider basic human nature.

  15. cdward

    cdward said, 2 months ago

    GNW, at least I’m glad that means you aren’t worried about abortion or homosexuality.

  16. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Besides that; it’s unnecessary. We know what works and we have it already. We just have to save it from the “termites”; as another poster mentioned…

  17. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    cdward

    The Libertarian philosophy is you can do whatever you wish as long as you don’t harm anyone else. Your rights end where my nose begins. Keep the government out of pot, abortion, prostitution, pornography, sexual orientation, gun possession, health care etc etc.

  18. wminfield

    wminfieldGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Iron Maiden Rocks!!!

  19. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    GNW, did you see post on Bok 9/9?

  20. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    A simple statement of libertarian philosophy generally sounds good, it begins to be less attractive in its execution.

    Those who pollute in streams, rivers, and our air put their fist in millions of people’s noses, so to speak. Thus, regulation is needed. But the libertarians I’ve heard don’t like regulations and want fewer of them. Government strangling free enterprise and all that. I’ve asked a brother who prefers the libertarian philosophy about things like this …. and sometimes what he describes is what we now have, though the implementations of regulations may be faulty.

  21. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    A touch of advice to whoever tagged this cartoon - learn to spell “racist” before you start throwing it around in print.

  22. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    Uh…Wack-o…”your right TO SWING YOUR FIST AROUND ends where my nose begins.”

  23. fennec

    fennec said, 2 months ago

    GNW, your theory of “human nature” may be a bit off about what is, biologically, human nature. I refer you to the paper in Science this week which I have previously mentioned (Rand et al, Science 325:1272) and also to a summary of Frans de Waals’ new book in “Natural History” this month (9/2009) on the importance of empathy in primate (and other social animals) behavior.

  24. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago

    Etzioni is old news although i appreciate his thought. thanks fennec for the turn on to a fresh one.

  25. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 2 months ago

    Sorry Fennec, “human nature” is nothing to put your money on.

     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3317461/Apes-of-war…-is-it-in-our-genes.html

  26. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    You’re all guilty of “rascalism”!

  27. fbrewer

    fbrewer said, 2 months ago

    Libertarianism is an ideal of individual freedom accompanied by individual responsibility. In practice, it establishes a society that is uniquely vulnerable to those without conscience or scruples. I worked around industrial machinery all my career, starting before OSHA was established. I saw the absolute lack of concern by my employers for MY safety. “You got hurt by faulty machinery? I TOLD you to be careful. This is your fault.” OSHA didn’t change that attitude in the slightest. But the inspections and the fines sure changed the behavior. You know what? I think government meddling is just darned fine! In part because I still have all my fingers and other treasured appendages. And if you’d like to complain about the EPA, I live 10 miles from the largest superfund site in the country. And if you’d like to complain about the Forest Service, I live adjacent to 3 million acres of national forest. I haven’t run across any libertarian principles that stack up.

  28. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago

    Actually, GNW, I don’t believe libertarianism society can ever work, either, for the same reason you don’t believe in communitarianism – at least, not an maintain a technological civilization on the scale of the US. A realistic society can only exist between the extremes.

  29. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Finally, Motive says something I can agree with. Now try maintaining a technological society with Libs in power who are scared of cow f@rts…

  30. cdward

    cdward said, 2 months ago

    GNW, I too can appreciate the libertarian ideal. Unfortunately, I also agree with fbrewer and motivemagus that the ideal doesn’t really work in practice. Wish it did.

  31. GNWachs

    GNWachsGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    MM, CD, etc. I think we are in agreement. My job is to pull the communitarians back from the edge and give more balance. Probably it would make for a better society if nobody drank, smoked pot, read porn, had a gay marriage, lived in sin, had an abortion etc but that is not for Washington to command us.

    The above sentiment usually finds favor with my liberal friends but the other side of the coin doesn’t. Read the 10th A and half the acts of the Federal Government are unconstitutional. I know the general welfare clause but using that clause goodbye the long list of vices listed above.

  32. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    CITIZENshortform said: “Now try maintaining a technological society with Libs in power who are scared of cow f@rts…”

    DrCanuck analyzes: I think the CITIZEN (AKA Poopydog) suffers from brain f@rts, a sudden, violent, and uncontrolled release of stupidity.

  33. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    And what has your wise analysis determined is the stimulous of such vaporous and offensive expulsions, sir?

  34. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, 2 months ago

    Stripy sang a song, it will be spammed again ad nauseam on this section…

  35. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 2 months ago

    Poopy, it seems to be quite spontaneous, uncaused. Would you disagree, and identify said stimulous (sic) ?