Mike Luckovich for December 30, 2012

Well done, Mike!

How racist.

Whether you’re the 1% or the 47%, if you think you’re entitled to something, you’re full of it, and a burden on the rest of us.

Thank you Michael. I could not have said it better. Especially those on EBT cards, with welfare checks for 10+ kids driving Ford Escalades and from Haiti.

Yup, the angry white guy watching Fox ‘news’ paying NRA dues, complaining about THEM. ‘Them’ being anyone who actually believes that the constitution is for ALL Americans.

Too bad estate taxes don’t kick in until you break $3M.

Hmm, I’ve lived most of my life in areas that the Spanish occupied for from 100 to 200 plus years before English speakers moved in. I learned a little Spanish by “osmosis”, but certainly not fluent, though many of my friends in school were. I did take Latin (valuable for learning English actually!), was fairly well off in German, but lack of use leads to forgetting vocabulary, picked up Vietnamese and Mohave by “exposure”, but as I age, even remembering English is sometimes problematic.

But, the real issue is that America’s “melting pot” IS becoming far more diverse, and those “old angry white guys”, don’ like it a bit, nor for that matter do a lot of angry “Hispanics” (what does that actually mean anyway? Mexican, Spanish, Guatemalan? And those Brazilians folks think are “Hispanic”, actually speak Portuguese!), “African Americans” (Okay, if a Caucasian from South Africa migrates to America is he still “African American”? Is Lewis Hamilton the Formula One driver who is black and British, “African American”? a pointless and inaccurate term.) and other ethnic groups.

What about Italian communities in Boston, where many of the folks speak no English? The same is true of well, how about German speaking sects in the midwest?

The thing is, our “melting pot” is more like a cup of cocoa, with a blending of color that can vary quite a bit from cup to cup, but we usually see the marshmallows at the top of the cup, only white, except when they too get a touch of color and aren’t really one or another, but a blend, like our current President. Considering most Americans ARE kinda’ “mongrels” (not necessarily a derogatory, as most dog owners know the mongrels are often brighter, and better dogs, than the inbred “purebreds”) what IS wrong with properly identifying a person as “mulatto” which is a biologically accurate term?

Of course as all humans can trace their DNA back to eastern Africa, who IS who, or what, in the human zoo?

From kindergarten thru 12th grade we should be taught all 3 languages of the north American continent, English, Spanish and French.-————————That’s a great idea! (Of course, as a languages instructor, I’m prejudiced. I taught German to elementary school students, in a school that offered German, Spanish and French. I’m currently living in Mexico, where I’m attempting to add Spanish to my repertory.)

Eryx: I’m over 67 AND a disabled vet. My son is 33 and a disabled vet. “MichaelParent” should spend a day, even a couple hours in the shoes of a disabled vet and it would be a mind changer. Oh, wait, a lot of my friends don’t HAVE shoes, and a lot who do, only have prostheses between the shoes and their stumps.

Sometimes people don’t even know how to relate to poverty. Like the undocumented workers. they have no safety nets in Mexico, and when they are out of work, they are out of luck, out of food. Our country looks the other way because these extremely poor people contribute so very much to social security and will never get a cent out of it. It also makes businesses happy because of they will work for such low wages. but low wages are a lot better than starving. the whole world is so messed up, except for the top.01%. they are reeling it in hand over fist.

“Definitely a clueless supporter of the 1% moocher class of takers”…(your words)So in your leftist liberal way of thinking, the wealthy 1% of America got that way by taking from others, mooching on others…in other words, stealing, robbing, and banking money they didn’t work for, didn’t earn, don’t deserve – but because they are successful capitalists, they have achieved wealth anyway (an’ created growing businesses an’ millions of jobs in the process), but still they are thus moochers and takers in your leftist view, not successful free people who worked hard and earned their good fortune, and now are the #1 target of the left, because the left wants to take their wealth, and dole it out to the people who have figured out that they can NOT work, and actually live pretty well off the backs (and taxes) of those who have enough self esteem and personal drive and pride to NOT become society’s parasites and sponges.Is THAT what you are defending, Mr. Omnius?‘That our government become a modern day “Robin Hood” and take from the rich to give to – who? the poor? Or just those who have learned how to ’game’ our increasingly socialist system…Of course, the problem with increasing taxes on the wealthiest 1% is that it won’t run our bloated, wasteful federal gov’t for more than about a week.We keep borrowing more, and spending more, getting credit limit increases on our Chinese Visa card…blowing millions and billions in a war on coal, a war on oil, a war on the rich, a war on the right, and flushing money away on solar energy boondoggles, wind energy, endangered minnows, while hiding the truth about huge security snafoos like Benghazi.Now Hillary has a blood clot, from her concussion, which happened because she had a stomach flu, got dehydrated, stumbled and hit her head…‘Bet you she NEVER testifies before Congress about Benghazi. If all this drama is designed to keep her from testifying, she must be hiding some incredibly damaging revelations. She’ll never talk – that much we know, because she’s already set her sight on 2016, as a successor to Lord Ozero. So she has to remain unscathed, unsoiled by the terrorist attack for which our embassy was so unprepared, even though they had been asking for security improvements for months…those pleas fell on deaf ears…and now we have a dead ambassador and three more brave individuals who lost their lives – and for what? So the State department bureaucrats could cover their asses?…

Be afraid, Dumb(o), be very afraid…

Oh, boo hoo for you. Tough being a white male here in the US, isn’t it? We’ve had it so tough for so long.

Interesting. Thanks for the statistics.We know where the 21 overweight ones would be from (any of the “red states”).

“From kindergarten thru 12th grade we should be taught all 3 languages of the north American continent, English, Spanish and French.”

I’d amend to say that learning a second language should be mandatory, with the option of a third, and that the choices available be what would be most in demand locally, not continentally. In most places, that would include Spanish, but (for instance) here in San Francisco it would be more useful to learn Tagalog, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), Arabic (VERY versatile), Russian, Italian (more for tradition’s sake; you don’t actually hear much Italian being spoken in North Beach these days), Japanese, or a handful of others than French. In other regions the mix would be different. but outside Maine and Louisiana I don’t know of any place with substantial pockets of Francophones.

(As an added bonus, fostering the notion that the French language is irrelevant would piss off the Frenchies…)

You mentioned German, and while it’s true that more (white, non-Hispanic) people in this country can claim some German ancestry than any other, in the first decades of the last century there was a concerted effort to suppress the German language in this country (even a lot of German placenames were changed). While my paternal grandparents were both born in the USA, both grew up speaking German in the home; but they made sure their children did NOT learn the language (it had the added benefit of allowing them to speak openly to each other in a language their kids couldn’t understand).

(Oddly enough, at my High School in central Illinois, Spanish was NOT among the languages offered for study. We had the choce of Russian, German, French, or Latin; I chose Russian, but in retrospect I wish I’d chosen German or Latin.)

It sure IS interesting! And it’s a nice, much-needed perspective for many of us.An even more comprehensive view might be how much of living matter is, in fact, “homo sapiens”. We’re bags of protoplasm, and really have only ourselves in the known universe. Time to get smart. The microbes are gaining on us…

I look forward to the YouTube videos of them beating you with their canes and walkers.-———————————————

“Say something including the word black or hispanic linked to freeloader and you are a racist….”[]Do you mean to say that in your mind there are no Caucasian freeloaders? Sorry, it appears that “racist” is indeed applicable.

You’re joking, of course. Here’s a tip — when you’re doing satire, it works best when it’s at least within the realm of possibility that it could be taken seriously. Michael wme does it well — so well that people sometimes think he really is serious. But no one is going to believe that your posts are serious. Worth a chuckle, however.

Rightsalwayswrong: “Shared American values”, like oh, lynch mobs and cross burnings?

No Ima, it’s you!

The old angry white men are out in force on this one. Their sad little knee jerk responses are sooooo sincere and soooo stupid. Poor little bastards!

“Read all the posts before you comment, Curious!!!!”[]Thanks for the tip, Mother. But I always do – otherwise, I don’t post.[]Now if I could behoove you to follow your own advice, it would be progress.[]BTW, I try always to offer a quote from any post to which I respond so that others can draw a connection. Here, I have to assume that you were referring to my last post to you concerning racism. It didn’t occur to me that you would have no recollection of your first post to this thread, as follows:Yes Kent and Omnipus—let’s have three cheers for the freeloading blacks, hispanics, (male and female) etc., as well as the liberal toonists.[]The racism is there and it was the reference point of mine.[]Learn to connect the dots.

@rightisright

“If conservative White dudes, angry, old or otherwise, all got together and moved to one state” Then they would have no electoral power and the country would rejoice.-——————————————-↑ GOOD ONE!

PS: When I was a kid (in the 70’s), I had some neighbors who had their kids take lessons (privately, since the schools didn’t offer it) in Chinese. At the time, it seemed weird (this was in Central Illinois). In retrospect, it was very forward-thinking.

At the time, it seemed weird (this was in Central Illinois). In retrospect, it was very forward-thinking.-————————-What a coincidence. My grand-daughter is studying Chinese (as well as Spanish). She lives in Wisconsin.