Ted Rall for October 29, 2009

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?

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.”

Good comic, Ted. 8/10

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

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

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.

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?

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

Funny , Single payer the only answer

“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.

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

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?

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