The Doonesbury "Say What?" thread

[lordlundar]

Does anyone point out to politicians that they are basically in a minimum wage themselves?

Problem is they get to determine their own wages.

"Dear Children, I regrettably bring bad tidings... My home in the Arctic is fast disappearing, and unless we all act urgently then I have to warn you of the possibility of an empty stocking forevermore. Please help me..."
—video message from Greenpeace Sant

So now they're blackmailing children. What, finally realized that the rest of the world doesn't like you trespassing and other criminal activities?

[lordlundar]

"The president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself...leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake. The president's cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart's and yards away from his wife's. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won't be feeling at home for a long time."
-- New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser on President Obama talking to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt

"Red Hot. O's great Dane a real Helle-cat."
-- New York Post headline
—


Fine, the selfie was in bad taste, but the accusation of an affair? Really?

[Andara Bledin]

Wow... Prime Minister of another country, and some journalist calls her a "cupcake" and then "tart"?!?

[catcul]

"The president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself...leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake. The president's cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart's and yards away from his wife's. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won't be feeling at home for a long time."
-- New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser on President Obama talking to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt

"Red Hot. O's great Dane a real Helle-cat."
-- New York Post headline
—


Fine, the selfie was in bad taste, but the accusation of an affair? Really?

Wow... Prime Minister of another country, and some journalist calls her a "cupcake" and then "tart"?!?

We are talking about the New York Post, a newspaper that's not even fit to line your cat's litter box. This is the same rag that described Greensboro, NC, as a "derelict" city when "reporting" on the John Edwards trial. Greensboro may have a tiny fraction of New York City's population, but it's not derelict.

[lordlundar]

A fair point, but they're not alone on it. There's been more coverage on the selfie and the handshake than there was on the funeral service. Sad really.

"When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy."
—

Sen. Rand Paul

Better to cut them off and have them live in a cardboard box under a bridge then, huh?

[lordlundar]

"Justice Roberts' pen and Obamacare have done more damage to the USA than the swords of the Nazis, Soviets and terrorists combined."
—

NC state Sen. Rob Rucho, sponsor of a bill to prevent his state from setting up a health insurance exchange or participating in Medicaid expansion

Oh look, Orly Taitz has followers.

[HYHYBT]

That may almost even be true, in the sense that they weren't using swords.

[lordlundar]

"Socialism makes me sick."
—slogan on the "Official Obama Barf Bag" offered by Rep. Steve Stockman, fundraising for his Senate campaign

I expect to see this on some redneck's protest sign, not on during a fundraising drive.

[Pixilated]

Wow... Prime Minister of another country, and some journalist calls her a "cupcake" and then "tart"?!?

That was no journalist. That was a self-inflated blowhard with no journalistic capabilities whatsoever.

[lordlundar]

"We're going to be the Miley Cyrus of nations next year. Unstoppable, but kind of embarrassing."
—David Brooks

I agree on the latter part, but not on the former. The train wreck is becoming less relevant largely due to the embarrassment and when it crashes, it's going to hit HARD.

[lordlundar]

"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, [Duck Dynasty star Phil] Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians. What Parks did was courageous. What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."
—Illinois congressional candidate Ian Bayne

The GOP seems so desperate to have someone to look up to they're taking someone who got suspended for making racist, homophobic remarks and declare him the equivalent to someone who was arrested for standing up to racism. Pathetic really.

[s_stabeler]

especially when you look at the motivations. Rosa Parks made a stand for equal rights. Phil, if anything, stands for unequal rights. They are diametrically opposite.

There's alos the fatc that Rosa Parks deliberately made a stand. I don't think Phil actually was trying to make a stand at all.

[HYHYBT]

Just a minute, my brain is rebooting...

[lordlundar]

"The right to celebrate Christmas is under attack."
—Fox Nation

Funny, I don't recall anyone banning it. Oh wait, Faux News.

[Pixilated]

Ya know, I keep hearing about this but I don't think I know anybody who has personally been a "victim" of this. Just got into a mild discussion with an aunt over this. Yes, some people have griped about nativity scenes placed in public places, and one story was recently making the rounds about a school that removed a line from a Christmas carol because it mentioned Christ. All I can say is there are idiots everywhere but that hardly means Christmas in general is slowly sliding over the edge of on a precipice.