… cartoonists. Really, I do. Not just because they can make me have a good chuckle from time to time, but also because it can be downright eerie sometimes how they can give you a peek behind the curtain of what’s on the collective mind.
They can be complimentary or insulting (sometimes both simultaneously), insightful or oblivious, highbrow or crude. They can be impartial observations or blatantly partisan hackery. Yes some, like the much-missed team of Cox and Forkum that we lost in January of this year, are better than others. But one thing that all the good ones manage to do, whether you like it or not, is to get you to think. That’s been on my mind lately.
Soooooooo… with that in mind (because, God knows, we could all use a little light something before the Election Anvilâ„¢ clobbers us all like Wile E. Coyote), let’s have a quick look at what the little scamps have been up to (click to bigulate, of course)… (more…)
So I’m sitting around last night, having me a nice cold beer, when the phone rings. It’s Debbie calling from down in Houston. Some of you who have been around long enough might remember her as a pretty regular commentor, back when she had more free time on her hands.
“Did you just see that??”
Well, since we obviously weren’t looking out the same window, the answer would likely be no; but whatever it was, she sounded pretty happy. Turns out she’d just finished watching VP nominee Sarah Palin addressing the RNC and she was pretty damned impressed.
“I can’t believe that a politics junkie like you missed that! You have so got to get your ass online and check it out; you’ll love it!”
I explained that American politics are pretty easy to miss when we likely have an election of our own coming up (she had no idea), but she was pretty adamant. She kept insisting that I’d love watching this. Turns out she was right. Now, I had already suspected that Palin was my kinda gal: gun-totin’, great gams, knows how to field dress a moose – what’s not to like? But I had no idea that she also had a wit like the barb on a fishhook! Check it out for yourself in the vids below:
Okay, maybe not. I have no idea at all how this ends. I got as far as “You shoulda got Michelle Obama ta be yo’ runnin’ mate, now that woulda been somethin’ strategic and fly” and had to go change my pants. No idea when was the last time I laughed that hard.
By now, everybody and their dog knows that US Presidential hopefuls McCain and The Obamassiah® put in appearances at the “Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency” at Pastor Rick Warren’s southern California mega-church. Just about everybody figured that Obambi would be the one coming out of it looking, if not particularly good (he’s always in dangerous waters when not sticking to a script), at least better than McCain.
As much as I loathe him, I have so far found myself forced to concede that Senator O-Bananafanafofama almost always put on a better, more polished presentation before an audience than the grittier McCain. And the nature of the audience — a large crowd of Evangelical Christians — seemed to give the Obamassiah another advantage. As Byron York put it:
Obama can be remarkably polished in this sort of situation. Unlike other Democrats, he’s not afraid to hang out with evangelicals. McCain, on the other hand, can at times be cranky and take pleasure in irritating his base.
True words, but not gonna happen this time. In my opinion, McCain definitely came away with one in the win column last night.
Things kicked off with Obama first, and he performed pretty much like I expected him to: every question met with a slow-motion tap-dance of an answer custom tailored to what he thought the audience would want to hear. McCain, on the other hand, gave such rapid, shoot-from-the-hip answers that he drove Warren to quip that he was in danger of running out of questions. Where Obama tried to wiggle away from the subject, McCain charged in balls-first.
The bottom line: Obama came off as hesitant, stilted and rehearsed, while McCain looked like a man who didn’t need to think things over because he was saying exactly what is on his mind.
Not surprisingly, the whole damned world seems to be dissecting the entrails of last night’s event (most of them underwhelmed by Obambi), but I think I’ll just let you have a look and make up your own minds:
Obama Pt 1
McCain Pt 1
Just click the “more” link to see the rest of the vids… (more…)
I know, I know… I barked about this the other day, but it doesn’t seem to be going away like I thought it would. How can it still be alive? I don’t know. But even for the Loopy Left, this is a new acme of asshattery.
The idea of a “national knife registry” used to be what us mean, nasty, gun-totin’ rednecks would bring up to ridicule the idiocy of the multi-billion waste of time known as the Farmer Bob Varmint Gun Registry®. That’s ALL it was. That’s all it was supposed to be! Period.
Well, it’s starting to look like some shitheads on the far left in parliament don’t even have the good sense to know when they’re being made fun of…
Some of our parliamentarians have been getting a bit too much sun during their summer holidays.
That’s the only explanation for the discussion by some opposition MPs about the possible introduction of a knife registry, following the gruesome, fatal attack on a Greyhound bus passenger late last month.
A knife registry? Really? What would I have to declare, paring knives, a bread knife, the plastic knife I used to put tuna on crackers while I was having lunch at work the other day?
Sweet jumpin’ Jesus… It’s not just the TO Sun, either. It’s here and here and… you get the idea. 🙄
“Some of our parliamentarians.” “Some opposition MPs.” Who, damnit? WHO??? Who are these boneheads? Tell us who they are so we can give ’em the treatment they deserve. NOW.
Stephane Dion’s Green Shift may not have specific targets or goals on how it will impact reductions in greenhouse gases, according to critics of the plan, but the Conservatives are suggesting that the Liberal plan is reducing the number of Liberal candidates prepared to run in the next federal election.
In Prince Edward Island, one of the Liberal’s star candidates, Robert Morrissey has stepped aside as the candidate. A spokesperson for the Conservative Party Robin Sparrow stated today, ““The Liberals can deliver their talking points all they want but everyone knows the deal. You don’t win a hotly contested nomination meeting for a long-held Liberal riding and then just quit,’’ Sparrow said from Ottawa. Morrissey is clearly feeling the heat on the carbon tax and doesn’t want to campaign on raising the price of gas, home heating fuel and groceries.”
Both seem to be causing a bit of a micro-kerfuffle, but the one in Spudland seems to be the most interesting.
Long story short: the potential candidate basically said, “thanks; I’m honoured and all, but I’ve got business opportunities that I’m chasing down right now.” Some other folks, like Peter MacKay, have wondered if maybe when faced with the thought of trying to spoonfeed a new bullshit tax to the Canadian public, he came up with other things that he’d rather do. Like sitting naked in a field in Skinner’s Pond in February, bashing his dingleberries with a claw hammer.
I think Peter’s got it figured out. Some guys just aren’t Liberal enough for that kind of masochism.
… cartoonists. Really, I do. Not just because they can make me have a good chuckle from time to time, but also because it can be downright eerie sometimes how they can give you a peek behind the curtain of what’s on the collective mind.
So I’m sitting around last night, having me a nice cold beer, when the phone rings. It’s Debbie calling from down in Houston. Some of you who have been around long enough might remember her as a pretty 
I know, I know… I 
… I don’t want a damn thing to do with it!”
