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Published: 2020-04-04 00:14:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 10874; Favourites: 72; Downloads: 9
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Yesterday afternoon my wife and I stocked up on groceries, and we both wore our masks; what a surreal experience. My wife has been making the masks like mad, making a little profit, but not denying anyone who can't pay for them. I was originally going to work with the standard couch gag, and I ran across that cute scene in the beginning of the show where Marge and Maggie are in the grocery. I decided to update it a bit to this spring, as it was originally created in 1989. Let's just hope this quickly becomes a period piece, a part of history. This might be considered to be in poor taste, but I couldn't help but channel my rage at this disease into one piece of art. But, for now, Marge keeps her "social distancing" up and look - even Kim Jong Un is still launching his rockets.Here's to all you guys and gals out there - hopefully things are going well for you.
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I think I told you that during the election of 1976 my entire bedroom wall was covered in editorial cartoons. I can think of lots of names. MacNeill, who is sadly dead now. Borgman from my native town of Cincinnati. But the greatest in my mind was an Aussie named Patrick Oliphant. He always used to depict the Soviets as just a big bear. If I dig some up, I'll have to mail it over to you.
I love the Kim Magazine - I'm thinking of making just a separate magazine cover for him. I figure that if Oprah can have her magazine at the stands, why not "Rocket Man?" It would include things like his diet plan..."first, kill a herd of cattle..." I still can't believe that toad launched two missiles during this pandemic thing...he's a nutbag.
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That Kim is a "nutbag," is a subject that will get no argument from me. I am familiar with the work of Pat Oliphant, although I didn't care for his lambasting cartoons of presidents George Bush the Elder and George Bush the Younger. Another legendary editorial cartoonist was the late Herbert Block, who often signed his work as "Herblock." The best cartoon of his, in my opinion, was of senator Joseph McCarthy after the Army-McCarthy hearings. It depicts the Wisconsin red-chaser as a spider all tangled up in his web and screaming, "I can't do this to me!" www.askart.com/artist/Herbert_…
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That is quite a skilled cartoon. Good old Tailgunner Joe. Last summer I sat and watched much of his hearings...what a ridiculous display. What a callous idiot. One of my favorite cartoons from back in the day was during the 76 election. A man and a woman were in bed, and the two candidates were just sitting there at the end of their bed. The husband was peaking from the covers asking his wife, "God, are they still there?" They always gave Jimmy that huge toothy grin.
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As I've said before, McCarthy had the right idea about going after commies in the State Department, but he went about it the wrong way. And his biggest mistake was having Roy Cohn as his chief aide and guard dog lawyer. Cohn was an unprincipled bully, smear artist, and general sleazebag. During one the Army-McCarthy hearings, he and Robert Kennedy almost got into a fist fight. As for Jimmy Carter, please don't remind me of the presidency of that jerkwater peanut farmer with a brain to match!
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Carter...what a dichotomy. The man wasn't stupid - the navy doesn't put stupid people in their nuclear submarines, and he captained one. But I still feel his handling of Iran is the reason we have so much problems with them today. And I still feel that Reagan talked with someone in back channels and reminded them that we had nuclear missiles at the ready. I don't know if there's any truth to that, but I've always felt it was a possibility. I have actually been in his hometown of Plains, and nearly got to see him teach a bible study at his church. My late mother sure thought the world of him. My mother was a Truman democrat. Someone at work told me, and it made sense, that today she might be considered a Republican, as she had a lot of conservative values.
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When I called Carter a "peanut brain," it was in reference to his presidency. I know he was a graduate of Annapolis and a skipper of a nuclear submarine. His handling of the Iran affair was one of the worst political blunders in my opinion. I was still in the Army and stationed in Germany when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by those Islamic fanatics and our people held hostage. And believe me, I was fully ready to go to war in Iran. Another thing about Carter is his blatant anti-Semitism which really burns my biscuits! Many of my friends are Jews, and they feel the same way about him.
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I remember that morning like it was yesterday. I was a junior in high school, having just gotten my drivers license a few months before. I'll never forget my homeroom teacher Mr. Hudson - his face was as red as a beet. "Those stupid college kids," he told us, "have no idea what they've done." I think any modern president would have given them a deadline, and prepared for war. Those bastards found that they could play this game of negotiations for months and months, playing us like rubes with a dirty shell game. I always tell people that Hitler himself loved to sign treaties...he'd sign anything you'd put in front of him - it gave him time and wiggle room to do what he was already planning to do anyway.
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An excellent use of historical metaphors. Yes, as with Hitler, the more you negotiate with dictators and tyrants, the more they play us for saps! And your homeroom teacher, Mr. Hudson, was quite correct in his assessment of college kids, except that they're not just "idiots," they're worse than that: they're educated idiots! And those, as my old man often said, were the worst kind.
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Mr. Hudson was one of several teachers that we had a great amount of respect for. I loved my high school, and had some great teachers there. They were men and women that taught us a lot about life, about all kinds of things.
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Which is far more than what today's grammar, junior high and high school teachers are instructing impressionable kids now. Kids today are not being educated, they're being indoctrinated.
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Hudson used to tell us about his dog, whom he said was a "sooner" - then he explained that it would "sooner pee in than out." You probably couldn't tell students that in this pussed out land we live in now.
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It's funny because I read in Wiki that he was dead...but he's the perfect replacement for Dr. Oz.
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