United Socialized States of America?

The way the Obama administration is going, we may as well shred the Constitution. The USA we have now will have to change its name to the USSA — United Socialized States of America — and that is suspiciously close to USSR.

Terry Love
Shawnee

Comments

[Jazz-Man]

Sol most of these cartoon are for adults; my son was watching adult swim one day and I was embarrassed by what I saw. Had to nip that real quick.

[solomon]

Never seen SpongeBob......

About twelve years ago my grand daughter had chicken pox and could not go to day care and I was off that day so I watched her. we watched an episode of P&B and I was hooked. It used to come on while I'd be preparing to go to work, and it was soooooo much more entertaining than the news.

Age and caroons, I think as we get older we recognize things kids don't. P&B is for adults. but kids enjoy it. The Flintsones was written for adults, but we grew up on it.

I can remember watching Popeye cartoons in the 50s and 60s with my dad.....anybody else remember "You're a Sap, Mr Jap"......with the thick glasses wearing bucktooth degenerate japanese sailor.....written for kids?

[JoCo]

Kate AND Sol,

My son, don't worry he's nineteen, prefers Animaniacs over P.& the B. Says new eps of SpBob are STILL out.

Funny, Sol, he just said, "How OLD is this guy,now?" Can't wait til HE gets up there some, but it's still been a blast living thru him. I probably wouldn't even know about "Michelob-ian" without him.

[Kate]

Didn’t watch much P&B, but liked the few I saw. I was an Animaniacs fan (they were zany to the max!), and nowadays, I sneak over to watch Sponge Bob when no one’s around.

[solomon]

Dearest one.......funny stuff.......the hypnotic affect of the RiverDance......did you ever see the Pinky and the Brain episode in which they were going to use it to dominate the world?

P&the B......the last great cartoon series (the animated sitcoms being in a different category)

One last thing.....couldn't be the guys at the Star because you can see their thumbs....:-)

[JoCo]

Thanks Kate,

I love that vid, from a beer ad or something. Now I got a quick click. The guy in the middle's my fave. Kind of a smirky, "I'M in the middle front-man self-obsession. Or is it just showmanship?

[Kate]

Obviously, the Unfettered Letters staff has more important things to do than update the website. What could they be up to? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByNl9a0PHI

[Jazz-Man]

Now that you bring it up all the letters are the same. Mmmm, whats really going on? NoMo shut them down for posting too many letters about Lawyers?

[JoCo]

A JoCo Quick Pick:

KC Star, Thursday, 7/9/09, pg.A-18, Letters:

REFORM HEALTH CARE

I certainly hope that Cathy Ash and Mary Goodwin (7/3 Letters)will read Barbara Shelly's column "Health care Stories Tell Her Changes Are Needed" (7/3 Opinion). It brings to a personal level the need for reform of health care in the U.S. I have no fear of a Medicare-type health care for all. Indeed I hope for it. I have had 5 surgeries in the last 5 years, and with Medicare and my gap insurance, I paid only a pittance-- and received excellent care with no waiting.

Kris Cheatum
Kansas City

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[Kee]

Huh? Looks bad. No new letters again!!!

Tell you what the last one out the door of the FALLING STAR, turn out the lights.

[JoCo]

OK, let's try again! Have the editors awoken? "cannot accept this data". Let me see. Signed in, quick short not, no foul language, OK here we go again:

Hey Dan Beyer,

Maybe Joe 6 was bringing the beer...... and MILK! All right; but don't blame me. I wouldn't even be on this page if the editors hadn't gone catatonic (OR SOMETHING).

So what? Even if it is a "rag" (the Constitution, certainly NOT the STAR), we've got COPIES!!

[JoCo]

Gulp, dumdadumdum,

The marxist/nazi fire has kindled. No new letters AGAIN.

Der vil be NO new letters EVER

[Dan Beyer]

Joe Six-Pack was hanging out in the Bush Cabinet meetings and overheard what?

[THAT was my foot]

the sky is falling...

[JoCo]

HUMOR!?! from:bitsandpieces.us
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
-John Adams

‘If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.’
-Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!
-P.J. O’Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly American criminal class … save Congress.
-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 – 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY!!!!!!!!
Courtesy: bitsandpieces.us

[Moral City USA]

I cant help but think of the line in the movie "The Distinguished Gentleman"

Eddie Murphy say to a lobbyist "With all this lobby money going around and all these agendas, how does anything ever get done?"

Lobbyist responded "It doesn't! That's the genius of the system".

[pmcw]

When people map out the stance of the far right and the far left they normally use a linear graph that shows the two extremes at opposite ends of the spectrum. However, that is deceiving.

In an effort to distract us from their failures, politicians do all they can to pit us against one another - to encourage us to focus on what we dislike about the other side of the aisle so that we don't critique their performance. As a result, we typically side with what is essentially the lesser Devil and vote against a party rather than voting for the other.

A much better and more accurate way to view the far left and far right is to cut the strip of paper that represents your linear graph from the page and the glue what were the polar extremes of far left and far right together to make a circle - a loop of paper.

The goals of the far left and the far right are to radically increase government size, power and control over out lives that it has and to displace state's rights with centralized federal rule. Sure, they may have radically different methods for accomplishing these goals, huge variances in social policy goals and what they most want to control, but the goals are the same - control and to quiet dissidence.

Ironically, this is exactly the strategy used by despots to control the strangled populations in the most repressive countries in the world - they create enemies, with the U.S. often being the most popular selection, and blame these enemies for the repression, poverty, hunger, etc. so that their people focus their ire outside the boarders and cheer for them as though they are champions. Even more ironic is the fact that in some countries like Iran and Honduras, the populations are catching on just as the population of the U.S. is falling under the partisan spell.

This is not a battle of right versus left - the philosophical differences most of us have are minor when compared to our similarities. However, politicians leverage these differences so that we are distracted when they steel from us to increase their base of power and feather their nests.

The simple message here is that we should put aside our minor differences and focus on the fact that the majority of the people we hire to run our governments have put their personal interests for power and, in many cases, wealth, ahead of ours. We need real moderates that vote in line with the wishes of those who elect them rather than rubber-stamping the wishes of the party that provides them with campaign funds and support to win their next feeding at the public trough.

Remember, for those who lead government, government is a business / a career and, like every other business and career, the goal is to expand. Politicians do this by convincing voters that giving government more power and money is in their best interests. Don't fall prey to this ruse - there is no such thing as a government job or government benefit - everything that we have that has made the U.S. great has been and is still paid for by the private sector.

[Jim]

"This is much closer to the Reichstag fire than anything Bush did."

Comparing Obama to Hitler is just as stupid and pointless as comparing Bush to Hitler. I've been sick of this stuff since day one. The same people who (rightly) called out those on the left for doing this are now the ones doing it themselves. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

So what is it called when free enterprise is controlled by government?
Joe 6 you are right, we should not have any moral standards in society. I do agree the Bible thummpers are full of it however with their moral policing. At the end of the day there will always be those weakling that expect government to hold their binky for them and think they are entitled to take from other what they have not earned.
I say lets raise the taxes on entertainers, athletes and laywyers to say 75% of their gross income.

[JoCo]

Don't forget also tho, Beaker, that even tho the practice existed, it was Bush who time after time pushed provisions of bills that had already passed congress into the back burner. The signing statements of George W Bush raised constitutional objections more than 3/4 of the time by experts across the political spectrum, compared, e.g. with Clinton's less than 1/5.
Most agree it created a dramatic shift in the balance of power. The art of the signing statement; selective enforcement by one over the enactment of law by the hundreds. NOW cue Obama.
The left learned it from the right, the right learned it from the left. What a great time to be midcourt for the pingpong game.

[beaker]

whispering - they must have learned that from the left.

For all of Bush's faults, even if you claim he lied to get through the war bill with Iraq, he never used crisis after crisis to push bills that had not been read through congress. This is much closer to the Reichstag fire than anything Bush did.

Whispering, with all of your talk about this and republicans, you fail to see what is really happening with your buddy.

[whispering_to_kc]

The tea-baggers were on TV the other night again showing off their new posters at some rally somewhere.

The wingnuts have leaped right over Terry's "Obama is a commie socialist" meme and into a new one.

"Obama is a Nazi, the new American Hitler!!"

Try to keep up with your wingnut confederates, Terry Luv!! You got left off the wingnut email list, or what?

[Moral City USA]

Oh give it a break Terry. No one trampled on the Constitution like Bush did. He openly referred to it as "a rag" in Cabinet meetings.

Again, it is the Conservatives who promote fascism to control morals of society. If you don’t want socialism, stop promoting fascism

[JoCo]

Smoot/Hawley's "love" was recently rekindled when we left the Kyoto Protocol standing at the alter.

Is that problem still around?

[JoCo]

No dictatorships in Marxian communism. No Castro, no Kim Jong IL. They just like the sound of it.