TOONS, part 2: Rush-ians and the rest of us

[n2doc]

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[liberal N proud]

1. K&R

[ZombieHorde]

2. Is the cartoon with the house on the edge of the cliff pro-Republican?

The Troubletown cartoon is funny, but I don't think we are getting single payer under Obama.

[annabanana]

3. No.. If you look at Barack's plan, you can see that it involves

lifting the house OFF the cliff!

[ZombieHorde]

6. Oh! I see that now. Obama's plan really changes the cartoon.

[IDemo]

4. #4 is spot-on n/t

[chrisa]

5. Funny, yet sad...

The Republican Party used to be a party of Civil Rights, reform, and secular small government. Now, it's just full of right wing wackos and Rushies who believe that there should be a Theocracy and no regulation. All of the good Republicans became Democrats, or Independents.

By the way, they know nothing about Adam Smith, either. Adam Smith wanted a good amount of government regulation for business, or otherwise, they would do what they did to get us into this mess.

[ThomWV]

7. I sort of hate to say this but we cooked a ground hog one time to see what it would be like

We were living on a small farm and had about an acre in corn for winter fodder for the goats. Ground hogs got into it and were doing a lot of damage as they fattened up. So I shot one one afternoon in the late fall and he was a hefty and healthy looking sucker so we cleaned him and cooked him. It wasn't very good but it was a matter of consistancy rather than taste. It made great gravey but it was so greasy that it was hardly edible as I recall. Anyway the last cartoon brought it right back to mind even though it was about 35 years ago.

[n2doc]

9. Groundhog used to be a typical frontier food source

I have a recording of Woody Guthrie singing "Ground hog", good stuff!

GROUND HOG (trad./ALMANAC SINGERS) (1800s/1941)

Whet up your axe and whistle up your dog,
Whet up your axe and whistle up your dog.
We're off to the woods to hunt ground hog.
Ground hog!
Old Joe Digger, Sam, and Dave...
Went a-hog-huntin' hard as they could stave..

Here comes Sam with a ten-foot pole...
A-roust that ground hog outa his hole...

Well, stand back, boys and let's be wise...
I think I see his beaded eyes...

Grab him, boys, and pull him out...
Great Godamighty! Ain't a ground hog stout...

I like my ground hog stewed and fried...
An' a little piece of corn bread by the side...

Well, the meat's in the pot, and the hide's in the churn...
If that ain't ground hog, I'll be durned...

Work, boys, work as hard as you can tear...
The meat'll do to eat and the hide'll do to wear...

Work, boys, work and scrape his hide...
Make the best darn shoe strings ever I tried...

Goin' down the road and the road mighty muddy...
So goldarn drunk I can't stand steady...

Up come Sal with a snigger and a grin...
Ground hog grease all over her chin...

[Hekate]

18. Great song. There's a slew of folk songs featuring food like that. "Bake that possum nice & brown...

... lay them sweet potatoes round and round..." (Old Blue, below)

Remember all those frontier stories featuring bear, possum, raccoon, squirrel... I never gave that menu much thought, being a kid and all in a place that had none of those critters, but when I got my own backyard in So Cal and saw my first possums and raccoons it really struck me: those critters are wild and they have big teeth and claws. Catching them would be an art and I wondered what they would taste like.

My stupid Sheltie cornered a possum once and I got a good look at its teeth while hauling my dog's butt out of there. Groundhogs I haven't seen, but the resident squirrels are pretty small and would probably take quite a few to feed a family.

Old Blue

Yah, old Blue
You good dog, you

I had a dog and his name was Blue
And I betcha five dollars he's a good dog, too

Come on, Blue
You good dog, you

I shouldered my gun and I tooted my horn
And I went to get a possum in the new ground corn

Come on, Blue
You can come too

Old Blue bayed, and I went to see
Blue had a possum in a ‘simmon tree

Come on, Blue
You good dog, you

That possum come out on a swinging limb
Blue barked at the possum, possum growled at him

Come on, Blue
You good dog, you

Blue grinned at me and I winked at him
I shook out the possum, Blue took him in

Come on, Blue
You good dog, you

Baked that possum nice and brown
And I layed them sweet potatoes round and round

Come on, Blue
You can have some, too

Well, Old Blue died and he died so hard
He shook the ground in my backyard

Go on, Blue
You good dog, you

Dug his grave with a silver spade
Lowered him down with a golden chain

Go on, Blue
You good dog, you


When I get to heaven first thing I'll do
Take my horn and blow for Blue

Go on, Blue
I'm comin' too

Come on Blue, come on Blue
There's a possum in Heaven for me and you

Go on, Blue
You good dog, you

[malaise]

8. Thanks

Rushicans or Rushpublicans - not sure which is better??

[Blue_Tires]

10. sorensen nails it

[Maven]

11. Slowpoke is the best.

[volstork]

12. Notice that in #6

(Danziger's first one) the elephant's shoes are from China....

Nice and subtle touch!

[Froward69]

13. this one

epitomizes the Gop's attitude no matter what.



we all have to have his back... no matter what.

[badgerpup]

14. K and R...

Thanks, n2doc! :pals:

On the last one, isn't is a fortunate thing that
A). Danae and Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) are not contemporaries...and
B). are only cartoon characters and not real?

I'm thinking of the mayhem :nuke: that would have occurred had these two joined forces (and been able to get past their respective 'stinky boogerheads'/'girl-cooties' phobias)...
:scared::hide::yoiks:


:kick:

[n2doc]

15. Imagine the kids they would have! n/t

[badgerpup]

17. Going by the Law Of Opposites...

The kids would probably be rank conformists...if not outright republicans...:evilgrin:

Just kids have tendency to rebel against really extreme parents by becoming exactly the opposite...
in just as extreme a fashion.

Or so I'm told...:shrug:

[JackRiddler]

16. Here is one that I wish wasn't wishful thinking.

[wroberts189]

19. I wish the peolple that make these were in charge. k&r nt