YOUR SATURDAY CARTOONS: AUGUST 10, 2018

So there I was happy to have my post up and ready to go before dinner this evening. I come in to post it and find the entire thing gone. So I will now attempt to repost everything, but all the commentary is gone and I can only attempt to replace what I remember. Cusses. First world problem so no real complaints. Some pretty good material this week. 

Needless to say, guns and shootings are a major topic, as is Baltimore. But there are a lot of bases covered here. 

Tomorrow is my Grandson's first birthday. I would be shot if I posted his photo so take it from me, he is just a lovely little baby who cannot stuff blueberries down his gullet fast enough. Grandma is giving him  his first dump truck; he is fascinated by wheels. Where in heck did the year go?

May your summer include warm days, lovely breezes, good friends, good health and fresh foods. Endless roads and shores are also pretty nice. And now I am off to bed.

Perhaps the wisest advice ever. How many times has this led to me standing in the snow, in my nightgown, mouth open catching snowflakes? Or just to listen first hand to the rain crashing against the ground. Whatever it is, it works. 

The eradication of the front porch in American life is one of the first points covered in the magnificent BBC series, The Century of the Self.

Fox kit focus

Another view of the Chinese road to Heaven's Gate. 99 hairpin turns in a relatively short distance. The angles of that drive look amazing.

This decidedly creepy person was arrested the other day. In an interview he pulled out a taser to show the audience, illegal to own in Canada. The next day RCMP paid him a visit and left with several such items and he was charged. Thank you to Blaire White for making this possible.

Please. Tell me those socks are photo shopped! I believe the original socks were ducks on mauve.

Would you?

Could you?

Can you feel your stomach as you drop down this noisy old wooden roller coaster? Oh, it looks like a great ride.

The ultimate winners of The Game of Bones.

Some ideas are like that.

Those delicately tufted ears. What an absolute beauty!

Innocence.

Stilton says:

The recent rash of mass shootings has left the nation stunned but, sadly, not speechless. The usual media and political suspects are saying the usual things, using the bodies of the innocent as a sickening ideological soapbox.

We're not going to do that here. These gruesome murders are not about, nor caused by, politics. Rather, they are the unavoidable and perhaps unstoppable product of a deeply diseased culture. A culture which has become the perfect growth medium for psychopathy.

"Loners" are no longer alone when in their online worlds. They can communicate without actual human contact. They can find reinforcement for their darkest and most twisted thoughts and fantasies. They can give the worst demons of their psyches an artificial, external life in cyberspace - free to express hatred and anger anonymously and without consequence. And on the Internet, madness can hide in plain sight. 

After all, who's going to notice or care about garden variety insanity in a world which routinely describes everyone as murderous: baby killers on one side, Earth-destroying Nazis on the other. The stakes are absolute, the "other" is the enemy, and words are just words...until they become actions.

The social mechanisms which formerly prevented these massacres have crumbled. The bonds of family, friendship, and faith. A shared sense of community. Optimism about the future. Moral certainty and personal responsibility.

Instead, we now live in a crowded world of communal loners, all staring at their phones instead of the world and people around them. Politicians and media figures preach an unsubtle and dangerously divisive message of absolutes: you are either on this side or that, either all good or all evil. There is no middle ground - only calls for action. Calls that the wrong people are hearing.

We live in a culture in which too many feel they have no meaning or importance, but believe that one spectacular act of madness can give them the instant celebrity which defines success in a sick society. And so they kill to feel alive. To experience an illusion of power at the expense of the powerless. And even knowing the likelihood that they will be killed during their heinous act, they believe they will live eternally in the electronic ether, washed in the blood of the sacrificed.

Gun control can not and will not change any of this. The phenomena of mass shootings is, in fact, unstoppable absent a wholesale change in our culture, our way of life, and our society's unhealthy obsession with an inhuman and inhumane electronic world.

The good news is that the vast majority of people still retain values strong enough to keep them morally centered in our crumbling culture. The bad news is that unless those values can regain cultural dominance, and unless we can replace combativeness and angry confrontation with honest conversation, mass murder will continue to be our inescapable new normal.

More best advice.

Clones?

This is a dangerous cartoon. Don't forget their creation of the Scofield Bible and the ensuing damage today. 

Don't you feel so much safer knowing that the ADL is on the lookout for suspiciously unbent paperclips?

 Threats to the right from that bastion of intellect, drummer Tommy Lee.

 "Metaphysical evil"

 Read it and laugh. Karma.

This arrived in my feed today. It is just plain wrong. Years ago I posted the original of this cartoon; it is from the Wall Street 1% sit-ins years ago. Ben Garrison had nothing to do with its creation; nor would he alter the original in this manner. Such plagiarism of his work cost him a visit to the White House a few months ago. SO I just played with it. Rectified the situation. The quote is the original quote.

 

Sweet people, aren't they? 

Meet the enemy.

 Two BOTS having a discussion...

This fine Appalachian gentleman is still waiting for some of that there "White Privlidge" them there city folk keep telling him he has so much of.

Although we've been treating the story as a joke, no one is laughing now that the stakes have been raised dramatically in the upcoming attempt to storm Area 51 and, perhaps, "see them aliens."

We refer, of course, to the news that Nevada's largest adult entertainment operation is sending a contingent of strippers to help breach the defenses of the top secret military site. Granted, we're not exactly sure how that's supposed to work, but we suspect that some of the brave young women will attempt to distract the guards, while others use their well-honed pole skills to vault over the barbed wire fences.

The exotic dancers will be arriving at the staging area in The Strippermobile, which frankly sounds like the most awesome superhero vehicle ever. Although we don't even want to think about what might happen if it got too close to the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.

The US Air Force, which is taking the possibility of a mass assault very seriously, has plans in place to repel potential intruders. Still, allowing for the slim possibility that civilians ~ including the curvaceous corps of adult entertainers ~ may indeed penetrate the top secret area, contingency plans are being made to provide the aliens with Earth dollar bills.

Wonderful to hear that the gracious First Lady of Syria has produced a clean bill of health and beaten the cancer which threatened her life.

 Yes, this was an actual MSNBC segment...except for the logical punchline. 

We're playing a dangerous game here, but we're going to go on record as saying that the Democrats and liberal media actually can not stoop lower than they have this week, short of explicitly calling for Civil War and white genocide. And of course, the week's not over.

We've all heard the narrative for the past couple of years: Trump is a racist, his supporters are deplorables, and blah, blah, blah. But there has been a seismic shift in the scope and seriousness of these accusations. Following the actions of a trio of mass shooters, whose motives remain unknown but whose political footprints seem to indicate Leftward leanings, all liberal pretense at tact, logic, and human decency have gone out the window.

The new narrative from the Left, being pounded into soft Leftist skulls, is that Donald Trump is the evil leader of a massive army of murderous white supremacists, all of whom ~ including you ~ should be rounded up and "eradicated."

We wish we were exaggerating, but we're not. The tortured and preposterous argument that Trump is using American flag protocol to send secret messages to neo-Nazis was a real exchange on MSNBC, as was a news anchorette's solemn statement to viewers that President Trump is "talking about exterminating Latinos." Which, we should mention as a small point of clarification, he effing isn't.

According to pretty much every Democrat running for president, Trump is the worst kind of racist, sexist, genocidal white supremacist...as is every single person who cast a vote for Trump, even if that vote was cast solely to keep Hillary's thoroughly corrupt keister out of the Oval Office. We all pulled the triggers at the mass shootings, we're all drenched in blood and, to hear the Left tell it, nothing could make us happier. There are no gradations or extenuating circumstances in the Left's rhetoric: every Trump supporter embodies ultimate evil, and none of us will deserve mercy when Civil War II breaks out.

This isn't the kind of garden variety nonsense we're used to hearing from the Left. This is dangerous and inflammatory, quite literally the sort of insane rhetoric that Adolf Hitler used to inspire an epidemic of madness and murder that tore the world apart. Now, half of our population is being force fed lies around the clock to foment the kind of hate and division which will result in more, not fewer, deaths of innocents.

The threat from the social arsonists on the Left is real, deliberate, and growing.