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I’m mystified why a young guy in a skirt and a headband is so pissed at an older man that he needs a piece of furniture to take him down. I mean, look, it’s not a matchup between David and Goliath here. On the other hand, maybe Skirt Boy is playing a prank on the old man by stealing his chair right before grampa is about to sit down, but there’s no need to grab it by the leg.
More likely, the strong young man is going to aid his father and hurl the chair at someone or something out of the frame, like this:
That’s my best guess, Occam’s Razor and all. Give it your best guess on
The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: attack, cartoon, chair, guy, headband, Overnight Open Thread, skirt
Clearly, the young man is the Chair Man of a death panel, and he has just ruled against the old man getting a much-needed surgery. On the fly, so to speak.
Obama care with old illustrations?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Hey Buzz. You have got to read this. REPORT: DAY ONE OF DOJ’S TRIAL AGAINST TEXAS ANTI-VOTER FRAUD LAWS. It will make your day. We all knew that the DOJ case against the Texas voter ID law was naked fraud from top to bottom. Here’s day 1 of testimony from the DOJ “experts”. A total joke.
The young man is wearing a ‘kilt’, a name given to it after they ‘kilt’ the first person to call it a dress/skirt.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yep, that’s the nut, in context. I’d really like to know the Greco/Roman story on that one.
@ mfhorn:
Kilt? You see any fkkin MacPlaid on that dress? BLASPHEMY.
@ huckfunn:
It sounds like the Justice Department’s case is not only biased and fraudulent, but almost arrogantly sloppy—as though the DoJ figured it could blatantly phone it in and still get a favorable ruling.
Let’s hope they’re wrong.
Here’s an in for Romney if he is bold enough to take it.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’m not a lawyer but I did stay in a Motel 6 a few decades ago. Anyhoo, it seems to me that any band of shysters that would present such a farce to a serious judge would have the case bounced as frivolous and get slapped with sanctions. The case is being heard by a panel of 3 judges but I have no idea who they are or who appointed them. That could be a deciding factor.
@ song_and_dance_man:
The guy on the left invented DDT.
The boy in the picture is first OWS nitwit.
huckfunn wrote:
I’m sure it will be. It is increasingly obvious that proggie judges cannot be trusted to rule according to statute, precedent or evidence, but rule on desired outcome.
If it had been a lyre… Nah. For some reason, the heroic battle between Heracles and Linus didn’t get painted much.
http://twitchy.com/2012/07/11/aaron-walker-releases-transcript-of-norton-peace-order-hearing-license-to-perjure/
mfhorn wrote:
Beware of Greeks wearing kilts.
@ The Osprey:
Chicks dig me.
Twitter is amazing. It’s the only venue where someone you’ve never spoken with or heard of decides to jump into the convo to give his opinion on toenail fungus.
The Osprey wrote:
Not gonna go there…. 8)
SO was Romney brave, folish or no choiced, when he went to speak to the NAACP?
@ Lost:
whoops, dropped an “o”.
Lost wrote:
It is an obligatory thing in current American politics. And he did pretty well, actually.
Mike C. wrote:
Yup. If he hadn’t gone, he would have been hammered by the MSM/Obama campaign.
lobo91 wrote:
Like he won’t get hammered by them anyway.
But Romney going to the NAACP showed a lot more guts than Obama dodging the black pastors.
Not that it’s hard to show more guts than President Gutsy Call.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
It’s pretty much a no-win deal. Of course he’ll be hammered by them. He’s a white Republican.
But at least they can’t say that he ignored them.
@ lobo91:
That seems to be the consensus down here. I was wondering what others thought. He didn’t get snippity or sarcastic in face of the boohing. That wins him points in my book.
@ lobo91:
There’s the chance that he made a conquest or two. He certainly stood up well to their negative reaction—and he should get credit with some people, there or following the news, for not pandering to the crowd.
You’ve got to listen to this NPR hit job on Romney from Wednesday morning. Truly a work of art.
They managed to get in “Romney’s big money,” a Mao comparison, the “we’re not excited about him,” the “out of touch/afraid to deal with the liberal suburbs” slaps, all in one four-minute-plus piece.
The best part—the beauty part—was where they mention but gloss over that he went to a food bank that was involved in wildfire relief but didn’t hold a “rally”, just came there—as compared with the Bloviator-in-Chief, who’d never do something so down to earth.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Standing up and stating what you believe in, regardless of your audience, still counts as a plus with some. Daniel in the lions’ den, and all that…
Mike C. wrote:
As opposed to denial in the lyin’ den, which is more the Obama modus operandi.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Ooh, good one!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The interesting phenomenon is that the more they attack Romney, the better he comes off looking. He’s somewhat dorky with a Ward Cleaver aura about him and that doesn’t translate into threatening no matter how hard you spin it.
French unions are just as stupid as ours:
Never mind the fact that Peugeot is losing 200 million Euros a month, or that nobody’s buying their cars. What matters is that they keep paying those union members.
Oh, and I just noticed who the biggest shareholder in Peugeot outside the founding family is: GM owns 7% of their stock.
I guess that makes us part owners, as well.
@ lobo91:
It’s funny that Citroen is in trouble, and kind of sad. Their fancy sedans, the Citroen DS, were fabulous. We had one back in 1960; the hydraulic suspension gave an incredibly smooth ride, and the upholstery was really comfy.
The cheapo 2CV, which they also made at that time and which looked like a Volkswagen knockoff, supposedly got incredible mileage. It had a canvas top which rolled back like an old-fashioned sardine can, and the side windows on the front were split in the middle so they could fold down.
You’d think that they’d revive the 2CV as a “green car,” or something.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, they’re the same all over. They just can’t wrap their heads around the fact that jobs are a byproduct of a thriving business not the other way around.
MacDuff wrote:
Obviously, they just need to borrow more money, then they can save all those jobs.
//Obamanomics
@ lobo91:
If Obama gets a second term he will probably want to bail Peugeot out. More taxpayers’ money to foreign companies to help Obama’s buddies skim millions.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
They were very cool looking cars, very alien but very cool. You’ve written before that they were actually good cars as well, though I had always assumed otherwise. I guess you can’t always assume the worst about the French, oui?
MacDuff wrote:
Sadly, we had to get rid of it after a couple of years back in the States, because the aluminum undercarriage could not stand up to the road salt, and because in the early ’60s it was absolutely impossible to find a mechanic that knew how to work on it, or get parts. But it was one cool car.
BTW, it also had door locks that were both child- and theftproof; they required depressing a sort of flat button in the interior handle to open them, and were locked by cocking another part of the handle. Back then American cars had one of those buttons on the top of the metal part of the door, which could be snagged by a coathanger; not the Citroen.