A few Unpublished favourites from recent months on assorted topics

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It's almost March and I've got some catching up to do: Here are a few of my favourites from the past few months that weren't printed in The Sun Times

An assortment about the Conservative Party in general and our two local reps in particular.

Here are a few recent ones from the Oct. -Dec./08 period that went unpublished: All on a Big Business theme

On the top one: The Line up for hosting a nuclear waste site forms on the left. On the right will be the line for hosting a military weapons test site. Hey... it's money! Maybe you can even "take it with you".
On the middle one: I had one published on the sad story of PPG pulling out of town.... just part of the whole global free trade/cheap labour thing that's been happening ever since Mulroney and Reagan were playing around in the sandbox. I still feel bad about the PPG thing.... which by the way ended up shutting down even sooner than they announced.... and the image in this cartoon came to mind... I think it's grimly funny. Hey, it's my job to be grim sometimes.
And the bottom one: I don't know what the hell the dispute was about... details were never released, but Disney was having a hissy fit about something. Anyway, turns out the movie that they weren't going to show in town, eventually got shown. I guessed they kissed and made up. Gee, lucky us. I wonder what it's like to kiss a rat anyway?

Cartoons on Health Care that didn't get published

Health Care is really starting to suck in Canada. Sure, it's still better than some third world countries and slightly better than the U.S. still, but it's nowhere even close to what it used to be.
And it's in critical shape and deteriorating rapidly. Is there nothing we can learn from history?

three more recent ones with some political connections

Comments:
The top one.... I don't want you to get a pulled muscle trying to read the upside down answer, so here's what it says: "Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence."
Just keeping the self perpetuated image of Bill alive. Much to his credit, I haven't heard him use the phrase "Maverick" and I hope to God he doesn't. That's been worn out and was full of a lot of false hype, too. Just like McCain was accused of.... if you were so radical and independent, how did you vote, if you bothered, on a lot of that crap that Harris passed (forced) down our throats in health, education, welfare, environment, labour, and a whole lot of other socially sensitive areas that we're still suffering from. I don't recall you speaking out much, if at all then. And trust me, I watched a lot of the parliamentary session and read lots of papers.
The bottom one pretty much speaks for itself..... although I'll just add this one shot.... I guess the dropping price of gasoline is our one consolation prize while many of us suffer through most of the really bad stuff that's happening now. Pardon me if I don't celebrate too much.

a few miscellaneous ones from recent elections

comments: the top one..... I don't know about you, but I got really sick of hearing that term "maverick". The whole word has been given a comical spin that it may never recover from. I cringe now every time I use the phrase "common sense". Thanks to the Tories for ruining that one. And I'll take bets right now that Sarah Palin will be totally gone from the national scene by the time of the next election. It is my theory that both her and McCain were dupes set up to lose by their own party. Too bad that these two intellectual light weights were apparently not in on the joke. Anyway, they were kind of fun while they lasted. I suspect the Republicans will be a whole lot more serious about winning in four, or certainly eight year's time.
The middle one..... Boy the brain trust behind the real power base of the Republicans were probably getting really nervous when it seemed like Palin might actually help old John win. I think the right wing was quite willing just to pass over the "power" temporarily after they had gotten themselves even richer than when the whole Bush fiasco started and then had screwed everything up so badly in that process. Who would want to take power now??? Well, I guess anyone who feels that anything would be better than more of the same. Anyway, if the Rep's had won, somehow, then even more of the public would have turned against them and for a much longer period of time. So, poof, as if by magic, we have a big economic crisis to turn the attention away from McCain who was pathetic on just about anything, but especially economics. Just a
coincidence?
The bottom one.... let me just say that I actually saw those two signs on one person's property.
Oh, the irony.

some fairly recent cartoons that are tied into education

a brief word about each: the top one... I just wondered about the situation some of the kids and their parents are in. And since I did this one, the economic news has only gotten worse. I hope the government plans to take care of these people through the tough times. I doubt it. But I hope it.
The middle one.... I think it was pathetic regarding the record low turnout we had for the last federal election. If you just couldn't be bothered then maybe your opinion on other matters shouldn't count. If you were totally skeptical of any of the parties, I understand. But even if it's a case of name your own poison I, for one, would like to have that choice. Some are just a little less painful than others. So, thanks to all the people who didn't vote, we got stuck with the really painful one.
The bottom one.... just before we get too carried away with the more angelic view of youth, let's just remember that most of them are just old people passing their time until they too can turn down votes. Yes, there are good ones..... but there's a whole lot of silly ones too. And let's not forget that even though some of them will turn out just fine, while they are in the teen years, most of them have their wiring mostly screwed up.