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Big Oil lackey to voters on oil fracking:
“Residents of Whittier are not
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or intelligent enough
to review
the environmental impact report.”
See letter (October 19, 2011)
Quotes
"This profane marriage between tawdry media hype and medieval superstition
gave birth to an icon which few have since had the poor taste to question..."
-- Christopher Hitchens, on why Mother Teresa was a @$*&%#$, Link
Christopher Hitches hated Mother Teresa, Diana Spencer, Nancy Reagan, Bill Clinton...
It's like we've lost Maureen Dowd.
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"This profane marriage between tawdry media hype and medieval superstition
gave birth to an icon which few have since had the poor taste to question..."
-- Christopher Hitchens, on why Mother Teresa was a @$*&%#$, Link
Christopher Hitches hated Mother Teresa, Diana Spencer, Nancy Reagan, Bill Clinton...
It's like we've lost Maureen Dowd.
Send e-mail to Bart
Why Obama surrendered on Taxes
The short answer? Because
that's who he is
by David Swerdlick
theroot.com
Nowadays it's popular to apply the "bad poker player" analogy to Obama and Democrats when
it comes to their failure to match wits with Republicans on expiring tax cuts. David Leonhardt has
a "Kenny Rogers Theory": Democrats can't figure out when it's time to hold 'em or fold 'em.
But that's not quite it, because they fold all the time.
A shot of Chinaco for the writer...
Obama's problem, as any good poker player will tell you, is that he hasn't figured out that in
order to win, you have to force the other guy to make a decision about his chips before he forces you.
That's two shots of Chinaco for David Swerdlick.
Instead they surrendered a deal Monday night that gave the GOP what it wanted: extending the Bush
tax rates for all brackets for two more years. It's not only a retreat from Obama's pledge to cut taxes
only for those households making under $250,000; it also means that rates will be set to expire again,
just in time for Republicans to dust off the issue and drag it back out for the 2012 presidential election.
How is it possible for an intelligent man to make the same mistakes 25 times in a row?
Obama opens every negotiation by saying, "You can have what you want - what can I have?"
Send e-mail to Bart
Quotes
"With the passing of Kim Jong Il, Kim Kardashian
now assumes the role of the world's most hated Kim."
-- @SolitaireRose, in a tweet
Send e-mail to Bart
Subject: Is Rick Perry retired?
It appears Texas Governor Rick Perry retired and is now drawing a retirement annuity of $7698 a month.
But wait - he's also still the governor and he still gets his regular $150,000/year salary too, all this while
he's running for president full time. So - in Texas the governor can not do his job, collect his salary,
and start collecting retirement at the same time - WOW!
Texas makes California look conservative in comparison.
And - OMG - he's a Republican!
Marc Perkel
Send e-mail to Bart
theroot.com
Nowadays it's popular to apply the "bad poker player" analogy to Obama and Democrats when
it comes to their failure to match wits with Republicans on expiring tax cuts. David Leonhardt has
a "Kenny Rogers Theory": Democrats can't figure out when it's time to hold 'em or fold 'em.
But that's not quite it, because they fold all the time.
A shot of Chinaco for the writer...
Obama's problem, as any good poker player will tell you, is that he hasn't figured out that in
order to win, you have to force the other guy to make a decision about his chips before he forces you.
That's two shots of Chinaco for David Swerdlick.
Instead they surrendered a deal Monday night that gave the GOP what it wanted: extending the Bush
tax rates for all brackets for two more years. It's not only a retreat from Obama's pledge to cut taxes
only for those households making under $250,000; it also means that rates will be set to expire again,
just in time for Republicans to dust off the issue and drag it back out for the 2012 presidential election.
How is it possible for an intelligent man to make the same mistakes 25 times in a row?
Obama opens every negotiation by saying, "You can have what you want - what can I have?"
Send e-mail to Bart
Quotes
"With the passing of Kim Jong Il, Kim Kardashian
now assumes the role of the world's most hated Kim."
-- @SolitaireRose, in a tweet
Send e-mail to Bart
Subject: Is Rick Perry retired?
It appears Texas Governor Rick Perry retired and is now drawing a retirement annuity of $7698 a month.
But wait - he's also still the governor and he still gets his regular $150,000/year salary too, all this while
he's running for president full time. So - in Texas the governor can not do his job, collect his salary,
and start collecting retirement at the same time - WOW!
Texas makes California look conservative in comparison.
And - OMG - he's a Republican!
Marc Perkel
Send e-mail to Bart
Seeing the ads puts
food on my family,
PLEASE turn off your AdBlocker.
PLEASE turn off your AdBlocker.
Quotes
"He’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”
-- Christine O'Donnell, (R-Witch) on why she supports Mittens,
I could fix Mittens flip-flopping problem in three minutes - I wonder why nobody else has?
All he's got to say is, "Yes, I've changed my positions as I've gotten older and wiser.
When I debate someone, sometimes I think, 'They have a point,' and then I reconsider
my position and sometimes I realize that I was wrong, so then my position changes,
but always towards the Right, and I'm much wiser now than I was in decades past."
It's so f-ing easy, but Romney had no clue how to get out of this terrible trap..
There are times when I think 10-year old Bartcop, or at least high-school Bartcop
could whip most of today's best and brightest in a debate. It's so f-ing easy.
Politics is easier than taking a whiz - why are are politicians so clueless at how to play the game?
Send e-mail to Bart
"He’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”
-- Christine O'Donnell, (R-Witch) on why she supports Mittens,
I could fix Mittens flip-flopping problem in three minutes - I wonder why nobody else has?
All he's got to say is, "Yes, I've changed my positions as I've gotten older and wiser.
When I debate someone, sometimes I think, 'They have a point,' and then I reconsider
my position and sometimes I realize that I was wrong, so then my position changes,
but always towards the Right, and I'm much wiser now than I was in decades past."
It's so f-ing easy, but Romney had no clue how to get out of this terrible trap..
There are times when I think 10-year old Bartcop, or at least high-school Bartcop
could whip most of today's best and brightest in a debate. It's so f-ing easy.
Politics is easier than taking a whiz - why are are politicians so clueless at how to play the game?
Send e-mail to Bart
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Quotes
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory
out there — good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on
the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You
were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for."
-- U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, running in Massachusetts, Link
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Obama may cave on Keystone Pipeline
Link
Gee, this guy must be from the future!
How else could he know Obama was about to cave on an important issue?
Send e-mail to Bart
Marty
has
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day
on her fine, fine Entertainment Page
Marty's TV Listings are the best!
on her fine, fine Entertainment Page
Marty's TV Listings are the best!
Marty always has good stuff.
Quotes
"I see that Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il
went through with their love suicide pact."
-- @RudePundit, in a tweet
Send e-mail to Bart
How FOX News helps Obama
Link
Obama is mired in horrible numbers – except for the ones showing him beating all-comers.
Even though the US economy is slumped in the doldrums, some of the country's shrewdest
commentators make a serious case that Obama could be heading for a landslide victory in 2012.
How to explain such a turnaround? Fox News.
By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely vulnerable. Not only is the economy in bad shape,
he has proved to be a much more hesitant, less commanding White House presence than his supporters
longed for. And yet, most surveys put him comfortably ahead of his would-be rivals. That's not a positive
judgment on the president but an indictment of the dire quality of a Republican field almost comically packed
with the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone and downright flaky. And the finger of blame for this state of affairs
points squarely at the studios of Fox News.
Toe-sucking asshole Dick Morris, veteran political operative and Fox regular, noted the phenomenon himself
the other day while sitting on the Fox sofa. "This is a phenomenon of this year's election," he said. "You don't
win Iowa in Iowa. You win it on this couch. You win it on Fox News." In other words, it is Fox – with the
largest cable news audience, representing a huge chunk of the Republican base – that is, in effect, picking
the party's nominee to face Obama next November.
Great point.
Thanks to FOX News and the Teabaggers, only the loons can get traction with the Party of Insanity.
The sane Rethugs, ( yes, they exist ) didn't get in because how can you out-debate crazy?
Send e-mail to Bart
From
USA Today
Is it true what they say?
That Obama spends half of his time making
bad decisions and the other half surrendering?
Is it true what they say?
That Obama spends half of his time making
bad decisions and the other half surrendering?
Subject: Newt will not be the GOP nominee?
Hey Bart,
I'm just e-mailing you to tell you I agree with you 100%, Newt will not be the GOP nominee.
I know you want people to e-mail you who want to place a wager on that,
but I figure you also want to hear from people who agree with you.
The way I see it, the GOP gets incredibly excited by any candidate that isn't Romney.
They go through them one at a time (Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and now Gingrich) until they realize
there is nothing there. It's just a matter of time for Gingrich, although I'm sure he'll win at least
one of the primaries. Eventually he'll say something so crazy he'll drop like a lead balloon.
Then, it will just be Mittens taking the fight to Obama, wearing only mittens.
Oh, as far as Obama winning the 2nd term? I agree with you there 100% as well.
Keep Hammering!
Nick in Seattle, WA
But isn't it funny how we're looking at a repeat of 2008?
The GOP's rallying cry back then was "Anybody but McCain because we HATE McCain
because he's not a real conservative," so then Rudy became their beloved front-runner,
then Fred Thompson, and then Ronald McDonald and I think Trump was in the mix.
They tried to find anybody to run for president but McCain but everyone
else seemed even worse so, in the end, they went with bad, old Sen Depends.
Conclusion: The GOP hate themselves.
Send e-mail to Bart
Today's GOP is 'so embarrassing'
by former senator Ralston Purina
Link
“I’ve been watching some of these Republican debates and they’re just terrible. Terrible.
It’s embarrassing for me as a Republican to watch this stuff. What have been the big applause
lines in these debates? Well, a statement that Governor Perry is responsible for killing 234 people
on death row. Or that we favor torture. Or that we’re creating a fence on the Mexican border that
electrocutes people when they try to cross it. Or when people show up at the emergency room at
hospitals and they’re not insured don’t treat them. And that, I mean these are the big applause lines,
today's Republicans just hoop and holler when they hear all that.
It doesn’t have anything to do with the republican party that I was a part of. This is just totally different.
And all of these people who are saying this, y’know, and claiming that, y’know, they’re for all this stuff,
they also sort of ostentatiously say, “Oh, we’re very religious people. We really, we’re just very pious,
Christian people.” They were for torture, and electrocution of the people on along the border and all of that.
That doesn’t have anything to do with, is contrary to the Christianity that I understand.
Former senator John Danforth, proving there were once slivers of sanity in the Republican party
Send e-mail to Bart
Sarah Palin Nude
Link
You can tell this is from a past Christmas.
Today's Teabaggers would insist on live ammunition for everyone.
My Week in Hell
Link
Send e-mail to Bart
Link
You can tell this is from a past Christmas.
Today's Teabaggers would insist on live ammunition for everyone.
Mister out of his f*cking mind is in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The statue is called Christ the Redeemer. Things like this are common in Brazil.
My friend Fernando from Sao Paulo lost an older brother who was killed train surfing.
Keep Hammering,
John
The statue is called Christ the Redeemer. Things like this are common in Brazil.
My friend Fernando from Sao Paulo lost an older brother who was killed train surfing.
Keep Hammering,
John
My Week in Hell
Link
Send e-mail to Bart
Look who turned 85 over the weekend!
Thanks to Alex for being a Pillar
Quotes
"I can't say with certitude if those pictures are of me."
-- Rep Anthony Weiner, lying like a Gingrich, Link
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Subject: Christmas cards
Bart, this year, you could ask everyone to add you to their Christmas card list
and maybe put in a couple bucks for the kitties.
Brad the Pillar
Brad, thanks for that.
I would love to get Christmas cards from my readers.
My PO Box doesn't get a lot of action these days...
Bartcop
PO Box 54466
Tulsa, OK 74155
Update:
I got several Christmas cards, thanks for that.
Some of them contained $5 in cash - that was a nice touch.
These days, $5 can buy 2-3 meals or a weeks worth of cat food.
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Quotes
"Neighbors kids having loud party. I yelled @ them as if I was 80 yrs old.
Then felt like an a-hole so 5 mins later I apologized. Who am I?
When I yelled at the kids my wife then yelled at me reminding me
that I was a kid once. She's so right. God, what an a-hole I am."
-- David Sirota, in a tweet, figuring shit out
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Subject: My Brush with Greatness
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MSU band plays Dixie at Lynching site
Band director claims he didn't know...
Link
Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed "Dixie"
at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906.
Interim President Clif Smart says the song was an "unfortunate selection"
and won't be played again in a public venue.
The Confederate anthem has come to represent the ideology of the Old South.
The band played "Dixie" at the Nov. 18 dedication of Park Central Square in Springfield,
the southwest Missouri city of Nazis and racists where the university is located. A plaque
identifies the square as the location where three black men were lynched more than a century ago.
Smart says the band director didn't understand the significance of the song.
Springfield Missouri is a very, very racist place.
It's where Missouri's "Christlike" evangelicals live and breed.
Springfield is what makes Missouri a Red state.
St. Louis and Kansas City, you'd figure, are about evenly split but when
you mix in hyper-racist, lynch-them-all Springfield, Missouri turns red - blood red.
If you're non-white and you get a flat while driving thru Springfeild,
drive on your damn rims till you get to Joplin.
Send e-mail to Bart
Subject: My Brush with Greatness
Link
Send in YOUR brush with greatness
Half of Americans now living in poverty
Link
But the sons of bitches who stole those TRILLIONS of dollars aren't going to jail
because Obama is obsessed with killing poker and jailing producers of medical pot.
George, we'd all LIKE to get behind Obama but he's one screw-up after another.
If he was merely doing a bad job, we could look past his shortcomings.
But the bastards who stole our jobs, our savings and our homes?
Obama let them go free while he's out trying to find ways to kill what little joy we have left.
Why can't he get his priorities straight, George? Or even 50% straight?
Perhaps having immense wealth, a mansion on Lake Como and every girl in the world
has blinded you to the fact that we're not complaining for no reason.
Maybe YOU could talk some sense into him?
I have a friend in Montana who might go to federal prison because he legally sold pot while
following every Montana law on the books (and he was friendly with the cops) but Obama
decided he was a danger to society and we both know that's f-ing crazy.
Talk some sense into him, George, get him to reduce his fuck-ups down to 50%,
tell him to stop surrendering even before asked to and to stop that "looking forward"
bullshit and we'll all agree to cut him more slack - do we have a deal?
Send e-mail to Bart
Subject: New Jersey map
It's kind of sad that you use a perjorative for Polish Americans on the NJ map
but are unwilling to follow though with "Italian guys in wife beaters."
What's the matter, no balls, Bartcop?
Swana
I don't draw the toons.
I also don't spend hours on each toon figuring out who might find a way to be offended.
Jesus, there are about 80 things you could find a way to get offended about in every issue.
You only found one?
Send e-mail to Bart
How much does FOX News hate Romney?
Bob Dole found Alive
Link
Subject: Permanent Amazon link to help Bart
Hey BC, here is a better Amazon link for you:
http://amzn.to/bartcop
Brad in CA
Brad, thanks for that.
Anything that makes it easier to buy things will help a lot.
Every purchase helps The Tequila Treehouse and costs you nothing.
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Check out the news and toons at
The Last Soldier to Die in Iraq
Link
As the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Sunday, friends and family of the first and last
American fighters killed in combat were cherishing their memories rather than dwelling on
whether the war and their sacrifice was worth it.
Nearly 4,500 American fighters died before the last U.S. troops crossed the border into Kuwait.
David Hickman, 23, of Greensboro was the last of those war casualties, killed in November by
the kind of improvised bomb that was a signature weapon of this war.
"David Emanuel Hickman. Doesn't that name just bring out a smile to your face?" said Logan
Trainum, one of Hickman's closest friends, at the funeral where the soldier was laid to rest
after a ceremony in a Greensboro church packed with friends and family.
Trainum says he's not spending time asking why Hickman died: "There aren't enough facts
available for me to have a defined opinion about things. I'm just sad, and pray that my best
friend didn't lay down his life for nothing."
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Subject: fund-raising idea
Some organization collect dues from members in their birth month.
Karen in Indiana
Karen, thanks for that.
Born in December folks - can you spare a donation?
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Last issue's Mystery Car Revealed
Bart, Last issue's Mystery Car is a 1955 (maybe '56?) Buick Roadmaster 2-door "hardtop".
They called it that because there's no pillar between the front and rear windows so you could have
wide open spaces like a convertable, but with a hard top. I'd bet most Roadmasters were 4-door sedans
so this model is probably particularly rare. I learned to drive in a 54 Buick Special, a very similar model.
My dad drove it for 13 years before rust consumed it in Chicago.
I always dug the fake exhaust ports on the fenders.
That's still a signature styling element on Buicks.
TD
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Today's Mystery Celebrity
Link
Last issue's Mystery Celebrity Link
Hi Bart – that's Marlon Brando, lookin' good!
~ Tony in Philly
I didn't expect that to be a big mystery but I'd never seen
a picture of Brandon when he was that young so I ran it.
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Link
Last issue's Mystery Car Revealed
Bart, Last issue's Mystery Car is a 1955 (maybe '56?) Buick Roadmaster 2-door "hardtop".
They called it that because there's no pillar between the front and rear windows so you could have
wide open spaces like a convertable, but with a hard top. I'd bet most Roadmasters were 4-door sedans
so this model is probably particularly rare. I learned to drive in a 54 Buick Special, a very similar model.
My dad drove it for 13 years before rust consumed it in Chicago.
I always dug the fake exhaust ports on the fenders.
That's still a signature styling element on Buicks.
TD
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Today's Mystery Celebrity
Link
Last issue's Mystery Celebrity Link
Hi Bart – that's Marlon Brando, lookin' good!
~ Tony in Philly
I didn't expect that to be a big mystery but I'd never seen
a picture of Brandon when he was that young so I ran it.
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Today's Mystery City
Link
Subject: last issue's mystery city
Bart, Last Issue's Mystery City is a view of the back of the huge Hollywood(land) sign in Los Angeles.
David
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Today's History Mystery
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Subject: last issue's history mystery
What is last issue's History Mystery?
Bart, the old coot is President Andrew Johnson,
the only president to be impeached until Clinton came along.
Cato in Cato Land
(Thanks for the goodies in the mail)
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