At our office, the content of our ‘Sales’ emailbox is usually comprised of orders, queries, requests for catalogs, etc. Occasionally we still get offers for misspelled Cialis, Viagra, etc., as well as the internet version of the letter from a Nigerian prince. Once in a while, for reasons beyond my comprehension, we get anti-government rants from a group called (I believe) The American Land Rights Association. But last week we got a very unusual (and pretty weird) political email. Here it is in its entirety:
From: Martin Marks [mailto:drfootsie@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:01 AM
To: drfootsie@drfootsie.org
Subject: PODIATRY to POLITICAL CARTOONING
Hi: PLEASE SHARE
Taxed Enough Already
Tired of CORRUPTION
ABOLISH IRS
We AIM to PLEASE ……….
GRID LOCK – gov’t waste
If you like your ……..
While none of these made any sense or fell into the category of “humor” such as we understand it, the editor of the Virginia News Source (which touts itself as “Tidewater Virginia’s ONLY source of reality based news. We are professional muckrakers, politically incorrect, and equal opportunity offenders”) absolutely loves them. Here’s an excerpt (I recreated the misspellings, etc.) from the editor’s July 25th blurb about Dr. Footsie:
“I love ‘whack jobs and I connected with him and stuck up a a great relationship nstantly. My kind of person. Of sound mind. Off-beat humorous.
Dr. Footsie has enough of a whacky outlook, and the creative, artistic ability to articulate the wrongs of the world in a delightfully humorous way. That’s not to say that his cartoons aren’t biting. They are. They are effective. In one upcoming cartoon, he depicts Obama in a cartoon entitled “a black eye on America”, combining all that wrong about Obama’s failed presidency. Subtle meanings are hidden throughout his work.”
Well, they certainly fit in with the crap on the Virginia News Source website. They are NOT, however, either “delightful”, nor “subtle”, nor “humorous”, at least in MY opinion. Don’t quit your day job, “Dr. Footsie.”
This is our daily open thread–what’s on your mind today?
That was about as funny as a Carrot Top routine and made less sense than anything ever said by Sarah Palin.
I am now very confused.
I’ll drink a quart of coffee and try again later.
Using words such as “Obama’s failed presidency” tells me all I need to know about the “thinking” implicit in Dr. Footsie’s “ability to articulate the wrongs of the world . . .”. If, indeed, Obama’s presidency is ever ultimately judged to be a failure, such failure has little or nothing to do with Obama’s ideas, his ideals, or his agenda. It simply serves as a vivid illustration of the undercurrents of obstruction/destruction that are available to those who, from the onset, sought not to dedicate themselves to advancing the quality of life of ‘we the people’, but who instead offered themselves on the altar of service to those who seek only wealth, more wealth, and the power therein implicit. “Obama’s failed presidency” is not Obama’s failure, it is instead a national failure brought forth by the always vibrant motif of Fascist ideals and ideas, blended with numerous constitutional loopholes along with the always accessible ignorance and ‘fear’ that defines an ever-increasing percentage of the vox populi.
Obama as President hasn’t failed. America as a nation has failed. As Robert Burns noted a couple of centuries ago, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.”
Gang aft agley
I agree with your assessment frugalchariot.
Another ‘failed presidency’ comes to mind, and not a failure because the President failed; but for all the same reasons you have just spelled out…
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”
President John F. Kennedy
Absolutely. It’s bad enough when the inmates are running the asylum. It’s worse when they’re parcel to an armed coup d’etat.
In another decade or so the truth about who murdered President Kennedy could be let out in its entirety… Americans would look up, say “Huh?” and go back to squinting at their ‘smart’ phones.
is this what happens when you turn Sarah Palin loose with a box of crayons?
No, you need to look inside culverts and under bridges to find Palin’s style of ‘art’ and commentary.
HuffPo headlines:
‘The First Time, She Called An Ambulance For Her Son. The Second Time, She Used A Pillow.’
then a different post, one under that:
‘Your Pillow Is Disgusting’
Happy 53rd, Mr. President.
Happy 75th Dad
Judge: Alabama Abortion Clinic Law Unconstitutional
Sanity overrules zealotry.
Speaking of Teh Stupid:
Saxby Chambliss: Waterboarding Is Not Torture And John Brennan Wouldn’t Lie
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/saxby-chambliss-waterboarding-not-torture
Donald Trump Attacks Ebola-Infected U.S. Doctors
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/donald-trump-attacks-ebola-infected-us
Donald Trump is an intellectual black hole. If he were a light bulb, he would suck light out of the room.
Looks like his head already sucks the hair off of squirrels.
As Walter Sobchak would say:
“Shut the phuck up Donnie.”
James Brady has passed.
He championed for gun laws, won, then lost when his own party and the NRA weakened safety of the murderous weapons.
Finally, the data! Check it out:
http://www.boehneraccomplishments.com/
McConnell has been in Washington for 30 years and he calls himself the candidate of change.
Srsly.
(perhaps he’s going to change his y-fronts)
For some odd reason, that poem these days always reminds me of Dick Cheney.
Thanks frugal, for the poem. It’s not an odd reason it reminds you of Cheney’s archetype; it’s real, has all been done before, and was written to describe a particular perpetual folly of intelligent ( or a least sentient) life.
Percy lives!
Today’s Yukamundomole. Rep Mo Brooks, R-Al
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/mo-brooks-gearing-war-whites
What an asshole. Jeebus. Buttcakes like Mo and his hate-filled ilk are making me ashamed to be an American.
Yeah, but at least you don’t live in his district. I do. 😦
Deepest sympathy.
I like that! It’s too bad that nowadays, all I can think of when I see a white duck is those stupid Aflac commercials.
If white ducks had some black feathers spaced here and there they could play keyboards.
I had trouble with this diagram. I think I finally figured out that the platypus is playing some kind of hybrid guitar/keyboard, hence the morph between beaver and duck. At first it didn’t make sense, there’s no drums in this trio. Ducks cannot play a keyboard. Honestly, think about it. They do drums well enough, but not the keys.
There might be a better Venn diagram out there…
-chuckle-
I love Venn diagrams, mine start to look like blizzards when I really get into it.
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, they may not be lit again in our lifetime” – Sir Edward Grey, UK Foreign Secretary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715326/Britons-urged-turn-lights-First-World-War-centenary.html
A story of one widow’s devotion to her lost husband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712060/Heartrending-letter-exhausted-First-World-War-soldier-penned-wife-just-weeks-killed-carried-handbag-rest-life.html
Some accounts of the soldiers…. one in particular is hard to reconcile with the so-called glory of war … Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715098/The-haunting-account-trenches-ll-read-brilliant-anthology-Birdsong-author-Sebastian-Faulks.html
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!!!!
“borders“?
Yeah, why the quotation marks? Jeez, what an ignoramus!
“borders” = “interest$$$”, as in American ‘interest$$$’ and economic (corporate) ‘interestSSS’.
Donnie puts the quotations on because he’s talking about ‘borders of control’.
I oft dream that animals killed for sport have relatives that will look for the murders of their kin and scare the beejeezus out of the ‘sportsperson’.
Mighty fisherman looks like he’s going to mount it…
(in more ways than one…)
(old slightly smelly fishing joke)
Just remind any gun nuts who think that we will start thinking we need to regulate knives that this incident is not something that happens in such large numbers that more regulation is needed, unlike mass shootings.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/05/12-year-old-suspect-in-playground-attack-calls-911-i-just-stabbed-someone-and-i-want-to-die/
This is what happens when lessons, about pollution, are not learned…
As a youngster in the early 60’s I lived in Connecticut, there were several rivers which looked exactly like this from bank to bank, no one could swim or even boat on them, they were cleaned up by the late seventies.
“… and farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her…”
Gordon Lightfoot, ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’.
I can’t watch the video, but it seems as if Rand Paul fled in terror from the DREAMers.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/05/1319279/-DREAMers-confront-Rand-Paul-and-Steve-King-Watch-their-hilarious-and-offensive-reactions
Yes he did. But good ol’ Steve King stayed behind and made a complete ass of himself (not that that’s all that much of a trick, of course).
Lil’ Stevie can’t afford to pass up an opportunity to sound crazier than Gomer or he might not ascend to Batscat Bachmann’s position of craziest member of Congress.
BattyBachmann:
The compassion oozes from the Repugnant Party.
And that from a devoted
ChristianChrister lady. You’d think she’d be far more anxious to throw the freakin’ moneychangers out of the “temple,” confiscate their cash and use it to feed the hungry. But no.Hmmh. Never occurred to me before, but maybe Obama ain’t the anti-Christ ’cause Batshit is???
Self-serving S.O.B. Implying that all brown people entering the U.S. are drug smugglers.
He understands nothing, has no compassion, an idiots idiot!
Goings on in the neighborhood:
http://oregoncoastdailynews.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/pendleton-man-arrested-for-climbing-on-the-yaquina-bay-bridge/
I cross this bridge fairly often, Newport is my “big city”.
Maybe the guy was ‘trolling’…
How very polite Oregon is
-chuckle-
I just started following the Oregon Coast blog, it seems they have some droll reporters.
(interpretation: we’re doing the “we’ve been caught dance”)
Tucker Carlson’s online rag is trying to gin up outrage that Malia Obama supposedly, accidentally kicked someone in the crowd at Lollapalooza. OMFG!!!!! Whadda thug!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/malia-obama-straight-kicked-girl-lollapalooza-194608471.html
What did Tucker have to say about the Bush twins underage drinking when their father was president?
Why are people avoiding the Zoo? Is it the Ebbola virus??
I’m not uh skeered.
Wayne said that Fux Noose was saying earlier that there was “mass hysteria as NYC hospital tests patient for Ebola virus” – he tweeted back that the only “mass hysteria” was in the Fux Nooseroom. I just can’t see New Yorkers panicking in “mass hysteria” – hell, there wasn’t really “mass hysteria” on 9/11!
I haven’t been avoiding the Zoo. But? I have been trying to learn a new CAD program while designing a new glider and I’ve been having frequent head aches.
Do you use glue-like stuff to put the gliders together?
How’s your blood pressure?
(Oh, forgive me – am concerned about your health)
I haven’t progressed to using any glue yet. I’ve just been trying to cram too much information into my skull.
How’s your cat doing these days?
He’s doing great. The ear mites finally seem to be eradicated. The down side is that he really enjoys waking me up before I’m ready to wake up!
Time-warp on theZoo: Saturday lasted 48 hrs; now Monday is lasting 48 hrs!
That would be so thrilling – having a GBH riding along!
They usually ‘expel’ a healthy torrent when they take off, looks like the paddler has a towel ready.
Busy day here, and not keeping a close eye on the news lately…
But I have been out and about with the camera. Enjoy!
http://www.captureminnesota.com/photos/1540791/in/upcoming
Marvelous motion in that waterfall and flower capture!
Thanks Ebb!
Great capture JB. The contrast of power and emotion is serene dynomite…sotospeak. The spirit spoke clearly, and your finger on the trigger was ready to respond. Kudos
Thank-you!