Letters to the Editor
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I've been telling people...
...that I know exactly what I'm going to buy with my economic stimulus check: a big-ass refrigerator/freezer... and I'm going to live in the box it comes in.
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A Blue Amberol
Oh dear. Oh me, Oh my. It takes one to know one. A Blue Amberol is an Edison cylinder record and I have far too many of them.
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This is what makes America great
A government giving money back to the People.
Very rare in the world.
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A gov't giving money back to the people?
Many other governments make sure that all of their citizens have health care, assist with child care costs, provide for a respectable amount of vacation time for all employees, require a survivable minimum wage.....
I could go on. I'll take any of the above over the occasional publicity stunt of sending us a meager check whenever the economy tanks and their poll numbers go down.
Last time I got a gov't tax "refund", I ended up giving it right back to them during the next tax year.
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Breathed's Slipping...
...For that's all too clearly an analog turnip twaddler. No wonder so many Salonistas think he's passé.
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analog?
> ...For that's all too clearly an analog turnip twaddler. No wonder so many Salonistas think he's passé.
Shows what you know. Most true aficionados of the turnip twaddler have gone back to analog for its rich tonal qualities and have utterly rejected the soulless digital versions available in mass market stores. This costs much, much more, of course -- but what's money when it comes to true turnip twaddling quality?
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Where's Garry Owen?
No comment?
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I tithe
So 10% is going to charity. How about you?
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To all the Breathed haters
You have to admit this is pretty spot on: The way out of a massively credit-crunched economy is to Buy More Crap!
The other day, I heard one economist on the news express his fear that people might waste the rebate by paying off the crap that they already bought. Silly American people. They can't seem to get anything right these days.
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As another economist said...
These rebates are like taking a bucket of water out of the deep end of the pool and pouring into the shallow end, thinking the level is going to rise.
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buckets of water
"These rebates are like taking a bucket of water out of the deep end of the pool and pouring into the shallow end, thinking the level is going to rise."
Yeah, but if enough people do it fast enough you can surf the wave from one end of the pool to the other.
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Opus is third on the Sunday Comic list today?
Gary Owen? Pyrrho and Opus miss you too.
Doonsbury is talking about "Penultimate"...
What's that?
Mhellman has a good idea~; O, This:~?
Put castor wheels on a big turnip box?
The turnip box-wagon could save gas.
It could be insulated and be a home?
Later at old age? A cardboard coffin?
Use the right kind of Castors though.
There is a reddish-oily resin that beavers use, and another Castor bean that is a poison resin bean that grows a reddish plant that grows up to 12-feet tall. Caster Wheels are good for old Turnip Box Crates. Watch out! G.O.
~;
Pickles was the best Sunday Cartoon, IMHO.
Earl was told he looked like a bum. So what?
Bums who don't shave or bathe like junkie Opus stink.
Oh. Contempt for all the unbathed Grandpa's is not nice.
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Leave Me Alone
As a entrepreneur who's cornered the market an turnip twaddlers , I deeply resent this cartoon. I'm tired of lefties making me laugh and scoring direct hits with satire.
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Don't look now...
...but all those turnip twaddlers that Opus bought are cheap Chinese knockoffs... so it's their economy we're stimulating.
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courage to change the things I can
The forced, scripted, ritualized, disingenuous humility and acceptance; the symbiotic mutual self-delusion; the shame-for-payoff; the denial; the play acting – all aesthetically distanced and effectively conveyed by a penguin in a comic strip.
And all shot to hell by a single trigger of the fears, arrested capacity for impulse control, and unresolved underlying unmet needs that never got worked on, that are safely evaded and distracted from one day at a time.
I’d have to say Mr. Breathed nailed not only the AA/NA scam, but a big piece of the American psyche as well.
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Oh, and those cheap Chinese turnip twaddlers...
...are metric, so they only work with metric turnips with a left-hand thread. And they're decorated with lead paint.
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So long, Locutus
It appears that Garry and his posse have ridden off into the sunset, leaving a counterfeit be-bop behind to blather (as beep-beep would) and misspell Garry's name (as boop-boop-be-doop would not have).
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To the tither....
So your 10% goes to charity, huh? I'd feel all warm and fuzzy for you, except that such "gifts" are only charity in so far as our ridiculous tax system is biased to favor "faith-based" nonsense rather than real solutions to poverty, suffering, etc. Check any major economic study of church charity and see just how little of your 10% goes to the "needy." It goes to pay for church infrastructure, salaries for church officials, and for outreach programs designed to make people feel sufficiently bad about themselves that they need to turn to someone for comfort. And guess who's there to provide that comfort? The church, with, of course, the collection plate right behind. Nice scam.
So, sure, you give a tad to the poor, but a lot less than someone who paid taxes on that money instead of writing it off. And your "stimulus" check is coming right out of the mouths of the needy (and your own pockets via interest on debt) just like everyone else.
Enjoy those bees!
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Isn't the rebate really just an advance on next year's refund?
If I recall correctly, although I rarely see it mentioned, the checks are an advance on next year's refunds, and most, if not all of the money, will be deducted from taxpayers' refunds in 12 months' time.
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@purcel
"... the checks are an advance on next year's refunds, and most, if not all of the money, will be deducted from taxpayers' refunds in 12 months' time."
Likely, the amount + some %, if what you say is true; it'd then effectively be a loan, complete with it's own interest payment due at the same time as the payback.
Y'know, my father's side is Italian & I heard they did some... questionable... things some 70 years or so ago, none substantiated (of course).
This sounds way too familiar.