Bill the Cat's first discernible words were actually, "I wonder if jury box can be used as a litter box" (or something like that, it's been a long time since I read the comic). To which Steve Dallas (his lawyer in the comic) replied, "shut up, I don't talk to commies."

DK getting back together? I think there is too much bad blood among the former members for that happens. But more importantly I don't think we will see another good band with a political message for a long time, unless a group of malcontents decides to rock the industry again.

Any takers out there? God(dess) knows we need you.

However, like Bill, I am pretty sure that there is a leprechaun in my briefs as well. But even with the Leprechaun in my briefs, I'm not about to start believing the Bush W administration, or drink their cool-aid.

I doubt Bill could survive getting electrocuted again, because his tongue isn't grounded. So for the sake of Bill, we might want to discourage a Boingers reunion. But I would love to hear more tuba solos.

How comes no ones made note of the fact that the sky in the back ground of the first panel is actually a blurry American flag, much like what we see on the back drops at the presidential debates?

Berke, I thought that was classy.

One of 2 out comes will take place in 2009.

1. Due to sheer stupidity, racism, xenophobia, arrogance, short sightedness, and a what-me-worry attitude, America will be saddled with another buffoon who will continue the policies that will continue to drive health care cost through the roof, debt to China beyond the current trillion dollars, lower the global goodwill towards America and Americans to ice cold levels of acceptance, raise the temperature of the planet to hellish degrees, and foster and even larger generation of future terrorist.

2. We will get a true pro-labor liberal, a woman, or a black man as president, who will have a hell of time undoing the serious damage the Republicans have brought to the country.

Lets hope the political conservatives are willing to bite the bullet on option number 2, because option number 1 rings of "end of the empire."

Actually Chillydogg the percentage is much greater than 60%. For each abortion there are at least ten fertilized human eggs that either got flushed out, didn't take hold, miscarried, or etc. No can knows what the actual figure is, but it's big, probably double the actual number of human beings on the planet.

In any case, I am more or less a Buddhist, so the idea of there not being a hell, and heaven being a place where personal growth continues, is easy to accept.

Are we really certain Lola isn't a Buddhist (the Amish were mentioned, but the word "Christian" was not, and heaven is a generic abstract concept)?

Terri Schiavo was the hand that pulled the wool from America's eyes, and it was indeed the incident that changed the political landscape. Fresh off of their 2004 victory, with gains almost everywhere, the Republicans could have picked any issue to address, but the one issue that they sunk their fortune and future in, was keeping the external life-support systems, of a woman who had been brain dead for over a decade, on. It was like watching a train wreck; how could wise, old, true red-white-and-blue, Republicans see something in Terri that the rest of didn't. Could the Republicans really be that out of touch with reality? We asked ourselves that question, and quickly the fragile house of cards that the Republican had built collapsed. People began to realize that gay marriage didn't effect heterosexual marriage. That stem-sell research could actually lead to cures for a large range of diseases. That the War in Iraq was a sham. That Valerie Plame had been wrongfully outed. That Abramoff and Ralph Reed were indeed bribing Republican politicians to gain money from questionable gambling at native American reservation and sweat-shop labor in the Northern Marianas. That the Patriot Act was an unnecessary infringement on civil liberties. That warrant-less wiretaps were illegal and a danger to everyones privacy. That Osama Bin-Ladin was still at large. That Global Warming was very real. That HMOs were making Billions of dollars denying claims. That prescription drug prices were jacked up astonishingly unreasonably high. That No-Child-Left-Behind underfunded schools and operated with a political agenda. That the conservative judges were working hard to overturn Row vs Wade. That the intelligent design supporters had a theologically driven agenda to undermine science education. That NAFTA and the WTO aided corporations in their effort to outsource and exploit foreign labor at the expense of American labor. That big oil was in bed with Bush. That our military was stretched near the breaking point. But most importantly, that the Republicans weren't going to do anything about the real problems that average Americans faced.

We, the average Americans, saw what Terri Schiavo really was; a poor, unfortunate, woman who was better off making her transition to the next plain of existence. And we hated the Republicans, specifically the FOX Noise taking heads, for throwing her suffering into our faces, and saying it needed to continue.

Terri Schiave became symbolic of what Republicans were doing to America; keeping us on life support, and avoiding the transitions that were desperately needed. The Republicans failed to offer America anything tangible, and America was sick of the status quo and staying the course, so in 2006 we voted the Republicans out.

However we need to vote out more of the Republicans before we can give America the transitions it needs.