Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 05, 2013

Amen brother!

Arlo’s cute when he gets in professorial mode.-Remember when he was surprised to realize Gene had listened and planned his life based on some of what Arlo preached, regarding there always being a need for food?-I should probably be more careful and would if I thougt anyone were paying attention.

Can’t wait to see what happens to our space program when China puts men on the moon…..all of a sudden……………………………………..Mark my word…

There was a time when this country did what was necessary and wasn’t so concerned with what the rest of “the world” thought of us.You bring up Hiroshima, but mention nothing of Pearl Harbor, The Bataan Death March or the enslavement of countless Chinese and Koreans to name a few. You mention Guantanamo, but nothing of The Towers. The loudest ones complaining about the NSA, were first in line to get get the information. We are not a perfect country,but we are still the best this planet has to offer.

Love of liberty must be renewed within each generation.

c001, the_kraut, bawana, -just what are you people smoking?

It was the “pursuit of happiness” not its attainment enshrined by Jefferson. Don’t confuse the journey for its end.

“We’re still struggling to live up to its simple premise”

Looks to me like you are doing all you can to eliminate it.

America the beautiful, not as pretty as we once were, but everyone still envies us, the harder they try to put us down, the more they prove it! We’re in a down trend right now, but so were we in 1980. When we have the foresight to elect true leaders and remember our morality and work ethic, we shine even brighter. We are right now poised to become the world leader in oil and gas production. Didn’t know that? Take a few and study it, we have rapidly started developing a self reliant energy base, and if the environmentalist in their short sightedness don’t somehow stop us, we’ll be free of foreign influence on energy in 10 years or less.

Who let all the crazies on this forum today? Including the Reagan lovers?

Yeek!Youse peeps need lives…

Not sure Mars is the ‘real prize’. I think it’s coming closer to knowing if we’re alone in the universe or if there is life elsewhere (even finding alien microbes would be huge). We don’t need people to go to Mars to figure that one out. If we are alone, we’d better get started solving our problems, if we’re not, we’d REALLY better get started solving our problems.

Dear Dave W, you understate the case for Ronaldus Magnus. He was the only president of the past 50 years both competent and honest.

The Bushes were both honest, and competent on international affairs, but incompetent on domestic. Clinton was seemingly a master of domestic affairs, but profoundly dishonest. Carter was profoundly incompetent – save only his acts on ICC, CAB, and Reg Q – although unquestionably honest.

Benghazi and domestic budget management are proof of profound incompetence, and the many acts of the Justice Dept are proof of venality in the current kleptocracy.

I think the “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Olympics was pretty cool, too.

jbmlaw: Honest? Reagan, who conducted a secret, illegal war against Nicaragua; and then tried to evade responsibility by using his folksy charm to joke about it? Bush 1, who secretly and illegally traveled to Iran to negotiate a deal with the Iranians to hold onto American hostages until after the 1980 election, just to embarrass Jimmy Carter? Bush 2, who ginned up false evidence to justify an invasion of Iraq? Geez, these are pretty low standards for “honesty.”

You have a remarkable lack of knowledge about economics and how it functions. We have a loooong way to go before Somalia. Or even Greece.

Aaaah, aggressive ignorance. It’s a beautiful thing. Reagan committed REAL impeachable offenses in trying to arm the Contra and committed treason before his first election in his dealing with Iran. Look up your history.

And the knowitalls are here again today. LOL

Lotta trolls here today, true. Not critics, who would point out some genuine failings of the U.S., but trolls, who just snipe. ONE of the genuine things wrong with the world are these ‘advertorials’ on various web pages (like Gocomics) that have succeeded in freezing up my computer today.

I’m proud to have freedom although I’m not some redneck spouting “’merica!” all the time. I just look to my daughter playing soccer and realize a lot of girls her age around the world wouldn’t be able to play that game because she is a girl. It would be “immodest”.

If the above represents the “thinking” of most voters, no wonder we send zealots to Washington.

Is it possible to have a conversation without it turning into a verbal brawl?

But we do have universal health care! Everyone can get treatment at a hospital emergency room. It’s just not delivered efficiently and preventative care can be sadly lacking.

everybody does know that this is a comic, right?

And yet more “tokin’ wisdom” by the_kraut.

J.J. didja really wanna stir up the hornets nest?

@Darsan54 got it right about what Jefferson meant, it’s always about the journey, the pursuit folks, not about the destination. The constitution does not garantee happiness, just our right to go after it. Many never get there.@the_kraut, China doesn’t have anyone by the balls, what they have is 1.34 BILLION people to keep happy that demand more every day, while India with 1.2 billion sits on it’s southern doorstep, and to the east a billion muslims. They don’t want any trouble with us, fool, they got enough to worry about. The dump their funds and just see what happens in their own country. Duh.

That’s the west, the west, the muslims are to China’s left, duh! Chinese don’t have anything cept what they’ve stolen from us. World’s biggest rip-off artists.

Gitmo and Hiroshima, and Nagazaki were responses.

Weren’t the moon landings faked?

Ron: Try telling that to Buzz Aldrin (or any other of the 8 survivors of the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon). Even at 83, I’m pretty sure he’ll clean your clock in a hot second!

the world doesn’t admire us at all.

“As I wrote in reply to DavidHuieGreen in yesterdays column, America has an unbelievable huge budget deficit, no substance, no reserves, no nothing.”-Then why haven’t we already collapsed?-Possibly because that is a false statement — not the part about the huge budget deficit, that’s true but that we have no substance. -What do we have? What do people in other countries buy from us?-Let’s see: Movies, they love our movies and pay billions to watch them.Food, they buy all kinds of foods from the USA. Computers, even if we make them in other countries, quite often the product was developed here and the profits will wind up here.Machines, from tractors to vehicles. Yes, we have competitors but we still make and sell much manufactured goods.Drugs. Life saving drugs for billions of people and more in the pipe-line.Refined petroleum products. Tankers bring petroleum into this nation to convert it at our refineries to finished products which nations all over the world buy from us.-That was just a few things of substance valued by people in other countries and even ignoring the one you mentioned. We print imaginary money which is more stable than most currencies in the world and which they use as a medium of exchange with other countries. Strange but true. We don’t make them do it.-There is still hope.

“the moon is irrelevant, except as a stepping stone. Mars is the real prize.”-Nah, asteroids and comets

“It will be far better after we throw off the shackles of conservatism and work to erase fear and ignorance, want and poverty”-Why wait until you throw off my shackles?Why not try to erase fear and ignorance, want and poverty now?-Start with the fact that I want a good laptop and the fact that I’m too poor to buy a yacht.

well said

@Darsan54

“No, I am sorry but the USA is not the best. One small example, no universal health care.”-Universal health care is meaningless if your health care provider is a witch doctor.-“And our voting rates are horrible. We are a democracy that works to suppress the vote.”-Usually when people don’t vote it means they are satisfied with either candidate or simply don’t care. It is not inherently a bad thing since it means they figure their lives won’t be harmed either way.-“And as a capitalist economy, we are working very hard to destroy it with an increasing inequality and unfairness of income.”-Income equality is definitely not the goal of capitalism. The goal is to use money to make more money. That can be good or bad. Fairness means nothing if money buys nothing. Fairness would mean something if you could define exactly what was fair and what was unfair and convince a majority of the people your definitions were reasonable.-“When only a few can enjoy a decent life while the majority are left behind, the economy won’t stand.”-And yet there is nothing to stop anyone from having a decent life. Nothing other than the insistence it isn’t decent unless it is equal to some other person’s life. I have been in countries whose wealthiest wished they could come to America. And our poorest lived better than most of them do. Probably caused by our capitalism since it only works if you produce something people are willing to freely pay for.-“ Also, it’s been recorded we have the least amount of movement between classes in the entire world.”-Some people are comfortable with what they grow up with.-“I love my country, but it isn’t the “best” by any objective measurement.”-Deeply flawed, yes, but to show it is not the best country you would have to name the other countries which are actually better in every way. That shouldn’t be hard, but still, just pointing out flaws is not the same as showing someone else is actually better.

Oh yeah?? Any one read up on Common Core? The supposedly ‘new’ set of teaching methods and lessons?Never mind the idiotic approach to math that Common Core contains.One of the lesson plans involves teachers telling their students the Bill of Rights is bad, evil even…Then they tell the students to decide which 2 of the Bill of Rights they would ‘get rid of’ and what they would replace them with.Any one care to place a bet on how much longer the USA will continue to exist as a land of freedom and liberty?