Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 22, 2013

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    Swalb%515  almost 11 years ago

    Yes, it’s 50 years today. And it’s on a Friday, just like it was in 1963. A sad day for the USA.

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    chamberlain22  almost 11 years ago

    Interestingly enough, C.S. Lewis died the same day.

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    solarrhino  almost 11 years ago

    Sad when anybody get murdered, of course, but let’s not forget that Kennedy was a scumbag, and awful at foreign policy.

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    Partyalldatyme  almost 11 years ago

    Isn’t that who Arlo was talking about?

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    farren  almost 11 years ago

    And Aldous Huxley, after ingesting lots of acid (not that that killed him, not at all).

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    Swalb%515  almost 11 years ago

    Anyway, on a more positive note, The Beatles 2nd album in the UK, With The Beatles, was released on this day, 50 years ago. In Canada, it was released as Beatlemania With The Beatles. Also The Beatles “White Album”, was released on this day five years later in the UK.

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    jbmlaw01  almost 11 years ago

    Give Kennedy credit for cutting the rates on personal income taxes – produced 10 years of solid economic growth, and paved the way for Reagan’s tax cuts.

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    jbmlaw01  almost 11 years ago

    And Kennedy did not create OSHA and the EPA – that was Nixon, and we are still paying for it, in a diminished economy.

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    mr , b  almost 11 years ago

    I like Mr Nixon over Obama , there was work here when Mr Nixon was in office ,not like now Very little an low paying work ,an now pay for everyone’s health care !

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    CPOChuckG  almost 11 years ago

    Well said, Joe, +1. Didn’t think folks could take the daily joy out of Arlo & Janis but alas, I stand corrected.

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    jeanie5448  almost 11 years ago

    no matter what your opinion about Kennedy, it is, as Arlo said, hard to believe it has been 50 years.

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    doublepaw  almost 11 years ago

    All right people, 50 years after his death you l don’t have to still expound your personal politics on this forum. Our current president is subject to all types of attacks on these venues also. Please just let us enjoy the comics and keep your political opinions especially all the racial ones to yourself.

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    pbarnrob  almost 11 years ago

    What got me to take the heavier path in “A” School; “We don’t do these things because they are easy, but because they are hahd!”

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    Flossie Mud Duck  almost 11 years ago

    I had just turned 16, and was not very politically astute, but he was MY president, as he was to so many young people, and I still feel that way, even though I now know he made some mistakes.

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    BradyB66  almost 11 years ago

    Fun(nish) trivia:

    They filmed the opening credits for Gilligan’s Island in the days after the assassination. When the S.S. Minnow is leaving port on that fateful trip, you can see the flags flying at half-mast.

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    Dampwaffle  almost 11 years ago

    Oh yes, solarrhino…. And we’ve has such GREAT presidents ever since. Johnson…. Nixon… Reagan… Bush and Bush Light…. Ouchl! I sprained my sarcasm…

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    coz69  almost 11 years ago

    I agree with you 100%

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    belcherman  almost 11 years ago

    I’m old enough to remember where I was and how I felt that day. We were all shocked and saddened that the President could be slain by an assassin’s bullet. It wasn’t about his politics or his personal life — he was our President and it was almost incomprehensible that he could be taken away so easily. That assassin didn’t just take one man’s life. In a way, he took our innocence.

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    Steve Miller  almost 11 years ago

    At least Arlo still has his hair. Sigh.

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    toppop52  almost 11 years ago

    I’M NOT GETTING INTO THE POLITICS, AS A MAN, NOT A GOD, HE HAD HUMAN FAILINGS. BUT BACK IN THAT TIME WHEN A MAN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT HE BECAME EVERYONE’S PRESIDENT AND WE ALL STOOD WITH HIM AS AMERICANS. AND WE GRIEVED AS A NATION. WE COULD REALLY LEARN A LESSON FROM OUR PAST.

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    twj0729  almost 11 years ago

    Ummm…not sure I understand this one. Rather obtuse!

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    DDrazen  almost 11 years ago

    I wasn’t sure how exactly to take it when it happened, and neither were the rest of the kids in my 6th grade class.

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    Varnes  almost 11 years ago

    For three years the people of this country felt like they could accomplish anything……The future was ours for the taking……Since that day we seem to be pessimistic and cynical, unsure of ourselves, and unwilling to do great things….We just react to things now, we don’t dream as much….For three short years there was a feeling in the country I’ve never felt since…..

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    With no offense to the dead or grieving, Arlo finally got to the heart of the matter.

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    Swalb%515  almost 11 years ago

    It definitely takes one to know one.

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    Swalb%515  almost 11 years ago

    MEH yourself, troll.

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    alviebird  almost 11 years ago

    Any implied criticism in my post concerned only our involvement in southeast Asia. And it is weak criticism, seeing as I don’t have a better answer to that mess.

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    alviebird  almost 11 years ago

    Ever notice how people usually become more interested in history the closer they get to being history?

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