Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 14, 2012

I’ll take it I want to go to janitor.

Let’s guess who ?

Seeing the direction he’s looking, I take it it’s not going to be any of the white guys.

Ever notice how whenever someone wants to return America to what it was like in the 1950s, it’s never a black, a Hispanic or a woman? Why is that, I wonder …

Hmmm… Now WHO could he mean?It reminds me of former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi), who in 2002, praised Strom Thurmond’s 1948 run for president on a segregation platform: “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either.”Oh yeah, Trent resigned his post as Minority Leader a few days after making the statement because of protests.I bet he didn’t see the irony in suporting segregation while being in a “minority.”

Another meeting of the RNC Post Election Planning Committee.

Back to the “Mad Men” days!

“I hope you like cleaning up puke, boss!”

Mrs. Slocum (Are You Being Served) once said it right on the head.“That’s the trouble nowadays, all the WRONG people have all the money”.

Of course tradition doesn’t always have to play to the stereotypes…depending on your social and political assumptions.

always surprised by people saying that they want traditional america back. so, no catholics, no irish, no italians, no germans, etc….because, at some point in the us history, they were the demonized group. how about no us, since the natives were here before the europeans.

Post modern roll play.

At least they’ll be doing something productive!

Not to mention the BOTTOM tax rate was 20%. So if you earned 5k, you had to pay 1k to the federales.

Wliey, you’re the greatest! Funnier than hell, dude….Good one….One of your best! I’m gonna be chuckling all day…..

This strip is pretty edgy today – wow.

Return of ‘Conservatives’……so what is new?

Of course the secretary will be the lady in the group.

Not sure about anyone else, but if I make a reference to older times or traditional America, I am referring to the simplicity of the times – no strikes by sport teams, no myriad of entertainment options, no zillion channels of TV, no huge personal debt – etc. I’m certainly not thinking it was better – just simpler. – And the thought that anyone wants to regress with regard to race and gender is insulting and just plain silly.

Of course there are some people who are racist and sexist, but the conservative belief system includes neither. It calls for a return to lower taxes, greater freedoms, reasonable regulations and more personal responsibility. To say they want to return to racism and sexism is nothing but a lie propagated by the liberals. It appears from the responses written above that if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it.

Labels, such as conservative or liberal, are a handy escapism used by all of us to castigate those who hold different beliefs or agendas. Rather than listen and rationally discuss ideas with the " other side" , we seem to find it easier to close our ears and minds and simply brand them with political or religious epithets.Terminology shifts and original meanings blur over time or are obfuscated through competing views of history. Nevertheless, we do have an obligation, at least to our ration selves, to peer behind the curtain and confront the Great Oz.That is the true aim of satire – to point out that the emperor truly has no clothes !

don’t forget The Poor House

WILEY FOR PRESIDENT !!

Ouch and LOL! It took me a minute to get it, but that’s just wrong and funny. ;-)

@ BluePumpkinYou are correct in what you said, but there really aren’t many people who actually want to go back in time and make things the way they were in the 40’s and 50’s. People who choose to interpret conservative policy that way are simply filtering the things they hear to say what they want. We’ve come a long way in many areas but have gone in the wrong direction in others. My earlier post was pretty clear. Nobody should object to:" a return to lower taxes, greater freedoms, reasonable regulations and more personal responsibility."But I appreciate your comment.

absolutely the best comment I’ve ever seen on much current madness…

When I was in prep school in the early-mid 1950s I contributed “diversity” to the otherwise WASP student body because I was a Catholic and my last name ended in a vowel.

And one of the Masters, after seeing my sister who is fairer skinned than I am, wanted to know if we were the product of a “mixed marriage.” Responded: “yes, our mother is a woman and our father is a man.” What a jerk.

Wow…just wow! There would probably be EEOC lawsuits over this, but that just means bigger government. What to do…what to do…?

gee, I thought it was just funny

Yup, every time you hear the old ‘Take America Back’ line this is exactly what they mean. Put blacks, women, hispanics, asians and any other minority back in their place. That’s when the angry white men didn’t have to be so angry because they decided everything. But the times they are a-changing.

People say they’re poor now, but in the 1950s a lot more people were a LOT poorer. More illness, more still born children.

…no assault rifles in the hands of nuts who kill children…prayers to all involved. So sad.

Whew! Yikes! Hope not!!

No toilet paper. I am part of a Middle Age show group and it always amuses me to destroy the dreams of those wanting to live like lords, knights and great ladies of the old time.

“The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.” .Have you noticed that management always wants to reduce overhead, but never reduces themselves when the company downsizes?

republican policy…Driving the Model-T forward while only looking in the rear view mirror,

Hurst5809: Let’s stick within my lifetime, so we don’t get into the great conservative ideas such as slavery and overt genocide..Lower taxes, like 90% on corporations and millionaires?.Greater freedoms, only for rich, white males. What, the greater freedom to lynch?.Reasonable regulations, like white primaries; concentration camps if you grandfather came from Japan, but Supreme Commender in Europe or Pacific if from Germany; married women require husband’s consent for contracts and not allowed on juries; etc..This is no “liberal lie”, but my biography. The “good old days” are only good to those who didn’t live them.

Yawn… banging the hate whitey male drum a bit on the loud side, dont’cha think?

Once again we have someone lost in His Story.Part Fox fiction, part wishful thinking, and part white male middle age fantasy, your delusional Ozzie and Harriet view of America is no more real now than it was then !Get a grip ! The days of the " Negro" tipping his hat and stepping off the curb are long gone ! The days of the " little woman " bringing you your cocktail, slippers and pipe when you come home from work is a pipe dream ! The days of the fawning secretary making your coffee and stroking your ego, NEVER HAPPENED !Today we had twenty children and seven adults needlessly slaughtered in Connecticut !Today is December 14th 2012 not Dec. 14th 1952 ! Get it ? Got it ? Good !!

Return to lower taxes? Seriously? Idiots? No, just ignorant. (From the root, to ignore something, ) Google it. The income taxes in the United States are the lowest, today, then they have ever been in history. Anybody tells you differently, you shouldn’t turn your back on….And not only that, but, we have the lowest income taxes in the world compared to all modern industrial and successful countries…..If you believe other wise, it’s on you…

Conservatives are so paranoid, maybe they should be watched by secret socialist government shadow agencies that don’t exist on paper…That’ll teach ’em to be paranoid………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….BOO!

Amazing ! I have never seen it to fail. When an ideologue is confronted with reality, they resort to name calling and character assassination. I simply pointed out that your argument resides,mistakenly , in the reality of the Father Knows Best generational mis-remembrances.But troll that you are, you must question my mental capacity and intelligence quotient – no doubt due to you own intellectual penis envy.The only parrot is the one on my shoulder ( metaphorically ) and unfortunately, reality trumps rhetoric every time.You my friend, can lose yourself in idiotic polemic but you can’t evade the truth . Twenty innocent children were slaughtered today. DEAL WITH THAT !!!

Notice that the good ol’ white boys whose faces we can see are smiling? The other two whose faces we can see, aren’t.

You are correct in assessing Eisenhower as a basically decent guy trying to do the best job he could.-You are incorrect in presuming this decency translated into every home. “Leave it to Beaver” and “Ozzie and Harriet” were idealized propaganda.-The reality was that soldiers came home from WW2 deeply traumatized. Their homes were not idyllic. This is what the ’60’s were all about: dishonesty and hypocrisy retaliation. There never were “the good old days” in reality; only on TV. One event bled into and influenced the next decade, until here we are watching the horrific slaughter of small children.-It’s all connected. History is little more than the reaction to the last generation’s foolishness. Step back and see the big picture, man. We are not where we need to be as a (supposedly) civilized people.-“Civilized”: what a nebulous term that few even know the meaning of anymore. It does not include citizens needing to be armed. If that is necessary or desirable, then we have no right to call ourselves civilized.

Wow, some rather racist and sexist attitudes coming out in your strip today. Why?