Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 08, 2014

The ultimate point…

It’s all the news media’s fault. They make a big splash about whatever is distracting at the moment, while the government pulls a fast one on the citizenry.

‘Meanwhile in the news today…’ = Uh Oh…

She could have just hit the “power” button on the front of the set, but it could be like one a friend of mine once had that displayed the message “are you unable to find the remote?” when you did that. Apparently, because the only other button on the front was “Find Remote” (when pressed, it caused the remote to blink & emit tones) the television assumed you were an idiot and had pressed the wrong button.

What’s Cap’n Eddie’s cat’s name again, please?

And just who is it that keeps electing the same bozos with the same unfounded promises time after time, term after term, then pays little or no attention between elections to what they do as opposed to what they said- yet expect different results? You don’t get what you paid for; you end up paying for what you got.

1. Among politicians (as a set) there have been a few (granted, a very few) who see a duty to do ‘the people’s work’. When money for the next campaign is the first order of business every day, that’s very difficult to get to.

2. Democratic republics only work when the voters are educated and engaged/interested. IF we can repair the public schools and get the next generation actually educated (instead of starving the schools to fund private charters), there may be hope for them. This generation is too worried about the next paycheck to raise much ruckus. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (but it may be Tweeted!)

lol, the duopoly party, the R’s and the D’s. one party owned by the Rich, with two faces. one for the rich and one for the poor. lol and we get screwed no matter which one wins—-we lose!

“the Senate of the U.S. no longer has any resemblance to that August assembly which provoked the admiration of the Tocquevilles (Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” 1835). It would be no use looking for the foremost men of the nation there; neither statesmen nor orators are to be found in it. The body is filled with men of mediocre or no political intelligence, some of whom, extremely wealthy, multi-millionaires, look on the Senatorial dignity as a title for ennobling their well or ill-gotten riches and with crack wirepullers and party bosses who find the Senate a convenient base of operations for their intrigues and designs on the public interest.” Moisey Ostrogorski, 1902

@Beleck3 – I don’t think the parties are differentiated on the basis of rich and poor – there are plenty of very very rich Demos. The real difference is that one party generally thinks what one has should be the product of what one earns, and the other thinks everything should be based on entitlements to what the government thinks you should have. Rich folks who inherited their wealth are more likely to think that than those who have had to earn their way to the top 1%.

Isn’t all television artifical intellignece?My Beloved turned the tube on yesterday for some background noise while she typed, and the programs they wre advertising sounded completely appalling. Among the worst was a “reality” show that sends one group to the"future" and one to the “past” and separates the two by a glass wall. I could feel the neaurons dying as I watched the commercial.

Well, so it seems. Is there any congress person who is free from ownership; their own person?

so, it is going to be a little longer before they find out about the new Groundhog Day holiday week.

Spring training? A week from now, college baseball regular season starts. Geaux Tigers!

The more things change . . . According to Wikipedia, "During the 1948 election Truman campaigned as much against the “Do Nothing Congress” as against his formal opponent, Thomas Dewey." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80th_United_States_Congress

She won’t believe it, until she reads it in the tabloid…..and the connection to Danae won’t be made until Danae does a happy dance in front of all of them!

They were just going to announce they were going to shut the government down again, they could use another 6 weeks of vacation. “Who cares about the citizens? They’ll grumble to themselves and vote for us again because they’re too lazy to think for themselves.” “We need to delay laying of ethernet cable too, can’t get them all up to high speed on the internet, they’ll figure out what we’re doing,….which is nothing but collecting a paycheck and benefits.”

“Intelligent TV”.Well there was “My Mother the Car” so maybe it was haunted.

The increasingly divisive and shortsighted political climate of the past half-century has certainly created an electorate composed of people who are willing to vote their own interests at the expense of others. Voting, however, only allows for a choice of the items on the ballot and those choices have been carefully selected by those who can buy wholesale lots of political influence. Yes, the poor would certainly vote for free bread if it were offered but there’s little danger of that. The way the system works, the goodies will flow to those who already have the most.

Nothing good ever comes out of Congress? Like civil rights bills, employment equity bills, a few Presidents that came from Congress, fiscal responsibility bills….

I seem to remember a Twilight Zone episode about that.

Wiley, nice cartoon…I think it’s really funny…BTW, does Eddie massage Pauly’s shoulders? Because cats really love that…

Especially now that we get the 24/7 blow-by-blow account of every thing they do (or don’t do).