Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 22, 2014

I like the slogans on the barriers…

but, but, they’re sovereigns!

The epidemic we should be worried about…

Getting education up-to-speed might just help; it’s WAY behind.

This is why we have moved the mainstream to underground and installed pumps and treatment centers to sanitize popular thought before it can contaminate the water supply.Still, though… it is best not to trust open water from any lake, pond, river or stream where popular thought may have been able to infect it. Even bovine expressions can be contagious.

several years ago I theorized that a guv Superbug Lab had stumbled upon a ‘Stupid Virus’, and then accidentally let it loose. I contend the condition we find ourselves in today is proof that the theory was correct. (Google ‘Stan the Stupid Virus’)

Again, Wiley Miller, you gathered our national dilemma into one comic and somehow make us smile. Thanks!

Yes, the slogans on the barriers is a nice detail. Also, the people goose-stepping in the front of the crowd.

Stooopidity may be innate….

But they DO have a point.Do you really want to be governed by someone who WANTS to control your every move?

The government any people have is a reflection of the level of consciousness of those people, always and at all times. When consciousness changes, the government changes. In our country right now half the people believe the earth was created 8,000 years ago by an invisible man with a long white beard and that the first woman sprung from the rib of a man………………………..Need I say more?

Yeah, I need to say more: A majority of people in our country believe that there was a talking snake and it convinced the woman who’d sprung from the man’s side to eat it and that ruined everything for the human race for all time until a man came along who was born from a virgin and the father was the invisible man in the sky with the long white beard and he could walk on water and he made everything right, that is, if you believe in him and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. How can people who believe silly stories like that to be the truth, who can’t discern the difference between mythology and reality to effectively govern themselves?

Minor correction; Stupidity is only contagious when the subject is showing signs. I have been around stupidity and walked away unscathed. I think.

So where is Zaphod when you need him?

@Reppr“How about going back to the old way and require on the job training.”……you mean, like not allowing newly elected congressmen to vote until they’ve been there one year?

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

“That government is best which governs least.”

I prefer not to have positions of governmental power occupied by people who want to boss me around. If that means I’m stupid, so be it.

masterskrain GoComics PRO Member said, about 1 hour ago

Douglas Adams put it best’ “Under NO circumstances should anyone who is actually capable of being elected President be allowed to serve!”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.I think that is the dumbest statement I have ever heard. It SOUNDS smart, but when you analyze it, it’s really stupid.

When I was a kid, I believed that anyone with an IQ under 120 was an evolutionary mistake. Now I’m inclined to think the cutoff is 140. Think about it! Most of the advances the human race have made were developed by people with advanced intelligence. The rest of us are just along for the ride….

I’m glad you weren’t one of my teachers. Halfway through your sermon, I fell sound asleep.

So sadly some watch/listen to Fox. Propaganda for deception.

Every time the subject of religion rears its ugly head, I find myself wondering, “Who changed God’s diapers?”Or maybe he was toilet-trained at birth. Too many unanswered questions!

One of the many attacks on our country from the Religious Right is the claim that our country is a Christian Nation…not just that the majority of people are Christians, but that the country itself was founded by Christians, for Christians. However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is a lie. Those people who spread this lie are known as Christian Revisionists. They are attempting to rewrite history, in much the same way as holocaust deniers are. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists who did not believe the bible was true. They were Freethinkers who relied on their reason, not their faith.

Somewhere, there’s a room full of Republikan strategists, slapping themselves and saying, “Why didn’t WE think of that slogan?”

This makes Ebola look tame

The message on the barricades says it all. That’s exactly what BOTH sides want us to do, turn off our brains. The rhetoric being spewed is so childish, mean spirited and, in some cases, hateful. We are asked not to bully others, and this is exactly the type of behavior some politicians practice. My opponent is a flaming liberal. My opponent is anti this or anti that. I’m so tired of this nonsense. These fools should be made to wear a device during debates and when they start their fear mongering speech, be given an electrical jolt.

It has been supposed that… Those who believe that government never gets it right have been electing representatives who have endeavored to prove that thesis by doing their best to screw up the government.

The Two most difficult subjects to legislate against is Morality and Stupidity!

You get the government you don’t vote for if you just sit at home.

Historians would not agree with your statement that the Founding Fathers were Christians, because: (1) Many were Deists, believing that there was a creator, but not the one found in the Bible. They referred often to the ‘God of Nature’. Only John Jay could be classified as an Orthodox Christian, and he distinguished himself by arguing for laws against Catholics holding office. (Fortunately, he did not prevail.) (2) The 1796 Treaty with Tripoli that the US entered into states specifically that the US is ‘not in any sense a nation founded on Christianity.’ And (3) when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he states that governments derive their right to govern FROM the governed. This was a radical break from the past, in which Kings argued that their right to govern was a divine right given by God….

Everyone who hates government secretly wants to be the governor.

Separated at birth… wing-nuts in the same house (or senate) screaming at each other from across the aisle. Yup, it’s contagious.

“Now (how) does the National Endowment for the Arts effect text books?”~~~Good question. Could Hardthought have maybe been referring to any of the following NEA’s?.National Editorial Association, previous name of the National Newspaper Association.National Education Association.National Emergencies Act

National Endowment for the Arts.National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity in the UK.National Environment Agency, in Singapore.Nea Ekklesia (New Church) was a church built in Constantinople in the ninth century...In the context of the thread, my money is on the 2nd one, National Education Association.

In some countries, voters brave one hundred degree heat and suicide bombers and have upwards from 80% voter turnout. Here, if it’s a heavy dew, we’re lucky to reach 30% and races are decided by bare majorities of that.I think the indelible dye that shows you voted is a great idea; if you aren’t sporting a purple thumb on election day, I don’t want to hear sh*t from you for the rest of the year.

Apes and monkeys are two different species of primates. An ape is not a monkey; a monkey is not an ape.-By the Theory of Evolution, humans and other primates shared a common ancestor. Over time, we took different evolutionary directions as we adapted to our various environments (or failed to adapt.)

“Schools are funded locally which means the poor areas get poor funding, the rich get rich funding. A stupid way of doing it.”~~~~~~

Except in Texas where the ‘rich’ areas are robbed by the ‘Robin Hood Act’ and their money is then given to the ‘poor’ areas who in turn build big fancy football stadiums, (in Round Rock it is called ‘The Palace’) and pay the coaches more than the ISD Superintendent. Meanwhile the surrounding districts have to cut programs because the are being forced to pay the other ‘poor’ districts..Problem here is there are not proper controls on what the money is to be used for. Like improving the education standards for the students.

Wiley: Perhaps you state part of the problem- “both” parties is the accepted common knowlege. Overlooked is the fact there ARE other parties, and Independents, who, if allowed greater participation, and even MORE parties focused on sanity and rational thought, instead of competition, and “winner takes all”. If Congress sat in a circle, and there were five or seven, not an even number of slots, and not just two sides, perhaps there might be more sanity and resolve to better the country, not just the parties and supporters? Hmm, maybe, just don’t call it a “committee”.

You’ve never heard of Alan Grayson from Florida, who serves in the House of Representatives. He votes as a liberal. He also says some amazing things….

This is the first time I can remember (but I haven’t been posting here that long) that there were more comments on this comic than on Luann-Congrats, I guess (?)

OMG. A gunman ran into the Parliament in Canada after killing a guard, and started shooting. This is just a few days after someone ran over two Canadian soldiers.-I thought Canada was safer than we were…

Sometimes I think the best thing we could do to reduce the federal Gov’t would be to ban all Air Conditioning in Washington DC. Maybe that was the original reason for putting the nation’s capital in the middle of a fever swamp!

All political systems fail sooner or later, democracy is no different. As soon as entropy (people thinking the government owes them a living, for example) sets in, bye-bye country unless they change the system.

Can I keep that barrier that says “Do Not Cross”. Because there are days…….