Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 24, 2011

Watching Democracy flourish, is not for the faint of heart!

President Obama is actually a White Sox fan.

His Story? WWJD?

As long as we look at the world as simply a battle between the good guys and the bad guys or between ‘us’ and ‘them’, we’re in trouble. Reality isn’t like that.

EDCOLE Is the President’s face goning to be red at the World’s Series when the Cubs play the Red Sox. Harvard math dept. 04+07=11 Go Sox!

yuggib: My reply to your interesting comment (posted about 7 p.m. on 4/23) is at the bottom of yesterday’s commentary.

I’ve always said that I’ll understand the world, when someone can tell me the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter without using the words ‘their side’ and ‘our side’.

My definition:

Terrorist: Believes everyone in the world should follow their beliefs regardless of borders.

Freedom Fighter: Wants to change the government within a country in hopes to improve life within that country.

Rebel: Similar to freedom fighter except not quite sure what they want.

The world would be a better place if we had leaders who worried more about the job at hand than they do about their “place in history”.

Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire might beg to disagree, CK. Not to mention Lenin, or Stalin, or Mao. Or, on the other side of the coin, Gandhi.

IMHO,,,,The world would be a better place if history were written, in fact, by Dr. Suess.

If the world lived according to Dr. Seuss, we wouldn’t have to worry about who writes history.

Everybody is the Good Guys. We are all brothers and sisters. But there are some good and right principles to live by. When we live by those, things work a lot better. People who violate the most crucial principles cross the line and become enemies to one and all. It you steal my money you can pay it back or we can forget it. If you murder, how can you restore a life? Therefore “thou shalt not murder” is a crucial principle. Violate it and you declare war on all the rest of us and we must defend ourselves and our families.

Yeah, he is for the Sox, forget those stinkin’ Cubbies! Better yet, come down to Cardinal nation, you will always be on the right side of history! Pretty much anyway…

Some “freedom fighters” use terror tactics, not all. They often get accused of it anyway, & can be framed by those they’re trying to oust. Others lie, they don’t want freedom, they want to be the oppressors. Nonviolent revolutionaries make it easier to tell the good guys from the bad, but that method requires patience, often in short supply when a jackboot is on your neck. Simple answers require extensive background knowledge.

“All right, everyone, we’ve got a lot of balls up in the air…”

[snicker]

“Humanity”= homicide + hypocrisy - logic. Oh, that’s also just “organized religion”, nothing creates more vicious zealots than having “gods” (capitalized or not) on “their side”.

Riots in Paris? Why that’s a long-standing tradition. They’ll riot on any occasion - they even rioted at the premiere of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”

Finally this writer is showing concern about this stupid Obama. How did this man ever get elected? His promises are have turned to lies. The most ignorant person in history.

“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”. Bulls@#t! One doesn’t need history to treat his fellow man as he would be treated. Common decency and empathy are always there, we just choose to ignore them, as is our way. Unfortunately the main traits of the human species are stupidity and want (to paraphrase Dickens) and written on their forehead is… DOOM! But no really we are totally f#@ked…

Florchi, Thanks for the information. I knew it was something like that, but it really doesn’t effect me. Although I know my IQ (by number or percentage) is very high, it doesn’t buy me a cup of coffee without a dollar in my pocket. I still would rather have a person running this country with slightly above average (in the 120 range) intelligence who has moral integrity, than a genius with no moral integrity.

lol …. result of all history/war/religion/human endeavor… whatever ~~ has always been the A$$end.

Welcome to the real world.

REALPOLITIK.