La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for July 30, 2014

{rim shot gone flat}

Probably seen on a sign held by the “Get a brain! Morans” dude.

I sincerely doubt it…I suppose many of those children are more or less illiterate. Kind of a lame joke here, LA.

thanks for pointing that out! I wish every anti immigrant could look these kids in the face and see a scared child or teenager.the kids who came here seeking refuge could be welcomed.

yesterday a poster, mw, showed links that he thought nobody would bother to read. He stated the children were carrying stuff like TB, ebola, everything inbetween. And that secret buses with the kids were carrying nuclear arms.I read those site, in “the guardian” the Title was "5 conservative MYTHS. the other site was “Stratford”(geopolitical economic and military info, I can’t remember the exact sub-titile, but it did mention the buses and thermocneuclear devices, but said it wasn’t true.The poster was mis-representing the truth in the same way fox does.Integrity must count, what he/she said and what I said were both gone.who knows, this may also be gone later.

Many of these “children” have moustaches and were brought up in a gang culture. Just what we need: more potential criminals.

Poor indie’s erudition once again fails to surface. I feel for you, indie: Any semblance of logic and careful reading seem to be too much for whatever that small, hard thing knocking about in your skull is. .Let’s examine your lack of logic and feeble attempts at misdirection regarding anti-immigration folks and “heart-tug organizations.” You do know that going out and protesting against immigrants—or coming here as you do, and writing against immigrants—takes time and energy, right? Time and energy that could be spent instead on one of those other organizations you mention? But somehow you seem to think that actively engaging in xenophobic activities miraculously adds to your time-to-do-nice-things account so you can spend more time saving the whales. That’s just…how to put this delicately…stupid.

indie, is that you? Someone seems to have taken over your name and started using it to post numbers! Here’s another one for you: 69,930—the number of refugees actually admitted that year. That seems to be, wait, let me check. Why, yes it is! Lower than the ceiling!.And since you’re always so full of questions (but not actual curiosity), here are a few for you: Why can’t you accept that the majority of these children are refugees? Why are you making it out like these children are unworthy of compassion? Why do you make it sound like they’re out to screw over other people? Why are you so obsessed with zero-sum games? Why do you think compassion for one set of people means none for others?.As to all those anti-immigrants who fear these refugee children, just Google around (or heck, look in the comment pages of this strip) for people writing about diseases. Or @zippycat’s statement today about potential criminals. These are fears, indie. But I suppose you lack the emotional intelligence to recognize that. Not surprising, really, but I thought you might put that little lump of gray to some use.

Actually, the real “BIG” question today (and, really, every day) is whether indie will ever say anything clever or entertaining. But I suspect we all know the answer to that.

Obviously you don’t read my comments that aren’t to you. But such narcissism is to be expected, I suppose.

indie, a very smart person once mentioned that if you think everyone around you is crazy, it would behoove you to check your own head. I do think that person may have been speaking directly to you. Labeling people as unthinking extremists while you pursue your own single-minded jihad is very good evidence of someone who never stops to think about the off chance that they might be wrong. It’s the sort of thinking that leads to a whole lot of dead people in Iraq and Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine.

What you said was trrue, there are too many real needs and you can’t support them all even if you really want to.there are so many and I don’t have money enough to send them all what I wish I could. So a person isn’t a hypocrite if they can’t give them all enough.

The point I was trying to make was that he had links to both “The Guardian” and to “Stratford news”.I went and read the articals and he said the complete opposite. the article was called "5 conservative Myths. He presented them as being true, not myths. the 2nd was saying that there being thermonuclear devices on buses of the illegal immigrant children had been debunked,but he said it as if it were true.That was my point. that he lied about what the articles said.I guess he didn’t think anybody would read the articles.

But

Well, let’s start with you giving us the titles of some comic strips you actually do like. You know, to bring some levity and light into our world.

I make no promises. But I do tend to post more civilly to those who aren’t simply on a continuous attack trajectory.