20 Comments on “Friday Nite Lite: Monster Mash”

1. dakinikat says:

   August 17, 2012 at 8:32 pm

   96-year-old Woman Who Voted During Jim Crow Is Denied Photo ID
   http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2011/10/05/96-year-old-woman-who-voted-during-jim-crow-is-denied-photo-id

   At age 96, Dorothy Cooper is the new poster child for what’s wrong with the state’s photo ID voter law. A retired domestic worker living in Chattanooga, she never had any trouble voting even in the Jim Crow era and missed only one election in her entire adult life. But when she went for one of the state’s new free photo IDs last month so she could keep voting, they turned her away. Why? Her maiden name, Dorothy Alexander, is on her birth certificate, and she didn’t have her marriage license.

   Institutional Racism … it’s working for Romney/Ryan!!!
   • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:

     August 17, 2012 at 11:15 pm

     WTF!!!!!!
   • ecocatwoman says:

     August 18, 2012 at 5:33 am

     But men don’t have to produce marriage licenses. Just an extra hurdle for women.
2. northwestrain says:

   August 17, 2012 at 8:33 pm

   Several of the cartoonists caught those creepy Ryan eyes. The eyes are said to the the mirror of our souls — I don’t know — but both Romney and Ryan have creepy looking eyes. Lots of Bro-love there as well.
   • dakinikat says:

     August 17, 2012 at 8:36 pm

     
     • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:

       August 17, 2012 at 11:16 pm

       Wow Ryan has a tattoo? is that Ayn Rand’s face?
3. bostonboomer says:

   August 17, 2012 at 9:27 pm

   Great cartoons! You’ve outdone yourself tonight, JJ. Thanks for the laughs.
   • RalphB says:

     August 17, 2012 at 9:34 pm

     What BB said!
   • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:

     August 17, 2012 at 11:17 pm

     BB thanks…tonight I took my son to football practice and came home with four other kids…the house is full of 14/15 year old boys, mountain dew and twinkies…should be an interesting night.
4. NW Luna says:

   August 17, 2012 at 9:42 pm

   Moderate extremism! You’re hired! Great roundup of ‘toons.
   • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:

     August 17, 2012 at 11:18 pm

     Thanks Luna…
5. RalphB says:

   August 17, 2012 at 11:13 pm

   Funny bit, even worked Tralfamadorians into it

   Wonkette: Paul Ryan So Mad Obama Didn’t Save GM Plant That Closed Under Bush

   Listen: Paul Ryan has come unstuck in time.

   Paul Ryan has gone to sleep writing letters to support Wisconsin stimulus spending in 2010 and awakened voting against the stimulus in 2009, and then turned a corner into 2012 and announced “No, I never asked for stimulus.” He has walked through a door in 2010 carrying a budget proposal that would destroy Medicare and come out another one in 2012 holding hands with a man who insists that Barack Obama is the guy who wants to destroy Medicare. He has seen his position on earmarks evolve many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.

   Now Paul Ryan is blaming Barack Obama for the closing of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. The factory closed two months before Obama became president.

   “I remember President Obama visiting it when he was first running, saying he’ll keep that plant open,” Ryan said in Ohio Thursday, describing the shuttered GM factory in Janesville, Wis. “One more broken promise.”

   Ryan said that the plant closed because of rising gas prices under Obama. It actually closed in December 2008, while George Bush was president, because nobody was buying the SUV’s it produced. Paul Ryan’s running mate, a man with the laughably improbable name of Willard, had published an editorial in 2008 saying it would be best to “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” and in 2012 was taking credit for how well the auto industry had recovered. But the GM assembly line in Janesville has been dead since 2008. So it goes.
6. bostonboomer says:

   August 17, 2012 at 11:20 pm

   Libertarians are trying to keep Mitt Romney off the Washington state ballot, because Republicans are no longer a major political party.

   http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-may-not-appear-on-washington-state-ballot
   • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:

     August 17, 2012 at 11:22 pm

     If only they could keep him off of Georgia’s ballot as well.
   • dakinikat says:

     August 18, 2012 at 12:54 am

     Ask me why I want my to move there and ensure both my daughters come with me.
     • RalphB says:

       August 18, 2012 at 1:06 am

       If I could drag my kids along, I’d go in a heart beat! May go anyway one of these days.
     • NW Luna says:

       August 18, 2012 at 11:51 pm

       Any SkyDancers heading up to the great State of Washington and need a place to stay, just let me know!

       (just catching up with this thread)
7. RalphB says:

   August 17, 2012 at 11:23 pm

   Love this story.

   The State Department Now Responding To ‘HILLARY VP???” Questions With Poetry

   In an email from a State Department spokesman to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton confidant, channels his inner Dr. Seuss to shoot down the report:

   “This did not happen
   “They did not have lunch
   “They did not have any meal
   “They did not meet this month
   “They did not meet last month
   “They did not meet in 2012
   “They did not meet in 2011, 2010, 2009
   “This is not happening
   “Truth is that Ed Klein is an idiot with not a shred of credibility
   “Truth is that Ed Klein’s motto is ‘If at first you don’t succeed, lie lie again.’”
   • RalphB says:

     August 17, 2012 at 11:24 pm

     The new Democratic Party, now with more Ballz.
8. ecocatwoman says:

   August 18, 2012 at 5:48 am

   JJ, you have outdone yourself this time. What a terrific cartoon roundup. Yes, I do love the shark the cartoon – THANKS. However it’s a toss up for my personal favorites: Romney in the side car or the Candidates from Another Century. Great job.

   Hope you and your house survived the invasion of the teenage boys last night.