Friday Nite Lite: Part One Late Afternoon Edition
Posted: January 18, 2013 Filed under: just because, Political and Editorial Cartoons | Tags: gun control, Lance Armstrong 15 Comments »
It’s Friday Nite!
<——— Now….that is one big muthafukkin duck!
I’ve been looking forward to posting the cartoon thread tonight. It has been quite a week, and I’ve found soooooo many cartoons, I need to break this evening’s “Lite” into two three separate posts.
(Why three? Well, the Cagle Cartoon website is down, and I had many of those bookmarked for tonight. So in this afternoon cartoon post there will be all the non-Cagle cartoons. Hopefully the site will be working later tonight.)
In this edition we focus on guns. How can we not?
First, I want to make sure you see these articles from MoJo.
EXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle | Mother Jones
The resurgent debate over gun control has put a spotlight on the hardline leaders of the National Rifle Association. In the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, executive vice president Wayne LaPierre delivered a full-throated rejection of gun control and called for more firearms in schools, while David Keene, the group’s president, predicted the failure of any new assault weapons ban introduced in Congress. The two NRA figureheads purported to speak for more than 4 million American gun owners, though the group’s membership may in fact be smaller.
But whatever its true size, today’s NRA, widely considered to be disproportionately influential in politics, operates more like a corporation or politburo than a typical nonprofit or lobbying organization. Its 76 board directors and 10 executive officers keep a grip on power through elections in which ordinary grassroots members appear to have little say.The NRA leadership is known as much for its organizational secrecy as its absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment. That may be why, until now, little has been known about some of its most powerful insiders. They sit on the NRA board of directors’ nine-member Nominating Committee, which, despite ballots distributed annually to legions of NRA members, closely controls who can be elected to the NRA board. Mother Jones has uncovered key details about the current Nominating Committee*
Lots to read there I know, you may have already seen a couple of these articles before…anyway, there it is….now for the funnies.
NRA Child Safety – Truthdig This one from Pat Bagley is awesome….
01/17 Luckovich cartoon: Gun control | Mike Luckovich
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle – 01/18/2013
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News – 01/18/2013
The Hunter – Political Cartoon by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 01/18/2013
Alright, I have to put this next cartoon up with a clip from the movie it is referring to, if you have not seen Talladega Nights the Ricky Bobby Story…with Will Ferrell. So if you don’t “get” the cartoon, check out the clip.
Lance “Ricky Bobby” Armstrong – Political Cartoon by J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register – 01/16/2013
Now that is funny!
A one more cartoons with Lance LieStrong…by way of Manti Te’o:
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Chip Bok, bokbluster.com – 01/18/2013
That must explain it!
See y’all later…two more cartoon post to go!
This is a motherducking open thread….
Sima
dakinikat
ecocatwoman
fiscalliberal
grayslady
JJ Lopez Minkoff
mablue2
NW Luna
peggysue22
quixote
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Damn, I hope that Cagle site gets working properly….I had a shitload of those cartoons to share with you tonight.
Those are great. The Lance/Oprah one cracked me up.
It’s Talladega Nights: the Legend of Ricky Bobby. Funnier that way don’t ya think?
Yah Lance lied, but Imma still a fan. He’s done more for humanity than most of us blogging away on this blog, I dare say. I got a great treadmill at a very reasonable price from his company. That’s enough for me alone. You gotta understand, in that sport if you don’t cheat, you are simply not competitive, you cannot do what you have chosen to do with your life. think about that. And, he still was better than every other cheater in the world. Seven times in a row at the Tour. I say LET HIM GO!
Nah. Cheating and lying are not undone by donating $$$ to good causes.
The Tour can often be won by a rider who has lots of fantastic domestiques working for him, over the truly stronger rider who lacks that team support.
Big Mig, he of the resting pulse in the 30s, won 5 yrs in a row. And I still admire Greg Lemond, one of only 5 riders to win both the Tour de France as well as the World Championship Road Race in the same year. For the ’89 Tour’s last real stage, the 25km time trial, he overcame a 50-sec lead by Fignon to win. And he did it in spite of lousy team “support.”
Armstrong was always a selfish-acting jerk. Lots of us can’t do everything in life what we’d like to but don’t build a career on lying, cheating and denial. Bankster frauds and most of Congress excepted, of course.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/01/news/lemond-isnt-convinced-by-armstrongs-confessional_271885
Fun reads, JJ. I’m not through all of them yet. Very interesting stuff about the NRA puffing up its membership numbers. I’m not at all surprised. A friend of mine bought a gun several years ago. I don’t remember what type of gun, I know it wasn’t a hand gun and it wasn’t an assault rifle. He wanted to learn all about it and the proper way to care for it so he sought out a firearms class. The only available classes required NRA membership. He was not at all what one would think of as a typical NRA member and he was not happy about having to become one but he had no choice if he wanted to do the right thing and learn about how to safely own a gun. I learned then that even legitimate members may not necessarily support NRA backed policy and legislation.
My dad was an NRA member. He hunted occasionally. But he did not own assault or semi-assault/automatic weapons and would not have supported unlimited weapons ownership.
The Clay Bennett cartoon is my favorite of a good group, Thanks!
Meet The Conservative Women Shaping GOP Gender Politics
They are trying to solve the gender gap but, if these women are the leaders, this effort may just make the gender gap wider. How anyone, let alone a woman, could listen to these people and not be repulsed is beyond me.
Stephen Colbert’s Sister To Run For Congress
God loves me after all. She’s running against Mark Sanford.
Of course she loves you, RalphB!
Nancy Pelosi knows how to press an advantage when you have one.
Pelosi: GOP debt-limit plan a ‘gimmick’
Luv the cartoons, JJ, as usual! We do so need the laughter.
Great cartoons, especially the Pat Bagley one
I’ve read someone’s post claiming that they signed up their cat for NRA membership.
http://raisequestions.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/my-cat-is-a-member-of-the-nra/
I would not surprised that NRA is not fully human.