23 Comments on “Friday Nite Lite: Russia and Baby New Year”

1. RalphB says:

   January 3, 2014 at 6:44 pm

   The wingnut burning Obama’s to-do list is hilarious, as are the other cartoons. Thanks JJ.

2. RalphB says:

   January 3, 2014 at 6:48 pm

   Hahahahaha

   Watch out for exploding wingnut heads

   The administration said that the Department of Justice will propose a regulation to codify who is not allowed to possess guns again for mental health reasons. It also said that the Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a regulation that would address barriers that don’t allow states to share information about mentally ill people with the federal background check system.

   • bostonboomer says:

     January 4, 2014 at 9:24 am

     I hope this doesn’t end up stigmatizing people with psychological disorders even more than already happens.

3. dakinikat says:

   January 3, 2014 at 10:04 pm

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-qaeda-force-captures-fallujah-amid-rise-in-violence-in-iraq/2014/01/03/8abaeb2a-74aa-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html?wpmk=MK0000205

   Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq

   • dakinikat says:

     January 3, 2014 at 10:11 pm

     The upheaval also affirmed the soaring capabilities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the rebranded version of the al-Qaeda in Iraq organization that was formed a decade ago to confront U.S. troops and expanded into Syria last year while escalating its activities in Iraq. Roughly a third of the 4,486 U.S. troops killed in Iraq died in Anbar trying to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq, nearly 100 of them in the November 2004 battle for control of Fallujah, the site of America’s bloodiest confrontation since the Vietnam War.

     Events Friday suggested the fight may have been in vain.

     • dakinikat says:

       January 3, 2014 at 10:24 pm

       Can we drop Cheney and Dubya off at the Hague Now?

       • NW Luna says:

         January 3, 2014 at 10:50 pm

         Makes me feel sick to think of all the lives wasted because Republican chickenhawk ideology. Their foreign policy is despicable enough. But their domestic policy has also ruined millions of lives with poverty and illness. Times are tight? Cut spending on education, healthcare, safety, the environment, and taxes on the rich. Hey, all the 1% are happy!

         • dakinikat says:

           January 3, 2014 at 10:53 pm

           And yet they win elections and inflict all of that on the rest of us!

4. dakinikat says:

   January 3, 2014 at 10:12 pm

   The New York Times ‏@nytimes 7m
   Urban Dictionary has become the real-time anthropologist of the Internet http://nyti.ms/1bEg4K9

5. NW Luna says:

   January 3, 2014 at 10:15 pm

   Ah yes, worship of the almighty dollar. Funny how that explains so many crazy things.

6. dakinikat says:

   January 3, 2014 at 10:17 pm

   In his final speech as Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke identifies the No. 1 thing that’s caused the economy to be so slow: not enough government spending. He specifically calls fiscal policy “excessively tight.”

   Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bernanke-on-fiscal-policy-2014-1#ixzz2pOrRlT9L

   • dakinikat says:

     January 3, 2014 at 10:20 pm

     I am so tired of the Republican party being so obviously wrong over and over and it costing us all lives, money, and just about everything possible.

     • dakinikat says:

       January 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm

       this is how I feel between this and the bit on Iraq. From the day Reagan got elected and I asked my students why are we so freaking obsessed with the USSR, they won’t last through the end of the century to later askig my friends hy are we attacking Iraq to later asking why aren’t we doing the right things in this recession? It’s just ridiculous. It’s so obvious. Why are so many of our decision makers bribed to be oblivious?

       

       • List of X says:

         January 3, 2014 at 11:28 pm

         Maybe because human brain is obsessed with the short term – that includes politicians and their 2-4-6 year terms and nearly constant election campaigns.

         • bostonboomer says:

           January 4, 2014 at 9:25 am

           It didn’t happen when FDR was president though.

         • List of X says:

           January 4, 2014 at 10:05 am

           See – we have to look all the way back to FDR to find an exception.

         • bostonboomer says:

           January 4, 2014 at 11:20 am

           JFK and LBJ….

   • NW Luna says:

     January 3, 2014 at 10:46 pm

     “excessively tight.” Stranglingly tight is more accurate.

7. List of X says:

   January 3, 2014 at 11:31 pm

   The Taps carried even more irony for me since I’m reading this post from a phone.

8. RalphB says:

   January 3, 2014 at 11:48 pm

   HuffPo: Nurses, Family Bond Online As Sanaz Nezami, Iranian Woman, Dies In US Hospital

   Think I’m gonna go cry now.

9. dakinikat says:

   January 3, 2014 at 11:51 pm

   http://www.examiner.com/article/is-there-government-cover-up-of-child-genocide-and-mass-graves

   Thirty small skeletons were discovered in an unmarked mass grave-site at the Port Alberni BC United Church of Canada residential school for native children. For the last three months the Canadian Government has thwarted plans for excavation by Archeologist Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.

   It is not the first time the Canadian government has suppressed evidence of child genocide. Since the 1800s and through the 1990s thousands of native children were forced under the care of Catholic, United Church of Canada and Anglican residential schools jointly owned by the Canadian government. Two years ago a grave-site was unearthed near the Anglican-run Mohawk Institute for native children in Brantford, Ontario. In September 2011 the Canadian government stopped recovery efforts after four days of digging and upon discovery of an underground torture chamber, plus human remains. The team of archeologists headed by Annett and a man from the Smithsonian Institute, have yet to resume their dig.

   One grave dig that I am extremely sad to share.

   • bostonboomer says:

     January 4, 2014 at 9:27 am

     Ghastly. Unfortunately, not unique to Canada.

10. ANonOMouse says:

    January 4, 2014 at 6:15 am

    Great cartoons JJ. Love the Looney Tunes and the Putin cartoon.