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Today we have a Saturday post featuring an A&J from 2004. As I have mentioned, I’ll be in New England in August, at the Boston Comic Con Aug. 12-14 and at the Vermont Comic Con Aug. 27-28. This is my first real venture into this sort of thing, and I chose New England, because I have a lot of readers there whom I’ve never had a chance to meet. I have shipped more copies of “Beaucoup Arlo & Janis” to Massachusetts than to any other state. I am happily aware I have followers in other places as well, particularly the upper Midwest. I am thinking I might do this convention thing two or three times a year if all goes well in the northeast. I’m open to suggestions for appearances in 2017. Do you have a comics convention where you live? It seems everyone does!
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Have tried, 3x now, to send a long item [not nearly as long as some from me and others]. Reject 3x, w/ this note: “The requested URL was rejected. If you think this is an error, please contact the webmaster.
Your support ID is: 9811610996821847746”
The item contains no URL.
emb: That’s what I was getting a couple of days ago when I broke my post into three parts. I think the URL it refers to is the one needed in order to process the post, but we have others here who are more knowledgeable about that.
OK, here’s the Queen’s supposed preamble. Not advocating, just posting:
Message from the Queen
It was inevitable.
A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In light of your failure [she says] to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour,’ ‘favour,’ ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise.’ Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up ‘vocabulary’).
It won’t even buy the next 4-line item. Peace,
ebb: Perhaps WordPress is upset about all the British spellings and such?
Jimmy:
Columbus, Ohio.
You gotta come to C’lumbus.
Cincinnati and Cleveland are fine, too. I like to drive.
emb: Sorry about that last message. My spelling checker didn’t recognize your “initials.”
I tried to post the remainder of the piece, but had no luck.
So, here’s the link to the page I found it on:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/a-message-from-the-queen.htm
Good, and thanks. Now the Village has it, and I can send the URL to colleagues. And I do disagree with one major premise. Cheerio
British politics lately have been even worse than ours. And I don’t think a country that has managed to go from world superpower to third world nation in the space of a hundred years is where most of us want to go.
BTW, she is older than I* and she looks pretty good. Cameron, also BTW, wouldn’t be as bad as one of our nominees. Partisans seemed will to overlook the birthplace of Kruz [sp?]; why not Cameron. Fat chance; he’s sane, and he’d turn it down. Peace,
* I is right; “am” is understood.
Excuse me, the last thought should say, the example most of us want to follow. That is closer to my thoughts. What I said first makes it sound like we would not even want to travel there, which is not what I meant.
Cameron is no longer Prime Minister. New one is Theresa May. Cameron stepped down as soon as he could after his failure to convince the country not to vote to leave the EU.
As I’ve intimated before, I don’t like or trust either of the major party candidates. I’ve read up a bit now on the Libertarian, and I don’t care for him either. Again, we need a NOTA option on the ballot!
TruckerRon, I’m afraid one of those might leave whoever the current officeholder is in place!
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Here’s a thought: If an advertisement for a commercial product if full of falsehoods and phony promises, we can sue the manufacturer for fraud. Why don’t we hold politicians to the same standard? Because they exempted themselves when they wrote the laws. They claim the 1st Amendment allows them to lie to us and never be held accountable.
We’re supposed to be able to trust the news media to tell us what’s really happening, but they’ve sold their souls to one party or another, and the truth is as elusive as a moonbeam.
Disgusting, isn’t it!
I have a feeling that most Americans wonder why England has a Queen and perhaps they wonder why too. At least they are able to vote and secede from a union without having a war about it. Having said that (you may have noticed that I tend to use that a lot), our current puzzle over immigration reminds me of the South’s worry over the end of slavery. Cotton growers were of the opinion that the end of slavery would ruin the economy of the south. It certainly required a lot of changes, but the south, and the country as a whole, survived and African-Americans became a valuable and patriotic part of our country. Why this is relevant to the current discussion would be apparent to anyone who has seen the Clint Eastwood movie Grand Torino. Considering his participation in a previous campaign I feel this movie goes a long way in explaining his lack of participation in the current one. It would certainly require some mental gymnastics on his part.
The New York Times was sued for libel decades past. The Times argued that famous people could be libeled/slandered with impunity BECAUSE they were public figures. The Times won. SCOTUS essentially ruled that it is hard to libel famous people. This is not so in the UK. But here, you can say that Clinton sent Classified emails [turns out only two among thousands] on her PC, but, per FBI sworn testimony, they were not in fact marked CLASSIFIED, so she couldn’t tell. She said she hadn’t, which she thought was true, and therefore was not lying. But it’s legal to call her a liar, because she is a public figure. Good syndicated column in today’s Pioneer about that.
In ’48, I was a starry eyed progressive, and Harry Truman did not charm me. I was only 18, too young to vote in ’48. Urged Mom to vote for Henry Wallace because Dewey was going to win anyway. Fortunately, she didn’t, and my respect for Truman grew as I matured. [I’m not sure, however, about that 2nd A-bomb.]
Don’t waste your vote on 3rd party candidates. Sanity is a real issue in ’16.
My mind these days goes back to a fateful year I don’t remember much about: 1933. [I was only 3 when the Weimar Republic ended.] Insanity both created and doomed the Third Reich. Peace,
I meant to say this earlier and forgot to include it. Re the end of slavery, whatever economic issues there were, it was the right thing to do. In the end that is what America does. Someone said something like, When all alternatives have been tried, America will do the right thing. EMB, I hope that I have the honor of meeting you some day.
I believe that it was 1933 when Hitler attempted to take over Germany by force of arms (the beer hall putsch). He failed , but set about getting himself elected with nothing but a loud mouth and appealing to the mob. Not to mention he did have skills and was very, very smart and had PD by the way.
Jerry in Fl, I think that was 1923. I think 1933 was the Reichstag Fire, which gave Hitler the pretense needed to declare emergency measures.
RE Hillary and the email question, this gives a breakdown of the material. And emb, regardless of whether the emails were marked classified at the time, this is why she should not have been using a private email server instead of the more secure ones required. By not following the requirements, she needlessly exposed sensitive information to the possibility of being stolen off the system.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/27/us/politics/what-we-know-about-hillary-clintons-private-email-server.html
I’d have to look it up, but the beer hall putsch was years earlier. In ’33, in a relatively fair election, the Nazi Party got a plurality and, w/ the cooperation of a small far right party, got a majority to nominate him as Chancellor, and president Hindenburg so named him. This Reichstag [parliament] coalition then passed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler’s cabinet the right to promulgate laws without the consent of the Reichstag, and that was the end of democracy in Germany. We do not have the same system, so the details w/b different.
Insanity: not simply a raving maniac, but a most single-minded maniac with an obsessive hatred of Jews [not uncommon in Europe and Russia, even today], and of Bolsheviks. These clouded his reasoning, and his confidence in his own judgment was also irrational. He was, like most charismatic tyrants, surrounded by terrified yes-men. Tremendous wasted effort persecuting Jews, and losing some of Germany’s best minds in the process [I competed in high school with some of their sons], and crazy-impulsive. When he still had a chance of neutralizing the RAF [not a sure chance, but a chance], he decided instead to bomb the hell out of London and SE England, and lost any chance of air superiority henceforth. And his insane hatred of Bolshevism led him to Operation Barbarossa, which sealed Germany’s fate in WWII. Not understanding any German, I watched him give speeches in newsreel theaters. They seem eerily familiar today, and not just in a particular presidential candidate. It is also too similar to some rants I’ve seen from the pulpit, and some lesser lights in Congress.
Peace,
“Eerily familiar”. Here’s hoping that we have no reason to recall these words at a later date.
The Sunday strip reminds me of my stay at floral school in Holland. We were in what had been a modern monastery, austere, converted to a commercial use. They gave us one or two ice cubes per glass and acted like they were rationed. Being mainly Southern we thought so but assumed they were had no machine.
On the last day we stumbled on a giant ice machine about 12 feet long, full of ice. They just could not imagine anyone wanting more than two cubes.
Good morning Jackie. I couldn’t sleep either.