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Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

antegm...@aol.com (Antonio E. Gonzalez) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:55:24 UT

Hmmm, someone doesn't seem to understand the meaning of *personal*
. . .

Re: Little Dee, Jan. 4 and Subsequent

brian_hunt...@hotmail.com (Brian Huntley) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:08:36 UT

Agreed. It's always been a nice calm place to go to, sheep-shanties
notwithstanding. I'll certainly miss it.

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

lner4...@juno.com (Alexander Mitchell) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:01:17 UT

Touché.

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

detox...@hotmail.com (Dann) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:59:01 UT

b056-e425617a1...@z7g2000vbl.g ooglegroups.com.
It's sad to see the establishment clause of the First Amendment held in
such low regard...

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

lner4...@juno.com (Alexander Mitchell) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:59:49 UT

If I may, why do you trust a government to carry out such mandates to
your favor any more than we should trust private enterprise? Sure,
they can imprison a person deemed by the populists to be too rich, but
only the government can force you to cough up YOUR money. I can, in
spite of claims to the contrary, freely choose to not have anything to

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

lner4...@juno.com (Alexander Mitchell) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:50:46 UT

"The government that is big enough to give you everything you need is
also big enough to take away everything you have."
I remember reading several interviews with Cubans, East Germans,
Romanians, and the like during the 1980s. They all had the same
theme:
"The government provides us with our needs. We have health care. Our

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

patdone...@verizon.net (Pat O'Neill) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:41:52 UT

On Jan 7, 5:51 pm, Blinky the Wonder Wombat
Education for any except the elite didn't happen until the government
first mandated it and then took it over as a government function. Same
with health care. The "impetus" for these things may have come from
individuals, but to implement their ideas they needed government.

'Diamond Lil' by Brett Koth

ddd...@comcast.net (D.D.Degg) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:35:45 UT

A new strip appeared on the Creators Syndicate
site this past Monday (January 4, 2010).
The cartoonist, Brett Koth, has been a collaborator
with Jim Davis for almost 25 years now.
Garfield, U.S.Acres, Mr Potato Head are the Paws Inc
strip he has contributed to and even signed some.
The strip is at [link]

James (Conchy) Childress interview

ddd...@comcast.net (D.D.Degg) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:16:25 UT

Tom Mason posts a little seen interview that he
conducted with James Childress by mail in 1975.
[link]
Conchy is one of the all-time great comic strips.
Samples can be seen courtesy Charles Brubaker at
[link]

Lamar Sparkman - RIP

ddd...@comcast.net (D.D.Degg) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:02:39 UT

Sports cartoonist for the Tampa Tribune and the
Tampa Times for 40 years (!947-1987) has passed away.
Edward Lamar Sparkman
July 11, 1921 - January 6, 2010
[link]
Unfortunately I can't find any of his work online,
he is famous for designing and drawing the old

Re: Bizarro 7 Jan 10: good as Jello Pudding!

mjack...@alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Jackson) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:57 UT

"Right. . . .what's a centimeter?"
[adapted for US use]

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

in...@loclanet.com (Invid Fan) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:15:34 UT

In article
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Or to make the people work for the benefit of the rulers. That model
has longer historical roots then either one mentioned above :)

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

wkharrisjr_i...@yahoo.com (Blinky the Wonder Wombat) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:51:24 UT

Well, I see at least one area of different interpretation here.
Activist government for social justice is a relatively new thing;
around 150 years old or so. How did social change occur before then? I
would argue that social ills like slavery, women's emancipation in the
West, the roots of public health, public education all were addressed

Re: Difficulties of producing conservative comic strips

patdone...@verizon.net (Pat O'Neill) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:43:31 UT

Anyone who thinks the kind of living conditions encountered in
anything except "minimum security" prisons can be called "relatively
comfortable" has obviously never even visited such a place, let alone
be incarcerated there. I have--had to go to the Philadelphia prison
when my son was needed to view a line-up--and I can tell you even the

Re: Signe Wilkinson doesn't understand science

patdone...@verizon.net (Pat O'Neill) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:39:33 UT

Well, yes...IMO, well-ordered societies tend to migrate in the
socialist direction, no matter where they start from.
How else would you effect social justice?
And what do you do when--as has been the case throughout history--
personal responsibility and personal charity to others abjectly fail
to bring about social justice? Is a parent's lack of "personal