Fun fact cartoon for the day. Did you know that Fidel Castro wanted to remove any signs of Capitalism when he took power of Cuba? So one of the first things he did was order all Monopoly Boards destroyed. In pretty much all communist countries even today, you would be hard pressed to find a Monopoly game anywhere.
Today’s cartoon lesson on Australia, takes us to discuss the lesser popular marsupial, the wombat.
Interesting that indeed wombats poop square shaped pellets. They are practically blind and use their scent to find each other (no wonder Binky doesn’t bathe) so their square poop won’t fall off the log or other areas they drop it. And because they don’t process the vegetation they eat very well, someone decided they would make a good source of paper fiber.
For those who don’t recognize the glass wearing animal in the lower right, that is Binky a Wombie from Peter Marinacci’s webcomic Wombania. He says that wombies are genetically altered more intelligent wombats. Whenever Peter posts a cartoon with Binky I tend to act like I don’t like him. And Binky returns the favor if you have ever read the comments on my posts.
So yes. The first ugly cousin of the cute koala are wombats/wombies. Well really just Binky (the rest of the wombies are cute).
It started with Occupy Wall Street and has since spread to different parts of the United States and the World. People who are upset about joblessness, opportunities, corporations in bed with government and a host of other things (many legit, several absurd). Those in the 99%, feel that too much power and money are being held by the 1% and positioning that the 1% is evil (and the 99% are not).
I support many things that the protesters are seeking. Tax reform to wipe out loop holes and shelters, limiting corporate (and PAC – which isn’t brought up enough) donations to political candidates, etc. One I would like to see is limiting betting against companies stock going up and increase the tax on gains if you don’t hold the stock for say 30 days. I am not a financial expert, but in my limited purview these tend to cause major negative swings that can be avoided. But there are so many people with different agendas that I wrote this on Google Plus.
People are sharing the Occupy Wall Street videos all over G+ and while I fully support their right to protest, I have a question:
What is the end game? I hear 1000 different reasons why people are there and if it is just to blow off steam or even to be heard, that is great. But if there is going to be that point where the protesters feel they got what they wanted, it isn’t clear what that is.
Had some nice discussion about that. But beyond that, I created this poster to show that everything the 1% does isn’t necessarily bad and just because I am in the 99% doesn’t mean I am necessarily good or can relate to the needs of those in the bottom 10%. We can’t broad stroke anyone. Not all banks were involved in subprime lending, not all of Wall Street is out to hurt the little guy.
We can get into whether Jobs is the best example given his notoriety for not being philanthropic like a Bill Gates or because his manufacturing is done overseas, but I am interested in your thoughts. What is the top 2-3 things that would fix this (or your) country?