Tag: political cartoon

Trumping the Rights of Others
Trumping the Rights of Others

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn’t having the best day when it comes to the opinion of him with regards to his treatment of women. The New York Times published what Trump called a “hit piece” titled “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump behaved with women in private.” While there are many cases including his initial reaction to what should happen to women who get an abortion, it seems one of the models in the NY Times article says her story was spun.

Stories of his anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim sentiments have also been reported widely. Yet the candidate will continue to tell you that those groups love him.

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Charity Challenge Week 1 Results

Speaking of love, my biggest efforts in the charity challenge are usually Google Plus. With the changes to their system, I have noticed over the last 6 months that engagement is down considerably. Last year in the first week I had 545 new followers there. This year, a measly 1 net new follower. Maybe it is becoming the ghost town everyone claimed it to be. But not giving up and thanks for all those who support the efforts each year.

Cartoonist using “Bearman” in their cartoons ($10 each):
- Kim Belding of PicPak
Blog about the Challenge ($5 each):

New Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter Followers ($1 each)
- 1 Google Plus
- 54 Facebook
- 16 Twitter
Week 1 Grand Total of $81!!

Find out how you can support the Charity Challenge at no cost to you here.

Let me know if I missed anyone.
May 16, 2016
Coingate

Today’s editorial cartoon is brought to you by the lovely American practice in some states known as a Caucus. The one in Iowa has social media spreading a new hashtag – COINGATE.

In several districts in Iowa to break the virtual tie between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary, officials ended up flipping a coin to determine that districts winner. Out of seven districts that came down to the coin toss, Clinton won six of them. Oddsmakers are skeptical.

NPR claims that a fact check of the situation says that the story isn’t entirely true as the conspiracy theorists.

What a stupid way to determine a winner of an election or even who gets that odd numbered delegate. Then again we are the country that brought you hanging chads in the 2000 Presidential Election.

February 2, 2016
Sarah Palin – Mother of the Year

Sarah Palin is back in the news and has my vote to win Mother of the Year. The day after her son allegedly was drunk and hit his girlfriend, Palin was on the stumping block announcing that she was backing Donald Trump for President.

Rather than postponing that speech to be at her son’s arraignment on Tuesday, she went ahead. And rather than keeping silent about her son’s legal woes, she decided to turn it into a political statement about how Obama doesn’t care about veterans especially those with PTSD.

I do not disregard any soldiers issues with PTSD and don’t deny that Track could be suffering from that. But the vast majority of veteran sufferers do not lash out like he is alleged to have done. In fact one veteran’s organization has already come out saying it wasn’t fair thing to say.

Sarah Palin is lucky enough to have the financial means and the connections to get her son the treatment he deserves. I wish she would focus on that rather than using PTSD as a political tool to try and bring down the other side.

January 21, 2016
Vote No on Issue 3

Ohio voters will go to the polls this week to vote on whether or not to allow the legal growing and distribution of marijuana in the state. I am saying Vote No on Issue 3.

Not for any moral issues on my part. However I truly believe that medical marijuana should be federally legal. If there is a drug that could provide legitimate sufferers some relief from whatever medical condition they are suffering from I don’t think the government should mandate it’s legitimacy. From a personal note, I have never smoked the stuff nor do I plan to but my fiscal side says we are spending millions incarcerating people for it and the market still exists without any tax money going to state/local governments.

So given the tide of states passing marijuana laws, I think it will be coming to Ohio. But Issue 3 is not the answer. The problem comes in the way the issue was placed on the ballot. 10 investment groups got together with their celebrity friends and each will be awarded one of the grow farms should the measure pass. So my no vote is against a predetermined group of winners. It was the same when the casinos were placed on the ballot. I was for the casinos but against a predetermined group getting the keys to the state.

Rather I would prefer that if you are going to limit the number of pot farms in Ohio to 10, to have a silent bid system if the measure passed. Sure the “fat cats” would still be the winners but it wouldn’t be predetermined ones and it would throw a huge investment into the state prior to the growth of the first bud.

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99Blast on Kickstarter

The Kickstarter for 99Blast the card game is still going on. If you can, take a look and spread the word. Kicktraq shows the progress below.

November 1, 2015
Trump and Clinton – The Connection

Donald Trump is an astute political investor having donated to candidates on both sides of the aisle. However his history with donating and supporting Hillary Clinton has some conspiracy theorists wondering why threw his name in for the Republican Primary. Could it be that this was just an elaborate ruse set up by the Clinton campaign to screw up the Republican Primary. Imagine a plan to having the other candidates fall all over themselves trying to be just as obnoxious and unapologetic as Trump which could help a Hillary victory in the general election.

September 22, 2015
State of the Disillusioned Cartoon

So President Barack Obama had his State of the Union (or as I prefer State of the Disillusioned) address yesterday where he talks about his plans for the coming year. Everything was a typical Presidential address and nothing I heard that was new. However one comment he made did make me chuckle:

That’s why I’ve been asking CEOs to give more long-term unemployed workers a fair shot at new jobs, a new chance to support their families. And in fact, this week many will come to the White House to make that commitment real.

Sure CEO’s have the power to set direction but I found it funny as most CEO’s (especially in the larger sized companies that would garner a White House invite) are probably out of touch with hiring decisions anyway. And do we really need to have them fly to the White House to get their buy-in? More sad is that he has three years left in his term and already they are calling him a lame duck President. Ouch. Congress (both sides of the aisle) needs to quit waiting for the next best thing to get things done.

January 29, 2014
Texas Secedes from United States Cartoon

Seems some conservatives are none too happy about President Obama being reelected. Disappointment is one thing and I am sure you heard many threats from people saying they were leaving the country if Obama got reelected. Well I guess they realized that most of the rest of the world is more socialist than the United States so instead, there are several states with petitions going to secede from the United States. One of the most active is from a group in Texas, who has pulled in more than 80,000 signatures so far.

Where is this petition taking place you ask, well on the White House website of course. Seems that any group that can get 25,000 signatures in 30 days would elicit a response from the President. We’ll wait and see what he says.

Oh and some facts on illegal immigration were found here including the fact that Texas has about 16% of the illegal immigrants in the United States.

November 14, 2012
Obama’s Secret Weapon

Wouldn’t I have had egg on my face today if I had drawn today’s editorial cartoon and my prediction that President Obama would win was wrong? Well I was right. If you asked me 10 days ago, I would have gone with Romney. Interestingly none of the pundits are talking about how the poll numbers moved back into President Obama’s favor after his several visits to the East. As I allude to in the cartoon, he finally showed the leadership that has been missing in the past several months. HOWEVER, if the election were another two weeks away, it may have swung back to Romney with the issues surrounding recovery and returning to normalcy.

Hopefully the President and the Republican lead House will be able to reach across the aisle and actually start compromising on some issues and do the job we need them to do. Four more years of posturing and sticking their heads in the sand isn’t going to do a damn thing for the country.

UPDATE

Christina of Pop Smoothie sent me this picture of an Obama bobblehead doll she got at a Cincinnati Cyclones Hockey Game. You can see Obama wearing the Cyclones jersey! Nice.

November 7, 2012
The Sky is Falling

Woo Hoo, only two more days before the sentiment of today’s editorial cartoon is over. I can safely say that I am not the only one with voter fatigue. The bad news is that whomever does win, we will still be hearing this sentiment from the other side for four years.

Usually I am a purist and like to wait until election day to cast my vote. You never know what scandal might come out the day before the election that will change your vote. Well for those of us who don’t vote a straight ticket. Last minute I have to go out of town on election day so I had to opt for in person early voting.

You would think that with Ohio being a battleground state, there would be more than one option in my county to early vote. Nope. One place, the Board of Elections downtown. Originally I was going to go on Saturday but then I heard that Will.I.Am and Vivica A Fox were going to be down there and I knew that the lines would be way too long because gawkers want to gawk. Instead I went on Friday. Not much better choice.

This was the line. Well the line once I turned the corner. There were just as many people around the building before I got to this point. From the back of the line to the door was 35 minutes. From the door, up the steps and to the front of the line was another 35 minutes. Time to vote: 5 minutes. So I did my civic duty in 1 hour and 15 minutes. I hope you will make a minimal effort to go vote.

November 4, 2012
Political Campaign Phone Calls Cartoon

Today’s editorial cartoon is a shout out to all my friends who still have a landline (aka home phone line). During the campaign season, even if you are on the Do Not Call List, you can be called by political campaigns, PACs or other entities trying to convince you to vote for/against a candidate or issue. Even caller ID doesn’t always help. Typically if you see an 800 (toll free number) as the caller, you can ignore it. However, many times the campaigns have gotten smarter and initiate the call from a local area code compelling you to pick it up.

Many of my friends and a huge influx of younger people on their own for the first time have foregone their landline in favor of just having a cell phone as their primary line. The good news for this group is the robocalls and tex message are currently forbidden under FCC regulations to be sent to cell phones unless you opt in to receiving messages from that campaign More on that here.

However, I honestly think it is a matter of time when that regulation changes. Who wants to make the calls? Politicians. Who can write laws to begin allowing the robocalls to cell phones? Politicians.

So I keep paying my $30/month to have a home phone line just so every time I sign up for a store rewards card or anything else, I have a home line (that I rarely answer) for all the junk to go to. My friends/family know to call my cell.

What about you? Anyone give up their landline? If you are outside the US, are political campaigns allowed to call your cell phones??

October 21, 2012