Friday Open Thread ~ the week in review edition
I believe it was the great Paul Neuman who used to describe Washington Week In Review as, "riveting stuff." Sad to say the luster has come off since the days of Ken Bodie as moderator.
It has come to pass that, with too few exceptions, comedians and cartoonists are now our best journalists. Friday Open Thread hopes to walk us through a review of last week's most memorable events ... as illuminated through editorial cartoons and non tradional media.
Meet Miguel. He is a farm worker in Soledad CA. Here he uses a special magnifying glass to search for tiny spiders that can damage the grapes, destroy the leaves and suck the juice from the cane. Thankfully on this day the wine grapes were free from any pests. #WeFeedYou
Friday, April 23rd
Saturday, April 24th
Sunday, April 25th
Monday, April 26th
Tuesday, April 27th
Wednesday, April 28th
Prayerona Meetin’ Wednesday, Head-ON With Robyn Kincaid, 28 April 2021
Thursday, April 29th
Comments
I like the idea of re-training cops
in basic gun safety. The sensor in the holster is a good one, but sincerely doubt the cops unions
will go along with it. Sure, if the feds get involved, there may be a better path to accountability
nation wide. Unless mandated by congress, every local cop shop will fight it. Also wonder if individual states were to try and implement such a plan, would it be easier to get it underway?
Thanks for the week in review philly blue!
Sprintime on the prairies
Ahh, now that smells like spring!
stop and smell the flowers...
What a nice OT! Good job!
I am headed for Everglades National Park today. Maybe I can snap a few pictures along the way.
I can't abide MSM anymore. I do not need the propaganda, thank you very much.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
"Saturday, April 24th"
This is all the more powerful for its total lack of words.
I have no mouth...and I must scream.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
"Thursday, April 29th"
Sick of this shit; you think those groups are being exclusively singled out by the police? That is a lie.
I am none of those groups, but the local cops (most, but not all, of whom are Hispanic) treat me like dirt - they love to murder the mentally ill and homeless, one of which I have been legally documented as for years and the other I could easily be were I not so fortunate as to have my family.
We must think in terms of individuals, not groups; the group is the problem. Abolish the concept of the group, and people will be forced to stand on their own two feet, with nobody to pass the buck to for their actions. Want to stop killer cops? THAT is how you do it.
I am also really starting to wonder whether always talking about people being targeted for mistreatment in terms of who/what the targets are isn't just a variant on "blaming the victim". What if the real reason some people do bad things to others is simply because the people doing the bad things are just bad people, possibly just following their dharmas, as it were, and that any appeal to whatever it was about the victim that "made them" want to do that is just post-hoc rationalization. You see this in high school (maybe even before); some people are just bullies, and they'll pick on whomever they think is weak. It doesn't matter if the target is dark/fair, male/female, thin/fat, gay/straight, foreign/local, the local dominant religion/infidel or even poor/rich - if you're not part of the herd, you'll get bullied. The war is, as it has always, on weird people, and recent trends have made that WORSE, not better.
The real victims are the ones you don't hear about. Like Stalin's USSR, they keep us all on a shifting carousel of scapegoats.
"We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them"
― Albert Einstein
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Good morning Philly, et. al. Thanks for the great OT.
A wonderful column and the embedded video was a great "plan" that would be a great step toward a "solution", but I doubt that it will ever come to fruition here.
I have noted on various occasions that [old fart mode on] back in the day we had no pundits, or very, very, few; and we did have some, at least now and then, news sources that were not propaganda outlets, and some, at least part time, journalists. Nonetheless, for guaranteed truth-telling, we relied upon comics and comedians, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, and the like; largely unknown open-mike coffeehouse denizens engaging in topical free form poetry, mostly remnant beats, and quasi-classic bards like Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and the like. Besides that, there were the still (and perpetually) relevant echoes of their predecessors like Will Rogers and Woody Guthrie. Savvy cartoons like Pogo and Doonesbury weighed in too. So, to some extent, either "the more things change, the more they stay the same", or perhaps we are coming full circle, again, in something that is cyclical in this nation's socio-political culture. [old fart mode off].
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --