Judge throws out Pennsylvania’s voter fraud fraud

As we are all aware thanks to Fox News, there is massive voting fraud, with people claiming to be someone else just so they can risk going to jail to cast one more vote they shouldn’t.th061QIW1J

Here in Pennsylvania, the Republicans leapt into action to prevent this fraud.  Why, do you know that over the past ten years there has been a grand total or zero examples of this fraud?

OurTea Party governor and his cronies used these statistics to support their contention that the voter suppression laws they passed were necessary because, you know, ‘Merica.  Or something.  I didn’t quite follow the argument, although Republican leaders had admitted on the record previously that the purpose of the law was to suppress Democratic votes.

Well, it turns out that this Judge understood the law, much to the dismay of Republicans.  And now the voter registration suppression law is no more.

Oh sure, they’ll appeal, but they lost before when they went to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Mostly these guys are afraid.  Pennsylvania has more Democrats than Republicans.  If it wasn’t for gerrymandering, the Democrats would have won more Congressional seats in the last election.  Our Republican governor is the least popular governor in the entire country, and he and his party are rightly worried.

So what do they decide? Change their stands?  Try to appeal to the public by adjusting their radical ideas?

“No,” they decided.  “Let’s cheat.”

Well, that will be a lot harder from now on.

Editorial cartoon of the day: Drinking the kool-aid

Pope and change

The new Pope just keeps amazing me.  Not that I’m going to suddenly turn Catholic or anything, but it’s so nice to see the church turning away from its old image as a corporate business hiding child molesters mostly concerned with abortion and gay marriage. pope

Since taking office, he has done the following:

Set up a committee to fight child abuse in the church and to root out the abusers;

Removed cardinals from the corrupt Vatican bank (after hiring independent banks to handle some aspects of the church’s functions);

Removed a cardinal who had refused to give communion to Democrats who supported abortion rights;

Removed a bishop who had spent millions on himself, only to turn the bishop’s luxury mansion into a soup kitchen;

Said that the church should be more concerned with the plight of the poor, while attacking trickle-down economics;

Said that the church should be less concerned with issues like gay marriage and abortion and “shouldn’t judge.”

Some of it is purely symbolic, such as getting rid of all the rich trappings of previous popes; living humbly and paying his own bills; going into public instead of hiding behind popemobiles and windows; and treating everyone with respect and dignity.

It’s almost as if this Pope had read the Bible or something!

Editorial cartoon of the day: Freedumb

Oklahoma enters the 21st Century

Our devious plan is coming to fruition!  Soon every state will be forced to allow all humans to be treated as equals!  Muahahaha!   snidely

Our latest conquest is the very very red state of Oklahoma, where a federal judge has ruled unconstitutional their law prohibiting gays from getting married.

The liberal plan is shrewd, if I must say so.  We have convinced judges that it is wrong to discriminate against people for no good reason.  And how did we do this?  By using the actual literal words of the United States Constitution!   Muahahaha!

Now, admittedly, there are those who will stand in our way and demand that America is all about treating some of its citizens as inferior — that we should stand for the denial of basic human rights.  Fools!  We will show them all!  Oklahoma and Utah may have stopped gay marriages while this case is on appeal, but we will eventually prevail!

And none shall stop us!

Editorial cartoon of the day: Kettle, meet pot

The Gun Control Shuffle

There was another school shooting, so that can only mean that it’s time once again for America’s favorite pastime! It’s the Gun Control Shuffle!

1. Have a mass shooting.

2. Bury the dead and cry.

3. Politicians talk about the need for gun control so this never happens again.

4. Gun manufacturers, through their lobby group the NRA, warns that the government is out to take everyone’s guns.

5. Gun lovers buy lots of guns because they believe the NRA and the right-wing media.

6. Gun manufacturers’ income skyrockets.

7. Gun manufacturers use this money to bribe politicians through their lobby group, the NRA.

8. Despite overwhelming public support, no gun control passes.

9. Another mass shooting occurs.

Repeat every few months.

Note:  This is the third Gun Control Shuffle in the past five months, so we’re right on schedule.

Editorial cartoon of the day: Rocky Mountain High

Alternate Disney Princesses

If you’re an artist, it seems like the way to get your name out there these days is to take the Disney Princesses and draw them in unusual styles.

You got your hipster princesses …

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… and your steampunk princesses …

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… and your superhero princesses …

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… and your Moulin Rogue princesses …

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Then you have your princesses as the seven deadly sins …

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… and as Tim Burton drawings …

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… and as Vogue models …

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… and as Sailor Moon characters …

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Not to mention as cute little kids …

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… and deadly fighters …

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Of course, we can’t forget the princesses as hobbits …

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… or as zombies …

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…or as grumpy cats …

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… and Nicholas Cage.

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And of course, this being the internet, there are hundreds of pornographic Disney princesses out there too.  Do your own search.

Okay, okay, I know.  This has nothing to do with politics, but remember — I used to edit a magazine about animation (Animato!), so let me sneak things like this in every once in a while, hm?

Besides, my last post on the Disney Princesses constantly gets blog hits thanks to search engines… 😉

Of course, this leads to the real question:  Since when did Meg from “Hercules” and Esmerelda from “The Hunchback from Notre Dame” become princesses?   Apparently that word is being very broadly interpreted these days…  (For that matter, where is Princess Eilonwy from “The Black Cauldron”?)

And just to be clear:  Anastasia is not Disney!

Editorial cartoon of the day: Government doesn’t work and we’ll prove it