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Will Mark be reduced to
Will Mark be reduced to writing propaganda cartoons for the new Dear Leader now?
what happened to all of
what happened to all of those principles since their inception?
"somebodies" have been lulled asleep....
"Your comment has been
"Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval."
Approval? I guess censorship has come to www.MarkFiore.com, too. Pity.
Um, actually, evil spamming
Um, actually, evil spamming has come to MarkFiore.com. The only reason I have to approve comments is to weed out links to viagra, porn and dubious Eastern European sites. That stuff would do a better job of censoring and driving away free discussion than I ever would.
Yes, approval. Thanks for being concerned though :-)
-Mark
I see and understand.
I see and understand. Thanks, Mark. I have always loved your cartoons and their sharp and pointed commentary on the world we live in nowadays.
BTW, this is me, the same person that wrote that comment about censorship and the other one about the Elites like in Prison Break's "The Company" ruling us from behind the curtain. A pox on them!
Yeah, right. That'll be the
Yeah, right. That'll be the day when America actually gets back to working for a living. Don't hold you breath, folks. It ain't gonna happen. The rich and corrupt Elites that control the whole freaking world from behind the scenes (like "The Company" does, as depicted in the TV series Prison Break), will have none of that. The Elites like to make money the new-fashioned way... They steal it!
Obummer's appointments thus
Obummer's appointments thus far, and his hedging on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld etal being held accountable for war crimes, should be a sign that this administration will be less about 'change' and more about 'same'. BS BS BS!
For you gloom and doom
For you gloom and doom people out there, we made it through the Great Depression, we made it through the Civil War and those were far worse crises then this.
Truthfully, I don't think this won't get as bad as the 30's, at least are savings accounts are protected.
Although I'm sure it is going to be very painful for a while.
One of the few things left that are the legacy of the New Deal. Anyway, FDR was the greatest president of the 20th century and so much of this reminds of the days of Reagon and the 80's. Anyway, the guy was overratted and his legacy is now irrelevent. Unlike the legacies of Lincoln and FDR.
Stop credit, insurance isn't
Stop credit, insurance isn't needed an get back to making America great again. SolaRichard
After last week's warring
After last week's warring rockets, it's nice to switch to something more uplifting!
As usual, the cheerful
As usual, the cheerful outlook is welcome.
Of course, if someone does understand credit default swaps, they're more likely running around screaming "We're all going to die!" than churning out hope-o-mercials.
At least it means that Fioreland has officially moved to stage 4:
1. America Will Prosper After Bush -->
2. America is in a Slump, but the Power of the American Worker will Save Us -->
3. America is in Trouble, but Massive Federal Spending by the Obama Administration will Save Us -->
.---------- You are Here
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4. America is in a Crisis, but... uhm... uh... Innovation? (Yes, that's suitably abstract.) "Innovation" will Save Us!! -->
5. America is Facing Imminent Collapse, but the Magical Race of Lizardmen Shall Emerge from the Woods to Save Us
6. (Huddling in the corner) *Obama is coming* *Obama is coming* *Obama is coming* *Obama is coming* ...
Alas, nobody has ever made it past stage 6.
All the same, we doom-and-gloomers thank you for not re-posting that scene with the giant Obama head floating o'er the hilltops in front of a huge rising sun. One can only stomach it so many times.
If forumites care to pepper Mr. Fiore's Happy Swellspin hope-o-mercial with a dose of reality, here's a short collection of news clips from some of the channels that I follow:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/98991-how-bad-is-the-fed-s-balance-sheet
http://jsmineset.com/index.php/2009/01/14/the-unavoidable-face-of-hyperi...
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/federal-debt-crisis.php
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14054
And I needn't remind you that Credit Default Swaps, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Leveraging Exemptions, Ethanol Subsidies, the Patriot Act, Software Outsourcing to India, HD-DVDs, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Tickle-Me-Elmo, and Windows Vista are among the chief "innovations" brought to us in the past decade by America's best and brightest.
*Sigh*
Keep on hoping enough for all of us. ^___^
Best Regards,
COTO
"As usual, the cheerful
"As usual, the cheerful outlook is welcome."
...so that you can try to sour it with your misrepresentations and bitter exaggerations, apparently.
Here's a radical thought. Why not actually try to do something rather than search for an excuse to whine like a mule? Paul Krugman is a good source of advice for how to go about that...
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Of course, he's a leftist Nobel Prize winner, so you'll have to deal with reality instead of your doom-and-gloom fantasy, but I'm sure you can manage.
> ...so that you can try to
> ...so that you can try to sour it with your misrepresentations and bitter exaggerations, apparently.
Ooh, yeah. Aren't bitter people the easiest ones to spot? :P
> Why not actually try to do something rather than search for an excuse to whine like a mule?
Because I get to educate people! ^____^
Like the fact that mules are physically incapable of whining. It's called 'braying'.
> Paul Krugman is a good source of advice for how to go about that...
Paul Krugman's job is to tell his clients one thing and tell the public another.
Even then, the sections of his blog that aren't prognosticating bad news are painfully vague. Most are being actively shredded by the commenters. Read through the comments on his endorsement of the stimulus. The laypeople rip his model to shreds—with basic math.
Quite a few are pointing out that he's using an even more contrived model than the one used to justify the ridiculous Bush tax cuts.
This isn't because he's a fool. If he's a Nobel laureate, his 'real' models fly way over the head(s) of the NYT readership. It isn't worth his time to educate them, and they're certainly getting a far rosier picture than his clients. If you read Bernstein, whom Krugman cites, it's because this in effect is his job.
> ...so you'll have to deal with reality instead of your doom-and-gloom fantasy...
If you can post a link to a specific article, or come up with a specific complaint against the articles that I've posted, I'd be more than happy to examine them.
Although I appreciate the link to Krugman's bio, its obvious that you haven't read his work, much less examined it critically. Please do so if you want to hide behind him.
Regards,
COTO
P.S. Please register as a user so I know who I'm talking to. <:)
To be honest, I can't tell
To be honest, I can't tell whether you mean it as a compliment or as a sarcastic joke. You could have done better.
Check out the new animation,
Check out the new animation, "The New New Deal." Special thanks to my cartoonist friend Kirk Anderson, who helped out with a few of the scenes. Check out his amazing work here:
http://www.kirktoons.com/
Kirk is really a great cartoonist, hope to have him involved once in a while!
-Mark
yes, his contributions are
yes, his contributions are great.
for the guy who bemoaned "censorship", I hope he worked his way to that last "sourpuss"; you left all of those links up for folks.
BTW, Happy New Year, Mark, and thanks for the many interesting animations.
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