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Raging Pencils by Mike "Lefty" Stanfill

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Today's mystery web comic is:
CAPTAIN EXCELSIOR


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District Nein

picture of angry manAs if you didn't guess, I saw District 9 this weekend and absolutely LOVED it.

But there were a few things I didn't love, and here they are in no particular order.

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The budget deficit is HUGE, but what's the cause? The Right is vehemently trying to dump the blame on Mr. Obama's shoulders but David Leonhardt has a nice article breaking down the sources of the growth deficit. We'll start with a nice, tasty pie chart:

debt chart
What do we learn from this:

• The first category — the business cycle — accounts for 37 percent of the $2 trillion swing.

• Second, Bush-era legislation, like his tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug benefit, [that] not only continue to cost the government but have also increased interest payments on the national debt.

• Third, Obama’s main contribution to the deficit is his extension of several Bush policies, like the Iraq war and tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 [...] 20 percent of the swing.

• Fourth, about 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed in February.

• Fifth, only 3 percent comes from Mr. Obama’s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas.

So there.

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John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, is waging a campaign against health care reform. His opinion, in a column written for the Wall Street Journal, is that if you eat his over-priced food, you'll be fine.

Oh, and lay off the insurance companies. Their 500% increase in profits over the past six years is juuuuust fine.

There is a Whole Foods store in my area but I'll be shopping elsewhere for my tofurkey this year.

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And finally, Comcast is dumping MSNBC from its basic cable package. If you like Olbermann and Maddow you're going to have to pony up an additional $200 a year.

You can find all the details of this story here, along with the contact infoof those resposible at Comcast.

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=Lefty=


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Bonus Advice
A little advice on how to handle an alien.


Extra Deluxe High-Octane Bonus Fabulousness

math equals whiskey
The sine squared plus cosine squared t
is equal to four minus three,
and tangent t's value
is what they all tell you,
and thus I drink booze. Q.E.D.


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Whoever you are, thanks for reading my crappy little 'toon.



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