Note
11-10-14: My schedule is still
way off-schedule so
the comic will be late today. Still way
too much post-election funk. - Lefty
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Tuesday's Graceless
Child
 The
data from Tuesday's election, guaranteed
100% free of computer hacking <Cough DIEBOLD
/cough> reveals that older white voters
came out in droves
to
vote Republican. These folks weren't concerned
about the economy (and they damned sure
weren't
voting
on SSI or Medicare as the GOP is going
to treat both like a vulture treats a dead
puppy as soon as they get another Bush
in the White House.) they were voting out
of fear. Fear as a result of three billion
dollars worth of commercials about Ebola
on every breath they take, ISIS behind
every tree, evil immigrants just waiting
to get their hands on our virgin Protestant
daughters, and being left defenseless against
these horrors by a President who's sending
out the IRS goons to take all the guns
away.
You know why younger voters didn't show
up on Tuesday? They don't watch those commercials,
or laugh at the one's they inevitably
had to endure. They looked around that
day saw a world
that has enough jobs, no new wars, plenty
of junk
food
and said to themselves "Hey, things
aren't so bad, and my vote's not gonna
change anything.
Think I'll see what's on Reddit."
My prediction of what kind of passable
legislation we'll get from either house
of Congress for the next
two
years
is a fat lot of nothing. All their
time will be spent on the kind of state
legislation that works, e.g., finding even
MORE ways
to
keep everyone except
for
older
non-white
males from voting in 2016.
Note: No hidden comic
today. Just in case you were curious. BTW,
I apologize for the comic getting late
starts the past two times but it's be
a WEIRD week for me.
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Yesterday was my birthday
and I had one really great "present"
of note. It
was a $400 refund of the $500 co-pay
I was dunned by the hospital when I visited
the
emergency
room in September. Having not being treated
at a hospital in decades, thus being
naive in the ways of contemporary insurance,
I thought that moolah was long gone.
So,
thanks
Obamacare!
and thanks Obama!
=Lefty=
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