I’M A GEEZER BUT I STILL like the “funnies,” even when they are not so funny.
Some are, beyond a doubt, political. Most seem to cater to the leftists. A few editorial cartoons lean to the conservative point of view. Apparently that’s not popular, but after looking at a few cartoonists’ work , I usually know what to expect.
KEN CATALINO’s editorial cartoon for August 10, 2018 (above) is a tribute to firefighters. There is no indication that the tribute is limited to the men and women fighting the fires in California, although they have made the headlines for several weeks.
It was a nice, non-political, statement.
BUT THEN
But then a few of the comments on the GoComics page (http://tinyurl.com/ycx6l3mb ) took it out of the realm of tribute and denigrated it to a political attack. Comments such as
- But remember, somehow, EVERYTHING that’s happening in California and elsewhere around hesic world is SOMEHOW the Democrat’s fault…or at least Agolf Twitler THINKS it is!
Nice tribute. Unfortunately there will be many more deaths because of climate change that Donnie Dimwit and the Republicans say doesn’t exist. VERY SAD.
Free speech is fine, but making a tribute to fallen firefighters into a political attack is juvenile, at best. Proof that some people are brainwashed by their political mentors.
I won’t say the leftists are the only ones who manage to make snide comments, but from the comments I’ve seen, they are in a solid majority. For the leftists, EVERYTHING is President Trump’s fault.
Fires in California? Blame it on Trump. (What about Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.? Doesn’t the California government have some responsibility for controlled burns, clearing some of the undergrowth?)
- For what it’s worth – and that’s “not much” – I was a reporter in Tehama County, 30-some miles south of Redding. A CalFire station was on my rounds and I was acquainted with several firefighters. I also did some volunteer time fighting small brush fires in White Pine County, Nevada.
As I watch the news of the fires, I wonder if the people who are burned out again and again have the same mentality as the folks who build their expensive houses on the beach to have them blown away again and again by hurricanes and lesser storms. The government will pay them to rebuild.
The folks who live in forest areas know the risks of forest fires.
They also know there are ways to help reduce the probability that their houses will burn.
- Make a clearing around the house.
Clear the undergrowth as far as they can from the house.
Build fire resistant structures – concrete block structures (CBS) and fireproof/fire resistant roofing rather than wood. Wood LOOKS nice and a wood facade would work, but wood is destroyed by fire more readily than CBS.
Unfortunately, we seem to live in a world more and more populated by “entitled” people, people who fail to take any responsibility for their own welfare. The “old west” independent spirit still exists in some parts of rural Intermountain states, but even here it is becoming a thing of the past.
Blaming Washington is nothing new, but attacking the president at every opportunity – taking a non-political tribute and making it a political issue, especially an unfair political issue – is a sad commentary on the mentality of the leftists.
Jerry Brown is one of them, yet none of the leftists’ comments even suggest that the governor is at all responsible for the fires.
- I don’t think that would have been an appropriate comment to Catalino’s artwork any more than I think that the leftists’ attack on Trump is appropriate.
Sometimes politics should be left at home; focus on the event.
Unfortunately, the leftists can’t control themselves.
A pity.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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