Posted on 08/14/2006 5:49:39 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
So, I'm hanging out with a lot of happy midwesterners at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
Everything is just lovely until I page through the funnies and run into this gem from Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller:
Now, let me tell you something. There's ugly and there's stupid. And there's ugly and stupid. This comic by Wiley Miller hits on both cylinders.
First, a constitutional originalist has nothing against amendments to the constitution since they are provided for in the text itself. Second, the hatefulness of presenting Clarence Thomas as a self-destructive slave wannabe and Scalia as a hopeful slave owner is simply disgusting. I cannot imagine an attack of similar vehemence from a conservative writer passing without complete exile from polite company.
See you in the not-so-funny papers.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
NON SEQUITUR is Wiley Miller’s wry look at the absurdities of everyday life. A hit with fans of all ages, the strip is syndicated in more than 700 newspapers. NON SEQUITUR has received four National Cartoonists Society divisional awards, the most prestigious in cartooning. It is the only comic strip to win the coveted award in its first year of syndication and the only one to ever win in both the best comic strip and best comic panel categories.
I remember when "wry" meant Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
The first panel states that it was parallel universe, Not this one.......
Well, the title is Non Sequitur.
Like the arguments for most positions taken by the Left, it is indeed a non sequitur.
If you cannot attack an adversary's ideas, substitute your version of his ideas - that "strict constructionists" wish to remove all the amendments from the Constitution, for example. Then you can ridicule your version of his ideas.
Somewhere Joseph Goebbels sheds a tear of joy, knowing his life's work bore such fruit, still used to undermine the defense of freedom.
It must be the bizarro universe where wrong is right and Spock has a beard.
Yeah, but Sulu was still gay.
Black conservatives = slaves in the midn of a liberal. Never ceases to amaze me that they are either ignorant or deliberately blind to their own racism.
LOL!
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| The cartoon doesn't work at all unless one buys into the false premise that strict constructionists believe that all amendments are to be repealed. I personally have never read anyone that proposes this same premise in real life. |
I haven't seen the strip for a while, but I remember it as being very funny and often conservative friendly (or at least anti-BS). My favorite was one with reporters holding darts, ready to throw them at a big board across from them with "Today I am an expert in" on top with labels such as "economics" "politics" "technology" etc. etc. etc. below. The caption was "How reporters start their day at work."
I use that one in my journalism classes....
cheers
Jim
Neither ignorant nor deliberately blind, but proudly displaying it for all, who will, to see.
Of course not. Libs make it all up. (What's that called, again? Oh yeah-- they LIE.)
Neither funny nor profound 'toon.
That's the whole point.
Reinterpreting the constitution makes the constitution meaningless. It becomes a guideline for the Supreme Court, and little more.
The interpretation of the constitution MUST remain consistent.
If the constitution needs to change, it can be changed through the amendment process, which is intentionally a difficult process. If it is not a difficult process, we have no real guarantee of rights, we are simply subject to the current opinions of the court based on their own personal beliefs.
A constitutional originalist doesn't believe that the constitution cannot change. They believe that the interpretation of it cannot change, and changes must be made through amendments.
There really is no other logically sound way of looking at the constitution, because any other way of looking at it tosses out the balance of power in the constitution and makes the Supreme Court an oligarchy that receives non-binding advice from the legislative and executive branches.
A Strict Constructionist believes that the Amendments to the Constitution BY THE AUTHORIZED PROCESS are the ONLY valid ones....The "amendments" made by the whim of fickle courts are the suspect ones.....
He's a liberal. There is a different standard for liberals, especially when they slime conservative Blacks. There will be no consequence.
Yeah, it used to try for a sheen of objectivity. However, since at least the 2004 election, the strip has gone hard core left cliches and meaness. He even does the tired "President as a Chimp" bit.
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