Today's Toons 8/1/06

various | 8/1/06 | various

[pookie18]

My pleasure, sweetiepiezer!

[pookie18]

My pleasure, MP!

[IrishMike]

And he let Hillary & Bin Laden on the motor cycle go ??????

[TSchmereL]

You suggest I go on hiatus until the next cease fire?

I don't have any idea what that means and I don't know you well enough to figure it out. But your suggestion does not answer my question. I don't presume to demand answers as if I were your prosecutor or accusing you of something. I am not accusing you of anything other than a poor choice of toons. I know you don't believe in the lie of moral equivalence when it comes to terrorism. But you post those toons that have that message even though you don't post toons that have other messages you disagree with. It just does not make any sense and so I assume it is merely because you aren't paying attention to your own message. If you deny having a message, then why not post every toon you come across such as toons equating Bush to Hitler or other leftist messages? It isn't as if there were not enough of them to be found. I still love 99% of pookie's toons and I will always come back for more. It just seems you have a blind spot for these toons that suggest Israel is responsible for "killing the peace dove."

[pookie18]

And he let Hillary & Bin Laden on the motor cycle go ??????

He must have a motion thing...click "me" below...

[pookie18]

The toons are viewed by about 2,000 folks here daily...why is it that only you are complaining? Think about that...

[IrishMike]

What's with #44 ?

[pookie18]

Well, Hank Aaron wore it proudly ;-)

[TSchmereL]

I am not complaining. As I said, I love pookie's toons. I am just puzzled. Even if I am the only one who is asking the question, it does not diminish the legitimacy of the question. You don't have to address the question directly if you don't want to. I still appreciate everything else you do.

[pookie18]

The toons about which you're (not) complaining are not pro-Hezbollah & are merely an even-handed (though not my personal) view. Even you must admit that taken in their entirety, the majority of the Middle East war toons I post are pro-Israel. You do see that, don't you?

BTW, only Jim Robinson has the ability to censor the Today's Toons editor-in-chief...

[TSchmereL]

I think the majority of the Middle East war toons you post are pro-Israel. I also think I agree with you on just about everything regarding politics.

I am not trying to censor anyone. I am just commenting on a disturbing theme that keeps appearing: Israel is somehow equally responsible with Hizb'allah for killing the mythical "dove of peace." I don't think you believe that.

Justice is not the equivalent of being even-handed. Justice means that the guilty get exactly what the guilty deserve and those who are innocent are not falsely blamed. I think you would also agree.

I think those messages are confusing because they suggests blame where blame does not belong. I don't think that you or anyone else here is confused by them. Most folks probably just scroll on by.

But "Peace" is no more real than a mythical white dove when it is based on fear and a lack of freedom.

But fear and a lack of freedom is what the "peace" with Israel in the Middle East is based on.

I can't imagine living with hate and missiles amassing on your doorstep and calling it "peace."

If Israel is at all responsible for killing that kind of "peace," so be it.

[pookie18]

OK, but...

[TSchmereL]

Are you suggesting that I am a dead horse and you are beating me with a stick?

[pookie18]

Only if your name is This Topic ;-)

[TSchmereL]

Oh, I see. "The Topic" of moral equivalence is the dead horse and you are beating it, day after day, by posting toons with the "The Moral Equivalence Topic" showing Israel and Hizb'allah "killing the peace dove."

Yup. That horse is definitely dead.

[pookie18]

Good...then I hope not to hear from you on this topic again...should you get the desire to bring it up again & again, ad nauseum, try to lie down until the feeling goes away...

[TSchmereL]

Okay. I will just lie down like that dead horse so you can beat me with your big stupid stick.

[pookie18]

Thanks...since you will lie down, I can retire the stupid stick & go back to only using the regular one...when necessary.

[TSchmereL]

I bet you could post a cartoon of a big, bad Israeli beating a peace dove to death with a big stick,

or you could post a cartoon of Osama bin Laden as a dog having sex with a pig,

and one of those cartoons would get censored here.

I know which one.

[pookie18]

I could post the former (you should see what I don't post), but wouldn't. I also wouldn't have censored the latter, but had a feeling it would be deleted (due to site rules/guidelines)...