Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ramirez

Buchanan didn't get the memo: From Jamestown in 1607 to Yorktown in 1781, there was no federal government. There was no United States. Yet generations of colonists had built forts, cleared lands, created farms, established workshops. Americans fed, clothed and housed themselves, creating one of the highest standards of living on earth for 3 million people. How could the U.S. government have built the roads and bridges if the U.S. government did not exist before 1789? There were no public schools until the 19th century.

11 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Did Wilbur and Orville Wright learn how to build bicycles in a CETA program? Were the feds responsible for the flight at Kitty Hawk?

Did the French government build Coanda's jet engine?

Is this a question no one is asking, or what?

Mr roT said...

Ramirez doesn't refrain from kicking a man when he's down, does he? "Cursed Hispania," AA would say.

Tecumseh said...

Man says: A implies not A. Tautologically.

Mr roT said...

Another Ramirez cartoon.

Here's Doonesbury while I am posting. It's about the GOP bringing back Jim Crow right now, but the link will update and I am too lazy to do a screen grab and upload it to Blogger. Too boring.
Apparently these guys at Slate and the schmuck that draws Doonesbury have forgotten the clumps of black gangs that blocked access of the wrong kind of voters to the polls.
No matter; the US is infected through and through with infections much more serious.

Tecumseh said...

The Doofusbury link is not working, but that's for the better, I'm sure. Incidentally, Ramirez is much better at drawing than that untalented putz.

Tecumseh said...

A refreshing counterpoint.

Mr roT said...

Sorry about the Dingleberry link. AA wrote the little code and it was wrong.
What a moran!

Tecumseh said...

Rushbo talking to me?

In context, he's mad! "You didn't do anything on your own. Who do you think you are? You're no smart [sic] than anybody else!" There's a resentment for achievement. There is a resentment for success. It is a resentment for success and achievement that all intellectuals feel towards capitalism, as I 'splained yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.

Got it.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Nah, Rushbo isn't talking to you. In the new world order mere purveyor of mathematics or natural science don't rate as no stinkin' Intellectual. Yer gotta be a Grandee to be an Intellectual; you know, like a Krugman, or a Cherokee Warner, or an editor for Pravda-on-Hudson.

Tecumseh said...

Ah, it all depends on what the definition of "intellectual" is, yes? But I thought, in my naiveté, that such a definition would stay more-or-less invariant with time. What happened?

Mr roT said...

Silly Tecs!
"Intellectual" now means gay. Everyone knows that. Haven't you been in Massachusetts in the last 20 years? It's certainly common knowledge there.
Wake up, Herr Doktor Professor Van Winkle!