Internet Webguy posted:

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This is accurate when divorced from healthcare.

Internet Webguy posted:

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This is accurate when divorced from healthcare.

Jagchosis posted:

McCoy tackles racial profiling

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Political correctness evolves and morphs into new fascistic controls on our language. ZPG (zero populations growth) used to be a politically correct goal. Then it became racist(??!?) and today you just don't hear the phrase.
Like the Religion of Peace.
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Yaakov Kirschen, "Jerusalem Post" cartoonist, wins Bonei Zion award posted:

Longtime Jerusalem Post cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose daily strip Dry Bones has run in the paper for four decades, won a 2014 Bonei Zion (Builders of Zion) Prize on Monday for his contributions to Israeli culture and the arts.

Kirschen, 76, was born in Brooklyn and contributed to such publications as Cracked and Playboy before making aliya in 1971 and beginning his run writing and illustrating Dry Bones in 1973. According to Nefesh B’Nefesh, a private organization that runs Israel’s immigration operations in North America and conferred the $10,000 prize, Kirschen’s work “has provided a quintessentially Zionist, satirical and unique view of Israel to the world.”

“I can’t think of an honor that I value more,” Kirschen told the PostMonday. The winners, each of whom was awarded the prize for “encapsulat[ ing] the spirit of modern-day Zionism by contributing in a significant way towards the State of Israel” in his or her field, are those who “fulfilled the Haggada’s injunction of ‘next year in Jerusalem,’” Kirschen said. “We are the people who took that seriously and came here and helped to build a society, and therefore, being recognized for what I tried to do for forty years makes me very happy.”

Jerusalem Post columnist and solar energy pioneer Yosef Abramowitz was also recognized by Nefesh B’ Nefesh for his work in the technology sector.

Calling Abramowitz “the founding father of Israel’s $20 billion solar market,” the aliya organization stated that the American immigrant “embodies positive and powerful hasbara (public diplomacy) as his efforts showcase Israel – and by extension the Jewish people – as a compassionate driven provider of renewable energy development for the betterment of the world.”
“It is a great honor to be recognized as a leading ‘technology entrepreneur’ in the Start-Up Nation,” Abramowitz said. “Anglo immigrants play leading roles in the continued building and transformation of the Jewish state. In that spirit, my wife Susan and I are contributing 10 percent of the Bonei Zion Prize for the benefit of refugee relief in Israel.”

“I want to congratulate each of the winners of the Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize for their remarkable accomplishments and important contributions to the State of Israel,” Nefesh B’Nefesh cofounder and executive director Rabbi Yehoshua Fass said in a statement. “We hope that accentuating the achievements of Anglo olim will serve as a catalyst to inspire others to make aliya as well as highlight the achievements of these olim who are helping to make a difference to our homeland.”

Nefesh B’Nefesh also awarded the Bonei Zion Prize to four other Anglo olim for their contributions to Israel.

Leket Israel founder Joseph Gitler was recognized for his organization’s community and nonprofit achievements distributing discarded food to approximately 140,000 needy people each week. Rabbanit Malke Bina of Matan received the prize for revolutionizing women’s education in Israel. Prof. Jefferey Hausdorff, a professor at Tel Aviv University and Director of the Neurodynamics and Gait Research Laboratory at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, was honored for his contributions to science and medicine. Lt. Nira Lee was awarded for her leadership in the IDF coordinating humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Prof. Shimon Glick of Ben-Gurion University also received the Lifetime Achievement award.

The recipients of the newly launched Bonei Zion Prize were chosen by a committee who selected them out of a pool of over 200 nominated olim.

Each of the award-winners will receive $10,000 in a ceremony in Jerusalem sometime in the next two months.
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The winners, each of whom was awarded the prize for “encapsulat[ ing] the spirit of modern-day Zionism"

Rorus Raz posted:

What really scares me is that Dry Bones beat 200 other nominees.

The mind cannot process something awful enough to lose to Dry Bones. I can imagine a piece of loose leaf paper smeared with poo poo labeled "Palestinians" and that's about it. How can one be worse than Kirschen

Jurgan posted:

OH! For a second, I sincerely thought the bottom was spelling "you friend of the family." I doubt even Branco would go that far, but you never know...

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The upswing in the use of signing statements during the Reagan administration coincides with the writing by Samuel A. Alito — then a staff attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel — of a 1986 memorandum making the case for "interpretive signing statements" as a tool to "increase the power of the Executive to shape the law."

Air is lava! posted:

I wouldn't say it is wrong. That's just how healthcare is supposed to work, though. Of course, for young people the expected value of obtaining healthcare is negative. But at the same time it drastically lowers the variance, which makes life way more predicable and prevents an unexpected financial catastrophe. Healthcare is pretty much just a heap of statistics.

Rorus Raz posted:

What really scares me is that Dry Bones beat 200 other nominees.

The mind cannot process something awful enough to lose to Dry Bones. I can imagine a piece of loose leaf paper smeared with poo poo labeled "Palestinians" and that's about it. How can one be worse than Kirschen

Vogon Poet posted:

January 21, 2013 (MLK Day)

crowfeathers posted:

Tinsley doesn't get a day off from his 80 hour research

XyloJW posted:

By Yaakov Kirschen
Age 76

Jurgan posted:

OH! For a second, I sincerely thought the bottom was spelling "you friend of the family." I doubt even Branco would go that far, but you never know...

Vogon Poet posted:

colonel_korn posted:

Also it seems to me that it's been a while since we got an "oh no my butt" cartoon

colonel_korn posted:

Also it seems to me that it's been a while since we got an "oh no my butt" cartoon

Rorus Raz posted:

I guess Allie looked at his past unemployment cartoons and realized he had to change the script.

Rorus Raz posted:

I will add Two Bulls and Ohman to the index when I get home tonight. If you have a standout 2013 Ohman cartoon to share then it would be appreciated.

Bicyclops posted:

I remember once I went to an improv show where they serve alcohol to the audience and the tired-looking performers said "Okay, everyone. Throughout the night, we will be asking for suggestions from the audience. Please do not suggest proctologist. We can do proctologist. We've done it a hundred times. You are better than that and you deserve a better show. Suggest literally anything but progtologist, really. Anything. Please." I wondered, even drunk, what kind of audiences they'd been dealing with. now I know. It was a political cartoonists convention.

JaggerMcDagger posted:

Also...

Jurgan posted:

OH! For a second, I sincerely thought the bottom was spelling "you friend of the family." I doubt even Branco would go that far, but you never know...

loquacius posted:

Allie seems to be relatively unique among conservative cartoonists in that he actually listens to things the left are saying rather than being hooked up to an Official Talking Points IV and ignoring all other input, and sometimes he addresses them. Granted, he addresses them smugly and disingenuously while clutching at his pearls, or sometimes just with a giant middle finger, but that's a step forward from all the ones that basically make Drudge comments with pictures.

Some other examples that spring to mind are when he responded to people talking about the conservative FOX-News bubble with a tu-quoque, or that more recent one when he responded to people pointing out that conservatives don't actually understand climate change by saying liberals are still giant babies about unimportant poo poo like natural disasters. I realized halfway through typing that how dumb I must sound for praising those cartoons, but at least it shows he's listening.

XyloJW posted:

By Yaakov Kirschen
Age 76

colonel_korn posted:

Does anyone have that series of Allie cartoons complaining about unemployment where the numbers keep going down?

Mellow Seas posted:

e: And as lovely as GAS PRICES!!! cartoons in general are, I have to give Allie credit in that one for not pretending the $1.80 or whatever gas was at the bottom of the financial crisis before Obama's inauguration was the real, rightful price of gas, or whatever, which tons of conservative cartoonists have.