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Fluffy Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 01/09/2015 14:21:02

This week there was a horrific tragedy in France. Not like there aren't horrific things going on all over the world, but this one caught everyone's attention. It was a pointed attack on the idea of free expression and to some extent freedom of the press. Not sure if most American's realize that these are some things that are held sacred in more places then just here.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo was shocking. It made me curious about the publication so I kind of skimmed around the internet to see why it was considered so offensive that it made three people plan out a violent attack against cartoonists. What I saw was that Charlie Hebdo seemed to be an equal opportunity offender making jests at a lot of sacred cows. And maybe its me, that I don't speak or read French, but I don't get French humor.

Its no T-Rex cartoon, which just makes me giggle uncontrollably.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/085/1/b/unstoppable_t_rex_by_psycho_the_wolfalien-d5ze23f.jpg

(I don't know why this makes me laugh, its stupid, but seriously how is that not funny!)

Anyway... Its more the response by other political cartoonists, and the public in general, that I've found very poignant. Some of it is a mixed bag of racism and hate but others have just made me cry because I still see hope out there.

http://media.cagle.com/47/2015/01/08/158409_600.jpg


http://media.cagle.com/83/2015/01/08/158443_600.jpg


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6yDwWrCMAAfOJS.jpg


The pen is still mightier then the sword.

Mala
 

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Comment by BobR on 01/09/2015 14:26:59
Those are all great political cartoons Mala - thanks!

Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 14:30:12
Morning

Thanks. I wanted to find the really positive ones. The ugly ones just hurt my soul.

Comment by Scoopster on 01/09/2015 14:31:36
Mornin' all & Happy Fridee!

Yeah those are all great ones. The Banksy one in particular really got me.

Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 14:42:00
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all & Happy Fridee!

Yeah those are all great ones. The Banksy one in particular really got me.



Haven't seen Banksy's yet, he/she's been sharing a lot of them on twitter.

Comment by Scoopster on 01/09/2015 14:45:11
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all & Happy Fridee!

Yeah those are all great ones. The Banksy one in particular really got me.

Haven't seen Banksy's yet, he/she's been sharing a lot of them on twitter.

Wait I thought his was the pencils?

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 14:45:27
Good Morning. There is a tear in my eye this morning.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 14:47:40
Hola mi amigos. Que tal?

Comment by Scoopster on 01/09/2015 14:51:40
On Wednesday, just one day after being inaugurated, (RI) Gov. (Gina) Raimondo told Bill Rappleye of NBC 10, "[Legalizing marijuana] is absolutely something that we should evaluate, because if we think it's inevitable, and if there's a way to do it that is properly regulated so people don't get hurt, then it's something we should look at."



Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 14:53:35
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all & Happy Fridee!

Yeah those are all great ones. The Banksy one in particular really got me.

Haven't seen Banksy's yet, he/she's been sharing a lot of them on twitter.

Wait I thought his was the pencils?



he tweeted it from Lucille Clerc

Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 14:54:13
Quote by Raine:
Good Morning. There is a tear in my eye this morning.


It was the T-Rex wasn't it.


Comment by TriSec on 01/09/2015 14:55:30
A rare ocassion where TRMS has gone stale overnight...the situation is too fluid. Back to the BBC.

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 15:11:48
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Good Morning. There is a tear in my eye this morning.


It was the T-Rex wasn't it.

yeah….

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 15:12:13
Quote by TriSec:
A rare ocassion where TRMS has gone stale overnight...the situation is too fluid. Back to the BBC.

I expect that situation to be the swami today.

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 15:12:39
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all & Happy Fridee!

Yeah those are all great ones. The Banksy one in particular really got me.

Haven't seen Banksy's yet, he/she's been sharing a lot of them on twitter.

Wait I thought his was the pencils?



he tweeted it from Lucille Clerc
Ahhh… Thanks.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 16:34:54


Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 16:41:48
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 16:46:14
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.

Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 16:50:31
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state


Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 16:57:12
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state



Why do you ask?


Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 16:57:50
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state



Why do you ask?



Florida story on Steph show - apparently gators can be traded for beer.

Comment by TriSec on 01/09/2015 17:08:18
"Too bad we couldn't take the bastard(s) alive." - Stalin

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 17:10:39
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state



Why do you ask?



Florida story on Steph show - apparently gators can be traded for beer.



Oh, that was Florida Man. He is always up to something zany.

Comment by wickedpam on 01/09/2015 17:32:13
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state



Why do you ask?



Florida story on Steph show - apparently gators can be traded for beer.



Oh, that was Florida Man. He is always up to something zany.


He is downright colorful.


Comment by Scoopster on 01/09/2015 17:36:33
Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 17:48:26
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Mondo? Can you confirm that alligators are currency in Florida?



Maybe, somewhere.


Good to know next time I'm in the state



Why do you ask?



Florida story on Steph show - apparently gators can be traded for beer.



Oh, that was Florida Man. He is always up to something zany.


He is downright colorful.



He's got his own Twitter account after all.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 17:54:25
Comment by TriSec on 01/09/2015 18:09:40
I wonder if Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Salt Lake City opened up a whinebag as big as this city's when their bids were approved?

Comment by trojanrabbit on 01/09/2015 18:29:28
Quote by TriSec:
I wonder if Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Salt Lake City opened up a whinebag as big as this city's when their bids were approved?

Boston can barely support the traffic it has, add another 10 years of infrastructure deterioration.....

A lot will depend on what facilities will have to be built (and abandoned afterwards). Given the issues getting CMGI/Gillette and "Boston Garden" built and trying to make a 100 year old stadium work for baseball, I don't see how it gets done.

I guess we should be afraid, Mitt can ride in and save us all again.

You can call it whining, I call it being a practical Masshole.

ETA. Most of the proposal does center around using current venues but having a TEMPORARY venue built for the ceremonies.

Soccer in FoxboroUGH.....guess there's quite a few days I shouldn't plan on leaving home.

Comment by livingonli on 01/09/2015 19:01:50
Good day, everyone. We got 2 inches of snow this morning and I can't take this cold anymore and there's still 2 and a half months to go.

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 19:37:20
http://i.imgur.com/PAjVI8W.jpg



Butt Pug


Comment by Scoopster on 01/09/2015 19:39:10


Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 19:46:56
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You can't un-see that, Scoop. It happened.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 01/09/2015 19:59:35
Hi, everyone!!

I am home today, as my school closed again. (Only two days of instruction this week.)

It looks like I will be back on Monday, based on the weather forecasts.

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 20:01:10
Hola! back from errands!

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 20:03:15
Quote by trojanrabbit:
Quote by TriSec:
I wonder if Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or Salt Lake City opened up a whinebag as big as this city's when their bids were approved?

Boston can barely support the traffic it has, add another 10 years of infrastructure deterioration.....

A lot will depend on what facilities will have to be built (and abandoned afterwards). Given the issues getting CMGI/Gillette and "Boston Garden" built and trying to make a 100 year old stadium work for baseball, I don't see how it gets done.

I guess we should be afraid, Mitt can ride in and save us all again.

You can call it whining, I call it being a practical Masshole.

ETA. Most of the proposal does center around using current venues but having a TEMPORARY venue built for the ceremonies.

Soccer in FoxboroUGH.....guess there's quite a few days I shouldn't plan on leaving home.
It's really too bad that DC didn't get the nod, there infrastructure is here four the most part.

Congrats to Boston!

Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 20:22:21
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8764/1259268-the_explosion_walk.jpg


How I, Mondo, feel about my last post.


Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 20:38:16
Quote by Mondobubba:
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8764/1259268-the_explosion_walk.jpg


How I, Mondo, feel about my last post.



Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 20:46:29
How Do You Describe Boehner’s Tan? Ask Sherwin-Williams.







Speaker John A. Boehner had an eventful week: suffering an uprising against his re-election as speaker, defending Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, over a 2002 speech to a white supremacist group, laying out the congressional response to President Obama’s immigration action, and showcasing a very deep winter-recess tan burnished at his new condominium in Marco Island, Fla.

Yes, his tan, which has been much commented on, is a hue we at First Draft have rarely seen. So we decided to investigate.

Using the handy Sherwin-Williams Color Visualizer, we uploaded a high-resolution, tightly cropped picture of the speaker from a news conference this week.

Unfortunately, none of the colors we were able to identify using Photoshop’s eyedropper tool were a direct match in the Sherwin-Williams database of paint colors.

But the Color Visualizer found us the closest matches: “Spicy Hue” and “Husky Orange,” the latter of which fits nicely with Mr. Boehner’s recent description of himself: “I am not a squish.”

“I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin,” Mr. Boehner said, as Husky Orange as it may be.


Comment by Mondobubba on 01/09/2015 21:30:11
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8764/1259268-the_explosion_walk.jpg


How I, Mondo, feel about my last post.




Raine, when I first saw the Butt Pug, I laughed so hard I turned red.

Comment by Raine on 01/09/2015 22:39:48
Comment by Raine on 01/10/2015 01:06:08