Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 31, 2011

So true!

…and we try hard to not get our fingers dirty.

Hey, my Senator is so honest he decided not to run after getting 3 sweetheart mortgages from the firms he was investigating as head of the Senate Banking Committee. He sacrificed everything to become head of motion pictures. At last, reality movies.

Either way a “Bombs a Bomb” !

Brilliant! And terribly sad.

Wiley, I don’t think you should complain when this discussion turns political. The first rule on the sign you included is decidedly partisan.

I dunno, dtut. More and more, both choices look equally crappy.

Speaking of which, Wiley, your sign is missing a line about sociopaths being fast-tracked :)

Pretty well sums up Obozo.

Careful Wiley, you’ll get yourself banished to the editorial pages if your not careful….

Wiley rules!!!

a few things are missing from this portrait …

The garage would not be a modest brick building, it would be a massive, gleaming edifice several stories tall, with a doorman at the entrance for suppliers and salesmen and a sign indicating that customers should enter via the “servant’s entrance” around back, in the alley …

… oh, and the sign out front should read “The Best Garage for the Money”, with a subtitle “If you have to ask what it costs, you can’t afford it”.

I normally try to avoid this but twright64 and FishStix have ticked me off. You guys want to knock Obama? As if Shrub was such a swell and talented choice!

Or sums up Opaliness, as well. twright. Obviously you haven’t noticed the blade cuts both ways.

Wiley:” You forgot the required MBA for the Wisc of Odd and the Night Snyder of Mi Heart.

“Must be blind in one eye, so you only see one side of the car” as some of the comments here suggest.

This one’s a classic.

dtut said, “Wiley, I don’t think you should complain when this discussion turns political.”

I don’t think he minds when it’s actually about politics, like this one. It’s kind of fun to stir the pot sometimes.

I’m betting he just gets frustrated when someone pulls something political out of every single strip… The cartoon could have a wombat and a ice cream truck and people would still find something political about it.

Good one Wiley. Love the name of the garage. nomadicus: well said. The uber partisan folks surely do display an unwillingness (word?) to see anything from any other point of view. Being stuck on a position really limits one’s ability to see the the bigger picture. PEACE

To all the President Obama haters; it’s the Republicans in government who are always saying government is the problem (must hate cars and the car industry).

Republicans say that government doesn’t work, and when they get elected they prove it.

This.

thanks Wiley

All pimps, they.

The problem is that we elect the way we hire. We get eager ladder-climbers who want to keep their job for 30 years and they end up subjugating us all!

If only we’d elect as Mr. Miller suggests that we do we’d be better off.

Arguably, our best President was our first. He was a hesitant leader who would have preferred someone else take the job, but reluctantly accepted. He bowed out as soon as he could.

There weren’t “career politicians” back then because you couldn’t make a living doing it. Now look how we take care of them! And they’ve voted themselves every single raise and perk - at our expense (assuming you pay taxes).

Then during the interview he finds out the job includes fame, odd sex, fantastic pension, medical care, writers, aides and republican voters that will stand by you no matter what you do as long as you never hug a democrat in public.

Actually the qualification is “must believe anything anyone who gives you money tells you to believe.” NOW it is anti-abortion folk, in 6 months or a year or three, who knows….

And we don’t vote third party because??????? (anyone who says they won’t get elected isn’t paying attention!)

And of course, if you’re running a business, you want to make sure you cut your revenue flow.

Wiley, how painfully true!

Saying that Obama is better than Bush II isn’t exactly a great compliment.

People who refuse to compromise are jerks and they shouldn’t be in office….

OldDude, PEACE? Now you are being controversial…they’re gonna rip into you now…

Sounds like a govt. opening.

Why must Progressives/Totalitarians always use obscenities, vis-à-vis “Teabaggers” even while they CLAIM to want civility? Or are they simply evil and incapable of common decency?

Gravity does not exist, the earth sucks!

INSTANT RUNOFF!

Actually the guy who already has the job usually wins. Now & then there’s a turnover as large 10-20%, but 2-3 is more normal. I’d like to see a newly elected House with about a dozen Parties, none over 30%, be required to elect the President from the top 3 candidates, nome of whom has a D or R, by their name. It’s what the framers wrote. Many objected that was tightening power too much in one place & prefered the Articles of Confederation, which was more of a mini-NATO, not even a commonwealth. You want change? Pick a third Party. There’s one that stands closer to you than either of the big 2.

I can see Wiley’s point… on the other hand, I don’t think a professional politician who just loooooooves government is a better choice.

trm, how about a professional politician who’s devoted his life to public service?

It’s not Obama who has no experience or dislikes government; he had been a US senator and an expert in law and politics. It’s folks like Palin and Bachmann who don’t know how which way is up.

and like mechanics politicions dont do anything they just put a patch or even duct tape (a friend was in an accident and his drive shaft snapped and the mechanic just wraped it in duct tape) and you break down again while driving away (with politicions when they have just left office)

Don’t forget: “must be lacking in ethics morality and honesty. Intelligence a plus, but optional.”

aldridgeg: I don’t like labels, please don’t hang one on me, thanks. A label is something one hangs on another so they can hate them w/o knowing them. WOW! Do you ONLY watch/listen to fox/rush/savage,etc? I watch/listen to them plus others and find that by far the most hateful/vitriolic/mean spirited, are the ones named herin. Some of it is kinda subtle, i.e.: they say ,PRESIDENT BUSH/obama-SPEAKER GINGRICH/pelosi, etc. you get the picture. PEACE!

I had a friend many years ago, who went to Washington as a Senator. He only “served” one term, cause he went there with many great ideas and high ideals. Didn’t take long for the gang to tell him “the way things work around here is…or you don’t get anything done”. He just gave up.

It is really true that politicians have replaced bankers and lawyers on the bottom of the food chain? I think it is … .

For once, it seems Wiley is supporting a conservative view. Maybe he is a car lover?

Obama wants to cut foreign imports, without providing alternatives and making it harder to drill: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-obama-energy-idUSTRE72S3C820110330

All government autos required to be “green”: http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Demands+All+Government+Autos+be+Green+by+2015/article21260.htm

Auto industry fights new regulations and impossible efficiency standards: http://www.dailytech.com/Automakers+Fight+New+Safety+Fuel+Efficiency+Standards/article21261.htm

It is all hinting at more taxes that will stifle the industry.

This explains everything! Brilliant!

WILEY See what ya don did now? We got one side screaming *^#%^& and the other yelling in upper case. We need to sit down and discuss this in a polite manner, Like those men who wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing. Remember them? We learned about it in 5th grade civics.

More like forcing alternatives that we have the technology for, just not the infrastructure because we’re too lazy. Ethanol–ten times as much from corn–can be harvested from wildgrass that grows all over. Methane from all the landfills, even farms if they put up tents and fans to pull the animals’ emissions from the air and filter out the methane. Hydrogen–all it takes is a stripped wire and two nine volt batteries to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen, and it has a higher point of combustion than gasoline, making it safer in terms of fire hazards! (Okay, pressure issues remain on storing H, but nothing we couldn’t solve if we actually tried to) As for oil, we can extract that from shale; if we switched to an alternate fuel source, the shale would be more than enough to take care of things like plastics and other petroleum-based products.

The alternatives are there for auto manufacturers and even consumers. All of us just don’t want to have to work and pay for it. But like a broken bone, this hurt can’t be healed without intense pain to set things right first. I’m not stating all this as a conservative or liberal–I’m moderate–but as a simple, logical view based on the facts. That, and I’m really sick of paying $3.50+ a gallon at the gas station. Even with a flex fuel, there’s never anything but gasoline at the stations.

Yeah, Wiley, that’s pretty much how politics in this country work. Image and rhetoric over issues and logic, that’s how too many people vote. They may look like aces, but they’re really deuces–in more than one sense.

To get viable third and fourth and sixth parties, we need to go to a proportional election system: instead of winner-take-all districts, if you elect 20 representatives, give one representative to each party that gets at least 5% of the vote, and a party that gets, say, 25% would get 5 reps.

I dun agree. then it would be pro-industry man, openly or secretly.