Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for September 06, 2011

Tuque…

Nah- they didn’t give the Nobel Prize to a “Kenyan Bolshevik Muslim with an Indonesian Passport”. They gave it to President Obama.

Mostly for Not Being Bush, but still…

OMG Ming, do you actually believe that stuff or are you trying to be funny? LOL

I think Ming should dienasty.

why do a lot of americans think that socialism is bad? we have good relations with a lot socialist countries, we have social programs that we love. we even have a special relationship with the uk who have a social state,

Bucky’s got it right.

What, no love for our northern neighbours?

God, here we go and it’s not even 2012 yet.

Because they confuse socialised medicine with Socialism (which is a different thing entirely) and confuse Socialism with Communism (which it isn’t). But mostly because they’ve never lived outside the US for any length of time.

And that’s the only and last politically-oriented statement I will make on this website. Back to the topic at hand: Bucky, they also spell it “tyre” and “kerb.” No use for Us there!

Some other “U” words off the top of my head. Labour, Neighbour, Favour/Favourite,Honour/Honourable. I know some of my fellow Canadians don’t spell it like this, but in the world of texting the fewer letters the easier it is. Even if is only one letter.

I’ll take your word that it fits. Personally, I’ve never tried it.

@trustedMechanic & DoctoonMy gym teacher used to call it rectacornea – that where the eyeball is connected to the rectum and gives people a crappy outlook on life.

As Sir Winston Churchill said, “A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject.”

Orinoco – as a Canadian I’ve never seen anyone use “tyre” or “kerb” – those are among the few British spellings not widely adopted here. We use “tire” (as in the “Canadian Tire” chain) and “curb” (hey, it has a “u” in it so it’s ok).

don’t forget Zed!

Yep, and along with other statesmen vis-a-vis politicians of any strip, let us not forget Stanley Knowles; a man for all people and a gentleman.

As a Canadian, I imploe you not to send us any more Liberals, we’re just starting to make headway on weeding them out of the vegetable patch as it is.

Sorry, Orinoco Womble: we spell tire the same as you do in the US. “Tyre” is the spelling in the UK. But yes, we DO spell the roadside as the kerb. And we are centred and go for counselling and so on…

Bucky is one of those Tea Party wack jobs. heh

Heckuva comic. True anti-Canadians spell it Canaduh.

Someone said “…socialism is a system of theft by government…”. By analogy, capitalism is a system of theft by the rich and powerful. Governments may be elected democratically by the people, but the rich and powerful take from whomever they can cow, deceive, or overpower.

Oh, my head. Not MORE political discussion on the Get Fuzzy comment section! Please, please, please take your arguments elsewhere and leave the liberal vs. conservative jabs to Bucky, Satchel and Rob. They’re funny; you guys are just deadly dull.

Back to the topic from the strip…. Cheque and slough. I also prefer the spellings of theatre, centre and programme. There’s something more flavourful with flavour rather than flavor. Then of course, there is highway instead of expressway. English is alive – it grows and takes from others. French, German, Latin, Greek, and anything else that will make some form of sense.

People here have been asking “Why do Americans see socialism as wrong” and give a whole list of why we should accept it, and also say those who don’t like it haven’t lived outside of the US. As a Californian (that is out of the US, right? haha) and then having lived in the UK for 2 years and now living and working in P.R. China (not Taiwan) for over 8 years, with a masters in Chinese studies with a focus on Chinese politics from Univeristy of Edinburgh, I still tell you, social is very bad. Why is it those who say socialism is good think we should accept it, yet can’t seem to see how we need to move more towards capitalism? I love my Chinese friends and business in China, but socialism is NOT why it works, that is what is holding it back (and America will be held back soon enough)

We Canadians love “free” universal health care, till delay times and access problems become, compared to the US, ridiculous. When services are rationed, the definition of “need” and “urgency” shifts.

More serious conditions do get attention faster — yes, the “triage” concept has arrived in Canada. Even still, you can die of appendicitis in the Emergency room in this country, while waiting 20 hours to be first seen.

Trade offs in both systems.

Another fact, never mentioned in the debate: those who work in publicly funded health care are government employees, and boy, one thing our countries have in common is you sure know it when you’re being treated to the service of a government employee. Would it kill these people to offer just a minimal degree of basic human courtesy?

Perhaps a better question, is this attitude killing patients? The rude, brusque, “I don’t really give a darn” attitude among public sector health employees is epidemic, and I suggest it affects quality of care.

Bottom line, for me, I work in Mental health — a truly two tier system in Canada. I work in both sides of the system. If the public “free for service” system were truly satisfactory, I wouldn’t have any private practice at all.

Some days, though, I’d rather enter the witness relocation program and take up snow farming.

“They’re going over there to get their coffee.” (could not resist)

they forgot colour……

NOOOO I MEAN NEIGHBOUR

The rest of the world writes these this way as well.