Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 20, 2011

The guy looks like Ted Kennedy

This strip was influenced by Garry Trudeau.

I think the Sen-i-tah looks like Newt Gingrich with a bad hair day.

This Biblical Tax Plan is what the Republicans have been doing for the past 30 years.

The meek will indeed inherit the earth, when they’re forced to eat dirt just to survive.

well said! and the shilling continues….

(All of the above) Thank God we don’t have a president in Oz……. yet.

(humorous) I love Cap’n Eddy!. If he’d just copyright his ideas first, he’d be the top 0.1% within seconds.

BLESSED ARE THE CHEESE MAKERS…

BTW Wiley, I’ve been meaning to tell you for a while that the cat on Eddie’s shoulder is sheer genius..No, not the cat, you, silly…

Telling the ‘meek’ they shall inherit the earth is just a ploy so they will continue digging.

Funny, but at the same time incredibly depressing. :-P

I don’t know the category, but it looks to me like the sen-i-taw is a longtime member of the Dinner Party- and it’s pretty plain who’s been paying for the meals.

(anoesis) I’m just going to enjoy the strip and not worry about it’s meaning, if any.

Yes, apart from being a really good caricature it’s also wonderful cartoon craftmanship. If there is a God he must have a plan for Wiley Miller’s work :)

Luke 4:20 says “And He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.” Which makes no sense in the context of the comic or your reply. How can you poke fun at something you don’t know or understand?

He looks a little like Senator Batson D. Belfry from Shoe, but he doesn’t sound like him.

Sounds more like Uncle Ronny’s ‘Trickle Down Economics’ to me.

Religious/political -Sad but true. So, so true … did I mention sad?

Maddeningly true.

Hey, Ghostkeep – you got a citation for that? I’d love to find it and quote it – Where is that in the bible?

It is part of the commandments brought down by Moses “Thou shalt have only idiots for politicians.” I’m surprised you diidn’t know. (Of course, some follow the Bible more closely than others.)

Remember, if the politician’s lips are moving…..

(reflection) Finally, someone with less cred than Capt Eddie . . . . . …. .☻

The only way the meek will inherit the Earth is if the top 1% die without leaving wills.

BTW, I love the way the GOP is playing musical front-runners. By the time the primaries begin, they may not have any candidates left.

I agree with pouncingtiger. I really like this strip, but sometimes Wiley sounds like a “mini-Trudeau” (and I gave up reading Doonesbury years ago over his its heavy-handed bias).

(biblical) Mat 13:12 “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.” I’m just saying… it’s in there! I’m sure the 1% would love to quote this one… no wonder the right wing conservatives are so religious! That should kick up the anthill, don’t ’cha think?

In the 80s (when most of this Moral Majority/Religious Right crapola started), Frank Zappa wrote a song called “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing” and several others that capture the M.O. we are seing in full bloom these days. About 30 years old and truer than ever. I miss you, Frank:

Some take the bibleFor what it’s worthWhen it says that the meekShall inherit the EarthWell, I heard that some sheikHas bought New Jersey last week‘N you suckers ain’t gettin’ nothin’

Is Hare Rama really wrongIf you wander aroundWith a napkin onWith a bell on a stickAn’ your hair is all gone…(The geek shall inherit nothin’)

You say yer life’s a bum deal‘N yer up against the wall…Well, people, you ain’t even got noDeal at all‘Cause what they doIn WashingtonThey just takes careof NUMBER ONEAn’ NUMBER ONE ain’t YOUYou ain’t even NUMBER TWO

Those Jesus FreaksWell, they’re friendly butThe shit they believeHas got their minds all shutAn’ they don’t even careWhen the church takes a cutAin’t it bleak when you got so much nothin’(So whaddya do)Eat that porkEat that hamLaugh till ya chokeOn Billy GrahamMoses, Aaron ‘n Abraham…They’re all a waste of time‘N it’s yer ass that’s on the line(IT’S YER ASS THAT’S ON THE LINE)

Do what you wannaDo what you willJust don’t mess upYour neighbor’s thrill’N when you pay the billKindly leave a little tipAnd help the next poor suckerOn his one way trip. . .SOME TAKE THE BIBLE. . .(Aw gimme a half a dozen for the hotel room!)

“Jesus said the meek shall inherit the earth. I say that, if they do, we can just knock ‘em down and take it back. What are THEY gonna do about it? They’re a bunch of meeks.” — A. Whitney Brown

99% of the Lower 99% percent are already in the Upper 99%.

Besides, Bible-based or not, raising the Inheritance Tax will never fly with the GOP…

(agog) By George, I think you’ve got it!

“Biblical” is simply the rich (rabbis) and powerful (rabbis) shall take the best of everything the poor have, and anything that they can assign a fine to is just a sin, and any serious offense(like disobeying your parents) is punishable by death. The taxes collected will be used to fund armies to stomp on any of your “enemies”, and take their land and resources, while the wealthy will pay less as the poor build their castles.(old and new testaments). So, “Reaganomics” IS “biblical”.

Not so much the Taliban, I think, as the Mayflower Pilgrims (and their descendants): God loves thrift and industry and hard bargaining, and while it is good to offer charity nobody with any self-respect would dream of receiving it. Poverty is a moral failing.

“It’s not the earth the meek inherit. . . it’s the dirt.”- A. Lerner

I so love this strip! Being a sarcastic sourpuss myself, I find the irony so spot on! Keep up the good work, I look forward to this every day.

But I’m already in the upper 99%.

Another strange one!

It’s amazing that so many Republicans who signed Grover Norquist’s pledge to never raise taxes are now proposing tax increases on the poor and middle class. And not a peep of protest from Norquist.

Thus saith the Mughal Pub : “HEE-HEE-HEE… thou shalt fall for it again. Capt’n Eddie is my alter ego.”

A particular irony, rarely mentioned, is that in the one place the Bible clearly talks about governmental budget questions, Genesis 41, God (via Joseph) commands a surplus in prosperous years and a deficit in poor years. Almost the opposite of the Republican Party position: W created a sizable deficit during the real estate bubble; now, in a downturn, they call for spending cuts.

@Number 6 – [Gratuitous] This is just to get the comment count up to 100.

@Dogsniff – [Mournful] While the comment labels help in comprehension, I still think there should be a dedicated sarcasm font.

(reply)(sarcasm)“_(informational) Just trying to throw a little fun into the mix. The more people that play, the funnier it gets.”_Of course. If it wasn’t fun I wouldn’t play the game.

How about a game of Tic Tac Toe?

(sigh..) too real.

The meek might inherit the Earth after the others are finished with it, like dirty laundry.

Wiley is definitely getting more political. Now the Pyles strip is infected. May as well run it next to Doonesbury, at this point.

(realistic) Congress is mired in mediocrity, outside influence, and partisan politics. The “we”- i.e.,the majority- is no longer being represented. Nearly a third of the population is at or near poverty level, the country is smothered in foreign debt, and all they can think of is “no tax increases, period; just slash some programs like Social Security and Medicare”. How about slashing a few of the billions of dollars we give to foreign countries who hate us in foreign aid instead? How about stopping playing World Cop and letting the UN do its job, and bringing our boys and girls home? Companies are cutting health care across the board for employees to try to stay competitive, and making sweeping changes to pension programs fore lifelong employees; why is Congress getting a free ride after only 5 years in office? Oh, right; because only congress can change how congress is paid. One of the laws Congress passed. Wake up. people, and smell the fecal matter! We’ve been had!

Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light ………….

Praise the Lord!! And remember, 50% of the country is below average IQ, so they are easily swayed by “trickle down.” Add them to the 1% and do I need to do the math for you?

meek doesn’t necessarily mean “non arrogant”….more like submissive and timid…quiet and gentile.

Very good. If you must quote, stick to the classics I always say.