Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 06, 2015

Duke did say, “this is great, Chief.”

Corruption in Haiti?WHODATHUNK?I hope Duke isn’t scarred.

“Leasing” sounds like when the mob offers you “protection”.

It’s Pay As You Go in this world.

Ward off evil spirits? Why not magical underwear like the Mormons wear?

That’s NOT what she said…

@leftwingpatriot“Yeah, before the Europeans showed up, life wasn’t half bad.”,But it wasn’t Haiti yet.

Therefore, no?

So in your analogy, which state is Haiti?

On that very subject, the Washington Post says: “The U.S. rate of 6.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births masks considerable state-level variation. If Alabama were a country, its rate of 8.7 infant deaths per 1,000 would place it slightly behind Lebanon in the world rankings. Mississippi, with its 9.6 deaths, would be somewhere between Botswana and Bahrain.” Way to go Deep South!

You’re home, Duke. You are SO home.

Haiti did have one good day, it was the first country in the new world to outlaw slavery by having a slave revolt that overthrew the French colonial government.

@DavidHuieGreen“I certainly doubt it was ever “FREE” to leave Mississippi or Alabama … WHO would PAY all of the expenses of doing so?”.Walk if you must.Sheesh.Surely there is no charge.Back in the 1920s, Henry Ford paid the train fares of those leaving to work for him or at least hired hundreds of thousands with enough pay to cover those coming.Does somebody else have to do everything for you?(And I don’t even live in those states.)

(Idea being free to do something does not mean somebody else has to pay for the exercise of that freedom.).Idiotic ideasPeople demanding newspapers print an 87 page manifesto under the claim of freedom of the press..People demanding TV time under freedom of speech..People demanding someone send them a bus so they can exercise their freedom of assembly..People demanding someone build them a church so they can practice freedom of religion..Free means that you may, not that others must pay

(Oh, and lest ye wonder, no I am not serious. Impossible to take seriously.)

Lei or no lei, Duke will fall victim to a spell before his stay in Haiti is over.

Except, it wasn’t called Hispanola before 1492.

Those were the Baby Doc’s Haitian good ol’ times when Ethic an d Democracy where everywhere in that happy island