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1. 1 day ago on Back in the Day

   Reminds me of a sweet little 1966 CBS holiday treat: can’t fool the link censor, but for a fun bit, search this: “R.O BLECHMAN CBS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 1966”

2. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   We are speculating he is in another room, chatting with Goldie.

3. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   It is a flash forward to when everyone is older.

4. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m not sure that would be it? Unless she said so in the talk. Georgia promised that, in the strip, none of the characters would cross the bridge.

5. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   It’s a special “flash forward”

6. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   And, Well, except for usurping/displacing/killing those pesky Native Americans who were making use of the land before them…

7. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Yeah, it was really a rhetorical question to demonstrate, that if the MAJORITY of people voted in elections a religious MINORITY would not be wielding so much power. But thanks for those insights.

   And just to clarify a point, there is a vast difference between “protestant” which simply refers to any group that sprang up after Luther, so involves pretty much anyone who isn’t Catholic. And “evangelicals” who are a small sect broken off from main-stream protestants, and even other old style “Good News” EVs.

   The new brand, although they claim lip service, eschew the actual teachings of Jesus and elevated themselves to be the deciders of right and wrong. They following false and deceptive teachings of certain manipulative leaders.

   It’s interesting that many news organizations no longer refer to them as “Christian” Evangelicals. This is because these groups are driving a solely political agenda that is no longer rooted in Christian tenets. In reality, they preach/support/enact ideas that are entirely antithetical to Christianity or the Bible.

   They promote an attractive, yet fascist, “us vs them” worldview, demonizing the very groups that Jesus told us to love and care for, celebrating and valuing wealth and preserving “what is theirs” over caring for the poor and ill, sowing anger and war over seeking reconciliation, following false idols, etc.

   They may meet in large halls, sing songs about God, say prayers, and hear speeches in the guise of sermons, but they are a politics-based cult, not a God/Jesus/Holy Spirit grounded church.

   These groups had always been around in small numbers, un-influential on a national scale. The Moral Majority created an opening and the explosion of the internet shortly after let them reach far beyond their walls.

   Their shallow, fascist, ideas are now being amplified by other parties who are interested in destabilizing America for reasons entirely unrelated to spirituality or saving our souls. And it worked.

8. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Nod, agreed. What confuses me, is the research shows that now over 70% of Americans are unchurched… so how the heck are a handful of of a religious minority, gain so much power over how the country is run? Maybe the 70% of the population needs to wake up and as they say, “Just say no.” Too bad for all of us, they just slept through another chance to defeat nazi fascism on US soil.

9. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

   Somber nod.

10. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

    Not for the women for sure. The stories are getting worse and worse… keeps going this way and pretty soon they will be back to being confined to windowless rooms their whole lives. Except for the day they are handed off to serve another family in “marriage.” All because those poor delicate Taliban men decide they can’t suffer the spiritual risk of being carnally enflamed by the simple sight of one. Gee, somehow the rest of the entire planet manages to live with women “right out in the open!” with faces, arms, and legs showing, and life goes on.