Cidu Bill on Jan 24th 2012
Filed in Jeff Stahler, comic strips, comics, humor, politics | 11 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jan 18th 2012
Last week, a California woman was arrested in the parking lot of a McDonald’s trying to trade sex for Chicken McNuggets. Really not that interesting a story on its own; but I was struck by the fact that several reporters tried but failed to get a statement from the McDonald’s manager, and I was wondering what he really could have said on the subject. Any suggestions?
Rick Perry’s Last-Minute Appeal (I posted this link last night; unfortunately I hadn’t posted the article that went along with the link. Whoops)
The Pizza Gun (just added)
Filed in Bill Bickel, CJA, Rick Perry, politics, zero tolerance | Comments Off
Cidu Bill on Jan 9th 2012
Filed in Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Mitt Romney, New Yorker, comics, humor, lol, politics | 24 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Dec 21st 2011
As a show of class during the holiday season, the Ten Craziest Mormon Beliefs website has been created as a tool against Mitt Romney. Because what’s more American than demeaning your opponent by mocking his religion?
Now with all due respect toward everybody’s beliefs, is this somewhere any person of faith really wants to go? Seriously? Because, you know, one man’s belief is somebody else’s “crazy”: do I need to describe how my sister-in-law’s Italian family felt about my nephew’s bris?
(Let’s stipulate that some of you are atheists and that “well, all religions are just stupid” is not a constructive contribution to this discussion)
Filed in Fred Karger, Mitt Romney, Mormons, politics | 53 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Dec 8th 2011
Filed in Bill Bickel, Rick Perry, politics | 61 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 30th 2011
Filed in Bill Bickel, media, politics | 8 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 29th 2011
I understand that successful people and politicians both tend to be arrogant — and of course that would put Herman Cain in the center of the Venn diagram — but even given all that, what possesses a man who had a 13-year affair with a woman to run for national office? Did he really believe this wouldn’t come out?
And yes, I get that he could be telling the truth when he says there hadn’t been any affair; but between this and the growing number of sexual harassment complaints, he had to have realized there was a lot of smoke out there even in the unlikely event that there was never any fire. These allegations certainly weren’t surprises to him.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Herman Cain, politics | 22 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 12th 2011
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Ewww, comics, humor, politics | 17 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Oct 19th 2011
Fred Karger feels that Florida moving up their Republican primary will unfairly benefit the front-runners, and calls for a boycott of Florida orange juice if the primary date isn’t returned to the March date in the interest of fairness to “all eleven serious Republican Presidential candidates” (which, according to Fred Karger, includes Fred Karger).
Filed in Bill Bickel, Florida orange juice, Fred Karger, boycotts, politics | 27 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Sep 30th 2011
Forget his divisive politics or the fact that he has a reputation for being a bully: this week, people are discussing whether at about 300 pounds, New Jersey governor Chris Christie is simply too heavy to win a presidential election.
Yes, William Howard Taft outweighed him probably by about 30 pounds –but Taft ran for president well before the media age, before a candidate’s image and appearance were as important as they are today.
During the last gubernatorial election, one of Christie’s opponents ran an ad in which Christie was accused of “throwing his weight around,” accompanied by a clip of Christie emerging from a car, in super slo-mo, his belly struggling to stay in sync with the rest of his body. (Way to stay classy, New Jersey)
Filed in Bill Bickel, Chris Christie, New Jersey, politics, polls | 37 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 18th 2011
Liberal propaganda, sexist, or just really funny?
Filed in Bill Bickel, Michelle Bachmann, corn dogs, humor, politics | 29 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 18th 2011
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Michelle Bachmann, political cartoons, politics | 25 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 12th 2011
Will somebody explain to me why the moderator at last night’s debate is being criticized for asking Michelle Bachmann “As president, would you be submissive to your husband?” when this was a direct reference to her recent comment that “The Lord says: Be submissive, wives. You are to be submissive to your husbands”? On what planet was this an unfair and/or sexist question?
Filed in Bill Bickel, Michelle Bachmann, politics | 33 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 8th 2011
The media. There’s no legitimate reason anybody outside of Weiner’s district should even know his name.
His fellow Democrats, who are stampeding one another in a mad rush to throw him under the bus.
(I hold Republicans blameless; whatever they do or say can be attributed to pure giddiness over the fact that it’s not one of their own this time)
Every politician who condemns Weiner though they’ve done far worse themselves. And you know there are a lot of them.
The women involved, coming forward to claim their 15 minutes of fame, going into very public swoons because they were exposed to photos of a man in his underwear, demanding apologies and no doubt gearing up for lawsuits. If any of these women have ever said or done anything improper online, I hope it’s made public; and if any of them have ever e-mailed or texted photos of themselves in their underwear or topless, I’d like to see those photos plastered across the Internet.
Okay, I have intolerance-of-hypocrisy issues
Filed in Anthony Weiner, Bill Bickel, Internet, media, politics | 29 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 8th 2011
From author Tess Gerritsen: “How easy it is to destroy a man’s political career. Just murmur: ‘You’re hot,’ and he’ll do it to himself.”
Filed in Anthony Weiner, Bill Bickel, Tess Gerritsen, politics, quotes | 35 responses so far
Cidu Bill on May 16th 2011
Oddly enough, CNN is completely ignoring this story.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Donald Trump, politics | 19 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2011
Just wondering… Who’s actually paying their hotel and other living expenses?
Filed in Bill Bickel, Wisconsin, politics | 68 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jan 28th 2011
She’s drawing heat for this comment:
The President’s State of the Union address boiled down to this message: “The era of big government is here as long as I am, so help me pay for it.” He dubbed it a “Winning The Future” speech, but the title’s acronym seemed more accurate than much of the content.
No, this was Obama’s screw-up all the way: you do not coin a phrase without thinking about the acronym first.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Sarah Palin, State of the Union, WTF, politics | 49 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 2nd 2010
”Political Humorists Demand a Recount”
Filed in Bill Bickel, Christine O'Donnell, humor, politics | 51 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 2nd 2010
Filed in Bill Bickel, Cow and Boy, comic strips, comics, humor, politics | 39 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Sep 3rd 2010
Tuesday, Hamas gunmen opened fire on and killed four Israeli civilians, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank. Following the attack, more than three thousand Gazans held a celebration in the streets.
Three thousand Gazans celebrated the murder of four civilians.
Now, I understand there are two sides to almost every issue, and I even understand what leads people to commit acts of terrorism… but I’m sorry, these people aren’t human beings. Aside from the fact that feeling pride over the murder of four civilians is kind of pathetic, how twisted do you have to be to take to the streets and hold a mass celebration?
As of this morning, international outrage still seems to be on hold.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, politics, terrorism | 44 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 19th 2010
… 18% of the American public believe Obama’s a Muslim. If you think that’s bad, what until you hear the percentage who believe he’s black.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, politics, polls, religion | 105 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 11th 2010
New Yorkers, opportunistic politicians, and the ignorant and intolerant are up in arms over plans to build a multi-story mosque just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. Well, not a multi-story mosque exactly, more like a community center open to the public (sort of a YMMA), which includes a prayer room, but let’s not let facts get in the way of hysteria.
The two Egyptian men behind the plan say it’s meant as a statement against extremism, to bridge the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims. A Tea Party spokesman calls it a memorial to the 9/11 hijackers.
An upcoming ad campaign, to appear on New York City buses, will demand that the city prohibit the building from being constructed. The ads will show pictures of one of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.
A spokesperson for the group paying for the ads said that being allowed to run the ads is a victory for free speech and tolerance.
A victory for free speech and tolerance.
The sound you hear is George Orwell turning over in his grave.
As an American, this all disgusts me. And it’s stupid as well as wrong, because what we’re telling the Muslim world that we think of every Muslim as our enemy.
As a Jew, the fact that so many Jewish groups are joining the hysteria troubles me. And it’s stupid as well, because traditionally, when a government looks for excuses to single out and discriminate against a religious group, it tends to be the Jews. Letting hysteria decide where Muslims can’t build… is that a precedent we really want to support? Hatred of Muslims is just the flavor of the week: anti-Semitism endures.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, New York City, discrimination, media, mosques, politics, religion | 83 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jun 29th 2010
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, New Yorker, comic strips, comics, humor, politics | 21 responses so far
Cidu Bill on May 25th 2010
Ethically ambiguous journalist Joe McGinniss has rented the house next to Sarah Palin’s to help him write his unauthorized biography of the former VP-candidate former governor (see article). Assuming she thought of this herself, you have to give Palin points for posting a photo of the rented house online with the caption “Hi, Neighbor! May I Call You ‘Joe’?”
Filed in Bill Bickel, Jeffrey Macdonald, Joe McGinniss, Sarah Palin, politics | 18 responses so far
