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The format of the prologue page/s will not match that of the rest of the comic. Thus far, I plan on making the next comic's pages the same as those of the first. I apologize for not kicking off the issue with a spiffy cover- I don't have one yet!
And in case you haven't guessed, it's 1982.
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Note: Issue 2 starts here. For the beginning of issue 1, click the "First" link above.
And in case you haven't guessed, it's 1982.
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Note: Issue 2 starts here. For the beginning of issue 1, click the "First" link above.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
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File Size 113.3 kB
Not that I was ever a big fan of Regan. As a matter of fact, I consider his presidency the biggest role he ever played. Honestly, I haven't seen one single President or Congress in my lifetime that has been effective in any way as far as addressing "The Important Issues" as I see them, and that includes everything from Foreign Policy to Gay Rights.
"The Important Issues" as I see them, and that includes everything from Foreign Policy to Gay Rights.
Because Gay Rights has more priority in the 80's than the Cold War and preventing Nuclear winter.
You guys could've had the same exact rights as Married heterosexual's. bu gay activists shat the bill and boo'd because it was titled "Civil Union". you tossed the chance for equal rights over the mere title of a certificate.
Because Gay Rights has more priority in the 80's than the Cold War and preventing Nuclear winter.
You guys could've had the same exact rights as Married heterosexual's. bu gay activists shat the bill and boo'd because it was titled "Civil Union". you tossed the chance for equal rights over the mere title of a certificate.
Which, I'm afraid, I couldn't agree more. Especially when "Marriage" is actually a religious ceremony that the government can't, by the "Separation of Church and State" supposedly guaranteed in the First Amendment, claim any control over anyway. Let's face it, if I found someone I wanted to claim as a life mate, we could declare ourselves spiritually united after whatever ceremony we decide to be a part of and whether or not we're "married" is between us and whatever deity we accept as all, or at least suitably, powerful.
If, however, you are suggesting that I should not be concerned with my personal issues (gay rights) because there are bigger things to be concerned about (nuclear winter), then what say we forget about things like public assistance, road maintenance and public transportation until we have these Middle East issues straightened out.
If, however, you are suggesting that I should not be concerned with my personal issues (gay rights) because there are bigger things to be concerned about (nuclear winter), then what say we forget about things like public assistance, road maintenance and public transportation until we have these Middle East issues straightened out.
>If, however, you are suggesting that I should not be concerned with my personal issues
I'm not.
> because there are bigger things to be concerned about (nuclear winter),
in the 80's the thread of being vaporized off the planet was very real and i would rather stay alive then direct legislative time/resources on civil/social problems at the time.
>until we have these Middle East issues straightened out.
since we are at war in two countries, might speed up the process, funding and finishing the war faster, bring the troops home and give civil issues undecided attention and funding for a speedier resolution. But not like people remember 9/11 or care about the troops nowadays.
I'm not.
> because there are bigger things to be concerned about (nuclear winter),
in the 80's the thread of being vaporized off the planet was very real and i would rather stay alive then direct legislative time/resources on civil/social problems at the time.
>until we have these Middle East issues straightened out.
since we are at war in two countries, might speed up the process, funding and finishing the war faster, bring the troops home and give civil issues undecided attention and funding for a speedier resolution. But not like people remember 9/11 or care about the troops nowadays.
Wow, that's...pretty single minded, I'm impressed.
Unfortunately, most of us don't have stockpiles of nonperishable rations to live on while the county's infrastructure is rebuilt after years of neglect. Plus, dealing with the chaos, since every (law abiding) physically able person, including the police officers, will have to be deployed to the war effort, will be a bit of a bummer. Yes, I'm afraid that I will have to admit to being the stereotypical narcissistic fag since I don't want to relinquish my every creature comfort I served in the Army to earn while the government puts every available resource into endless world relations disasters.
Or, in other words, you win.
Unfortunately, most of us don't have stockpiles of nonperishable rations to live on while the county's infrastructure is rebuilt after years of neglect. Plus, dealing with the chaos, since every (law abiding) physically able person, including the police officers, will have to be deployed to the war effort, will be a bit of a bummer. Yes, I'm afraid that I will have to admit to being the stereotypical narcissistic fag since I don't want to relinquish my every creature comfort I served in the Army to earn while the government puts every available resource into endless world relations disasters.
Or, in other words, you win.
>since we are at war in two countries, it might speed up the process, funding and finishing the war faster, bring the troops home and give civil issues undivided attention and funding for a speedier resolution. But not like people remember 9/11 or care about the troops nowadays or pay attention to details of Afghanistan, but rather say "its a war for Oil" when theres no oil in Afghanistan but of rather real security, stability issues with the Taliban and their war against Pakistan in order to destabilize their government to gain access to their nuclear weapons, they have strongholds 60 miles from the capital city. And well. The Taliban and Co. are not an organization i want with the capabilities of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interc.....listic_missile , so sorry if i seem cold, but if its any consolation. I myself am a homosexual and i do support gay rights. But i believe the survival of us as a nation should come first, and the legislation of civil rights second in place of survival till a stabler time arises. Maybe I'm just sensitive. or maybe I'm too much of a hardliner. But i think the scope of ones awareness should go beyond the bedroom and the xbox or what brand of lube to buy at the corner store.
I have to agree with 
leotyler89 1982 was a great time for me. The music, the economy, a 'known' and understood enemy, the clothes! I miss 1982!
leotyler89 1982 was a great time for me. The music, the economy, a 'known' and understood enemy, the clothes! I miss 1982! 
All I know about the Falklands is what I've read about it. I salute you guys for going into one of the most inhospitable areas on Earth and defeating a determined enemy. As a side effect, the crumbling military leadership of Argentina brought democracy back to that country.
Well, I was not there, was not even born in 1982 (I was born one year later) but thats how I read about it and was told me about by Brits who where there. I thought Fred might have been part of this in your story that or the expositon goes like this"
"Reagen was President, Fletcher was Prime Minister, the soviets where fighting in Afghanistan, the the Argentineans thought it was a good idea to set food on the Falkland Islands, there was a war going on in Angola, the Israelis went into Beirut to fight the PLO, there where wars in middle and south America. There was no shortage of conflicts, no shortage of men fighting in those, if it where regular Armies or Mercenaries, didn't matter, you could always find work in this day."
"Reagen was President, Fletcher was Prime Minister, the soviets where fighting in Afghanistan, the the Argentineans thought it was a good idea to set food on the Falkland Islands, there was a war going on in Angola, the Israelis went into Beirut to fight the PLO, there where wars in middle and south America. There was no shortage of conflicts, no shortage of men fighting in those, if it where regular Armies or Mercenaries, didn't matter, you could always find work in this day."
The only thing i see in the information provided is that you believe capitalism, and Free trade-open borders (NAFTA) (sometimes undermines economies-While this is a case by case basis) is bad. If you are not Maxist. And want the means of production in the hands of the government. then what are you?
Summarising neoliberalism
To conclude, here are summaries of neoliberalism in two forms. First a list of key points in neoliberalism:
transaction maximalisation
maximalisation of volume of transactions ('global flows')
contract maximalisation
supplier/contractor maximalisation
conversion of most social acts into market transactions
artificial maximalisation of competition and stress
creation of quasi-markets
reduction of inter-transaction interval
maximalisation of parties to each transaction
maximalisation of reach and effect of each transaction
maximalisation of hire/fire transactions in the labour market (nominal turnover)
maximalisation of assessment factors, by which compliance with a contract is measured
reduction of the inter-assessment interval
creation of exaggerated or artificial assessment norms ('audit society')
A final summary definition of neoliberalism as a philosophy is this:
Neoliberalism is a philosophy in which the existence and operation of a market are valued in themselves, separately from any previous relationship with the production of goods and services, and without any attempt to justify them in terms of their effect on the production of goods and services; and where the operation of a market or market-like structure is seen as an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action, and substituting for all previously existing ethical beliefs.
I take it you wear a che geuvara shirt and study political science?
To conclude, here are summaries of neoliberalism in two forms. First a list of key points in neoliberalism:
transaction maximalisation
maximalisation of volume of transactions ('global flows')
contract maximalisation
supplier/contractor maximalisation
conversion of most social acts into market transactions
artificial maximalisation of competition and stress
creation of quasi-markets
reduction of inter-transaction interval
maximalisation of parties to each transaction
maximalisation of reach and effect of each transaction
maximalisation of hire/fire transactions in the labour market (nominal turnover)
maximalisation of assessment factors, by which compliance with a contract is measured
reduction of the inter-assessment interval
creation of exaggerated or artificial assessment norms ('audit society')
A final summary definition of neoliberalism as a philosophy is this:
Neoliberalism is a philosophy in which the existence and operation of a market are valued in themselves, separately from any previous relationship with the production of goods and services, and without any attempt to justify them in terms of their effect on the production of goods and services; and where the operation of a market or market-like structure is seen as an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action, and substituting for all previously existing ethical beliefs.
I take it you wear a che geuvara shirt and study political science?
These are disturbingly good and immediately recognizable.
And yeah, the poor li'l Carter administration, or "Gee, I know America has been all civitas Romanis sum and inclined to kick ass and take names when anyone started messing with its people, but since I'm here in the Oval Office and half a hundred Americans have been kidnapped by an outlaw regime, I think I'll just roll over and wet myself on the world evening news. For the next hundred days. Tune in tomorrow when I'll do it again."
Peanut was nominally good for the educational system, and a few other at-home policies, but at foreign policy he seemed to specialize in fomenting feel-good treaties with no teeth. Admittedly, he has accomplished a great deal more since he left office.
Ronnie was a definite improvement in terms of foreign policy. The shrub tried to copy him (Word for word in many cases! can you say "I have authorized a pre-emptive strike" boys and girls? I knew you could.) but was never anything but a pale shadow of the Gipper.
And yeah, the poor li'l Carter administration, or "Gee, I know America has been all civitas Romanis sum and inclined to kick ass and take names when anyone started messing with its people, but since I'm here in the Oval Office and half a hundred Americans have been kidnapped by an outlaw regime, I think I'll just roll over and wet myself on the world evening news. For the next hundred days. Tune in tomorrow when I'll do it again."
Peanut was nominally good for the educational system, and a few other at-home policies, but at foreign policy he seemed to specialize in fomenting feel-good treaties with no teeth. Admittedly, he has accomplished a great deal more since he left office.
Ronnie was a definite improvement in terms of foreign policy. The shrub tried to copy him (Word for word in many cases! can you say "I have authorized a pre-emptive strike" boys and girls? I knew you could.) but was never anything but a pale shadow of the Gipper.
I never met a competent president.
I have met a few that were competent at a few things, but every single one seems to have had their terrible blind spot. Congresses have them, too. The worst combination (and it has happened) is when the blind spots matched, and the nation went cartwheeling right into it with everyone in reach of the wheel in total denial. There have arguably been years when the ship of state had both a good captain AND a good crew, but they are few and far between...And we tend to look upon those years as being 'Well, that was a non-controversial presidency, not so much happened.' Perhaps. Or perhaps it was a presidency and congress that met the needs of its time...And did not involve itself in any particularly memorably shenanigans.
That's why I am sort of pointing things out in the context of "fail mode in this aspect, not so terrible over here".
It's a shame that, due to the circumstances of the time, Obama is most likely going to be remember for his skin color, the Macondo blowout, and the economy not fixing itself while he's in office. People love to lay that sort of thing at the president's feet. There happen to be just a few more folks involved in it -- a few hundred million -- and as best we can tell the results tend to trail the actions by several years. So most presidents get blamed for economic fallout created by their predecessors.
"They don't make people like the popular myth of JFK anymore." - Jello Biafra
I have met a few that were competent at a few things, but every single one seems to have had their terrible blind spot. Congresses have them, too. The worst combination (and it has happened) is when the blind spots matched, and the nation went cartwheeling right into it with everyone in reach of the wheel in total denial. There have arguably been years when the ship of state had both a good captain AND a good crew, but they are few and far between...And we tend to look upon those years as being 'Well, that was a non-controversial presidency, not so much happened.' Perhaps. Or perhaps it was a presidency and congress that met the needs of its time...And did not involve itself in any particularly memorably shenanigans.
That's why I am sort of pointing things out in the context of "fail mode in this aspect, not so terrible over here".
It's a shame that, due to the circumstances of the time, Obama is most likely going to be remember for his skin color, the Macondo blowout, and the economy not fixing itself while he's in office. People love to lay that sort of thing at the president's feet. There happen to be just a few more folks involved in it -- a few hundred million -- and as best we can tell the results tend to trail the actions by several years. So most presidents get blamed for economic fallout created by their predecessors.
"They don't make people like the popular myth of JFK anymore." - Jello Biafra
So far this has been a fantastic comic, I really hope it is not going to become overtly political because I'd be much less motivated to read it then. The whole internet is already one protracted, exhausting political squabble and I hope that doesn't spill over into my furry cartoons.
Okay, I'll say it, I admired Thatcher as a prime minister. I think some mistakes were made - not providing jobs or suitable retraining for displaced and unemployed miners being a big one - but on the whole she stuck to her guns, wasn't afraid to state her policies openly and didn't put up with any crap. She was followed up by John Major, so forgettable a man that we all remember him but realy, anyone following in the wake of Lady Thatcher is going to seem insignificant.
My liberal friends hate that I admire Thatcher. I'm not a Thatcher supporter by any means, but as a politician she instilled a confidence that one knew what one was getting.
Also, I think you got these two political leaders absolutely spot on.
My liberal friends hate that I admire Thatcher. I'm not a Thatcher supporter by any means, but as a politician she instilled a confidence that one knew what one was getting.
Also, I think you got these two political leaders absolutely spot on.
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