Islamaphobe Cartoon Contest

Our Muslim radio friend, Dean Obeidallah, sponsored the Draw Your Favorite  Islamaphobe Contest (you can hear Dean's show Saturdays, Ch 121 Sirius/XM). We here at TTFFIATT(IAT) can not pass up a contest, so we had two entries,  lampooning Lindsay Graham and Pamela Geller. One a professional fright-monger and the other a professional hate-monger. Not that there is anything wrong with mongers; no one has trouble with fishmongers or ice cream conemongers. The important difference is the commodity  that is being peddled.

I didn't win. Didn't even make the final eight. Dean is still my only Muslim friend (despite his error in cartoon judgement).

KS Legislature april 15

GOP stands up for individual rights - unless  you are poor 

 "25 bucks is all you get, scum! (Although many ATMs give out cash in multiples of $20) so, $20 is all you get, scum, because of FREEDOM!"

Cash is fungible, you won't be able to tell if a recipient is using his/her benefits "correctly". A person who uses TANF cash to pay rent will free up money earned at work to pay for cruises, diamond rings, municipal bonds, bail bonds, or contributions to political candidates.  (You were aware TANF requires recipients be employed). This is about government punishing poor people. If you truly cared about doing something for poor people, you would raise the minimum wage so that there would be fewer poor people.

P.S. Concerning HCR 5010 - If the Constitution gives state governments the right/duty to "protect the liberty of our People", then legislatures around the country, and in particular, the Kansas legislature, have done a pretty poor job. In particular, the efforts to making voting more difficult, the denial of health insurance to low income citizens, the shifting of tax burden from state government to local governments, and the embrace of the Laffer curve, and the creation of a system of legalized bribery called campaign contributions. Thankfully, there is a Federal government that, in some cases, can save us from our neighbors at the state capitol.