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To be honest, this cartoon makes no sense to me. The middle frame represents both equal opportunity and equal outcome. The other two would never happen. If you are tall enough to see over the fence, you would not perch yourself on top of a box, much less seven of them. We all know where this goes next. You will spend your day scouring the Internet for better cartoons. I will spend my day enjoying the opportunities available to me. The two of us have equal opportunity, but will we have equal outcomes?

My apologies for misunderstanding you. Please do proceed with your noble cause upon supportIng it with evidence that tall people not sharing their boxes with short people is a widespread epidemic in our society.

My mom has been my nephew's babysitter since he was born almost five years ago. He started preschool last fall and was supposed to start kindgergarten this year. After a few months of being entirely at home with him while working remotely, my sister now has to go into work once a week, so my mom's been watching him on that day. But I've told her that if he starts live schooling before there's a vaccine, she just can't do that. She's 75, she has COPD, she's had more than one stroke in the past, and she had major surgery on both her lungs and heart.

How's this for generalities , Does it matter? Personally I'm a little sick of hearing stats.especially doubting we get the truth sometimes. Sure they are important BUT for all the statters , Have you sat in front of a Covid unit waiting on results of a loved one? Well I have, twice. Every stat mentioned is a human life period, For those who think our children only have a minimal risk, Is that enough or even a smaller risk worth it? We will sit here and want to cut out a cancer of a bad egg in the activity so there is no risk to not even 1 child, even the smallest yet stats would decide with Covid? Well, the stats of some perv. attacking our child I bet is alot lower and easier to get rid of the monster , hopefully. Also even though we can not protect kids from many things and can not live with fear, with this, which changes daily one has to ask themselves KNOWING there is something deadly or something that could make them very sick. Is not dying the bar we have set with some? One just has to personally ask themselves. If it were God for Bid one of ours personally , can we live with that? One has to ask themselves that because I suppose people will have different feelings. I know it sounds like preaching and maybe it is but all I know is twice I know and saw alot as a loved one went into a Covid unit and me being stopped, it's not a good feeling and so many things go through your head when it happens. For me anyway, I see stats now very different. I know they are or can be important IF honest and not political on any side but I don't see numbers anymore, I see humans .

I only drink on two occasions: when there is COVID-19, and when there isn’t.

Thinking about the area where one teaches. Can just picture parents telling the kids not to wear masks or they don’t have to if they don’t want to. And from personal experience anyone playing percentages makes me want to puke. Doesn’t matter how “good” the percentages are, if you are on the bad side it doesn’t matter.

No, that phrase is too often used to minimize the real and substantial impact of investment of wealth In our economy. To me, it’s like saying Niagara Falls trickles down.

You said it. This kind of thing is what passes for discussion these days. Shallow, simplistic misrepresentations that evoke a visceral response rather than depth of thought, actual discussion or understanding.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Practically everyone with wealth invests that wealth. If they put it in the stock market, it helps businesses grow and creates jobs. If they put it in the bank, it becomes available for loans that help small businesses start and grow, that help new families but homes, and forth. Even for the things they buy with it, that creates jobs for the people who play a role in providing those things, which is pretty much everyone.

I'm partial to 1972 😀

Is that skevinp at the bottom?

Many things regarding the ideology that this cartoon represents don't make logical sense. I don't believe these things are intended to make sense, they're designed to get an emotional response.

i say let him go. you think Lehigh County isn't watching?

Exactly. I have been watching my granddaughters four days a week from 9:30 to 5:30. If they go back to school without a vaccine, I can’t watch them after school. My wife is immunocompromised and we can’t risk her getting sick from watching the grandkids.

And grandparents who handle after school care (waving hand).

It may be worth noting that about 50% of Americans have a comorbidity for Covid-19. - - - - - - - - - - You'd think everyone would be taking this outbreak seriously by now, but these two stories from Texas and here in Ohio about victims in their 30s suggest not: https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/i-thought-this-was-a-hoax-patient-in-their-30s-dies-after-attending-covid-party https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/07/10/year-old-port-clinton-war-vet-dies-covid-complications-fourth-july/

Thank You, I don't wish that experience on anyone. Yes , we have all heard all those talking points, All I will say IF God forbid it gets personal to someone the stats wont mean a thing and I have seen others all of a sudden look at it differently. You are right there are secondary effects and need to be carefully watched. We can always find a reason why to do something OR not do something. I do suppose one can make those choices for themselves and like everything, we live with those choices. I do draw the line with personal choices and rights which we all have, if effects me or others in a negative way. We do have choices and should be allowed them IMO until we infringe or do harm to others. JMO

From the 'It's not too dark to do another run' department - Lights go out around 6:25 of the video

I liked so many shows in '99 - one of my favorites was Cadets. Loved the guard, the music and that incredible ballad.

I disagree.

Made a small change on what you posted.

Of course they won't follow. Just turn on the TV to many circumstances and see who complies and who doesn't, and most are so called adults. Not hard to pick out. Look at where cases are rising and what they were told earlier , now trying to justify

Operative words are “less likely”..... I don’t have the answers and want to see the full recommendations.... Have family members who deal with kids with issues and doubt if lot of these kids are going to follow the rules let alone understand them

Do not panic over anecdotal statistics. The science has already established that: - kids are less likely to get C-19 - kids are FAR less likely to get seriously ill from C-19 - kids are also less likely to pass it onto others - with the above in mind, it is in the best interest of the kids to get them back to in-person school for a number of other physical, mental and emotional health reasons However, among the precautions schools take to reopen safely, we will likely see extracurricular activities cut back. In the overall scheme of things, the marching arts are what we now call a non-essential business.

Saturday, July 11, 2020: DCI Memphis at The Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Performing groups: Bluecoats, Cadets, Crown, Surf, Music City, Shadow, & Spirit. Perfect weather forecast: 90 degrees (a little toasty) with a 5% chance of rain at gate & step off times. COVID-19 sux; makes one want to drink...

I never said anything remotely like that.

Let’s face it, real discussion and honest debate is really limited in today’s environment as a supporter of the cadets I’m delighted they are taking the topic of discrimination seriously let’s not morph that into quotas that stack the odds against the most talented applicants the activity is extremely white and I think we fix that mostly by returning an actual regional touring model

You’re saying then it trickles down. Mike

I thought we were talking about tall people not sharing their boxes with short people.

*cough cough* 1984 *cough*

I look so young then. Those were the days.

I wonder why! 😂

Absolutely power corrupts absolutely

You are 100% correct With that said some of the same people ignored and supported for years KNOWING every last thing about the ferret. Don't get me wrong the ferret deserves it all but many of those people were ok with everything and very much in the loop until they weren't. Tossed to the curb like many were over the years.

I clicked on some of your links, they want me to log into facebook. I don't have a facebook account so I guess I'm out of luck.

A stellar drum line can only take the corps so far if the rest of the program is waning. It was the drum scores that got Bridgemen and 27th into finals their last couple of years.

i saw both. no 87 didnt score what 85 did....but it wasn't as painful to watch

I would be very surprised if Bobby answered. Maybe a OUIJE board?

I was in Atlanta for a business meeting way back in the late 80's. In a bar/restaurant outside of the city I was having dinner and playing shuffleboard. One woman sitting at the bar overheard me talking, turned to her friend and said "Oh, a d**** Yankee" and went back to her drink. 😀

honestly...feed the beast. the more he typed the more he ####s himself

As I said before, I agree with you that the wheels of justice move too slowly, but I think the only solution is to pour a lot more money into the judiciary, so that the system isn't overtaxed and can work expeditiously to resolve matters both for the victims and for the accused: it's no good if we have a system that moves quickly but punishes the innocent. Almost everyone here seems to agree about Hopkins, but from time to time, there are people wrongly accused of sexual assault, and the last thing we should want is for them to wrongly go to jail. But as an example of how slowly cases move, I was reminded of your post today when I read something about the Bernie Madoff investment scandal, the famous fraud case involving roughly a billion dollars that came to light in 2008. One of Madoff's alleged co-conspirators, Frank Avellino, is still fighting the case against him, 12 years later. Or consider a big decision announced recently by the Supreme Court: Aimee Stephens, a funeral director in Detroit, was fired in 2014, for reasons that Ms. Stephens claimed were discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Two years later, the District court ruled against her. She appealed. Two years after that, the Appeals court ruled in her favor. Her employer appealed. And just three weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in her favor. It took six years just to resolve an employment case, but at least it's a victory for Ms. Stephens, right? Well no. She died of cancer in May. Edit: And another Supreme Court decision, announced just today, actually pertains to a crime related in kind (if not degree) to that for which Hopkins has been charged. A man named Jimcy McGirt was convicted in 1996 by an Oklahoma court of having raped a four-year-old girl. He is serving a life sentence. In 2017, based on an Appeals court ruling on a different case, McGirt appealed his conviction on the grounds that because he is an enrolled member of an Indian tribe, and because his crime happened on land ceded to an Indian tribe in the 1830s and never subsequently ceded to the state of Oklahoma (although much of it was since purchased by others), he should have been tried in a federal court not a state court. And the Supreme Court today agreed, in a 5-4 decision that split along non-partisan but not unexpected lines. What has people talking about the case today is the fact that this may put a large chunk of Oklahoma, including most of Tulsa, under federal law as pertains to crimes committed by Native Americans. A number of other convictions may have to be set aside and retried. But what occurs to me pertinent to this discussion is that McGirt's victim may now have to go through a new trial for something that he did to her more than 24 years ago.

2021 will be the 75th year of the Hawthorne Caballeros Drum & Bugle Corps. Our existence and the momentum we have worked so hard to achieve is now threatened by the COVID-19 virus and by the cancellation of the 2020 DCA season. As a DCA corps, we don’t have the enormous expenses like our sister […] View the full article

I know I know, you can’t compare scores from different shows but it’s so exciting to see Phantom Regiment in the top five!

DCI 2021 is not happening. Vaccine or no vaccine.