REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons Jan. 27 - Feb. 2
REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
January 27, 2013
'"The new Taliban we are going to have to deal with are in Syria.'
Jordan's King Abdullah
at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Daily Beast
January 26, 2013
http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/25/jordan-s-king-abdullah-the-new-taliban-are-in-syria.html
Toon of the Day
http://Sarah Quits Fox
Jeff Danziger
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
January 28, 2013
'The first direct election of a Czech president has redrawn the political map of Bohemia and Moravia, making old distinctions visible. Milos Zeman won in all regions except the capital, Prague, but Schwarzenberg won majorities in most regional capitals. The Prague Castle was captured by the countryside. The milieu of the lower classes, the "bottom 10 million" as the next president said on the evening of his election, the villagers and farmers, the workers and unemployed, the lower employees and pensioners -- they asserted themselves against the new urban middle class. The losers in the changes to the social system beat out the winners. Zeman was correct in his announcement that the voters would render a decision between left and right.'
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(center-right) (Germany)
January 28, 2013
Toon of the Day
http://Ding Ding
Tom Toles - Washington Post
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
January 29, 2013
''You have to hope that President Obama will use his State of the Union message to speak forcefully for growth and the public investments that will foster it. But sensible people also need to rise up and tell the congressional doom-mongers that they have to calm down and end their wholly destructive campaign to turn our great system of self-rule into a government by deadline and emergency.'
Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
January 28, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-its-about-growth-not-the-deficit/2013/01/27/d71fa160-68ba-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html
Toon of the Day
http://Spineless
Bill Day
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
January 30, 2013
' So when Mr. Romney made his infamous "47 percent" remarks, he wasn't, in his own mind, saying anything outrageous or even controversial. He was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans won't take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force.
'And given that worldview, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more. '
Columnist Paul Krugman
New York Times
January 27, 2013
http://http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/opinion/krugman-makers-takers-fakers-.html?ref=paulkrugman
Toon of the Day
http://Border Desired
John Branch - San Antonio Press News
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
January 31, 2013
'This year is off on the wrong foot in the wrong direction continuing the path of lost chances to make the investments to build our future-and now, clearly, to have a strong economic recovery. Continued debates on cutting government is to have the government pull the economy down in the immediate term, and our future in the long run.
'This is why working families are calling on all elected officials to protect Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare from benefit cuts, cancel sequestration and close loopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2% of taxpayers.'
William Spriggs,
AFL-CIO chief economist
AFL-CIO Now
January 31, 2013
http://http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/The-U.S.-Economy-Is-Shrinking-Now-Is-the-Time-to-Worry
Toon of the Day
http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/tt130131.gif
Tom Toles - Washington Post
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
February 1, 2013
'Does the world's largest retailer, with revenues of half a trillion dollars in 2012, with profits of $16 billion, whose family owners possess the astonishing wealth equal to that of the entire bottom 42 percent of American families (that's 49 million families, folks) really, truly need protection from unions? The National Labor Relations Board sure seems to think so; yesterday it upheld a petition filed by Wal-Mart to block the United Food & Commercial Workers from picketing outside its stores. The 60-day picketing moratorium stems from claims that the union lingered for more than 30 days without filing for recognition, but history suggests this is just another action in a litany of pathologically anti-labor moves by the retail kingpin.'
The Balance Sheet
American Prospect
February 1, 2013
http://http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/search?si=3&so=0&sc=95470&st=message&id=2921704&xim=1&action=view
Toon of the Day
http://Globalization
Milt Priggee
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
February 2, 2013
'Parks explained that "I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so."
'That day came on Dec. 1, 1955, when a bus driver asked her to get up so that a white man could sit. She refused. This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was a political calculation informed by a life of activism. As Parks put it, "an opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others."
'And the idea that she stayed seated because of physical fatigue is pure fiction.'
'Rosa Parks, Revisited'
Columnist Charles M. Blow
New York Times
February 2, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/opinion/blow-rosa-parks-revisited.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Toon of the Day
http://Fracking
Clay Bennett - Chattanooga Times Free Press