tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post112301121894241198..comments2024-03-04T22:26:25.274+01:00Comments on SUPERBLOG!!: Is This Tomorrow?Koala Mentalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02538864881184797067noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123149482894881212005-08-04T11:58:00.000+02:002005-08-04T11:58:00.000+02:00Thanks Ash! We depend on people like you to pay th...Thanks Ash! We depend on people like you to pay the bills.Koala Mentalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538864881184797067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123145450436200722005-08-04T10:50:00.000+02:002005-08-04T10:50:00.000+02:00Some interesting comments on the comic.By the way,...<A HREF="http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/08/index.html#007284" REL="nofollow">Some interesting comments</A> on the comic.<BR/><BR/>By the way, here's something to consider when imagining a UN takeover of the United States:<BR/><BR/><EM>To put in perspective the UN's expenditures – some $1.3 billion per year for the UN alone and about $12 billion for the entire UN system – compare them with expenditures by governments and by other bodies:<BR/><BR/>* The administrative budget of the 15-country European Community amounts to some $4.5 billion.<BR/><BR/>* The two states in the U.S. with the smallest budgets – Wyoming and South Dakota – have a budget of more than $2 billion each.<BR/><BR/>* The World Health Organization (WHO), which has reduced or eliminated the incidence of a number of diseases worldwide, including smallpox and polio, has an annual budget of $421 million – about what it cost to build the new American Airlines Center, a basketball/hockey facility in Dallas, Texas.<BR/><BR/>* The annual budget for the city of Zurich is $3.1 billion.<BR/><BR/>* Metropolitan Tokyo's Fire Department has a budget of $1.8 billion.<BR/><BR/>* The University of Minnesota has a budget of $1.9 billion.<BR/><BR/>* The budget of the New York City Board of Education for fiscal year 2001 was more than $12.4 billion.</EM>Koala Mentalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538864881184797067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123052300692599512005-08-03T08:58:00.000+02:002005-08-03T08:58:00.000+02:00Most adult comics are about loneliness and despair...Most adult comics are about loneliness and despair.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of rejected design plans, <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/31star.html" REL="nofollow">a recent superhero comic</A> by Grant Morrison is full of proposed buildings that never materialized.Koala Mentalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538864881184797067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123035697158078352005-08-03T04:21:00.000+02:002005-08-03T04:21:00.000+02:00I think it's strangely amusing that in the backgro...I think it's strangely amusing that in the background is one of the just recently rejected designs for the building intended to replace the World Trade Center in NYC. Apparently their ability to forsee the future does not extend to being able to read about the present.katiedidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13248305568368727274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123018967447287102005-08-02T23:42:00.000+02:002005-08-02T23:42:00.000+02:00Don't adult comic books usually have boobs and wei...Don't adult comic books usually have boobs and weird tentacle sex? This comic fails on every level!Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512989090030335690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123018690996548972005-08-02T23:38:00.000+02:002005-08-02T23:38:00.000+02:00I think this is aimed at adults, actually. Kids wh...I think this is aimed at adults, actually. Kids who know or care who Gordon Fucking Liddy is are probably already sufficiently brainwashed.Koala Mentalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538864881184797067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9525963.post-1123013502161643892005-08-02T22:11:00.000+02:002005-08-02T22:11:00.000+02:00Yeah, I caught that too. Chelsea? Grasping at st...Yeah, I caught that too. Chelsea? Grasping at straws a little aren't we? Very hateful.<BR/><BR/>I like how conservatives act like they're the unrepresented minority when they won an election and have control of both houses. <BR/><BR/>But otherwise, this was a real nail biter! Get them while they're young. Like those Anti-smoking Spider-Man comics.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512989090030335690noreply@blogger.com