tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35721761106492686772009-07-15T04:38:07.752-07:00Fearlessly Fighting for Fairness in a tragic world of spin, spit and sophism. My "Shades of Gray" comic strips take on all sacred cows, crows and criminal behavior. (Not always with a favored illiteration!) "Deft analysis that deflate the overblown and irritate the mighty." Chicago Newspaper Guild Stick-o-Type Award 1984.Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.netBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-66436432133140203852009-07-15T04:31:00.000-07:002009-07-15T04:35:36.275-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sl2-O5sGlBI/AAAAAAAAAgw/5I99vm8uvQo/s1600-h/07-15-09QuinnTaxHike.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sl2-O5sGlBI/AAAAAAAAAgw/5I99vm8uvQo/s400/07-15-09QuinnTaxHike.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358648294854005778" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Click comic strip to view larger image</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips July 15, 2009</span><br />Illinois Gov Pat Quinn submits a six month budget proposal after being able to secure votes for a record-setting and unprecedented income tax hike, in response to the refulsal of Democrats and Republicans to vote on a tax hike before they know who will be filing to run against them in their legislative districts in the Spring. Filing will be completed in November and legislators not concerned abut challenges will flipflop like catfish on a fishing boat deck and support the income tax hike. But not before. Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, the <span style="font-style: italic;">de facto </span>governor, will give the word when the spineless legislators can actually act.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6643643213314020385?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-3904272591259365522009-07-15T04:28:00.000-07:002009-07-15T04:31:41.678-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sl29pKbixqI/AAAAAAAAAgo/p7cKZtSHicw/s1600-h/07-15-09IsraelWarCrimes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 149px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sl29pKbixqI/AAAAAAAAAgo/p7cKZtSHicw/s400/07-15-09IsraelWarCrimes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358647646512924322" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Click on Comic strip to view larger image</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip July 15, 2009</span><br />Israel's Ehud Barak rejects overwhelming world conclusion that the Israel Defense Forces are guilty of war crimes and used civilians as human shields during their assaults and killed anyone during rh siege of the Gaza Strip with impunity, resulting in more than 900 civilians killed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-390427259125936552?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-69175317420939534462009-07-03T04:03:00.000-07:002009-07-03T04:07:27.457-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sk3lvjqrntI/AAAAAAAAAgg/hk7sVi9YEME/s1600-h/07-03-09Mckinneyhostage.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sk3lvjqrntI/AAAAAAAAAgg/hk7sVi9YEME/s400/07-03-09Mckinneyhostage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354188137204260562" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Click comic strip to view larger image</i></div><div><b>Shades of Gray -- Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip July 3, 2009</b></div><div>A former US Congresswoman is arrested and detained during an illegal boarding and capture of a civilian ship bringing food and medicine and clothing to the civilians in the Gaza Strip (which Israel said it withdrew from and has no control over, mind you) and the news media blackout on the story is widespread and outrageous. No one controls the U.S. Media. Their just stupid, unprofessional, biased and corrupt, that's all.</div><div><i>Permission granted to republish and distribute with attribution and links.</i></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6917531742093953446?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-31497632970069019312009-06-20T05:52:00.000-07:002009-06-20T05:55:46.232-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sjzbw2T8qAI/AAAAAAAAAgI/nsS7eFKyAcg/s1600-h/06-20-09CheneyIran.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 145px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sjzbw2T8qAI/AAAAAAAAAgI/nsS7eFKyAcg/s400/06-20-09CheneyIran.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349392089668691970" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Click comic strip to view larger image</i></div><div><b>Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips (Middle East and US Politics)</b></div><div>June 20, 2009: The Republicans are bashing President Barack Obama for his cautious approach to Iran. They are accusing Ahmadinejad of stealing the election and want more aggressive American foreign policy against Iran and Ahmadinejad's government. How do they know Ahmadinejad stole the recent election? because they STOLE the election for George W. Bush in November 2000. That's how.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-3149763297006901931?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-81108695927306499432009-06-05T03:30:00.001-07:002009-06-05T03:33:57.902-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sijz-N4hOMI/AAAAAAAAAf4/sTaP6DS4-s4/s1600-h/06-06-09Obamabeginning.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 147px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343789208079251650" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sijz-N4hOMI/AAAAAAAAAf4/sTaP6DS4-s4/s400/06-06-09Obamabeginning.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click Comic Strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip June 6, 2009<br /></strong>President Barack Obama makes a historic speech to the Arab and Muslim World June 4, 2009 and offers a new beginning that is balanced and fair and built on truth, the rule of law and honesty. Much to the chagrin of the Israelis in Israel and in the White House.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8110869592730649943?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-71658469482787530772009-06-01T10:39:00.000-07:002009-06-01T10:46:42.319-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SiQT9JDjYRI/AAAAAAAAAfI/IzOoEOd0jac/s1600-h/06-02-09MadiganTaxes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342416999092019474" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SiQT9JDjYRI/AAAAAAAAAfI/IzOoEOd0jac/s400/06-02-09MadiganTaxes.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SiQSmzLYMjI/AAAAAAAAAfA/ZsXNCW3DwUo/s1600-h/06-02-09MadiganTaxes.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip (domestic, dom)<br /></strong>(also Middle East focused, me)<br />Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and Gov. Pat Quinn plan to increase income taxes dramatically to off-set a deficit they created over the past six years. Their plan is to put the burden squarely on the backs of the taxpayers and assume absolutely no responsibility whatsoever.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-7165846948278753077?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-37908426057929460662009-05-28T16:11:00.000-07:002009-05-28T16:17:19.506-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sh8bLB8Vu2I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/-CYbC0NU3kQ/s1600-h/05-29-09Settlements.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341017559398726498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sh8bLB8Vu2I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/-CYbC0NU3kQ/s400/05-29-09Settlements.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sh8aZDcKsXI/AAAAAAAAAeI/6oMwhJe8IbA/s1600-h/05-29-09Settlements.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Shades of Gray: Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip May 29, 2009</strong><br />Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an anti-peace extremist, rebuff's America and President Barack Obama, taking the nation's money but telling America to go to hell when it comes to peace and ending the illegal expansion of the illegal Israeli settlements.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-3790842605792946066?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-47953563124559017332009-05-17T16:42:00.000-07:002009-05-17T16:44:19.894-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/ShCg6zzIGcI/AAAAAAAAAd4/Zc0IvLX5Ufk/s1600-h/05-18-09journalisthypocrisy.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336942490631543234" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/ShCg6zzIGcI/AAAAAAAAAd4/Zc0IvLX5Ufk/s400/05-18-09journalisthypocrisy.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip May 18, 2009<br /></strong>The news media supports journalists who steal top secret information from foreign governments, violate ethical standards including discrimination against certain religions and ethnic minorities, but they will take a stand against journalists fromc ertaine thnic minorities who throw shoes at a president.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-4795356312455901733?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-63670233936386844792009-05-17T16:39:00.000-07:002009-05-17T16:42:09.713-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/ShCgU_hptUI/AAAAAAAAAdw/ik78kq9HDbU/s1600-h/05-17-09stroger.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 149px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336941840944444738" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/ShCgU_hptUI/AAAAAAAAAdw/ik78kq9HDbU/s400/05-17-09stroger.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip May 18, 2009<br /></strong>Cook County Board President Todd Stroger doesn't feel he has to answer any questions from the mainstream and community media, but has no problem hiring strangers he meets at the health club or at his fancy downtown restaurants.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6367023393638684479?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-35527695952319624452009-05-05T05:36:00.003-07:002009-05-05T05:38:36.598-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SgAy5upLY6I/AAAAAAAAAdo/M5G3j_50SBc/s1600-h/05-05-09Giannoulias.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332317926161343394" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SgAy5upLY6I/AAAAAAAAAdo/M5G3j_50SBc/s400/05-05-09Giannoulias.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click Comic Strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip<br /></strong>Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a former banker,s ays that the banks are not to blame for the interest scams by the credit card companies on consumers. The consumers are to blame and must become "more responsible." Giannoulias says he plans to runf or U.S. Senate to succeed Roland Burris. And will probably get the financial banking of the credit card companies and the bankers.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-3552769595231962445?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-86289683592726734772009-05-05T05:33:00.001-07:002009-05-05T05:35:35.351-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SgAyQOYVV3I/AAAAAAAAAdg/83LVQrKphno/s1600-h/05-05-09NoPreconditions.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332317213126121330" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SgAyQOYVV3I/AAAAAAAAAdg/83LVQrKphno/s400/05-05-09NoPreconditions.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click Comic Strip to view larger Image<br /></em>Ray Hanania's World Commic Strip May 5, 2009<br />Israel's extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers a "fresh approach" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8628968359272673477?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-82689623106253581512009-04-22T04:20:00.000-07:002009-04-22T04:25:42.126-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Se79w8hvkaI/AAAAAAAAAdY/AfC9J-qEozI/s1600-h/04-22-09IranIsrael.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327474426549080482" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Se79w8hvkaI/AAAAAAAAAdY/AfC9J-qEozI/s400/04-22-09IranIsrael.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips April 22, 2009<br />Hypocrisy over Iran and Israel never ends in the "free" American media</strong><br />Hypocrisy in the mainstream American news media is evident in the just outcry against the arrest and detention of Roxana Saberi by Iran, but more outrageous in the face of the defeaning silence of the mainstream media and US Government and UNITY: "Journalists of Color" in the face of journalists arrested, killed or expelled by Israel's rightwing government or by the US Military in Iraq.<br /><br /><em>Permission granted to reprint and redistribute any Hanania comic strip.</em><br /><br /># # #<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8268962310625358151?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-18489618707920604362009-04-16T17:13:00.000-07:002009-04-16T17:16:51.152-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SefJ7MzQWzI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/qBhq4PybvmI/s1600-h/04-17-09GovQuinnFumigate.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325447103274572594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SefJ7MzQWzI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/qBhq4PybvmI/s400/04-17-09GovQuinnFumigate.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click Comic Strip to display larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip April 17, 2009</strong><br />Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says that Illinois needs a fumigation to rid it of the corruption in the wake of the arraignment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Maybe Quinn, Mayor Daley, House Speaker Mike Madigan and County Board President Todd Stroger should look in a mirror.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-1848961870792060436?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-84633946605808569482009-04-12T07:48:00.001-07:002009-04-12T07:52:26.934-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SeH_Tq-eqAI/AAAAAAAAAdI/i2lVtK6JDLo/s1600-h/04-12-09ObamaBows.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 148px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323816947947579394" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SeH_Tq-eqAI/AAAAAAAAAdI/i2lVtK6JDLo/s400/04-12-09ObamaBows.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip April 12, 2009<br /></strong>Obama doesn't bow far enough to reject haters in American society. President Obama is helping to restore America's greatness, rejecting the policies of the American conservative fanatics and haters who have dominated this country and pushed our soldiers into unjust wars and demagoguery. In his meeting with Saudi King Abdullah, President Obama did not bow far enough, but in bowing, as ALL American presidents have done with Japanese and the Queen of England, Obama is defining a new America where freedom, justice and principles have been restored. For the fanatics, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! And GET OUT. We don't want your kind in the NEW AMERICA.<br /><br /><em>Permission granted to republish ANY comic with full attribution, uneditted and a link to this comic web page.</em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8463394660580856948?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-86388359787932476512009-04-07T05:38:00.001-07:002009-04-07T05:42:20.367-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdtJcHTUfFI/AAAAAAAAAdA/0g6B57upAiQ/s1600-h/04-07-09suburbanvoting.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321928132013620306" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdtJcHTUfFI/AAAAAAAAAdA/0g6B57upAiQ/s400/04-07-09suburbanvoting.jpg" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips April 7, 2009<br /></strong>Suburban elections: Either filled with mudslinging battles or uncontested, waste-of-time re-elections of do-nothing incumbents. In the end, voters don't seem to care much at all.<br />Click <a href="http://community.myfoxwfld.com/_Things-I-have-learned-in-covering-suburban-elections-as-a-political-reporter/BLOG/234597/36298.html?widgetId=93408">HERE to read my column </a>on elections on MyFoxChicago.com web site?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8638835978793247651?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-84619708390630074262009-03-31T18:13:00.001-07:002009-03-31T18:15:46.020-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdK_1UHTmYI/AAAAAAAAAc4/nCO0FaaiqxA/s1600-h/04-02-09banks.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 142px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319525032531302786" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdK_1UHTmYI/AAAAAAAAAc4/nCO0FaaiqxA/s400/04-02-09banks.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip April 2, 2009</strong><br />Focus: Domestic economic tragedy<br />The Banks get spanked with bundles of bags of billions of taxpayer dollars; the Auto industry and workers get hammered; and the credit card companies get a pass.<br />What else is new in America?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-8461970839063007426?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-9467434259954686972009-03-31T15:37:00.000-07:002009-03-31T15:40:44.626-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdKbanqAioI/AAAAAAAAAcw/CWd5tGRzd70/s1600-h/04-02-09Nowarcrimes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319484991502060162" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SdKbanqAioI/AAAAAAAAAcw/CWd5tGRzd70/s400/04-02-09Nowarcrimes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips April 2, 2009<br /></strong>Israel Commits war crimes? Where are the witnesses? Israel brushed off charges and testimony by its own soldiers as unsubstantiated, after the soldiers were vilified, threatened and denounced as anti-Semites supporting the enemy. They all backed down from the charges, the way the Israeli army backed down from Lebanon, and Hezbollah, twice.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-946743425995468697?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-62523927321809282812009-03-24T08:57:00.000-07:002009-03-24T09:03:55.929-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SckDVvjNDcI/AAAAAAAAAcc/VpG-uuu_zW8/s1600-h/03-24-09IsraelGaza.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316784507163839938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SckDVvjNDcI/AAAAAAAAAcc/VpG-uuu_zW8/s400/03-24-09IsraelGaza.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em></em> </div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips March 24, 2009<br /></strong><span style="color:#660000;">FOCUS: MIDDLE EAST</span><br />Israeli soldiers report, according to Israeli news media, that they were encouraged to kill civilians including old women, women and children, during the brutal assault on the Gaza Strip.</div><div></div><div>The soldiers are sporting t-shirts with images of pregnant Arab women with bulls-eyes painted over their enlarged bellies. But Israel's government, to play the reports down, are denying that soldiers ever engaged in war crimes. The tragedy is the refusal of the Israeli people and their supporters to recognize that while some Palestinian groups engaged in terrorism and violence, some Israeli groups and soldiers also engage in terrorism and war crimes, but the Israelis refuse to acknowledge their own criminal acts and prefer to pretend they have done nothing.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6252392732180928281?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-53518833249231386472009-03-24T04:11:00.001-07:002009-03-24T09:03:34.806-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sci_8RKxbwI/AAAAAAAAAcU/ERPYhPznaVU/s1600-h/03-24-09QuinnTaxes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316710402232512258" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sci_8RKxbwI/AAAAAAAAAcU/ERPYhPznaVU/s400/03-24-09QuinnTaxes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips March 24, 2009<br /></strong><span style="color:#660000;">FOCUS US POLITICS</span><br />Gov. Pat Quinn is ready to take the vows in the Sacred Order of the Bleeding Heart of Governess Lisa Madigan at the Altar of the Sacred Order of Lisa Madigan. Hey, even if they don't re-elect him (they never did elect Quinn governor) he will at least have made it to the heaven of state politics in his lifetime. A Plague on the people of Illinois.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-5351883324923138647?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-78851926270015259352009-03-16T14:27:00.001-07:002009-03-16T14:34:44.647-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sb7F6MgM_uI/AAAAAAAAAbs/AxlYaVeTJJQ/s1600-h/03-13-09JackieMason.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 435px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 169px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313902213923143394" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sb7F6MgM_uI/AAAAAAAAAbs/AxlYaVeTJJQ/s400/03-13-09JackieMason.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sb7EZ-Y05KI/AAAAAAAAAbk/Qht1kQ5u36U/s1600-h/03-13-09JackieMason.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to display larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip, March 16, 2009</strong><br /><em>Opinion, commentary and free thought on issues facing the world.</em><br />Comedian Jackie Mason, called President Barack Obama a "schvartze," a degoratory Yiddish word for a Black person. Rather than apologize for his racist comment, he said that's what Jews say. Not Jews I know.<br />-- Ray Hanania<br /><a href="http://www.radiochicagoland.com/">http://www.radiochicagoland.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/Sb7ET9ajkXI/AAAAAAAAAbc/1CL_itliRAM/s1600-h/03-13-09JackieMason.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-7885192627001525935?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-15758652015121176402009-03-09T04:05:00.003-07:002009-03-09T04:08:40.076-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SbT4G1vKWXI/AAAAAAAAAbU/u60x6qpLE-Q/s1600-h/03-09-09SudannotIsrael.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311142656964450674" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SbT4G1vKWXI/AAAAAAAAAbU/u60x6qpLE-Q/s400/03-09-09SudannotIsrael.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click on comic strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip March 9, 2009<br /></strong>Opinions on the edge that others are afraid to express<br /><br />The International Criminal Court indicted Omar al-Bashir in Sudan for "war crimes" int he face of a chorus of international complaints that he is leading the attacks against non-Arabs in Sudan, but the judges ignored and continue to ignore similar alleged conduct in the Israeli Occupied West bank where Arabs are the victims. Lady Justice is Blind. And it is political, too!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-1575865201512117640?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-69567030207366096372009-02-28T14:56:00.000-08:002009-02-28T15:00:33.341-08:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SanBPCDncLI/AAAAAAAAAbM/sgj9Ym_gp44/s1600-h/03-01-09NetanyahuHomes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 147px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307986099827077298" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SanBPCDncLI/AAAAAAAAAbM/sgj9Ym_gp44/s400/03-01-09NetanyahuHomes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips March 1, 2009<br /></strong>Israeli fanatic Benajmin Netanyahu, the angle of death, will soon be Israel's prime minister, opening the door to more destruction, more violence and more hypocrisy from Israel.<br />Israel's election of the fanatic terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu proves the country does not want peace, but they do want continued conflict, war, destruction and death. Netanyahu and the Israeli government continue to destroy Palestinian civilian homes, expelling them with Apartheid-like speed from Jerusalem and areas of the West Bank, intentionally undermining peace.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6956703020736609637?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-77156933770995657832009-02-17T19:34:00.000-08:002009-02-17T19:35:55.917-08:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SZuB2R-wdxI/AAAAAAAAAbA/vfKxYpcKrPQ/s1600-h/02-18-09Burris.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303975755698435858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SZuB2R-wdxI/AAAAAAAAAbA/vfKxYpcKrPQ/s400/02-18-09Burris.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br />Ray Hanania's World, Feb. 18. 2009<br />US Senator Roland Burris, a "Voice for the Voiceless." Or is that a "Voiceless Voice?"</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-7715693377099565783?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-64394643923131468862009-02-04T16:11:00.001-08:002009-02-04T16:14:37.543-08:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SYouyKoAWwI/AAAAAAAAAaU/Xr8jEFwQb4s/s1600-h/02-04-09IsraelPeacePlan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299099350935296770" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 147px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SYouyKoAWwI/AAAAAAAAAaU/Xr8jEFwQb4s/s400/02-04-09IsraelPeacePlan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><em>Click comic strip to view larger image</em><br /><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips</strong><br />Feb. 4, 2009: Israel's Peace Plan for the Palestinians</div><div><br /><em>Israel's government claims it supports peace, but it embraces policies that promote war and conflict, including the expropriation of Palestinian-owned lands that Israeli civilians support, and the expulsion and detention of civilian Palestinians banning them from traveling into Jerusalem and other Palestinian cities. Israel provokes Hamas and uses the violence it helps to create to block the implementation of peace based on returning Palestinian lands and creating obstacles, like the Wall, to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State.</em></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-6439464392313146886?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3572176110649268677.post-15847522227053015982009-01-25T19:10:00.001-08:002009-01-25T19:14:42.928-08:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SX0p3YFgyQI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/DbYqFsP9W3c/s1600-h/01-27-09AmericanEast.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295434768192686338" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RXVcpR6aVg4/SX0p3YFgyQI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/DbYqFsP9W3c/s400/01-27-09AmericanEast.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Click Comic Strip to view larger image<br /></em><strong>Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips<br /></strong>American East -- a Great movie rejected by Hollywood Theaters and releaed only on DVD this week ... Is it anti-American? No, it makes the Arabs look good. Figures!<br />Read a column about the film and its challenges at <a href="http://arabisto.com/article.cfm?articleID=29024">Arabisto.com</a> and a feature on the film itself at <a href="http://mideastyouth.com/2009/01/24/new-dvd-film-offers-realistic-protrayal-of-arabs-in-america/">MidEastYouth.com</a>.<br />Get more info at <a href="http://www.radiochicagoland.com/">www.RadioChicagoland.com</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3572176110649268677-1584752222705301598?l=professivecomicstrips.blogspot.com'/></div>Rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268228482144027190rayhanania@comcast.net0