Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for February 05, 2017

Check out today’s “Pearls Before Swine.”

“How to Serve Mankind”

The tv series “Colony” have aliens who conquered Earth and use huge walls to section out living places and live under brutal occupation. I do wonder why they are doing it all.

There must be a copy of ‘To Serve Man’ in there somewhere. Is man really a farm to table product, anyhow?

In Canada, we don’t want to keep out Americans, we want to keep out the rump supporters.

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies aboveDon’t fence me inLet me ride in the wide open country I loveDon’t fence me inLet me be by myself in the evening breezeAnd listen to the murmur of the cottonwood treesSend me off forever, but I ask you pleaseDon’t fence me in

Just turn me looseLet me straddle my old saddleUnderneath the western skyLet me wander over yonder’Til I see the mountains rise

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commencesGaze at the moon until I lose my sensesCan’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fences

Don’t fence me in

Just turn me looseLet me straddle my old saddleUnderneath the western skyLet me wander over yonder’Til I see the mountains rise

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commencesGaze at the moon until I lose my sensesCan’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fencesDon’t fence me in

Don’t fence me in, don’t fence me inDon’t fence me, don’t fence me, don’t fence me in

Soylent green is us,…….or something like that.

Mexico promised to build a tunnel.

This is silly. We’ve already plumped ourselves.

So what’s the deal with the Snapple thing anyways? I’m sure there’s some inside joke or social commentary about it that I don’t understand.

“Gluten-Free” is a trick to make us more palatable to the gluten intolerant Plutonians.

Binders, fillers, artificial coloring, and mono-sodium glutamate are fine.

Ask the Chinese how well that wall idea went to keep out the invaders

So in other words, Trump wants to turn us into Japan from about 1600 to about 1850. Keep all of the insiders in and keep all of the outsiders out. Effectively cutting off all trade and diplomacy, which I believe is exactly the wrong way to make America great again. Of course this is ridiculous. Trump traded and dealt with overseas companies regularly before he became President and he’ll continue to do so even today. The purpose of the wall and the immigration restrictions are in his perspective a means of housecleaning in preparation for a reformed immigration policy.Do I think all of this is a good idea? No. First and foremost it is a very unilateral policy that goes against the ideals of liberty and democracy this nation was founded upon. Many a dictator/authoritarian has made similar radical social reform policies with the initial goal of public welfare (Hitler’s breeding of a “master race,” Mao’s Social Revolution, Apartheid in South Africa). Such policies seemed innocent and controllable at first but as protests against these policies (and in a deeper sense against the denial of public input concerning the implementation of these policies), governments fell into the trap of suppressing protestors and rebels and becoming tyrannies.

Well, the jokes on Pluto… By keeping others out, they’re seriously limiting the food supply.

Maybe. To Serve Man is the obvious, and Soylent Green is only another step. But what if it’s only the beginning of a long-term Plutonian social experiment?

Learn to get along! Are you kidding?

Let me outta here!

Resistance is futile. If you are not assimilated, then you will be absorbed. We are Borg. Keep staring at your smart phones for more details while you ignore your surroundings and the people around you.

Uh, I mean, get religious with states’ rights.

Seriously where and what is “to serve man” come from?

Bunch of turkeys is right….when the wall goes up blocking Canada I intend to be on the other side of it.

They put a heart on the planet so we’d think they’re our friends.

(I copied this from my reply above, which, at this point, may have been missed). From the story by Damon Knight, published in 1950 in Analog SF (or was it still Astounding SF – I can’t remember). My collection, from the late 1940s to about 1995, has disappeared in one of the many moves since then—sigh!

PAM MINER- “to serve man” is taken from an episode of “Twilight Zone”, about aliens eating humans after telling them that the were here to help

Why have we seen the same strip 4 days in a row now?

And it has stopped updating again.

Wait, there’s still more space dust on here…