Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 15, 2012

“First, I must hydrate myself.”

Freshmen

Walden’s answer to Paul Revere ! The Bankers are coming ! The Bankers are coming !

Call in Bain Capital. Pull MItt Romney off the campaign trail and let him take care of this.

Let’s protect the most vulnerable, our returning vets….…….“Due to a loophole in the law, for-profit schools can rake in an extra $125,000 in taxpayer dollars for every veteran they enroll. But they have no incentive to graduate them. The major for-profit schools are reporting a nearly 70% dropout rate, they’re aggressively targeting and misleading new veterans, and then failing to deliver solid return on investment."……… http://iava.org/press-room/press-releases/iava-launches-aggressive-campaign-%E2%80%9Cdefend-new-gi-bill%E2%80%9D-protect-student-vet

But I’ll bet that that little loophole is not even on the “waste of taxpayer money” radar of the repropubs! That’s “private enterprise”.

To which I would agree. It is private and it is enterprising. But then so are a lot of burglers and thieves.

Does that $125K compare to the price of seeing combat?

Federal funds are composed of money that people worked to earn. I wonder how much of my income tax goes to idiots who want to major in “Women’s Studies” or “Film Studies”. What gives the government any right to the money I earn?

… and so we continue to let the system screw the taxpayers, the students, the future of our country. Life has become all about who can rip off the most people for his or her own personal benefit. We will all have to pay one day. It is SO not funny!

Academic reform gets my vote for the most lackluster of Doonesbury themes.

You’re either a paranoid idiot or a complete moron.

“I thought Alex was going to get rid of all the dead wood …”πThat was only Alex in dad Mike’s daydream. ‘Sides, I LIKE what Trudeau is able to do in his strip with those characters (that Alex was going to pink-slip). They enable him to make his sharp points. For instance, the loathsome Jeff descends from the archetypical character “Jay Gatsby” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s GREAT GATSBY.πI mean, taking Jeff out of DOONESBURY would be like taking Jay Gatsby out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s GREAT GATSBURY or Captain Ahab out of Herman Melville’s MOBY DICK or Simon Legree out of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s UNCLE TOM’S CABIN or Norma Desmond out of Michel Bataille’s SUNSET BOULEVARD.πI mean, wouldja really wanna dooooo that?πI mean, Alex is still young and can be forgiven.πI mean, aw, ya know what I mean.

Or both?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Would that make him a paroxymoron ?

And your chatter will prove false also, as I expect Guard SGT.

“I must away”?!

At first I thought maybe Zipper actually made it to Shakespeare class on the day they read “Taming of the Shrew,” but then it might also have been “The Hobbit.” Would he have actually read Tolkien?

Probably he heard one of the many recordings of the Irish “Night Visiting Song.”

And the GOP wants to privatize all levels of education. Is treating our school system like a fast food franchise a good idea? I expect crappy products, but a nice profit for some folks.

I believe that whole arc was Mike’s summer fantasy.

I Googled Strayer University. Now its ads are appearing on this page.

@DragonRydr

DR writes: [vets at ITT] keep getting paid as long as they keep taking classes, even if they NEVER graduate.What does ITT stand for and how much $$?

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Can someone else also expand on this? Thanks

“I am just telling you want has happened and what is going on.”πYou know neither what’s happened and going on nor could you possibly know.

Sorry dude, the Usurper was voted out of office and Obama was returned.

“One can only wonder what other Executive Orders the Usurper will sign shortly.”πYeah, but even if he does sign them — because our deluded ex thinks he still holds office? — nobody’ll wonder. Except you.

boring :o. Get back to Alex & taking over the strip

“America is not a democracy, it is a Republic.”πEver heard of a democratic republic? (I didn’t think so.)

“Mine is correct about” zip.

“It is the scope of the Executive Orders that Barry has signed that is the problem.”πKeep Goldwater outta this; he’s not here to defend himself anymore.

“… the party lies ….”πAnd keep the GOP outta it 2.

“…I know far, far” N2 UR own navel.

“I guess ….” πWhich is all you ever do.

@DT pi…Thanks for the laugh about ITT. Nobody else commented about vets getting paid for going to school. Could he possibly be construing the loans as “pay:” ( GULP)

“BArry has screwed up!”πLike I said, Keep Goldwater outta this.

“That is very sad.”πAnd keep your own status as a troll outta this as well.

Are you seriously telling me that you can’t be a republic and a democracy? Go back to bloody school!!BTW…constitutional law is almost the biggest minefield there is.

You type the truth?

“President Bush was NBC.”πNBC = “not behind Cheney”? You mean he didn’t have the back of his own VP who blasted birdshot into somebody else’s face?

“hate the US Constitution.”πNo way! Love it!

“There are no know documents to prove me wrong.”πOf course there are no known documents to prove you wrong about the earth being flat.Hang in there!

Is Sarge on the (gar)barge yet? His last post was 42minutes ago.

Y’all ran him ragged.