Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 17, 2012

Maybe he should get a daughter…

It is 6 am in DC, where Mark is, and 3 am in Seattle, where Mike and Kim were sleeping.

Mark should consider, uh, cloning? I mean, using a young woman as a surrogate. In cloning 100% of Mark’s DNA would remain his in his offspring. Thus, cloning would ensure that the baby is a boy.

Should we switch the topic to, uh, evolution? Like we did yesterday? I mean, that was more fun. For me at least. Oh, Only-A-Sinner-Saved-By-Grace! Where are you now that we need you? (Maybe it’s too early for him. As it is for Mike and Kim. Thanks, LWP, for doing the clock thing. When it comes to raw facts, you’re always reliable.)

But Garry, why reruns now, with the election a mere 3 weeks away!

Trudeau “creates” the future?

Like, if he does an arc with Romney winning presidency, then Romney is fated to do so? Obama better call him into the Rose Garden to sniff the flowers and reach the opposite agreement. To health with the polls, the million-dollar-per-minute commercials, etc. Whatta way to win with zero dollars! Or maybe Trudeau could play one off against the other on the White House lawn (where no media can come): “Mr. President, what’s your offer?” “Governor Romney, what’s price?”

What satirical content! What an outline! Whatta set of soft color pencils! Whatta set of brushes! Whatta palette! What an easel! What tubes of oil paints! What a set of water colors! Whatever works! Even if it’s voodoo! What a beautiful model for Drew in case GT wants to send wife Ann to Mormon heaven and marry Drew? The future holds endless possibilities! For the Democrats and other lefties!

“Sinner will be along today to give me my comeuppance, after all serfs are supposed to be seen and not heard, correct?”

Maybe he’ll fear to come. He seems to be motivated by fear. He shrank outta sight when I introduced evidence from the NAS regarding the Tiktaalik, one of the so-called “missing links” between sea creatures and land creatures.

I have got to start reading the posts later in the day even after reading them in the morning. I just read yesterday’s posts and found them " interesting" in a way I suppose like the German soldier on Laugh In.

Sinner doesn’t seem to realize the Constatine had the Bible written in the 4th century in a pick and choose method only allowing in those oral and written parts that he felt were for the masses. Oh to be able to see the Vatican’s library. Do you think I could get Tom Hanks to show it to me:)

yes religious clap trap is such an aggravation. why don’t these people go anywhere. there are too many educated people to waste time talking about fear and hatred and ignorance.

they have comics for the religious, those who believe in the lies and fears used to control the ignorant and those yearning to be led. no get out of Hell cards.

good question why the election isn’t being talked about. wonder what that is all about. this is good but there are so many good one to be said about Rmoney and Obama too.

lol. life in the American Empire sure is not dull.

While Trudeau can’t predict the future, I think we are all aware an election is coming. I was glad to see the prez came out swinging last night. The election is tighter than I would like, but I knew it would tighten. Romney did not score with his challenge to Obama’s foreign policy, he was off on the facts and this was shown. Obama has nothing to apologize for in that. The people who killed our ambassador will be caught. Those drones are circling and those guys are dead. Ask Osama bin Laden and Moamar Khadafy. Those folks are in a dangerous part of the world and the attack was so fierce that no amount of security could have protected them. However, they will be caught.

Ok, you marry another guy. Adopt a child. What if the “kid” turns out “strait”? If allowed a choice, no pressure to “live up to you”, that could happen: then what? Call your “friend” and whine about how your son/daughter has “betrayed you”?

One more debate next Monday. Should be interesting. This one will be in Boca Raton, the birthplace of the 47% comments…

And the heterosexuals never have children as sexual playtoys for their adoptive parents? The way to combat prejudice is to stand up to it, not to deny the rights of those who are being discriminated against.

Well, I guess that is all I have to say. Guess I’ll go back to my Romney woman binder.

My old friend, I hate to break this to you, but kids of same sex parents face no more obstacles in school than kids of “straight” parents. Neither do kids of bi-racial parentage or kids from a single parent home.Today’s generation of kids accept all of these “taboos” without batting an eye. This is totally a generational thing. The fears and prejudices of our generation are not only scoffed at by these young people but are viewed with absolute mystification.They can’t understand why someone’s nerdy parents – straight, gay, lesbian, or transgender – have anything to do with them. The children of today are far more tolerent and open-minded, than their parents and grandparents.It’s like the song from South Pacific says :You’ve Got To Be Taught To Hate !

I didn’t know that gay “fokes” could reproduce.

Isn’t that the way the very rested merry gentlemen speak?

No matter what anyone says, homosexuality is NOT the norm. If it were, the human race would never have got where we are. I am willing to say that some are"wired" incorrectly, that some born with both sets were raised wrong. But I firmly believe that more than 50% are attracted to the same sex for learned reasons. Maybe the domineering mother, maybe they were abused and reject it, maybe, it is just easier that way.

Children today have many advantages, but anything different about them make them victims for some of their peers to exploit. Why make it hard on the kid? We all know that a child is better off with both parents, if that isn’t in the cards, a relative of the same sex as the absent parent will work. Anything else is just stacking the cards against them.

Call it marriage if you like(most “real” churches will not marry them or honor a marriage done by the state), care for your partner like a spouse(that is your business, but raising children is hard enough, there is no reason to make him/her an outcast.

Domineering mothers make sons gay? I haven’t heard that in fifty years. If being gay makes life so hard, why would a kid choose it?

I’ve got an idea, why doesn’t Mark work out with the SF Gay Soft Ball League? They’re part of the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, a group that sponsors gay soft ball teams with a 2 straights per roster max. A couple of seasons ago the SF team was hot and cruised into the Gay World Series. Their championship run came crashing down however when somebody read somebody else’s Face Book page and found out they were married (to a woman). There was an orientation interrogation and they found out that D2 was over roster with straights masquerading as gay and they were stripped of their trophy.

Can you imagine sitting in the dugout and looking at the catcher and wondering if he’s really who he says he is? My question is, should D2 be stigmatized as cheaters or applauded for their diversity and why is there a straight max anyway, is it because straight ringers will make the team more competitive, and everyone else “throws like a girl”?

Watch out Mark, there are those who want to put you behind an electrified fence.

“Is that Olde English???”

I thought it was Rasta-talk, like Jar Jar Binks.

Jar Jar’s speech is irritating as health, but otherwise he bitches. Let Lucas be Lucas.

Mark, call me maybe…..