Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 12, 2011

I wonder what the Sarah Palin doll thinks of this?

One example of PTSD

I can’t think of any scenario where this ends well …

ssshh, Baslim, don’t give away the plotline.

Palin doll would say, "Reload, Sarge, and waste those terrorists!

Meanwhile, I wonder how Duke is dooing, dealing with XPTY, his unwanted guest?

The girls appear used to it.

Where the heck is the maple syrup?

Is it just Iowans getting the Bachmann ads all over these pages? And does it cost a campaign money every time people click on its ads?

..and how many dollars and how many lost jobs and broken houses i took to transform your boys into THIS??? Where have all the flowers gone…

No ads here in Texas, (thank the Lord) & I hope it costs them a fortune! Think of how much more $ our country would have if Daddy Bush had finished what his idiot son tried to by lying and making Cheney richer

I remember that first happy thought when they got me in the VA. “Ah, clean sheets!”

This would be so funny but it is more sad since my daddy was a pow in Korea. As a kid, I used to think all dads just freaked out at times. As a teen, I was puzzled but had learned to stay away if daddy was tripping. As a grownup, I had to explain why my children could not spend summer months with my dad.Sigh… NO I did not vote for the bush

Did Ray get a divorce?

It’s great to see the transformed BD, from the completely self-absorbed, unaware, oblivious-to-emotions lunkhead to a person with sympathy, empathy, AND clinical skills; very similar to the track that successful persons in recovery from addictions take. Is it a coincidence that Ray’s addiction to adrenaline mirrors addiction to chemicals? I think not.

Ray hasn’t come home from the war yet.

I’m moved to tears; I just remembered that “Permission to enter perimeter” was what Elias, standing out in the snow and cold, said to BD as BD was having a flashback. It was the first time BD lowered his defenses and allowed someone into the world of his PTSD. It was the beginning of BD’s healing; and Elias’s primary qualification? He had been through it all himself.

Daddy Bush’s brains mostly were in his head and he understood “quagmire” and could not have anticipated his idiot son who’s brains existed mostly between his legs. Besides the first Gulf war was about oil the second about lust.

His wife wasn’t thrilled with him the last time we visited the couple.

No Bachmann ads in southern California either.

Only two non-comics ads in southern California: One for the Rescue Me TV show, and one for auto insurance. Bachmann wouldn’t waste her campaign dollars for ads here now because California comes way late in the primary season.

Sad that so many think this is a joke, and others think Vets are all like this. And voting for Bush or Obama has not changed the war or our Country’s involvement.

B.D. may be showing empathy, but he seems not to realize that the Palin doll he brought home has sent Ray off the rails.

As often with Trudeau, he mixes humor and pathos within 4 panels. Although the end is light-hearted, this made me think of all the suffering our vets go thru, and brought a tear to my eye, for their plight.

“No matter how you feel about a war support the souls that have to fight it, as we all have our own battles to fight, they have more!”

After 32 years got help with flashbacks that “helped” but didn’t totally get rid of them, the latter 10 years HAVE been “better”. My son now has the same “PTSD thing” going on, but at least the Navy was much quicker to offer him help before he retired last month on disability (numerous). It’s been interesting while he’s home a while before going back to college, we sorta’ “alternate”, operating under different “stressors” that affect us. While the “threat” of vets is overblown, the quickness to anger is very real, and folks don’t consider that it’s typically short-lived, and “controllable”. But just as nobody comes back from combat “normal”— “normal” people scare US a lot worse. Pre-conceived narrow-mindedness is the “rule of the land”, especially among those who are willing to send us, but unwilling to say “welcome home” (please, don’t say “thank you”) or pay the real cost of their “security”.

Got yer funnies here, Chaos.

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Professor Chaos,You can try Prickly City, Mallard Fillmore, or online strip Day by Day. All of them combined do not have the wit, the humanity, and creativity of Doonesbury. But as you can tell by my user ID, I am biased.

“Is there a comic strip for Republicans?”

No, because Republicans have too limited a sense of humor. Totally unaware of irony, they miss G.T.‘s self-mockery in a strip like today’s on B.D.

An example of a humorless Republican is the Speaker, Boehner. He was stunned by Obama’s suddenly taking over the deficit problem, after the Republicans have whined for months about the lack of presidential leadership.

Can you imagine a Republican making a joke about this turn of events? All they can do is parrot Obama’s mockery: “Eat your peas.”

Someone incapable of irony or self-awareness makes a poor comedian, but they can still say things that make us laugh. Here’s the latest from Sarah Palin:

“Let me tell you where real hope lies. It’s not the hopey-changey stuff we heard about in 2008. Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it.”

Sounds like old fashioned Hopey Crosby stuff to me, drome.

Mallard Fillmore comes to mind as a neo-con comic. Lil Abner qualified until Capp died of excessive bile. Ann Coulter always make me laugh. I thought she was doing a sharp satire until someone told me years ago she wasn’t supposed to be a comic. And, really, with Stewart and Colbert nailing them right and right it’s hard to think they’d need a comedian. (I think Dennis Miller is trying for the neo-con stand up since he made so much money failing at MNF long ago, but couldn’t find a coherent idea uttered on is radio show the couple nights I listened driving home from work.

Sam looks just like her mother … same tilted nose, same big eyes…

Same concerned, worried expression…

So far I don’t see any ads (Montreal). But I think that’s because I have AdBlock Plus.

7/9 panel 2, Sam: “he doesn’t sleep very well… he has nightmares like you” :’(

Now that I’ve read everybody else’s comments, I think something is getting thru to my thick head. (I often can’t understand Doonesbury, and help from other people is greatly appreciated.):Hightower is Ray’s last name, so it’s not Ray speaking, it’s BD. Ray is the First Sergeant. I had it all backwards, so it was very confusing. BD is carrying the pancakes to Ray.Yes, that might work. Mix some reality in with the hellish backflash. Especially if Ray eats some! I lose my grip on reality when I’m very hungry, and a bite of food puts things back together again.

For everyone’s sake, PLEASE let there be butter and syrup on those pancakes…

Gee, Ray, just relax by a hmr93-17 modified and your neighbors know it is time out until new years. you’ll spend time on the flight deck and neighbors know do not make eye contact. FREEDOM causes a New Trail of Tears. Thanks for staying wifey here’s your BRAVO ZULU.

Thanks for staying MB, BRAVO ZULU, theCorps needs more like you Semer Fi type women.

Poor Sam — her dad just got back on track and now she has to deal with his friends.

Sam’s a savvy little number, smarter than her dad and her mom put together.

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