Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 21, 2012

Colonel, General. So why’s it whatever? Because that man didnt pass middle school.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb !

If the name isn’t important, then why do you care what I call you, General Moron-Colonel-sir?

I dunno, civilian researcher in panel 2 – are you worried about being prosecuted for false advertising?

You know, this strip used to be funny once upon a time.

Yeah, whatever!

All nations claim to be sanctioned by God to fight their unholy wars. It is a way of keeping the populace supporting this foolishness…to claim it is righteous. It is sad, and God is probably sick and tired of being blamed for human carnage.

I dropped something heavy on my toe the other day – I didn’t call it the God particle at that moment.

Evidently it’s expected that there will turn out to be several god particles, so I guess that means the polytheists were right all along.

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious…” Great quote!

The general’s face in panel two sums it up.

He has great non-cognitive skills!

That’s the part that confuses me. You say “all powerful”, yet you say he “can’t control”. Aren’t those phrases mutually exclusive?

Too many officers think they were given their commission directly from God. And that’s true for every army.

What blows my mind is the Super Collider itself. What an amazing piece of scientific engineering ! Higgs Boson aside, the work coming from this incredible facility is amazing.What it will eventually tell us about matter and anti-matter is going to be the key to understanding our universe and beyond.

Look at all of the hurricanes, earth quakes, sunami’s, floods, tornadoes, etc. Mother earth and/or God seem to keep trying to win. If we would just stop moving out of the way, they just might get us.

Every war ever fought had “god” on both sides. It is just a rationalization.

Maybe it’s no mistake that the Colonel General Whatever looks a bit like Cap’n Eddie???

. . . as TheTrustedMechanic mentioned.

Si Dieu est dans tout, alors tout doit être en Dieu et qui comprend le mal !

Scrambled eggs on the hat means scrambled brains under it. What it takes to rise in the military is neither common sense nor perspicacity, but rather fear, surprise, an almost fanatical devotion to… I’ll come in again.

A reference to Phylis Schlalfy and her statement that the atomic bomb was God’s blessing to America. I wonder if He learned after the Flood that the best way to kill off His biggest failures is to let us it do ourselves?

Mankind is certainly determined to fulfill the prophecies of Revelations. Maybe they should just call the bomb wormwood & be done with it.

It’s not the military that always wants the new “toys;” it’s the congressman in whose district the toys will be built.

@packratjohn – can vs. may

@lonecat – if physics throws a potluck i’m bringing the fudge

Your post to WDGNAS was the best post you have ever made, IMHO. You are absolutely right that we were given free will by God as a gift. Like any gift, what we do with it has many diverse consequenses. God bless you.

Very Robin Hood: Men in Tights.“Thank you Father”, “Rabbi”, “Whatever” . . .“Here’s your knife”, “Sword”, “Whatever”

The ‘general’ must be a republican.

I realize that this is a comic strip, well okay so it’s a comic strip that leans heavily on satire, but it must be remembered that most of the graduates of our Military Academies all have Engineering degrees and that they are not, as a rule the dunces the Media claims they are.If you want to place the blame on any one faction of idiots in D.C., just look to the House of Representatives, as in Shelia Jackson Lee, who no doubt is still waiting for pictures of the U.S. Flag (on the Moon) taken by the Mars Rover.I notice Mr. Wiley always steers clear of that un-august body of intellectually thinking clods.Please remember, when that five-sided doughnut shop tells Congress they don’t need this or that project, it’s always the Shelia Jackson Lee’s countermanding that decision and ordering a gillion of those worthless widgets, just so they can get re-elected.

I get tired of the politicians’ blasphemy of ending every speech for greater injustice with “God bless America” (or if they think that might be interpreted as including everything from Elsmere Island to Tierra del Fuego, “God bless the United States”). I might support “May America become worthy of God’s blessing”, but I would still have doubts as to their sincerity.

‘I have always found it ludicrous that people will fight and kill each other in the name of a “God” that is supposed to be the “God” of peace and love.’

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Not all of us do that. Some rather model our lives on a man who lived as God, and who died “as a sheep led to slaughter” rather than raising his voice against his attackers. Odd that it took a Hindu mystic to express most widely to the modern age that man’s way of non-violence.

To Bmonk:Well said. I wonder how long it will take for many people to know who you’re writing about.

I really really hope no one in their right mind thinks that we can ‘use’ the Higgs Boson for weapons. I don’t even think it would be able to provide energy. As far as I know it just provides the mass.

Shoes for industry. Shoes for the dead.

Packrat picked up on it, but it’s not a matter of “God can’t” interfer with free will so much as “God doesn’t.” and that to me is one of the things I think is most wonderful in this existance.

The RMoney bomb. In the name of Israel, who don’t want to waste one of their own nukes.

I am certain of this….Col. Gen. Whatever (Known as “sir” to his troops) Is probably just as dangerous with or without a gun.BECAUSE his mouth is loaded and ready to go off at a moments notice.

Colonel Ironass??? O-O….GEEZ!!! That made me laugh!!

Masterskrain: Strangely, I never saw any Carlin reference to the second best example of an oxymoron, even though he was appearing on campus at the time: athletic scholarship. Scholarship is rarely involved and even then in a minor capacity. The original word was athlon, the prize for which the athlete (derived word) competed. It is more honest, shorter, and should be used despite the objections of the “circus san pan” attitude of the sports establishment, for which college sports are merely the penultimate rung on their ladder.

So, General, if I make a dam out of trillions of god particales can I call it a God Dam!

Yeah: military intellegence and honest politian go hand in hand. They’re both Morons! Nevermind the Oxy!