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1. about 8 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Pastis may have had a brain spasm while coming up with today’s strip.

2. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   Wow. The vitriol here is stifling. I can’t tell if most of you are just parroting the attacks on the current Administration because of your Trump hatred, or if you’re really this clueless. Either way, apparently you don’t understand what is going on.

   Sadly, the U.S. financial situation is bad. Do you realize in the past 50 years there has only been 2 times when the U.S. had a balanced budget? LBJ in 1969, and Clinton in 1998-2000. Other than that, we’ve been running at a loss in the trillions and having to raise the debt ceiling every year to avoid crashing. That cannot and should not be sustained.

   Let me give you a real-life example: In 1994 I joined a large and very well-known company that, it turns out, hadn’t been profitable for years. It continued that way year after year until it declared bankruptcy. Even after coming out of chapter 11, it still ran at a loss until in 2005 the board of directors hired a new CEO with orders to completely reorganize and make the company profitable.

   Within the first few hours of his first day, 50% of the company was laid off. That is not an exaggeration, literary half the company was shown the door before noon. Regional offices had their leases renegotiated, or were moved to small & less expensive sites, or permanently closed. All compensation was frozen for two years and no bonuses paid. All advertising ceased for 18 months while new marketing was developed. A deep dive was taken into the existing budget and wasted expenditures were red-lined, other expenditures paused. Needless to say, us employees who were left complained and whined because we couldn’t or wouldn’t see the big picture.

   Yet just 2 years later we had our first profitable quarter. Since then, the company has thrived.

   Personally, I am not enthralled with everything Trump is doing, and I can see there will be initial pain. But I do understand it and hope the foundation that is set here sets us up in a MUCH better place than we’ve been in for decades.

3. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m the nuts, you’re my squirrel.

4. 16 days ago on Bloom County

   Bumper sticker I once saw: PETA = People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

5. 18 days ago on Overboard

   Hey, Louie is just trying to leave his daily p-mail

6. 23 days ago on Bloom County

   Oh don’t worry. I’m sure there will be remakes of each soon. Just like Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum, etc, etc, …….

7. 23 days ago on Bloom County

   Hair today, gone tomorrow.

8. 26 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   That is quite possibly where I heard it first as well. In high school, back in the 70’s, I worked as a cook at a KFC. Every Sunday night we would have the good Dr. on the radio (KMET if I remember right), and we cooks would sing along to many of the songs.

9. 26 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There has been variations on a theme with this one. Another is a slightly shortened "I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy. There is also disagreement on where it originated from. But it’s one of my favorites in any form :)

10. 26 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy