For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 09, 2012

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    MAC45  over 11 years ago

    Big boys need bigger toys.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 11 years ago

    This is also why Christopher’s mother disallows toys that promote violence.

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    Deezlebird  over 11 years ago

    I don’t know who Lynn has worked with in the past, but I once had the opportunity to work in an all-female office and ran screaming from the interview. I don’t know why people assume that women would make for such a perfect world. Plus far too women decide with their heart rather than logic (and I am sometimes guilty of that as well), and don’t realize all the repercussions of some decisions. Not saying men are perfect, either—just that neither gender is.

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    michelledavis  over 11 years ago

    war is not fun. it is horrible…we have a huge chance of nuclear war within our life times. wow lynn…this is an appalling message

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    techson1  over 11 years ago

    No, war is not fun, Killing is not always the answer. BUT…I think Lynn has hit the nail on the head here. The boys are outside playing instead of sitting on the couch rotting their brains! As kids, we played war games too and in it most subliminal manner, it honed our social skills, taught us to work together, improved our tactical skills not only for fighting and playing , but for daily observations needed to get through life! Kudos Lynn!

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    or Golda Meir or …

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    serenasakitty  over 11 years ago

    War must be fun. Otherwise why would everyone use any excuse or no excuse to get to the fighting?In case anyone is wondering I do not approve of war. I think it is a stupid way to settle differences. Why has no one come up with a better way in all the millenia that humans have been on this planet?Ok, I’ll get off the soap box now.

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    MamaCass67  over 11 years ago

    Hillary in 2016!

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    Train 1911  over 11 years ago

    what hell that mean

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    pocoskip  over 11 years ago

    Boys are wired for aggressive behavior. It’s one reason the species survives. Yep, it can be bad if not controlled. But if attempts are made to eliminate it, the aggression simply comes out in other unpleasant ways. And if it is ever bred out of the species we are doomed. For societies/civilizations collapse and it is the aggressiveness that allows survival Much easier for all when it’s properly channeled…

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    Kadedee  over 11 years ago

    If there were o toy guns, boys and girls would use sticks as guns. Man has used weapons of one kind or another since time began.

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    IndyMan  over 11 years ago

    And what was wrong with ‘Iron Britches’? She taught the Argentinians not to ‘mess with ’Brits’. She was the best British Prime Minister since Winston Churchill. Not saying she was a good as ‘Winnie’ but the best since him.

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    sundogusa  over 11 years ago

    @cmd13 NO!

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    sjsczurek  over 11 years ago

    No. Unfortunately, no. Anything dealing with problem-solving requires authority, and authority requires power. And power corrupts. Men, women, it makes no difference. Power corrupts.

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    tagteam  over 11 years ago

    “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” – Winston Churchill

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    Asharah  over 11 years ago

    Annie should realize little boys can improvise by “shooting” each other with sticks if Mom won’t buy them guns.

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    da11a5  over 11 years ago

    “women ruled the world”……!?my Sisters, my Mom & Her sisters don’t get along!& High School Girls & the ladies at my Job don’t get along with All The Gossip & Back Stabbing they do to each other =P

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    route66paul  over 11 years ago

    Oh yeah, the world would be a better place ruled by women. I am not saying that men are any better, but did you ever see a woman who could stick to a budget?

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    bspaulding  over 11 years ago

    Yea—-I really want to live in a world run by pelosi——NOT

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    meowlin  over 11 years ago

    “Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosives.”

    - Blaster, in “Uncommon Valor”

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 11 years ago

    It would fun for Dick Cheney and his fellow neocons. They’d get richer, and the rest of us would die.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Compare? No comparison was made.

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    GeorgeInAZ  over 11 years ago

    This strip today is just sick. The message was that nuclear warfare would be over too quickly for soldiers to have fun is sick. Getting your arm shot off is not fun. Watching someone you shot die slowly is not fun. Losing your legs is not fun. Getting your face burned off is not fun. Shoving your guts back in is not fun. Lynn, no doubt you were just producing another strip to make some more money, but please avoid subjects where you are cluelessly insensitive.

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    fbjsr: She invited them to salvage an old whaling station on South Georgia, which, along with the Falklands/Malvinas, they had long claimed with no better evidence that the US had (never lived there, just claimed it when uninhabited. This gave Argentina to occupy both island groups and driving the invitees out, gave Thatcher an election victory. The only benefit to Argentina was that it gave the people courage to drive out the US-supported dictatorship in their own country.

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    doctorwho29  over 11 years ago

    True

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    loves raising duncan  over 11 years ago

    War is stupid!

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    GeorgeInAZ  over 11 years ago

    Does this sound like fun?On a search and destroy mission near Tan An on Nov. 22, 1968, we encountered no enemy resistance, but were finding several heavily fortified enemy bunkers. These bunkers had to be destroyed to prevent them from being used at a later date. We had proceeded to destroy several bunkers along our route already, when my point man, Ron Paniccia, spotted another one to his front. He halted our file formation and yelled back that he would blow up this one. As Ron yelled, ‘Fire in the Hole,’ he pulled the safety pin from the hand grenade and tossed it into the bunker. To everyone’s disbelief, the hand grenade came flying back out of the bunker, landing close to Ron and two of the other soldiers. Ron instinctively grabbed the grenade and attempted to toss it back into the bunker. But too soon it exploded, hitting Ronnie with devastating force from projectiles out of the explosive. We were all dumb-found. I called for medical dust-off as Doc treated Ron’s wounds and I held him in my arms. Ronnie looked at me and said, ‘Sgt. Tharp, that gook threw my grenade back out of the bunker.’ Having already been told that it was an old half filled-in, shallow bunker and that the grenade just bounced back out, I looked into Ronnie’s eyes and told him, ’That’s okay, Ronnie, we killed that bastard for you. I’m very proud of you.’ As the helicopter headed back to the nearest hospital with Ron, he was wounded, but awake and alert. So we all felt sure he was going to be okay. About 20 minutes later my call from ‘higher up’ crushed my world as they told me that Ronnie had died. A piece of shrapnel had lodged in his heart and he died of those internal wounds. My heart was breaking inside my chest as I tried to reassure my platoon that we had done everything right and that God just needed a point man in Heaven and had chosen Ronnie. Deep down, I was dying a little more myself for letting this happen to the men. I felt that somehow I had failed them. As tears were flowing from the eyes of the men, I regained enough composure to regroup and refocus my platoon. It was my job, you know. I could shed no tears in front of the faces of my men who looked to me for strength. Sergeants are supposed to be tougher, right? Ronnie’s death had certainly taken a toll on a group of brothers who loved him dearly. As I gazed at the vast star-lit sky over Vietnam, I was quick to realize that truly ‘Another Star Burned Out Tonight.’"

    Cpl. Ronald James Paniccia posthumously received 11 medals. His name can be found at Panel 38W, Row 37 on The Wall.

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    klunker rider  over 11 years ago

    That all depends if you get to play the poor Soviet soldier on the ground or the B-52 pilot dropping the big one.

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