Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 13, 2013

What could possibly go wrong?

Nice way to let a fella down.

I thought a manse was the house that goes with the job of minister in nonconformist denominations…never heard of one with a hot tub!

It’s taking all she has to keep from throwing herself at him.She has a thing for fools.

Went to St. Francis, nearby. Hiked the woodlands, dodged the boars. Then subjected to Catholic Irony at a nearby seminary

I’m still waiting for GSGT to give a factual reference for his assertion that “Some public schools now are forcing students to practice Islam.”Of course, I know he can’t. But I’m interested to see what he’ll post.

Why the jeff manse repeat? We left Harvard graduation in the lurch/delivery!

she’s just not that into you. (except for the royaltie$)

Looks like history’s repeating itself; first as comedy, then as a way of finding out who’s paying attention.

She’s just found a way to say “I don’t fraternize with the product” in a way that saves his ego..Redkaycei, did that comment have anything to do with the strip or is it a continuation of a previous discussion?

From what I see online — Hillsdale Academy is a private school and Warren Classical Academy is a free, charter school. I don’t see any mention of Hillsdale on the Warren Classical Academy site. If I am missing something, please let me know

I thought the Right’s motto was, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why are you afraid to be watched?”.Texas forces students to practice Islam? That crazy lefty governor Perry!

If you took English, you need to go back to them and ask for a refund.

Go ahead. Google “Texas forces students to practice Islam” — and dig a little deeper on CSCOPE — you may or may not be surprised

Imagine, she’s wise to the foolish, yet he’s the one with the big cheque. Many forget, however, the ‘advance’ is nothing but a loan. Often they carry very high interest rates as well, adding to the and when the royalties start coming in, it all goes toward repayment.

Night, in your study of English you might have come up with this literary construct we have here. It’s called “sarcasm”, and it indicates (usually through tone of voice, not available here), that one disagrees with an idea he seems to be supporting. It’s worth Binging (I don’t Google any more).

OK, CommieFan, kudos for that clip and that quip.But I get to be the guy in the back seat with the better hat.

“Reference? Lumberton Texas”

No. Despite WND falsely reporting that students were “made” to wear burqas, or “told by the teacher” to wear them, it’s just not true. The teacher brought typical Arabic clothing to the classroom, the kids were told they could try it on, and several did.The teacher was not “making” the students practice Islam, she was teaching about the culture in Arabic countries.Now, you might validly argue that the curriculum painted too favorable a view of Arabic culture, but that is still not “forcing students to practice Islam”, which is the claim that GSGT made.The students were at no time instructed, told, forced, or in any way engaged in Islamic religious practices. Period. The teacher involved is not a Muslim. And before you even try it: no, wearing a burqa, or any other article of clothing, is not the equivalent of practicing a religion. And, once again in case you missed it, the kids tried on the clothing voluntarily, and posed for pictures.You are just flat-out wrong; WND was wrong when they made these claims initially; and everyone who has since passed along this bit of false “journalism” is wrong.

This is absolutely too funny!! Thanx for the laugh!!!

Smart lady there. Way to go!

per Wiktionary:

manse (plural manses)

1 A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.2 (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.3 A large house, a mansion.

Any idea what a “Pentecostal hairdo” is?

One of those “Five students wearing burqas” is actually wearing a hijab, and I think another is wearing a chador.

What I did find interesting is that what wee in the UK put into the religious education lessons that you aren’t allowed to have, you just cover in “world history”…

“The burqas is part of islam.”The wearing of clothing covering specified parts of the body is something that’s a part of many religious traditions, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, among others.As with other religions, the wearing of modest garments involves not only religious faith, but also social traditions, in a mix that is really impossible to disentangle. While every Muslim woman I have met, here in the US, or in Iraq and Kuwait, has dressed modestly, certainly not all have worn a burqa. Many Muslim women don’t even cover their hair, except when they enter a mosque, or as a courtesy when visiting a household where the family is more conservative. You’ve stated that you had contact with Iraqi people when you were deployed – I’d be interested to know if your first-hand experience was different from mine.As Newshound pointed out, some schools in Texas do use the Judeo-Christian Bible as teaching material. I think that’s wrong. I think it would also be wrong to use ANY religious scripture in a public school.But the issue here is the burqa, and whether the overblown “incident” in Lumberton is an example of your assertion that any public school has “made” students practice Islam. Are you claiming that bringing traditional Arabic garments into a classroom, and allowing students to try them on, is “making them practice Islam”? (And by the way, what a lot of people seem to be missing is that one of the students in the picture is a boy, wearing traditional Arabic male clothing.)If a little Christian boy tries on his Jewish buddy’s yarmulke, has he been converted to Judaism? If I put a necklace on with a cross hanging from it, would that make me a Christian? If someone somehow forced me to wear such a necklace, would I be “made” to practice Christianity?Come on, you can’t possibly really believe that kind of nonsense. I think that at this point, you know that you have not effectively defended your false statement, and you are just stubbornly digging in your heels and putting forward absurd arguments in order to try and prove yourself right. Why don’t you do the adult thing, admit that you are wrong – that there are actually no examples of public schools “making students practice Islam”?

Absolutely best brush-off line ever.