Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 08, 2017

I’m willing to wait in line for my turn.

(Rat, you did good.)

Is there one that looks like The Rump?

Wow. Something both Rat and Goat can agree upon.

Don’t forget the Republicans who just repealed the Dodd-Frank Act. It was enacted to keep that from happening again.

Somebody please lend me a club. I ain’t gonna be able to do much with the Fungo bat I got.

Somebody take a good swing on my behalf. Shoulder’s not what it used to be.

does Trump get his own hole?

Miniature golf just isn’t fun without a little mayhem!

Rat should know better. He should be hitting Barney Frank and/or Franklin Raines in the hoo-haws.

They could make an entire golf course, or a string of courses, with every incompetent clown from the Obama administration, starting with the community organizer himself and his clownish vice president. Eric Holder deserves a special place of dishonor.

What’s up with the change of font? Did Pastis get censored?

Joe will end up with a case of golf balls.

Can I use a sledge hammer?

Joe the Statue’s hoo-haws are very sensitive.

Well, whaddya know! The “statue” of Hedge Fund Manager Joe suddenly came to life at the mention of a club (or many clubs) to the hoo-haws! Yet another example of his duplicity!

And absolutely everybody suffered from what these guys did except THEM. They just got richer. NO consequences.

And now that they are repealing Dodd-Frank, of COURSE they are going to do it again. Why wouldn’t they? They did nothing but profit from it the FIRST time.

It’s how they do business now. Destroy things, and profit from the rubble.

Change of font to denote the statue speaking in a recorded voice. What happened to getting hit in the oompa-loompas?

Seems rather odd to me that the American Dream has now become evil.

Anyone who becomes successful is to be reviled…no matter how they did it.

I’m an amputee, so I’ll just pull my leg off and beat him with it.

I thought they referred to being hit there as “the oompa loompas”?

I think I should play mini-golf more often.

people who didn’t buy houses they couldn’t afford trying to “hedge their bets” to borrow a term, did fine. I just took a brief layoff, did a job that other people declined and waited for the dust to clear and then went back to my old profession as an engineer.

The Senate just confirmed Joe as the new Secretary of the Treasury

May I bring my shotgun?

While you are at it, give him a whack in the head for me.

What happened to the second hole?

Hedge Funds didn’t cause the crash. It was banks betting on the bundled mortgages. They wrote guarantees on the bundles and sold them. Those guarantees were called Credit Default Swaps. It was a roulette wheel, plain and simple.

Now that Dodd Frank is being repealed, the banks are free to go back to their gambling mentality.

Just when I thought that Mr. Pastis couldn’t make me laugh anymore…

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Smartest Audience EVER

I, too, was expecting a reference to the Oompa Loompas. Is Pastis slipping?

Keep on tricking