Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 08, 2013

yep. have been for weeks.

And I love it yet just as much tonight as I did the first time!

Most observant, my dear Watson.soon they will contemplate the tradeoff involved in the loss of Austin and its music.

Just got back from Austin. The music and the tacos were great.

Does anyone know when Doonesbury returns with new strips?

yes Austin is the real loss if Texas could leave. sweet dreams, but Texas will never secede. come what may, the Republican welfare class/known to the rest of us as Business, will never give up the free money spigot, known as Congress. Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, Cornyn, Cruz, lol, especially show why losing Texas would be the best thing to the rest, of America. Texas is the Evil Empire/American Style.

too many military bases, too much graft aka Border/Immigration, to leave the old Military Industrical Complex. we have to put up with the loons until they bankrupt us all. and they will bankrupt us, that is the “game”.

No one READ it, they just SIGNED it“Nice shootin’, Tex!”

Just learned the strip returns on Septeber 1

I live in Austin. Most local music is crap. Blues? Even Antone’s famed Blue Monday has country music now, and the dance floor is concrete. This city is hardly a blues capital.

“W” just set a medical record! He had a stent put into his heart but a heart attack was never mentioned in the press release.

“This is a repeat.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Repeats are ALMOST as boring as people who pronounce that they are repeats.

Yes. Cast out the miserable place. Oh, yeah. You know the one. Texas, where the rest of the nation is falling all over themselves to move to. That nasty place. That’s the real reason for the movement. We want the ability to protect the border. Not the one with Mexico. The one with New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Nothing so much against those states, but they seem to be doing nothing to stem the flow of yucks rushing to suck off our prosperity. Stay, foul horde. You’re not wanted. Get thee unto Detroit where they’re short of people, I understand. Better yet, just stay in California. You made that bed. Now sleep in it.

‘This is a repeat.’At least the cons have moved into this century, although typically a bit behind..And I lived five years in El Paso and three in San Antonio. The people aren’t that nice but pretend to be. We used to call it “Southern hostility”.

The social-justice, Marxist, big-government, big-hearted geniuses running Detroit, California, New York, Illinois, Cuba, etc. have done a brilliant job creating their bankrupt (financially and morally) utopias. The idiots in Texas and the “red” America will never figure out how to replicate the Lefties’ aptitude for splendid social engineering.

Doesn’t say much for many of the commenters here; most of which aren’t from Texas.

I saw that petition when it was first circulated. It’s amazing the number of signers from all over the country, not just from Texas.

i suspect that when texas secedes (buh-bye!), they’ll carve austin out of the whole. austin is just too advanced for the rest of the state. austin even promotes fine music by placing pianos around the city for anyone who has an urge to make a little music. austin’s music scene is among the best among the best in the world and is completely accessible by everyone.

i was from texas but am saddened and ashamed of what it has become politically…

Can they take the rest of the South with them, please?

Whatever happened to the twin babies who were expected?

Ah, what a bigoted cartoon….

….and now some damfool with an obviously disguised voice calls to tell me that it’s my turn to stay up til 1:24AM EST to be the first to tell the world that “this is a repeat!” and to ask when is the REAL strip coming back??..

I think Omnius has found me out.

Well, “bless their hearts,” Texans can’t help it.

G.T. brings the pain!

And Garrison Keillor is on hiatus from The Writer’s Almanac this summer. Coincidence? I think not. Just what are all these liberal fiends up to now? Planning to steal the 2016 election, I’ll bet.

What a crap article. Anybody who has taken a college level history course knows Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist. They also know slavery DID play a significant role in the Civil war. The article should have been titled “80,000 Texans Throw Tantrum”.

Shame there are so many fewer wealthy to be bought off with tax cuts, well-earned with “campaign contributions”.

I’m from Alabama you moronic jackass. Did you notice the phd within my moniker? Earned at an elite university..

One of the requesets to be re-admitted into the Union after the civil war was that states cannot seccede from the Union..Actually we should sell Texas back to Mexico. That should take care of paying down the deficit.

And be sure to put the conservatives in the under populated states so that they can have plenty of room for their ATVs and their guns.They’re basically anti-social and bitter anyway, why force them to have neighbors close by?

Actually, we could probably arrange something so that Austin could secede from Texas and stay with us. They actually are pretty intelligent in that area. Must be like living in a foxhole for them.

We also got California, Oregon, Wahington, Hawaii..,"

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Personally, I don’t like blues, so what do you think of that, Mr. Twain?

Don’t get my hopes up.

No, not the c-rap-y music, the Austin music

Doesn’t matter what Texas was when it first joined the union of states.

What matters is what it agreed to upon rejoining after being conquered by the remaining members of the United States of America.

No longer the same agreement, conquered nation.

Garry, watch it, you’re getting close to outright bigotry…

Here is the entire letter that Tucci is quoting from:-EXECUTIVE MANSTON,WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 1862.Hon. Horace Greeley:DEAR SIR: I have just read yours of the 19th, addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing,” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about Slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union, and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.Yours,A. LINCOLN.-Please take notice of the last sentence:-“…I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free. "-Here is another quote:-“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.”-Tucci constantly talks about tariffs causing the South secede. What he doesn’t mention is that by 1857 tariffs were at the lowest point since 1816. The increases that occurred in 1861 probably would not have happened if the South had not seceded and the anti-tariff votes disappeared.

@AstolatThank you for flagging Tucci and contacting the moderator. When a discussion turns to racist name calling – as it did last week – it is time to exclude the guilty party from the conversation.I also contacted the moderator to complain.

Yes, people from Texas are generally nice, kinda the way puppies are nice, even though you wouldn’t want one of them in political office, building an addition to your house or giving you pointers on life.

Texans have a disproportionately high opinion of themselves, even though much of it is unwarranted. Loud braggers many of them be. My experience is that when traveling around the country you can usually spot Texans in airports. They are are ones talking, talking, talking about essentially nothing with an air that what they have to say is of interest to you. And you are just too polite to turn away and read your good book.

morosemoose “As opposed to losing Perry who has absolutely no clue where he is. Although the new horned rimmed classes make him look so intel….stupid.”-A state is more than its politicians.Texas has much to offer the rest of the world.to name a few:beefpetroleumpetroleum refiningspace research (public and private)medicine and medical researchricebeautiful womeninteresting politiciansorangesPVCTexas Instruments and all things based on integrated circuitscottonnatural gasaccess to Mexican and other Hispanic laborers for the rest of the nationaircraftmusic including the national treasure: Willie Nelson-And I’m not even from Texas nor have I ever lived there.

It’s good to see Trudeau getting on the eugenics bandwagon.