Strange Brew by John Deering for July 21, 2012

no, they think you’re hot

I can see all sorts of “gay” jokes starting now.

He’s madder than a bear with a burnt a$$.

Try wearing fire and fighting a pair of pants sometime, and you’ll appreciate what you’ve got.

No, Smokey….the owls are a hoot. You’re just a groan and a grunt.

I bet it was that darn Owl he always thinks he is so smart

♫ With a ranger’s hat and shovelAnd a pair of dungarees ♪♪♪You can find him in the forest always sniffin’ at the breezehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PhVQmRdKk

“Smokey” let to everyone fighting prescribed fires, worst possible outcome. They DID change the motto to “wild fires”, but it still made sound management difficult. (And yes, I DID spend over 30 years fighting wild fire, AND setting fires for better management.)

When I was a boy, growing up in Southern California in the 1950s, Smokey would often come on TV telling everyone, “Only YOU can prevent forest fires.”

Whenever I would hear about a forest fire, I thought I was to blame because I didn’t prevent it

We CAN prevent forest fires or wild fires in this drought. Listen to Smokey: don’t throw lit cigarettes out the car window and put all campfires out completly.

Back to the ‘toon:Smokey is wearing not only “pants” – he’s also wearing a hat!“Hat” in German is “Hut” and is pronounced “Hoot”!God, is Deering’s education this international????(Do I win some kind of prize for this observation?)

^M’dear, you are so naïve! Such editorial cartoons have ALWAYS been drawn for “education or propaganda” – the only “senseless rambling” is your own.. Get with it.