Saturday, June 12, 2010

Cartoon Saturday

At least 16 people are dead and as many as 73 unaccounted for in the wake of a flash flood that wiped away a campground in Arkansas; a man who held a 16-month-old boy hostage and kept police at bay for 55 hours in Sacramento, California, was shot to death by members of a police SWAT team; police in Brazil arrested a 54-year-old man and charged him with fathering eight children with his two eldest daughters; a review by the Army's Inspector General has found that hundreds of American veterans and their family members who were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery may have been misidentified or their graves mislocated; and Joran van der Sloot, once considered the main suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years ago, has been formally charged with murdering another young woman in Peru.

There, there...sit back and let Cartoon Saturday take your mind off the lunacy...

Last week, Cartoon Saturday featured a cartoon that updated a stereotypical scene from a Western movie. Today, two similar takes on another classic...

and,

You know you're dealing with a professional musician when ...

This simple, yet effective measure seems to have been ignored during the cobbling together of the Great Health Care Reform and Legislative Travesty Bill of 2010 ...

Remember the old joke about Uncle Floyd who worked as a conductor...he was struck by lightning? Here's another spin on that one ...

And finally, tonight Agnes and I are going to a nice restaurant in honor of her birthday. Well, okay, it's almost a month late, but we've been busy. I like this particular place because they have an ultramodern, high-tech sommelier ...

Well, that's it for another edition of Cartoon Saturday. Try to hang in there until next week. We're here for you.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

4 comments:

John A Hill said...

Have a great weekend!

Jean-Luc Picard said...

Can you imagine Gary Cooper booking his High Noon appointment like that?

Phfrankie Bondo said...

...thank you for this...

Mike said...

I learned a new word today.