Cartoon Saturday

And another week swirls down the ol' drain ...

The military wing of the radical Hamas movement in Gaza has announced it is ending its de facto truce with Israel - oddly enough, it's rationale was that "There is no truce with the Israeli occupation under the continuation of committing massacres against the Palestinian people without justification," leading one to wonder if massacres with justification would be okay; in a show of international sportsmanship, basketball players from a Chinese military team and Georgetown University brawled during a goodwill game in Beijing; a new tropical storm - Harvey - is forming in the Caribbean; and Wall Street has tanked yet again.

I know you want good government, a booming economy, and a ban on dumbass political ads during the upcoming election season, but you'll have to settle for Cartoon Saturday.

We lead off this week's selection of cartoons with the mandatory terrible pun ...

To get this one, it helps if you've seen The Sound of Music ...

Two cartoons playing on the same theme ...

And,

Reminds me of our freezer here at home ...

This one is very funny ... if only symbolically ...

A reminder that we're approaching another season of high-minded, straight-talking, issue-oriented, political campaigning ...

And another one on that theme ...

The latest plan for fixing the economy ...

And finally, when all else fails in your attempts to make sense of the current social, economic, political, and religious insanity ...

It's going to be a busy weekend here in the Bilbo household: today is our granddaughter Leya's fourth (gasp!) birthday, to be celebrated with a pool party at her swimming school, and then Agnes and I need to start packing and making the final arrangements for our trip to Germany, which starts this week.

I'm going to need a drink.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo