Cartoon Saturday, the Christmas Edition

Ah, Christmas ... the one week per year when we treat each other with generosity and kindness, as opposed to the other 51, when we treat each other like (expletive deleted) ...

Tensions are high between the US and India after a female Indian consular officer was arrested on visa fraud charges and strip-searched by US Marshals; tensions are up between the US and China after a US Navy ship was forced to take evasive action in order to avoid being rammed by a Chinese warship; Congress finally did its job and passed a budget, although with gritted teeth; North Korea faxed its latest threat of merciless retaliation against South Korea for whatever it was that pissed them off this time; and the Arts and Entertainment network is under fire after suspending one of the stars of the popular "Duck Dynasty" show because he had made negative comments about homosexuals.

As Santa gets ready to fill the stockings of Congress and a great many other ass clowns with coal and sawdust for the holiday, we turn to a collection of cartoons with a Christmas theme ...

Starting with the subject of lists, Santa doesn't really make his own lists any more ... he's subcontracted it out to the National Security Agency ...

List, schmist ...

Moving on to the topic of wise men* and gifts, gift desires are sometimes misinterpreted ...

There's wise, and there's wise ...

Sometimes it really pays to be a wise man ...

There's always someone who didn't get the memo ...

Moving on to Christmas decorations, there's an old joke on this theme ... you heard it in yesterday's post ...

Then there was also the old joke about the young lieutenant who was decorated by the general at Christmas, because the unit couldn't afford a tree ...

Your Christmas pun ...

I wonder where he carries the spare ...

No other comment necessary ...

And finally, how else would you take care of your artificial tree ... ?

Welcome to the last shopping weekend before Christmas ... if you're going to the Mall, take your Valium first.

Have a good day. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo

* There was a wonderful cartoon years ago (sadly, lost) that showed two men in robes and turbans riding camels, and a third lagging far behind. One of the two in the lead turns to the one behind and shouts "Hurry up, Balthazar! It's a quarter to AD!"