saturday morning funnies

Sorry folks, but Saturday Morning Funnies will be on hiatus until after the November 7th elections unless someone else has time to pull it together. Maybe if we're all extra nice to Stormbear he will entertain us with his wonderful original political cartoons. They are so much better than what I pull together from around the web anyway.

Waddaya say SB?

So I've been sitting on this video footage from an interview that the Asheville Citizen-Times conducted with Charles Taylor earlier this year, and I've been threatening to do something with this for months. So this morning I woke up, threw on a pot of coffee, fired up the video editing software and decided to do something with this stuff.

So here it is.

Dear all - you need to click the Google video link and go give this a 5-stars. That will increase the exposure it gets. - RP

You've probably got to pay to read it, but Maureen Dowd's column today, Death by Instant Message, is hilarious.

Here's an excerpt:

Decider: wait! I thought I was ur BFF ...

sexylibrarian: hon, sorry to interrupt, but i think denny and rummy should BOTH go ... they’re off the heez. women are hating on Foley and Iraq and it could ruin your admin

Rumstud74: ur a bigger pain than condi, laura ... why dont you go rd a book? read wdwrd’s book ... you sure helped him write it, litl ms tattletale

Decider: haha

sexylibrarian: george!

I think that political humor is often much more effective than facts, "plans", outrage, attacks, so I'm so glad to see lots of Saturday Morning Funnies out there!

OK, OK, I know what you are thinking. There is absolutely nothing funny about a predator loose in the House of Representatives enticing young men into homosexual trysts. There is also absolutely NOTHING funny about Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives learning about this problem, doing nothing about it, lying about their knowledge and lack of response and then blaming it on A. the teenager(s) in question B. the Democrats and/or C. the press.

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(This one is Emily's personal favorite)

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How the Bush Administration Changes a Light Bulb

How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;
2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;
3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;
4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;
5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb;
6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;
7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;
8. One to viciously smear #7;
9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;
10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

My 12-yr-old says...."None, the Democrats will get the job done..."

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