Today's Toons 12/3/07

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[pookie18]

In Case You Missed It Dept.:

Fred Thompson bought Christmas gifts for his kids in New Hampshire Friday. He's sixty-five years old. How can people criticize Barry Bonds for using performance-enhancing drugs when Fred Thompson has a three-year-old child and a one-year-old baby?

Hillary Clinton sang old hymns at Grace United Methodist Church in Des Moines on Christ the King Sunday. They took up two collections to get her to stop singing. Whenever Hillary sings she sounds like a cat on its way to the tennis racket factory.

Saudi Arabia agreed to attend today's peace conference in Maryland as a favor to the Republicans. The Democrats make the Saudis feel like they're replaceable. Barack Obama is slick and John Edwards is oily and Bill Clinton is nothing if not crude.

GOP candidate Ron Paul was endorsed for president Saturday by a Nevada brothel owner. They aren't far apart in their views. Ron Paul believes in an immediate pullout and the brothel owner is in favor of the customer having the full fifteen minutes.

The Republican Party was reported Sunday to be recruiting very wealthy people to run for Congress using their own money. It's an awful idea. People with that much money get used to saying whatever they think, and that will end anyone's career in politics.

John Edwards marched with striking screenwriters in Beverly Hills Monday. He's right at home here. We're the only people who know that his four-hundred-dollar haircut is what you pay at SuperCuts in Beverly Hills, but only if you have a coupon.

President Bush met Al Gore in the Oval Office Monday before a ceremony saluting this year's Nobel Prize winners. The president was a gracious host. He pushed the thermostat up to ninety degrees to make Al Gore feel that he's right about everything.

Israel's Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas agreed to begin talks for an independent Palestine. They'll meet every two weeks. The leaders say they are worried because they can hear the clock ticking, at least they think it's a clock.

Bill Clinton answered his wife's call to head for Iowa on Monday where he went from town to town on behalf of her candidacy. The former president just loves to get out among the people and press the flesh. It hardly left any time for campaigning.

Teddy Kennedy signed a huge deal Tuesday to write his memoirs in two years. He must have some priceless memories. The Kennedys harken back to a more innocent time in our history when a Democrat could go to confession and that would be the end of it.

President Bush promised Tuesday to help the Palestinians and the Israelis find common ground. Was this wise? If President Bush knew just a little more about the Middle East, he'd know that common ground only leads to gun battles over water rights.

Bill Clinton spoke about himself in Iowa for two hours on Tuesday when he was supposed to be talking about Hillary. This is a tough year for him. Everywhere Bill Clinton goes, he puts seven chairs next to him so he'll feel like he's in the debates.

Senator Teddy Kennedy signed the richest political book deal in history Monday to write his memoirs. He's been keeping detailed notes throughout his career. His co-author now faces the daunting task of collating a hundred thousand cocktail napkins.

-- Argus Hamilton

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[Straight8]

Top of the mornin’ to ya,Pookie. And thanks.

[CPOSharky]

First 5?

[niobe527]

good morning pookie, sleeping in today?

[NonLinear]

Thanks Pookie!!
Great 'toons!!
* woof! woof! *

[TexasCajun]

Pls add me to your cartoon ping.

-Thanks-

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping and the ‘toons, Pookie! I made it to the top 10!

[pookie18]

Mornin' & you're welcome, Straight8!

[pookie18]

^5s, final-4 CPOSharky!

[ConorMacNessa]

Great toons, pookie - thanks!

[pookie18]

Mornin, niobe! Kinda overslept :-(

[pookie18]

My pleasure, as ever, NL & Ms. M!

[pookie18]

You're welcome, TexasCajun! Added you to the ping list (you're #540)...

[AnAmericanMother]

Goofy Ruby sez,

"Thx for the 'toons!"

[pookie18]

You're welcome, elite-8 ac!

[pookie18]

My pleasure, ConorMacNessa!

[Stars&StripesNE]

Great toons!!. Thanks, Pookie.

[pookie18]

You're welcome, arbooz & goofy Ruby (click "me" below)

[CPOSharky]

Pookie’s toons and coffee to start the morning. Thanks for the great work, pookie. (You were late and I was early, so I made number three. Rushed to get in at three, so here is your well deserved Thank You.)

[CPOSharky]

Oopa, four not three.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Thanx Pookie!

[napscoordinator]

Yes!!!! I love Mondays!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job once again!!!!

[pookie18]

My pleasure, CPOSharky!

[pookie18]

You're welcome, Bee!

[pookie18]

Thanks, napscoordinator! Guess that, unlike The Carpenters, rainy days & Mondays never get you down ;-)

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks pook.

[pookie18]

My pleasure, sweet!

[magslinger]

Pookie, I don't know if you usually see Shoe, but I thought you'd like this one:

[Gritty]

BTTT

[pookie18]

Thanks...will rerun on Wed. Was unfamiliar with Shoe, but have now read that one of the cartoonists is Gary Brookins...whose editorial (right-leaning) toons I post occasionally.

[pookie18]

Bump thanks, Gritty!

[AnAmericanMother]

Shoe (the eponymous P. Martin Shoemaker, crusty editor of the Treetops Tatler-Tribune) is the creation of the great, late, lamented Jeff MacNelly, who began his career at the Richmond News Leader. My husband knew him as they were just about the same age.

He died way too soon, he was only around 50. I am glad to see that his strip is being continued, I hope the successors will be able to maintain his high standards.

[magslinger]

I first ran into Shoe about thirty years ago. I still remember the first strip I saw, taped to a door where I worked at the time. It was a Sunday cartoon showing Loon giving himself instructions while landing on a tree branch. I went something like (please forgive me,Mr MacNelly, if I don't remember it verbatim) "Flaps. More flaps. Reduce speed. Brakes. More brakes." It ends with Loon crashing into the side of the tree and thinking "Stupid bush league airports!"

It was made much funnier by the fact that I was working on a bird farm (aircraft carrier) at the time. I wish I could tell Mr MacNelly how much pleasure that one cartoon brought me and many others.

[AnAmericanMother]

I think the exact quote is, "#$(*%^)@ bush league airport. I coulda made it in Dallas!" (I have the book - The Very First Shoe Book).

I have a fixed wing SEL private license, though I've been inactive for years. You guys who land 'em on a short runway that moves up and down have my COMPLETE respect!

[pookie18]

Thanks for the info. Gary Brookins is the editorial cartoonist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch (BTW, my son lives in Richmond).

[Theresawithanh]

Hello! Always enjoy the 'toons! Here's one I think you might like:

[AnAmericanMother]

My in-laws still live there! We were just back for Thanksgiving, had a little longer stay than we anticipated ‘cause the car broke down . . . love the town, but all the hooraw sure messed up our schedule (and the old wallet) . . . .

[arbooz]

Thanx pookie18.

[pookie18]

I usually go down there (from NJ) 2-4 times per year. Since he's in the midst of putting on an addition to his house, this was the first Thanksgiving in several years that I wasn't there.

[pookie18]

Hi, Theresa...long time -- no hear. Will rerun that one on Thurs...ran a few similar ones recently.

[pookie18]

You're welcome, arbooz! (nice hat ;-)

[AnAmericanMother]

I went to school in Jersey! (my hubby followed me up there to beat the Princeton men off with a club, turned out it wasn’t necessary. Princeton men don’t date Princeton women; they import dates.)

[magslinger]

I didn't fly them, I just fixed them when they got bent. I did experience a bolter and a trap, but in the back of a C-2, as part of the cargo. It was a CAVU day with relatively little ocean motion. Flying that way, you face aft and spend some time wondering how well the rest of the cargo is secured.

During Vietnam they put heart rate monitors on Navy aircrews going to ,IIRC, downtown Hanoi. The pilots heart rate sped up a little just before the launch. The rate increased when they went "feet dry" and more so when they crossed the SAM belt. The heart rates stepped down as they egressed the Sam belt and dropped further as they went "feet wet".

Their heart rates didn't reach the peak until they came in for a night landing.

[magslinger]

As regards the quote, I’m not surprised I got it wrong. After about three decades the amazing part is that I remember it at all.

[AnAmericanMother]

I had the unfair advantage of the book less than ten feet away!

That is one of my favorite cartoons. Another one is Loon coming up to Shoe and asking him, "How much mileage should I get out of a new tire?" Shoe says, "Oh, if it's a good tire you should get at least 45 to 50,000 miles out of it."

Next frame is Loon sitting in a tire swing thinking, "Hey, not bad!"