Mid Week Funnies

Time for our weekly review of news from around the world in the form of editorial cartoons!

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The administration seems to have been able to ignore all the losses in Iraq until the recent political losses.

Meanwhile Karl Rove has been trying to spin the war by pulling everyone into political maneuvering. Even many Republicans are pushing back.
Jerry Falwell passed away this week, in case you hadn't heard.


More revelations of colleges working with loan companies to their mutual profit and student detriment seem to be coming out weekly. I can't say that I'm surprised. Advertising and bribery are separated by a thin line at times.

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The president, already suffering in approval due to his handling of Iraq, fed the flames surrounding his party even more by using only his second veto ever to deny a budget requiring metrics and reports on progress. (First veto was the one on stem cell medical research.)



In case you missed it, there has been a video making the rounds from the recent Republican debates. The moderator asks who among them doesn't believe in evolution and three candidates raised their hands. All three immediately plummeted in approval rankings, which is a nice statement for those of us who would like the USA to be part of the age of reason and science.

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At this point I don't think anybody in Washington can complain about others making political hay out of Iraq. Has anybody NOT used that for political gain yet?

Four years after George Bush unveiled the "Mission Accomplished" banner, some jokes at his expense were pretty inevitable.
In George Tenet's new book he says that when he was running the CIA the administration was uninterested in facts and just wanted justification for war. I don't really see how that exonerates Tenet though, since he obviously went along with them.
The massive pet food recall continues to grow. In case you haven't heard the current theory is that a bunch of Chinese suppliers figured out they would score higher on protein tests and get paid more if they dumped furniture chemicals into their foodstuffs. Welcome to capitalism!

Mid Week Funnies

Time for our weekly review of non-financial news in the form of editorial cartoons from around the country.

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Bush has had some unfortunate timing lately, extending troop tours the same week he railed against how democrats unacceptably wanted to do the same thing, and fighting against a budget passed by both the congress and senate.


The scandal regarding the firing of US attorneys seems to have all the major elements now: white house involvement, a trail of political motivation, and details of how several of the fired attorneys were investigating key republicans for corruption. The real trick is that nobody can seem to find any laws being broken!

Mid-Week Funnies (a day late)

Sorry this is late, I was traveling for business and the airlines failed me. Here are the mid-week funnies from around the country! As always click on any image to view a larger version.

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I have little left to say on Iraq. At this point staying seems to involve vast party-line political considerations. Just as "only Nixon could go to China" we may have "only Democrats can leave Iraq".


In case you missed it the newly conservative supreme court last week decided to uphold a particular form of abortion ban. Many people are making an issue out of it although I think more out of a slippery-slope concern than real impact. The procedure in question is rare.

I had to print this one after the Virginia Tech event for the harsh light on our mercantile culture versus public safety. Ouch.
The situation with Gonzales firing 8 US attorneys, apparently for political reasons, took several ugly turns recently. Not only did the Attorney general say basically nothing in his testimony (such that even Republicans were angry at him), but it is being revealed that many of the attorneys he fired were pursuing fraud cases against Republicans. That's not going to be good for public sentiment.

Mid Week Funnies

Hello folks! Time for our weekly review of news from around the nation in editorial cartoon format.

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Much of the discussion of global warming impact has been industrial growth measured against drawbacks. Recently some protests have focussed on the fact that much of the worst impact will be against those who benefit least from industry. In the worst scenarios the future could be pretty grim, but I bet we all remember the dystopian future scenarios of the 80s. Remember "Road Warrior" ? We were all supposed to be living in a wasteland already and instead we have eBay and the internet.
I like this cartoon not only for the humor but also because of the subtle reference to the corn/oil political maneuvering. Please read here for a VERY neat article on the surprise brilliance of the Bush administrations ethanol policy.

Mid Week Funnies

Time for the weekly review of news in the form of editorial cartoons.

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Despite a scathing electoral rebuke showing that the voters really do care about Iraq, many republicans continue to unpleasantly politicize the war.



Meanwhile Iran pulled off a brilliant diplomatic move by inciting an incident and then diplomatically defusing it right as they declare violation of UN nuclear requirements. This move not only changed a lot of headlines and took control of the news situation, but by ending it peacefully and showing lots of video of humane confinement Iran made it politically much harder for anyone to move from diplomacy to force against them.


The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can regulate greenhouse gases, which should force the administration to at least establish a policy instead of just saying it's out of government hands.


Meanwhile in Washington a surprising amount of fallout continues to follow the Attorney General after his political purge of US Attorneys.

Mid Week Funnies

This week has shortened trading due to Good Friday, so let's go ahead and call this an early mid-week and hit it with our weekly review of the news in editorial cartoons.

As always: click on a cartoon to enlarge if, like me, you sometimes want bigger type :)

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The US Attorney purge currently rocking Washington seems to have deep resonance with the people. I have to admit there are some areas of life I would prefer not to see politics invade.



Congress and (somewhat more surprisingly) the Senate both approved a budget that included time limits for Iraq. This has made some people angry...
Meanwhile Al Gore put on a fine show under harsh questioning from global warming unfriendly lawmakers.

Mid-Week funnies

Time for our weekly roundup of news in the form of editorial cartoons from around the country.

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The firings of US Attorneys for allegedly "not prosecuting enough Democrats" is still roiling Washington. After the mini-scandal where it turned out that the prerequisites for choice state department gigs was voting republican and hating abortion, this shouldn't be so surprising. Seems like every time the Democrats are in power for too long they wind up going nuts on spending and every time the Republicans are in power for too long we wind up with graft and cronyism. Regular elections and changes in power are SUCH a good idea!


The buzz around Washington is that Scooter Libby is a shoe-in for a pardon, but that he has to wait until the "politically appropriate" moment. Since he won't be sent to jail until after his appeals, it seems unlikely anyone in the administration will face any fallout for scuttling an intelligence asset. And we wonder why the CIA can't recruit the best people??

Democrats in Washington are finding it hard to deliver on the expectations they face after their recent electoral victories.
Meanwhile the continuing credit implosion is causing ample concerns about effects on the broader economy.