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Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 71 - Reality Distortion

This is the seventy-first installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(All Earth variations across the mult) - If Karl Rove told you that day was night and that red was green would you believe him? (For those who are scratching their heads, it's not a trick question. A simple, "No!" will do.) At this point you have to wonder if the butterball got his meds mixed up. But no, the media in all its dazzling stupidity has given this wacko air time to attempt to change the back-story so that history might remember the disaster of the Bush White House differently.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 70 - The Front Seat

This is the seventieth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-Alpha Rodeo) - The Republicans have botched things so badly that even George Bush has begun to call on Hillary Clinton and give her his "sage" advice as to what she should do once she returns to the White House. If W. thinks Hillary should be the next president, shouldn't you? We all know how skillful he is picking people to "do a good job." What could be more natural? After all, aren't they both truthful Americans whose only desire is to serve the interests of the common, every day American man and woman and shun the influence of corporate America?

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 69 - Questions for Mrs. C

This is the sixty-ninth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-Zed 21) - Hillary "Slick" Clinton has learned a trick from FEMUR, namely that plants can pose softball questions to make the candidate look great. Is it right or it is wrong? After all, it's just an answer to a question. Or does it reveal something about the character of the candidate? Should Americans of all parallel worlds insist that candidates play fair?

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 68 - Deep Pockets

This is the sixty-eighth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-PDQ) - Who's raised the most money? Hillary? Obama? Edwards? Who won the Moveon.org straw poll? Who's spotted the most UFO's? It is a sad fact that straw polls and UFO's are merely window dressing. The real power is in money. It buys the political messages you watch during your nightly dip into reality television. It pays for the printing of the distorted messages which fill your snail-mail mail box just before an election. It buys YOU in every conceivable meaning of the word. Influence. Money. Power. When running for president you want to find someone with deep pockets. The deeper, the better.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 67 - Toy Survey

This is the sixty-seventh installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-PDQ) - We have been warned by Thomas Friedman in his book The World is Flat that China is the manufacturing giant of the world. But China can't even produce cat food without killing the pets which eat it. It's not just pets, not just children who must be aware of products produced in the People's Republic. Adult must also beware as you will soon see in Toy Survey.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 66 - FEMUR

This is the sixty-sixth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-PDQ) - Alternate worlds have had as much trouble with bogus press conferences as our own. (N.B. There are also worlds in which reporters stage phony natural disasters and then manage them in such a way as to make reporters look good.)

On Earth-PDQ the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is called FEMUR which is generally understood to mean Federal Emergency Mismanagement Under Republicans.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 65 - Okay, Hillary!

This is the sixty-fifth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-13HRC) - A women destined for a position of power needs to choose her second-in-command with care. There's a certain image which must be projected.

The man must dress well, must have the right smile, the right hair, an air of innocence, and yet be savvy. But above all, he must know who the real boss is. He must have no compunction about saying, "Okay, Hillary."

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 64 - Running Mate

This is the sixty-fourth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth 13HRC) - Should Hillary Clinton in any of the infinite variations of our planet in the multiverse be nominated to represent her party in the coming election, an interesting array of problems may arise. Many have little doubt she could do the job, but the question is will any of the Democrats who oppose her for their party's nomination care to share the ticket with her? What kind of man would play second-fiddle to a woman with aspirations to be our nation's first female leader? Read on and discover for yourselves the laugh riot as Hillary searches for a running mate.

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 63 - Impossible Mission

This is the sixty-third installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-Prime?) - Coaches whose jobs depend on their team having a winning season select which players make the team.

With increasing pressures to link teacher pay with their students' test scores teachers might justly demand the same process. Can we insist that teachers take every child, no matter their background, and base the teacher's pay on the resulting test scores?

Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 62 - Sticks and Stones

This is the sixty-second installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.

(Earth-GWB) - The analogue of Earth Prime's General David Howell Patraeus, commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, is Earth-GWB's General Davis Howl Betrayus.

Regular readers of Nota Bene will recognize that's just the way parallel earths work. A changed consonant here, a vowel there -- it's the nature of infinite variation. As on our world, however, the General was called a bad name by an organization also with an alternate designation. MoveOn.org on Earth-GWB is MakeOver.org -- not to be confused with any organization of the cosmetic industry. MakeOver.org like MoveOn.org is furious at the failure of their politicians to halt a purposeless and protracted war.