Rhode Frog: Classic Toon Tuesday - A Tale of Two Kitties

Why Tuesday? Because nothing can make Monday better. Wednesday is... I won't say it, ok. Thursday - 1 more day. And by Friday, who cares, it's over. Tuesday needs something, something funny. And if you think you're too grown up for toons, leave.
Why classic toons? Because modern toons suck. You cannot beat Warner Bros. toons. They were first and they were best. Sure, a few since then have been good. Maybe I'll even mix a few in sometime. But forget the internet and pollution and video games - kids today need more classic cartoons. Parenting classes should advise weekly doses of Bugs, Elmer, Foghorn, Taz, Pepe, Wile E. and Roadrunner, Sylvester, Marvin, Tweety, Speedy, Daffy and Porky. They need to hear stuttering and frustration. They need to see silliness and surviving a fall off a cliff. And if that's not enough for you, well, they support healthy eating - Bugs only ate carrots.
Adults need this too. Because if you're over 25, you also had 3 hours of this every Saturday morning, and this generation loves its nostalgia. Because we pay our own bills, and that's no fun. Because we're on the verge of paying for gas in blood. And does anyone else think the writers lost something during the strike?
So. A Tale of Two Kitties. 1942. Abbott and Costello as cartoon cats Babbitt and Catsello. (For you Tweety fans, this was his first ever appearance).
Back in the 80s, I rewound the vhs so many times the tape snapped. 20 years later, I still just end myself when I watch this clip. Although, I no longer go around the house yelling, "Hey Babbbitttt!" (oh, my poor mother).

Bits & Pieces

Senator Al Franken has proposed a "Pay for War" resolution that would require Congress to raise taxes and/or cut spending before authorizing new acts of war, so that American foreign adventures can't contribute to the national debt.

In "The Long Road Home," historian Ben Shephard tells the neglected story of the refugee crisis the Allies faced when, at war's end, millions of displaced persons -- among them prisoners of war, slave laborers and survivors of concentration camps -- had to be repatriated to their homelands or resettled somewhere else.

For most of the last century, talk of secession, nullification and the rest of the extreme states-rights lexicon were relegated to the fringiest parts of the political fringe. But since Barack Obama entered the White House in January 2009, mainstream Republican rhetoric and proposed legislation at the state level have both warmed to the hoary idea that state governments can take their relationship with the federal government on what amounts to an a la carte basis or perhaps abandon it altogether.

Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has derailed Google’s bold plan to build the world’s largest digital library and bookstore.

...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office... finds that a large part of the supposed savings from spending cuts would go, not to reduce the deficit, but to pay for tax cuts. In fact, the budget office finds that over the next decade the plan would lead to bigger deficits and more debt than current law.

...Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage.

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz writes in this month's Vanity Fair about the corrosive, self-reinforcing wealth concentration that has hijacked American politics, in which the America's future is sacrificed to give ever more money to an ever-smaller group of oligarchs.

Classic Toon Tuesday - A Tale of Two Kitties

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