Salem-News.com (May 08,2008 08:07)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 93 - Got Yer Rebate?Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the ninety-third installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Spiegel 17) - How kind and thoughtful of American governments across the universes in parallel to give tax-payers a little bonus for their support of policies which in every other regard do them little good.
For the moment Christmas in April is here. Buy yourself a gift. You earned it and will pay dearly for it in the long run.
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Salem-News.com (April 30,2008 07:20)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 92 - The Liar, the Witch and the OilmanGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the ninety-second installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Spiegel) - The earths-in-parallel act out their directives in the most curious of ways. What is a major event on our planet, may amount to no more than a hill of beans on another, yet the event echoes even so. While on our world the liar, the witch and the oilman play major roles in our world's history. On Earth-Spiegel other leaders take the reins and control their planet's destiny in quite a different way. None of us chooses our parents we are born to and likewise none of us chooses the parallel earth we inhabit. Read Full Article 0 - Comments
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Salem-News.com (April 23,2008 07:53)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 91 - Our Town Like Many Others Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the ninety-first installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Tempo Tango) - Beyond the sound byte, beyond the catch phrase, real Americans are debating among themselves. They question what the media tells them. They question what they are given for news.
They bicker. The disagree. They know there aren't any easy answers because the problem would have been solved long ago if there were. They may be white, blue-collar. They may be elderly. But with few exceptions they are concerned about their nation and where they are being led.
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Salem-News.com (April 16,2008 07:12)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 90 - Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the ninetieth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Tango 13) - Throughout the history of the human race there has been the intimate conversation between lovers. In modern times across the universes-in-parallel it is called "pillow talk."
It is wrong to pry into these privacies, but for the sake of getting a sense of how Americans view the race for president we will allow this one exception.
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Salem-News.com (April 09,2008 07:34)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 89 - The Fabulous 2008 Salem FolliesGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-ninth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Salem) - Like many communities across infinite variations of the United States across the universe, Salem, Oregon has suffered at the economic policies of the Bush administration.
On one anonymous world, an out-of-work (naturally) troupe of artists puts on a show and they tell it like they see it.
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Salem-News.com (April 02,2008 07:37)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 88 - Question for the CandidateGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-eighth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth Tango-21) - A revolution is in progress. Candidate Barrack Obama and all his echoes across the universes-in-parallel are addressing Americans in sentences with words containing more than one syllable.
No longer are simple slogans and double-speak responses to important issues acceptable. Oh, it hurts our little brains to have to think about complex issues, but it's something that citizens of the 21st century are just going to have to do. Read Full Article 5 - Comments
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Salem-News.com (March 26,2008 18:13)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 87 - Defection! Betrayal! Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-seventh installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Terra 14) - With tiny variations the battle between the two democratic candidates for president ebbs and flows across the infinite earths-in-parallel.
What's the next tiny insignificant news item or bit of gossip which will cull enough votes to perpetuate the pre-election blood bath. Slowly, however, lines are being drawn and delegates and super-delegates are choosing sides.
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Salem-News.com (March 19,2008 07:20)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 86 - What`s It All About, Sidney?Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-sixth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Terra Beta) - Much has been made of the middle name of presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Perhaps if he'd taken the nickname of Skip or Bubba or even Gimpy he would have been accepted as just one of the guys, But no. Mr. Obama stuck with all three of his given names and two of them kinda rhyme with (or are identical to) high profile enemies of the United States. Tough luck that.
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Salem-News.com (March 12,2008 08:14)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 85 - Don`t Call Her Monster!Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-fifth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Terra Beta) - Actions speak louder than words across the multiverse. Hillary has learned well from G. W. Bush. She believes now that messages of fear, that the strategy of swift-boating will defeat her opponent for the nomination when her qualities of leadership will not. Of the infinite varieties of Earths, how many will be taken in by her and how many will recognize her for what she is. Don't call her Monster, but if the shoe fits...? Read Full Article2 - Comments

Salem-News.com (March 05,2008 07:26)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 84 - Vinnie, the Idea GuyGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-fourth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Terra Beta) - The struggle for power is ugly. Any candidate running for office on any of the Earths-in-parallel must withstand a barrage of lies, insults and innuendos while showing strength, courage and dignity. Who are the people who plan this scum and do they differ from middle school rumor mongers in any way other than age? And more incredibly: Why are some voters so naive as to believe the rumors when they contradict common sense? Read Full Article0 - Comments

Salem-News.com (February 27,2008 08:12)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 83 - SuperdelegateGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-third installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe.
(Earth-2D) - What is the saying about power corrupting absolutely? What would any of the candidates do for the power? Bush has created an imperial presidency, one above the law and there are many who drool at the thought of that much untempered power. Will this power be used for good or evil? Will the next president reign in the extend of the power of the president and cap it thus for the future? Will a President Obama stop the war in Iraq, put America on a wise and forward-looking energy plan and restore jobs to America? Read Full Article1 - Comments
Salem-News.com (February 20,2008 09:30)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 82 - The Swiftboat Boys at Play Glen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-second installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Zed) - These are historic times across the universes-in-parallel. Earths of all variations will make important decisions in choosing their leaders of the most powerful nation on their planet.
Who it will be will alter the fate of their world. (Of course there are worlds in which Al Gore won the 2000 election and the issues of global warming, for example, have been firmly addressed.) Obama? Clinton? McCain? Huckabee?
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Salem-News.com (February 13,2008 07:42)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 81 - Shock of the TruthGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eighty-first installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Terra 17) - Armchair experts across the multiverse believe that their oddball perspectives are somehow enlightened and that common sense should kneel before it.
Black is white and green is red. Let's rewrite a little history while we're at it. They might argue that Truth is a matter of perspective. When does a detention facility, for example, become a concentration camp?
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Salem-News.com (February 06,2008 07:48)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 80 - Education: X-tremeGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the eightieth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth: X-treme) - If the article in The New York Times "New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores" seemed a bit odd to you (why would anyone teach in NYC when the City hangs a "kick me" sign around teachers' necks), it's because your perspective is confined to this world and this world only.
There are other worlds which are populated with teachers who enjoy being underpaid, under-represented, given the mathematically impossible task of making every student "above average," and being humiliated for their efforts.
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Salem-News.com (January 30,2008 07:31)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 79 - Boss Lady and Mr. ZipperGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-ninth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth Omega-Zed) - Spending hour upon hour surveying the multiverse is generally an arduous task. But on occasion, as the reader will see this week, the results can be startling.
Reception on the multiverse browser is seldom HD quality, but this past week, it has been better than I could have hoped. Earth Omega-Zed is ahead of us in time by some ten months. Already they have not only selected their parties' champions, but the race has been run and the next American president chosen.
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Salem-News.com (January 23,2008 07:42)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 78 - McCain Makes His CaseGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-eighth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Toon) - While the Democrats have settled on their top two candidates, the Republicans display confusion among their ranks.
Who would support a candidate from the party which produced the disasters of an unnecessary and financially draining war, the erosion of fundamental civil liberties, displayed utter blindness to the environmental crisis threatening our planet, and engineered a tanking economy with a tax giveaway to the richest Americans? It might seem to be political suicide to pledge to follow the path of George W. Bush, yet Republican candidates are pushing each other out of line to be the first to support these failed policies.
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Salem-News.com (January 16,2008 08:02)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 77 - Experience ChangeGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-seventh installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Neverland) - The contests rage. In a bizarre parody of reality television, the candidates for president perform their ritual dance of capability.
The slightest hesitation or fumble and his or her opponents strike. Sounds bytes are the order of the day. Simplistic messages are designed for the lowest common denominator so that believers can parrot them back. The messages may conflict, they may contradict, but they above all else must be short.
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Salem-News.com (January 09,2008 07:58)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 76 - Why Do Zeta Reticulans Hate AmericaGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-sixth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth) - Well, the folks from Zeta Reticuli have lowered what few social filters their highly-developed brains possessed and are pretty much telling it as they see it.
They aren't so perfect, are they? Their conversational English is pretty good, but can they rap? And I bet their entertainers are pretty boring--probably at the level of a Jerry Lewis or Durward Kirby. What do you say, America? Let's show them that we can do the right thing and turn this Bush mess around
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Salem-News.com (January 02,2008 07:40)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 75 - Tough QuestionsGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-fifth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth) - At a distance (as in Zeta Reticuli) the behavior of the inhabitants of Earth appears irrational. Why is it that humans can be so clever and invent things like the iPod, soccer and sliced bread yet don't seem to be aware of the deep hypocrisy in some of their most cherished beliefs?
Democracies don't attack other nations for their oil and religions don't kill in the name of their spiritual founders. Read Full Article1 - Comments
Salem-News.com (December 26,2007 08:04)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 74 - The Red Nose SpeaksGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-fourth installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth 2-D) - So you were maybe expecting the next installment about the visitors from Zeta Reticuli? That story's not finished. They'll be back next week.
But it's Christmas and we'll want to do something a little seasonal if maybe a little tart. So I rummaged around the mulitverse browser until I found this little gem. You're going to either love or hate it or love it and hate it. You have to give it to the guy with the red nose. He calls 'em like he sees 'em.
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Salem-News.com (December 19,2007 07:56)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 73 - To See Ourselves As Others See UsGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-third installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth) - The people of our planet and the people of many earths across the multiverse have reached a point where their actions will decide the fate of their planet. Have they already created a system which will turn their world into another Venus? Yet bringing about the change necessary to prevent this is thwarted by corporate greed. Can't capitalist earth see that making an enormous profit will do it no good if there's no world to enjoy it in? Perhaps, as the poet Robert Burns has suggested, we sorely need the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Others, in this case, from Zeta Reticuli Read Full Article2 - Comments
Salem-News.com (December 12,2007 08:18)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 72 - Call It TortureGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis is the seventy-second installment of the Salem-News.com original series "Nota Bene by Leonardo" by Salem cartoonist Glen Bledsoe. (Earth-Rodeo 21) - Like several parallel Earths in the multiverse, Earth-Rodeo 21 has a hard time getting its priorities straight. For one thing it believes that America has the freedom to destroy the rest of the planet through a variety ways centering around turning their world into Venus II.
Their North America crawls with an armada of carbon spewing, hummer-like vehicles as Americans shake their collective fists in road rage and engage in high speed chases with the police.
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Salem-News.com (December 05,2007 07:54)Cartoon Strip: Nota Bene by Leonardo No. 71 - Reality DistortionGlen Bledsoe Salem-News.comThis 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. Read Full Article2 - Comments
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