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Captain America 2011 Movie- Captain turns 89

The new Captain America movie starts tomorrow, and comic fans are very excited. I’ve been a Captain America fan for years, so today’s cartoon is of Cap, after a long day of battle. I also aged him a bit, since he’s actually around 89 years old (depending on which lore you accept), since he volunteered to fight the Nazis during WWII. He enlisted in the army at an approximate age of 18 in 1940. The short version of the story involves a Super-Soldier serum, and experimental military project, a daring sidekick named Bucky, foiling of a Nazi plot to takeover the world, an airplane crash in the North Atlantic, thought dead but frozen in an iceberg, and finally discovered by the Modern Day Avengers and thawed out.
Below is the same Captain America Cartoon without the ‘Blood’.

Cartoon: America Quits the Habit

In this cartoon by Dave Brown from The Independent, we see Barack Obama being sworn in. He tosses a cigarette over his shoulder which lands on George W. Bush's head and sets it alight. The caption reads: "America quits the habit". This is clearly a reference to Obama's speech in which he made it clear that he was going to break with the policies of his predecessor. However, the joke comes from the fact that Obama is a smoker who has tried—and failed—to quit the nasty habit. As Mark Twain said: “Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times.”

Billionaire hits out at NZ over Swiss challenge delay

Ernesto Bertarelli, billionaire head of the Swiss America's Cup syndicate skippered by Russell Coutts, flew into Auckland yesterday and hit back at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for its delay in accepting his challenge.

Squadron commodore Peter Taylor has denied that the delay has anything to do with sour grapes on the cup-holders' part over the defections from Team New Zealand of Coutts, Brad Butterworth and three other sailors.

The dispute, sparked by Switzerland's landlocked status, has gone to an arbitration panel.

Bertarelli flew to New Zealand from Geneva in part to try to sort out the problems in person. He had meetings scheduled with the squadron, the cup's trustees and Team NZ.

"I'm not happy about it. I have many questions and I hope to get answers for them. Why have Swiss challenges been accepted in the past and not ours?"

Bertarelli said his syndicate, who have yet to decide on a name, submitted their entry and $US150,000 ($375,000) entry fee on August 18, before the challenge from Seattle's OneWorld syndicate, which has since been accepted.

Patrizio Bertelli's Prada syndicate are the other challengers so far accepted, as challenger of record.

"We're spending an enormous amount of energy trying to understand what it is that Team NZ and the squadron want. It's damaging and I hope it's resolved soon," Bertarelli said.

Did he believe fallout from the Team NZ defections was behind the delay?

"I hope Team NZ has more sportsmanship in them that that, so I don't think that's the case - I hope not."

He challenged Taylor's comments that the two Swiss entries accepted for last summer's regatta had not had the same problems because they had long-standing sea regattas.

The cup's Deed of Gift requires challenging clubs to hold annual regattas on the sea or an arm of the sea.

The base for Bertarelli's challenge, the Geneva Yacht Club, founded in 1857 on the shores of Lake Geneva, held its first sea regatta this year off France.

Bertarelli said: "I hope these are not the tactics used in the past by holders of the cup to win it with lawyers rather than on the water.

"It would be very bad for the sport."

Sunday Funny's

this cartoon is painful, really, when realizing real people in real wheelchairs will be sacrificed if universal health care prevails. (Actually, they already are as pro-euthanasia/pro-suicide thinking takes hold in America.) And, of course, there are also the babies...