Presidente Felipe Calderon De Las Felicitaciones

Click above for larger image. In progress. Presidente Calderon will be reaching through the crowd of well wishers and shaking Neverborn's hand in the completed cartoon.

Daily Mass Catholic Pro-Lifer Wins Mexico Presidential Elections over Abortion Supporter - LifeSite

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Evangelists

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New Poot, In Progress

A Faithmouse Fourth Of July

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As much as I can post at the moment without risking death at the hands of the original faithmouse, on this fourth of July, with family waiting our arrival across town. Because I'm making you wait, I'll let you in ahead of time on what this image will consist of- a giant cross in the sky, composed of exploding fireworks culled from the pics I took last night of the show Chris and I saw last night in New Prague, Minnesota. I used some of these same fireworks in the 'Discovery' space shuttle cartoon posted earlier today.

I'll post the completed version of this cartoon late this evening, along with the completed rude 'Poot' toon. As many visitors have taken a hiatus from their computers over the weekend, tomorrow will still be a nice day to view these images sometime between return-to-work tasks.

Today's baby cardinals pic. Click for large image.

Why I'm postings photographs of living creatures in and around our home, here's a pic of my monster goldfish Archbishop Finn, who seemed a bit astounded that I would deem to point a camera his way.

I beg your pardon!

Discovery

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Cardinals, A Day Lilly, And A Cartoon Revision In Progress

I was able to take some photographs this morning of our cardinal nest in natural light. Click images below for much larger versions.

You can make out one of the babies heads to the left in the picture above, a little out of focus because it raised up to see (hear) what was going on...

A day lilly in our garden.



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Rework in progress of yesterday's Stop The ACLU toon. I'll have the 'Poot' Fourth of July toon finished late this evening.

Stop The ACLU / Free Speech Outage

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Valedictorian Speech Cut off at the Name of Christ - LifeSite

I ran into some problems with the Roberta Mapleduck cartoon, and decided to substitute it for this one instead, which I drew between 12:30 and 5 A.M. this morning. I'll slowly fiddle forward with the previous ACLU toon. Should make for a nice post next Sunday.

Prayer Emergency

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The cardinal eggs in the nest near our front door have started to hatch. Pictured above are two newby birds and their four as of yet unhatched siblings. In the middle of the scruff you may be able to distinguish a small, opened beak.

Howard Donkey Hires A Catholic Outreach Coordinator

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Democrats Appoint Catholic Outreach Coordinator After Abortion Failures - LifeNews

Sketch for a new Howard Donkey cartoon, in progress. I'll lower the handlebars here a bit to show a banner which says 'Rosary For Life' on the wall behind the cars.

Ms. StarMole Bails

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Continuing our current storyline. In progress.

faithmouse liturgical calendar / Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor

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A Poot Fourth Of July / Panels 2 and 3

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faithmouse liturgical calendar / Optional Memorial of St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, priest

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St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer of Spain
is the founder of Opus Dei.

I based today's cartoon on two events in St. Josemaria Escriva's life, the first being when at 16 years of age he came upon a Carmelite friar's bare footprints in the snow, which helped to eventually decide the young man towards the priesthood; the second when years later he himself hiked to France by way of the Pyreneese mountains in order to escape persecution during the Spanish civil war. St. Escriva was canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 6, 2002. A full biography can be found at Josemariaescriva.info

Priceless

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Historieta 'Inestimable' de la Favorable-Vida.
Dessin animé 'Inestimable' fe la Pro-vie.

faithmouse liturgical calendar / Solemnity Of The Birth Of St. John The Baptist

In English, Spanish and French.

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Tecleo para una imagen más grande

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Thanks to Bertalin at the French Pro-Life Blog pour la Vie (Blog for Life) for posting the French version of today's John the Baptist cartoon. Thanks as well to Dave for posting the English version on his man with black hat. Nicole B. of As My World Turns - A Conservative Mom in Her "Right" Mind has added faithmouse to her blogroll, as has Chris Jubb at Jubberish. Much appreciated! Congratulations to Canadian singer-songwriter Frank Trainor for his first year online.

faithmouse liturgical calendar / Solemnity Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus

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Thanks to Barb for displaying today's toon on her SFO Mom.

faithmouse liturgical calendar / St. Thomas More, Martyr

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The Trial of Sir THOMAS MORE Knight, Lord Chancellor of England, for High- Treason in denying; the King's Supremacy, May 7, 1535. the 26th of Henry VIII - University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Liturgical calendar cartoon for the Optional Memorial of St. Thomas More, martyr.

Thanks to Jay at Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate for linking to this post.

1LT Laura Margaret Walker Memorial Portrait

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1LT Laura Margaret Walker USA Memorial Page - West Point.org

First Lieutenant Walker was killed one year ago this August while working in Afghanistan on a road building project.

faithmouse liturgical calendar / St. Aloysius Gonzaga

1LT Laura Margaret Walker Memorial Portrait, In Progress

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In Progress...

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The cardinals at our front door have a project in progress as well; a second brood of eggs. This is Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal's third nest in the same location. As you can see by the very solid construction in the photograph above, it looks as if this nest might be a success. The nest before this one was hastily built and collapsed on our porch in a flaming disaster. This was my fault, as I removed the first empty nest immediately upon discovering it (the nest is within three feet of our front door, and we have two cats) but the persistent cardinals quickly constructed a second nest which was so weak the eggs kept falling out and smashing on our front porch.

Even though my intentions were good (birds in cats) I felt pretty bad for screwing up the life of birds. I did my best one afternoon to plug up the holes in the nest, but I'm afraid I don't have much experience at constructing nests. Following an overnight thunderstorm a few days later, the entire enterprise was gone.

I discovered this most recent nest after finding a dead Baltimore oriole in our front garden. This particular Baltimore oriole, I suspect, was the same one I had found sitting on the middle of the road in a rainstorm one evening and had brought home for rehabilitation, placing it in a leaf barrel on our front porch, directly under the as-of-yet undiscovered third cardinal's nest. The oriole recovered and flew away the next morning, only to return and die for some reason in our front garden. It's too much of a coincidence to say these are two different Baltimore orioles, although they could be. But I don't think so.

I spent a few hours last night researching and working on a cartoon having to do with Connie Chung's farewell skit on her MSNBC show,which I was going to call MAD TV. It would have been a pretty good cartoon, especially as I was going to throw Dan Rather and Katie Couric in there as well, all singing badly and wearing evening gowns.

I've decided not to finish the cartoon, but I have one observation to offer which I hadn't come across in my reading of a number of other blogs on the same subject. Mrs. Chung revealed the motivation for her seemingly absurd performance in the very first stanza of her self-penned torchlight tune-

We came to do a show, for very little dough.
By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row.

In a media world where freakish news and entertainment receives the most attention, and where her own value as a professional new anchor had been reduced by changes in the marketplace to near zero, Mrs. Chung made a very calculated move to reinvent herself as a buzz worthy 59 year old media experienced nutcase.

A ringmaster, fired from the circus and about to be escorted from the tent, tries to retain the spotlight by changing into a clown. Clowns get paid much better than ringmasters these days anyway. A much better cartoon, that.