David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

HANDALA 2007 Handala means bitterness. It’s the name of a desert plant growing in Palestine. It was also the name of a cartoon figure–a boy who never shows his face, created by famous Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali . Naji al- Ali was assassinated in 1987 while living in London. This means 2007 will be the 20th anniversary of his death. A cartoon exhibition featuring the works of world wide cartoonists will commemorate Naji al-Ali and 60 years of Israeli occupation. This exhibition will be accompanied by painting action with international and Palestinian cartoonists on the Wall. Workshops in schools with schoolchildren and college students in Ramallah, Abu Dis, Jenin, Nablus, Al Khalil, Tulkarem, Bil’in etc.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US anti-war mother ends protest Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother who became a figurehead for the US anti-war movement, is abandoning her fight after growing disenchanted with the campaign. She has camped outside President Bush’s ranch since 2005, demanding a meeting over the death of her son in Iraq. But announcing the end of her campaign, she also hit out at Democrats and anti-war campaigners who put “personal egos above peace and human life” She said she had sacrificed her health, her marriage and her finances. In a letter on the Daily Kos website titled Good Riddance Attention Whore - a reference to the abuse she says she has suffered, Ms Sheehan said: “I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. “I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost." Cindy Sheehan became a “postergirl” for the US anti-war movement after she set up her protest camp outside the president’s ranch in Crawford, T...

1991 Originally uploaded by davidbdr . I found some ancient negatives and was shocked to see this photo of myself. Good God! What was I thinking? This was Christmas morning. I don't even remember having hair like this!

I see that whatever problem I was having with images here at Blogger has been corrected. After having spent the time setting up my blog over at my hosted site, I think I will continue using it. I hate the thought of using up my storage allotment for more images but I have come to enjoy using Blogdesk to post with. Microsoft has a new blog writer called " Live Writer " that is very nice, surprisingly but I like the drop shadow Blogdesk creates on images a little better. Live Writer works with Blogger but Blogger doesn't allow for uploading images through a system like this. If you just post text, it is a good idea. I've been noticing that I still have a lot of traffic to this blog but almost nothing at my new one. Please, if you are interested and find yourself here--click on through to: http://www.dbaldinger.com/blog

New posts will only be found at: http://www.dbaldinger.com/blog

Blogger Beta has been acting very stupid lately. For some reason, pictures I upload do not appear in the posts. I give up trying to get all the Blogger problems solved. I've decided to install a Wordpress blog on my hosted site. I will from this post on be using my " Cartoons & Stuff Blog ." To publish this post, I had to save as "draft," reopen it and then publish. It seems that to make Blogger better, they are making it worse.