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News Roundup

  • From the “Classy” Department – A Las Vegas woman is starting a new small business.  She is making dioramas of murders, which she is calling “die-o-ramas”.  Because there’s nothing a suffering family wants to know than that the moment a part of their life was destroyed has been memorialized by a twit with a hot glue gun.  For those of you keeping count, this is reason 2,123,988,121 that I don’t like humans much.
  • From the “Dieter’s Disco” Department – Three people in India were recently arrested after it was discovered that one of them was trying to fly to Delhi with a monkey in his underwear.  For his sake, I’m hoping that the monkey was one of the more gentle varieties.  I also hope that he isn’t put into general population when he goes to prison, because no prisoner wants to be known as the guy with a monkey in his pants.
  • From the “Front Toward Enemy” Department – A family in California is fuming after contractors for Wells Fargo broke into their childhood home not once, but twice.  You see, Moe, Larry, and Curly mistook the house, which has never had a mortgage, for a foreclosed property which they were being paid to clean out.  Apparently they didn’t fix the damage they did to the door, since the article says that the property is now littered with beer bottles and bongs from people using the property as a hangout.  If I were this family, I would be investing in punji sticks and a lawyer with a taste for raw meat.
  • From the “Doing the Right Thing” Department – I usually have little good to say about the government, especially when it comes to how it spends my tax dollars.  But today I have to pay respect to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which has announced that it recognizes a link between exposure to the dust and smoke of Ground Zero and cancer.  Those who have become ill since working at the rescue, recovery, and cleanup efforts in New York can now apply for aid from a fund set up a few years ago.  It’s not often that the government does the right thing the first time around.
  • From the “My Senator, Tiberius Gracchus Paul” Department – Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has announced that he plans to make it hard for the Senate to get work done until his bill to stop foreign aid to Pakistan is voted on.  Senator Paul points to the way which Pakistan is treating the physician who aided the United States in finding Osama bin Laden as his motivation.  I guess my only quibble with Senator Paul on this one is that we shouldn’t need an excuse to cut off Pakistan.

 

1 Comment

  1. Mad Jack's avatar

    The vote to cut off foreign aid to Pakistan should have been amended to include a dry martini for Senator Tiberius and subsequently passed with an overwhelming majority – excepting Senate Bitches Boxer and Feinstein, who voted against. The total time on this one, including bitch slapping Feinstein until she STFU: 15 minutes.

    Hey, our government in action.

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