May
15
2008
What’s So Funny About The News?–May 15
Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?- The economy got sort of a break in April, as the Labor Department reported that prices last month only rose 0.2%. When that’s the good news, you know you’re driving the wrong way on the Recovery Expressway…
- Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards officially endorsed Barack Obama yesterday, the biggest among several recent endorsements for the candidate who many now believe will face John McCain in the general election. Hillary Clinton vows to continue to fight–not unlike a basketball team down by 30 with a minute to go…
- Former New Jersey governor James McGreevey told a judge in his divorce case that he’s too poor to pay alimony, claiming his resignation from office and marital problems have financially crippled him. Generally speaking, publicly throwing over your wife for another man puts you at a disadvantage in many ways…
- The Interior Department has declared the polar bear a threatened species due to the loss of Arctic ice, but said this should not be considered a global warming initiative. So–it must have been those darn Eskimos and their wienie roasts on the tundra…
- An international business school survey says the US tops the world in competitveness for the 15th straight year, but cautions that our economic problems may keep us from staying there. I understand Dick Cheney offered to take them out, but the president talked him out of it…
- Paul McCartney has angered environmentalists with his purchase of a high-priced hybrid car–because he chose to have it flown to him in Britain from Japan instead of via ship, completely negating the benefits the car would provide. Poor Paul–he couldn’t decide between being green and rich…
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