Mar
14
2008
What’s So Funny About The News?–March 14
Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?- The Republican House campaign committee says their treasurer has defauded their group by covering up unauthorized money transfers in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think what upset them the most was the money given to the Gay Pro-Choice Stem Cell Researchers…
- The House and Senate have voted to let some of President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010–a largely symbolic vote that was more of a political statement by congressional members. The message–"if it’s possible to be on both sides of the same issue at the same time, we’re willing to take that risk!"…
- The call girl known as "Kristen", whose liason with New York governor Eliot Spitzer led to his resignation, has been approached by both Hustler and Penthouse magazines to pose nude for them–and in the words of Penthouse’s publisher, "we promise to make it worth her while". It all depends on who she wants to see play her in the movie–Jennifer Anniston or Jenna Jamison…
- In the bizarre tale of the Kansas woman who refused to leave her bathroom for nearly two years, suffering open sores and possible paralysis from constantly sitting on the toilet, authorities believe the woman’s boyfriend should be charged for not getting her help sooner. It’s possible it could lead to legislation for "you-know-what or get off the pot" laws…
- A DNA study has linked the ancestry of nearly all Native Americans in North, Central and South America to a half-dozen women who lived around 20,000 years ago. Even though they weren’t from the same regions or even alive at the same time, they all shared a common quality responsible for their descendant’s character–not a one of them cared whether the toilet seat was left up…
- The British government has enacted what the nation is calling "sin taxes"–increasing the cost of alcohol, cigarettes and gas guzzing automobiles. Of course with the average price of smokes already at around $11 a pack, the price of sin seems pretty high as it is…
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