Dec
28
2007
What’s So Funny About The News?–December 28
Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?- The IRS reports that millions of tax refunds normally paid in January will be delayed until mid-February due to Congress’ late action to stop the alternative minimum tax from affecting millions of middle-income taxpayers. I guess you could call this "your tax dollars at rest"…
- Saturday’s New England Patriots/New York Giants game is not just about whether the Pats will be the first team in 35 years to have an undefeated regular season–it’s also the first time in 40 years that an NFL game will be broadcast simultaneously on two different networks, both NBC and CBS. For Giants fans, it means there is absolutely no escape…
- Action film star and former Walker Texas Ranger Chuck Norris is suing the publisher of a book about his life titled The Truth About Chuck Norris, saying his good-guy image is being damaged by a depiction of him as callous and unlawful. Chuck is particularly upset at being described as an informercial spokesman for some lame exercise product…
- NASA engineers say there are optimistic that a fix required to launch space shuttle Atlantis on its mission to the International Space Station is "days or weeks" away, but admit they won’t make their planned January 10 lift-off. The ISS crew is definitely bummed out–they’re stuck watching Lost In Space a few hundred more times …
- FEMA’s director of public affairs has been replaced after it was revealed that he had staged a fake press conference in October regarding the California wildfires. The moral of this story: it’s better to face the tough questions than it is to make them up…
- A pair of Mississippi judges convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable sentences reported to federal prisons in Atlanta and Lexington yesterday. I wonder if it matters that they probably had nothing to do with incarcerating anyone in there?
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