Washington DC: In order to reduce the $2.0 Trillion budget deficit the Obama administration is proposing a series of new sin taxes to be offset by various tax credits. The administration feels that the current alcohol and tobacco taxes have been pushed to their limits and taxpayers are "tapped out."
The new sin taxes include:
1. Viagra tax: Congress is debating whether this tax will be asse...
Detroit MI: The Detroit Automotive Digest published the following letter from GM's new CEO that was sent to all GM employees. The letter fills in some key elements leading up to the government bailout and bankruptcy of the giant automaker.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION CEO
31 March 2009
TO: GM Management, Labor Unions, an...
Washington DC: What would life be like in the USA if the foibles of 20th century government agencies and activists, who purport to know everything and want their dictates to be the only game in town, prevailed?
Robert Fulton, steam boat Clermont (1807): A PETA spokesperson said "too many Sea Kittens (fish) would be hit on the head by the paddle wheel when employing this means for moving goods.
An open letter to my Grandson:
Dear Grandson, now that you are an older person and a lot wiser, your Grandfather has something to tell you about that gray haired Grandmotherly lady feeding you strained prunes. Do not believe her outwardly gentle appearance, as she is actually a sadomasochistic person who has inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on her own children. It is still going on to t...
The White House, January 7, 2009
Dear Mom, I have been in the US Navy for 11 months and was hoping to go to sea on an Aircraft Carrier after boot camp. However, I was assigned as a mess steward to the White House kitchen in Washington DC.
Things have been pretty boring around here until today. President Bush hosted a luncheon for all of the living ex-presidents and the new president elect.
Washington DC: In August 2008, the media was so busy focusing on the major party political conventions in Denver CO and Minneapolis MN that they missed the Paleontology Conference held here.
The fossilized remains of several new species of dinosaur have been unearthed in digs around the country.
Republicanosaur: This creature was once thought to be extinct. However, it has been seen alive...
National Public Radio, September 2, 2008: Kermit the Frog, who is the authority on being "green", released a statement to the press this week. He said "enough with commercializing this green thing, already!"
Kermit, in conjunction with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker, did an exhaustive analysis of items that: (1) are being hawked as being green, but in reality are not and (2) item...
Berlin Germany, Der Spiegel Magazine (Translated): There has been much speculation in the United Kingdom and the United States in recent years as to how Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, aka, "The Red Baron" met his fate during WWI. New evidence has surfaced about this incident.
"The Red Baron" was the most successful flying ace of World War I, being officially credited with 80 confir...
Moscow, August 13, 2008: The Russian Federation has released emails concerning lost KGB memoranda sent to Soviet (USSR) state officials, by a KGB operative. This correspondence sheds some light on Soviet and American intelligence activities in the waning days of the cold war. The translated emails are provided below:
[strong]THE FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (FSB)[/strong...
Tennessee Times, July 2008: A new unauthorized biography of Al Gore will hit the bookstores next month. It chronicles the Gore family history from the time the Patriarch Alphonsis Gorelescu left Europe and came to America, to his modern day heirs. Here is the frontispiece summary of this 3211 page coffee table book.
Washington DC, July 17, 2008: Presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain agreed today to challenge any quoted sound bite distortions and half truths employed by the media, during the rest of the campaign.
United Kingdom, July 2008: The Managers and Editors of TheSpoof, wish to inform the writers contributing material to this publication of appendages to the point counting system now in place. This step has been taken to level the playing field for all writers, so to speak.
Westminster Abbey, London/Washington DC: The story "Congress To repeal Law Of Gravity" written by Neil Levine on 16 July 2005, postulates that the US Congress is saying that what goes up does not have to come down, e.g. government involvement in everything! Following this story was another entitled &quo...
Hollywood CA, July 2008: In 2009 a new awards ceremony is to be held in Tinsel town. This gala event will feature the worst domestic and foreign political films of the last 15 years. One can expect to see the best decorated boobs in the film industry walking down the red carpet with their spouses.
July, 11, 2008...
Tehran, Iran, June, 2008: This reporter caught up with the Iranian president at the Tehran airport, as he was about to leave for a meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Through his interpreter, he said there was only time for 10 questions about Iranian society. The reader should be aware that President Ahmadinejad always claims he is being misquoted in the American media.
New York, NY, July 2008: MTV graciously hosted, in their New York studios, the first Presidential candidate's debate for the general election of 2008. Ralph Nader, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain and Ron Paul were invited to participate.
Washington DC: The presidents Cabinet includes the Vice President, the heads of 15 executive departments plus various agency administrators/directors. Here are some educated guesses by Karl Rove of the Fox News Channel for the presumptive Democratic president Obama's cabinet.
Emerald City: My grandfather told me this fable about three executives and the raising of a chicken. Each man in their own turn managed the same magnificent Company. The three were Jimmy, Ron and George.
Washington DC, June 11, 2008: An old beat up audio tape recording has been found under the carpet in the oval office of the White House. The tape had been there since November 2000 but was constantly overlooked, as the current occupant spends most of his time in Dick Cheney's office. The recorded conversation is between President Clinton and Vice President Gore discussing the upcoming preside...
Last evening on the Fox News Channel program "The No Spin Zone," host Bill O'Reilly interviewed the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. The topic for discussion was how do you tell if a person is not a racist?...
Now that the Democratic Party Primary Election season is almost over, Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has settled the disenfranchisement fiasco of voters in Florida and Michigan, an almost unified Democratic Party is moving forward to the August 2008 convention in Denver Colorado. New Democratic Party bumper stickers have been seen around Washington DC.