Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The "Good News" for Tuesday

Tuesday is always a good day to visit "Some Assembly Required" -- so, we did.

The results to follow. By the way, please follow link to original (as always)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Called On Account of Rain: Global climate change has been postponed in Oregon because there isn't enough money in the Agriculture Department's budget to address the issue.

Hypocritical Oath: AARP, the old-folks insurance company, wants you to understand that cuts in Social Security are in their your best interest. They advocate only amputations that will “save” the program.

Cat/Bag: The US State Department wants $6.2 billion next year for its operations in Iraq, where 16,000 will be employed in the embassy alone. The budgetary request was justified by pointing out that “There's no other source of millions of new barrels in the pipeline anywhere in the world.”

Column A: In the US, 88% of the increase in real national income has gone to corporate profits, “while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1%.

Privatization: Two Pennsylvania judges got $2.6 million in kickbacks from a private, for-profit, prison company for sending 5,000 teenagers to jail.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

There's a lot more -- please go to the original -- read it, take two aspirin, call me in the morning (or not).

No comments: