Posted on 04/01/2009 7:05:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
May Day came early this year and Friday the 13th came late and on a Tuesday...
It’s been claimed that Obama forcing GM and Chrysler to suspend participation in NASCAR is an April Fool’s joke. But, if so, Car & Driver magazine has been taken in by it, too. I’m not so sure it’s a joke at this point. Progresso-fascists have hated NASCAR for a long time.
That happened to me, too...
If you have a Blackberry, go to Google and download the “Brain Search” feature.
I see it differently. Our country may not have four years left if we don't get our heads out of the sand. It's not misery, it's desperate times calling for desperate measures. Have your fun if you want. Some of us feel that a day wasted is a day the govt has to get ahead of us.
While stationed there in the late '70s, the BBC (the Beeb, as they call it) pulled one I still laugh about.
The morning radio reporter announced that since GB had been on daylight savings time for 24 years, the calendar was now one day of synch. In order to correct that, they were going to skip that day, which was a Friday, and go directly to Saturday. Therefore all the early risers could go back to bed and sleep in.
Quite a large number failed to show for work that April Fools day!
- Squeez Bacon
- Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
- Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
- Super Pii Pii Brothers (for the Wii)
"To the Engineering staff: Our facility has been open for a few years, and I have been advised by the maintenance department that they need to blow out the phone system to keep the dust from affecting our phone service. This will be done after 5pm, today. To prevent the dust from dirtying your work area, please either put your phone in the desk drawer when you leave today, or stop into the Document Control department where I have stocked several paper dust bags you can secure your phone inside to prevent the spread of the dust."I actually had several people show up looking for their bags!
2) In that department, we kept a small bowl on our front counter, filled with candy, snacks, etc. I had been shipped some computer parts in styrofoam "peanuts" except these looked *exactly* like extruded orange cheese curls. I put a bowl of them on the counter, and just stopped about a half-a-dozen professional mechanical engineers from actually eating them!
3) Today, I sent out an email at work, headed "Tire Discounters Promotion:
You know the deal with putting nitrogen in your tires? I heard on the radio that they are "going hybred" and trying the same thing using hydrogen. The lift is supposed to increase your gas milage! Man, what a cool world we live in!
>> Our country may not have four years left if we don’t get our heads out of the sand.
You’re on FR. Our heads aren’t in the sand.
>> It’s not misery, it’s desperate times calling for desperate measures.
I fail to see how squelching “fun” qualifies as an effective “desperate measure”. Sounds more like “misery enjoys company” — I’m not having any fun, and neither should you!
>> Have your fun if you want. Some of us feel that a day wasted is a day the govt has to get ahead of us.
And some of us feel that whether our day is wasted has nothing whatosever to do with the government.
SnakeDoc
There was a Pied Piper who said,
“We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change it!”
*And the people said, “Change is good!”
Then he said, “We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,”
*And the people said “Sock it to them!”
“and redistribute their wealth.”
*And the people said, “Show me the money!”
And then he said, “Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody”
*And Joe the plumber said, are you kidding me?”
And Joe’s personal records were hacked and publicized.
*And one lone reporter asked, “Isn’t that Marxist policy?”
And she was banished from the kingdom!
Then someone asked, “With no foreign relations experience, how will you deal with radical terrorists?”
And the Pied Piper said, “Simple. I’ll sit down and talk with them and show them how nice we really are and they’ll forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!”
Then the Pied Piper said, “I’ll give 95% of you lower taxes.”
*And one, lone voice said, “But 40% of us don’t pay ANY taxes.”
So the Pied Piper said, “Then I’ll give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!”
*And the people said, “Show me the money!”
Then the Pied Piper said, “I’ll tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!”
*And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed.
And he said, “I’ll mandate employer- funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage.”
*And the people said, “Gim’me some of that!”
Then he said, “I’ll penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.”
*And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”
Then the Pied Piper actually said, “I’ll bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!”
*And the people said, “Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part about higher electric rates.”
So the Pied Piper said, “Not to worry. If your rebate isn’t enough to cover your expenses, we’ll bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!”
Then he said, “Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing.”
*And the people said, “Ole`! Bravo!” And they made him King!
And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy slowed even further. Then the Pied Piper said, “I am the Messiah and I’m here to save you! We’ll just print more money so everyone will have enough!” But our foreign trading partners said, “Wait a minute. Your dollar isn’t worth what it was. You’ll have to pay more.”
*And the people said, “Wait a minute. That’s not fair!”
And the world said, “Neither are these other, idiotic programs you’ve embraced. You’ve become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you’ll play by our rules!”
*And the people said, “What have we done?”
But it was too late.
If you think this is a fairy tale, open your eyes and ears. It’s happening RIGHT NOW!
Did you know the president’s name is really an acronym…
One Big Ass Mistake America!!!
Obama orders Chevy and Dodge out of NASCAR
Is that naked little child searching for lice?
ROFL
ping
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