Note:  Between the time of the writing of this post and the publishing thereof, a compromise plan may have been found that will increase the debt ceiling while significantly reducing spending.  But, since I plan to spend most of my time between now and then drunk and will wake up Tuesday morning in an alleyway, […]

Dateline March 22, 1765.  Ye Olde New York Times The passage of the Stamp Act by our most glorious and liberal Parliament in London has embroiled these colonies in controversy.  And, in the opinion of Ye Olde New York Times, a needless, unnecessary and manufactured controversy engineered by conservative, selfish businessmen who, in contravention of […]

In wake of the burgeoning Operation Fast and Furious scandal President Obama today accepted the resignation of his attorney General Eric Holder. In accepting Holder’s resignation, President Obama praised his former Attorney General for his many contributions but also acknowledged that it was time to go in a new direction.  Said the President: It is […]

The Environmental Shakedown Protection Agency has ordered New York City to place a concrete containment dome over all of its upstate reservoirs. “The EPA requires that all water be enclosed after it is treated and decontaminated” said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. “Rules are rules.  And New York City must comply. You have a nice water […]

Dateline:  April 13, 2023. Displaying an unprecedented degree of impatience with its foremost debtor, The People’s Republic of China issued a statement today saying that the “United States must follow the directives that we want” or face the full “military might of China.” With the debt of the United States hovering at 90 percent of […]

President Obama met today with congressional leaders as the latest round of negotiations into increasing the country’s debt limit extended into the evening. The meeting started normally enough with President Obama welcoming congressional leaders to the oval office.  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor then complained that the cuts that were agreed to last week had […]

With the controversy swelling around the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Operation Fast and Furious, where as many as 2500 firearms were allowed to be sold illegally in a sting operation, other failed sting operations run by the government in the past have come to light. “We’ve been running sting operations for over 200 […]

MSNBC has placed its senior political analyst Mark Halperin under interdict for calling President Obama a “dick“, effectively removing his ability to celebrate the pro-Obama sacraments as a member of the MSNBC order. The statement from MSNBC’s chief priest Phil Griffin said in part: We at MSNBC take our orthodoxy to Obama very seriously.  Mark […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed a landmark bill that would make New York the first state in the Union to legalize the controversial practice of gay divorce. “It’s a civil rights issue” said the Governor as he signed the bill.   “Like blacks during the ’60s we must acknowledge the new civil rights movement […]

Though the economy is in a free-fall and unemployment hovers around double digits, President Obama still has his supporters.  In fact, many businesses are attempting to cash in on the Obama name. Chief among these is the newly-minted “Obama Fried Chicken” store in Harlem.   The owner said the name change was to show respect to […]