Saturday, September 09, 2006

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

Today's newspaper just had so many amazing things I have to devote a post...

Viva España! According to the AP, Spain's top fashion show, the Pasarela Cibeles, has refused to allow models to appear whose body mass index is less than 18. Too skinny models, the Madrid regional government fears, will encourage young women to starve themselves; they want models who project "an image of beauty and health". Yes!

The town of Atherton, CA is now charging its residents $22 per cubic yard to haul dirt through the city streets. The town has a 30 foot height limit, so if you want to expand your house, you have to dig out the basement; and the excavation can cost you $50,000 and up. Before you feel too sorry for Atherton, remember that the average house price here is $2.5 million, and the area they're digging out for that basement can be as much as 20,000 square feet. A town with 2,500 houses has issued 3,600 home-improvement permits in the last 5 years, so just maybe, the good burghers of Atherton might consider living with what they have for awhile??

The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded, after extensive study, that the CIA was right, and Saddam Hussein really didn't have any ties with Al Qaeda; in fact, he regarded it as a threat, and was actively trying to capture al-Zarqawi. And furthermore, they don't think the U.S. should have believed anything the Iraqi National Congress ever said about WMDs in Iraq... It's taken them 4 years to realize this?? Your tax dollars at work, as the mighty brains analyze the evidence.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:39 AM

    3 years, how many lives and how many Billions of dollars to find out what most people already knew. And you know the bummer of it all? Nothing will happen. Will Bush be impeached? No. Are we going to get that money back into the budget? No. Are they going to stop trying to push the "War on Terror" agenda to win the upcoming election? No. Are you going to see this on Fox News? Or anywhere else?

    Where is my ice cream...

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