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Entries from December 2002

Post-Holiday Sale Slashes Price On Iraq War

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(2002-12-31) — Veteran shoppers know the best prices of the year are just after the holidays, and this year is no exception, even on the biggest-ticket item of all.
The U.S. Government has slashed the price of war on Iraq by 50-to-75 percent or more.
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the Office of Management and Budget, [...]

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Tags: Media/Journalism

Rangel Reveals New Universal Health Plan

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(2002-12-31) — Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, says he will introduce a universal health care bill this week, although most members of Congress will think it’s a military draft proposal.
“We’ve been looking for a way to get the government to provide health insurance for everyone,” said the lawmaker, “then it hit me. When I was in [...]

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Tags: Global News

Bush Threatens to ‘Beat Up’ Canada

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(2002-12-31) — In the wake of a survey which showed most Canadians think the United States is acting like a bully, President George Bush threatened to “beat up Canada…even the French parts.”
“Canada is acting like a sissy,” said the U.S. President. “And if it doesn’t stop whining, I’m going to wait for it to come [...]

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U.N. Monitors Say They’ll Miss N. Korea

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(2002-12-31) — United Nations weapons inspectors, who have stood guard for years as North Korea developed nuclear capabilities, say they will miss their old jobs, that one described as a “non-stop Communist party”.
“The restaurants, the bars, the companions-we’ll miss everything about this job,” said one inspector with the International Atomic Energy Agency. “I didn’t realize [...]

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Spiderman Rescues Baby from Clone Cult, Destroys Lab

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(2002-12-29) — Spiderman rescued ‘Baby Eve’ yesterday from the clutches of the cult leader, Rael, and destroyed the laboratory where the Raelians were working on a scheme to achieve immortality by implanting their own brains into cloned bodies.
According to a front page story in The Daily Bugle, the web-slinging superhero was briefly distracted by the [...]

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Tags: Global News

Winston Smith Wins Powerball Lottery

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(2002-12-25) — Winston Smith won about $300 million in the PowerBall lottery Wednesday. The man, whom George Orwell made famous as the protagonist in his novel “1984″, had not previously played the lottery.
In “1984″ George Orwell wrote:
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the [...]

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Tags: Global News

Leadership Vacuum May Spur Graham White House Run

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(2002-12-24) — U.S. Senator Bob Graham, D-FL, told a radio audience today that he may run for President in 2004 because he’s “not satisifed with the direction we are being lead today.”
“Our nation is a mess,” said Sen. Graham, “and clearly the other six potential Democrat candidates don’t have a clue what to do about [...]

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