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Jim wrote:
BATON ROUGE, LA. - The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. "This is a bold step forward for America," said Bush. "And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Sharaq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash." The state, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild. "Jack understands full well that this one's a 'fixer upper,'" said Bush. "He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they've got a lot of work to do. But Jack's assured me, if it's not right, they're going to fix it." The move has been met with incredulity from the beleaguered residents of Louisiana. "Shuba-pie!" said New Orleans resident Willis Babineaux. "Frafer-perly yum kom drabby sham!" However, President Bush's decision has been widely lauded by Republicans. "This is an unexpected but brilliant move by the President," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Instead of spending billions and billions, and billions of dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we've just made 25 million dollars in pure profit." "This is indeed a smart move," commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume. "Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we've made money on the deal. The money gained from 'T'he Louisiana Refund' is expected to be immediately pumped into the rebuilding of Iraq. What wasn't included in this release is that all present and former Louisiana residents are being deported back to Canada. Canadian government representatives could not be reached for comment. |
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pennyaline wrote:
What wasn't included in this release is that all present and former Louisiana residents are being deported back to Canada. Canadian government representatives could not be reached for comment. No thanks. We don't want them. They never were Canadian. They were booted out of Acadia because they couldn't be trusted not to keep their word not to attack the American Colonies. They were evicted 100 years before Canada became a country. |
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In article , Jim
wrote: BATON ROUGE, LA. - The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. Hmmmmm. I'll have to think about this. It just might work. If sold, those conservative screwballs in Shreveport couldn't keep trying to take the spice out of New Orleans' hot sauce. And if the sale could be extended to the Louisiana Purchase, think of all those wuthless red states that we'd git shut of. But I don't think France could handle Kansas and Montana. I suspect they might try to sell them to Iran where fundamentalism is a way of life. |
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![]() "Stark" wrote in message And if the sale could be extended to the Louisiana Purchase, think of all those wuthless red states that we'd git shut of. But I don't think France could handle Kansas and Montana. I suspect they might try to sell them to Iran where fundamentalism is a way of life. I've had this idea of getting rid of the many politicians in Washington by combining states. Do we really need 100 senators? Let cut it in half or more. There won't be any North and South anything. Just make one big Carolina. Same with Dakota, but toss in Nebraska too as no one pays much attention to it anyway. Delaware and Maryland hardly take up any space so combine them with the Virginias. New Jersey has become a suburb of New York, so split it and give the other half to PA. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado makes a nice box of a state. You get the idea. Now we double the number of citizens represented by House members and effectively cut that group by half too. Can you see the streamlined efficient Congress now? |
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In article , Edwin
Pawlowski wrote: "Stark" wrote in message And if the sale could be extended to the Louisiana Purchase, think of all those wuthless red states that we'd git shut of. But I don't think France could handle Kansas and Montana. I suspect they might try to sell them to Iran where fundamentalism is a way of life. I've had this idea of getting rid of the many politicians in Washington by combining states. Do we really need 100 senators? Let cut it in half or more. There won't be any North and South anything. Just make one big Carolina. Same with Dakota, but toss in Nebraska too as no one pays much attention to it anyway. Delaware and Maryland hardly take up any space so combine them with the Virginias. New Jersey has become a suburb of New York, so split it and give the other half to PA. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado makes a nice box of a state. You get the idea. Now we double the number of citizens represented by House members and effectively cut that group by half too. Can you see the streamlined efficient Congress now? Don't forget Tenntucky and Missibama. Don't know what to do with Georgia. Move the Braves to Chattanooga, then sell it too along with Florida and Texas. |
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