Archive for the 'America' Category

Airlines Act to Protect Passengers with Trained Dogs. — (from eGrumps) — April 13, 2010

In an effort to protect American airliners, President Obama announced the formation of a dog corps, designed to sniff out trouble before it begins. This is the story of the first graduate. A man is seated in an airliner, which is about to take off when another man with a Labrador retriever occupies the empty [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Census — Fatal Flaws – Be Very Concerned!!! (from eGrumps) — March 27, 2010

To: Robert M. Groves, Director U. S. Census Dear Mr. Groves: I have previously posted about your (our)(America’s) problem with the census you are taking. (See my posts of March 18 and March 22) I wrote about the enclosure letter I received with the census form and the separate letter that your Department subsequently sent. [...]

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Transparency Credits – A New Approach by President Obama to both Fulfill His Campaign Promise and to Help Reduce the Deficit.

Washington D. C. February 25, 2010                                                                   Special to eGrumps In an effort to defuse scathing criticism about the lack of transparency  in [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Sarah Palin – The Handwriting Is On The Hand – Technological Obsolescence – Criticism Mounts

Washington D. C. February 11, 2010                  (exclusive to eGrumps) Strong criticism has been levied at Governor Pallin’s use of her hand to store crib notes for her speech at the Tea Party Convention. Various reasons for the criticism have been advanced including an allegation that she obviously [...]

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Las Vegas – President Obama Cautions about Using College Tuition Money to Finance a Trip to Vegas (Unless You Win)

Washington, D. C. (February 2, 2010)           (Not exclusive to eGrumps) A special slightly schizophrenic alert has been issued: February 2, 2010: In Nashua, New Hampshire President Obama stated “When times are tough….You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.” (I think most [...]

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Homeland Security – Failure to Connect Dots – New Foolproof Machines

Washington, D. C. (January 8, 2010) (Special to eGrumps) The Department of Homeland Security after an exhaustive review of the “security measures” in place to protect our country is instituting a  novel approach to provide greater security for Americans. Legal Aliens, and Illegal Aliens residing in the United States. Citing the difficulty in not providing [...]

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Senator-of-The-Year Award —NOT – Sen. Conrad (D – ND) – Civil Trial for Kahali Sheikh Mohammad

Washington D. C., November 27, 2009              (Commentary from eGrumps) eGrumps is proud to announce his highly prized “Senator-of-The-Year Award  – NOT” (so far)  to North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad for his comment about those opposed to trying KSM in a civilian court in New York City. It seems he [...]

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Thanksgiving One Line Jokes and Comments

eGrumps, the owner of the other subprime web site, http://pithycomments.com, has generously not objected to our posting the following which we stole from him, which he, of course,  stole from others. It’s Thanksgiving – hooray!! By special dispensation from eGrumps, all diets are automatically suspended until Friday, November 27, 2009. I knew you were waiting [...]

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

President Obama – The Nobel Peace Prize and the Heisman Trophy

Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009    (Satirical Comment by eGrumps) President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to bring peace to the world. His staff expressed surprise, but there is little doubt that all 34 Czars appointed by President Obama submitted his nomination to the Committee. An anonymous Czar stated that the [...]

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Obama – Thirty Million Cannot Get Health Insurance (Huh(?)

In the drive to get Obamacare enacted in some form, President Obama in his speach, said the 30,000,000 “cannot” get health insurance. Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget, said that figure was based upon “Census Bureau data.” Wrong, wrong, wrong – the Census Bureau does not report who “cannot” get health [...]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Obama Issues Criteria Used to Determine Whether America Would Meddle in the Affairs of Other Nations.

(Washington D.C. June 20, 2009)(exclusive to eGrumps) The Administration, when asked at a press conference what factors they had used in determining whether America would “meddle” in the internal affairs of other countries gave a quite satsifactory explanation, they said.  Pressed as to why America has said it would not “meddle” in Iran, but apparently [...]

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Plan for Solving Repayment of Debt to China and Restoring California’s Solvency.

(Washington D.C, June 8, 2009) (exclusive to eGrumps) President Obama has come up with a plan to satisfy The United State’s debt to China. Expressing his concern over how this debt would ever be repaid, he has come up with an ingenious solution which, he said, was a win-win solution. In complete cancellation of America’s debt [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Medical Care Plan – Rationing and Free Aspirin

(Washington, D. C., June 6, 2009)(exclusive to eGrumps) The administration proudly announced that their proposed health care plan was financially very feasible. “This plan will work” said one spokesperson (who asked for anonynimity). Those who object to the plan have not considered the plan to reduce costs by limiting, or else reducing certain procedures. While [...]

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Shower Pool (Like A Car Pool) – California Water Shortage

(Sacramento,CA, June 2,2009)(Exclusive to eGrumps) In order to help solve the severe water shortage in the State of California, the Governor announced the formation of a new Shower Pool Department (“SPD”). The SPD would function like the existing car pool department. Each person who would like to take a shower with one or more other [...]

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

California to Seek Merger Partner – Obama Suggests the UAW

(Sacramento, CA, May 31,2009)(exclusive to eGrumps) In a desperate attempt to avoid bankruptcy, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced that the golden state of California was looking for a merger partner. He stated “Although we may be slightly tarnished because of a few small financial problems, California would make a great acquisition for another state,  a sovereign [...]

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Obama Appoints New CyberCzar to Protect America – Domestic Criticism May Be Silenced

Washington D.C, May 29, 2009 (Exclusive to eGrumps) In an effort to fill out the Cabinet of Czars, President BHO appointed a  new Cyber Czar whose job it will be to protect cyberspace from foreign based attacks on the American computer communication infrastructure, thus protecting the security of the United States. In addition domestic attacks [...]

Friday, May 29th, 2009

America Responds to No. Korean Nuclear Test and Missile Launches.

On April 12, 2009, after North Korea’s first missile launch, I wrote the following: “President Obama decided to take affirmative action against North Korea today. Expressing great admiration for the United Nations for planning to adopt a “presidential statement” on Monday condemning North Korea for their missile launch, he has ordered 100,000 paper copies of [...]

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Memorial Day 2009 – “To Absent Friends.”

  The Army has a toast:  “To Absent Friends.” As I drove  past the National Veterans Administration Cemetery yesterday, I saw hundreds of boy and girl scouts, with their leaders, placing a flag on each grave. While driving past it today, I saw thousands of American flags, one flying over each grave, I thought of that [...]

Sunday, May 24th, 2009