September 20th 2006

Boeing
Boeing will be awarded a government contract to help secure the Mexican border. Apparently they are going to use a couple 747 engines to blow illegals back to Mexico.

Crime
According to the FBI's annual report on crime, based on 2005 statistics , the safest city in America is New York. Unfortunately crime in New York increased dramatically in the last 2 days with the arrival of the world leaders that came for the UN General Assembly.

Electronic Vote
More and more precincts in the US are going to use electronic machines for the midterm elections. Some people are concern that is some of the machines malfunction , the future of this country might be in the hands of a tech support guy in India.

Xmas
The National Retail Federation predicts Americans are going to spend $457 billion on gifts this holiday season. According to experts this amount would have tripled had Tom Delay still been in power.

Bush’s ratings
According to the latest "USA Today"/Gallup poll, president Bush’s approval rating bounced up to 44%. Coincidentally that is how much the price of gas is going to bounce up right after the elections.

According to the latest "USA Today"/Gallup poll, President Bush’s approval rating bounced up to 44%. Democrats were so depressed some of them indulged themselves on a spinach salad feast.

Surveys
According to The Carphone Warehouse, a British cell phone retailer, 91% of 12-year-olds in England have their own cell phone. The other 9% have their own toothbrush.

According to Match.com, the average person spends 336 hours of their life kissing. Right Wing media pundits tripled the amount of hours considering the time they spend kissing Bush’s ass.

A study by an economics professor at the University of Warwick in England finds that you need to win at least $2,000 in the lottery before the prize makes a long-term impact on your happiness. Long term equals the time you need to scratch the 2000 tickets you are going to buy with the money.

New York Times
The New York Times New has a new layout in which it tries to separate straight news from the opinion articles. Straight news will remain straight with a laid out in justified columns, with even margins on the left and right, whereas the terrorist commentaries everywhere else in the paper.

Oprah
Oprah’s interview with former governor McGreevy scored massive ratings. McGreevy discussed his struggles with homosexuality and other current issues like the E-coli outbreak, specially when he recommended to other people to toss the salad.