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Ice Sales to Mexico Leaves Chilly Legacy
Canadian and American relations, already strained by a colander of diplomatic discrepancies, has dipped farther still with the confirmation that Canada will go ahead with controversial ice sales to Mexico.
The undocumented, yet frozen, water will be delivered Friday in time for tourist season. The flow of visitors has diminished do to drug violence near the borders. It is hoped that serious efforts to improve the situation will end a message that everything is safe in Mexico.
If all goes according to plan the ice will be air-dropped to a remote mountain location next week. Residents in the landing zone have been warned to vacate the premises immediately. Transportation to safe havens has been arranged.
“After all of the bad press and animosity over immigration the last thing we want to do is run out of ice,” said a spokesperson for the travel industry in Guadalajara. “When the United States got weird and started the hesitate we called up Canada.”
Canada has more ice in reserve than any nation on earth including Russia. The arrival of an undisclosed amount of Mexican pesos could keep the Canadian lights on this winter. The legitimate sale is still pending in the Canadian parliament but is expected to pass easily on Monday.
There is still little word on what conflicts precipitated the arrangement. Mexico and the US have been buying and selling ice since the Mexican War in 1848.
Insiders say the neighbor to the south has become edgy when dealing with The Iceman across the Rio Grande. Rumors continue to fly regarding three new hockey rinks on the drawing board in Veracruz, Durango and Mexico City.
– Rocky Flats
“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots. Leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver.”
– Countess Markievicz, 20th Century Irish Revolutionary
Man Not Baker But Ross
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many long tedious years later. To his friends Bonzo Stiltze had always thought he was Josephine Baker, even from the beginning he accepted, and some say reveled, in the fact that he was the sultry Black American dancer who had taken Paris by storm in the 30s. Films of the snaky moves and seductive trances common to Baker scattered his shabby flat. Song and dance routines were second nature to Stilze.
“It was fun to be Josephine,” said Stiltze, an undertaker by trade who lives with his mother in someone’s suburbs.
Then one day he woke up and realized that he was not Josephine Baker at all but rather Dianna Ross.
“After all these years it’s quite a relief to know the truth no matter how painful,” said Stilze in a television interview. “I’ve always liked Detroit and I can’t wait to meet the other Supremes.”
– Quartney Pettifogger
Proof: Vietnamese are really Coon Asses too
Political comment in Hoi An?
Food – Not Bombs Bill Killed in House
(Warshington) A controversial Food Not Bombs bill was staunchly defeated in the House today, empowering hawks and leaving sponsors in dismay. In a nutshell the bill would have replaced weaponry with bread.
Although the details were sketchy going in the program would run along the lines of the successful Marshal Plan adopted following the isolation of Berlin in 1946. Instead of dropping bombs the US Air Force would food in rubber bales that would bounce, thus not demolishing at impact on the ground.
USA would be clearly marked on the packages of food wit the hopes that hungry people would see who was feeding them and who was just whistling Dixie in the theater of foreign aid.
“Ain’t no money in feeding people for free,” said a congressman from Kentucky.
“War is profitable.”
Supporters of the bill argue that morally is not the issue here. They insist it is much cheaper to feed people than bomb them with much more desirable results down the road. They add that there are slimmer provisions for corruption and graft. Plus it could be good for our farmers.
“What is this whistling Dixie?”asked a Russian observer attached to the House of Representatives. “We say fart in the cold. Is this the same idea?”
Meanwhile the Corps of Engineers, bridge builders extraordinaire, continues with plans to construct a concrete bridge from Washington to the Great Midwest in hopes of developing a dialogue and maybe encourage cultural exchanges.
Many American farmers. often subsidized by the gov’mernt for not growing food, have long been wary of federal programs wondering aloud who’s knocking down the bowling pins in this program.
“We figure if they’re giving us a shovel of easy money they must be making a truckload,’ said Slim Brennan-Zappa, a dental floss magnate from Germantown, Ohio.
Chubby Bunnies Support Group Sets Agenda
Montrose will be the hub for a new non-profit community support group aiming to serve the needs of an at risk community that has only recently discovered their at-riskness.
The group, calling themselves Chubby Bunnies, has formed in response to the notable rise in numbers of noticeably rotund vegetarians rolling through western slope farmers’ markets and organic grocery stores. The highest numbers of these porky veggers have been found in small, trendy mountain towns locally and, not surprisingly, throughout the infamously enlightened North Fork area.
Chubby Bunnies’ Executive Director Hope N. Goodwill offered the following background:
“Chubby Bunnies came together because many of us, like me, thoroughly enlightened, self-sacrificing, community oriented people who have chosen to save the planet by shunning meat at meal-time, have also faced the terrifying reality of waking up one day as a pre-menopausal vegetarian who has exploded to four times her pre-vegetarian dress size. Believe me, all you can think of at that horrific moment when you finally look in the mirror and come to terms with an unfamiliar super-sized no-meat you, is, ‘how could it be? I’m a vegetarian!'”
The trend from enlightenment to too-much-of-a-good-thing is not confined to Montrose, as many do-gooders across the nation are suffering the image busting truth of too many taters. A member of the Chubby Bunnies support group who has desperately begged to remain anonymous, put the pain of her journey this way:
“I basically ate every single food item known to man that was not meat. And usually six times more of it than I used to in order to take my mind off of steak. While I became a vegetarian out of a desire to do good in the world, once I realized that most of my favorite comfort foods had nothing to do with meat, I became a monster. I just kept telling myself, ‘Go ahead, grab another three helpings of mashed potatoes and gravy. Eat mac n cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner every Thursday. Baklava? Ha! Bring it on! I am a vegetarian. I am immune to fat.’ Those of us who have joined Chubby Bunnies are beginning to deal with the stark truth that vegetarians are, actually, not immune to fat.”
Without being asked for comment, local Cattlemen’s Association president Louis L’Amour remarked to a group of old men at the truck stop diner that “there’s not one good reason to be a vegetarian if you’re going to be fat. All them Chubby Bunnies ought to just go back to eating ribs and bacon again and forget about this business once and for all.”
More information about Chubby Bunnie support services, including the Grants-for-Granola project, can be found by visiting the Chubbie Bunnies main office, located conveniently above the Stone Cold Creamery in Montrose, or by calling 1-800-NoMoreCheese, or by visiting online at www.peelonelesspotatoe.org.
Lina Baqure
