Junk your clunker
Published 11:35 pm Friday, July 31, 2009
What can I get for a riding lawn mower? Responding quickly to concerns that the “Cash for Clunkers” program could run out of money, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to pump in another $2 billion to give buyers of new fuel-efficient cars $4,500 each to junk their gas guzzlers.
A provision was added that requires those participating to take back anything mean they may have said about Al Gore.
Speaking of gas guzzlers: Boeing has donated the engine from a 747 to Everett Community College’s Aviation Maintenance Technician School to serve as a training tool for the aviation workers of the future.
The students have already been told that they will not be allowed to strap the engine to a clunker to see “what this baby can do.”
Please to take us to Tim Horton’s: Canada is keeping an eye to the north after Russia announced plans to drop “paratroopers at the North Pole at a time when several Western Hemisphere nations are vying to assert jurisdiction over the Arctic.
It’s all becoming clear now: The real reason Sarah Palin, R-Bench Warmer, stepped down as governor was so she could devote herself full time to patrolling the Alaska coastline to watch for the head of Vladimir Putin to come into U.S. airspace.
