July 4, 2008
July 3, 2008
July 2, 2008
YOS Productions Presents: Ye Olde Scribe’s Presidential Portraits
What if they allowed Scribe to repaint all the portraits on, or about to be hung, or might be hung, on the White House walls? How should they be remembered? What should be their legacy? That’s what the current portraits DON’T offer. Here are a few changes Scribe might make, with a few captions…
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July 1, 2008
YOUR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL DEBT
Your share of the national debt: $30,000
Strained government resources puts total at $9.13 trillion
The US National debt has reached a record new high of $9,000,000,000,000.00. (It would be too easy to just say $9 trillion, you have to make the reader count the zeros so it looks bigger). There are about $300 million US citizens, meaning every man woman and child owes $30,000.
Your share of the national debt: $30,000 AND GROWING!
Strained government resources puts total at $9.13 trillion
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Ye Olde Scribe’s Second Creature Feature: The Tree of Liberty
Uncle Sam, Mother Liberty and Ye Olde sat at the dinner table sipping coffee. They were talking about the Tree of Liberty that they had been keeping in their house for closing in on three hundred years.
“Yeah,” Sam said, “the little bastard broke into our house, keeps roaming around defiling it and he poisoned our damn tree. The cops won’t do anything. The Congress refuses to do anything. I’ve tried to toss him out on his ass, but he’s a slimy, slipper motherfu…”
“Sam,” Mother said, “LANGUAGE!”
“Sorry, Mother.”
“Well, Scribe, he’s suppose to be leaving in a few months… though I’ll believe it when it happens.”
Two children: two boys, played on the floor…
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