Connie Fogal: Questions asked about Canada by potential visitors for the Olympics

Sure hope those BC folks are ready for 2010!
Subject: Vancouver 2010 — Questions Asked –
 
Because Everyone In Canada Lives In An Igloo.
 
Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, these are some questions people from all over the world are asking.
 
Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted [...]

Tax Rebates..Stimulating Everyone’s economy but ours!

This was sent to us by several readers of the PPJ.  You could almost laugh if it wasn’t so true!
 
Your Tax Rebate:
 The federal government is sending each and every one of us a
 $600 rebate..
 If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China. (and Bentonville, AR)
 If we spend it on gasoline it [...]

Creative Financing Via Creative Government Funding

Dear Internal Revenue Service:
Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00
in taxes.  Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper;
dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense)
is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.
I am enclosing four (4) toilet [...]

Political Correctness Defined

The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas
A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a
contemporary term. This year’s term was “Political Correctness.”
 
The winner wrote:

“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,

and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous ‘mainstream’media, which holds forth the proposition that it [...]