Bush Sells Louisiana Back to French
BATON ROUGE, LA. – The White House announced today that President Bush
has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more
than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. “This is a bold
step forward for America,” said Bush. “And America will be stronger and
better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime
Minister Jack Sharaq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana
in exchange for 25 million dollars cash.”The state, ravaged by
Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to
rebuild.
“Jack understands full well that this one’s a ‘fixer upper,'” said
Bush. “He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that
water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they’ve got
a lot of work to do. But Jack’s assured me, if it’s not right, they’re
going to fix it.”The move has been met with incredulity from the
beleaguered residents of Louisiana.However, President Bush’s decision
has been widely lauded by Republicans. “This is an unexpected but
brilliant move by the President,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist. “Instead of spending billions and billions, and billions of
dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we’ve just made 25 million
dollars in pure profit.”
“This is indeed a smart move,” commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume.
“Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we’ve made
money on the deal. Plus, when the god-awful French are done fixing it
up, we can easily invade and take it back again.”The money gained from
‘T’he Louisiana Refund’ is expected to be immediately pumped into the
rebuilding of Iraq.
BSartist
September 28, 2005 @ 5:45 pm
Wow, I was never able to get into Harvard, but I was able to write something funny enough to be posted on a Harvard.edu blog. Sweet. Anyhow, please provide a link to http://www.bsnews.org/articles/56.
Thanks!
Daniel Q. Kelley
September 29, 2005 @ 7:49 pm
I do say, please don’t feel bad about not being able to get into Harvard. You’re a witty fellow, for a commoner. Perhaps spent too little time studying and too much time time tracking down your name on the internet. In any event, we have given you the link you requested–we had received your article by email from a friend without any attribution. Seriously, it’s funny. Good job.