The Neverending Nonsense

My "buddie" Johnson sent me an email asking how things were going with the "bank." As if he didn't know. I also heard from the bank. They finally got around to asking me for 13 large. Here's the email I sent to Johnson in response:

Dear Johnson

I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. I've had to fly across the pond to the Colonies on some business and I'm still getting over my jet lag.

I received an email from the bank and there's a matter I don't quite understand. According to the email I am to remit the sum of $13,300 (USD) for something called "National Recovery Economic Charge." Do you know anything about this? Isn't this to come out of the 10% for the expenses of the transaction? It's bad enough I've got to give money to my scum sucking lawyer [I hold my own profession in such high regard don't I?], but I don't understand this charge.

Please advise as soon as possible.

C. Bawls

Just a little while longer and I'll be pulling the ripcord on Johnson. Just a little while longer.

File under Nigerian Email Buddies.

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Bush: Attacks Reflect U.S. Gains

From the Washington Post:

The president, speaking after attacks on police stations and a Red Cross facility in Iraq killed at least 35 people, said such attacks should be seen as a sign of progress because they show the desperation of those who oppose the U.S.-led occupation.

"The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react," Bush said as he sat in the Oval Office with L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq. He added: "The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become, because they can't stand the thought of a free society."

I guess the next thing he'll be telling us is the more people out of work, the better the economy is.

I got another couple of emails from my Nigerian friends. More about that tonight. Now, it's off to work.

File under Current Events.

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