Rob's News

Since there's been precious little news on the professional front during this time of economic uncertainty, I have decided to change the thrust of this page. So, I am introducing...

ROB'S VIEW OF THE NEWS!

This will be both serious and satirical. Your job: figure out what is true and what is a joke.

Today's issue: Town Hall Meetings. It has come to my attention that people actually go to town hall meetings. There they put in their two cents worth of highly informed opinions such as- Government will make a list of which old people they are going to have knocked off for nonpayment of hospital bills, government will start deciding what age is old enough to be killed for not contributing to the profits of pharmaceutical companies, and my personal favorite- Sarah Palin's real next profession will be Tarot card reader in Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA.

These pearls of opinion are uttered by the same level-headed citizens who believe that President Obama was not really born in Hawaii, and even if he was, Hawaii is not really a state, but an outpost of Philippine communists.

Republicans appearing recently on "Real Time with Bill Maher" stated forcefully that it was not Republican operatives disrupting these town hall meetings. Today's New York Times revealed that this is indeed true. The people disrupting town hall meetings are actually hired proxies of pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyists.

Today's quiz: Is Hawaii an outpost of Philippine communists or are the people disrupting town hall meetings most likely hired goons of the pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies?