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Unread postby Leanan » Tue 31 May 2005, 17:46:24

If you read it in Weekly World News, it must be true. ;-)

I was at the grocery store today, and saw this week's cover. It predicts a "second great depression," arriving this July. The picture showed George Bush holding a tin mug in his hands, like one of those '30s "brother can you spare a dime" types. The sub headline said, "You'll never guess who'll be in the soup line."

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')An economic tsunami is about to slam into America," warned top Wall Street financial analyst Susan Lurkowitz, who has multiple contacts on the council.

"According to the council's projections, 3.2 million Americans will starve to death within the first year of the Second Great Depression -- and 68 million more will perish in the social upheaval spawned as our country falls apart."


http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/61688

No, I don't think the economy will collapse in July, and I certainly don't think President Bush will be in any soup lines. But they may be more right than they know when it comes to the "second great depression" part.
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Unread postby Aaron » Tue 31 May 2005, 17:52:43

I just saw GW's chopper motorcycle...

It has an elephant-skin seat.

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Unread postby Tuike » Tue 31 May 2005, 18:01:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Council of Economic Advisors has delivered a secret report to President Bush warning that the United States is on the brink of a Second Great Depression, due to arrive in mid-July!


If the report is "secret", how WWN knows about it? :roll:

EDIT: I just browsed the site and it's full of fake news. It's worse than rense.com
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Unread postby jaws » Tue 31 May 2005, 18:49:21

It's a lame attempt to discredit all of the sane and rational people who are predicting an economic depression.
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Unread postby Mo_Oil_Dave » Tue 31 May 2005, 19:40:14

Hello there...

Well.... I just Googled "Susan Lurkowitz". And surprise, surprise! Google came up empty, nada, zilch, big goose egg. If she is a big financial analyst why does she not show up? Heck even I show up when I Google myself, and I take great pride on being an absolute nobody.

Maybe Google is just having a bad day.

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Unread postby Tanada » Tue 31 May 2005, 20:35:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mo_Oil_Dave', 'H')ello there...

Well.... I just Googled "Susan Lurkowitz". And surprise, surprise! Google came up empty, nada, zilch, big goose egg. If she is a big financial analyst why does she not show up? Heck even I show up when I Google myself, and I take great pride on being an absolute nobody.

Maybe Google is just having a bad day.

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For all those overseas or just out from under a rock, Weekly World News is agreat fun paper to read, but every item in it is a pun or joke on the news. Nobody but the way out lunatics take anything WWN says as serious, they routinely report "President X of Country Y is really a space alien and we have the pictures to prove it!"

I read it about once a year for humor, never ever ever for news!
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Unread postby Hubbert2005 » Tue 31 May 2005, 21:35:10

That's interesting Leenan, a few months back I saw one of those supermarket mags that had a headline which read something like:

"You better spend all your money now, because in 6 months it will be worthless!"

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Unread postby Dan1195 » Wed 01 Jun 2005, 20:37:35

Its the sterotype for tabloid, though it really has little in common with gossip rags like the enquirer. They are put under to same classification, but completely different pubs.
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Unread postby strider3700 » Wed 01 Jun 2005, 21:14:13

WWN is great. I'd vote for BatBoy as president. And the 50 lb grasshopper picture was classic.
shame on us, doomed from the start
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Unread postby Leanan » Sat 04 Jun 2005, 09:00:56

Yes, WWN is pretty much tongue-in-cheek. Unlike other tabloids, they barely even pretend to be a real paper.

I hope I didn't mislead anyone. I just thought it was amusing.

FWIW, I read the article in the grocery store. They blame the "second great depression" on our runaway debt.
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Unread postby joewp » Sat 04 Jun 2005, 14:03:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'F')WIW, I read the article in the grocery store. They blame the "second great depression" on our runaway debt.


I read WWN while on line in the grocery store too. Does anyone actually buy it?
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Unread postby Tyler_JC » Sat 04 Jun 2005, 15:01:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')es, WWN is pretty much tongue-in-cheek. Unlike other tabloids, they barely even pretend to be a real paper.


WHAT????

ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT DICK CHENEY IS NOT A BABY-EATING ROBOT???

OMG, I'VE BEEN LIED TO MY ENTIRE LIFE!!

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Unread postby cammo2004 » Sat 04 Jun 2005, 15:20:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'F')WIW, I read the article in the grocery store. They blame the "second great depression" on our runaway debt.


I read WWN while on line in the grocery store too. Does anyone actually buy it?


Hmm, now unless you're carrying a Wireless internet enabled laptop around with you in the supermarket, I think it's unlikely you were online.

Sorry, couldn't resist. :lol:
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Unread postby Leanan » Sat 04 Jun 2005, 19:35:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')RE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT DICK CHENEY IS NOT A BABY-EATING ROBOT???


Well, that part might be true. And the thing about James Carville being related to the Batboy. :)
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