From My Facebook Feed: What Caused the D.C. Earthquake?

-By Warner Todd Huston

Here are some of the jokes that appeared on my FaceBook Page about what caused the earthquake in the Virginia/Washington D.C. area the other day.

I started the ball rolling with this:

Wait, is it true that the DC quake was triggered by someone dropping a copy of the Obamacare bill??

My friend Matt added:

Maybe it was the total bill for all of Michelle’s vacations.

Leo said:

Actually, it was the precipitous tanking of Obama’s approval ratings.


John then said:

I thought the planet would begin to heal after Obama was elected. Another broken campaign promise!

Jay averred:

No! the quake was George Bush’s fault.

I added:

White House Press release: “Yesterday’s earthquake has been identified as having run from Texas to Vir. It’s the Bush’s Fault Line.”

Bob said:

Michael Moore fell out of bed.

John R insisted:

It was the US Tax Code.

Doug snickered:

No, someone knocked over a stack of the tax code.

Erik corrected:

John, Doug – dropping the us tax code is at least a 7.0

Doug countered:

But tipping the stack over (as opposed to dropping it) is good for a 5.8 or so!

Erik replied:

New flash – it was not an earthquake – it was a 142 trillion dollar check – bouncing.

Ah, yes, my Facebook friends are a laugh a minute. We must laugh in the face of all this destruction wrought by Obama and his Democrat Party, after all. We must laugh or we’d collapse in despair!
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“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.

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