No place for satire in this new world

[odditycollector]

Has everyone read that soon to be classic Onion article, Kobe Bryant Scores 25 In Holy Shit We Elected A Black President?

I only ask because I've just stumbled across a 4srs version:

 
Aliant promises broadband for all [the teensy weensy Canadian Province of] Prince Edward Island
By: Greg Meckbach - Network World Canada (13 Nov 2008)

The carrier plans to provide DSL for all communities in the province and use wireless backhaul to connect them to the Internet. Will Barack Obama be able to bring similar service to America?
 

...Under the agreement, Aliant agreed to spend $8.2 million, with no government funding, to bring broadband access for any Islander who wants it. The “majority of expansion" will be "completed by 2009,” the company said.

Aliant plans to provide the service using Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology with wireless backhaul, said Bruce Howatt, Aliant’s vice-president for Prince Edward Island.

“It will be mainly wireline high speed based on DSL and there will be a wireless backhaul component to it,” he said. “This expansion will allow us to provide high speed services in every community in Prince Edward Island”

Meanwhile, as Obama prepares to take the reigns of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government from President George W. Bush, a lobbyist suggests the economic crisis may make it difficult for Obama to fulfill a key campaign pledge.

...Obama’s staff did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Network World Canada, though his campaign manager, David Plouffe, asked a reporter to buy a T-Shirt for $30 to help pay off campaign debt.

Comments

[brownbetty]

Aaahahaaahaaa AWESOME. Oh, the Onion. Oh, real life.

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that PEI is trying very hard to impress its (very numerous) Japanese tourists.

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

Reins, dammit, he is taking the reins of the Executive Branch. I can't even think of a sentence in which "taking the reigns" would be correct, but it is certainly not this sentence.

...sorry. Pet peeve. :)

Also...

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

I mean, as an American, I'm as excited about Obama's presidency as the next man (provided the next man is also an extremely progressive democrat).

But this is a story about a combination of two of the things I love most: broadband wireless and Anne of Green Gables. Stick to the facts, people. How can I think of politics when I can now email that plucky redhead and her adoptive parents! Or their ghosts, anyway.

This surreal, half-serious statement brought to you by MATTHEW!!?! HOW COULD THEY TAKE YOU FROM US!!?! YOU WERE TOO YOUNG!?!?