Posted on 02/06/2009 9:15:59 AM PST by dighton
WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced his resignation this morning amid new reports that Alameda County workers had unearthed more than a dozen additional dead hobo bodies at his former home in Berkeley, California. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist had been the subject of a week-long controversy after he amended his White House application form to declare “3 or 4” hobo corpses in his crawl space, but after this morning’s discovery, Chu said he felt he could no longer serve as an effective spokesman for Administration energy policy.
“Getting America on the road to energy independence requires a secretary focused full time on developing comprehensive strategies for alternative fuels, rather than a political distraction over a handful of decomposing drifters,” said Chu. “I’m afraid I am no longer that person.”
Chu said he would return to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he will resume his scientific work investigating particle dynamics and local homeless shelters. President Obama said he would accept the resignation with regret, and expressed hope that a new Secretary could be named within the week.
The Drifters had some good music!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Things are so bad now I had to read the article very carefully to determine whether or not it was satire.
I’m still not sure.
So,-- how did they get there?
Reminds me of Wayne Gasey. Does his refrigerator sleep 6?
“That’s not the Chu En Lai I once knew.”
Another good man hounded out for mere trifles.
Usually, in the past, Iowahark wrote satire. When did he switch to straight reporting?
Dead hobos can be a problem in Pasadena. The latest City Ordinance requires that they be buried at least 6 feet under a perennial border. The previous ordinance was OK with them stuck away in a crawl space or attic.
My sympathies are with the good Dr. Chu, as many friends of mine have asked me to clarify this well-intentioned but complex and changing city ordinance. ordinance.
Give the man some slack! It was an honest mistake. Besides, our “hobo corpse disposal” laws are so complex that no one understands them anyway!
I know, he had me going!
Aw, man, this is nuthin’. I’m a member of Friends Of Ebola myself. Viruses gotta eat, same as worms...
The hobos died from hypothermia after Chu denied them coal for a fire on an unusually cold day for California.
At what point does this become a murder investigation?
Even a negligent homicide???
The same as if some kid drowned in the neighbors swimming pool?
ROFL!
You know, in retrospect, the “Dead Hobo Storage” sign out front should have been a giveaway.
He put them in his crawl space, and his wife apparently never noticed the odd odor in the house.
Thank goodness for the satire keyword. This admin is already so ridiculous that it really is necessary to check the source and keywords regardless of how “out there” the story may be.
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