 dave barry for some laughs with a little politics thrown in try dave barry s yearend recap here are two examples congress tried every remedy it knows ranging all the way from borrowing money from china and spending it on government programs to borrowing more money from china and spending it on government programs but in the end all of this stimulus created few actual jobs and most of those were in the field of tarball collecting and us intelligence intercepts a topsecret cable from iran to north korea apparently written in code stating ldquo thanks for selling us the buclear beapons rdquo in response the us threatens to impose harsh new sanctions that in the words of secretary of state hillary clinton ldquo will make the previous harsh sanctions that we threatened to impose seem like only moderate threatened sanctions and this time we are not kidding around rdquo all good humor has a hint of truth in it or in this case is 100 correct  