Highlands School District officials of Natrona, Pennsylvania, fired Special Education aide Abbiejane Swogger when she failed to report to work on either Thursday or Friday last week., according to Superintendent Karol Galcik. The minimum wage job did not require a drug test or, apparently, any background check of ANY kind as a condition of her employment. "Sure, we knew she was a former exotic dancer, had used drugs, given crazed parties, and was deemed a general social pariah, but who... Read Full Story
While McCain staffers handled the recent uproar over a supposed liaison with a former lobbyist/worker under the employ of the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency, The Rag Box has found evidence that Sen. John McCain has had a life long interest in cross dressing. And while not as potentially harmful as the New York Times, Vicki Iseman, 40'ish story, it nevertheless paints a picture of a man with increasing appetites for the unusual. The Rag Box debated for approximately 2... Read Full Story
" I knew the cheating bastards would finally get what was coming to them." Former Miami Dolphin Coach Don Shula was misquoted last night by a reporter with a failed microphone as saying that the New England Patriots had cheated their way into Super Bowl XLII and deserved to lose due to the infamous N.Y. Jets incident earlier this year in which game plan information had been purportedly recorded by New England to gain an unfair advantage between the Patriots and Jets. What Shula had... Read Full Story
Pentagon Sources in the United States are close to implementing a plan for the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, thus anhiliating the religion of Islam in the Arab world. The bombing of the rock will require three cruise missles which will ensure enough radioactive power to destroy and morevover, essentially reduce to the Dome of the Rock to glass, which will be used as a window in the construction of the new World Trade Center in New York City, NY. The result would magnifiy and make... Read Full Story
Coach Tom Coughlin of the N..Y Football's Giants has given the team the week off in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico prior to this Sunday's Super Bowl. "There may be some who would suggest that this is a bad idea, considering what happened to Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys, but it is our belief that this was an isolated incident and that our team should not be denied an opportunity to relax prior to the most important sports event in their lives.," Coughlin was quoted a saying, according to a hotel... Read Full Story
The Rag Box has learned that the death of Heath Ledger has failed to arouse the interest of the Arab World, much less the remainder of the planet outside the United States and possibly Australia, which, for whatever reason, seems ever interested in the lives of people who appear briefly on film and then become the subjects of TV biographies years later when most everyone will be saying, "who the hell was Heath Ledger?" The question will be found in an upcoming episode of Jeopardy under the... Read Full Story
While the Russians claim that a pre-emptive Nuclear strike is not "off the table for them" the U.S. has countered that it would be well for the Russians to consider the fact that a U.S pre-emptive strike is not only off the table, it's at the center of the table, and if the Russians get a little itchy in the trigger finger, they had better wipe the fingers clean before they wind up glowing in the Siberian winter like a never ending radio active camp fire. The Russians, under the leadership... Read Full Story
With the Iowa primaries just on the horizon, former Senator, John Edwards, Dem. North Carolina, attempts to attract the "swing" votes in the state by drawing attention to the only real industry remaining in Iowa since the shut down of the last Maytag plant. Driving up to a potential voter known only as Trixie, Edwards promised tax relief for working women and medical care for those whose hips have been damaged due to excessive work loads placed on them by long hours and uncaring management... Read Full Story
The list of Idaho Senator Larry Craig's "companions" appears to be growing exponentially. Eight men have allegedly stepped forward to incriminate Senator Craig with reference to the performance of sexual acts at various times. This, in addition to Craig having been caught in a sex sting operation in a public restroom where his shoe allegedly made contact with the shoe of a person in the next stall. Allegedly, Craig's hand was also involved in some way in that incident. Senator Craig has... Read Full Story
The Stock Market dropped over 300 points today, but the nation's poor basically went on about their business, collecting hand outs, rummaging through garbage, and panhandling in the few places which have not yet passed laws against the activity. Of course, millions of middle class Amercians also know nothing of the stock market and do not possess what is known in to the upper classes as a "portfolio". Tom Striggles, who has been an indigent for over 20 years marveled recently when told that... Read Full Story
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