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April 27, 2003
Wealthy Neo-Cons Support Mars Invasion

(2003-04-27) -- Several syndicates of wealthy neo-conservatives are pumping money into private efforts to launch armed space vehicles which could mount an attack on Mars by 2007.

The self-described SpaceHawks say they can't wait for a government bureaucracy like NASA to develop American military power in the solar system.

Mars made the top of the list because of recent reports that it might contain some of the pre-cursors to life. The plans call for privately-funded civilian interplanetary militias to occupy Mars and prevent it from exporting its brand of potential life to nearby planets.

One unnamed spokesman for a conservative venture capital firm asked rhetorically, "Do you really think we should sit back and wait until Mars develops cellular life before we hit them?"

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Hey wait just a dern minute!....It's a conspiracy! N.O.W has planted some of their Neo Femi-Nazi Wildebeests into the Neo Conservative camp and it's THEIR idea.

Remember where men are from??...you attack Mars and what's left?....

After that Venus would be attacked because the Wildebeests hate REAL women,too!

When we start to see news footage of soldiers (who's gender is at question) marching to a cadence of I Am Woman Hear Me Roar....know that an attack on Mars is imminent.

However,as long as Jessica Lynch is in uniform accessorized with an M-16 we can rest assured Mars is safe from the NOW cows.

Posted by: No2NOW at April 27, 2003 11:54 AM

It's all wacky internet millionaires. You just can't tust that internet. I won't allow it in my house. If I ever have childeren it's "no internet for you!" Except educational sites. Like PBS. And news, but not right wing CNN and such. Also I would like to visit Mars. I read a story about a man who went to mars and met a princess.

Terwilliger 04: Let's Roll!!!

Posted by: Bambi Stokes-Hymington at April 27, 2003 12:32 PM

Update ...

The usual freaks and geeks are already gearing up for protests, but are said to be frustrated by "slogan problems". Despite weeks of intense debate and bong hits, top lefty thinkers and intellectuals are still struggling with why 'NO WARS FOR MARS' doesn't rhyme.

"It's kind of freaking us out," an insider reported. "It's scary to realize how long the neo-cons must have been planning this, since they even managed to rig the language against us hundreds of years ago. It's either that or they have a time machine, which is even more alarming. The slogans committee has gotten pretty discouraged, so at this point we're all basically just sitting around waiting for 'Doonesbury' to come up with something."

Posted by: Keith at April 27, 2003 12:48 PM

I thing it is ironing that conservatudes want to attack Mars (TM), they are a big company and make good candy bars! Aren't the conservatudes supposed to be for big business?

Anyway, vote for 'Side-Show Bob (TM)!

Shut up Bambi! P.S. I am a woman, something went terribly wrong!

Posted by: Bambi Clone at April 27, 2003 09:13 PM

Give them a while. They'll come up with something about "the blood red sands of Mars."

Mission to Mars?! Where do I sign up? Been a "space case" since my dad took me to see "2001 A Space Odessey" way back in '69. That kind of stuff can really warp a 5-year old.

I'm still pissed a NASA for scraping the Apollo program.

Posted by: some random guy at April 27, 2003 09:35 PM

As an Engineer/Scientist working in the US Military Defense, I assure you nothing could be closer (farther from???) to the truth. We have no plans at all for using our newly discovered Gravity Well devices that can lift entire cities into outer space in order to put an AI controlled war machine in orbit over Mars. Oh, and ours doesn't catch colds!!!

Posted by: Old Sailor at April 27, 2003 10:14 PM

Men are from Mars
Women are from Venus
Gays are from Uranus
Lesbians are from Aqueerius.

Posted by: Gin Blossom at April 27, 2003 10:46 PM

All you need to conquer Mars is a pickup truck, a loud stereo and a Slim Whitman CD. Don't those NASA guys watch TV anymore?

For you Dixie Chick fans, Slim Whitman was named the most popular country/western singer (in England) in 1988. Neat,hunh?

Posted by: wizegoi at April 27, 2003 10:52 PM

Gin Blossom: Does that mean, weirdo's into beastiality are from Pluto?

Posted by: Bambi Clone at April 28, 2003 05:58 AM

MARS....SARS....hmmm
I smell a preemptive biological warfare attack by these evil oppressive life-precursers!!
We must strike back in defense!

Crank up the Slim!!!!!!

Posted by: some random guy at April 28, 2003 11:47 AM

Hate to break it to ya, but I think it was Arlo Guthrie.

Posted by: Spin Factor Fan at April 28, 2003 12:36 PM

Despite the comedy here, the Mars Crisis needs to be resolved. The Martians have yet to prove that they have no weapons of mass destruction, and they have offered us no help in the war on terrorism so far. Some reports suggest that the "Red Planet" is actually a base for radical communist revolutionaries.

Did somebody say Slim?

FMM

Posted by: Field Marshall Mathers at April 28, 2003 10:05 PM

Spinner,

Sorry but was Slim (not Shady) Whitman.

"Mars Attacks" is an inspiration. Jack Nicholson as president. Now that would scare the crap out of the UN. They've all seen "The Shining." All he would have to do is burst into a Security Council meeting and yell "Here's Johnny!"
They'd all s**t themselves and vote for whatever we wanted.

Vote Jack in 2004!

Posted by: some random guy at April 29, 2003 09:02 AM
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