'Halliburton Wins Bid to Rebuild Midwest' - The Onion 2056

[XNASA]

http://www.theonion.com/2056-06-22/news/5/

---RUMSFIELD, EMPIRE OF TEXAS—Officials at the Crawford White House announced Monday that the Halliburton Corporation has been awarded the lucrative task of reconstructing the Midwest, a contract worth approximately Ÿ92 billion.

"Halliburton is proud to have been entrusted with the task of repairing the damage done during the Great Wars between the EOT and the Great Lakes Alliance," said Halliburton CEO Richard Ch5ney, the fifth clone of the former U.S. president Dick Cheney and clone-once-removed of Texan Vice Overlord Rick Chen4y. "With the know-how and can-do spirit of Halliburton at their disposal, the radiation-blasted peoples of the Illinois No Man's Zone can look forward to a bright new future."---

[ComerPerro]

1. LOL. The onion is usually pretty dead on in matters like this

and sometimes as daed on as their satire can be it gets less and less funny and more and more disturbing...

[UrbScotty]

2. So what does the Ÿ sign mean? (nt)