From a mutual Democratic friend, David Rose:
F R O M T H E D E S K O F T H E U N I T E D S T A T E S
Dear World:
The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.
The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the parts responsible for it were replaced Tuesday night, November 4.
Early tests of the newly-installed equipment indicate that it is functioning correctly, and we expect it to be fully operational by mid-January.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage, and we look forward to resuming full service – and hopefully even improving it in years to come.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The USA