Taken from this weeks "Tuesday Morning Quarterback"
THE best sports related writing on the net.
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/tmq/021217.html
(I suggest those that enjoy the article in its entirety read through the archives... very good stuff)
Department of State: Signing Fine Treaties Since 1789
Department of Defense: You're Always in Our Crosshairs
Congress: World's Only 535-Ring Circus
NASA: Nowhere to Go But Up
Department of Energy: The People Who Brought You Enron
United States Treasury: All Deficit Figures Certified by Arthur Andersen
Department of Agriculture: Grow Less, Earn More! See Extension Agent for Details
Corps of Engineers: The Difficult We Do for Billions, the Impossible Requires Cost Overruns
Supreme Court: Unaccountable, Out of Touch and on IV
White House internes program: Must Be 18+; Submit Swimsuit Photo With Application
Department of Interior: Come On Baby Light Our Fires
Farm Credit Administration: Admit It, You've Never Heard of Us
Security and Exchange Commission: Ignoring Stock Fraud Wherever It Doesn't Occur
FBI: Safest Place in the World Is Directly Under Our Nose
Internal Revenue Service: Reaching Into Your Wallet Since 1913. Bonus IRS motto for Spanish-speakers! Su Dinero Es Nuestro Dinero
Department of Justice: See You In Court
Environmental Protection Agency: Don't Worry, Most of That Stuff Is Biodegradable
Department of Education: A Mind Am A Terrycloth Thing to Waist
Federal Aviation Administration: Our Master Plan for Airline Recovery - Even Smaller Seats
Department of Commerce: Bet You Can't Name Our Secretary
CIA: Sorry, We Can't Tell You Our Motto, But If We Could, Then You Would Understand Why You Are Actually Better Off Not Knowing It
Social Security Administration: Trust Us, We're Accountants
Department of Veterans Affairs: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Lobby for More Funding
Department of Transportation: The People Who Brought You Amtrak
Department of Housing and Urban Development: It's Been Years Since Our Last Scandal
Department of Labor: Working to Make America More Expensive
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Please Don't Drink, Smoke and Shoot at the Same Time
Department of Health and Human Services: Only Government Department Whose Personnel Are Officially "Human"
And the overall U.S. government motto, replacing E pluribus unim, would now be,
De Gubernaculo Venimus et Adservirevos Volumus. This means, of course, We're From the Government and We're Here to Help You. (TMQ thanks to book critic and super-translator Ruth Franklin for the Latin.)
very nice 
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