NEWS BRIEFS
Tragedy As 4 Helicopters Crash Covering Earlier Crash Of 2 Helicopters

Dual tragedies struck the city of Phoenix, AZ earlier today as total of 6 news choppers crashed in two separate fiery crashes. First, 2 news helicopters crashed while covering a high speed police chase near central Phoenix. Firefighters and ambulances rushed to the scene, but were unprepared for what happened next.

“I saw the first fireball and the helicopters go down,” said Juan Perez, who lives with 13 other families in a single bedroom apartment near Phoenix Central Park. “Then about four other news choppers started circling the wreckage. You could see they were jockeying for position.”

Observers say overeager pilots and cameramen inched dangerously close to each other for a better view of the crash when four additional helicopters simultaneously collided, raining flaming debris onto the already wreckage strewn park.

A local station manager was nearly speechless over the tragedy. “What words are there to express the pain and anguish when a senseless tragedy like this ruins a ratings bonanza like a high speed chase?” he said. “I only hope that we can find solace when the overnights come out.”

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Dobson Snubs Thompson: "I Don’t Think He’s A Christian"

James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, publicly questioned Fred Thompson’s Christianity, saying “Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for, [but] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression.”

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, called the charge ludicrous, and more importantly beside the point, as “the real question in this race is whether Jesus is a Fredist.”

He said that Thompson would be making a public statement to counter the charge later in the day, after he finished attending “Wednesday Services,” which the spokesman explained involved Thompson throttling a filthy war protester with his left hand while he panfried some porkchops for lunch with his right.

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Chavez Says Castro "Almost Jogging", Depending On Slope Of Cliff

Venuezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that his friend, ailing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been walking, “almost jogging”, in recent days.

Despite widely-reported rumors of failing health, the 80-year old strongman’s doctors have devised a regimen of vigorous physical therapy involving variously sloped terrain that Castro “can scale down incredibly quickly”, depending on the percentage grade.

“Fidel seems to really love the steep ones,” said one doctor. “We can’t keep up with him. Almost as soon as we let go, he’s bounding down energetically with his arms and leg flailing and tumbling. Eventually we catch up, finding him sprawled out, quietly meditating at the foot of the slope, his arms and legs twisted behind his back. He’s eternally youthful.”

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Quinnipiac Poll Finds "Quinnapeeack" Most Popular Spelling

The latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut residents finds spelling challenger Quinnapeeack two points ahead of Kwinnapeiak among voters, 48-46. Quinnipiac, the actual spelling of the poll, is preferred among just 6% of respondants.

It is believed the contentious spelling of Iraq is driving the surprising results, as bitter divisions as to whether to call the nascent democracy, which may or may not be in a state of civil war, Irak, Irack, or Eyerach have split the Connecticut electorate and created an unexpected three- way race.

The poll also asked opinions on the Lieberman- Lamont matchup, but those results were largely boring, it being like at least two months until the election, which means that the poll is virtually meaningless.

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Filthy Jews Flood Streets Of Kiryat Shemona

Hundreds of filthy Jews wandered around the streets of Kiryat Shemona on Thursday, after a Ketusha rocket fired by Hizb’Allah struck a laundry detergent factory, setting it ablaze.

A Hizb’Allah spokesman said the strike was “just vengeance” for the continued attacks by Israel which have “killed no one but innocent civilians excersizing their 2nd Amendment rights, destroyed baby formula and medicine factories that I’m afraid are too dangerous for you to enter and inspect, and damaged playgrounds where our children play in spider holes and underground bunkers.”

When asked if Hezb’Allah would be ridiculing their Israeli enemies as “filthy Jews” after striking their supply of laundry detergent, he responded: “I don’t get it. What is that?”

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Allahu Akbar — It’s The New Sieg Heil!

Release of Peace Activists Stirs Outrage

By a4g
Point Five Staff Writer @ 7:17 am
BAGHDAD - A statement on the website of Christian Peacemaker Teams
The Release of Paris, 1944
Following the release of Paris by the Nazis in 1944, disciplined, nonviolent peacemaking spread through Europe.
has announced the “release” of three of its peace activists from where they were being held in Iraq. The fact that their statement included no mention of the action by the US Military team that freed them has ignited a heated controversy over the selective use of language.

The AP, whose editorial guidelines and ’stylebook’ sets strict policy to avoid such controversy, more accurately reported late Wednesday the “abduction” of the three peace activists by US Military forces. “The three were seized in a raid in the early hours, when the house where they were peacemaking was stormed by members of the US Special Forces.”

Although some right-wing sources have categorized the action as a “rescue”, AP editor Charles Brakeman was emphatic that objective news organizations had strict policies against

using polemical language, which would include words such as “rescue”, “terrorist”, and “murderers”, instead opting for bias-neutral words like “straw man”, “American occupation”, and “chickenhawk neo-con”.

“See? ‘Abduct’ is right here in the stylebook,” said Brakeman. “Just before ‘accusations’.”

And accusations were flying on Capitol Hill early Thursday, as leading lawmakers began to react to the strong-arm tactics of the US military.

US Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry said in a brief statement only that his previous charge that US soldiers were “terrorizing kids and… women” had been vindicated as “eerily prescient.”

A spokesman for Senator Hillary Clinton said that Mrs. Clinton was “firmly committed to the middle ground on this issue– striking a balance between political extremes and in-line with the vast majority of Americans.”

According to the Christian Peacemaker Teams website, a fourth hostage, Tom Fox, was “rescued earlier this month from this vale of tears by our Iraqi hosts.”

His body was found March 10.





Oh, and while I have your attention. Say a prayer for Jill Carroll. We’ll yell and scream about her later. First, let’s get her out alive.





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11 Comments

  1. A Blog For All

    Saved!

    It took the hard work of the US and British forces to locate and rescue the hostages. The terrorists did not simply release their prisoners, which is precisely the kind of message that the CPT would like you to believe.


  2. Jeff Shultz

    If those freed are of the same opinion of the person writing the blurb on the website, I say we open negotiations with the insurgents to give them back.


  3. The Jawa Report

    Western Hostages Rescued by Coalition Forces

    A great day for those of us following hostages in Iraq closely!! Three peace activists from the Christian Peacemakers Team held hostage in Iraq have been freed by Coalition Forces. Ironically, the CPT activists were in Iraq to document alleged…


  4. Gina Cobb

    Hostages Freed by U.S and U.K. Troops; Their Group Fails to Thank Their Rescuers

    American and British troops have rescued the three remaining peace activists who were being held hostage in Iraq by captors calling themselves the Swords of Righteousness Brigades. The freed hostages were Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh So…


  5. jimmyb

    You know, some of those folks on the left could at least say thanks to the military.
    I mean, if they bother to acknowledge them at all, that is…


  6. Stop The ACLU

    Military Rescues Ungrateful Peace Activists

    Update: Now the group adds insult to ingratitude. Not only are they ungrateful, they place the blame for their kidnapping on the very coalition that rescued them. Unbelievable!
    “We believe the illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces…


  7. josh green

    They should give these 3 back to their captors. These people deserve to be left with them. I hate these “peace” groups!!!


  8. The Editors

    Yeah, well try getting off their mailing list when one of your “helpful” family members signs you up for the newsletter.

    Then you’ll really know about hate.


  9. The Dread Pundit Bluto

    CPT: Ingrates and Dangerous Fools

    Snakes and weasels, without the wit to thank God for the brave men who put their lives at risk so that these “peacemakers” can indulge their folly.


  10. Blue Star Chronicles

    Christian Peace Niks Rescued by British and U.S. Troops

    As I predicted shortly after their kidnapping, here, it was Our Troops that rescued the remaining Christian Peace Activitists.
    It goes without saying that this wasn’t a hard call for me to make.
    So now they have been freed by the very forces they…


  11. Clifford S. McBride

    July 18, 2006 My friends and fellow human beings, I am pleading that from 11:45 p.m. July 31st until 12:15 a.m. August 1st that everyone in the international community shut everything off except their porch light, then light a candle and go outside either by yourself or in a group. Then for 30 minutes, create a unity of silence for peace, or do a chant, or a prayer, or sing a song, or do some qi gong, meditate, do some woo-g-gong, do them all, or get creative and create your own cry for peace. The reason for the dates I choose, are as follows, the first one is to create an end to the violence and chaos, destroying our humanity. The reason for the second one is to show we are being blessed with a new day, a chance for a new beginning, another chance to create ultimate peace. The reason for the lighting is simple, to light the way for peace. I fear we are on the brink of World War 3, and if we do not stand together as human beings creating one whole to send the message we are for peace and will not allow you to continue your rampage of chaos, in your attempt to divide us. We will be well on our way to World War 3, as it seems that war is becoming a first course of action, instead of last, or my personal favorite, not at all. We need to send a strong message to that intent on creating the end. So please I beg you all to hold on tight to your humanity, let no one weaken or take it from you, it is yours-you own it. No matter what happens in those 30 minutes, or anytime after that, the only response will be one of peace. Every time we counter act with violence we add to the destruction of humanity, as well as help chaos grow. If challenged, close your eyes, take a deep breath, as you exhale say come what may-I am standing for peace-come what may we will greet with nothing but peace. If you still feel the need to respond, by all means do so-by digging even deeper inside you so you can turn up the volume on peace. Whatever you do, do not allow them to entice or trick you into relinquishing your humanity, adding to their chaos, taking your goal for peace from you, will it be hard to do, probably, impossible, no. These masons love to rule and feed off of chaos, the only intervention is a unity of peace, so that we must become, if we want to restore the world to the peaceful state the majority of us desire. Please pass this message on as it has a lot of people to reach-and needs your help to reach them. Then when the time comes PACIFIC TIME, join in with the rest of the world for 30 minutes combining all that is in your heart with every ounce of your passion to help create a great force through silence, prayer, chant, qi gong, meditation, woo-g-gong, song, whatever you choose fill the atmosphere, at the same time release your anger as it will transform into good and allow forgiveness, it will leave very little to no room for war or the end. We need to create a good so strong that it alone will reset the Dooms Day Clock, giving us more life than it ever did being set by man. It is time for all of us to put our differences aside, remember it is our differences that make life so colorful and worth living. For if we were all the same-think how boring life would be, a never-ending monotony in itself. It takes more than just lumber, or just glass, or just nails, to build, it is the same for humanity, it takes all of our diversities to build a strong, proud, accepting, tolerant, understanding, and peaceful community for humanity to flourish. So united we must stand, because divided we will fall. And they depend on us being divided, even if they have to do the dividing, but only if we allow it. I however am intent on keeping us united, the greater our understanding of one another becomes, the stronger our humanity will become, creating all of us together as one unwavering force of humanity. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU – NO MATTER WHO YOUR GOD IS. Please even if you cannot respond or act as requested, or even if you will, either way, please pass this information on. It would be greatly appreciated if those with the knowledge to translate this to other languages would do so and pass it on, as it has a lot of ground to cover, I have faith that if all of us unite, the ground will get covered, and a miracle will take place-the miracle of peace and love, as it will over whelm all intent on dividing us, then from this day forward, question anyone who wants to plant a seed of hate. I know of no one that wants their family involved in war, because of that I know our chances of creating one world using all of our diversities to create one humanity will allow the birth of world peace for all.


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