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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Evil Emperor Update

a4g on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

The Evil Emperor had to get his OC certification yesterday. OC spray is a military-grade Mace, and the certification process is basically just getting blasted in the face with 16% capsicum, and then running a riot-simulation obstacle course.

During the briefing, it was noted that everyone will have a different reaction to OC spray. Out of the approx. 200 guys qualifying, one of the guys said it “tingled”, 196 guys screamed like little girls, and three had their faces swell up so bad they got sent to medical. Guess which group the Evil Emperor belonged to…

One thing they tell you about OC is that you NEVER try to wash it off– water just reactivates it and makes the pain worse. So the first thing the corpsman said when the Emperor got brought into sick bay was “jeez, this guy ain’t breathing right, we’ve got to wash this stuff off!”

The Emperor related all of this last evening in a phone conversation, talking between moans and lots of F-words, interrupted occasionally as a corpsman clicked through on call-waiting to make sure he was still alive.

Another f’n beautiful day in the Corps!

Rumor has it that certain photos and video may exist of the Evil Emperor running the course…

Details to follow…

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10 Comments

  1. Doug

    The hyper-reaction is probably due to the cumulative effects of previous contacts with pepper-spray. Bless ‘im, though.


  2. TJ's Anti-Contrarian Blog

    Yes, those where the days…..

    Actually, we had to enter the dreaded gas chamber full of CS gas, take off our gas masks and sing the Air Force song.

    I did not puke, but several of my fellows felt the need to purge the vile concoction from their bodies.

    One guy thought he would choke to death — he happened to be the biggest guy in out squadron. Several people were hurt as he fled the chamber.


  3. TJ's Anti-Contrarian Blog

    *our


  4. Ottoman

    An emperor is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the feminine form.


  5. Hunter

    Capsicum is a genus of plants from the nightshade family (Solanaceae) native to the Americas, where it was cultivated for thousands of years by the people of the tropical Americas, and is now cultivated worldwide.


  6. Lex

    Today the Emperor of Japan is the only remaining emperor on throne in the world. The last year when there was more than one emperor on the throne was 1979 with three: Japan, Iran, and the Central African Empire. The latter two were overthrown that same year.


  7. Red_State_Blue

    Tortured Journalism…

    Tortured JournalismPart I…


  8. Dale

    OK, this is one of the best blogs I’ve stumbled across in a long time. After reading the last dozen entries it’s going in my RSS Feed. I hope to see new posts more frequently but will take what I can get.


  9. Amazon

    Evil is a broad term used to indicate a negative moral or ethical judgment, often used to describe intentional acts that are cruel, unjust, or selfish. Evil is usually contrasted with good, which describes intentional acts that are kind, just, or unselfish.


  10. DRILL

    Where ai something new?


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