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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Archive for the 'Serious' Category



Larry Craig,

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I don’t care how unbelievably horny it makes you to be a US Senator.
 
I don’t care that you think that after 231 years, the fate of the entire American experiment has come down to you, the one indispensable man who’s holding it all together.
 
I don’t care that your wife didn’t fulfill some “need” you think […]




The Wound That Never Heals

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

I don’t know how this day surprises me every year.
And yet I find myself waking once again to the same pale blue flicker of television light, as the cold hint of the coming sunrise starts to change night to almost-night outside the glass expanse of our bedroom doors, and the sight of those silent towers […]




On The End Of Empire

Monday, August 20th, 2007

If your browser caught it (hit ctrl-F5 if not), you’ll see the sad banner announcing the departure of the Evil Emperor Mindstation from the writing staff here at Point Five.
This whole thing evolved over two years ago from a homeschool assignment for my then 16-year-old son, when I suggested that he start a blog as […]




Losing is For Losers, Loser

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

The gray cloud of melancholy has lifted with the morning sun.
I can think of one thousand reasons why we won’t take back the House in 08. Chief among them that our slow, steady progress in Iraq will finally show dividends by 08, and will be endlessly credited to the “New Direction.”
Why the Senate will […]




9/11 Remembrance: Christina Donovan Flannery

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Part of the 2996 Project

We live lives of magic and wizardry. We spend our days consumed with concerns that generations before would find strange and unreal. We worry about getting a clear cell phone signal, or traffic tie ups, we obsess over interest rates and the price of a precious oily yellow- green […]




The 2996 Project

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, 2996 bloggers will join together to each remember one victim of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. Point Five will be honoring Christina Donovan Flannery, 26, of New York.

We are blog number 1202, which means there are nearly 1800 victims and heros still waiting to be assigned. Go […]




Forward Into The Past

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Point Five is taking blogging into the future with the new site dialup.pointfiveblog.com. We’re advancing the art of blogging by accommodating the technology of the past.

Designed especially for our readers who are too cheap to buy broadband, dialup.pointfiveblog.com offers an exciting new “crap free” edition of the normal crap here at Point Five.

All the comments […]




Join The Victory Wing Of The Republican Party! [UPDATE: New Graphics]

Friday, May 12th, 2006

UPDATE 3/26/07: As this post ages, the P5 spam filter gets more and more aggressive on the comments and trackbacks. If you leave a comment wishing to join, please also email a4g-at-pointfiveblog-dot-com, otherwise you may get lost forever in the internet tubes.

UPDATE 11/8/06: (After the trouncing on election day, 2006)
Well, that was interesting.
So […]




9/11

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them […]




Sunday Penance

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Go to Gates of Vienna and read Dymphna’s letter to Cindy Sheehan. No, not satire. One grieving mother to another.