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 May, 2006



John Murtha Accuses Al Zuckerman Of Pocketing Senior Discount

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Massacre of Trust Plagues Friendship Murtha compares Zuckerman’s actions to 1968’s infamous “Golden Dragon Five-Way Split”, in which Manny Williams pocketed $7.30 that was supposed to go to the server.

Congress- man John Murtha (D - PA) made startling accusations today against longtime friend Al Zuckerman, relating to an incident that occurred on November 19th, 2005, just […]




Vicente Fox Slips Away From Security Detail; Gets Job At Wendy’s

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Lax US Border Security Reportedly “Not A Factor”

May I Take Your Sovereignt… er, Order?

At the end of his multi- state tour of the United States, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox slipped away from a US Secret Service detail late Saturday. Despite the cordon of temporary concrete barriers and electronic monitoring devices stationed around the Los […]




Weekend Open Trackback: Blinking / Marquee Edition

Friday, May 26th, 2006

I’ve decided to make this a very special open trackback party, as I’ve included my two most favorite HTML tags.
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Wilderness Survival, With The Evil Emperor Mindstation

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Ocean Survival
In preparing for my next Imperial Vacation, I had the time to look over some of the notes from my previous adventures. I realized that these hastily scrawled notes, if compiled into a bulleted list, could help many who find themselves in a perilous “survival” situation.
As many a blogger knows, his or her dangerous […]




Fox Speech In Sacramento Kicks Off 2012 Aztlan Presidential Race

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Vicente Fox wonders if he could get comfortable in a place like Sacramento. His verdict: ¡Si!

The 2012 race for the presidential nomination for the nation of Aztlan got off to a lively start Thursday, as Mexico President Vicente Fox spoke before the state legislature in Sacramento, California. Fox emphasized the goals of his conservative Reconquista Party […]




FALSE ALARM: Sound Of Shots Fired In Capitol Building

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Capitol Hill officials are rushing to reassure anxious Americans that the sound of “gunshots” fired in a capital hill parking garage this morning were not actual gunfire, but just a “coalescing audible metaphor” for the self-administered shotgun blast to the back of the throat fired by Senate Republicans over their vote on immigration reform on […]




Bin Laden: Lay, Skilling Unconnected With Enron Collapse

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden spoke out about the conspiracy convictions of former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.

According to a voice recording of Bin Laden broadcast on a website, he admitted to masterminding the 2001 collapse of the firm, personally choosing the executive board, adding he did not assign Lay or Skilling […]




Uncertainty, Superposition, and Schrödinger’s Hastert

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

House Speaker Denny Hastert is placed in a sealed box. Attached to the box is a television playing a news report from ABC’s Brian Ross, alleging that Hastert is part of a corruption investigation. As this is purely a “thought” experiment, for the purposes of our exploration we will assume that ABC is exactly 50% likely to be accurate …




In Terms Of Being Alive, Lloyd Bentsen "No Dan Quayle "

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen died Tuesday. He is best remembered for the stinging barb fired at Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential debate, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

And in fact, Vice President Quayle was no Kennedy, having failed to serially cheat on his wife, abandon Cuba to decades of […]




House Threatens Subpoenas Of Judge, Attorney General, Everyone Else Over "Overreaching" Jefferson Search

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Outraged members of the House of Representatives

William Jefferson reminded detractors that his last name was Jefferson. Jefferson.
Like the President.

threaten- ed to subpoena “hundreds or possibly thousands” of executive and judicial branch employees on Tuesday, as part of a wide-ranging congressional investigation into violations of the doctrine of “separation of powers.”
Investigations into “dangerous […]