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 January, 2007



Nancy Pelosi Joins The Blogging Community

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

I’m always impressed when any public figure decides to wade into the sewer of the blogosphere. Anybody who visited Tom DeLay’s blog before they turned on the comment moderation knows what I mean.
I may not agree very often with the new Speaker of the House, but you gotta admit, she’s got guts.

UPDATE: (You’re supposed […]




LA Times Editorial: Was WTC Heat Really That Bad?

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Temperature Pales In Comparison To Historical Record
Confronted by the stark imagery of 9/11, Bell bravely asks what we were all thinking: Can’t we just get back to screwing graduate students and stickin’ it to the Man?




Weekend Open Trackbacks: Weekend Edition

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Normally I wouldn’t put up an open post, but since it’s the weekend I decided to go all out.

Trackback URI:
http://pointfiveblog.com/index.php/2007/01/1181/trackback/

Please link back to this post.

More places to visit for Open Trackbacks (Warning, this list has NEVER been updated):

10ft2ft.com
Adam’s Blog
basil’s blog
Don Surber
Iowa Voice
Jo’s Cafe
Linkfest Haven
MacStansbury.org
Oblogatory Anecdotes
Robinik’s Open Blog
Something… and Half of Something
Stop The ACLU
Stuck On […]




Continental Legislators Seek Distance From Gen. Washington’s Delaware River Plan

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Little Hope For Surge of Continental Forces Across Near-Frozen Waterway
Washington’s overstretched, broken forces will face hail, freezing rain.

eading members of the Continental Congress are scrambling to draft a resolution expressing stern opposition to the ill-advised scheme of Gen. Washington of Virginia, to surge the remnants of his broken Continental Army across the Delaware River on […]




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

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

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 […]




Kerry "Will Not Seek White House" Seen As Launch of 2008 Bid For Presidency

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Senator’s Complex, Subtle Use Of Language, Irony Misunderstood By Inferior Intellects

“Dear God Don’t Let Them Touch Me ‘08″ Is Senator’s Spirited Campaign Theme

Senator John Kerry concluded a lengthy speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday with the announcement that he would not run for the presidency in the 2008 election cycle. Instead, he said […]




VIDEO: American Idol: The Lost Audition

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

-The Evil Emperor Mindstation, P.Z.I.C.

EDIT: [a4g] Source material from HotAir.




Yeah!

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Okay, so I didn’t feel like backing up the entire site before I upgraded to WP 2.0.7.
Oops.
Hey, Emperor. Got a current version of header.php and sidebar.php? If so, FTP them to the wp-content/themes folder, okay?
UPDATE: I love Google cache. It’s like an eraser for stupidity.




So… Very… Busy…

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Dead? You wish.

Merely mindbogglingly busy, working on a new project for my real-world business that has been using up all my creative juices.

Now, if Spongebob will quit with all the reruns and put on a few fresh episodes, I can park the little ones in front of the tube and get back to writing […]




The Journey Ends

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

The Adventure Begins Here

Thursday Morning

The salty tang of sea air fills my nostrils. I ride along a stretch of beachfront, atop a powerful stallion. Lars’ hands are clasped tightly around my muscular waist as we fly across the sands.

The failure of my mole utopia still stings, but the grandeur and beauty of the panorama […]