Celebratory gesture or secret terrorist signal?
-It's like the Nazi high-five-
FOX Newsmodel E.D. Hill begins a pre-commercial tease with the following string of words,"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."
And that's the last you hear about a "terrorist fist jab." She goes on to a typical cable news BS "analysis" piece on what this simple, near-meaningless gesture means.
Maybe Hill is out of the loop here -- that "Obama's a terrorist" thing is so five minutes ago. It's been all debunked and everything -- it's tired.
The new BS all the cool right wing kids are throwing around these days is that Obama's a Marxist. Not a left-leaning socialist pinko, but a real, died-in-the-wool Soviet-style commie. Of course, that'll last a week before that one's debunked too.
Don't worry though, they've already got another rumor in the works.
Obama's the antichrist. (YouTube)
-Headline of the day-
"Gas hoarding eyed as cause of Dartmouth apartment fire."
A couple in Dartmouth, Mass. were storing 45 gallons of gas in nine plastic jugs in their closet. According to the report, "The jugs were covered by cloth rags and stacked in a hallway closet that housed the air conditioning system." Fumes from the gas are believed to have caused the blaze.
Two points. One, don't store gas in your home. Two, don't store gas in anything other than a gas can. Plastic jugs are about the worse damn thing you can use, since the gasoline dissolves many kinds of plastic.
Besides, if you really want to save money on gas, take the bus. You're never going to see the headline "Blaze Believe Caused By Bus Tickets in Desk Drawer." (South Coast Today)
-Life imitates art-
You ever see Cartoon Network's Adult Swim show Metalocalypse? The show features a metal band, Dethklok, who live the life that cover art for heavy metal CDs suggest a real metal band would live. They live in a big castle that looks like a viking longboat, fly around in massive black and red helicopters, and the singer -- Nathan Explosion -- speaks in the same near-incomprehensible growl that death metal singers use.
Anyhoo, Dethklok is obsessed with the idea of being "brutal" and their shows tend to have death tolls -- people are scalded to death by giant pot of coffee, crushed beneath a huge iron stage dropped from the sky, or fall into volcanoes. Dethklok shows have both fans and survivors.
Turns out there really is a Dethklok -- that music on the show has to come from someplace -- and they're currently on tour. According to the report, "Their Thursday show at San Francisco's Fillmore took a turn for the cartoonish. A fire forced a brutal cancellation just as the band was preparing to take the stage." An opening act may have started an electrical fire at the board.
Had this been a cartoon Dethklok show, the death toll would've made the evening news. This being the real world, no one was hurt. For fans, though, the disappointment was brutal. (Wired, with sample Dethklok video)
