"John Vreeland" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:45:29 -0500, Free Lunch >
> opined:
>
>>On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:36:57 -0700, in talk.origins
>>Stile4aly > wrote in
s.com>:
>>>On Oct 27, 4:32 pm, Terry > wrote:
>>>> ORANGE COUNTY, California (CNN) -- Radical Hispanic separatist
>>>> organization MEChA ("Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan") is
>>>> taking responsibility for setting the wildfires in California,
>>>> confimed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
>>>>
>>>> California officials received a letter earlier today containing
>>>> photographs of individuals holding Molotov cocktails, then throwing
>>>> them into dry brush. The faces of the individuals appeared to have
>>>> been digitally distorted.
>>>>
>>>> Also included was a rambling manifesto, stating that the reason for
>>>> the act of arson was that "Aztlán belongs to indigenous people, the
>>>> Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán. We are sovereign and not subject to a
>>>> foreign culture."
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cnnheadlienews.com/2007/U...cha/index.html
>>>
>>>The religion of peace strikes again.
>>>
>>>/sarcasm
>>>
>>Notice that the site is a bogus one? As Darth Vader would have voiced
>>over: This is NOT CNN.
>
> Nevertheless, given the apparent intelligence of some CNN newscasters
> (or perhaps their regular viewers) I would not be overly surprised to
> hear that this one slipped through.
>
> One of them remarked---after reporting that a distraught and deranged
> deputy sheriff had tried three times to commit suicide by shooting
> himself in the head---that it was the third shot that was fatal. That
> was the only hour of CNN I have seen in many years, but I won't be
> watching again any time soon.

Actually, it might be more true than you think, although I don't understand
why. More than once on our local news, I've heard about people who've been
shot in the face, followed by "...injuries were not life threatening."
Pardon me?