Hellfire in LA, the Devil in Manitoba.

lao found a fascinating article in the Ventura County Star today.

Firefighters are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the ground climbed to 812 degrees on Friday for unknown reasons.

Possible theories include that natural hydrocarbons such as oil or gas are burning deep in the earth. But nobody knows for sure what might have ignited the materials.

Let’s see, it’s 812 degrees underground, and could be as deep as 100 feet. There are wisps of smoke coming from cracks in the ground. Hmm, what could this possibly be? It doesn’t take a cartoonist to figure out it’s obviously a portal to hell. /raises hand excitedly, proud watcher of Reaper, best show on TV.

Man with bad back complains in hell

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I mean really, they have NO explanation at all for this. So funny how they write about it, all deadpan-like, even though the science is vague.

But I’ll tell you who wouldn’t be ashamed to talk about hell: Canadians. (Where Reaper is filmed, btw.) I’ve been following the story of Vince Weiguang Li, who stabbed Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in Canada. From CNN:

Witnesses on the bus said McLean had been sleeping with his head leaning against the window when the attack happened.

Colwell said there was no immediate indication of what prompted the attack. He said he didn’t know how many times the victim was stabbed. Witnesses described the weapon as a large butcher-type knife.Colwell praised the “extraordinary” calmness and bravery of the bus driver and passengers.

Bravery? I don’t think so, Colwell. So 37 passengers are helpless against this man, hearing and seeing him kill someone? Calm because they were in shock, perhaps. However, that didn’t last long, because then they trampled others running up the bus aisle, including at least one woman on the floor.

Here’s a full report with all the details. (Warning: GRAPHIC DETAILS.) The video of one witness, Garnet Caton (what a great name) is the best. News sources wrote that after Li stabbed the sleeping victim (who screamed in a horrible fatal way), oh, 40 or 50 times, he cut off his head. By this time, everyone else was off the bus, so Li ran to the front of the bus and held the head aloft. Then he just dropped it. (and people got sick.)

The internet found a police scanner recording before the MSM did: (WARNING- DO NOT WATCH the images there), which said Li (who they call “Badger”) is cutting the victim with scissors. And then eating him.

You can’t tell me this is the first time he’s done this, at 40. Let’s get some history on this immigrant.

There are comments at all the sites, although I found this one from C.B.C Canada particularly enlightening. The interesting thing to me is how so many Americans thought as I did: why didn’t the other bus passengers do something?? One commenter there re-enacted the bus scenario with chairs and a friend to see if anyone could have stopped Li! And I may have fallen just a little bit in love with this commenter:

Just try getting out of your seat on a bus with a passenger beside you, and making your way to the toilet on a moving bus. That alone merits a medal of some sort.

Canadians are responding by saying Americans are gun-happy liberal killers – oh, hell, I’ll let them speak for themselves:

• It is despicable – but all too predictable – seeing liberals finding something in this horrifying incident to bash the Conservatives, Americans (as if the US has anything to do with this), gun-owners, or whatnot…

• As sure as the sun rises and sets every day, a dangerous criminal in Canada will be coddled. Hugs for the criminals, kicks to the breadbasket for the victims…

• People who are Christians follow Jesus Christ whose stated aim was to have followers who were FREE of the Jewish law…

• Those who follow the bible and Christ are true christians. They are not killers, liars, and thieves…

The last two comments are ones I don’t often see on American blogs! No one bashes any of these religious commenters, either. I guess it’s okay to talk about God there.

And if any of them hear about our own private underground fire here in lawless LA…well, I can’t wait to read their comments!