Endstation Paradies

Endstation Paradies is a clever animated short I just enjoyed on Image Union.

Classic Circus Posters

After wasting a full 12 1/2 minutes on Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday: Classic Circus Posters I started wondering if sideshow freaks still attracted audiences like they did in the good old days before political correctness. It didn’t take long to find a definitive answer.

Persistence

Once he was diagnosed with cancer, a Halifax, Canada man spent the last 21 years of his life building a working replica of a German U-boat.

More on American Airlines Flight 77

More on American Airlines Flight 77:

Flight Of The Bumble Planes

Did NORAD Send The “Suicide” Jets?

911: The Official Truth in Three Versions

And I quote:

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin

AA Flight 77

There’s some skepticism about the veracity of accounts that AA Flight 77 actuallly hit the Pentagon. ThePowerHour carefully examines eyewitness accounts, including an article from Netscape.com News with information that has escaped further media scrutiny:

“Away from the Pentagon, unexplained explosions were reported in the vicinity of the State Department and the Capitol. Agents with automatic weapons patrolled the White House grounds.”

“AP reporter Dave Winslow also saw the crash. He said, ‘I saw the tail of a large airliner. … It plowed right into the Pentagon.’”

“Gen. Richard Myers, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that prior to the crash into the Pentagon, military officials had been notified that another hijacked plane had been heading from the New York area to Washington. He said he assumed that hijacked plane was the one that hit the Pentagon, though he couldn’t be sure.”

“Within the hour, an aircraft crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the Pentagon, and the White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated.”

The article oddly ends with a cryptic line from the almanac, “In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog.”

Pot, Kettle, Black

German Chancellor Schroeder may lose the election because of a PR fire started by Justice Minister Daeubler-Gmelin. She denied saying that President Bush was distracting Americans from domestic woes with war posturing as Adolf Hitler had done, which she was quoted as saying in a newspaper. At first this sounds like a serious indictment. Obviously Hitler’s name was used to stir controversey, but she didn’t compare Bush to Hitler. She merely said (if she said it) that Bush is using a foreign policy to draw attention away from problems at home which Hitler may have also done. But so what? Many other leaders have done the same. War is the Greatest Sideshow on Earth! Remember what Goering said?

Anarchist ‘Scavenger Hunt’

Anarchist ‘Scavenger Hunt’ Raises D.C. Police Ire

American Gun

I can only imagine the conversation that gave American Gun a green light:

STUDIO PRESIDENT: Dudes, did you see “In the Bedroom?” It was awesome, but it didn’t sell. It could have been edgier.

STUDIO EXEC #1: It was missing…snap!

STUDIO PRESIDENT: Exactly!

STUDIO EXEC #2: Like the life of the gun before it killed that kid?

STUDIO PRESIDENT: Precisely!

STUDIO EXEC #1: Yeah, yeah! Who had it before that?

STUDIO PRESIDENT: Perfect!

STUDIO EXEC #2: What about even before before that!?

STUDIO PRESIDENT: GREEN LIGHT!

Friday After Next

Friday After Next. ‘Nuff said.