The Munich Massacre

At 4:30AM on September 5, 1972, five Arab terrorists wearing track suits climbed the six and 1/2 foot fence surrounding the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. Once inside, they were met by three others who had gained entrance with credentials. Within 24 hours, 11 Israelis, five terrorists, and a German policeman were dead.


Just before 5:00AM, the terrorists knocked on the door of Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg who opened the door, realized immediately something was wrong and shouted a warning. Weinberg and weightlifter Joseph Romano attempted to block the door while their members escaped, but they were killed by the terrorists. The Arabs then rounded up nine Israelis to hold as hostages.


At 9:30AM, the terrorists announced that they were Palestinian Arabs, and demanded that Israel release 234 Arab prisoners in Israeli jails and Germany release two German terrorist leaders imprisoned in Frankfurt. They also demanded their own safe passage out of Germany. After hours of negotiations, a deal was struck with German authorities and a trip to the NATO air base at Firstenfeldbruck, by bus and then two helicopters was arranged, in order to board a plane for Cairo. German sharpshooters were standing by with orders to simultaneously kill all the terrorists without harming the hostages.


The rescue plan failed and a bloody firefight between the Germans and Palestinians followed, ending at 3:00AM when the Palestinians set off a grenade in one helicopter, killing all aboard, and terrorists in the second helicopter shot to death the remaining, blindfolded Israeli hostages. Three of the Palestinian Arabs terrorists were captured alive and held in Germany.

While I agree with the above, surely it must be nice that, for once, the whole world is celebrating people who've worked their arses off, largely outside of the public eye, and largely for minimal reward, and finally get a chance to come 8th in the gymkhana or joint 6th in the badminton mixed-doubles?

Obviously, I'm saying that as a citizen of a country that was (last I checked) keeping their fingers crossed for a medal in the fucking archery.

We were robbed in the Table Tennis, if anyone's interested.

I see your Riefenstahl and raise you a Schulz

oh no it's not!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/sp...KOUT-side.html


snoopy, nazi icon? :(

no but being the Patriarch in a congregation of Archbishops doesn't make it any more difficult either.

Snoopy is the ultimate propaganda icon, used to sell everything from
cookies as good snacks to fascism as good living. Triumph of the Dog,
I believe it's called, not to be confused with Triumph the Insult Dog.

while at lunch, I was asked by The Girl Who Gets Our Drink Refills if I had been watching much of the Olympics.

I told her no, but I would if they ever got around to adding Midget Wrestlin' to the bill.

she agreed that it was a good idea and pondered "if only there was a Special Olympics".

I assured her that there was.

after she left the table, GG and I had a good laugh about saving her a place for the next competition.




This post is brought to you by the Lifetime Original Series --- The R Word. Coming this fall. Check yr local listings.

y'all should be careful with that one:
More than 130 national advocacy organizations have gotten together to protest "Tropic Thunder" because of that dialogue and its tone.

The protesting groups include the American Association of People with Disabilities, The Arc, the Special Olympics and the Down Syndrome Congress. Local chapters of these organizations, and other advocacy groups and religious groups, have staged protests like the one in Middletown at theaters across the U.S.

"This is one of the worst assaults on people with disabilities," said Anne Eason, Eva's mother. "And we're going to put an end to it."

yeah, it's all over the place here too.

note, it's being called "The R Word" :

frankly, I find it hilarious.

seriously...get with the fucking times people.

"retard" was replaced by "gay" years ago.

don't hear them complaining about that though, do ya?

Can I get a "hell yeah" for Gaytarded?

omg stop saying retarded people are gay!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps:


I hope to use that one soon (with yr permission, of course).

you really should copywrite that....now.

I know all this man. I am just telling you who they do not show compete and guessing at what it may be for. I know why they do nto show the cuban team or the russians...

Floatingslowly - Of course, my pleasure sir :)

*goes to UK patent office to patent "Gaytarded" and "Fuckmuppet"*

yes, but Cubans and Russians are somewhat different cup of tea than, say, Romanians.
Ok, I shut up now.

I heard on NBC that Romanians are all a bunch of retarded gay fuckmuppets.

CONFIRM/DENY PLS.



[edit: were ----> are. we haven't bombed them, yet.]

Nicolae Ceaucescu says NO!

this picture was obviously photoshopped.

in reality, he is wearing a crash helmet and has two rubber dongs in his hands.

ok. that's enough to ensure my Hell Ticket for one more day.

see y'all later. y'uck y'uck.