Posted on 08/06/2006 12:11:33 PM PDT by Checkers
STOYSTOWN, Pa. -- It was a remarkable shot that produced a one-of-a-kind image: a green pasture, red barns in the distance and, against a brilliant blue and cloudless sky, a lone mushroom cloud of dark gray smoke.
Taken the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, seconds after United Airlines Flight 93 plunged into a nearby field, the eerie photo was, and still is, according to the FBI, the closest thing it's got to an image of the crash itself.
Val McClatchey snapped the single picture with her new digital camera. The wife and mother had been sitting on the edge of her sofa, clutching her second cup of coffee and watching the smoking towers of the World Trade Center on TV, when she heard the sudden surge of a plane engine, followed by a violent, house-shaking boom. Mrs. McClatchey grabbed the camera and ran onto the front porch of her house along Indian Lake.
"I didn't even aim. I was just like, 'Oh, my God,' " she said. She dropped the camera, jolting the battery loose, then tried in vain to call her husband, son and daughter. She had no idea what she'd captured until the state police put a call out to people in the area, asking for photos, debris and other evidence. She took a printout of her photo to the police, she said, and, within an hour, FBI agents were at her house.
Once the full, national scope of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks had settled in, word spread quickly of Mrs. McClatchey's photograph, and soon, everyone wanted to buy a copy.
"But it's not something that felt right," she said.
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My sympathies to this woman, she didn't deserve this onslaught of insanity.
Reminds me of this idiocy I read in the Dallas Morning News book reviews today:
http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk2_looming_0806gl.ART.State.Bulldog.2ba1ab8.html
Scanning the story, I see no mention of Gorelick. It's sad that the inability to share information comes as a newsflash to this joker. And, he seems to think it leads back to George Bush. Try your hero 42, dude.
Yeah, I lurk over there from time to time - I seen one of those threads, they haven't done that rabbit cage experiment that one of the DUmmies tried.... yet.
Read the rest of the article. They were on this "case" before LGF caught Reuters.
On the right it's a puppy dog with big eyebrows
as you can clearly see from the enhance image it is the cowardly lion and the wicked witch of the west.
Ok, thanks.
I'm seeing a big fat guy, leaning back, legs crossed, tipping a cold one. LOL!
I have several pictures of the Pentagon smoke taken from my balcony at 9:42:48 AM, according to the EXIF data. Of course the camera may have been a few minutes off.
Also of the mysterious "last plane to land" being escorted by a fighter jet into Reagan National at 11:51 AM. It was a white private jet, about the size of a Learjet or Gulfstream. The rumor was that it was Colin Powell, but it was never definitive.
let's all take a vow to slap the next idiot silly that tries to foist off this incredible and insulting theory upon us .
how much of this bull excreta are we expected to take?
Must see video on 9-11 conspiricies, caution...language.
From Penn and Teller's show "bulls**t".
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7501020220921158523
Ever nation must suffer its fools.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
I see roasted turkey. On the Left.
That is Garfield.
Did Crankshaft just fire up the BBQ?
This from the whistleblower at
whistleblower@cinci.rr.com
The next time you meet up with one of those whacky left-wing lunatics who tries to tell you to give peace a chance, here's what to do:
Listen politely while this person explains his views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in his ideas. He will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. He will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.
In the middle of his remarks, without any warning, kick him in the balls. When the guy gets up off the ground, he might be very angry and try to hit you, so be careful.
Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind him of his stand on this matter.
Tell him if he is committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, he will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution.
Tell him he must lead by example if he really believes what he's saying.
Most people will think for a moment and then agree that you're probably correct. But as soon as does that, kick him in the balls again, only this time much harder, and keep kicking him in the balls until the idiot realizes how stupid his argument really is.
The George Noory nut case crowd. A bunch of deluded basket cases who think everything is a conspiracy
holy cow..I have definitive proof this is a fake..look at the barn..a lot of those windows are identical..obviously photoshopped with the only window in the barn copied and pasted..
As far as the cloud, I see Dilbert trying to explain conspiracy theories to his pointy haired boss..
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