9/11 Memorial Curators Decide Not To Display Swastika Formed By Twisted Girders Found At Ground Zero

[meegbear]

Despite the surprising coincidence of finding a perfectly formed swastika amidst the broken girders of the Twin Towers, 9/11 memorial curators have opted not to display the symbol, choosing instead to leave it in the storage facility where it has been located for the past 10 years. "On the one hand, it's pretty miraculous that there was a precisely shaped 80-by-80-foot swastika found in the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center, but in the end, we decided not to include it in our plans for the museum," said memorial spokesman Stanley Morgenstern, adding that it would probably be seen as inappropriate. "Although you've got to admit that it is pretty incredible. Mathematically, what are the odds? It's amazing but, perhaps, not right for what we are trying to achieve with the museum." Upon hearing the news, neo-Nazi groups have complained about the exclusion, arguing that the giant swastika is "a sign from heaven" and that "9/11 affected all Americans, including those who believe in the inherent genetic superiority of the Aryan race."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/911-memorial-curators-decide-not-to-display-swasti,21290/

[aquart]

1. My mom, who hates that cross, will love this.

[hlthe2b]

2. Damn. the Onion knows how to pull the zingers!

I had to laugh... just as I did with their infamous post 911 headline:

Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell

and

Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake

and

God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule

and

Bush Sr. Apologizes To Son For Funding Bin Laden In ’80s

and

President Urges Calm, Restraint Among Nation’s Ballad Singers — “To America’s recording artists, I just want to say, please, there has already been enough suffering. The last thing we need right now is a soaring Barbra Streisand-Brian McKnight duet titled ‘One For All.’”

'Gotta love the Onion...:evilgrin:

[Myrina]

3. Hey Meeg - wanna change your thread title to include "Onion" ?

I'm guessing many here won't realize it's satire otherwise.


:hi:

[meegbear]

4. That's the beauty of 'em!

I fall for 'em too; scary how believable their work is.

[OswegoAtheist]

12. I usually don't...

...fall for them either, because I have a pretty keen ear for parody/satire. This one got me, though; right through the text, until I espied the URL.

Oswego "and having been a Snopester for ten years, I know this one's going to hit the mailboxes soon and often" Atheist

[rfranklin]

5. It's the Bush family insignia...

The enormous sums of money deposited into the Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best evidence that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union Banks' books and accounts were frozen by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and not released back to the Bush family until 1951. At that time, Union Bank shares representing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution. Did the Bush family really believe that such enormous sums came from Dutch enterprises? One could sell tulip bulbs and wooden shoes for centuries and not achieve those sums. A fortune this size could only have come from the Thyssen profits made from rearming the Third Reich, and then hidden, first from the Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies.

The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the American money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union Bank was the secret pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to America from Holland. The Bushes had to have known how the secret money circuit worked because they were on the board of directors in both directions: Brown Brothers out, Union Bank in.

Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate with their risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott Bush and his father in law each received one share of Union Bank stock, worth $750,000 each. One and a half million dollars was a lot of money in 1951. But then, from the Thyssen point of view, buying the Bushes was the best bargain of the war.

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/new_world_order/bush_nazis.html

[lunatica]

6. Jesus! I fell for it again!

It reads like a real story. The Onion might as well write the truth anymore.

[saras]

7. Proof that Hindus, not Muslims, were behind it all...

...as long as we're on the unlabeled sarcasm kick...

[Jackpine Radical]

9. That's

Sikh.

[saras]

11. I think you win the Internet. Where would you like us to put it?

[Brickbat]

8. ROFLMAO. Classic.

K&R.

[bbgrunt]

10. got me. Though I didn't think it was that unlikely

that some of the beams could be found in that configuration.