Miracle bullets from Allah. (Rachel Lucas)

Miracle bullets from Allah.

I found this at Hot Air - check out this AFP photo and be sure to read the caption:

Wow. That's like someone pooping out a perfectly formed sandwich. Call the miracle police, we've got a hot one here!

For the 'tards who don't know, bullets don't look quite like that after being shot from a firearm (in which they lose their casing, for one thing), not to mention hitting something, which would make them more like...

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Scoobers

Maybe they threw the bullets at her house?

Posted by Scoobers | August 15, 2007 11:56 AM

Posted on August 15, 2007 11:56

AFP - Agence France Press. Would one really expect the French to know what a bullet looks like after it has been, you know, fired?

Posted by HT | August 15, 2007 12:03 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:03

Page

Drive by bullet throwings? Man, Baghdad has gotten out of hand.

Posted by Page | August 15, 2007 12:07 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:07

Rickbert

Facts, schmacts. We're the press, dammit. We don't care, we don't have to.

Posted by Rickbert | August 15, 2007 12:28 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:28

David Gulliver

Believe it or not, I once say a movie - a real, big budget with real actors and everything movie - that used the hip and trendy (at that time) special effect of focusing on the bullet as it moves with the background a blur, then cutting to a "bullet eye" view of the target approaching rapidly...

the bullets in flight were still in shell casings.

the movie (I can't remeber the title, but it had Mario Van Peebles and that French dude from "Highlander" - go look it up on IMDB if you care) was, ironically, about ARMS DEALERS.

come ON, people, do even a SMIDGE of RESEARCH!

Posted by David Gulliver | August 15, 2007 12:31 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:31

Brian_Thorn

There is such a simple and obvious explanation for all this, it is a wonder why it didn't cross your mind already Rachel. This kind of thing happens all the time over there.

More than likely these "Coalition Forces" referred to in the accompanying article were part of the French contingent, and as such they didn't actually fire the bullets at the woman's house from a gun, but rather they accidently tossed them at her house as they threw their hands in the air to surrender to the pissed off camel spitting at them in the front yard. I would hazard a guess these bullets scratched the paint causing the woman to get her burka in twist.

These "tossed" French bullets have become a real nuisance for the local residents as they break windows, put out the eyes of cats intended for High Holiday feasting causing them to end up at the neighbors house annoying the neighbors pet goats, as well as falling into the Falafel ingredients resulting in a lot broken teeth in a land where good dentists are expensive and few and far between. My understanding is this French Bullet tossing problem has reached epidemic proportions.

Stranger things have been known to happen though. The Frogs are funny like that.

Have fun ;)!

Posted by Brian_Thorn | August 15, 2007 12:46 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:46

Alexander

"Would one really expect the French to know what a bullet looks like after it has been, you know, fired?" - HT

A French medic would.

Rachel, I don't know what you're talking about.
The ground beef you buy from the grocery store doesn't look like this?

Posted by Alexander | August 15, 2007 12:52 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:52

Rick Lucas

Facts are irrelevant in this piece. It's propaganda. Notice the emotionally charged but non-informative text next to the picture:

"...175 people were slaughtered..."

Slaughtered! Slaughtered I tell you! What they don't tell you, and this is just a guess but is probably closer to reality than AFP would ever admit, is that it was 165 Jihadi car-bomber insurgents, nine brave US Marines, and one slackjawed donkey-riding idiot too dumb to get out of the street in the middle of a firefight.

Posted by Rick Lucas | August 15, 2007 12:54 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:54

Don T.

Finally... Our troops have found a way to better utilize the .223 round. They're heavier, and make a bigger dent in the target when thrown overhand. Fewer jams too!

Posted by Don T. | August 15, 2007 12:57 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 12:57

daq

Just when you start to suspect that mainstream journalists are not as utterly idiotic as....

...oh...

...hold on...

....damn, I can't think of something stupider than a mainstream journalist in order to complete my pithy comment.

Nevermind...

Posted by daq | August 15, 2007 1:41 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 13:41

pete in Midland

slaughtered? If we're talking meat packing plants ... why do we have a picture with a burkabag holding up some islamic suppositories??

Posted by pete in Midland | August 15, 2007 1:57 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 13:57

Adam Lawson

She looks strangely similar to the woman who was pictured in front of 4-5 different houses back during the Israel/Lebanon "dispute" last summer. Each house had been demolished and she was horrified that her house had been demolished... all four or five of them, apparently.

Or maybe all women who wear those outfits end up the same degree of fug when they're Yoda's age.

Posted by Adam Lawson | August 15, 2007 2:08 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:08

The jDub™

My buddies and I head to the foothills to throw bullets all the time. I myself, prefer the "sidearm" technique.

Posted by The jDub™ | August 15, 2007 2:24 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:24

A Recovering Liberal

Am I the only one not inclined to make derogatory statements about the woman? The caption says she's elderly; maybe she's so old... and mentally not all there... that she doesn't know better and was duped into being a propaganda tool.

Maybe??

Posted by A Recovering Liberal | August 15, 2007 2:26 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:26

The jDub™

Oh come on now! You can't use her as a propaganda tool...she's...OLD! I mean, look at her...she's OLD!

Posted by The jDub™ | August 15, 2007 2:37 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:37

Alexander

Nice one jDub!

Can we also give her a nice warm glass of shut the hell up?

Posted by Alexander | August 15, 2007 2:40 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:40

Daddyquatro

I'll grant the fact that the woman may have been duped but the photographer, a vaunted journalist, should know the difference between expended and non-expended ammo.

Posted by Daddyquatro | August 15, 2007 2:42 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:42

Rachel Lucas

I don't hold the woman in the photo responsible at all, only whoever wrote the caption (probably the photojournalist, who has a history of propagandizing shit - she's done this bullet trick before).

Posted by Rachel Lucas | August 15, 2007 2:54 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:54

Rupert

This really takes me back to my care-free youth when my friends and I would go out and skip bullets across the pond for hours on end. Oh, what fun we would have. It's only now that I realize how many innocent people we may have slaughtered through our ignorant, irresponsible actions...

Posted by Rupert | August 15, 2007 2:57 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 14:57

she_said

"I'll grant the fact that the woman may have been duped but the photographer, a vaunted journalist, should know the difference between expended and non-expended ammo."

Wow.. how willing are we to give everyone the benefit of the doubt?

I sort of think that someone who had been living under a brutal regime for probably their whole lives knows what spent ammunition looks like. Just me.

I dont care if they are a trillion years old. Even alzheimer's patients should have those early memories. It remembering there was a reporter that becomes a problem.

Posted by she_said | August 15, 2007 3:26 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 15:26

Alexander

...at least 175 people, Rupert. I'm sure the AFP would agree.

Posted by Alexander | August 15, 2007 3:27 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 15:27

k2aggie07

Anyone else notice what looks like tattoos on her face? Like her eyebrows and chin? Granny's a freak!

PS Yahoo has taken it down.

Posted by k2aggie07 | August 15, 2007 4:01 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:01

The jDub™

I, for one, totally hold the woman in the photo responsible for being old. That is what we're talking about...right guys?

Posted by The jDub™ | August 15, 2007 4:02 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:02

Daddyquatro

Yeah, damn old people. I hope I never am one.
...oh wait.

Posted by Daddyquatro | August 15, 2007 4:21 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:21

Rachel Lucas

My point was that it's highly unlikely the old lady in the photo actually SAID the bullets hit her house. I think the journalist made it up. That is all.

Posted by Rachel Lucas | August 15, 2007 4:30 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:30

A Recovering Liberal

Yeah, what she said.

Posted by A Recovering Liberal | August 15, 2007 4:34 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:34

Daddyquatro

Rachel,
Bullet babe probably did say they hit her house... after froggy photo-journalist slipped her a few bucks. Modeling gigs are hard to get in Baghdad these days.

Posted by Daddyquatro | August 15, 2007 4:46 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 16:46

The jDub™

Yeah well, she never SAID she was OLD either...

Posted by The jDub™ | August 15, 2007 5:07 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 17:07

otcconan

the movie (I can't remeber the title, but it had Mario Van Peebles and that French dude from "Highlander" - go look it up on IMDB if you care) was, ironically, about ARMS DEALERS.

That description doesn't help me at all. Mario Van Peebles was in Highlander 3. Obviously the French dude was in it, too.

I recently watched all 3. Huge waste of my time. They should have stopped after the first one.

...but then again, any movie (Highlander 2) with Michael Ironside as a villain is worth watching.

Posted by otcconan | August 15, 2007 5:12 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 17:12

Tully

AFP, truthier than AP!

Gateway Pundit has more examples of this photog's "work."

Posted by Tully | August 15, 2007 6:47 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 18:47

Michellecag

The movie with Christopher Lambert and that Mario dude is called 'Gunmen' it also had Denis Leary and Patrick Stewart and the reason I know this is called 'late night tv'.

(oh and the only Highlander movie worth watching is the first one imho)

Posted by Michellecag | August 15, 2007 8:44 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 20:44

trainer

The death toll is near 300 now with 300 injured.

They were killed by AQ because they belonged to a small non-muzzie Kurdish sect.

Never know that from the blurb tho. They need you to assume we were 'bombing towns and civilians' so Obama looks good.

Posted by trainer | August 15, 2007 9:26 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 21:26

MorrisAO

"why do we have a picture with a burkabag holding up some islamic suppositories??"

Pete in Midland, you just made my day! I needed a good laugh and that had me ROFLMAO

Posted by MorrisAO | August 15, 2007 9:33 PM

Posted on August 15, 2007 21:33

Annie

Reporters and media.
Hmph.

Check out this from the SAME article about last Sunday's church shooting:

Quote #1: Prosecutors also charged the man, Eiken Elam Saimon, 52, of Newton County

Four paragraphs later~
Quote #2: The gunman, in his 40s, has not been identified

So which is it? Is he Eiken Elam Saimon, 52, of Newton County? Or is he unidentified?

Source link:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/13/church.shooting.ap/index.html

Posted by Annie | August 16, 2007 7:40 AM

Posted on August 16, 2007 07:40

otcconan

Michellecag, yep, I agree. Some trilogies would have been better if they'd never made another after the first one. Highlander is one of them. Another is Back To The Future.

Posted by otcconan | August 16, 2007 12:51 PM

Posted on August 16, 2007 12:51

Keith

Yahoo has pulled the picture. No explanation. Ha!

Posted by Keith | August 16, 2007 2:03 PM

Posted on August 16, 2007 14:03

Michellecag

Yep,gonna have to agree with 'Back To The Future' I can't even remember the premise of the other two..or was it three?
Same goes for Pirates of The Caribbean ,Mad Max*cough*Thunderdome*cough* and Jaws(which just got a lil silly after awhile..yet I still think twice about the water)

Posted by Michellecag | August 17, 2007 3:14 AM

Posted on August 17, 2007 03:14