Bloodthirsty Liberal

I looked all over the internet this morning for suitable photographs comparing Pergamon Temple to the Obama Temple in Invesco stadium where Obama spoke last night.

Let me explain. Have you ever visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin? This is a collection of ancient sculptures, statues, and a full Temple which the Germans took from Turkey. If you ever find yourself in Berlin, I highly recommend a visit to this museum. The Temple is a beautiful Pagan temple and Hitler used an exact replica as a prop for his speeches. He thought that the Temple conferred power and authority to his person. He would stand in the Temple and talk to enormous adoring crowds. So, I wanted images to compare the two Temples: last night at Invesco stadium and back in the Nazi era.

Let’s avoid the religious sub-context (that stuff is too weird for me), and just focus our attention on the architecture. Remarkable how the two Temples look so much alike, isn’t it? Probably just a coincidence…

The New York Times has a great photo of the Obama Temple up on the website this morning.

Photos of the Pergamon Temple

- Aggie

We don’t know anything about the perpetrator yet, but a guy on a Greyhound bus decided to behead his seat mate.

He wanted to, I guess:

As horrified travelers watched, a Greyhound Canada bus passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man who was sitting and sleeping beside him, a witness said Thursday.

Police officers and cars surround the bus near Portage la Prairie, Canada, on Wednesday night.

“There was a bloodcurdling scream. I was just reading my book, and all of a sudden, I heard it,” Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the two men, said of the Wednesday night incident west of Portage la Prairie in Manitoba.

“It was like something between a dog howling and a baby crying, I guess you could say,” Caton said. “I don’t think it will leave me for a while.”

I’m not going to speculate about this. But the description is bone-chilling.

Caton said the victim was sleeping with his head leaning against the window when the attack happened. Caton said he shouted at the other passengers, many of whom also were sleeping, to leave.

“Everybody got off the bus. Me and a trucker that stopped and the Greyhound driver ran up to the door to maybe see if the guy was still alive or we could help or something like that,” Caton said.

“And when we all got up, we saw that the guy was cutting off the guy’s head. … When he saw us, he came back to the front of the bus, told the driver to shut the door. He pressed the button and the door shut, but it didn’t shut in time, and the guy was able to get his knife out and take a swipe at us,” Caton said.

Caton told the AP that the attacker didn’t sit near the victim when he first got on the bus, about an hour before the attack.

“He sat in the front at first; everything was normal,” Caton said. “We went to the next stop, and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting. He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn’t say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal.”

- Aggie