The Pentagon found nothing worth investigating in the story about the porn site trading free access to soldiers in return for their grisly war photos--but in what is described as an entirely unrelated development, the operator of the porn site has been arrested on obscenity charges.
Not that anyone wanted to, you know, shut the site down or anything.
no porn for oil
Tom Tomorrow says it best: "Just a remarkable coincidence!"
I say we smurf off, and smurf the site from orbit. It's the only way to be smurf.
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.
The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky. Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs. The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children."
I have not yet found video of this. Please help.
Update: Lots of people have pointed at the video in the original article (faster mirror at Crooks and Liars) (and shame on you all for not reading comments before commenting) but that video is just a useless slideshow: it's a frame every three seconds. (The smurfs start about halfway through, after the legless kid.) I'm still hoping to find a non-slideshow video of the cartoon part.
Update 2: The Parking Lot is Full had the prescient scoop on this in 1999.
Update 3:
