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Who's Online : 1Snitching on a Predator From Alan Dershowitz: Is Paterno Getting a Bum Rap?: (Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly the same generation. We grew up during the period of McCarthyism, and my parents taught me, as his parents may[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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There Are Moments Yes, there are moments. But between those moments there are long, long periods. I’ve always had nostalgia for the days of railroads as you see them in the films of the Thirties and Forties. Adding to the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Advisor in the Sky In Iraq I, George Bush, père encouraged the Iraqi Shiite majority to revolt against the Sunni minority who were running the country. Then he left them in the lurch. They were massacred. Iraq II, George[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Meaning of Life to Our Chieftains Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign undermined Lyndon Johnson’s attempts to initiate peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese in order to improve his chances of winning the election.[1] Just to be fair,[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Influx Why is there an influx of migrants at the Mexican border? Because mostly Republican administrations supported the Dirty Warriors in the Dirty Wars of Central and South America. Thank you Dick Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Ronald Reagan. We can’t[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Comparisons Pope Francis makes comparisons. „I say this with pain. In the last century the whole world was scandalized about what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today we do the same, but now with white gloves.“ According to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Golden Anniversary of the Annexation (Ditto for the 80th Anniversary) At the unveiling of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, speeches of regret were read by political luminaries, Church dignitaries, public figures and high-ranking military men. Poets[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
At Nazi and Klu-Klux Rally on August 11 to 12, 2017at Charlottesville, Virginia Heather Heyer, an anti-fascist activist, was killed when a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr. rammed her. “I think there’s blame on both sides…But you also[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Myth Just as East Europe was freed from Nazism but not freed, Russia (or the Soviet Union, if you will) was freed from Communism but not freed. There’s a myth circulating that President Reagan and Pope John Paul II[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Mouth as Launcher Helen went off to Troy with Paris, leaving King Menelaus behind in Sparta. Helen had the face “that launched a thousand ships,” which carried Greek warriers to fight a war that lasted a decade. Monica’s mouth[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Bill Maher, Vietnam in Retrospect Bill is thumbs down on Iraq and thumbs up on Vietnam. Guess Dick and Henry are his men. “I’ve been hearing nothing but Vietnam was a wasted war – we should never have gone. I[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Here’s Donald Trump on the Charlottesville Rally: “You also had some very fine people on both sides ….I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me!”. “One of the men seen[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Doing the Assassin in My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment, which was adjacent to ours in our house in Rueppgasse. I witnessed the ransacking of my ransacking my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse by SA-marauders. I was three[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Philip Roth and Jewish Mothers Jewish mothers may have their failings, but as far as I am concerned, the good sides outweigh the bad sides. One of our prominent American writers is down on them. Book after book appears with[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Faithful Till the End Joseph Goebbels, had been a seminary student and he was also the author of a novel titled Michael. Later he found a cause and his new religion became National Socialism. Joseph and Magda and both had[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Way We Were* Music by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman Mem’ries light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored mem’ries of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The High Art of Creative Cruelty “I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would be on another level….Thus, art can consist of a crime.” [1] Killing was and is[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Gabriel Ich habe den Namen Gabriel immer mit dem Typen mit Flügeln und einem Horn verbunden. Blow, Gabriel, Blow ist einer der wunderbaren Schlager aus Anything Goes von Cole Porter. “Blow, Gabriel, blow! Come on and blow, Gabriel, blow! I[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
What Else Is New? This is from a Stasi document from 1973: “Don’t shy away from using your weapon, even if the breach of the border involves women and children!” Of course! Anyone who tried to cross the German-German border[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Eine Karriere Es gab einen Schauspieler, der Mitglied der NSDAP war, der in Propagandafilmen gespielt, und Kollegen bei der Gestapo denunziert hat, die deportiert und hingerichtet worden sind. Er setzte seine Karriere nach dem Krieg fort ohne ein Wort des Bedauerns. Auf[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
