Tomorrow, starts the new year. My guests arrive soon. Before I enjoy welcoming friends I need to spend a moment thinking about this time of year, What a horrid time of year this was before my father and others arrived to liberate Buchenwald. The most notorious of the death marches took place [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
December 31st, 2013 - 7:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
Buchenwald 15: As the Soviet army aproaches, Nazis force Auschwitz inmates to march to Buchenwald!
November 20th, 2013 - 4:48 am § in Misc.
How News Has Changed: my day after the assasination.
Reporting the JFK Assassination: ‘No Miranda Rule, No PR People’ by Eleanor Clift Nov 7, 2013 5:45 AM EST Fifty years on, journalists who were in Dallas that day, from Bob Schieffer to Jim Lehrer, recall the shock of the news, getting a call from Mrs. Oswald, and questioning the assas[...]
November 19th, 2013 - 4:45 am § in America
Gettysburg
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived an[...]
Why are you scared of me?
White America fears African American males. The fear was evident during the Trayvon Martin case. Its evident every time a black male is pulled over by police for no reason other than being black. Many white Americans agreed with Zimmermans reasoning for stalking and killing a young black kid[...]
Jews and Languages
Struggling To Preserve an Iranian Jewish Language Before It Goes Extinct Jews from Iran to India once spoke their own languages. The few remaining speakers are now the ends of those linguistic lines. Read more at http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/136371/endangered-jewish-languages#Ky[...]
August 29th, 2013 - 4:07 pm § in America
Where and When Was the Tea Party Founded?
The Charleston Mercury said, “The tea has been thrown overboard, the revolution of 1860 has been initiated.” Has anything changed since then? Four Tea Party Challengers to Lindsey Graham Vie for One-on-One in Runoff Election Columbia Tea Party | Restoring Liberty and Freedom South Caroli[...]
January 30th, 2013 - 10:47 pm § in Hypocrisy
80 years since von Hindenberg apointed Hitler as Chancellor
Hitler only got 1/3 of the vote ,,,about what the Tea Party controls here.[...]
July 26th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in America
Detroit
Last year I visited this same place. I was in Ann Arbor to celebrate a bat mitzvah but spent as much free time as coud “seeing Detroit.” In the past, the death of an American city have beem translated into iconic works by Capa, Smith, Frank, or their modern equivalents working for [...]
Zealot .. a book about Jesus, called the Christ
I INTRODUCING “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” The new book from Reza Aslan From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about [...]