We are now less than a month from the 70th anniversary of my father entering Buchenwald to give medical care. That should be joyous event, a good thing in the face of horror .. a chance to honor him for his courage and kindness to the ill. One of my goals has been to celebrate […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘William Quick’
March 1st, 2015 - 10:52 am § in Misc.
South Carolina preserves Southern tradition
This is a tale of two plaques, old and new. The old plaque commemorates Greenwood, South Carolina’s fallen of World War I — segregated under “White” and “Colored” headings. The new plaque, bought with $15,000 raised by the town’s two American Legion posts &#[...]
March 1st, 2015 - 12:34 am § in Hypocrisy
60 years since MARCH 1945 … Death of Anne Frank, Bergen Belsen
With Passover a month away I suggest this wonderful GERMAN review of the role Anne Frank plays in Judaisms today, from two years ago: From Spiegel: First German Movie abut Frank; how her image is used, conflicts between two foundations in her name, new novels sample: What We Talk About When We Talk [...]
February 8th, 2015 - 10:44 am § in America
Why Would Anyone Choose to Live in South Carolina
NOTE THIS POST HAS BEEN AMENDED TO COMPLY WITH A COMPLAINT FROM ROB GROCE THAT THE ORIGINAL TEXT INCLUDED 83 WORDS TAKEN FROM A POST HE HAD MADE. THOSE WORDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED WITH MY APOLOGIES. MR. GROCE ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE IMAGE OF A GUN CAME FROM ART HE HAD PAID FOR. THE GUN […][...]
January 27th, 2015 - 4:04 pm § in Hypocrisy
BUCHENWALD 63: Honoring My Father on Holocaust Memorial Day. Tags!
Help me honor a Jewish hero. This is the sixty third entry in a series I have written about my father’s amazing photographs taken inside Buchenwald. I am posting this to Facebook and would greatly appreciate any support or ideas about how to get these materials into the public domain. It i[...]
December 27th, 2014 - 11:05 am § in America
Glad to live in WASTATE
I am very happy to live here rather than in the former confederacy. A state like South Carolina where some of my own family chose to live, disgusts me. Still, before getting too happy let me point out that our own state has a very racist history. When my wife and I moved here the Indian Fi[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Porn and Pew .. the connection
A Study of Google searches for porn shows a high correlation between the bible, or at least folks who belong to churches, and porn from websites similar to fucked gay. The Bible Belt is the Porn Belt. Smut in Jesusland: Why Red-State Conservatives Are the Biggest Porn Hounds As usual, South Carolina[...]
October 27th, 2014 - 12:08 am § in Misc.
South Carolina: Another reason to wonder if the entire state needs to be placed back in reconstruction before rejoining the Union?
This guy is pretty typical of South Carolina. My own brother in law lives there and is pretty defensive about the place. Did you know that the fore runner of the KKK was actually in a Jewish synagogue in Charleston? Frankly, the Jews of that horrid culture were nothing for the rest of use t[...]
Buchenwald 56. Living Danish Heroes at Rosh Hashanah … Teshuvah
As we approach Yom Kippur 5775 (2014 CE), today marks nearly the fiftieth essay in my Buchenwald series. This essay is posted during one of the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, days each Jew is supposed to spend thinking about how to be a better person …a process called &[...]