Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Man With a Mission

Several decades ago, Simon Wiesenthal, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi genocide, sat down to Sabbath services with a fellow camp survivor. Simon's friend, a wealthy jeweler, asked him why he had not resumed his vocation as an architect and become rich. Instead, Simon had devoted his life to documenting Nazi atrocities and hunting down the perpetrators in order to bring them to justice.

"You're a religious man," Wiesenthal told his friend. "You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.' "

Simon Weisnethal died in 2005 at the age of 96. Relentless and controversial, he once said,"I'm doing this because I have to do it. I am not motivated by a sense of revenge. Perhaps I was for a short time in the very beginning. . . . Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years."

Visit this link for a brief biography.


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another Boring Textbook?

I don't know if anyone remembers Obama saying right after his election that "science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my administration in its decisions."

The big question is, who's science?

Another event you may not have noticed was the recent confirmation of Dr.John Holdren as Obama's "Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy", or "Science Czar"( a czar is appointed and not held accountable to congress). Of course he was confirmed with very little opposition now that the Democrats have a super-majority.

Republilcan senator David Vitter asked Dr. Holdren if he believed that population control should be the role of government. He answered 'no', that he didn't think "any of us know what the answer is".

Why would Senator Vitter ask that question? Because Dr. Holdren co-authored a textbook entitled "Ecoscience:Population, Resources, Environment" in 1977 that details how various population control strategies might work, including: compulsory abortion, mass sterilization by adding infertility drugs to water and food supplies, limiting families to two children, and establishing a 'planetary regime' to control economic, environmental and reproductive behavior.

The White House has scrambled to point out that Holdren was just 'describing' possible solutions to what many people felt was the impending disaster of overpopulation in the 70's (like global warming is today) and that critics are over-reacting to statements made decades ago that are no longer relevant.

Go to this link for a good overview of the passages in question and ask yourself: has Dr. Holdren had a change of heart over the years or does he need to hide his true colors from the masses like other Obama associates such as Rev. Wright and William Ayers?

Monday, January 12, 2009

Channeling Che


This photo is one of the most iconic images in modern history. Who was this guy? And what does he have to do with today's political climate?

Che Guevera (1928-1967)

· Liked: Communism (thought Socialism was for sissies), cigars, chess, and poetry

· Disliked: Catholic nuns, Democracy, bathing, and being faithful to his wife

· Nicknames: “Choncho”(pig) and “The Butcher of La Cabana”

· Imprisoned in his labor camps: Poets, rebellious intellectuals, & gays

· Said: “An effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine: this is what our soldiers must become.”

· # of people Che personally ordered to be executed: 400+

· # of middle-class Latin American college students he inspired to become guerillas: 30,000+

· # of people killed in these insurgencies: 300,000+

· # of successful revolutions besides Totalitarian Cuba: 0

· Called Che “excessively aggressive”: Best buddy Fidel Castro

· Admirers: Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Nelson Mandela, Allen Ginsberg, Santana, Hugo Chavez, liberals, and most college students

· Response to The Motorcycle Diaries (biographical Che movie) at Sundance: Standing ovation

· Still seeing his face on the walls of college dorms: (yawn)

· Seeing his face alongside another well-known revolutionary: PRICELESS














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