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Well Said!
The extreme right-wing neocon nazis have a never say die even when proven many times wrong.
Take for instance this FreedieMac mess: They started blaming Clinton for creating this mess! Amazing!
Or take iraq war: They blamed Clinton for allowing Bin laden to escape!
Or take pardons: Clinton pardoned criminals!
I simply can't shake the feeling that these overgrown neocons are just deviant kids psychologically. They shrug responsibility completely, they blame others for anything that goes, hog all limelight if something is right.
But dangerous kids they are, nuclear armed!
Such kids must never be allowed close to anything that makes them responsible for life and death of anyone.
Which means a neocon should never be a president, or secretaryof defense hereafter.
When you rent out your soul to the large corporation and meekly submit to its agenda that states Surrender Free Speech At Door, what does it mean then?
Every job has its dignity and indignity with it.
From an Escort to being the President.
Who are we to judge Ashley Dupree? Are we "clean" in every regard? How many times have we swallowed indignity and injustice in the face of corporate policy?
How many times has an insurer's medical officer denied a valid claim even though knowing the claim the valid and ethical but was forced to deny payment due to corporate policy?
Everytime we allow ourselves to be be treated like an Object by a corporate we are "escorting" ourselves.
Tell her you are taking her to disneyland and drop her off at a Nevada hospital. Silently.
Once she learns how difficult it is live in foster care with no morning cereal, no manicures and no TV, she will quickly realize what she's been missing.
If she still doesn't get it and blames you for everything, then let her live out her life under social service.
Serves her right for her meanness to your generosity.
On a more serious tone, watch Poison Ivy movie.
The propaganda against Hitler started AFTER Hitler declared war on USA.
Until such time, magazines like TIME used to write about Hitler's weather luck, his uncanny premonition, his trip to paris much like any other leader. In other words, he was portrayed as yet another victorious monarch.
He was the first to recognize the Red Menace and shouted for the world to join against Communism. Unfortunately his bad side pogrom and other activities plus his move against USA sealed his fate as a bad guy.
Extremely intelligent, but paranoid. Simple(the only medal he ever wore was the Iron Cross he won in WW1) but grandiose. Brilliant Strategist but neorotic.
Such were his combinations. After all he single handedly fought against 4 great nations for over 5 years. No nation had done that for so long. Am not justifying Buchenwald or Auschwitz. Am just saying demonizing him would not help us understand him for future generations sake.
I agree with you. AM not stating he was a good man. His pogroms against jews, eastern untermenchen (as he called them), and against own citizens is far more dangerous than Stalin.
The author says Stalin killed more people than Hitler. Statistically True. But hitler killed the entire Prussian Civilization. The proud warrior race one that once stood for dignity and courage rather than cruelty, one where Generals earned their spurs in Battle rather than joining SS, and where valor and respect for enemy was valued more than blind hatred against Russians.
Hitler changed and then murdered an entire civilization of Prussians for failing to achieve his goal.
One only needs to read Guderian's book to see how the Bavarian Corporal was hated by the Wehrmacht.
DISCLAIMER: Am not a Fan of Hitler or the Nazis.
Now to the facts: Hitler was NOT a coward. He did win an Iron Cross in WW1 and was promoted to a Corporal. Try winning an Iron Cross today, in Iraq or Afghanistan. If you have ever killed a man in combat, cowered under the terrifying death scream of artillery shells, sweated under your gas mask scared to even breathe, vomitted at the dead bodies and mutilated corpses picked by crows, shitted yourself when seeing your fox hole friend's fingers and wrist break away under a machine gun's bullets, you ain't seen war.
Plus, he really was not that interested in Women anyways. Kinda weird, but his visit to an "escort" in Austria was enough to give him a venereal disease which cramped him and made him the paranoid idiot he became in his later years. He hated everything after that. Can't blame him though.
His rise and fall helped transform Germany into an economic powerhouse today. If not, it would have died under the economic crisis or would have been split between Britain and France.
In a perverse way, Today's Germany has much to thank Hitler.
Like cutting off your head because you have a headache and a severe cold.
The Office of the President-Elect is above law.
It neither belongs to Executive Office nor the Houses.
BUT it has all the authority of the president.
Obama needs to do a Cheney on Republicans.
I don;t see the need to bend over backwards to please the neocons.
They neither have majority nor authority.
During his first 100 days Obama must ensure he indicts, convicts and jails atleast 100 MOST corrupt republicans and supporters starting with an investigation into Ruper Murdoch's citizenship by DHS.
Let Ralph the Bull Dog loose on them: Even Rove can't stop him.
What obama needs is a Beer Putsch. Purge republicans completely.
Only then can he concentrate on the task at hand.