I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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On Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, "For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life—whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange." -Ardis Whitman
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And who are lying for their orange guywho helps so much but whom some 'hate passionately'.
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My Pillow Guy $5M Payment
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to follow through with $5 million payment to expert who debunked his false election data
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Not real sure K. McCarthy can get the votes for this.
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A bit off topic but I'm currently watching the Ken Burns documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust". It's a 3 part, six hour series that premiered last year. My interest in it came in a round about way. I recently watched the movie “The Fablemans", a fictionalized account of Steven Spielberg's family life growing up (nominated for numerous Academy Awards this year); Spielberg wrote and directed the movie. Since I'd watched it, about a week later an interview he and Ken Burns did discussing the holocaust caught my attention. In the interview, Spielberg makes the comment on how FDR and others were aware of Hitler's mass murdering of Jews yet did not immediately take action against him. Something about the way this was presented made me say, “Wait a minute. What?"
So I had to investigate further and found the KB Holocaust series. Just WOW. What an in-depth accounting of how Hitler's regime unfolded and how the U.S. and rest of the world reacted over time. I am watching the doc slowly, trying to retain what I'm learning. It's incredibly insightful and often jaw-dropping to watch. I really can't find the words to explain. People in other parts of the world had a hard time back then believing such atrocities and their magnitude were happening; some reporters who even witnessed first hand mass burials of Jews refused to believe it! There were powerful, racist men in U.S. government who thwarted efforts to increase the number of Jewish refuges allowed to enter the U.S., and they blocked other attempts at humanitarian aid for them. Yet there were some men who did all they could to make a difference to save Jewish lives.
FDR, who'd initially favored politics over humanitarianism, did eventually create the War Refuge Board which was “tasked with rescuing and providing relief for Jews and other groups facing Nazi persecution and murder. By the time this Board was created, more than five million European Jews had already been murdered. The War Refugee Board staff used creativity and the near-certainty of Allied victory to aid hundreds of thousands of people in the final seventeen months of World War II.“ The U.S. was the only country to have such a board.
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That sounds fascinating and horrifying both, Divine.
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Divine,
Since there STILL are people who deny the Holocaust, it isn't surprising that there were so many non-believers back in the day.
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Along the same topic, this might be of interest. From 2 years ago, saving interviews with holocaust survivors
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If you want to read two fascinating World War II books, (non-fiction, but are so interesting that they read like fiction), check out these 2 books by Eric Larson:
In The Garden of the Beasts btakes you to Berlin 1933-1934 to witness the Nazis rise to power through the eyes of the American Ambassador and his daughter.
The Splendid & the Vile takes place in England May 1940 (when Churchill becomes Prime Minister) to December 1941 (when America enters the war). It tells the story of Churchill, his family and the British defiance during the Blitz.
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divine,
I am so glad that you watched that. Growing up in the Bronx, a large number of friends and neighbors were survivors. My family was almost rare in that none of my relatives were in concentration camps (We were mostly post WWI immigrants)but I grew up thinking that this was something everyone knew about. I never even questioned the numbers tattooed on people arms when I was young. It is frightening to think Holocaust deniers persist but what I find truly disheartening is the soft soaping of that incredibly tragic era of history.
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Thank you all for the responses to my post. Cardplayer, I watched the clip you posted and it was quite fascinating! One positive side of today’s technology is preserving these first hand accounts of survivors of the Holocaust. (Plus I’ve always love Leslie Stahl).
Pingpong, I loathe the people of today’s world who try to claim the Holocaust was a hoax.
Ruth, I will see if those books are at my library. Thanks!
Caryn, I’d certainly known “of” the Holocaust, but always with the “patriotic towards theUnited States”slant. The documentary is quite in-depth not just about the magnitude of the atrocities committed, but also about the politics of it all, something I understand better now that I’m older. The (insert any superlative here) Ken Burns took 7 years to make this series and calls it the most important project of his lifetime. He’s done so many incredible documentaries, so I think that’s saying a lot. And I tend to agree with him.
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Hard to believe anyone wants their name in the history books like this, but yours McCarthy is going to be just as disgusting and deplorable as your orange friend, the Loon.
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Thank you Supreme Court! They overturned the TX 5th circuit court ruling on Mifepristone. I believe Alito and Thomas were the only dissenting votes. The abortion aspect of it not withstanding, how scary to think the courts could meddle with FDA decisions decades after they approved a drug, any drug!
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Thanks for posting exbrngrl Yes - thank goodness!!!!!
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