I Want a T-Shirt

So, I'm reading this article about Che (well, really about our ol pal Hugo) and how brain dead celebrities and naive teenagers think he's so uber cool and the antithesis of authority and I decided that someone needs to make a t-shirt with the famous Che face ... only with a bullet hole between the eyes. 'Cause that's the only way this monster did any good - being murdered like a coward while trying to flee the 'cause' he supported.

Why do intellectuals (so called) and celebrities think that mass murderers are so cool...as long as they're the "right" mass murders? i.e. Mao, Marx, and Che. Hitler isn't as cool apparently because he was just so damn obvious about his atrocities. Plus he lost this brutal war, you know.

My son is going to learn about these monsters. History does matter and forgetting history (or believing the white washed version that some lib-tard professor tries to teach) has consequences.

I recommend this book. I've heard the author interviewed a couple of times and have read his book (it's good, and not super long). Reading it at work (I used to work out at lunch and would read it on the treadmill... note the past tense) a coworker saw it and got all excited that I was reading about Che. Until she saw the full title. *grin* Then she stormed away in a huff.

It saddens me when otherwise intelligent people defend mass murderers. One excuse? "The people who tell these stories are just the rich ones who were forced out."

*insert cricket chirps and blank stare here*

Pennies in the Fire

When I was in middle school we had a guest speaker come talk to one of our classes...I don't remember which class (guessing it was history or something like that), nor do I remember the teacher or just about any other thing that I learned in middle school.

What I do remember is this speaker, a man who had survived the Holocaust. He was part of the Escape from Sobibor and his story was riveting and powerful.

This is also the time when I read a book I borrowed from my aunt about Joseph Mengele and his horrifying "experiments" on children, especially twins.

Was I too young to read such a book? Probably a bit. But it was these two experiences that have led me to a fascination and passion for this particular period of history - World War II in general, and the Holocaust specifically. I was actually excited when I got to go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC during high school...and I still have the "passport" I received that represented one person from the time. My person did not make it out alive and neither did any one of the people we had in our 8 person party.

There is a project going on right now at Horn Lake Middle School to teach those children about the Holocuast. Every child needs to understand the horror and the true nightmare that was created for so many millions.

The teacher has come up with, what I think is, a creative idea to convey to the children just how many lives were lost.

It's a school project spearheaded by seventh-grade Spotlight students currently studying World War II -- with a significant focus on the Holocaust. Each penny would stand for one child lost in the Holocaust.

Children can understand something in front of them - something tangible like a penny. It's difficult to comprehend 1.5 Million of anything, but when you see it in person it can become so much more clear.

If you have some extra change, please consider sending it their way. Each generation must learn about the hell created by the Nazis. It's not that it was the first, only, or last genocide (Stalin's and Mao's governments actually each killed more people total). It is the systematic and organized manner in which the evil was perpetrated. And the fact that some people today STILL deny that it happened. And some kids are not even taught about it anymore.

We need to remember...always.

I'm Not Sad...Is That Mean?

Teddy K died. I don't feel a thing. Does that make me a bad person? I felt more emotion when MJ died, but just barely. It's not like I knew these people...and I loathed TK. It's going to be nauseating having to see people go on and on about what a wonderful public servant he was and what a difference he made to America.

Barf. He was a horrible, lifetime politician who helped change things for his own gain and socialist views. No one should be in the same position for 47 years...term limits anyone?

Not to mention his murder of a young woman. How many other politicians could get away with that and still manage a "successful" political career?

So forgive me if I don't celebrate the life of a crooked politician (is that a redundant statement?) nor mourn his passing.

I do dread the coming media love fest for the "lion of the senate" ... and the Dems inevitable use of his brain tumor to push their disastrous health care "reform".

When Men Were Men

Happy V.E. Day!

Whether you celebrate today or tomorrow. We need more brave leadership, unafraid to do the right thing even if it is the difficult thing.

Bill Whittle for President

This guy is a freaking genius. I love WWII history...I've always been fascinated by it. I knew more about WWII when I was in 6th grade than Jon Stewart will ever know. He's obviously got his head up his arse.

Watch all 17 minutes ...it should be played in all history classes. It is BRILLIANT.

I didn't realize that there are people out there who actually believe that the Japanese were about to surrender prior to Little Boy's drop. Seriously!?!? What revisionist history books are those morons reading? Even AFTER the second bomb, Fat Man, the Japanese did not want to surrender.

Hello! They were a stubborn and suicidal bunch. Their leaders preferred extinction to surrender. Surrender was completely dishonorable. Even when Hirohito was ready to surrender his military leaders tried to stop him and continue the blood bath.

Jon Stewart is an ass. A no nothing, embarrassing himself, moron. He should stick to so called comedy.

Communist Paradise?

I have a t-shirt that reads on the back:

"Communism has only killed 100 million people. Let's give it another chance."

It's fun to wear downtown at the State Capital where lots of lefties hang out and shop with their sock and sandal clad feet and their non disposable shopping bags. I always worry about my car though...at the Farmer's market it's my "Keep the Change", "I love my Carbon Footprint", and "Peace through Superior Firepower" in a sea of supportive Obama and save the planet bumper stinkers

I wonder how the lefties would survive in the Communist paradise of North Korea. I've long been fascinated by this sad country. Last year I finished a nice thick book called Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty and was fascinated and horrified at the same time. The life these people are forced to live because of the maniac's running the country (into the ground).

I highly recommend the book...as thick as it is, it did read fairly quickly. I wish it had more photos (I'm very visual) but it's understandably difficult to get photos when you have 24 hour a day handlers.

Somehow, Tomas van Houtrvve managed to get some incredibly moving, and chilling, photos when he posed as a prospective businessman. They make me want to cry. My life is so very different...spoiled in comparison...that it is hard to take my problems very seriously.

h/t for the photos: Carpe Diem

Irony is Lost on These People

I read a great book a year or so ago about Che Guevera and the idiots who support him, called "Exposing the Real Che Guevera: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him" written by a survivor of Castro's cuba, Humberto Fontova. It's a fairly short read and full of jaw dropping details about the revolution that they don't teach you in school.

Reason TV has a new episode discussing how Che's popularity with the Hollywood set is actually completely ironic. Che hated capitalism and hated artists and anyone part of the educated class. Rock and Roll and Jazz was "imperialist" music. Santana, who actually likes and wears Che, was a banned music group in Cuba! People who listened to his music could be picked up by the police.

He was the main executioner of Castro, often shooting first and asking questions later.



I appreciate their connection between Nazi Germany, Hitler, and Mao with Che.

How is it possible for otherwise normal, thinking human beings to let such a psychopathic murderer be part of their lives? Would anyone (other than a Neo Nazi) wear a shirt with "Hitler is my Homeboy" t-shirt?

I have a Che shirt myself. It's a little different though. :) As you can imagine. Mine isn't this exact one but it's the same theme...


Mine says "Commies Aren't Cool" and I get a lot of double takes when I wear it here in the navy blue Washington State.

Remembering Genocide 75 Years Later

It's much more politically correct to honor those killed by Nazi Germany. I don't know why this is.

Stalin and his Commie buddies killed even more people and in the Ukraine deliberately initiated a starvation genocide that is estimated to have killed between 6 and 10 million individuals.

Today is the 75th anniversary of "Holodomor" ... the beginning of this deliberate starvation. I'm 25% Ukrainian but I think my great-grandmother and grandfather were already in the U.S. in the early 1930s. They had to be because my grandmother was here during that time and she remembers the Great Depression in the U.S. But I'm sure that they had relatives back in the Ukraine ... I wonder how many of my relatives were murdered.

A huge thank you goes to propagandist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Walter Duranty - a New York Times correspondent who wrote in glowing terms about the Soviet "experiment." No problems here. Everything is hunky dory. Move along now. (I'm reading The Forgotten Man and I'm shocked by how many people thought America should model itself after Stalin and Mussolini's governments...truly shocked.)

Ah, how easy it is to revise history and cover up the ugliness. It's much less messy than acknowledging the terror caused by Communism.

"The partial opening of Soviet archives soon confirmed the extent to which Stalin and his henchmen knowingly used hunger to punish resistance and beat the peasantry into submission. Among the finds was a direct order by Stalin to cordon off starving villages and intercept peasants trying to flee in search of food."

Is it worse or better than the Nazi genocide of the Jews? I say neither. They are equally horrific and equally man made.

"It is generally believed that about half of the victims were in Ukraine and the predominantly Ukrainian-populated Russian region of Kuban. The millions of others who perished included Russian peasants and close to a third of the population of Kazakhstan. There is also no doubt that the famine was man-made. "

Those who deny history also deny the future capability of evil ideas to cause human suffering.

"Recent articles detailing the Soviet regime's war on the peasantry, based on Soviet archives, describe a living hell: government agents going door to door confiscating food; families in recalcitrant villages forced out of their homes and left to freeze; men and women tortured to make them reveal hidden stockpiles of food; widespread cannibalism. These horrors were by no means limited to Ukraine. It is nonetheless true that Stalin's fateful decision to blockade famine-stricken areas, issued in January 1933, was initially directed at Ukraine and Kuban."

Putin's Russia works hard to deny the genocidal aspects of the Soviet area forced starvation, except when convenient.

"...the Russians do not deny that millions of people were deliberately starved to death during the collectivization campaign. Instead, they focus on denying the "genocide" charge..."it seems that the only time Russia's government remembers the Russian victims of the Terror-Famine is when it needs them to counter Ukrainian claims [of genocide].""

Regardless of what we call it ... millions were murdered through the actions of the State. We should always fear the actions of the State ... especially when they say they are acting in our "best interests."

Thank God

I Thank God.

I thank God for this country. We are beyond blessed to have been born and raised in this amazing place.

I thank God for my hubby who puts up with more than I can imagine.

I thank God for my doggies who bring so many smiles to my face.

I thank God that I still have a job.

I thank God for the internet and the freedom it allows for me to write and to sell my jewelry.

Thanksgiving is not a day to mourn. Thanksgiving is a day to remember the wonder that is this country and all it's beauty.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank You President Lincoln

Today is the anniversary of the date that President Abraham Lincoln addressed his fellow Americans at Gettysburg to honor those who died fighting for this great nation.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this national shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Incredible. Powerful. Beautiful. Would that we had such speakers who could produce such patriotic words today...and convey those words to America and remind people why this is a great country.

Listening to the radio this morning, Kirby Wilbur (who is a history geek) talked about how there was a "peace" movement during the civil war, led by ... this may shock you ... The Democrats!

I know, shocking right? They thought that the price was too great and the war should end and the south should be allowed to secede. The more things change...