After the election of Obama, I felt like a Jew after Hitler was elected. Knowing what’s coming, even thought no new laws have been instituted.
I am not however going to wait until I’m in the boxcar to try to escape.
The question isn’t whether BHO will appease our enemies. The question is whether BHO is one of them. Has anyone bothered to do a genealogical chart or obtain a legitimate birth certificate?
I don't think we have a Churchill.
On a visit to the Czech Republic in 2007, my brother took me to see some of the areas which were fortified in preparation for German attack. I was very impressed with how much remained after so many years. This little nation was prepared to fight. My father has told me many times how upset he and his peers were when they were told to stand down.
A small news source with a long-loved history in Philadelphia. Back when Philadelphia was a three-newspaper town, the evening Philadelphia Bulletin was the largest-circulation daily with its own building near the main post office and the Penn Station major train terminal. The morning Philadelphia Inquirer and the afternoon tabloid Philadelphia Daily News were jointly owned by Walter Annenberg until '69, then sold to Knight Ridder, and became a big liberal mess. The Bulletin declined out of business in 1982. The Inquirer had not always been left-leaning; at one time it was known as "the Republican Bible", and just lately it has had a Republican editor, Brian P. Tierney, who is trying to bring the Inky back off the edge of extinction, but Philadelphia has long been a union-heavy Democrat stronghold, with its large population of working-class ethnics of many kinds, and non-working persons of color.
Herb Denenberg had been Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years had a pro-consumer radio broadcast about insurance and consumer matters. He is someone whom you would expect to be a Democrat; perhaps he has been registered Dem (he is probably a little older than Ed Rendell, the Dem Governor of PA and former Mayor and DA of Philly, and like Rendell, Denenberg is Jewish). But his stunning biography indicates a brilliant and independent mind -- almost a modern-day Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps the fate of Israel has informed his ardent editorials like the one above. Whatever the case, he is a mensch who has been loved in PA for a long time. Here is his web site: The Denenberg Report
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Actually, it's the author whose ignorance of history is showing.
The Sudetenland had been part of the (mostly) German Holy Roman Empire for many centuries. After it collapsed, it was part of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866, which included essentially all German lands and some which were inhabited mostly by non-Germans.
The Sudetenland stopped being part of "Germany" only when the German Confederation collapsed in 1866 and Germany was reconstituted as the "North German Confederation," followed by the German Empire in 1871.
In any case, Hitler's (not completely unreasonable) claim was that the Sudeten was part of Germany because mostly Germans lived there. This claim was one of self-determination of national groups and had been considered just and proper when made by Italians, Yugoslavs, Poles and others.
If the same principle was to be applied as in these cases, the Sudeten Germans had just as much right to self-determination as the Poles or Italians. Which mostly goes to show the flaws of stretching a principle too far.
1. Saar not Sahr.
2. It was not ceded to France, it was occupied and administered by France while legally remaining part of Germany.
3. The area is rich in coal, not oil.
Too many factual errors in this one for me.
This thread title caught my eye in a big way. If you are interested in parallels between 1938 and 2008 you might scan my posting history for the year. I have been excerpting Shirer’s book for several months now to supplement the old newspaper articles.