Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Thursday, January 27, 2011

66 Years Ago

The Red Army's 322nd Rifle Division reached Auschwitz.

DCap has a lot more to say about it. Personally, I don't feel a need to mark the day. As a Jew, it's part of me.

But he is right about reminding people of the dark side of human history. There is a tendency of humans to forget the nastier elements of our history. The Japanese are adept at trying to whitewash their history in China. I have blogged over and over about the modern Confederates trying to run away from the fact that the Civil War was about slavery.

2 comments:

Eck! said...

To teach history, understand it, is to prevents it's repeated occurrence.

There are those that do not know the history and why it's important.


Eck!

BadTux said...

The only good thing I can say about Germany's treatment of how it behaved under Hitler is that they don't deny the evil that Germany did. Oh, they'll all claim their own parents or grandparents weren't involved with that evil, but unlike the Japanese they don't try to claim that the evil doesn't exist. Indeed, Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany...

-- Badtux the History Penguin