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A blond went to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards.
She asked the clerk for fifty Christmas stamps. The clerk asked, ‘What denomination?’ The blond exclaimed ‘God help us, Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptist!’ Thank you blackcordelias.
Speaking of blond jokes, here is more evidence that global warming is real. Thank you Scent.
PG got an email with a slide show yesterday. The show was about the holocaust, and how we need to remember it. The last slide encouraged you to spread the message, and to translate if necessary. PG is tempted to make a snarky translation, but agrees with the essential message of the slide show. The devil is in the details.
There are a few corrections that should be made. The show opens with a picture of General/President Dwight Eisenhower. It seems like General Eisenhower wanted pictures to be made of the concentration camps, as they were liberated. The story goes “On April 4, 1945, elements of the United States Army’s 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division captured the Ohrdruf concentration camp outside the town of Gotha in south central Germany.” The General wanted people to see what was going on, and pictures to be taken. The exact quote ( which is rather different from the slide show) was “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”
Shortly after this slide, the following statement appears “Recently “The United Kingdom” erased the holocaust from the british school curriculum because it offended “the muslim population beliefs” that the holocaust never took place. Yes, the united kingdom…” According to at least two sources, this simply is not true. PG wonders why a red herring like this was inserted into a presentation about truth and memory.
Later in the slide show, Iran was portrayed as being a nation of holocaust deniers. As the recent street demonstrations in Iran might indicate, the people of that country do not always agree with their leaders. Some are proposing a nuclear attack on Iran. This would result in millions of these brave people dying.
One of the other slides had a time honored quote from Edmund Burke… “All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing”.