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It’s time the Daily Mail apologised for supporting Hitler and its anti-semitic past
No shame a hallmark of uber-conservatives?
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)
The Daily Mail has called on Harriet Harman to apologise for her past associations with the National Council for Civil Liberties.
Well, the Daily Mail should know all about links with dodgy people and unsavoury organisations.
Here’s Lord Rothermere – the original owner of the Daily Mail and great-grandfather of the present owner – with a good friend of his:
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And here are extracts from an exchange of letters between the Mail’s owner and Hitler:
Adolf Hitler letter to Lord Rothermere (7th December, 1933)
I should like to express the appreciation of countless Germans, who regard me as their spokesman, for the wise and beneficial public support which you have given to a policy that we all hope will contribute to the enduring pacification of Europe. Just as we are fanatically determined to defend ourselves against attack, so do we reject the idea…
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Deja vu all over again! Warlords With Dark Pasts Battle in Afghan Election – NYTimes.com
Ashraf Ghani, the apparent front-runner in the Afghan presidential race this year, was once unstinting in his opinion of one of the country’s most prominent warlords, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, calling him a “known killer.”
He said that in 2009, when General Dostum was supporting President Hamid Karzai for re-election. Now, Mr. Ghani simply calls General Dostum his running mate.
via Warlords With Dark Pasts Battle in Afghan Election – NYTimes.com.
Khalil Gibran on Lebanon: Pity the Nation
applies to all nations
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave,
eats a bread it does not harvest,
and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome…
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“All it takes is one good man with a gun…..” – ‘Michigan Man Shoots Himself Dead While Showing Girlfriend That Guns Are Safe’
WITH children in the home……he drinks and then pulls out his guns to show them off…….
‘Three children, ages 7, 10, and 12, were in the home at the time, but luckily they weren’t hurt and they did not witness the shooting, McCabe said. According to authorities, they weren’t the man’s biological children’.
‘A 36-year-old Michigan man was exercising his Second Amendment right when he shot and killed himself on Sunday. The fatal shooting occurred accidentally while the man attempted to demonstrate gun safety to his girlfriend while intoxicated’.
‘According to Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe, the man had been drinking all day when he explained to his girlfriend that his three handguns were perfectly safe while unloaded. He then placed each gun against his head and pulled the trigger with only one minor issue– the third gun was loaded’.
‘He was pronounced dead at the scene’.
From : http://aattp.org/michigan-man-shoots-himself-dead-while-showing-girlfriend-that-guns-are-safe/
A Republican World – ‘Oops: Dick Cheney Unintentionally Trashes Troops In Attempt To Hit Obama’
‘Former Vice President Dick Cheney took to Fox News on Monday night to lambaste the Obama administration’s proposed cuts to the military budget’ :
Dick Cheney : “He’d (Obama) much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops”.
“Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote in a recent analysis’.
From : http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/02/25/3326491/cheney-lashes-obama-hits-veterans-food-stamps/
“I’m quitting my job. Thanks, Obamacare”!
“I’m quitting my job. Thanks, Obamacare”!. Because with affordable healthcare – they can start their own business or change their life in some other positive way.
RAISING QUAIL | Little Homestead in the City – the Urban Homestead Journal
WHY QUAIL EGG IS IMPORTANT
Quail eggs are packed with vitamins and minerals. Even with their small size, their nutritional value is three to four times greater than chicken eggs. Quail eggs contain 13 percent proteins compared to 11 percent in chicken eggs. Quail eggs also contain 140 percent of vitamin B1 compared to 50 percent in chicken eggs. In addition, quail eggs provide five times as much iron and potassium. Unlike chicken eggs, quail eggs have not been know to cause allergies or diathesis. Actually they help fight allergy symptoms due to the ovomucoid protein they contain.
Regular consumption of quail eggs helps fight against many diseases. They are a natural combatant against digestive tract disorders such as stomach ulcers. Quail eggs strengthen the immune system, promote memory health, increase brain activity and stabilize the nervous system. They help with anemia by increasing the level of hemoglobin in the body while removing toxins and heavy metals. The Chinese use quail eggs to help treat tuberculosis, asthma, and even diabetes. If you are a sufferer of kidney, liver, or gallbladder stones quail eggs can help prevent and remove these types of stones.
via RAISING QUAIL | Little Homestead in the City – the Urban Homestead Journal.
(Actually, I do not advise this or think it is a good idea but it illustrates how humans can justify anything we want to do because we can justify anything, or so it seems. Massive raising of quail for meat and eggs in China is one of the contributors of avian influenza there.)
Egypt’s new buffer government
(Photo of Egypt’s new PM by Khaled Kandil / Associated Press / November 24, 2013)
The culture of rumors and speculations in Egypt can tempt us to abandon our logical thinking. Take, for example, the resignation of Beblawi’s government—this was a move that took many by surprise, but it shouldn’t have. The government resignation was inevitable; the timing may be intriguing, but the decision was not. Clarity and transparency are lacking commodities when it comes to Egypt’s political scene. We cannot know for sure why the government resigned (or forced to resign), nonetheless, there are contributing factors behind the departure of Beblawi’s government.
Post-Morsi era
The Beblawi government appeared post-Morsi. It will always be associated with July 3 and the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood from power. Whether the army chief, Marshal Sisi, intends to run for election or not, the Egyptian leadership needs a new government with fresh faces, commissioned with the…
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I’m running an ultramarathon and it’s all Cheryl Strayed’s fault
The Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys.
Last autumn, I finally joined the rest of the literate free world and read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, and of course I adored it. I was swept away by the audacity of her undertaking, how she threw herself into this foolish pursuit with only the most limited understanding of what hiking the Pacific Crest Trail demanded of those who tried to take it on.
I adored the sense of adventure that permeated the book. It wasn’t the faux-romantic sensibility that spurred a billion Alexander Supertramp wannabes off to seek their inner Thoreaus in the wilderness, but rather what I figured adventures like this are more like: hours and days of tedium and pain punctuated by episodes of sublime transcendence that make the blackened toenails and odd chafing patterns seem like a paltry price…
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