Part I: The Ancient World
Socrates: Have you an opinion on my impending Impiety trial, Plato?
Plato: Of course, Socrates – and I fully intend to be there in the audience.
S: So what is your speculative opinion of the final decision?
P: I cannot conceive that you could be convicted, Socrates. Anyone, who knows you personally as I have almost all of my life known you, knows that you are anything but Impious.
S: So you believe trials are…..
In the run up to the 1860 Presidential Election, Abraham Lincoln assured his Republican nomination with the first of his three eternally famous speeches, this one at Cooper Union in New York City. The most famous phrase became known in history books as the memorable title: “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.” (The phrase derives from the Gospels of both Mark and Matthew.)
In my book about Socrates, and in a number of earlier essays on this website, I…..
Part I: History
There were two instances during WW II when FDR’s Administration could have saved some of the six million Holocaust I Jewish victims from Hitler’s Final Solution. Both are completely lost in the ‘memory hole’ of actual American and world history.
In neutral Switzerland, the German government secretly offered to sell Jews for trucks to amplify their war effort. It is politically and militarily understandable, but horrifically tragic, that THOSE JEWISH HOSTAGES WHO COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED…..
There are only two theories of what human societies will believe and publicly so state.
Reason based on individual sincerity – logically consistent and irrefutable facts are the basis for faith in reason. [Repetitively questioning any alternative is what got Socrates executed (and Giordano Bruno tortured and executed 2000 years later),]
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IS THE ‘GLUE’ THAT HOLDS SOCIETY TOGETHER.
Enforced Social Harmony – Complete public acceptance by those below the propagation of the FAITHFUL BELIEFS of the…..
In the wonderful movie “Man of the Year,” a 2006 classic satire (starring Robin Williams) about the universally insincere professional politician perversion of the electoral process that has alienated almost every sincere, intelligent, moral and honest voter, there is a great joke when his senior comic writer in this TV entertainer’s (Robin Williams plays a talk-show host) campaign for president suggests a means to slander an opposition candidate.
He says something like Lyndon Johnson used to like to say that…..
Introduction
On June 12, I wrote a small sarcastic essay called “KAPO – A Gallows Humor Joke.” (It just gets worse.) I neglected to give a proper definition of the term ‘KAPO.”
In Nazi concentration camps a KAPO was a special Jewish prisoner whose merciless brutality towards fellow Jews elevated his personal situation at their expense. They made Waffen SS German (or Ukrainian) guards’ life easier and safer. The slave labor concentration camps used until the ‘Final Solution’ of mass…..
Today I read in Breitbart News that one of the ten smartest men in the world was, no doubt, coerced by social and political pressure to declare two things:
His $45 million future monthly political donation, leading up to the November election, would not go directly to the Trump Campaign, but rather some ‘Get Out the Vote (putatively) Educational Campaign’ as per [Mark Zuckerberg’s $500 million (stock transfer?) to the 2020 Biden Campaign that was ‘Educational’ too]. Big difference! The…..
A slight upgrade for the Democrat Party Ticket: Kamala Harris for President and either Bernie Sanders or AOC (ALL-OUT-CRAZY) for Vice President. A preponderance of Democrat Party Voters must believe their Political Enemy #1, Donald J. Trump, faked his own assassination.
Number 1 is half-way there; Number 2 has 60% (3 out of 5) Democrat Party Voters already – and 3-4 months of Evil Scumbag Press and its coordinated Social Media PERSUASION should significantly raise the percentage.
PS. As to…..
If Macron had been in power subsidizing Agence France-Presse (AFP) coverage of the HOLOCAUST, their local Ukrainian ‘sources’ at Auschwitz could describe the dead bodies ‘reported’ by Ivan Demjanjuk as victims of Jewish violence. Is HAMAS really different?
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
And Macron calls Le Pen the anti-Semite.
On Wednesday July 10, 2024, 193 Democrat Party Congressmen handed the Republican Party the easiest takeback of the screwed-up House of Representation in my lifetime. Professional Republican Politicians are so naïve, so gullible, so weak-willed and stupid, that they will never make intelligent use of this opportunity.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Law was passed 221-193. 216 Republicans took the trouble to show up and vote. 198 Democrats voted, with only 5 joining the Republicans. (Whether their motive was…..