Be part of the solution not part of the problem. It's like the Spanish civil war. There is no right or wrong side. Just crazy violent people, using violence for personal or political gain.
My late uncle was in the Internaional Brigade in Spain, fighting against the Fascists. I was very proud of him. When that was over he joined the Canadian Army and fought the Nazis in Holland. He brought me back a great souvenir, a German officer's fancy bayonet and sheath.
Six Songs for Democracy was originally recorded in Spain in June 1938 during an air raid on Barcelona. One of the records bore a sticker reading: “The defective impression of this record is due to interruptions of electric current during an air raid.” The soloist and organizer of this recording was the great German working-class tenor Ernst Busch, backed by a chorus of members of the Thäelmann Battalion, the war’s German volunteers. It was released in the United States by Keynote Recordings in 1940, to great success.
There is no right or wrong side. Just crazy violent people, using violence for personal or political gain.
I disagree. There is a right side. Yes the Racist Alt-Right, White Supremacists, the Klan and the Nazis (They are not Neo-Nazis, they are real Nazis), have the right to free speech and the right to assemble peacefully, which the seem to have a problem doing. That said they do not have the right to try to put into motion the violent overthrow of the American government and establish a White Protestant Christian only nation here without real Americans doing all that is legally possible to stop them.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
I, too, was in Spain during Franco's rule - Malaga, Marbella, Madrid and Toledo. I was in the Prado where I saw great painings by El Greco, and in one room the Naked Maja was on one wall and the Clothed Maja was on the opposite wall, but I don't recall seeing Picasso's Gruernica (which is considered his hasterpiece). I guess it wasn't in the Prado. One thing I recall was being in the clock room of the Royal Palace, and almost getting busted taking photos of the main Madrid Police Station from inside its courtyard - I didn't know it was the police station.
Be part of the solution not part of the problem. It's like the Spanish civil war. There is no right or wrong side. Just crazy violent people, using violence for personal or political gain.
Do you really see "equivalence"?
There's a Valley in Spain called Jarama....
Do you see equivalence?
No....Vive La Quince Brigada!
¡No pasarán!
Venga Jaleo
My late uncle was in the Internaional Brigade in Spain, fighting against the Fascists. I was very proud of him. When that was over he joined the Canadian Army and fought the Nazis in Holland. He brought me back a great souvenir, a German officer's fancy bayonet and sheath.
The engagement of all the "Empire" nations was nothing short of admirable. Great Britain never stood "alone".
My late uncle was in the Internaional Brigade in Spain, fighting against the Fascists.
Wow!
I didn't have any relatives that fought there as far as I know. But I did grow up listening to 78 rpm records such as this one:
Six Songs for Democracy was originally recorded in Spain in June 1938 during an air raid on Barcelona. One of the records bore a sticker reading: “The defective impression of this record is due to interruptions of electric current during an air raid.” The soloist and organizer of this recording was the great German working-class tenor Ernst Busch, backed by a chorus of members of the Thäelmann Battalion, the war’s German volunteers. It was released in the United States by Keynote Recordings in 1940, to great success.
Buzz-- are you by any chance familiar with this 78 rpm album by Paul Robeson?
No. Never heard of it. Paul Robeson had a magnificent voice.
My uncle Johnny (my mother's brother) who was in the Intenational Brigade in Spain, and then with the Canadian Army in WWII Holland.
There is no right or wrong side. Just crazy violent people, using violence for personal or political gain.
I disagree. There is a right side. Yes the Racist Alt-Right, White Supremacists, the Klan and the Nazis (They are not Neo-Nazis, they are real Nazis), have the right to free speech and the right to assemble peacefully, which the seem to have a problem doing. That said they do not have the right to try to put into motion the violent overthrow of the American government and establish a White Protestant Christian only nation here without real Americans doing all that is legally possible to stop them.
A left of center blogger.
But...the "center" cannot hold!
A left of center blogger.
But...the "center" cannot hold!
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--Billy Y.
But...the "center" cannot hold!
kpr-- I am very familiar with that left of center blogger to which you refer
The name he uses troubles me - it is, with a slightly different spelling, connected to a fraudulent anti-Semitic blood libel against the Jews.
Yes! Me, too.
What is...Guernica?
(Anybody want to buy a vowel?)
Picasso painted a famous picture of the bombing of Guernica - it is a place in Spain bombed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
Oh, I just noticed that you posted it - it did not show up until I posted this comment.
Picasso painted a famous picture of the bombing of Guernica - it is a place in Spain bombed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
Oh, I just noticed that you posted it - it did not show up until I posted this comment.
I actually did get to see the painting in person. Impressive-- and its very, very large.
BTW I was in Spain when Franco & his Fascist gov't was still in power! I saw members of th e Guardia Civile -- and at the time they still wore that famous Trocornio (3 cornered hat)
I, too, was in Spain during Franco's rule - Malaga, Marbella, Madrid and Toledo. I was in the Prado where I saw great painings by El Greco, and in one room the Naked Maja was on one wall and the Clothed Maja was on the opposite wall, but I don't recall seeing Picasso's Gruernica (which is considered his hasterpiece). I guess it wasn't in the Prado. One thing I recall was being in the clock room of the Royal Palace, and almost getting busted taking photos of the main Madrid Police Station from inside its courtyard - I didn't know it was the police station.
The firebombing of Dresden, the blitz of London, Hiroshima... all of them were atrocious.
But can any normal human being compare them with Auschwitz?
The firebombing of Dresden, the blitz of London, Hiroshima... all of them were atrocious.
But can any normal human being compare them with Auschwitz?
And what about all the violence by Antifa at Charlottesville...?
The firebombing of Dresden, the blitz of London, Hiroshima... all of them were atrocious.
But can any normal human being compare them with Auschwitz?
And what about all the violence by Antifa at Charlottesville...?