Issue 62
News: Six million is an understatement.
In case you haven't been reading the news, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is heading a conference seeking to "review (read: deny) the Holocaust". Ahmadinejad himself called the Holocaust "A myth" around this time last year, as well as sponsoring a worldwide Holocaust editorial cartoon contest earlier this year, and as one can imagine from this statement, many of the people who were invited there were Holocaust Deniers, with one Israeli who was to speak out against Holocaust Denial denied an Iranian visa because of his Israeli citizenship, and six other token Jews (at least as I see it) from a group who, despite repudiating Ahmadinejad views on the Holocaust, shares his strong Anti-Zionist stance on Israel (which seems like sending Condoleeza Rice to a Klan rally to defend her race). Otherwise, besides those people, there were many infamous Holocaust deniers, like David Duke, Frederick Toben, and Richard Krege. One notable denier who wasn't invited due to his current trial in Germany was Ernst Zundel, the publisher of the infamous Pamphlet Did 6 Million Really Die?, the title of which was answered by me in the title of this essay you're reading right now. My stance is that there is way too much evidence for the existence of the Holocaust to deny it, with there being photographs, film evidence, documentation, and many living eyewitnesses to it, many of whom have preserved their stories on film, with thousands of them living in my hometown of Skokie. If the Holocaust were, in fact, false, one would think that at least one of them would have repudiated their stories (whch not a single one, to my knowledge, has.) In the end, the people at the conference decided to set up a foundation for Holocaust review to be headed in Tehran until they can get Headquarters in Berlin (which they will never get.)
Band Name of the Day: The Stoneless Cherries, from a song that Stephen Bishop (the Charming Guy in four John Landis films) sings in Animal House.
Film Idea of the Day: Power and Glory. The students of a college plan a War is Over rally in 1968 to Protest the war in Vietnam in a musical set to the songs of Phil Ochs.
Film Review of the Day: Georgy Girl. A surprisingly obscure British film with an only slightly less obscure Oscar-nominated theme song by the Seekers. This movie stars Lynn Redgrave as a homely woman named Georgina (aka Georgy or George) who strives to be like her roommate Meredith, a swinging woman of 1960's London who is also a Concert violinist. In the film Meredith and her boyfriend Jos have a child and she loses her affection for both in a short time, only to have both picked up by Georgy.
Quote of the Day: "Forgetting something is only to let them return in another form"
_____________Sigourney Weaver, The Village.
Link of the Day: The Bible Retold With Lego.
In case you haven't been reading the news, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is heading a conference seeking to "review (read: deny) the Holocaust". Ahmadinejad himself called the Holocaust "A myth" around this time last year, as well as sponsoring a worldwide Holocaust editorial cartoon contest earlier this year, and as one can imagine from this statement, many of the people who were invited there were Holocaust Deniers, with one Israeli who was to speak out against Holocaust Denial denied an Iranian visa because of his Israeli citizenship, and six other token Jews (at least as I see it) from a group who, despite repudiating Ahmadinejad views on the Holocaust, shares his strong Anti-Zionist stance on Israel (which seems like sending Condoleeza Rice to a Klan rally to defend her race). Otherwise, besides those people, there were many infamous Holocaust deniers, like David Duke, Frederick Toben, and Richard Krege. One notable denier who wasn't invited due to his current trial in Germany was Ernst Zundel, the publisher of the infamous Pamphlet Did 6 Million Really Die?, the title of which was answered by me in the title of this essay you're reading right now. My stance is that there is way too much evidence for the existence of the Holocaust to deny it, with there being photographs, film evidence, documentation, and many living eyewitnesses to it, many of whom have preserved their stories on film, with thousands of them living in my hometown of Skokie. If the Holocaust were, in fact, false, one would think that at least one of them would have repudiated their stories (whch not a single one, to my knowledge, has.) In the end, the people at the conference decided to set up a foundation for Holocaust review to be headed in Tehran until they can get Headquarters in Berlin (which they will never get.)
Band Name of the Day: The Stoneless Cherries, from a song that Stephen Bishop (the Charming Guy in four John Landis films) sings in Animal House.
Film Idea of the Day: Power and Glory. The students of a college plan a War is Over rally in 1968 to Protest the war in Vietnam in a musical set to the songs of Phil Ochs.
Film Review of the Day: Georgy Girl. A surprisingly obscure British film with an only slightly less obscure Oscar-nominated theme song by the Seekers. This movie stars Lynn Redgrave as a homely woman named Georgina (aka Georgy or George) who strives to be like her roommate Meredith, a swinging woman of 1960's London who is also a Concert violinist. In the film Meredith and her boyfriend Jos have a child and she loses her affection for both in a short time, only to have both picked up by Georgy.
Quote of the Day: "Forgetting something is only to let them return in another form"
_____________Sigourney Weaver, The Village.
Link of the Day: The Bible Retold With Lego.
Labels: Racism, The Holocaust
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