Issue 98
News: After 90 years... Genocide in Armenia recognised.
We all know about the Holocaust. However, many of us haven't yet heard about which could very well be considered a precursor to the Holocaust in very much a similar way to the way that WW1 was a precursor to WW2. The Holocaust was well-publicised when it was discovered by our troops in May 1945, but even to this day, what happened in Armenia is nowhere near as common knowledge as what happened in Auschwitz. Incredibly, after 90 years, the Turkish government, which committed the crimes, has yet to take responsibility for the way they treated the Armenians in what can be considered the prototypical modern genocide. Fortunately, just earlier in the week, a caucus of the US Congress has finally passed a resolution that recognised and condemned the Armenian Genocide. Of course, the house itself has yet to pass the resolution, and therefore has yet to actually become law, and Condoleeza Rice is fighting against the bill, as it could give us another enemy in the Iraq war in Turkey (yet another good reason for us to get the hell out of there). Fortunately, I am not Rice and fully support the genocide-condemning resolution. Let it pass through congress and may it help us get the hell out of Iraq.
Band Name: Pig Tollers. From the film review below.
Film Idea: Nothing I can think of right now can top the film review below.
Film Review: The Butcher Boy. This may be by far the most bizarre coming of age story I have ever seen. It's even more bizarre than anything I could have even come up with. A young boy named Francie gets sent to a work farm for pretending to be a pig in a neighbor's house, sees the virgin Mary, thinks he survived a nuclear explosion, and murders a friend's mother Charlie Manson-style. The End.
Quote of the Day: "I cannot go on . . . All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."
_______Thomas Aquinas
Link of the Week: What may be my favorite commercial ever.
We all know about the Holocaust. However, many of us haven't yet heard about which could very well be considered a precursor to the Holocaust in very much a similar way to the way that WW1 was a precursor to WW2. The Holocaust was well-publicised when it was discovered by our troops in May 1945, but even to this day, what happened in Armenia is nowhere near as common knowledge as what happened in Auschwitz. Incredibly, after 90 years, the Turkish government, which committed the crimes, has yet to take responsibility for the way they treated the Armenians in what can be considered the prototypical modern genocide. Fortunately, just earlier in the week, a caucus of the US Congress has finally passed a resolution that recognised and condemned the Armenian Genocide. Of course, the house itself has yet to pass the resolution, and therefore has yet to actually become law, and Condoleeza Rice is fighting against the bill, as it could give us another enemy in the Iraq war in Turkey (yet another good reason for us to get the hell out of there). Fortunately, I am not Rice and fully support the genocide-condemning resolution. Let it pass through congress and may it help us get the hell out of Iraq.
Band Name: Pig Tollers. From the film review below.
Film Idea: Nothing I can think of right now can top the film review below.
Film Review: The Butcher Boy. This may be by far the most bizarre coming of age story I have ever seen. It's even more bizarre than anything I could have even come up with. A young boy named Francie gets sent to a work farm for pretending to be a pig in a neighbor's house, sees the virgin Mary, thinks he survived a nuclear explosion, and murders a friend's mother Charlie Manson-style. The End.
Quote of the Day: "I cannot go on . . . All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."
_______Thomas Aquinas
Link of the Week: What may be my favorite commercial ever.
Labels: The Holocaust, War
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