The Holocaust Goes On and On and On..

The brutal Nazis planned every detail of the Final Solution very meticulously. Did they also plan for this to happen as well? I'm sure they did.

In his column titled A Traumatic Legacy, Adam Kovac writes that "Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors grapple with their own psychological wounds. The Holocaust unsurprisingly left deep psychological wounds in many of the Jews who survived it. Rather than healing over time, research shows the psychic injuries are being passed down and living on, even as the number of survivors dwindles."

I can only hope that the grandchildren of the Nazis are suffering from guilty consciences, if nothing else.

Lots 'o Links

Here is the usual wonderful roundup of news and culture from Liz Sheld's Morning Briefing, Maggie's Farm, and Larwyn's Linx!

And here's a lovely article about Gil Hodges and Tom Seaver of the Miracle Mets.  When I heard the sad news that Seaver had been diagnosed with dementia and was retiring from public life, I immediately remembered his old nickname, Tom Terrific, even though it was 50 years ago.

The Big Lie and the Big Liars

This Mueller Madness chart of anti-Trump media brackets is such a clever idea! The cable news media, especially MSNBC and CNN, has been unwatchable for the last 2 years and continues to insist that Trump is involved with the Russians. It's amazing how you can lie like that even when you know there was no collusion.

In a contest of Liars of the Year, so far it's a tie between the liberal media, the Democrats, and that hoax-monger Jussie Smollett (who, if you remember, said his "attackers" were wearing MAGA caps).

Nazi Joseph Goebbels said,  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

No Russian Collusion

From today's New York Times Morning Briefing newsletter:

"Mueller found no conspiracy, attorney general says.

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, found no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election, according to a summary of the key findings of his nearly two-year investigation that was made public on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr.

The special counsel, Mr. Barr said, stated that “while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” of illegally obstructing justice. Nevertheless, Mr. Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, announced that there was insufficient evidence that President Trump had committed that crime."

For more on this story, check out Jim Geraghty's Morning Jolt column at National Review. The conservatives should refrain from gloating, and the Democrats should stop investigating. What I'd like to see is a full-page ad in USA Today by the liberal media giving a public apology to Trump. It won't happen, but it would go a long way to putting this shameful hoax behind us and moving our country forward.

Friday Classical Music

I need some music to end this week, so let's start out with the march from the Karelia Suite, by Sibelius.


And now, the Dance of the Knights from Romeo & Juliet, by Prokofiev.

There. That's better.

Wanted: Common Sense and Human Decency

I wanted to throw up when I read this article:

"A new niche trend has arisen: pensive photos of teens balancing on the cattle car train tracks that lead into the Auschwitz memorial. Makes you nostalgic for the innocent days of concentration camp selfies and innocent games of Swastika beer pong, doesn’t it?

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has posted a frustrating plea on social media for young visitors to stop using the rails on the train tracks at Auschwitz as a 'balance beam.'

'When you come to @AuschwitzMuseum remember you are at the site where over 1 million people were killed,' a representative for the museum wrote on the site’s official Twitter page on Wednesday morning. 'Respect their memory. There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths.'"

And who can forget the idiots who played Pokemon at Auschwitz?  I'm sure this appeal by the Museum will do nothing to stop the selfish, stupid, irresponsible behavior exhibited by teens and adults alike when it comes to Jews and the Holocaust.

Lots 'o Links

Time for some great reading over at Larwyn's Linx, Maggie's Farm, and Liz Sheld's Morning Briefing!

Bonus: for a Yiddish word that describes Lieutenant Columbo perfectly, check out this edition of Harold Ticktin's Yiddish Vinkl!

Don't Blame Yourself - Blame Others!

I was amazed at this opinion piece by Paul Brandus:  "7 emergencies worth worrying about more than Trump’s border obsession."  He lists things like drug overdoses, obesity, people who don't save money, teachers quitting, etc.  

Drug overdoses are not Trump’s fault but the fault of irresponsible abusers. Obesity is the result of overeating or disease.  Not saving money – or bothering to earn money – is the fault of irresponsible people who have their priorities upside-down.  Maybe the Democrats and their free money giveaways will help there. If 4 out of 10 Americans can't manage to cover an unexpected $400 expense, just how is this Trump’s fault?  And how is an influx of crime, overcrowding, welfare dependency, and disease over the border an “obsession”? This writer needs to take some responsibility himself, it seems.

Millennial Morons

I couldn't believe this wasn't a joke when I heard it on TV and then read about it, but if this is what coddled twenty-somethings consider "stressful", then I will gladly trade places with them.

NOT THE ONION: Stress Mess: 3 In 5 Millennials Say Life More Stressful Now Than Ever Before.

Here are the top 20 stressful scenarios reported by millennials:

1. Losing wallet/credit card
2. Arguing with partner
3. Commute/traffic delays
4. Losing phone
5. Arriving late to work
6. Slow WiFi
7. Phone battery dying
8. Forgetting passwords
9. Credit card fraud
10. Forgetting phone charger
11. Losing/misplacing keys
12. Paying bills
13. Job interviews
14. Phone screen breaking
15. Credit card bills
16. Check engine light coming on
17. School loan payments
18. Job security
19. Choosing what to wear
20. Washing dishes

Lots 'o Links

Visit Maggie's Farm, Liz Sheld's Morning Briefing, National Review, and Larwyn's Linx for the best end-of-week reading!

How To Recognize a Jew Hater

These despicable incidents are becoming more brazen and more numerous, and I'm sure having our members of Congress be so openly anti-Semitic helps put the stamp of approval on it:

"Poland’s parliament faced international embarrassment on Wednesday after one of its lawmakers spotted a newspaper on sale at the parliament’s hotel with the blood-curdling headline, 'How to Recognize A Jew.'

Michal Kaminski, one of the parliamentary representatives of the opposition centrist PSL party, said he saw the paper on sale at the kiosk in the hotel on the parliament’s grounds where many members hold meetings and dine on a daily basis. The paper, a nationalist publication called 'Tylko Polska,' ran a headline above the paper’s masthead that screamed in large red letters,  'Jak Rozpoznać Żyda' ('How to Recognize a Jew').

The paper then listed various methods of 'recognizing' Jews — 'Name. Anthropological features. The way of speaking. The look. Features of the character. The methods of action. The methods of disinformation' — before exhorting its readers to  '…Fight them — it can no longer be this way!''

Let's turn this around and exhort fellow Jews to fight them any way we can!

Edyka

Here is one of the saddest, the most touching, and the most hopeful Holocaust articles I have ever read.  It's Edwin Black's story of his grandmother, his mother, and his daughter, and it's titled Bearing the Torch of Holocaust Memory.

Above is singer-songwriter Rachel Black's tribute to her grandmother and her great-grandmother.

Spineless Resolution

What good was this resolution, originally meant to condemn Anti-Semitism, when it ended up being so severely weakened and distorted as to be meaningless? It's now nothing more than politically correct anti-Anti-Semitism.

"The House resolution condemning anti-Semitism -- which didn't mention Omar by name but came after she questioned the allegiance of Israel supporters in Congress and the strength of the pro-Israel lobby -- underwent a rewrite to also condemn other forms of hate.

The resolution condemns 'anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values and aspirations that define the people of the United States and condemning anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against minorities as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contrary to the values and aspirations of the United States.'"

Lots 'o Links

You really can't go wrong when you choose to read the news roundups at Larwyn's Linx, Liz Sheld's Morning Briefing, and Maggie's Farm.

"Indirect Rebuke"

Here's the headline at ABC News: "House to vote to condemn anti-Semitism in indirect rebuke of Rep. Ilhan Omar."

It will fall on deaf ears. If they want to make a greater impact, the House ought to vote to condemn anti-Semitism AND Rep. Ilhan Omar!