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Overnight Open Thread (4-27-2014)Long ago, Tacitus said "Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. (It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured.)" Or as people have more recently noted, the Europeans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz. How Amsterdam Treated Holocaust Survivors Released from the Camps They gave them no quarter on taxes or penalties. (H/T Betsy's Page) Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam's city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps. Jan Karski and Remembering Those Who Acted Jan Karski was a professor at Georgetown University for 40 years (and had many famous students including Bill Clinton) but he's best known for his actions with the Polish Underground on behalf of the Jews during WWII. Born Jan Kozielewski, he used Karski as his nom de guerre when after his escape from Soviet imprisonment (an army officer, he was captured when the Soviet Union invaded Poland as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact) and joined the Polish Home Army. During the course of his activities in the underground, Karski, a Polish Catholic, was smuggled in and out of the Warsaw Ghetto and a transit point for the Belzec death camp. In 1942 he brought proof of the reality of the Holocaust to first Britain and then the following year to the United States when, under the sponsorship of the free Polish government in exile, he spread the news of the extermination of the Jews to American leaders including Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and William Donovan, the chief of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. As he later told the story, in his own writings, Roosevelt was silent when Karski discussed the fate of the Jews, asking questions only about the conditions of horses in Poland. Frankfurter, a Jew, said that while he didn't question Karski's honesty, he nevertheless "could not believe him." Karski was shocked at the Allied leaders' refusal to act on his knowledge even to bomb the railroad tracks to the death camps when that became possible. Jan Karski’s example, as well as the failure of those who chose not to listen to him, stands as a reminder that all the tears wept today about the Holocaust are meaningless if they are not accompanied by action to ensure that contemporary atrocities are not halted or prevented
Mark Steyn on Quoting Churchill While It's Still Allowed He wrote this a decade ago: In The River War (1899), Winston Churchill's account of the Sudanese campaign, there's a memorable passage which I reproduce here while I'm still able to: And now publicly quoting this in the UK is enough to get you arrested: Yesterday, in Hampshire, Paul Weston, the chairman of a newish political party called Liberty GB and a candidate in next month's European elections, was speaking on the steps of Winchester Guildhall and quoted that same Churchill passage. A half-dozen police officers arrested him and took him away in a police van. Oh and you're not allowed to reference the brutal public murder of Lee Rigby either. Dartmouth Bans White People From Using the Word 'Fiesta' Because of cultural appropriation and racism or some such. Apparently a fraternity and sorority were sponsoring a fundraiser for cardiac care with a Cinco de mayo theme and dared to call it a 'Phiesta'. A single student complained so it now it all has to be banned. (H/T to JustTheTip) This time, the fracas is over a fundraiser for cardiac care that the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority had planned to jointly sponsor, reports Campus Reform. CNN Analyst Welches on Bet After Andrew Branca Wins "Stand-Your-Ground" Debate To lose your honor over a measly $100 well I guess for CNN-types that's still cheaper than ever admitting you were wrong. One of the people on the anti-SYG side of things was Sunny Hostin, a CNN legal analyst. At one point her debate partner. Attorney Rice-Lave, made the statement that it was "indisputed" that George Zimmerman had gotten out of his car after being told by police not to. What I Learned in Engineering School (12 things) And if you didn't learn it in school, you'll learn it through hard-earned experience. Working faster doesn't save money. When a production schedule is accelerated, savings are often expected through reduced indirect costs such as overhead, equipment rental, insurance, supervision, and utilities. Direct costs such as labor, materials, and equipment are expected to stay constant, because the same amount of work is being done. In practice, however, faster work produces confusion, errors, substandard This Year the Casual Straitjacket Look Is In Weekly Commenter StandingsTop 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by four Wongs and a Wright: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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