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A recent study of a number of the descendents of Adolf Hitler (Nieces and Nephews, he had no children that we are aware of) has revealed a startling insight into the identity of the most notorious Anti-Semite in history:  Hitler’s Ancestors were likely Jewish themselves. The study, which traced the DNA of 39 of the Nazi Leader’s relatives found the presence of Haplogroup E1b1b, genetic markers which are rare in Germany, but common among Berbers in North Africa as well as Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. Such a development is not entirely surprising, rumors of Hitler’s supposed Jewish roots have been circulating since the time that the man began his hateful rise to power, yet the confirmation of what was mostly ironic speculation raises troubling and disturbing questions.  Was Hitler’s extreme form of exterminatory anti-Semitism fired and driven by a suspicion that he was descended from that which he loathed?  Why is it that the most profound and violent antagonists... Read the rest of this entry »

A new post entitled “The Mormons Are Now Our Friends” is now available at The Fulness. Reminder: The Fulness blog has moved to www.justandtrue.com AKPC_IDS += "245872,";Popularity: 1% [?] Read More →

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On Sunday, as has been the case for as long as I can remember, My family and I went to our local Latter-day Saint chapel and attended worship services.  All-in-all it was an unremarkable sabbath, we attended Sacrament Meeting and our Sunday School classes and came home with no greater worry than what we would be eating for dinner that evening.  There were no crowds protesting the existence of our chapel, no politicians loudly calling for a moratorium on permits for Mormon chapel or temple construction in the United States, no one calling our patriotism, morality or general decency into question, just an American family going to church and worshiping Deity according to the dictates of our own consciences. I bring this rather banal episode up to illustrate a point that seems to be lost on a rather large and vocal segment of my fellow Americans:  We take our freedoms of religion and religious expression for granted and in doing so have developed a disturbing tendency to devalue and debase... Read the rest of this entry »

Will Rogers once famously stated “I belong to no organized political party, I’m a Democrat.”  The most recent flap between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and the progressive wing of the party provides a perfect illustration of Mr. Roger’s humorous description of political reality.  While the Tea Party movement has injected an astounding degree of chaos and distemper into the usually rigidly disciplined Republicans, such chaos is all too familiar for Democrats, we see it any time we’re not in the minority. Mr. Gibbs faux pas was recorded in an interview with the Congressional newspaper The Hill, airing his frustrations about the “professional left” a nebulous group involving the left-wing blogosphere, as well as activists ranging from Michael Moore to Cindy Sheehan.  Mr. Gibbs is recorded to have declared that those on the left comparing President Obama with former President George W. Bush “ought to be on medication” and complaining that these individuals would... Read the rest of this entry »

So it’s July in an election year and as we gleefully slide down the greased slats into the last 4 months of campaign season, the Republicans have finally settled on their one unifying policy goal.  Considering that the jockeying for position in this midterm election basically began on January 21, 2009, the fact that a uniform strategy for policy change has taken this long might be shocking to some observers, but lets face it, they had so many options to choose from:  President Obama isn’t a native-born American, He’s a Fascist, He’s a Socialist, He’s a Muslim, He’s some bizarre combination of the three, et cetera, et cetera. Finally, with the passage of Health Care Reform earlier this year, the GOP seemed to have hit its stride with the topic of deficit reduction.  Despite the fact that the last time two times the Republicans have controlled the White House they have massively expanded both our budget deficits and the National Debt, they flung the... Read the rest of this entry »

For a history lover, this is nerd heaven as far as humor goes! I’m told this is a true story. If it is, I need to find this attorney because he is now my idol. If it’s not, three cheers for the creative genius who came up with this! Thanks to Kay Curtis for sharing it with me! *******A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply. (Actual reply from FHA):“Upon review of your letter adjoining your client’s loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back... Read the rest of this entry »

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So-called “Deficit Hawks” crack me up.  During the eight years of the Bush Administration these people were nowhere to be found.  The fact that we were mostly financing the War on Terror off of Chinese loans, and basically keeping the whole thing off of the books (hence the need for constant authorizations of emergency defense expenditures from Congress) seems to have slipped the mind of a majority of those citizens and lawmakers who currently wax apoplectic about our debt situation.  Consider the following rather crass example via an editorial cartoon: Here our ballooning government costs are likened to an obese child who has been bloated through a series of welfare programs (notably all directed at poor children, the most likely to become obese through poor nutrition in the home).  I have to tip my hat to the woman who drew this monstrosity, it is an artful piece of hate speech, combining prejudice against the poor and fat with anger at government spending programs to... Read the rest of this entry »

USA TODAY/Gallup just released two polls taken May 24-25 and June 11-13 of 697 Tea Party supporters, here are the results: 78% are Republicans, or Independents who lean Republican. 77% are Anglo/Whites. 69% describe themselves as “Conservative”. 62% are Married. 56% are Men. 47% are 55 or older. 23% are under 35. 92% believe the federal debt is an extremely serious threat to the nation’s future well-being. 90% believe terrorism is an extremely serious threat to the nation’s future well-being. 87% disapprove of the job Democrats are doing in Congress. 85% believe that the size of the Federal Government is an extremely serious threat to the nation’s future well-being. 83% say that most Congressional incumbents don’t deserve re-election 83% say President Obama doesn’t deserve re-election. Hmmm… mostly Anglo/White voters over 35 who decry the debt but support the military efforts in the War against Terror, (which are a major source of federal... Read the rest of this entry »

What do you say about the man who holds the record for the longest consecutive term of service in the United States Senate.  Senator Byrd was history personified.  I will remember him standing alone on the Senate floor alone, in an nearly-empty chamber on C-SPAN arguing against the Iraq War with a fierce sense of moral outrage that the body on which the Constitution had delegated War Powers, and which ought to have been carefully considering the actions which would (to date) end up killing over 4,000 American Servicemen and nearly a million Iraqis, lay empty, having essentially relinquished the fateful decision to go to war to the Bush Administration. This was not the only time that Senator Byrd stood alone, but it was likely one of the ones he did not regret in his fading years.  He also briefly held the record for longest filibuster against Civil Rights Legislation during the 1960′s (a legacy of his early support from the KKK, support which he later repudiated) Senator Byrd was... Read the rest of this entry »

It dawned on me today that the greatest sermons in the Book of Mormon were given, for the most part, to members of the Church, or to recent dissenters, or to apostates. Very little of the text comprises teaching or preaching to so-called “non-members”–those who were not, and never had been, members of the Church–perhaps the work of the sons of Mosiah among the Lamanites being the most notable exception. If you were compiling the Book of Mormon today using sources from 200 years ago to the present, what sermons would you include in the “hundredth part” of our history, written and redacted for the instruction of generations to come? AKPC_IDS += "218727,";Popularity: 1% [?] Read More →