This is soooo funny....not!!!

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ARogueTrader, Mar 25, 2004.

  1. Since you like reference to nazisme don't forget to mention this also then...
    if you want more I have tons like that.

    Recent book at Oxford Press University
    http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&ci=0195149785
    The Nazi Connection
    Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
    Stefan Kühl
    0195149785, paper, 192 pages
    Feb 2002 In Stock

    Features
    The shocking story of the ties between the Nazi "racial hygiene" program and American eugenicists
    Solidly documents American scientists' admiration of Hitler's sterilization laws and marriage restrictions
    Shows how the Nazis held up American eugenics laws as a model for their own plans

    Description
    When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted "improvement" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for "defectives," upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927. Small wonder that the Nazi laws led one eugenics activist in Virginia to complain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."

    In The Nazi Connection, Stefan Kühl uncovers the ties between the American eugenics movement and the Nazi program of racial hygiene, showing that many American scientists actively supported Hitler's policies. After introducing us to the recently resurgent problem of scientific racism, Kühl carefully recounts the history of the eugenics movement, both in the United States and internationally, demonstrating how widely the idea of sterilization as a genetic control had become accepted by the early twentieth century. From the first, the American eugenicists led the way with radical ideas. Their influence led to sterilization laws in dozens of states--laws which were studied, and praised, by the German racial hygienists. With the rise of Hitler, the Germans enacted compulsory sterilization laws partly based on the U.S. experience, and American eugenists took pride in their influence on Nazi policies. Kühl recreates astonishing scenes of American eugenicists travelling to Germany to study the new laws, publishing scholarly articles lionizing the Nazi eugenics program, and proudly comparing personal notes from Hitler thanking them for their books. Even after the outbreak of war, he writes, the American eugenicists frowned upon Hitler's totalitarian government, but not his sterilization laws. So deep was the failure to recognize the connection between eugenics and Hitler's genocidal policies, that a prominent liberal Jewish eugenicist who had been forced to flee Germany found it fit to grumble that the Nazis "took over our entire plan of eugenic measures."

    By 1945, when the murderous nature of the Nazi government was made perfectly clear, the American eugenicists sought to downplay the close connections between themselves and the German program. Some of them, in fact, had sought to distance themselves from Hitler even before the war. But Stefan Kühl's deeply documented book provides a devastating indictment of the influence--and aid--provided by American scientists for the most comprehensive attempt to enforce racial purity in world history.
     
    #31     Mar 25, 2004
  2. Turok

    Turok

    BSAM:
    >JB---Listen to me brother, the joke was on himself!!

    OHHHHH...now I get it. It was a joke, right? Humor? I'm sorry, somehow I hadn't realized that. Thanks for telling me.

    JB
     
    #32     Mar 25, 2004
  3. BSAM

    BSAM


    BTW.....I think we need to get out of Iraq.....NOW! Seems like just about the only person in America who didn't learn any lessons from Vietnam is Little George Bush! I, for one, am damn tired of hearing about our soldiers getting killed in Iraq just about every day.

    Someone mentioned this on TV the other day: Has this ever happened in the history of the world? We went over and overthrew a murdering dictator, captured his ass, liberated a whole country and now they want to hate us and kill us. Okay....Let 'em have it. We are in a quagmire over there, period. Time to go home.
     
    #33     Mar 25, 2004
  4. BSAM

    BSAM


    Good. Let's laugh. Now how 'bout that trendline break on TXN?????:D :D
     
    #34     Mar 25, 2004
  5. Turok

    Turok

    WHAT!!!!!!!! You want to talk trading in Chit Chat?

    :)

    JB

    PS. At least nice to converse with someone who appears to make up their own mind rather than spout the parties. Congrats.
     
    #35     Mar 25, 2004
  6. Magna

    Magna Administrator

    BTW, and I'm sure a joke could somehow be made of this too (seeing as how it's related to the non-existent WMDs), as of today 590 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began. Of those, 451 have been killed since Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1 (maybe a "Bring It On" joke by another Chickenhawk with no active-duty military service?). And that doesn't include the thousands upon thousands of injured soldiers (many seriously and permanently), the dead and injured soldiers from the so-called Coalition of the Willing, and the thousands of Iraqi civilians killed (you know, women, children, etc.). Maybe that will be the topic of humor at the next "fun" dinner? :confused:
     
    #36     Mar 25, 2004
  7. BSAM

    BSAM


    ;-):cool:
     
    #37     Mar 25, 2004
  8. BSAM

    BSAM


    Poor Magna. Apparently another liberal, taking himself too seriously. Laugh Magna. Nobody in their right mind would laugh about the serious facts in your posts. You're trying to construe things that just ARE NOT INTENDED.

    Ooops...Magna's a moderator.....Oh man, I'm in TROUBLE now!!:D :D :D
     
    #38     Mar 25, 2004
  9. Kerry Knocks Bush Over WMD Jokes
    Thu Mar 25 2004 17:04:23 ET

    The Following was issued by the Kerry For President campaign this evening:

    How Out of Touch Can This President Be?

    "George Bush insulted me as a veteran and as a friend to many still serving in Iraq. This act lowers the dialogue about weapons of mass destruction. War is the single most serious event that a President or government can carry its people into. No weapons of mass destruction have been found and that is no joke - this is for real. This cheapens the sacrifice that American soldiers and their families are dealing with every single day." -- Brad Owens (Iraqi War Veteran, US Army Reserves)

    Speaking at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington last night, President George W. Bush showed a stunningly cavalier attitude toward the failed search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Administration's rush to war.

    "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," Bush mimicked, as a slide of the President looking under furniture in the Oval Office appeared on the screen.

    That's supposed to be funny?

    If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought. Unfortunately for the President, this is not a joke.

    585 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last year, 3,354 have been wounded, and there's no end in sight. Bush Turned White House Credibility into a Joke George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them, and now he thinks that's funny?

    George Bush didn't tell us the truth about the economy, about job loss, about the true cost of his deceptive prescription drug plan, or about the existence of weapons of mass destruction. There's nothing funny about that.
     
    #39     Mar 25, 2004
  10. The news has not been widespread in the mass media if not at all but above all they have used nuclear contamination weapons although they were forbidden by ONU and that touched the WHOLE POPULATION OF IRAK. I will post the exact details from the magazine (it's a paper mag not internet) this we. What I remind is that the next generation of irakians are all contaminated.

     
    #40     Mar 25, 2004