QUESTIONER: You’ve been getting a lot of criticism in respect of the Defense Department budget proposals for wanting to give too much money to big defense contractors for huge contracts and not allocating sufficient funds for our armed forces. Would you like to defend your position?
RUMSFELD: Well, John, if you’re reading that, you ought to change your reading material.
QUESTIONER: New York Times, The Washington Post.
RUMSFELD: I repeat myself.
Related: Hugh Hewitt has more on Deeyah, the Muslim pop singer that has attracted death threats.
Low's regular depictions of the Fuhrer caused enormous diplomatic problems for the British Government, but they were to prove remarkably prophetic. Throughout the decade he portrayed the German dictator as a ludicrous, vain, pompous fool with unbridled ambition.
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It wasn't only Hitler complaining about Low. In 1938 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain singled out Low while appealing to newspapers to temper their critical commentary of Germany. Chamberlain said: "Such criticism might do a great deal to embitter relations when we on our side are trying to improve them. German Nazis have been particularly annoyed by criticisms in the British press, and especially by cartoons. The bitter cartoons of Low of the Evening Standard have been a frequent source of complaint."
"...the Foreign Secretary asked me to modify my criticism, as I say, in order that a better chance could be had for making friendly relations... The Foreign Secretary explained to me that I was a factor that was going against peace.' `Do I understand you to say that you would find it easier to promote peace if my cartoons did not irritate the Nazi leaders personally?' `Yes,' he replied. `...I said, "Well, I'm sorry." Of course he was the Foreign Secretary what else could I say? So I said, "Very well, I don't want to be responsible for a world war. But, I said "It's my duty as a journalist to report matters faithfully and in my own medium I have to speak the truth. And I think this man is awful. But I'll slow down a bit." So I did."
Meanwhile Hitler within a month invaded Austria.
I suspect our cartoon curbing will be just as successful.
Update, Feb. 22: Thank you all who've written. Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading "Stand By Denmark" and any variation on this theme (such as "Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego") The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues.
And let's face it, most of us, particularly those with children, live in suburbs or are moving there. It is a conceit, I reckon, of people who have no children, and who do not need the space, to take potshots at those who have decided to leave the supposedly hip inner city. It remains a mystery to me why the desire of people to live in a bit of space and comfort drives certain intellectuals nuts. Maybe it is the garden gnomes.
The results were what I expected: inconclusive. Tests indicate she's not autistic, but observers note several autistic behaviors so she might be. Well, thanks for clearing that up.
Her academic tests were also uneven. She blew away some of them, others... not so much. She has taught herself to read. Could be genius, could be Asperger's.
She's doing well enough that she doesn't qualify for much assistance and probably none after Kindergarten. That just doesn't make up for the stress of a big public school. Stress could bring out more autistic behaviors, if that's her problem. So, I'm still going to put her in Montessori (if possible. I just sent in an application today).
This cartoon depicts an image as either racist/anti-Semitic/etc. or as freedom of expression. What they invariably fail to grasp is that it is not an either/or proposition. An image can be racist/anti-Semitic/etc. and be freedom of expression. That's rather the point, in fact. If everyone loves what you're drawing then you don't need Constitutional protection, do you?
Really. This is so Poly/Sci 101 that I can hardly we're discussing it.
Still, she stands by her decision to display the cartoons, and she questions the directive to keep them out of public view. "I don't think it's [a college's] job to make people comfortable," said Murdock, saying there is rather a duty to challenge students, even if at times it offends people.
GERMAN cops will use sweeping powers to collar England fans doing Basil Fawlty-style Hitler impressions at the World Cup.
Yobs will be instantly banged up for TWO WEEKS if they goose-step like John Cleese in his most famous Fawlty Towers scene
Christians don't even have a word for "fatwa"! Know why? Jesus.
Jesus is all peace and love, and, whatever the merits of that message, that won't frighten the media away from making fun of you. As we've seen, believable threats of violence and death tend to make people more sensitive about your feelings. Too many Christians, though, won't murder an infidel or a blasphemer because it's not "what Jesus would have wanted." Well, as long you're hiding behind that excuse, who is going to be afraid of us?
Until last week a favorite entertainer of Berlin's cafe society was twinkly-eyed Werner Finck, one of the daring, politically sophisticated German comedians who get their laughs at the expense of the Nazis.
Comedian Finck would suddenly interrupt his patter, shoot his arm up in a burlesque Nazi salute—and then adjust a picture. Deftly, but unmistakably, he would caricature the well-known posturing of top-rank Nazis. Sometimes when he walked off the stage he mimicked gimpy Dr. Joseph Goebbels. For these offenses he has often been in the Nazi doghouse, once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators of things that are holy" to the Nazis. Thus kaput was written to their German careers.
To prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize: $40.
About two dozen demonstrators, holding signs reading "No to Hate" and "Peaceful Protest for Religious Tolerance," dispersed after about an hour.
Helen Smith, a psychologist and blogger who has championed the cause of boys in school, cautions that, while recognizing differences, we should not lapse into stereotyping: In general, boys may be more physically active and girls may be more verbal, but a lot of children will not fit those patterns. Some of the fashionable talk about boys getting in trouble due to their more rebellious and individualistic ways has an alarming tendency to paint girls as dull, diligent sheep.
"The system is designed to the disadvantage of males," Anglin, 17, told The Boston Globe. "From the elementary level, they establish a philosophy that if you sit down, follow orders, and listen to what they say, you'll do well and get good grades. Men naturally rebel against this."
Ummm, this system dates at least from 19th century Europe. More probably it originated in the Middle Ages with church schools. No matter how you look at it, the system was designed before girls went to school with boys (or at all). There is a strong argument to be made that the system is bad, but to say that the system is "designed to the disadvantage of males" is ridiculous.
Of course, school choice would go along way towards alleviating these problems. Most parents wouldn't send their boys (or girls) to a school that graded academic work by the amount of glitter stuck to it.
“Looking back to German history in the early 1930s when National Socialism was on the rise, there were many outside Germany who said, ‘It’s only rhetoric — don’t get excited’,” Merkel told an international security conference in Munich.
“There were times when people could have reacted differently and, in my view, Germany is obliged to do something at the early stages,” she added. “We want to, we must prevent Iran from developing its nuclear programme.”
Merkel issued a blunt warning to Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”.
“Iran has blatantly crossed the red line,” she said. “I say it as a German chancellor. A president who questions Israel’s right to exist, a president who denies the Holocaust cannot expect to receive any tolerance from Germany.”
Buddy: "Was Chimpy McSmirkhitler picking his nose WITH GLEE because of the imminent Great Depression his tax cuts have brought upon the nation? We owe it to our readers to explore this possibility as thoroughly as the President explored his nostril..."
Laura: I don't think that would have been far from the truth...and then of course the inevitable Scientific Research about People Who Pick Their Noses
Buddy: "People who pick their noses are a lot like Hitler, study finds"
