Why can't her own people, too?

What am I talking about, this time?
READ ON AND FIND OUT - AMNESIACS ANONYMOUS!



Посмотрите на эту
женщину - и запомните ее навсегда! Мир не cтал
безнравственным только сейчас - он всегда был таким... Награду не всегда
получает тот, кто достоин её более других.Недавно, в возрасте 98-и лет умерла
женщина по имени Ирена Сандлер. Во время Второй мировой войны Ирина получила
разрешение на работу в Варшавском гетто в качестве сантехника/сварщика. У неё
были на то "скрытые мотивы".Будучи немкой, она знала о планах нацистов по поводу
евреев. На дне сумки для инструментов она стала выносить детей из гетто, а в
задней части грузовичка у неё был мешок для детей постарше. Там же она возила
собаку, которую натаскала лаять, когда немецкая охрана впускала и выпускала
машину через ворота гетто. Солдаты, естественно, не хотели связываться с
собакой, а её лай прикрывал звуки, которые могли издавать дети. За время этой
деятельности Ирине удалось вынести из гетто и, тем самым, спасти 2500 детей.Её
поймали; нацисты сломали ей ноги и руки, жестоко избили. Ирена вела запись имён
всех вынесенных ею детей,списки она хранила в стеклянной банке, зарытой под
деревом в её заднем дворе. После войны она попыталась отыскать всех возможно
выживших родителей и воссоединить семьи. Но большинство из них окончило жизнь в
газовых камерах. Дети, которым она помогла, были устроены в детские дома или
усыновлены.В прошлом году Ирена Сэндлер была номинирована на Нобелевскую премию
Мира. Она не была избрана. Её премию получил Эл Гор - за слайд-шоу по всемирному
потеплению... А в этом году премию получил Барак Обама за свои предвыборные
обещания. Я вношу свой маленький вклад, пересылая Вам это письмо.Надеюсь, Вы
поступите так же. Прошло 65 лет со дня окончания Второй Мировой войны в Европе.
Это электронное письмо как цепочка памяти - памяти о шести миллионах евреев,
20-ти миллионах русских, десяти миллионах христиан и 1900 католических
священниках, которые были убиты, расстреляны, изнасилованы, сожжены, заморены
голодом и унижены. Это послание предназначено сорока миллионам людей. Помоги нам
распространить его по всему миру.

Roughly translated from the Russian original, via Google Translate, the above piece reads as this in Shakespearian:

Look at this woman - and remember it forever!
The world is not immoral just now - it was always so ...
The award is not always received by the one who deserves it the most.
Not very long ago, aged 98 years, died a woman named Irena Sandler.
During the Second World War, Irina received permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing / welding worker.
It was on the "ulterior motives" basis that she took this job.
Being German, she knew about the Nazi plans for the Jews.
At the bottom of the bag for tools she made space to make it a hiding for children of the ghetto, and in the back of the truck she had a bag for older children.
She also had a dog in the back of the truck.
Once there, she drove her vehicle through the gates of the ghetto.
The soldiers, standing guard at the gates of course, did not want to communicate with the dog and the barking covered the sounds that children can make.
And so, during this time, Irina smuggled out of the ghetto and, thereby, saved the lives of 2500 children.

When she was finally caught, the Nazis broke her leg and arm, and she was severely beaten.

Irena kept a record of names all made by her children, she kept lists in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any possible
surviving parent and reunite the families. But most of them graduated in the life
the gas chambers. The children she helped were placed in orphanages or usynovleny.

Irena Sandler was finally, last year, nominated for the Nobel Prize
She was not the recipient.
Her prize was awarded to Al Gore - due to his Inconvenient Truth presentation, no more than a slide show warning the World about global warming ...

And this year the prize went to Barack Obama for his campaign promises.

I have made a small contribution by sending you this pismo.
Nadeyus you do the same.

It took 65 years from the date of the Second World War in Europe.

This e-mail as a chain of memory - the memory of six million Jews,
20 million Russians, ten million Christians and 1,900 Catholic
priests who were murdered, shot, raped, burned, frozen
Suffering through hunger and humiliation.

This message is intended for roughly forty millions people.

Help us to distribute it around the world.

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Aye, Irena Sandler was German - saved Jewish kids' lives - and neither seem to remember or to be... just thankful.

Incredible.

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If only for old times' sake and in total respect of all those passings that have now joined the illustrious ones such as Vincent Price, we could screen for the umpteenth time the video classic "Thriller" instead? Mr. Price's "rap" in it, along with John Landis classy cinematography, truly innovated their respective domain - even if neither invented either genre. Mr. Price made rapping known to a larger audience that had never heard before words being actually simply READ to the sound of music - so, in effect, he "made" RAP. Likewise, even though undead films are George Romero's schtick and brainchild (!) it was this video directed by John Landis in close collaboration with Michael Jackson that truly put zombies "on the map" so to speak - otherwise, Night of the Living Dead might have remained the obscure curiosity it was for so long for another decade... Kudos also to Ola Ray - also the pioneer, in her own field: not only is she one of the first to go from Playboy pictorial to some form of "acting" - she played the part of the MJ girlfriend of service way before Brooke Shields and especially Lisa Marie Presley ever got to. All of these stellar people's careers have DIED too, though, so it is doubly logical to have this video back here again, on the lugubrious blog! As much as it natural to have it on U.A.N.G.A.D. - the blog for original souls that set or reaffirm new trends... trailblazers of the bizarre! Price, Landis, Ray and MJ are certainly THAT!

Besides, it has been my guilty pleasure for more years than I will admit, each and every October 31st, to watch this one... 

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«Je serais incapable de prêter ma tête, mes yeux, ma voix, enfin moi, à une entreprise qui va à l'encontre de mes convictions les plus profondes.» Ainsi s'exprimait, dans son autobiographie La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle était, Simone Signoret, l'une des actrices les plus admirées du XXe siècle. Portrait d'une femme de passion et de convictions.

La citation ci-haut a une double fonction: en plus d'être une lumineuse citation de la regrettée dame, Simone Signoret, c'est également un court extrait d'un lumineux article écrit sur sa vie, ''Irremplaçable Simone Signoret" de l'élégante plume de madame Betty Achard, pour le Figaro... pardon, le magazine MADAME, communément connu en tant que ''Madame Figaro'' - à ne pas confondre avec le Journal Le Figaro.

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As a competing scribe once said - nuff said.

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Classic Silver Age DC comics writer Bob Haney passed away not too long ago - and who better to remember on MEMORIAL DAY than the scribe who had the knack to chronicle the adventures of the unlikeliest hero of all, DC's own version of the Unknown Soldier (the true harbinger of Darkman - who, by the looks of him, above and at left, owed something to the Invisible Man too... And isn't that so true of wordsmiths, the weavers of stories, especially back then in the Sixties and Seventies, who remain invisible indeed while they work their magic...! And none needs to know - or so were the rules back when Bob Haney wrote these wondrous tales!)







Nowadays, no one compares to Mr. Bob Haney when it comes to chronicling the adventures of The Unknown Soldier, Teen Titans, Aquaman, The Brave & The Bold, Batman, Deadman and many more... No one, including Garth Ennis who helmed the revival of the eclectic character attempted in recent years - a revival that failed for it strayed too much from the classic original concept. Mr. Haney may have overlooked it - I hope so, for his sake - for he had far more ominous things on his mind... At the age of 78, he died of complications following a treacherous stroke.
I had never known that one of my favorites shared a most insidious bane on one's health with my very best friend in the whole wide world...
Small world - getting ever smaller, in every single way too...




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Bob Haney led the way for sequential art authoring in his day. He elevated it to true literary merit, despite directives to do the opposite... He did not garner the acclaim a Stan Lee garnered, but those 'in the know' knew that Bob was every bit as good as Stan; he just did not receive the same express order (to create new characters - in total utter desperation to keep the company afloat!) and he did not get carte blanche either... Had things been different, and had Bob and Stan actually switched places, my guess is that Mr. Bob Haney would have created a BETTER MARVEL UNIVERSE! As it is, he bettered the DC Universe immensely by his mere presence on its staff.

He is missed as he has been missed already for a very long time now; ever since he retired from DC - they never recuperated from that loss.

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Cornelius of classic Planet of The Apes movies of the seventies and Che Guevara have actually a whole lot in common... Though I still think this drawing is somewhat disrespectful of the man Guevara (and doubt that the producers of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes as of Battle for the Planet of the Apes actually meant to have Cornelius (or really the son of Cornelius - ridiculously named Caesar - portrayed by the same actor - hardly rebellious Roddy McDowell) subbing for (or allegorically representing) Che in any way there... Che Guevara deserves much respect for having sacrificed all, done so much, investing himself completely into his cause - and uttering such quotable quotes as he reputedly did;
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." ~Che Guevara
He was either describing himself - or Christ Himself! What did, in comparison, the writers of those less-than-average allegorical movies about intelligent apes have Caesar/Cornelius utter that was so special... hmm? ''Ape shall not kill another Ape''? Thinly-veiled good reversal on man's noblest of intentions AND one of the Ten Commandments, of course - however, history shows us that man has always killed his fellow man - starting with two BROTHERS... No way an evolved ape can do better than man on this one, folks... no way! Suspension of disbelief does have its limits, you know!
Some do say that man is but an hairless ape (not as hairy anyway - less dense and consistent body hair... The sparser, the better - eh?) and how can we dispute that, really?
Speaking of monkeys though... on OCTOBER 23, 2004, twenty short days from now, an anniversary to celebrate: for it was the day that The Age reported that Australia's CSIRO knowingly released monkey-virus-infected polio shots (now linked to various cancers) to the public in the 1960s. Avian flu is not a precedent - at least the birds are doing it to us accidentally... unlike those monkey health officials. Talk about going bananas. But that is another story - aye...

For all you ever wanted to know about Ernesto Che Guevara - but were afraid to ask? Check out this link - and this one too!

Here is a great representation of the spirit of Che Guevara - surely it pleases his soul, wherever it is to be right now - far more than the Cornelius analogy does...

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