Replies to post #220560 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[teapeebubbles]

"I have heard that you were gay, sir, and I wanted to know if that was true,"
-- reporter to "well-mannered, articulate and impeccably groomed"
(and single) Charlie Crist, Republican running for Jeb Bush's job


Of course, he lied and said he wasn't because GOP candidates
can't run for any elected office without a mask that bigots will accept.

Note: Bush offered to join Crist and Jeb for some last-minute campaigning..
Crist refused - he's trying to win.

[teapeebubbles]

The defining moment may have been when Colbert [put Der Fuhrer in his place]. Call it a cultural primary.
His performance was judged a bomb by the Washington press corps, which yukked it up instead for a
Bush impersonator who joined the president in a benign sketch commissioned by the White House.
But millions of Americans watching C-Span and the Web did get Mr. Colbert's routine. They recognized
that the Beltway establishment sitting stone-faced in his audience was the butt of his jokes, especially the
very news media that had parroted Bush administration fictions leading America into the quagmire of Iraq.
Five months later, a video of Mr. Colbert's dinner speech is still a runaway iTunes hit and his comic
contempt for Washington is more popular than ever. It's enough to give you hope that the voters may rally
for reality on this crucial Election Day even as desperate politicians and some of their media enablers try
one more time to stay their fictional course.

[teapeebubbles]

Life must be unbearable - knowing Papa was a Nazi bastard....

The children of a Nazi program aimed at creating an "Aryan elite" met Saturday in Germany
in an effort to banish the specter that has haunted many of them since their birth.

The "Lebensborn" or "font of life" project was a series of homes run by Heinrich Himmler's SS
that were to provide the stock to help run a Nazi empire. The homes were popularised later
as stud farms for a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race.

Matthias Meissner said the meeting was necessary to bring the homes out in the open
and lay some of the myths about them to rest.

"The aim was to take the children out into the open, to encourage them to find their origins
- but also to show that the cliche of the blond-haired, blue-eyed stud farm is not correct," he said.

Many children were ostracised after the war and they have remained a sensitive topic that's seldom
discussed in Germany. There was the stigma of SS association -- was father a war criminal?