Happy Hour

"IF A LIFETIME CAN BE LIKENED TO A DAY, THEN THIS IS HAPPY HOUR!"
BUCK PENNINGTON

Mother, Mother Ocean

Mother, Mother Ocean, I've heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
In your belly you hold the treasures, few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred year's too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

Yoda

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."
―Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Counted the Stars

Counted the stars on the 4th of July
Wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind
I have these pictures and I keep these photographs
To remind me of a time
These pictures and these photographs
Let me know I'm doin' fine
We used to be so happy once upon a time
Once upon a time
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line
And the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line

""SOME SEE A GLASS AS HALF FULL, SOME SEE IT AS HALF EMPTY, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO’S DRINKING MY RUM."
Rumbear

Sunday, November 09, 2014

Kristallnacht

Everyone is having the feel good story of the Fall of The Berlin Wall 25 years ago. That's OK. It was a very significant event in history.

That being said, on the 9th and 10th of November, 1938 an event occurred in Germany and Austria that should have shaken the foundation of civilization..................Kristallnacht, The Night Of Broken Glass.
This event was the actual beginning of the Holocaust in terms of violence toward the Jews of Germany and Austria.
The Holocaust did affect my family. As far as I know, we lost 57 members of the Cassel's and Wambeke's.

I did not see one news item today at all about this date....................So in my little way, here it is......
Night Of Broken Glass

http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/kristallnacht






The Synagogue of Baden-Baden burns on 10 November 1938
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Buck said...

I did not see one news item today at all about this date...

Angela Merkel mentioned Kristallnacht in her address at the site of the Berlin Wall yesterday, among other things that happened that date in German history. From the NYT:

In a 20-minute speech at a new memorial to the tragedies wrought by the wall, Ms. Merkel noted the special meaning of Nov. 9 in German history. It was on that day, in 1918, that Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, “after four terrible years” of World War I. In 1923, it was the date of Hitler’s failed march on the Munich Festhalle. In 1938, she said, it was when the Nazis set fire to synagogues, plundered Jewish homes and businesses and detained and killed thousands of Jews — “the start of the killing of millions” in the catastrophe of the Holocaust.

So there's that.

Monday, November 10, 2014 8:13:00 AM

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