I love the movie 'Something to Talk About'. There people suddenly realized that they had a lot of issues to resolve. Issues, which sometimes carry a big baggage. I also love O'Henry. He has a novel ' Of Kings and Cabbage'. Even the King has to eat sometimes... So, off we go.

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Something toTalk About

I love the movie ‘Something to Talk About’. There people suddenly realized that they had a lot of issues to resolve. Issues that sometimes carry a big baggage.

I also love O’Henry. He has a novel ‘ Of Kings and Cabbage’. Even the King has to eat sometimes… So, off we go.

1. The quote to think about.

 

If only even for a moment we consider that there is something more important than human compassion then any crime is possible and permitted and we are all doomed.

L. Tolstoy

2. On freedom of speech.

a) I published this quote on Opednews long ago:

One of the practical lessons inculcated by the history that has now been released is that no duty is more certain, none more important, than a free and fearless expression of opinion by all persons, on all occasions. No wise or philosophical person would think of complaining of the diversities of sentiment it is likely to develop. Such diversities are the vital principle of free communities and the only elements of popular intelligence. If the right to utter them is asserted by all and for all, tolerance is secured, and no inconvenience results. It is probable that there were many persons in 1692 who doubted the propriety of the proceedings at their commencement, but who were afterwards prevailed upon to fall into the current and swell the tide. If they had all discharged their duty to their country and their consciences by freely and boldly uttering their disapprobation and declaring their dissent, who can tell but the whole tragedy might have been prevented? and if it might, the blood of the innocent may be said, in one sense, to be upon their heads.

Charles W. Upham

Salem Witchcraft, Volume 2, originally published in 1867

When I published it I was expecting hundreds of comments of admiration for the wisdom and language of Mr. Upham; I was expecting the above to be put as a slogan on the Opednews desktop… I got no response. NADA. Looks like some people still believe in witches.

b) Tell it to the dead.

In the 1960s Trofim Lycenko, the notorious Stalin’s scientific pogromist who personally snitched on many scientists wrote an open letter to the Russian scientific community saying that he ‘just had some ideas to discuss’ and that ’that what he was doing all his life and was ready to debate those any time’. Academician Volkenstein replied dryly that ’No argument and no debate are necessary. Comrade Lycenko could benefit from the basic science and literacy courses’. I guess some folks on Opednews would defend the Lycenko’s freedom of speech. Tell it to the dead people: Chayanov, Vavilov, Koch, Milovich, thousands of those who died because of him.

3. Slutty eyes.

I was watching the SAG rewards Red Carpet and there was something bothering me. Then my mother-in-law came in and said, ’Why is that they all have such slutty eyes?’ That’s what was bothering me: Slutty eyes.

4. Idea.

This word is becoming one of the most abused in the US; right after Love. Ideas, ideas, everyone has an idea, everyone wants to promote one. But here’s something from Dmitri Mereshkovsky, ’Those abstract ideas, they crush the skulls of some very real people and spill real blood.’

5. The Jewish things.

a) Israel is the only country in the world that discusses the 'Jewish question’ and works for the ‘final solution’. Imagine that we have a Gypsieland and that govt would claim all the world Gypsies to be its constituents. Or imagine South Africa constantly discussing the ‘black question’ in the US. Even Vatican works on the religious basis. Israel works on the ethnic origin.

b) Confederate leadership is now vindicated big time. But for some strange reason Henry Kissinger when he became a Secretary of State did not refer to Judas Benjamin, the Confederate predecessor of his with the ‘pedigree’ appraisement.

c)The adjective ‘black’ has a negative connotation in the Russian language. It means ‘malicious or dirty in heart.’ Thus nearly all Russian- Jewish ethnic newspapers in the US happily use this adjective when referring to the African- Americans. The exception is made only for Condi Rice. She is a beloved white baby of them.

c) Whenever the Russian- Jewish ethnic media in the US discusses Arabs or other Moslems it uses exactly the same insults which were used by the Russian anti-Semites in the old country to insult the Jews. It looks sometimes that in both cases the same writers are at work.

d) Jerusalem

‘ This is our land and no Arab will ever take it from us.’

The above quote was said by a Jewish émigré to Israel from .. Kirgizia. She was born there and lived all her life only there. Never saw any Arabs before.

6. A moron.

Russian- Jewish columnist writes about how ignorant Americans are. ’They do not know even the multiplication table. I was buying two tickets, $6 each and gave a $20 bill. The cashier gave me a $10 change. I took the money, surely. Stupid people must be taught a lesson.

I thought, ’Oh, yes. You, greedy moron had just sold all of us for $2, damn your Dalmatian accent’.

7. Hillary Lewinski.

Monika Lewisnki once said that Bill promised her for her services a position with the UN. Something about education. She had ideas. Apparently, to Hillary Bill promised much more: a Demparty. She has some ideas too.

8. Who is nuts?

I listened to NPR and there some commenter called the women who blew themselves up in Baghdad as nuts. Ok. But when Stephan Lux killed himself in 1936 in the Hall of the League of Nations to draw attention to the Jews in Germany he was also called nuts. He should have blown himself up together with all those zombies. Then maybe he would now be called a Hero. As such no one remembers him.

And how about rubber computers? That is not nuts? A self-powered computer per a hungry child, so that they forget about food driving the manual dynamos. You know, long ago in Russia we had a comedian who advised to tie a rope to the ballerina so that she generates electricity. Professor Negroponte wants just that. And nobody calls it nuts.

9. DeBillism.

Bill Clinton and George Bush do not read books and surely do not peruse Russian media. Otherwise Bill would know that in Russia they have a popular poem where his name Bill is rhymed with a Debil. (stupid moron in Russian). George W. would know that there, in Russia they recently commenced a poll on what to do with him if he is captured and tried for his crimes. I don’t want to spoil the reader’s appetite by telling what suggestions were the most popular. Now, in 1993 an American lawyer Terry D (I retain the name because it does not matter here), a young man of about 28 was shot to death at Ostankino by the special Ops loyal to Yeltzin while pulling people to safety. According to the witnesses, ‘That hero pulled out 12 people before he was shot’. Meanwhile DeBill with his Hill had a royal dinner in the Kremlin fairly soon after those events. Among other things they ate ‘the moose brain’. Well, if only he read Mark Twin he would know that when Mark Twain and other ‘ Innocents Abroad’ visited Russian Emperor Alexander II, they were invited not to Kremlin, the sacred place of Russian culture but to one of the Tsar’s summer residences for a informal family tea party, sandwiches only. BTW, all the Royal family spoke fluent English. Mr. DeBill, I am afraid, would not be invited to the Tsar. Neither would Mr. Dubya (which in Russian means ‘I am stupid’). What a panoptic picture!

9. Songs.

In the Fahrenheit 911 the US GIs pump themselves up with the loud rap music. Well, Julia Ward Howe surely would not recommend to use her Battle Hymn of the Republic here because ‘His truth is marching on’ would not fly here. ‘His truth is Shock and Awe?’ Sounds morbid. But we should know that those who have better battle songs always prevail and the Battle Hymn of the Republic was better than Dixie. The Holy War battle hymn of Russia was much better than Joerst Wessel rap of the SS and surely such lyrics as ‘I feel so happy when the grenade explodes’ could not provide spiritual support to the Vermacht. Nope, La Marseillaise is still much better than any English or German battle song and if the Iraqi and Afghani resistance gets its song from some their Julia Ward Howe- God Help us all. Listen to the music.

10. What they think about us.

In Russia they now keep under arrest a man called Colonel Kvachkov. He is accused of masterminding the assassination attempt on certain Chubais, the energy baron. Colonel Kvachkov,a sturdy military man and an Orthodox Christian denies those charges. But he admits that he considers Russia as an occupied land and Chubais as a collaborator. He thus calls himself a POW. And you know whom he calls occupiers? Us. He calls us plunderers. He calls us all those names. And he is very revered there, in Russia, very.

Something to talk about?

11. Was it necessary?

How many people is it OK to kill? Our President said that Iraq was improving. How many people was it OK to kill for it? 100000? 500000? Was it necessary to kill them? And if your answer is 'yes' or 'maybe' or ‘it depends’, go back to the item #1 in this article.

12. References.

GW in his speech mentioned Ukraine as an achievement of democracy. Great Ernest Hemingway once said a very relevant thing, referring to the rich people praising his novel, 'If those SOBs are happy with it something is wrong with it.' As if he knew GW in person.

13. I wonder if I wrote all of the above for nothing.

Perhaps some fading flower then,

Will come to life and bloom again.

This is my last and final will

Goodl luck to all of you,

JOE HILL

Authors Bio:

The writer is a retired engineer