If you saw "Schindler's List", you know this man; Little known hero Mietek Pemper laid to rest in Augsburg

Phil Boehmke "From 1943 to 1944 Mr. Pemper was imprisoned in the Plaszow concentration camp outside of his native Krakow, where he served as the personal typist to the Nazi commandant Amon Goeth.  Despite great personal risk Pemper read Goeth's official correspondence and used his knowledge of SS plans to help save the lives of his fellow Jews at Plaszow."....

"In the 1993 film Schindler's List, the character of Itzhak Stern (played by Ben Kingsley) was a compilation of Oskar Schindler's accountant (the real Itzhak Stern), Mietek Pemper and one other unidentified person."    
                      

 Amon Goeth   Mieczyslaw Pemper, who worked in the Plaszow camp office, testified during Göth’s trial that he had managed to look at Göth’s personal files and had found a letter from SS-Gruppenführer Globocnik, commander of the Lublin region, addressed to the commanders of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. The letter authorised Göth to have access to all areas of those extermination camps, for administration or possibly construction inspections. Under the direction of SS-Sturmbannführer Willi Haase, Göth conducted the final liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, which began on 13 March 1943. SS officers Kunde and Neumann also assisted with the ghetto clearance, during which mass murders were committed. On the orders of Haase, 75 persons were killed in one place. 

Amon Goeth, shooting inmates from his balcony. This incident was
portrayed in  "Schindler's List" by Ralph Fiennes

If you are looking for more World War 2 history, particularly regarding the Normandy landings on D-Day, check these links:

• Omaha Beach D-Day landings from above; Victor Davis Hanson column.
• D-Day- and beyond- Airborne site; one of the best I've ever seen
• 25 photos of D-Day from the Robert Capa collection
• D-Day; Omaha Beach then and now photographs
• REMEMBERING D-DAY
• Some D-Day sites for you history buffs
• RIP Dick Winters

Many more posts on American politics and culture at the Tunnel Wall.

Lloyd Marcus makes a case for Herman Cain as president

Lloyd Marcus and Herman Cain

Lloyd Marcus "Upon the election of Obama, Al Sharpton was asked, "Will the election of a black president confirm that America is no longer a racist country?" In a nutshell, Sharpton replied "No."

"What Sharpton really meant was, "I ain't lettin' white America off the hook that easy. Promoting that blacks are eternal victims of a racist America has been an extremely profitable GREAT GIG over the years. I'm not gonna let a little thing like facts which prove otherwise, stop me from getting' paid."

 "Well, despite Sharpton, so-called "civil rights" race exploitation organizations and the liberal media, America has come a long ways baby in regards to "race relations.""

Liberals Can't Get Over the Fact That Herman Cain Is Black "Jon Stewart Makes Racially Charged Joke at Herman Cain's Expense: He Doesn't 'Like to Read'"
"Daily Kos: Herman Cain Is The Perfect Racist Republican"
"Bill Maher Takes Racist Swipe At Herman Cain: Gingrich is Republican 'Polling Behind a Black Guy'"
Neal Boortz

Herman Cain: 'Don't Condemn Me Because First Black President Was Bad'  ""Now people are over this first black President thing," he said. "But there are some people who will say, 'I'm not going to vote for another black guy because this one didn't work out.'
""And my response is, 'Well, what about those 43 white guys you put in there? How did they work out?'"

American Way: Sarah Palin email frenzy backfires on her media antagonists

UK Telegraph  "The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics.
"One can only assume that the Left-leaning editors who dispatched teams of reporters to remote Juneau, the Alaskan capital, to pore over the emails in the hope of digging up a scandal are now viewing the result as a rather poor return on their considerable investment." ....
"...she sought help from her staff in keeping the alcohol in the governor’s mansion away from young people, stating that it should be boxed up and “removed from the People’s House” – both for practical reasons and as a statement about her administration."....
"The email release could mark the end of a chapter of what conservatives have termed “Palin Derangement Syndrome”. Her enemies in the media appear to have overplayed their hand."
Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington DC. .... His bestselling new book Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and Britain's War in Afghanistan, about a Battle Group in Helmand in 2009, is available from Telegraph Books.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ericallie

NBC wants email bombshells, then check Obama Administration's, not Palin

Newsbusters  "Following a story from “national investigative correspondent” Michael Isikoff in which “MSNBC.com investigative reporter” Bill Dedman had the gall to complain “we waited longer for these records than Sarah Palin was Governor, almost a thousand days,” NBC’s David Gregory recognized, in an understatement: “As Mike and his team are finding, not a lot of bombshells here.”"....

ISIKOFF: The e-mails have lots of redactions, and so far, there are no bombshells, but they do show Palin's irritation with what she calls the “lamestream media.” Writing from the McCain campaign trail, she writes in one e-mail: “It drives me crazy to catch all the corrections.” And in an earlier e-mail, “I feel like I'm at a breaking point with hurtful gossip.” Lester?

Perhaps they could find much juicier emails on the Obama Administration's correspondence with the NLRB over their Boeing suit, or any of their SEIU correspondence. TD

You think all those cyber sleuths searching Sarah Palin’s e-mails would get a similar thrill looking at, say, Gov. Deval Patrick’s BlackBerry?  "The answer is no, and not just because MSNBC would never mobilize an army of reporters to go after a Democrat. The real reason people will never see Patrick’s e-mails is because they can’t." Via Instapundit

Release the Redacted Transcript!  "I posted some thoughts on the media’s Palin/Obama paper-trail hypocrisy last Friday. Around the same time, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft highlighted the continued refusal of the LA Times to release the unseen but nonetheless famous video tape in which Obama toasted Rashid Khalidi at a testimonial dinner likely also addressed by Bill Ayers (h/t Glenn Reynolds). Will we ever get to see that tape, and if so, how best to shake it loose?" Via Instapundit; More Here.

AP Crushed That Palin Emails Reveal No Dirt    "But isn’t it funny how citizens and news organizations have never asked for Mr. Obama’s emails. Or Nancy Pelosi’s. Or Harry Reid’s. Or Barney Franks."....
"Or perhaps the delay was because the ‘powers that be’ were hoping to release them after Mrs. Palin had announced she is running for the 2012 nomination. But they got frustrated by the delay, and decided they should try to knock her out even before she threw her hat into the ring."

TD personally likes Palin as an excellent vice-president, but Democrats seem to feel she would be a real winner as president. Why else would they and Hollywood "elites"  be obsessed with destroying her?

Palin's Trig Letter "The Briton* writes that far from being embarrassed by any findings in the trove of her electronic missives, Palin "is likely to emerge from the scrutiny...with her reputation considerably enhanced.""....   (emphasis added TD)

"Among some 13,000 messages was an unexpected, revealing and touching email from Palin to friends and family.

"It was initially written, obviously not for publication, in April of 2008 just a few days before....

...the arrival of her fifth child, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome. In her email Palin imagines a letter from God to the family about to launch on its challenging child-rearing experience together.

"Here is Palin's entire letter:"

*American Way: Sarah Palin email frenzy backfires on her media antagonists Read this in a separate post in the Tunnel Wall, above this one.

           

Which of these two people does Hollywood admire and respect?

Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash

NY Times  "A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House’s Blue Room."
....
" The event, organized by the Democratic National Committee, kicked off an aggressive push by Mr. Obama to win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash — in part by trying to convince Wall Street that his policies, far from undercutting the investor class, have helped bring banks and financial markets back to health."  Via  Freedom Fighter's Journal


http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/stevebreen



Durbin’s Innovation Killer

American Enterprise Institute The Durbin amendment would raise costs for consumers, increase fraud, and kill innovation.

"Attached as a floor amendment at the very last moment to the Senate version of the Dodd-Frank legislation, the Durbin amendment was passed with no hearings and minimal discussion of its likely impact on consumers and the economy. Since that time, however, many of the likely unintended consequences have been identified."
Hat tip to Volokh Conspiracy

Tips for Not Appearing Crazy on the Internet

Pajamas Media  "How conspiracy nuts, basket cases, paranoid loons, and other half wits can fool the rest of us into thinking they make perfect sense."

Here is the outline of the article:  

"Caps Lock Is Your Enemy  "NEVER EVER TOUCH THE CAPS LOCK KEY EVER AGAIN! I can use it because I’m a professional, but you crazy people just need to leave that key alone. This tip by itself will make a lot of you look 100% less crazy."

"i can haz proper grammar? "Write actual English sentences using real words and proper grammar. Capitalize the first word of each sentence. Use punctuation. there is no reason ur comment 2 a blog or column shud look lik ur a n00b at texting."

"No Long Screeds  "And that’s why no will read what they write except other crazy people with way too much time on their hands. So keep it short. Pick one point, and write no more than a couple of sentences. Keeping it short also helps you police your crazy."
If you're at a TEA Party rally, enjoying the non-angry family atmosphere and someone arrives with a poster packed chock-full of writing, stay close by them. Especially if you see the press heading for that person. TD

"Proofread "So after you write a comment, don’t listen to the crazy in your head shouting, “You need to share this now! Now! NOW!” Instead, take a deep breath and read it over before hitting the submit button."
Speaking of which, Tunnel Dweller just corrected two egregious spelling errors he made in a Palin email post above. There is the hope that nobody noticed them, but if you didn't, shame on us all.
"Don’t Be Surprised When People Have Opinions Different From Your Crazy One 
"And there are truthers who are so amazed anyone can believe the government’s story on 9/11...

"No Living Person Is Hitler, and the World Isn’t Ending   "To a crazy person, every little bit of nonsense is a crisis of epic proportions that has to be handled right now (e.g., “If it isn’t recognized that Obama doesn’t meet my obscure definition of ‘naturalized citizen,’ then the Constitution will burst into flames and society will collapse!”)! "

Respond to an Actual Point and Not Just Something That’s Been Mentioned  "Like if someone mentions when Hanukkah is this year and you respond with a rant about Jews controlling the banks, you’re not actually having a sane person conversation."

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..."If you want a role model, try to be more like Andrew Sullivan. When it was revealed in 2008 that Bristol Palin was pregnant and thus couldn’t physically have given birth to Trig Palin, even the most hardcore conspiracy theory nuts gave up on that one, but not Sullivan. He stuck with it despite it being “the government is concealing the fact that 2 + 2 = 5!” crazy. And yet he’s still treated by many as a serious pundit because he has the discipline to make it so it’s not blatantly obvious to a casual reader that he’s Kleenex-boxes-for-shoes, the-squirrels-are-spying-on-me, kung-fu-fighting-invisible-ninjas crazy."

ONLY A HITLER WOULD NOT PASS THIS ARTICAL ON TO 10 OTHER PEOPL. HOW ABOUT YOU ARE YOU A HITLER? OUR FATE DEPENDS ON THIS

Charles Krauthammer; Stewardship? Or ideology?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Washington Post  "We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation debate about the nature of the welfare state (entitlement vs. safety net) and, indeed, of the social contract between citizen and state (e.g., whether Congress can mandate — compel — you to purchase whatever it wills). Let’s finish that debate. Start with Obama’s abysmal stewardship, root it in his out-of-touch social-democratic ideology, and win. That would create the strongest mandate for conservative governance since the Reagan era."

Obama Recovery  "I know … let’s blame the Republicans!
"Take a look at this headline: Are Republicans Intentionally Sabotaging Economy For Political Gain? Can you believe that? The headline doesn’t ask if Democrats are scaring the diapers off old ladies for political gain. Not, it’s the Republicans sabotaging the economy." Neal Boortz



 

Democrats against those who depend on the coal industry

As Promised, Obama Is Destroying Coal Industry  "Remember when Obama shockingly promised before the election that he would bankrupt the coal industry that provides us with about half our electric power?"

Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data.
Overall, the rules aimed at making the air cleaner could cost the coal-fired power plant industry $180 billion, warns a trade group.
"Many of these severe impacts would hit families living in states already facing serious economic challenges," said Steve Miller, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. "Because of these impacts, EPA should make major changes to the proposed regulations before they are finalized," he said.

From Moonbattery.com

Obama's New EPA Rules Would Destroy Our Energy Sector  "Obama has not been able to implement his full load of destructive polices via Congress. That is why the largest portion of his attacks on America have been made through his powers to regulate. These EPA rules are just two more examples of the hundreds Obama has perpetrated on this country. And they are nothing compared to what he really wants to do."  Warner Todd Huston

Coal industry braces for declining demand if EPA pollution rules pass  "American Electric Power's plan to shutter a string of aging coal-fired electric plants if regulators adopt strict new pollution rules is likely the first in a series of similar decisions, which has the coal industry bracing for waning demand."
"The AEP warning came in response to new rules proposed for coal-fired power plants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It follows April's announcement by the Tennessee Valley Authority that it would shut down about 16 percent of its coal-fired generating capacity to settle air quality lawsuits with several states."

It's all Bush's fault

This and more at Warning Signs

The Iranian Threat That Can’t Be Ignored



Heritage  "The leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once said that Israel must be “wiped off the map.” And now Iran stands poised to have its finger on the trigger of a nuclear weapon, yet the Obama Administration continues to remain virtually silent on the nascent threat, all while the clouds amassing over the Iranian Peninsula are growing too dark to ignore."....

"The President’s refusal to honestly confront the severity of the Iranian threat — let alone condemn the regime’s actions — is in keeping with his pursuit of his new way in the Middle East, an Obama Doctrine characterized by charming one’s enemies rather than recognizing the realities of the world."

2008: Obama pooh-poohs danger from 'tiny' Iran  ""I take back everything I ever said about Obama and correct myself," wrote one contributor. "He's not just a moron. He's a full scale idiot who knowns (sic) absolutely nothing about history or the world. Don't worry about Iran? Who stole his brain? This guy as POTUS … good night free world."
"Obama was advocating for his stated position of being willing to hold discussions with leaders of rogue nations, such as Iran."
Foreign policy of a junior-higher.

Does Obama Understand the Threat of a Nuclear Iran? "We cannot allow history to repeat itself. Today we are facing an evil much worse than we did in 1938. Appeasement and vacillation do not work. World peace, global stability and millions of lives are on the line. Our first priority should be to stop these radicals in their tracks and to help Iranians free themselves from this evil."
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons.



freerepublic.com



From Judicial Watch: Congressional Disgrace

Judicial Watch "A president has an affair with a White House intern; “allegedly” sexually assaults a woman outside the Oval Office; is credibly accused of rape; hires investigators to intimidate witnesses; and lies to the American people, his cabinet, a federal court and grand jury, etc…that president didn’t resign. The Senate couldn’t even be bothered to remove him from office. Weiner must think, “If Clinton didn’t go, why should I?” Bill Clinton is an elder statesman in this corrupt city. His wife, who helped orchestrate the effort to destroy the women* who were witnesses against him, is our pretender Secretary of State. The Clinton way is now the prevailing ethic for Washington, especially for liberal politicians."

*Juanita Broaddrick; Kathleen Willey; Paula Jones; Monica Lewinsky; Gennifer Flowers; Flowers' Litigation Documents

Pelosi Hypocrisy: She Called FBI on Mark Foley But Gives Weiner a Pass  "Back in 2006 Nancy Pelosi was leading the charge on the Foley email scandal. She said it was for the children. Pelosi statement on the Foley investigation:" 

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on news reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is opening a preliminary investigation of the sexually explicit e-mails Congressman Mark Foley sent an underage former House Page.
....
"Congress must not pass the buck on investigating this cover up. The children, their parents, the public, and our colleagues must be assured that such abhorrent behavior is not tolerated and will never happen again."