Best quote I've heard in a while "Do you think they let Germans build near the holocaust?"

[amyrose2712]

Of course during a discussion about Park51. Also that "they don't let the Japanese(I cleaned it up a bit)build near Pearl Harbor, I know that for a fact! I heard it on Beck" Of course this is coming from a 48 year old guy that lives in his parents basement, not because he fell on hard times, because he "doesn't want to work for anyone but himself" So, I guess I am not surprised.

[ThomasQED]

1. Were you able to stop laughing long enough to set him straight?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Look, in Munich, there was a McDonald's built on the same block as Dachau

where countless Jews and political prisoners were systematically starved and worked to death.

Some things don't belong together but that doesn't detract from the somberness of the original monument.

[CountAllVotes]

8. when traveling by Dachau ...

it is a very odd creepy feeling when you go by. I remember that the passengers that were with me on the bus when we went by mentioned that "not even a bird will land at Dachau".

I sure wouldn't care to live anywhere near Dachau. I find it bizarre to know that McDonald's has a business nearby! :scared:

[napi21]

3. Stpid question. I don't know of a "german religion" & in Japan

Most Japanese people do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of a single religion; rather, they incorporate elements of various religions in a syncretic fashion<1> known as Shinbutsu shūgō (神仏習合).

Japan grants full religious freedom, allowing minority religions such as Christianity, Islam and Sikhism to be practiced. Figures that state 84% to 96% of Japanese adhere to Shinto and Buddhism are not based on self-identification but come primarily from birth records, following a longstanding practice of officially associating a family line with a local Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine.<2><3><4><5> About 70 percent of Japanese profess no religious membership,<6><7> according to Johnstone (1993:323), 84% of the Japanese claim no personal religion. And according to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God, and 55% do not believe in Buddha.<8> Japanese streets are decorated on Tanabata, Obon and Christmas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan

[KamaAina]

4. The neighborhoods near Pearl Harbor have a large Japanese population

of course, the people of Japanese ancestry in Hawai'i were on our side (cf. 442nd "Go For Broke" Regiment).

Not that that would matter to a FReeper, of course. :eyes:

[LeftinOH]

5. Well -they got a McDonald's in Moscow right next to the Communism!

[amyrose2712]

9. They got Pepsi in the Andes...they've got McDonalds in Tibet....

[Jim__]

6. Really? A 48 year old guy who lives in his parents' basement?

And listens to Beck? Probably a major proponent of the market and individual responsibility.

[amyrose2712]

7. Do you know him?

These people are walking contradictions. It's simply ridiculous. You know how long he was on disability for "stress"? As long as he could milk the government he claims to hate.

[MedicalAdmin]

10. Yes Virginia, there is a Satan Claus.

The only answer to that "quote" is "Of COURSE they do. And they have. Where did you hear that malarky? ... Never mind - I don't care. Why don't you look it up. I know for a fact .... ... "somebody lied to you pal."

[amyrose2712]

11. Well, knowing nothing, especially facts, would make a difference,

I just laughed and said "Now, I get the picture" I actually really almost choked on my coffee when I read that.

[-..__...]

12. No nuns at Auschwitz.

I remember when this caused a bit of an uproar...

POPE ORDERS NUNS OUT OF AUSCHWITZ


WARSAW, April 14— In a last-minute letter apparently intended to defuse the controversy on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Pope John Paul II told Roman Catholic nuns today to move from their convent at the Auschwitz death camp.

The Pope's letter, made public by the Polish news agency here today, said the 14 Carmelite nuns must move to another convent within the diocese in the Auschwitz area or return to where they came from nine years ago.

Kalman Sultanik, the vice president of the World Jewish Congress, said he had been informed by Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy of the diocese of Bielsko-Biala, where the convent is situated, that the sisters had agreed to move. A Sore Point

The presence of the nuns, who live in a convent converted from a two-story building used by the Nazis as a storehouse for the deadly Zyklon B gas, has been an impediment to improved relations between Roman Catholics and Jews in Poland and elsewhere.

Many Jews view the red brick convent just outside the barbed wire perimeter at Auschwitz, where some 1.5 million Jews perished, as an affront to Jewish sensibilities. The World Jewish Congress threatened earlier this year to boycott the ceremonies planned for Monday to mark the ghetto uprising unless the issue of the Carmelite nuns was resolved.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/world/pope-orders-nuns-out-of-auschwitz.html