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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
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9:40 am - Interesting.
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Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive.
Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men
You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving. |
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| Thursday, March 1st, 2007
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1:48 pm - Possibly the weirdest Nazi-novel ever...
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I stumbled upon this at a thrift shop some time ago...
See under the cut for the back cover.
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current mood:  hungry
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| Monday, January 22nd, 2007
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2:29 pm - Whilst reading...
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... one of two books about uniforms and their social/psychological implications that I just received, I found this passage to be quite compelling and felt I should share it here:
"Evil is more elegant than goodness: in the most tragic reality and the collective imagination, treachery wears affected clothing of exemplary beauty, as if to conceal its merciless nature behind the perfection of gestures and manners. Actually this is not a mere disguise, but the expression of a need to impose a distance, to utilize beauty as a way of legitimizing presumed superiority. This is how horror selects its clothing: finery, decorations, boots, hats and helmets, but above all gloves and capes, references to an idea of beauty derived from the imagery of the Romantics, from Byron and Bram Stoker.
It was precisely during the 1800s that evil changed its visage and its look: the witches of Shakespeare vanish, leaving room for Count Dracula, wrapped in his cape. This passage reflects a profound psychological change that is not limited to the world of literature: horror abandons the tamp, miry territory of the forest and takes up residence in the palace, in the decadent luxury of a castle in the Carpathians. In other words, terror continues to celebrate its distance, but it no longer dwells in the centerless space of the forest: it now prefers the hierarchical and perspective detachment of power and nobility, transformed into a terrifying, monstrous caricature. The beauty of terror, in fact, is molded around the desires and anxieties of its subjects: that timeless elegance reflects the imagination of a bourgeoisie that tries to escape itself, bridging the gap that separates it from the dream of nobility - mg."
Above this passage is this photograph of the (recently deceased) Chilean dictator Pinochet and his military entourage:
I'm not going to go on here so much about how people with fancy military uniforms are evil or anything like that. However, I find this passage to be quite telling, considering how enamoured many of us are with characters and personages, however dark and depraved they may be, so long as they are posessed of this aristocratic elegance; a resplesdant facade beneath which lurks cruelty, inhumanity, immorality. How many of us have found ourselves quietly or brazenly admiring the allure of gothic vampires, sadistic officers, ruthless elites - a whole menagerie of (well-dressed) evil?
It's interesting to think about, and I welcome your comments on the subject.
PS - the book in question is entitled "Uniforms: Order and Disorder" and can be ordered through Amazon.com. It is a collection of essays and photographs exploring uniforms, their usage, meaning, and appeal.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: Nemo - Nightwish
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| Friday, August 18th, 2006
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11:45 am - Ugh...
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Alright...
Enough with the JonBenet Ramsey stuff.
Yes, it's horrible she was murdered. Yes, it's a shame. Yes, no child should have to die like that.
But everyone knows that if she hadn't been a little beauty pageant princess and the child of a rich white suburban family, she'd have been forgotten about two weeks after her death. Children like her are killed like this every day - and their deaths are no less terrible and tragic than hers. Why should she be getting so much media attention, ten years after her death, while the thousands of other young lives taken in the same way are relegated to obscurity and silence?
So once again, I'm ranting at the mainstream media, I suppose. They need to start prioritizing what's worth reporting and what needs to just be let to rest.
And please don't start bitching at me for disrespecting the memory of Jonbenet. I'm not saying she deserved to die or that her death was meaningless. I'm saying that there's nothing that distinguishes her from other victims worthy of warranting such long-lasting media attention.
Blah.
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| Monday, August 14th, 2006
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6:33 pm - CNN needs to get its head checked...
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... along with every other major television news broadcast.
I am so fucking SICK of turning on the news and seeing reporters exposing all of our security secrets and vulnerabilities for the world to see. Per example, during breakfast this morning I was watching CNN and they were doing a report on places that would make ideal targets for terror attacks.
Stuff along the lines of "This location, if targeted, would throw the United States into complete chaos because it would prevent about 40% of America's oil from entering the country - furthermore it is only staffed by like a dozen people so it would not be difficult for terrorists to take over and sabotage the whole thing" and "This transit system has minimal security implementation and an attack during rush hour could make it very difficult for emergency and rescue operations to have access to the victims..." and "The government has implemented these measures to ensure increased security behind the scenes, but terrorists could still bypass these measures in these ways..."
WHAT THE HELL?
Why are you telling EVERYONE in the whole fucking WORLD where they would be able to get away with an attack! Why tell the terrorists about covert security operations so that they can figure out ways of bypassing them - instead of getting caught! Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just MAYBE - the terrorists watch the news too???
Stop and THINK for a moment about the reprocussions of your actions! Don't just think about ratings and having the next big story or behind-the-scenes scoop regarding our national security!
Sometimes I think the mainstream media does more harm to our country than the enemy we are fighting.
It's called DISCRETION, people! USE IT!
Gach!
current mood:  angry
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| Friday, July 7th, 2006
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4:18 pm - Interesting...
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Was doing some research into Third Reich daggers and ran across this newsbite from earlier this year:
Nazi dagger sale angers Jewish council
Jan 25, 2006
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/653589
The sale of two Nazi daggers at an auction in Christchurch has angered the New Zealand Jewish Council.
Watson's Specialist Auctions has the two knives, which are embossed with swastikas, for sale at auction on Wednesday evening.
Auctioneer Barry Watson says the daggers are historcially significant and are works of art.
But the head of the New Zealand Jewish Council Stephen Goodman says the sale of Nazi memorabilia is an insult to Holocaust survivors and their families and should be outlawed.
Goodman says auction houses need to make their own moral decision whether to sell the memorabilia and says he supports Trade Me's move to ban Nazi items from its website.
Now, sympathy for Holocaust survivors and victims being a given... it's intriguing to me that it is only a Jewish organization who opposes this and views the selling of these pieces of historical memorabelia as being offensive.
The war did not just affect them. Millions of other people, including those targeted by the Holocaust, civilians who died as innocent bystanders in the war, and military personnel who perished while engaged in battle.
And yet I don't see Polish civic societies, nor gay-rights groups, nor even families of those who served and died in the Allied armed forces rising up against this auction or the widespread trade of authentic and reproduction Nazi memorabelia.
This incident reminds me of something I read in a review of Mirroring Evil exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York:
"The protesters appear to demand a univocal response to the Holocaust: outrage at evil, reverent respect to the whole affair. But I wonder if they aren't implicated in trying to channel the power of the Nazis as well. Is it really respect for the lives of the dead that the protesters want - or is it not also respect for themselves as righteous arbiters of moral taste? Being a survivor is a position of privilege -- We, those of us who are too young to have been born for World War II, have to just sit obediently and listen. And being self-righteous about the Holocaust gives the protesters a tinge of authority. They can speak, and we cannot." - Jay Michaelson
I highly reccomend the full article at: http://www.zeek.net/art_0204.htm
Anyhow, this was not meant as an attack on Jews in any way - but the story that prompted this journal entry seems, to me at any rate, to support Michaelson's claims as to the behavior of some Jewish Holocaust survivors.
current mood: contemplative
current music: 'In Pace' - William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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| Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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7:24 am - A Nazi in the Grass
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From the Time Life Books Series, The Third Reich: the SS
Caption: A sniper with the division Das Reich becomes a shock of grain in an inventive, if uncomfortable, bit of camoflauge, concoted on the Russian steppes in the summer of 1942.
I love how he's wearing the belt over his . . . camoflauge ;)
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| Sunday, February 12th, 2006
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3:29 am
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Anyone coming? :)
Some friends and I plan on being there. Looks like a good time.
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| Friday, February 10th, 2006
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4:50 pm - Heil myself . . .
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Der Kommandant
Achtung! You are 30% brainwashworthy, 50% antitolerant, and 42% blindly patriotic |
Opportunistic, patriotic to a fault, and not so fond of people who aren't just like you, you are like a Nazi General. Back in Germany in the 1940's, you would have been at the top of the asshole list. Not for Nazism, necessarily, but for your own sick, twisted values. Then, out of superior intelligence (relative to other Nazis, that is), you would've climbed to the top.
Conclusion: you would have been a Nazi, and most likely would have served them well.
- new test, it rules, take it -
The Terrorism Test
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My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 27% on brainwashworthy |
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You scored higher than 78% on antitolerant |
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You scored higher than 56% on patriotic |
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current mood:  amused
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4:04 am - A colorbar
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So I was bored one day and perusing through my Nazipics on my computer and whipped up this.
 Allgemeine SS is Love
Enjoy :)
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| Friday, January 13th, 2006
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12:16 pm - Male bonding
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Ahhh ... what could be more wonderful than handsome Nazi men captured in images of friendship and camraderie? And in uniform too. ;)
Click under the cut for three pics!
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| Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
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10:21 am - New Nazi-themed Community
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Hello!
Just posting to let you know that I've started up a new community called 'Reel Nazis'. It will be primarily focused on discussing Nazis in films and television programs. Photos, reviews, and even oggling over how good actors look in uniforms are all welcome!
Check it out at: http://www.livejournal.com/community/reel_nazis/
Hope to see you there!
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| Monday, January 9th, 2006
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4:25 pm - Asian Military
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| Friday, December 16th, 2005
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8:29 pm - heh
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| Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
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10:16 am
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5:30 am - Testing
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