Seattle police shot and killed a University of Washington senior who was dressed in a World War II-era German uniform and who officers say was brandishing a long rifle with a bayonet early Thursday in his University District apartment.

The student, identified by friends as Miles Allen Murphy, was well-known on campus as a smart, eccentric history buff who loved to participate in WWII re-enactments and would even show up to class, at times, dressed in a historic uniform.

Murphy — a German cultural-studies major — had amassed a large collection of WWII memorabilia from the Internet, goodwill stores and from antique dealers.

“He was one of the most peaceful guys I have met. He was really just a nice guy,” Bray said. “I never heard him espousing any Nazi ideology; none of that interested him. He liked the physical stuff from WWII because he was such a history buff.”

Bray said Murphy sometimes would wear kilts or uniforms to class — including German and U.S. gear from WWII — mehr

According to the theory, Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to the United States, where it was adopted and developed by slaves, emerging many years later as rap.

Professor Szasz is convinced there is a clear link between this tradition for settling scores in Scotland and rap battles, which were famously portrayed in Eminem’s 2002 movie 8 Mile.

He said: “The Scots have a lengthy tradition of flyting - intense verbal jousting, often laced with vulgarity, that is similar to the dozens that one finds among contemporary inner-city African-American youth.

“Both cultures accord high marks to satire. The skilled use of satire takes this verbal jousting to its ultimate level - one step short of a fist fight.”more

Some time after the death of Baldr, many of the gods went to Ægir’s hall on the island of Hlesey for a feast. Using his enormous kettle, Ægir brewed oceans of ale for his guests. Many of the Æsir were present, including Loki. Horns were kept full of ale, and the hall was filled with a great peace.

Loki couldn’t stand the praise being heaped on Ægir’s servant, Fimafengr, and killed him. The outraged Æsir took up their arms and chased Loki out of the hall into the surrounding forest. Eventually, the gods returned to the hall and resumed their places. Outside, Loki quarreled with Eldir, another servant, for re-admittance to the hall, promising that before the end of the feast, he’d blend the gods’ mead with malice. As Loki entered the hall, the conversation stopped, and the hall fell silent.

Told that he was not welcome, Loki reminded Óðin of his promise, made when the two became blood-brothers: to drink only if a drink was brought to both. Hurstwic

Flyting

Ethnic Genetic Interests

“Mainstream” discussions about immigration, race, and the implications of a multiracial society usually consider only secondary questions such as economics, crime, culture, etc….

Parents in south Tel Aviv who are seeking to prevent two Arab girls from attending their children’s school are denying accusations of racism, saying they’re worried about academic standings.

“The school board already dumped the African kids here, and now they’re bringing in the Arab kids without even telling us,” one mother said. “They can’t speak Hebrew well, they’re having trouble in class and it’s hurting the academic level of the school,” she said.

“Anyone who doesn’t understand why we’re so upset… should take a look at other schools in the area,” the mother added. “It starts with a few students and all of a sudden parents find that there are dozens of refugees in their schools. It’s simply bad for the school.”

While other parents have called the group’s charges blatant racism, its members say they plan to circulate a petition calling on administrators to remove the girls.Source

When it entered the war, the United States was neither aware nor prepared for the amount of prisoners it would be required to care for within its boundaries.

After months of requests by Britain the United States reluctantly agreed to accept an emergency group of 50,000 POWs.

With this acceptance, along with the campaign against General Rommel in North Africa which began in November of 1942, the United States POW population steadily increased throughout the war. It reached its peak between August and November 1944 when over 110,000 German POWs entered the United States.

At its height in May and June of 1945 the German POW population alone in the United States was over 371,000 with a total Axis prisoner count (see page on US POW statistics) sources

Muslim Brotherhood

Jihad is our way

I thought it an outrage when CONGRESSMAN ELLISON AT THE HAJ, URGED MUSLIMS TO FILL “8,000 jobs that are available Obama administration“- now we find the plot thickens. Robert Spencer over at Jihadwatch is reporting

Muslim Congressman’s Hajj paid for by Muslim Brotherhood front group

The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991.source

On Dec. 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered secret preparations for Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.)

In 1944, in a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not continue to be detained.

In 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first public, full-scale commercial nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.) more

Noted historian and author Jonathan Kirsch discussed the history of the Inquisition. Kirsch defined the Inquisition as a joint bureaucracy of church and state authorities charged with the task of punishing anybody who failed to embrace the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. It operated all over Western and Southern Europe, Kirsch said. The Inquisition formally began in the early 13th century, after the Pope’s failed Crusade against Christians in France (Cathars), and remained in existence for the next 600 years, until 1834, he explained. Though no longer conducting any Inquisitions, the Vatican’s Office of the Inquisition still remains, Kirsch noted, but was renamed in 1908 to the Office of the Doctrine of the Faith.

According to Kirsch, a diversity in religious practices and beliefs during the 1200s jumpstarted the Inquisition. Punishments such as fines, compelled pilgrimages, imprisonment and even burning at the stake were doled out to anyone who dissented from the Roman Catholic Church. Kirsch spoke about the forms of torture used in that time and said the phrase “to the third degree” comes to us from the Inquisition, when five different levels or degrees of torture could be implemented to compel confessions. He also pointed out that the Friar Inquisitors did not actually torture or execute convicted heretics. Instead, those tasks were delegated by the Church to civil authorities.

Kirsch called the Inquisition “a self-sustaining machine for persecution,” as the seized property of supposed heretics provided a stream of income to those in charge. Kirsch shared the example of the Knights Templar, who were accused of heretical beliefs as an excuse for King Phillip of France to take their treasure and wipe them out. Kirsch also talked about how certain features of the Inquisition have been copied over the centuries, most notably in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, as well as the United States’ use of torture in its War on Terror.

A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP. After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the superintendent said he was having “conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons.”

“We encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go beyond just reading the textbook,” the superintendent said. “We don’t want to discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was upset.”

On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two students’ hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only blacks in the class. more

In Chicago, home to the country’s third largest school district, school planners have been working hard to create a school to cater solely to gay students. What was their justification for such a plan? A 2007 GLSEN survey of more than 6,200 middle and high school students, which found that 86 percent of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered students experienced harassment in the past year because of their sexual orientation and 60 percent felt unsafe at school. The new campus was to be called the “Pride Campus” with its stated mission being to “serve the underserved population of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth and their allies.” However, due to pressures largely from gay activists and religious groups that didn’t want gays segregated, school planners have decided to expand the mission of the school to include other students who have been bullied, such as Goth students, overweight students or students with disabilities. But even without a mission statement aimed directly at gays, at least 60 percent of the school’s students can be expected to identify as gay. Source>>>

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School officials in Fayetteville, North Carolina, have completed their investigation of a teacher following a classroom incident captured on film. The Independent Women’s Forum says the video shows an elementary school teacher browbeating a student for her support of John McCain in the school’s mock presidential election. (See Previous Article)

“What do you all know about that war in Iraq? Talk to me because your daddy’s in the military; talk. It’s a senseless war,” the teacher says on the video. “And by the way Kathy, the person that you are picking for president said that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to, so that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years.”  MORE>>>>>>