Of course, everyone knows concentration camps were such funny places and should be the subject of jokes.

I do take anyone who can joke about concentration camps (other than survivors themselves) seriously. There is something very very wrong with them.

It's a way to make an extreme point. If some of the people who are tearing up the financial world today thought that camps were a possibility, they may not behave the way they do. We have gotten so far beyond that possibility, and have gotten to the point where we go to the other extreme to coddle the rogues. We give them bailout money and they thumb their noses at us by raising our credit card interest. When I suggest taking them to the LORHEIM, it's an expression of disgust with them. Sammy, you don't like ANYTHING I say, let's face it!

Yes, I learned my "German" from watching Hogan's Hereoes, Jabra, as did most of the post war TV generation! And I think there sort of is a "Gallows humor" element to the whole Nazi thing, because even Colonel Klink found himself in trouble quite often in a system where you just really could not win.....human history is sort of a collage of one brutality after another. I also realize that civilized behaviour is something that can easily come undone, based on Europe's experience, and that very civilized people can resort to being very brutal given the opportunity. We can joke about it if we realize that we are a horrible, brutal species, but maybe we are past that? One can only hope, but probably we're not and never will be. I find a lot of things funny that Sammy does not, mainly because I have more contempt for the Human species as a whole.....I think the whole Human agenda is a joke! We're going to "Conquer" nature!

Footnote: Even the great philosopher Alan Watts, toward the end of his life, after exploring every avenue towards bettering the Human condition through enlightenment and ecological awareness, came to the conclusion that soon, "the only serious ethical question will be whether or not to commit suicide"......while I don't agree with that, and I still find pleasure in life, it's more in the realm of "sex, drugs (alcohol), and rock and roll" (and good food!) than anything noble or philanthropic. I'm a total hedonist, and make no apologies to anyone. As a matter of fact, I advocate total unabashed hedonism as the only valid lifestyle! You may as well party while Rome burns, because Rome is gonna burn whether you do or not! And at the end, we're all gonna die!

You didn't make any point. You only gave further proof of the kind of person you are. I'm sure the white supremicists and other racist groups up there will love your concentration camp joking when you do your comedy bit and probably the sexist stuff, too.

When you mentioned the camps before I also jumped on it. Suggesting such camps for anyone merely shows you have no clue what they were about, neither the pow camps nor the concentration camps. You do realize that while the big money guys broke ethical rules and showed no concern for regular people, most broke no laws? The people who gave the bailouts are just as responsible for taking our money as the ceos. We elected those people. I have never supported the bailouts. However, the people taking them are not guilty of breaking laws in most cases if in any cases.

Funk, you are pretty much right that I don't like most of what you say because most of what you say is your sexist crap or "joking" about things like concentration camps. It's what you say that makes me feel that way, Funk. I have nothing else to go by. Thankfully, we never have met and never will.

Fine, if you accept violence as the way to deal with it then be prepared to have violence done to you. If it's acceptable for one group to do that then it must be acceptable for all to do it. Have you ever served in the military? Served in combat? Or are you one of those who loves war that has no clue, like Bush, Cheney, and the rest?

The most powerful weapon we have is our vote. If we keep electing crap that allows this and encourages it that is our own fault.

What about the good women who are dying?

Then you seek to violently overthrow the government? They are the ones who send our kids off to die. Most of them have no experience, much like you, so talk of violence comes easily.