first of all, as you sow, so shall you reap…I had PT today…I’m doing really well with my exercises and healing…it takes longer that I thought…but it’s all worth it…I was able to walk 4 miles yesterday in New York…like I used to… it makes my heart sing that it’s the case…I’m feeling better and happy that I “bit the bullet” and had the knee done…and PT is working out…I have a great range of motion…I get on the bike for 5 minutes and it’s fairly easy… not to mention standing up from sitting on a chair without pushing my way up…I just stand up with my arms covering my chest…and I do them religiously…I’m a little concerned that gas prices are going up…it’s spring and summer’s coming…people will be traveling more not that we have good weather…supposedly the US is producing more oil that ever before…I’m really concerned about Iran attacking Israel…are we in danger of World War III?…maybe we’re due for one…we never learn…and Putin continues to push over the brink in this war on Ukraine…going into year two…and the Republican led House futzing around with air for Ukraine…or Israel…or Taiwan…Marjorie Taylor Greene’s false claims that Ukraine is rampant with Nazism…she’s a darling on Russia media…Russian state media is giving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) positive coverage over her campaign to end US aid to Ukraine…doing Putin’s bidding…wrongly saying that Ukraine is warring on Christians…when in fact that’s what Russia is doing…from The Hill by Sarah Fortinsky: “Moskowitz confronts Greene on Ukraine, Nazi remarks: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in a Wednesday hearing about her false claims that Nazism was rampant in Ukraine — an argument frequently touted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a House Oversight Committee hearing titled “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare,” Moskowitz issued a searing rebuke of the Georgia congresswoman’s efforts to paint Ukrainians as Nazis and pushed back against her comparisons of Ukraine’s government to Nazi Germany.
“Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler. The only people who know about Nazis and Hitler are the 10 million people and their families who lost their loved ones — generations of people who were wiped out,” Moskowitz said.
“It is enough of this disgusting behavior, using Nazis as propaganda,” he continued. “You want to talk about Nazis? Get yourself over to the Holocaust Museum. You go see what Nazis did.”
“It’s despicable that we use that, and we allow it, and we sit here like somehow it’s regular,” he said.
Moskowitz began by invoking his own family’s history, saying, “Now, I want to address something else that went on in this committee by another member,” referring to Greene’s comments earlier the same day.
“And I say this as someone whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust. My grandmother was part of the Kindertransport out of Germany. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My grandfather, her husband, escaped Poland from the pogroms.”
Moskowitz described Nazi Germany’s efforts to wipe out the Jewish people, and criticized fellow lawmakers for tolerating false claims, saying, “We pretend that behavior is acceptable and regular.”
“There are no concentration camps in Ukraine. They’re not taking babies and shooting them in the ear because they’re Jewish. There’s no gas chambers. There’s no ovens. They’re not railing people in, they’re not ripping gold out of people’s mouths. They’re not taking stuff out of their homes. They’re not trying to erase a people, the Ukrainians,” Moskowitz said.
His remarks follow Greene’s line of questioning in the hearing, which she used to push back on Democrats’ witness, historian Timothy Snyder, an expert on the Holocaust, fascism, the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.
In her remarks, Greene highlighted several news stories and displayed several photos that she said depicted neo-Nazis in Ukraine. She raised concerns that it is now widely considered misinformation to talk about “the Nazis in Ukraine and their recruitment efforts that go all around the world.”
Greene displayed a news story, entitled, “Inside a White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine,” and then held up a photo of what appeared to be two Ukrainian soldiers, smiling, and holding their right hands up as a form of salute.
“This looks like something you’d see out of Hitler’s Germany from Ukraine. And this is something that’s extremely important to talk about,” Greene said.
When given a chance to respond to Greene’s remarks, Snyder refuted the suggestion that Nazis were pervasive in Ukrainian government, and he urged lawmakers to redirect their concerns about fascism to focus on Russia.
“If the chamber is interested in the degree of far-right participation in Ukrainian politics, you can be assured that no far-right party has ever crossed 3 percent … in a Ukrainian election,” he said. “So, of course, there are bad people in every country, but by any comparative standard, it is a very small phenomenon.”
“In Russia, on the other hand, the army includes openly Nazi formations … the government itself is fascist in character, and it is carrying out a war, which includes deportation of children by the tens of thousands, the open intention of destroying a state, as well as mass torture,” Snyder said. “So if we’re looking for fascism, and if there is anyone who is sincerely concerned about halting fascism or racism, you would wish to halt Russia.”…it’s hard to believe that Greene represents her constituents the way they want her to…if they do, it’s a pretty sad case… she’s Putin rep in the House…Jamie Raskin saying Greene is ‘recycling direct Russian propaganda’…“Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, has been recycling direct Russian propaganda. She says that our tax dollars are going to support Ukrainian Nazis, and that is a Putin line, that he’s de-Nazifying Ukraine and that it’s a Nazi state. Of course, it is a liberal democracy committed to equal rights for everybody and human rights, and it has the only Jewish president in the world outside of Israel.” “So, calling it a Nazi state is such an affront and an insult to the Ukrainian people, and it’s just a lie. And yet we’re hearing a lot of that coming from various Republican members and different sources, to the point where you’re getting now Republican chairmen, finally, of committees like the Foreign Affairs Committee saying that Russian propaganda has invaded the ranks of the Republican Party.”…the Republican Party is trump’s party, the cult of personality…and trump is enamored with Putin…and horrifyingly said, he would let Putin do whatever he wants…and Putin wants to dismantle the U.S.’s leadership in the world…weaken the US and weaken NATO…we could be in danger of WW III…it doesn’t look good…scarier by the minute…
before I went to PT…I had to gather all this stuff to pay two credit cards…first I had to get the mail, I was sure the bills were in my mail box…which they were…I wanted to go to Adams Discount Pharmacy where I buy baby aspirin for a little under $3.00…then I sat in my car paying the bills…and then to Glenside Post Office to mail them off…then get to PT by 2:30…it all worked out…after PT I went to my cheap gas station that’s not so cheap… but cheaper that most by .30 cents…filled my tank…I always try to fill it when it’s half empty…driving to NJ yesterday put the tank a little under half…then went to Michael’s for salad bar…an early dinner…then home for about a half hour and then to the Ambler Theater to see The Secret Garden…a lovely little movie…they had the director of the Temple Ambler Arboretum to talk about the Arboretum…which is free as opposed to the Penn’s Morris Arboretum which costs money…she was drumming up business…showed pictures of the many unusual plants and flowers to be found…so let’s get there and walk around…they have a couple of miles of trail…The Secret Garden is part of their 35 Millimeter movies…from Wikipedia: “The Secret Garden is a 1993 fantasy drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, executive-produced by Francis Ford Coppola and distributed by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment imprint. Starring Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, John Lynch and Maggie Smith, the film’s screenplay was written by Caroline Thompson, based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The novel was previously adapted in 1919 and 1949.
Set in the ominously beautiful landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, in Northern England, Yorkshire‘s Allerton Castle was used for most of the exterior shots of Misselthwaite Manor (the primary location of the entire story), as well as the interior shots. The film was critically and commercially successful, grossing around $40 million worldwide. Dame Maggie Smith was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actthe shress in a Supporting Role, and young lead actress Kate Maberly received a “Special Achievement Award For Outstanding Performance” at the 1994 London Critics Circle Film Awards. At the 1993 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the film’s composer, Zbigniew Preisner, won “Best Music” for the film’s lush, impressive score. The film also features a song performed by Linda Ronstadt, called “Winter Light”, which plays as the credits roll; the song features lyrics set to one of Preisner’s orchestral themes (“Awakening of Spring”) in the film. In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in their list of the “50 films you should see by the age of 14″….there were a few children in the audience…well attended by all age groups…it’s a beloved book by Frances Hodgson Burnett…with dark themes but a happy ending…the orphaned cousin of the sickly boy who hasn’t left his bed since being born…a father who is never home or sees his motherless son who died at childbirth…afraid his “sickly” son will die and leave him all alone in the world…the boy’s cousin, Mary Lennox, their mother’s were twins, is orphaned in India…she is sent to England, to her mother’s twin sister’s husband to live…and turns their lives around as well as discovering the secret garden and rehabbing it and bringing it back to life as well as the family…it sweet, touching and a wonderful story…with a happy ending…
a cold day today…I’ve been cold all day…pray for peace…
found a quarter…
Art Salazar 