re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Really cool movie is on.

Called “Patton”.

I highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.

And I highly recommend relativizing your view of Patton by taking a look at what he said about Jewish survivors (DPs = “displaced persons”) after the war.

President Harry S. Truman’s envoy, Earl Harrison, toured the DP camps in 1945. He reported that, “We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them.”

Truman ordered Eisenhower to improve the conditions of the DP camps, and he duly passed on the order to Patton. Furious, the four-star general, Ike’s successor as Military Governor, wrote in his diary, “Harrison and his ilk believe that the displaced person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals.”

*spit*