I had

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a Walt Disney deja vu this morning while listening to the news, but fortunately I had to go out.

[stilltrucking]

I was begining to think that my twelve year career as pre-med sophomore was coming to an end:

When I started walking around wearing a Mickey Mouse sweat shirt during what turned out to be my last semester.

No news is good news
they used to say
but we have not had any news since 1944.

[mtmynd]

What better deja vu could anyone have... especially if it was an early Disney... those were the good ol' days. But then again, I was good in those days.

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well, it's gone now but if I remember well was more like a frozenbellgoldfairydisgustingunclesomething image.

1944... Normandy?, Philadelphia experiment?, the creation of the IMF and the World Bank?, San Juan's earthquake?

[stilltrucking]

"It's like deja vu, all over again." Yogi Berra.


Poland World War Two

I have been thinking about my Uncle Phil from Philly lately the only one of my grandmothers siblings to escape.


He and my grandmother would get together on the high holidays and weep
She had so many Yahrzeit (memorial) Candles burning it seemed like a Catholic Cathedral.


Uncle Walt is like a disgusting Uncle?


I am an old maiden uncle myself.

I remember when Donald Duck went to war. Those cartoons of the Japanese dehumanized into insects.


http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/banned-cartoons/

It is fall and my thoughts turn to baseball. One day it is my fondest hope that it will be a true World Series. When Baltimore plays Nagasaki.
We gave them baseball and a nuclear camera that takes pictures of shadows on the walls and they gave us Zen and Sushi. Fair exchange I supppose.

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I want to be a Zen Judist

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania who issued thousands of illegal visas { to} Jewish people enabling them to emigrate to Japan.

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/rescuer.htm

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On the whole, however, German advice and encouragement for the Japanese to establish anti-Jewish policies met with resistance from Japanese officials.
Some of this reluctance may have been influenced by hopes of access to Jewish capital. Nevertheless, on December 31, 1940, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke told a group of Jewish businessmen, "I am the man responsible for the alliance with Hitler, but nowhere have I promised that we would carry out his anti-Semitic policies in Japan. This is not simply my personal opinion, it is the opinion of Japan, and I have no compunction about announcing it to the world."

There have also been many cases where Japanese, seeing themselves as victims of wartime raids and nuclear attack, have sympathized strongly with Jewish suffering. Some Japanese see parallels between their own personal and family wartime tragedies and those experienced by the Jews of Europe. Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has been required reading for Japanese students for many years, and copies of the book can be seen in many Japanese homes. The book first appeared in Japan in 1952 and has since sold millions of copies. There have been numerous student essay contests about the work and there is even a company named after her, Anne Co., Ltd.

THE JEWS OF JAPAN
Daniel Ari Kapner and Stephen Levine
Jews in Japan / Origins: Nagasaki and Yokohama / Kobe and Tokyo / Japan: A Haven for Refugees / Japan and the Holocaust / Jews in Japanese Thinking / Japanese Fascination with Judaism and Israel / The Future of Jewish Life in Japan
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl425.htm

Sorry I think I rambled off topic again.

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I use to enjoy digresions and the topic didn't have defined borders, it's OK!
Interesting links!