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Finally got him

2017-04-25T15:26:00.000-07:00

Someone promised me a lifesize Spiderman mannequin almost a year ago but then the comic book people said it couldn't be given away.
Today to my surprise it was amongst a delivery to my work ......got it at last . Awesome

Great riding weather these last few days

2017-03-11T14:01:00.000-08:00

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2017-03-05T05:05:00.005-08:00

Valentines Day headsup

2013-02-02T11:49:00.002-08:00

Valentines day give her what YOU really want !
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MARTIN NIEMOLLER

2013-01-25T02:53:00.000-08:00

Martin Niemoller
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his statement "First they came...".

“First they came…” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. There is some disagreement over the exact wording of the quotation and when it was created; the content of the quotation may have been presented differently by Niemöller on different occasions.

According to the Martin-Niemöller-Foundation the text is as follows:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Another longer version is

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

In the United States, the quotation is more commonly known as:

First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Yet another version is

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

(Wikiquote, see^[3])

Author

Martin Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-communist and supported Hitler's rise to power at first. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. His crime was “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement”^]. Niemöller was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II. His statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy.

Origin and various versions

The statement was published in a 1955 book by Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, based on interviews he had conducted in Germany several years earlier. The quotation was circulated by civil rights activists and educators in the United States in the late 1950s. Some research traces the text to several speeches given by Niemöller in 1946.^[1]
Nonetheless, the wording remains controversial, both in terms of its provenance, and the substance and order of the groups that are mentioned in its many versions. While Niemöller's published 1946 speeches mention communists, the incurably ill, Jews or Jehovah's Witnesses (depending on which speech), and people in occupied countries, the 1955 text, a paraphrase by a German professor in an interview, lists communists, socialists, "the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on", and ends with "the Church". Based on the explanation given by Niemöller himself in 1976, this refers to the German Protestant ('Evangelische') Church, and not to the German Catholic Church. However, as claimed by Richard John Neuhaus in the November 2001 issue of his blog-like online journal 'First Things', when "asked in 1971 about the correct version of the quote, Niemöller said he was not quite sure when he had said the famous words but, if people insist upon citing them, he preferred a version that listed 'the Communists', 'the trade unionists', 'the Jews', and 'me'."^[4] However, historian Harold Marcuse could not verify that interview. Rather, he found a 1976 interview in which Niemöller referred to a 1974 discussion with the general bishop of the Lutheran Church of Slovakia. The 84-year-old Niemöller recalled in 1976:

There were no minutes or copy of what I said, and it may be that I formulated it differently. But the idea was anyhow: The communists, we still let that happen calmly; and the trade unions, we also let that happen; and we even let the Social Democrats happen. All of that was not our affair. The Church did not concern itself with politics at all at that time, and it shouldn't have anything to do with them either. In the Confessing Church we didn't want to represent any political resistance per se, but we wanted to determine for the Church that that was not right, and that it should not become right in the Church, that's why already in '33, when we created the minister emergency federation (Pfarrernotbund), we put as the 4th point in the founding charter: If an offensive is made against ministers and they are simply ousted as ministers, because they are of Jewish lineage (Judenstämmlinge) or something like that, then we can only say as a Church: No. And that was then the 4th point in the obligation, and that was probably the first anti-antisemitic pronouncement coming from the Protestant Church.

At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the quotation is on display in a variation that substitutes "Socialists" for "Communists". The Holocaust Museum website has a discussion of the history of the quotation.
A version of the statement is also on display at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, as well as the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and in The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, recites a variation on the poem in the introduction to his composition "Don't Let it Happen Here".

Need More skype ? - Tech-simple by Skull.

2013-01-12T11:33:00.001-08:00

Tech-simple by Skull.
How to run multiple Skype accounts simultaneously on a desktop
I wonder how many of you have had a similar problem that i have encountered with Skype..
Having several business accounts and also one I use for my family and friends it is pretty inconvenient only having one open at a time on the desktop, not to mention possibly missing important calls and messages on the closed skype.

i searched on the net for a solution and found many offerings but several proved imposible to work with or were badly written and would not work.
Anyway I eventually managed to adapt one or two and get what I wanted and it then became clear that it is actually simple to enable as many skype accounts to be open and in use simultaneously.

I put the easy step by step way of doing it for anyone to copy up on my Infomaxion.com website.
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2013-01-02T09:14:00.001-08:00

Satans Slaves

2012-11-20T05:18:00.002-08:00

NUFF SAID - see you there !

OBAMA - THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

2012-11-06T20:42:00.003-08:00

THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

well done Mr Obama
Not Fate , Not an Accident !
America Chose.

Seal Team 6 movie trailer

2012-11-04T12:42:00.001-08:00

SEAL TEAM SIX Movie Trailer

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Biketoberfest® 2012 -- the 20th Annual event

2012-10-17T02:46:00.001-07:00

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2012-09-04T22:26:00.001-07:00

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2012-07-26T22:06:00.000-07:00

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Not best when I say nothing at all !

2012-07-16T06:38:00.000-07:00

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2012-07-16T06:29:00.001-07:00

the best news i had all year in relation to my net activity was finally getting the web address Infomaxion.com back after inadvertently letting my ownership lapse 2 years ago. For me the combining of maximum and Information as the word InfomaXion with a trendy X was something i was chuffed with. Anyway I am stating to look at setting up the site and should be back live very soon.

Hells angels attack anti war protesters

2011-04-22T03:17:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from a review of the newly published non-fiction book 'Hells Angels' from the The New York Times 29th January 1967

...........Because the Hell's Angels have lacked a focus for their hostility, their violence has been undirected. However, those who observe the trappings--the swastikas and Iron Crosses--have wondered if there might not be in them the raw material out of which Brown Shirts are made. This suspicion seemed confirmed when, in the fall of 1965, a group of Hell's Angels attacked an anti-war rally at the Oakland-Berkeley boundary, an assault which put them into direct conflict with the radical left in neighboring Berkeley.

"The attack was an awful shock to those who had seen the Hell's Angels as pioneers of the human spirit, but to anyone who knew them it was entirely logical. The Angels' collective viewpoint has always been fascistic. They insist and seem to believe that their swastika fetish is no more than an anti-social joke, a guaranteed gimmick to bug the squares, the taxpayers--all those they spitefully refer to as 'citizens.' . . . If they wanted to be artful about bugging the squares they would drop the swastika and decorate their bikes with the hammer and sickle. That would really raise hell on the freeways. . . hundreds of Communist thugs roaming the countryside on big motorcycles, looking for trouble."

However, the threat to disrupt all future anti-war demonstrations didn't materialize. A visit from poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Ken Kesey served to pacify the Angels and there has been no recent sign of political direction.

Hunter Thompson has presented us with a close view of a world most of us would never dare encounter, yet one with which we should be familiar. He has brought on stage men who have lost all options and are not reconciled to the loss. They have great resources for violence which doesn't as yet have any effective focus. Thompson suggests that these few Angels are but the vanguard of a growing army of disappropriated, disaffiliated and desperate men. There's always the risk that somehow they may force the wrong options into being
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Please note: for many years now it has been almost unheard of to see a Swastika on the 'Cut' ,the colours of a Hells Angels Club Member and was essentially only ever worn as described above. Any personal insignia etc are worn 'off' the colours and will, as in every other sphere of life be reflective of the individual in the exercise of his freedom and rights of expression and not of the wider body.
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