Lazy Daze Owners' Group

So come to think of it, you can do everything on a smart phone. :-)

Sawyer said,

"By mutual agreement I'll no longer be posting in this forum"

Well.. I for one will believe that when I don't see it.  You promised something similar when you resold your Lazy Daze and then you were supposedly off to the small fiberglass trailer forums. It didn't take long and you were back.....If only you could refrain from delving into your political comments ....

This group has for the most part,, been an island of civility (a rarity in these contentious times) and remains mostly relevant. For that, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the current and previous moderators.
My 2021 prediction is that we will hear from you again!
Goodbye Sawyer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year; stay safe out there. 

Steve K

"My 2021 prediction is that we will hear from you again! "

"Good call Steve.
I enjoy my private messages in here with fellow"

Sawyer, Sawyer, Sawyer,....not even a full week of your self induced boycott. .You just can't control your impulses; I knew it, most of the group knew it, and now perhaps you finally know it too...play nice if you can but at some point the self distruct mechanism will most likely activate. I think I hear the timer ticking......

Steve K

And on the above note I'm just finishing up this one.

Amazon.com: Pablo Escobar's Story 1: The Rise eBook: Attwood, Shaun: Kindle...

If the author is to be believed ole Pablo was a nice guy in lots of ways. As a child he was a mamas boy, a Boy Scout and a devout Catholic that grew up in an extremely violent and corrupt country which led him into a life of violent crime to escape crushing poverty.
The book is informative not only on Pablo but on Columbia and the inherent corruption that led to such grinding poverty next to such extreme wealth.
In the early years anyway Pablo considered himself more a liberator of the people than a criminal and was an advocate of social justice which he financed with millions of his own dollars. His social and environmental concerns seem genuine and I am coming away with a different viewpoint on the guy than I've always held. Yes he did some horrific things but he was in a horrific country and his barbarism was SOP in that country at that time. In short he was a man not the monster that he has been portrayed as.
Anyway that's my take after reading part one. i look forward to the part two and three books by the same author. Maybe my opinion will change.

Committing an act of murder makes you a murderer
Committing many acts of murder make you a serial killer
Committing the monstrous act of genocide,  makes you a monster.
Successful genocide requires a leader charismatic enough to convince a huge chunk of the population that “”he is a man, not a monster”", despite the monstrous acts required to perpetrate ethnic cleansing.
Hitler was a charismatic monster, not a man.

It's easy for us to put our values on others in countries whos society we can't comprehend or on historical figures long held up as heroes that are now labeled genocidal racist who had values from a different era but to do so is setting up a false equivalency.

Murder and rape is murder and rape no matter what era or conditions a person lived in.   We as humans might justify killing others but I'm sure we would not like that to happen to us or our loved ones.    There is no justification to take what you know is not yours.   Ask yourself if you'd like that to happen to you -  if the answer is yes then it is ok if the answer is no then you know it isn't. 

glen

Lazy Bones entry on Korea reminded me of a book I ran across a couple of years ago.
D-Day Through German Eyes
A very good read - The author's grandfather interviewed German soldiers in early 1944 defending the seawalls of Fortress Europe for an article slated for publication around August 1944.   Somehow events overtook the article and ten years later he went back and interviewed survivors who were captured in D-Day.

On thing that struck me was as they were evacuated,  they wondered where the horses were.   While the Germans had the best tanks,   they were fueled from drums hauled in horse-drawn wagons which was discussed in Snow and Steel - the Batle of the Bulge

A good read, but later reviews indicated the entire D-Day project was a fabrication.   A good read tho

About half way through this. I won't review it so as not to offend anyone with my politics but I will say if you are interested in what life was like in the Soviet Union it's a must read.

Amazon.com: Communist Daze: The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor eBook:...


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You might enjoy "What's So Funny, Comrade?" It's a Sixties-era collection of cartoons from the Soviet humor magazine (yes, they had one!) "Krokodil."

Sawyer

I hope you enjoy the book you bought... however, it is not the one I recommended. On Desperate Ground grabbed me on the first page and left me wishing that it had been longer, I wasn't ready to close it. Every book has it's own attraction, even those by the same author but this one allowed me to see what had taken place On Desperate Ground.  My fellow Marines experienced it in real time and as I came along a few months later experienced it vicariously through them.  


Amazon.com: On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean...