Coco Chanel's Collaboration with the Nazi

A recent documentary on Coco Channel's life shows that she was a brillant businesswomen. However, it was unknown that she had a close connection with the Nazi during World War II. In fact, she was not only cordial to the Nazi, but she had a lover who held a high position in the Nazi army. Knowing that hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered or cruelly treated in concentration camps by the Nazi, it is quite obvious that her lover was involved in the death and mistreatment of so many people. So, in turn, Coco Channel must have known of these sufferings and therefore would be indirectly involved. Yet, at the end of the war,while other Nazi sympathizers were paraded through the streets and humulated in different ways such as the shaving of the heads of the women, Coco Chanel was privately taken into custody. Even more astonishing is that she was quickly released to continue living a life of luxury. While her creations were no longer popular in Europe, it is astounding that even with knowledge of her involvement with the Nazi, she was warmly welcomed into the American society since her perfume and designs became popular and made her even richer than before. How could she be so readily accepted in any society with common knowledge of her connections with the Nazi? Were these American consumers so materialistic that the sufferings of the Jews were not relevant to them?

Expensive Blue Object

The blue hued image above was purchased at a recent Sotheby's art auction for $43.8 million dollars! It is mind boggling to know how a solid blue background could be regarded as "priceless art" simply because of the name of the creator. Even more surprising is how such a plain, unimaginable print could be purchased for millions of dollars. It is hoped that the buyer of this object is just as committed to contributing to the needs of starving and suffering people in the world, especially children.

Boston Bomber Burial Controversy

Residents of Boston, as seen in the picture, have come out against burying the Boston bomber anywhere in the state of Massachusetts. Really??!! Are these people aware that this man is dead, and there is no chance his body will return to life to hurt anyone living in the community??!! So, since a resurrection of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body is not expected, there should not be any controversy on burying the body anywhere. Quite frankly, the burying dissatisfaction of these people is a perfect reminder (as also mentioned on a radio program this morning) of a sad period during American history when racists came out in full force to demonstrate and deny Black citizens from being buried on the grounds of certain cemeteries. Nevertheless, it would be a ridiculous, stupid, and a wasteful effort to pursue this matter since Boston cementeries certainly house the gravesites of the corpse of people who have committed horrendous crimes within the city throughout the years.

Defying Billionaire, Stephen Ross

Never thought the day would come when someone would bravely defy the lures of a billionaire by making an unpopular decision. Such was the case last week when the speaker of the Florida Congress, Will Weatherford, decided that the bill for improving the Sun Life Stadium in Miami would not be heard on the final day of this Florida legislative session. This was a shock to the Miami Dolphins management and apparently more so for the billionaire owner of the team, Stephen Ross. It must have been quite shocking to Ross who was adamant that his stadium needed to be in contest for SuperBowl 50, so the stadium needed to be renovated with contribution from tax dollars. Even more so, Weatherford's decision not to address the bill, must have been even more alarming for Ross since, prior to obtaining any decision on the bill from the Florida senate, his organization prematurely spent $4.3 million dollars to fund the Miami-Dade county's snap elections for voters to decide on using tax monies to improve the stadium. Further, another $3 million was shelled out for additional expenses which may have included the large contingent in the state capital representing the Miami Dolphins along with Dan Marino. So, with so much money circulating, the news was certainly not expected. Ross and his Dolphin executive team have now lashed out and laid the entire blame on Weatherford and even made threats to Weatherford's future political career. However, what is concerning is that from all indications the Sun Life stadium had needed repairs for years, yet the billionaire Ross had never made any efforts to make any of these repairs known to the public until it was time to bid for SuperBowl 50. At that time, he bundled the general repairs into the need to get a retractable roof at tax payers expense. Even more devious was that, as the final days approached and the matter look unattainable, the Miami Dolphin executives began to use the minority community in an effort to play upon getting sympathy votes from the Florida Congress. So, such inaccuracies that the minority community would get jobs from the renevotation and even holding a job fair was only a sham intended for the Miami Dolphin's benefit to win votes in the Florida Congress. Mr. Ross's spokesperson indicates that Mr. Ross will not be spending any of his billions to improve the stadium in the future. That's not surprising..............his original, bad intentions were never to spend his money in the first place, and his deceitfulness backfired in his face!

Get A Job????

Some members of the Republican majority Florida congress are clueless about the state of health care not only in the country but moreso in their own state. One of them demonstrated his ignorance by announcing that those people who do not have health care should "Get a job!!". It is quite apparent that this stupid outburst is the common sentiments of many who are of the impression that only the unemployed do not have health insurance. Well, it is important for these people to educate themselves that many full time employees do not have insurance depending on the companies where they are employed. For instance, a full time employee of Krispy Kreme advised me only today of her need to obtain medical treatment but is unable to do so because she does not have insurance even though she often works over 40 hours each week. This is one of the many familiar cases of personal knowledge of people working full time without health benefits. In fact, for a number of years, colleges and universities have transitioned many full time professor positions into part-time position so that the institutions will not have to be responsible for providing insurance and other employee benefits. So, many classes are now being taught by hourly paid Adjunct Professors. Therefore, a word to those who are ignorant about health care -- do your research and you will see that many people are without insurance not because they are unemployed but because their employers are not providing those benefits for one reason or another.