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Out on a limb... *(:>* - haikuman - 10-08-2011
Simple Stuff . . .
Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - haikuman - 10-08-2011
Perhaps I worded this incorrectly ...Would you replace Columbus Day For a Steve Jobs Day... and why...?
I am happy to still be a buffoon especially if we sink the Niña, Pinta, and the Santa María
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Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - haikuman - 10-08-2011
This was hijacked Thank you $tevie:priate:
And this one the author is unknown for now... In response to who was Christopher C. ?
"""Ah... you mean the murderer of the entire tribe of Arawak Indians? That guy, that we, in the USA, "celebrate" -- even though he didn't do
ANYTHING that he is associated with, let alone "discover the world was round" -- which was known hundreds of years prior, due to the shadow cast
by the earth onto the moon as well as the fact that ships coming over the horizon would appear as they would if they were traversing a sphere....
About as valuable to the rest of us as a Senator's health plan, and reveals much to the rest of the world about US stupidity in the face of FACTS."""
haikuman... today shamelessly exposing his buffonery
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Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - Grace62 - 10-08-2011
I'm OK with ditching Columbus day too. And with honoring Steve Jobs. I wouldn't have it be during the month of his death though, maybe during his birth month (February?)
Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - haikuman - 10-08-2011
I am also good with February Grace.... as you know I am just hell bent on making a point
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Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - lost in space - 10-08-2011
Steve Jobs day! Ditch a few other holidays for Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo DaVinci.
Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - haikuman - 10-08-2011
lost in space wrote:I agree Columbus is not in their league.. after all he was l@@king for a short cut to Japan
Steve Jobs day! Ditch a few other holidays for Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo DaVinci.
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Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - Jimmypoo - 10-08-2011
and the idiot thought Cuba was Japan... another strike against him.
Sunk two ships, spread syphilis, murdered an entire people.... and thought Castro had soy sauce??
I'm half Wop/half Irish -- and I see no value in this hyper-Catholic Italian a$$hole.....
Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - Rick-o - 10-08-2011
My, my! How convincing you folks are! If you say that's what happened during Columbus's time, then it MUST be true! Because everyone knows exactly what happened over 600 years ago in history. 8-)
And of course, Columbus was the only one during that time who acted like that, right? All the other explorers of the day were so much more caring and civilized, and treated the natives they encountered with love and kindness, right? 8-)
I say we shouldn't stop at killing Columbus day, we should also pay reparations by giving up our residency and real estate in the U.S. and moving back to our native lands. Wouldn't that be a better reward for the
And if that's too radical of an idea for you, then maybe we can attack the next holiday that upsets us. How about Thanksgiving? Shouldn't we kill off that holiday too?
Much like Columbus Day, Thanksgiving is seen by some as a celebration of the conquest and genocide of Native Americans by European colonists.
But why stop there? Maybe we should talk about the U.S. Government and how they virtually wiped out the "savages" and took their land. Not just here in the U.S. but other parts of the world as well? God Bless America, Right? 8-)
Hey, come to think of it, I was born in Flint, MI. That makes me a native american! Pay me my reparations, bitches, and get off MY land! :fawkdance:
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Re: Out on a limb... *(:>* - Jimmypoo - 10-08-2011
Arawaks weren't "Native Americans" - so at least read something before you post protesting what you don't understand about historically chronicled events -- especially by the individual himself....
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It is now believed that the first tribe encountered by Christopher Columbus, when he arrived on the island he called Santa María de la Concepción (known as Mamana by the Lucayan Indians and now called Rum Cay off the Bahamas), were Lucayan-Arawak Indians. Columbus noted in his log:
Saturday, 13 October 1492: ...They brought us balls of the cotton thread and parrots and other little things which it would be tedious to list, and exchanged everything for whatever we offered them. I kept my eyes open and tried to find out if there was any gold, and I saw that some of them had a little piece hanging from a hole in their nose. I gathered from their signs that if one goes south, or around the south side of the island, there is a king with great jars full of it, enormous amounts. I tried to persuade them to go there, but I saw that the idea was not to their liking...
Sunday, 14 October 1492: ...These people have little knowledge of fighting, as Your Majesties will see from the seven I have had captured to take away with us so as to teach them our language and return them, unless Your Majesties' orders are that they all be taken to Spain or held captive on the island itself, for with fifty men one could keep the whole population in subjection and make them do whatever one wanted.