Yes, let's celebrate the raping and pillaging of a Native land; better yet, let's make "heroes" of the ones who did it! *claps* Way to go, America!
What is going on with you Sammy? You are increasingly becoming cynical and malcontented. Here, I am beaming you good thoughts and much happiness for the day. You are three times zones away, so it may not get there immediately. You should feel it by lunch time though. While you wait, here is a happy thought - Thank God I am not married to the clown in this picture.
It's got nothing to do with being "malcontent" and I'm no more cynical than I ever was. I just think it's outrageous that this country celebrates Columbus Day, makes it a holiday when all Columbus and his men did was slaughter innocent men, women and children for his purpose of colonizing. Why would that not outrage you?
Yeah if you’re smart you retire from the military before your 50 and get a government job and live stress free the rest of your life. Retire again at 60 and get two checks while your buddies are working as Wal-Mart door greeters.
Reason #1 - See major's comment. Reason #2 - Columbus believing in a round, not flat, earth. Pretty radical for the time. Reason #3 - Columbus, understood the value of trinkets and baubles - -"speaking of the natives....…we might form great friendship, for I knew that they were a people who could be more easily freed and converted to our holy faith by love than by force, gave to some of them red caps, and glass beads to put round their necks, and many other things of little value, which gave them great pleasure, and made them so much our friends that it was a marvel to see. Reason #4 He was crazy in a Smurf kind of way. I like people like that. Quote - "Columbus claimed to hear divine voices, lobbied for a new crusade to capture Jerusalem, often wore Franciscan habit, and described his explorations to the "paradise" as part of God's plan which would soon result in the Last Judgement and the end of the world."
This day should be renamed (see below). Indigenous Peoples Day - Monday, October 9th The Birth of Berkeley's Indigenous Peoples Day The idea of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day was not a new one. It was first proclaimed by representatives of Native nations and participants at the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, which took place in 1977 in Geneva, Switzerland. The declaration of this body was applauded and echoed by Native peoples around the globe. Indigenous peoples and human rights/peace/social justice/environmental organizations were beginning to gear up for the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage, 1492-1992, which marked the beginning of the European invasion of the Western Hemisphere and Native resistance to it. While governments were trying to make it into a celebration of colonialism, Native peoples wanted to use the occasion to reveal the historical truths about the invasion and the consequent genocide and environmental destruction, to organize against its continuation today, and to celebrate Indigenous resistance. With representatives from 120 Indian nations from every part of the Americas, the all-Indigenous First Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance, held in Quito, Ecuador in July 1990, saw itself as fulfilling a prophesy that the Native nations would rise again when the eagle of the north joined with the condor of the south. The conference resolved to transform Columbus Day, 1992, "into an occasion to strengthen our process of continental unity and struggle towards our liberation." Barry, my dear, my love, mi corazon: the love affair is over. :x
First Mia, and now you. If I kill myself over this, you will have to live with it for the rest of your life.
Indigenous Peoples Day, Columbus Day, you could have Edward Gein Day, the Post Office would still turn it into a 3-day weekend.
Spit on a dead man. Kipling was right - When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws. 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. I still love you though Sammy. I have a real affinity for dark hair and high cheek bones. :lol:
Australia "celebrates" a similar invasion of native lands (with associated genocide) every January 26th - "Australia Day". Yobbos kit up in green and gold sports wear and drink lots of beer, in memory of the day Captain Arthur Phillip sailed the first convict ship into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) and began shooting the aborigines. He himself was just following the precedent set by Captain James Cook, who had "discovered" Australia some 18 years earlier. He didn't like the way the "savages" were shouting at him and throwing spears when he tried to land on the shores of Botany Bay, and so shot one dead. He then stuck a big British flag in the ground to mark his territory. He notes, in his diary, that it was the only option open to him. Presumably, just fucking off as he was being told to was out of the question. A small plaque now marks the spot, near Kurnell in southern Sydney.
