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Gregtonn
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 02:45 pm: | 
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"Don't forget we started by raping and pillaging the natives. I always loved how they leave that out of history."
As they did to those who occupied the land before them. Funny how that gets left out too.
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Sifo
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 05:06 pm: |
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It was us, and it will always be us. Those who oppose shall perish.
The Bison, the Bald Eagle, the Grizzly Bear and the Native American, all destroyed by OUR hands.
Our... meaning... Europeans? |
Sifo
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 05:09 pm: |
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The Bald Eagle was nearly wiped out because they taste like Spotted owl
Mmmmmmm... Bison Bald Eagle wings Wednesdays at Hooters! |
Petereid
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 05:28 pm: |
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Not to say that the US is squeaky clean on that, but wasn't it pretty much England, France and Spain that sailed across the ocean to lay claim to the lands occupied by the American Indians.
Is it not those same English, French and Spanish who hung around, raised families and became the "original Americans"? It's all part of OUR heritage. Being Canadian we also screwed over the Natives that were here before us......just as every other culture has done when they "discovered" a new land. I could never understand how you could get credit for discovering a place people already lived at. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 05:41 pm: |
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I wonder how it would have worked out if the American Indians had technology superior to the Europeans. I think there might just be a lot of red skinned folks living in Europe right now. |
Tom_b
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 06:16 pm: |
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Not just the US and Canada. But Mexico, most of South America. Most of the continent of Africa, The south pacific islands, indochina. These were all places that the europeans "discovered" and then squashed the natives. This is not just an "American" thing. That is just the way the world was back then |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 09:23 pm: |
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"That is just the way the world was back then"
Ding ding ding ding ding! Winner!
Look at the nearly continuous conquest (by one side or another) of the entire Eurasian continent over the last 2000 years. ...and the lines on the map move from side to side. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 09:32 pm: |
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"That is just the way the world was back then"
Ding ding ding ding ding! Winner!
Of course, always remember that history repeats itself. |
Tom_b
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 11:32 pm: |
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"Of course, always remember that history repeats itself" Sure does. remember that according to geologists the earth tilts on axis every 25,000 years causing major changes in the climates and overall makeup of the earth. The earth is due for the next one in about 13,000 years. Mankind wasn't for sure here for the last one, probably won't be here for the next one. I know i won't and nobody here will be either. |
Aptbldr
| | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 08:18 am: |
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Ask a Neanderthal about our invasive species! |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 08:47 am: |
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We do so mock Obama for his joke about the 57 states. Watch the video, it's obviously a joke, and, for a politician, not a bad one. The sad part is his crowd mostly didn't get it, and THAT should be the funny part. Obama certainly knows we only have 50 states, a few protectorates, and are owned by China.
The Muslim nation bit, was pure pandering. As many politicians do, whatever crowd you are bull sh&ting, is the crowd you praise. Put him in a hall with the Guards of Auschwitz reunion, and he'll make a BBQ joke.
Don't forget the passenger Pigeon and the Mammoth. Both gone because they were good eatin!
We are a land stolen from those who could not defend it, and conquered by force, war and slaughter. And then the Europeans came.
As a nation, we are the wretched refuse, the people who had the balls to seek new lands, the vision to try and improve, the fear that they would be executed at home, and the itch that made us leave hell on earth in the slums and rural countryside to go to that land of streets paved in Gold, and the freedom to worship God as we saw fit. ( we then found that the paving was mostly Horse manure, and which church you went to made a status difference...but not so much in the 20th+ century. )
The best, the brightest, and the misfits of both that didn't make it big back on the old land, or wanted more that their rulers decreed fit for them.
Consider how screwed up Europe would be if all our nutball ancestors hadn't left and come here. |
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