"Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me."
October 09, 2017, 11:53 AM
erj_pilot
Oh! You mean "Indigenous People's Day"......
Oh...and thanks!!
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
October 09, 2017, 03:18 PM
x0225095
Thanks. You too.
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October 09, 2017, 03:19 PM
fwbulldog
I'd love to see what the Austin city council thinks of the history of the some of the "indigenous people". Some quite horrific slavery, war, and conquest in their pasts. Natives raided other natives and sold the conquered as slaves.
But you go right ahead with your narrative, Austin. White people are bad, we get it. GFY.
_________________________ You do NOT have the right to never be offended.
October 09, 2017, 03:26 PM
BamaJeepster
I love Trump's statement on COLUMBUS DAY. None of the nonsensical kowtowing to butthurt PC liberals in this statement:
Five hundred and twenty-five years ago, Christopher Columbus completed an ambitious and daring voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The voyage was a remarkable and then-unparalleled feat that helped launch the age of exploration and discovery. The permanent arrival of Europeans to the Americas was a transformative event that undeniably and fundamentally changed the course of human history and set the stage for the development of our great Nation. Therefore, on Columbus Day, we honor the skilled navigator and man of faith, whose courageous feat brought together continents and has inspired countless others to pursue their dreams and convictions -- even in the face of extreme doubt and tremendous adversity.
More than five centuries after his initial voyage, we remember the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" for building the critical first link in the strong and enduring bond between the United States and Europe. While Isabella I and Ferdinand II of Spain sponsored his historic voyage, Columbus was a native of the City of Genoa, in present day Italy, and represents the rich history of important Italian American contributions to our great Nation. There can be no doubt that American culture, business, and civic life would all be much less vibrant in the absence of the Italian American community. We also take this opportunity to reaffirm our close ties to Columbus's country of birth, Italy. Italy is a strong ally and a valued partner in promoting peace and promoting prosperity around the world.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as "Columbus Day."
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 9, 2017, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
October 09, 2017, 03:30 PM
flashguy
Sorry. For me "Columbus Day" is and always will be 12 October. I have never supported moving all the fixed-date holidays/celebrations around so that they fall on a Monday.
And as for "Indigenous People's Day"--the Indians and idiots who idolize them can just get over it.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
October 09, 2017, 03:35 PM
darkest2000
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy: Sorry. For me "Columbus Day" is and always will be 12 October. I have never supported moving all the fixed-date holidays/celebrations around so that they fall on a Monday.
Well aren't you a party pooper. Who would turn down a long weekend (not that Columbus day is considered a thing anymore around here, except at the USPS).
October 09, 2017, 03:42 PM
feersum dreadnaught
another reason to smile.
50 Years Ago Today, Che Guevara, Executioner, Executed in Bolivia
Che Guevara played revolutionary until the people treated him as one. Fifty years ago today, Bolivians executed the Argentine as though some rich interloper. They understood him better than he understood himself.
Che Guevara grew up the eldest son of a privileged Argentine family. He excelled at chess, read from his family’s 3,000-volume library, and competed in rugby, golf, and other sports. After years of study, he became a medical doctor in 1953. The man who once healed people of their bodily maladies then turned to healing them of their ideological defects. He did this with the gun as his surgical instrument as a Hessian revolutionary in Cuba.
“In the resistance, Guevara soon became commander of a detachment,” The Black Book of Communism reports, “quickly gaining a reputation for ruthlessness: a child in his guerilla unit who had stolen a little food was immediately shot without trial.” Once in power, Guevara started the island nation’s first “corrective work camp,” presided over mass, summary executions, and established “voluntary” labor on Sundays.
Though the bearded, bereted motorcyclist wins a romantic portrayal in history, he lived as a joyless ideologue. He named a son after Lenin and regarded Marxism as a scientific truth on par with Newtonian physics. He called marathon meetings that started after midnight. He did not tolerate disagreement. He remarked, “I can’t be the friend of anyone who doesn’t share my ideas.” Even Regis Debray described him as “an authoritarian through and through.”
The Bolivians did not line up to follow such a man as he had expected when he traveled there in 1966 to overthrow the government. Guevara ultimately reflected in his diary that “the peasants do not give us any help, and they are turning into informers.”
If Guevara hoped to realize the start of “two, three, many Vietnams” in Bolivia, events overruled his words.
“While Guevara was known around the world, his fame did little to endear him to Bolivia’s peasants,” Nicholas Casey writes in the New York Times. “And the country had already undergone a revolution the decade before, instituting universal suffrage, land reform and expanded education. During Guevara’s time fighting in Bolivia, not a single peasant was documented to have joined him.”
On October 8, 1967, the locals captured the wounded, foreign troublemaker in a mountain village of about 100 people. “Don’t shoot! I am Che Guevara,” he announced in do-you-know-who-I-am fashion, “and I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” But the locals disagreed.
The Bolivians took him to a classroom, where Guevara spat on soldiers and lectured a teacher about how using such a dilapidated schoolhouse to instruct children represented a backward, “anti-pedagogical” mentality. Guevara himself, dirty, wounded, and tired, himself looked dilapidated after almost a year in Bolivia.
After the nation’s president gave the go-ahead, an enlisted man, chugging beers celebrating the previous day’s victory, volunteered to execute the wealthier, better-educated executioner in an event not unlike Robespierre on the guillotine. He shot Guevara nine times in a classroom, imparting the hard lesson that when you presume to speak for someone else expect that someone to offer a loud rebuttal on his own behalf.
Originally posted by flashguy: Sorry. For me "Columbus Day" is and always will be 12 October. I have never supported moving all the fixed-date holidays/celebrations around so that they fall on a Monday.
Well aren't you a party pooper. Who would turn down a long weekend (not that Columbus day is considered a thing anymore around here, except at the USPS).
You are not the first one to call me that (or worse). Guess what? I really don't care.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
October 09, 2017, 05:47 PM
egregore
Where's my three-day weekend? I don't get one. Only banks, schools and government employees get it.
October 09, 2017, 06:19 PM
roberth
Happy Columbus Day!!
October 09, 2017, 06:28 PM
Strambo
quote:
Trump's Statement About Columbus Day Makes No Mention of Native Americans
Well...they didn't discover themselves.
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik
Trump's Statement About Columbus Day Makes No Mention of Native Americans
Well...they didn't discover themselves.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
October 09, 2017, 09:27 PM
StorminNormin
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot: Oh! You mean "Indigenous People's Day"......
Oh...and thanks!!
As soon as I saw the thread title I thought exactly what you wrote. Thanks Austin.
