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Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Reservation Edition

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:01:40 +0000

TexasStomp: It is impossible to change the past. Nor should we ever feel guilt over the actions of others. Why, then, remember these things? Here's one answer: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~~ George Santayana

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Reservation Edition

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:58:41 +0000

retire05: The way the Cherokee were treated by Andrew Jackson and other members of the Federal Government was a shameful episode in U.S. history. However, it had nothing to do with the system of Indian reservations. The Treaty of New Echota was signed on December 29, 1835: this treaty was the "legal" basis for the forcible removal (commonly referred to as the 'Trail of Tears') of the Cherokee Nation from their home lands in northwestern Georgia. The system of Indian reservations was initiated by the Indian Appropriations Act, passed by Congress in 1851, which authorized the creation of Indian reservations in modern day Oklahoma. Since the subject of this thread was the reservations, this distinction is relevant.

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: Reservation Edition

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:12:14 +0000

The system of Indian Reservations appears to have originally been an attempt to protect Native Americans from the encroachments of the white settlers who were flooding into the American West. Indians were increasingly losing their home territories (along with the valuable resources of those areas), and constant low-level frictions with the settlers would from time to time escalate into full-blown Indian Wars, in which the native populations were being exterminated. President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration pursued a stated “Peace Policy” in an attempt to resolve these conflicts, with mixed results; for one thing, a number of the Indian tribes vigorously resisted the paternalistic interventions of the federal government. Just one more example of the accomplishments of the Good Intentions Paving Company ...

Big Government : Monday Open Thread: India Edition

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:44:52 +0000

Should be good for a new T-shirt, at least -- "Obama blew millions on a trip to Mumbai and all I got was this lousy coconut."

Big Government : Which Way Now, America?

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 21:00:31 +0000

No, it's Mikatollah's brain-damaged twin. "Sailor" needs to lay off the "sea food" - obvious case of mercury poisoning.

Big Government : Dem Pollster: Obama Needs Another Oklahoma City Bombing to Reconnect

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 20:17:45 +0000

Try to imagine what would happen if a prominent conservative suggested that another terror attack on the U.S. by Islamic radicals would improve the public approval ratings of Republicans and their foreign policy proposals. Imagine how the Democrats would react. Imagine how the MSM would react. Imagine how Mark Penn would react!

Big Hollywood : NPR Fired Juan Williams For Being Interesting

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:47:06 +0000

I knew Juan Williams was an upstanding guy when Clarence Thomas mentioned in his autobiography how much he respected him as a reporter, even though he didn't agree with any of his political ideas. ~ The_Von Thomas himself described perfectly what is being done to Juan Williams : “And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee ... , rather than hung from a tree.” ~~ Clarence Thomas

Big Peace : American To Be Caned in Singapore for Overstaying Visa

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:02:25 +0000

Where is Gloria Allred when her services are so obviously needed in this situation ?

Big Journalism : Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Muslim Remarks

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:24:24 +0000

Oh No ! Nerdy People's Radio is offended by the brutish, glowering, hate-filled Black Man ! Juan should immediately complain to Ben Jealous and demand that the NAACP investigate NPR's blatant racism !

Big Government : NAACP’s Attack on the Tea Party Movement Is A Betrayal of Its Mission to Uplift Black America

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:52:42 +0000

In November 2008, Barack Obama received 96 % of the black vote. To illustrate how lopsided this is, consider the following statement by David Paul Kuhn of Politico : A stunning 54 percent of young white voters supported Obama, compared with 44 percent who went for McCain, the senator from Arizona. If 54% is a “stunning” percentage, what adjective do we use to describe 96% ? Then again, other Democrats routinely receive support from black voters that exceeds 90 %, so perhaps Obama wasn’t so extraordinary after all. And as a reward for their loyalty, what do blacks get from their chosen leaders ? Forty-nine percent teen unemployment ? ! ? Time to start looking for a New Deal, if you ask me ...

Big Government : Illinois Soldiers Wait for Ballots. Prisoners Get Hand Delivery.

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:06:17 +0000

The Dems know where their most reliable supporters are. But the Illinois voters who get the best deal are - - the Dead! The deceased don't just get a hand-delivered ballot , they get a personal assistant from Acorn to fill it out for them!

Big Peace : Tolerance for the Intolerant

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:33:00 +0000

Motto of the Islamists: "Support our peaceful, moderate religion or we will behead you !" /kinda tough to argue with that ---

Big Government : Voters Are Fed Up with Washington

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 22:05:27 +0000

"Throw the Bums Out !" has a nice ring to it. ... but I think I woulda picked a different term than "Bums" ...

Big Peace : German 'Conservative' Ultimatum: Disinvite Geert Wilders or Lose Post

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:58:03 +0000

“O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” -- Q’uran, Surah 5:51 In less than a century, the Germans have gone from not believing what Hitler said in Mein Kampf to not believing what Mohammad says in the Q'uran. I guess that's how Progressives define Progress!

Big Government : Disgusting! NAACP Leader Ben Jealous Labels Tea Party 'White Supremist Group'

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:39:35 +0000

Clearly, Ben Jealous has been taking logic lessons from Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.

Big Government : The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:23:07 +0000

Tell you what, Order66. Let me pose a hypothetical question to you. Suppose things were reversed. Suppose that the Republican Party had been founded by people who supported the institution of slavery, all the way back in the time of our Founding. Suppose that members of the Republican party had been the ones who defended the Peculiar Institution for the next sixty years, and tried as hard as they could to expand it to new areas of the country. Suppose that some Republicans were ready to tear the Union apart, and fight a bloody, four-year civil war, in order to protect slavery from those who opposed it. And so on ... and on ... Take the whole history of our country and suppose that the roles of the Republican Party and the Democrat party were reversed. Do you think people today would say, “Oh, that’s all just ancient history! What relevance could it possibly have now?” And what do you suppose that Ben Jealous would have to say about it?

ScrappleFace : NASA to Put Muslim on Moon Using Muslim Technology

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:09:23 +0000

Just to make myself clear, that ‘/s’ there is what some of us call a ‘sarc tag’. We use them to make it absolutely clear to readers that what we’ve just been saying is not necessarily meant to be taken as completely serious. Often, we don’t bother to mark our posts that way when we think it’s pretty obvious that we’re being sarcastic. It’s a bit like a joke that you have to explain. At the end of the day, you either get the joke, or you don’t. An explanation may make the joke easier to understand, but you probably still won’t think that it’s funny.

ScrappleFace : NASA to Put Muslim on Moon Using Muslim Technology

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:07:29 +0000

Perhaps you have a point. I guess it would be a lot to ask, if we expected the Muslims to transition from the seventh century to the twenty-first century in one enormous leap. Still, I wasn’t suggesting that they change every aspect of their culture – just their legal penalties for “adultery” (as well as their standards of “proof” for that offense – I’m not sure a “confession” obtained by the infliction of 99 lashes is sufficiently credible evidence to justify a death penalty). I’m not demanding that they abandon capital pushment, as the Europeans have – I am merely saying that I think death by stoning is, well – a medieval punishment. If the twenty-first century is a trek too far, I won’t criticize if they need to take a rest stop after they get to the fifteenth century. /s

ScrappleFace : NASA to Put Muslim on Moon Using Muslim Technology

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:04:42 +0000

In addition to consulting a dictionary, I’d recommend a quick visit to Wikipedia; they have an entry there on the topic of Death By Stoning. Information one should definitely have before forming an opinion about just who is being maleficent in this situation.

ScrappleFace : NASA to Put Muslim on Moon Using Muslim Technology

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:03:23 +0000

In fact, I was responding to Scott’s post. Not exactly the same as the “interview”.