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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:37 PM Original message |
Today, I was Ridiculed. Rant Rant Rant |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. we celebrate columbus day because no other holiday in oct. and |
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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yeah, screw all that jazz |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. but no howlin at the moon |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Are you still in HS? |
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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. No, I'm in college about to finish up B.S. in Meteorology |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Right on...Congrats for getting your degree in Meteorology |
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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. You couldn't be more right.... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Could have "done" without Columbus |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. Didn't you read your American History textbooks in school? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. in Jesus name, Amen nt |
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niallmac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. I can't imagine too many native Americans disagreeing with you. |
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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Leif was the first thing off my tongue |
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niallmac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Leif, Asiatic migration other? The question of who the first |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 04:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
38. Harmony? |
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niallmac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Well yeah but the bloodshed didn't screw up the Salmon runs. |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. It would make more sense to celebrate "Amerigo Vespucci Day" nt |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. We even donated a statue to Reykjavik so the Icelanders could |
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Bombero1956 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. ask the Tainos |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Not much has changed in 500 years |
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cigsandcoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. If this is the kind of attitude you're taking from history class. |
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true_notes (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I'm lucky to live here. |
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cigsandcoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It's all things. Anything you might want to pursue. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. One can feel lucky |
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cigsandcoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. No nation lacks blood or misdeeds. Not a single one. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 05:30 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. the underlying principle of this nation |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 06:53 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. You're wrong |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 04:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Huge oversight on my part, yes. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 04:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
37. Christopher Columbus was a murderous pirate. |
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ourbluenation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. We call it Indiginous People Day. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. Some historical perspective on Cristobal Colon... |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
21. Today was a holiday? |
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seriousstan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
25. If you are a college student perhaps you should study more. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
26. Hey - it's not Columbus Day - it's Crowleymas! |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. Just try saying that in the state capital of Ohio. |
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azndndude (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
28. Here on the Navajo Nation we do not celebrate Columbus day |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 04:48 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. That's excellent! |
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radfringe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
29. regarding St. Patrick's day |
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michael_1166 (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
30. What's wrong with being unpatriotic? |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
32. Silly you for not realizing Columbus was a proud American. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
33. I call it Genocide Day, and refuse to acknowledge it |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
41. um, in my grammar school (PS 185) |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
42. In berkeley it's called Indigenous People's day |
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