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15 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Re... · 1 reply · -1 points

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

15 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Re... · 1 reply · 0 points

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.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

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 ...

15 years ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: In... · 1 reply · +11 points

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."

15 years ago @ Big Government - Which Way Now, America? · 0 replies · +5 points

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

15 years ago @ Big Government - Dem Pollster: Obama Ne... · 0 replies · +4 points

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!

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - NPR Fired Juan William... · 0 replies · +5 points

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

15 years ago @ Big Peace - American To Be Caned i... · 0 replies · +4 points

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

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Screw Free Speech, NPR... · 0 replies · +3 points

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 !

15 years ago @ Big Government - NAACP’s Attack on th... · 0 replies · +3 points

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 ...

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