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2015-01-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Caution! 'American Sniper' Is a Dangerous Movie

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Posted by badanov 2015-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Painting and Potting in Santa Fe.
I bet the privileged white males of past wars are the ones that pay his bills.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-27 00:24|| 2015-01-27 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 My wife is 'brown native'. Except she proudly uses the name Cherokee. Her father served a career in the Navy. Apparently the Cochiti Pueblo are not a warrior tribe.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-01-27 00:51|| 2015-01-27 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Weh weh weh

Another one of the critical theory based articles written by some self important snot with a degree in ethnic studies.

I almost puked reading this piece of crap.

Posted by Mystic 2015-01-27 00:57|| 2015-01-27 00:57|| Front Page Top

#4 He named his sons "Rain" and "River"?

Really?

I bet his sons really appreciate that.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-01-27 01:09|| 2015-01-27 01:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Dartmouth

"Old legends of tribe, me recitum!
Blood brother Chief Bell, well, he writum!
All red man like brother;
All vote Great Red Mother --
Whole Ivy League Nation unitum!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-01-27 02:25|| 2015-01-27 02:25|| Front Page Top

#6 *happy sigh*

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-27 04:32|| 2015-01-27 04:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Who were the Comanches, Alex?

Posted by no mo uro 2015-01-27 04:37|| 2015-01-27 04:37|| Front Page Top

#8 This non-sense about Cochiti reminds me about that _tue_ story around New Zealand. There was an island in the Pacific whre after a civil war its natives decide to no longer use arms. No problem. It was an island.

Then came Christain missionaries. No problema again. It was just missionaries.

But some of the missionaries were trnasferred to what we today neme New-Zealand but at that time was Maori territory. But some missionary in a sermon set that pacifist tribe as an example for the bellicose Maories. The Maories were very interested so they asked where was that island and... wiped out that pacifist tribe. Pacifism is nice when bad guys don't know about you otheriwe it is a recipe fpor extermination.

Now how long a pacifist Cochiti nation surrounded by Cheyennes, Apaches, Sioux (in the decades before Little Big Hornj these had wiped out or displaced several other tribes) would have survived? Or did the Cochiti relyy on the protection of gthe US Army?

Posted by JFM 2015-01-27 04:49|| 2015-01-27 04:49|| Front Page Top

I don't recall any Hollywood uproar over this one.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-27 05:13|| 2015-01-27 05:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I love how he forgot all the murder, rapes, and kidnappings his ancestors committed.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-01-27 06:33|| 2015-01-27 06:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Wonder why the Crow were scouts for the US Army?
Something about the Sioux kicking them out of their ancestral hunting grounds. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The Native American aboriginals were just as territorial and hierarchical as any other human group. The difference between them and the Euros was better technology (to include the iron age) and social organization. Just ask the Euros who came in contact with the Huns or Mongols about better organization and technology.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-27 08:35|| 2015-01-27 08:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Jeebus, this guy [Romero] is an unhinged leftard wingnut. How about a thank you to guys like Chris Kyle?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-27 10:14|| 2015-01-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#13 written by some self important snot with a degree in ethnic studies.

They grant you degrees for mathless crap like this?

Posted by JFM 2015-01-27 11:25|| 2015-01-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Shouldn't have brought bows and arrows on grass feed horses to a gun fight with the pale faced, long knives people who rode grain fed horses. Outnumbered by the thousands Custer and his dismounts stood their ground to the end, while your people packed up and ran as soon as the fight was over.

In war at times Hope is more important than winning every battle. If a nation has hope and resolve and yet loose battles, eventually a nation will prevail if they show resolve. Savages and Barbarians can't destroy Hope.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-27 13:37|| 2015-01-27 13:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Now how long a pacifist aboriginal nation surrounded by warlike aborigines would have survived?
Dead tribes tell us no tales, other than the potsherds, arrowheads and bone fragments containing their DNA left for the anthropologists to analyze.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-27 14:37|| 2015-01-27 14:37|| Front Page Top

#16 JFM, yes, they do. There are lots of XYZ "Studies" departments at universities here in the States. Graduates of these programs generally look down on troglodytes like me who got a STEM degree.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-27 14:51|| 2015-01-27 14:51|| Front Page Top

#17 "swinging dick meat eaters" could be misunderstood, too.

Posted by Grunter 2015-01-27 15:33|| 2015-01-27 15:33|| Front Page Top

#18 I don't know. We had the same stories around "300" and I've hated it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-27 15:34|| 2015-01-27 15:34|| Front Page Top

#19 Sorry, Mateo. But those fuckin' savages flew hijacked passenger airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and when Chris Kyle saw it on TV he kinda went off, you know?

Now, some of you Rantburgers may correct me but I believe the US military is probably the most racially diverse organization in the world. Just because it's not healthy to mess with them doesn't mean they're racist.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-27 17:12|| 2015-01-27 17:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Heh, sounds like sonny boy was whooping up the awesomeness of the movie and daddy pants had to re-explain why he was taken to the movie.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-27 18:02|| 2015-01-27 18:02|| Front Page Top

#21 One most sincerely hopes Mr. Romero paints and pots better than he writes.

Judge.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2015-01-27 18:54|| 2015-01-27 18:54|| Front Page Top

#22 Judge.

"Somewhat interesting," says Mr. Wife, who studied art as well as chemistry when he was a pre-med student. By the time I met him he'd moved to engineering, which combined the best of both. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-27 19:32|| 2015-01-27 19:32|| Front Page Top

#23 I like the composition, would be interesting to see the texture.

So I'd say he paints better than he writes.

Not tough when he points is finger at condencending judgemental language 'used to dehumanize', then goes on to do it himself a half dozen+ times.

Wiki: Born in Berkeley, 'European American' mother, I think he has identity issues coupled with mommy issues; I hope it takes it out on his canvas and not his family, though brow beating his son about the movie he just took him to...

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-27 20:45|| 2015-01-27 20:45|| Front Page Top

#24 Mom was Euro-American. I can sense the Obama-style self-hate. Youtube of "Half-Breed" by Cher is available, but I can't bring myself to listening to her screech

Posted by Frank G 2015-01-27 21:07|| 2015-01-27 21:07|| Front Page Top

#25 Lefty bullshit from the first line.

Posted by tu3031 2015-01-27 21:48|| 2015-01-27 21:48|| Front Page Top

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