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2014-10-13 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 I'm OK with Igneous People's Day, as long as we celebrate Sedimentary People's Day and Metamorphic People's Day too. It's only fair.

Posted by SteveS 2014-10-13 02:13|| 2014-10-13 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 C'mon Rainier...erupt!

Posted by Frank G 2014-10-13 09:34|| 2014-10-13 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Columbus was not a very nice guy by today's standards. Really, not even by 15th century standards. But nice guys seldom try high risk ventures like his, and even more seldom (if ever) succeed.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-10-13 10:40|| 2014-10-13 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe the rest of us should celebrate "Hoping Seattle Falls off the West Coast Day." April Fool's Day is already taken.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-13 10:45|| 2014-10-13 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I have just unanimously voted to rename Seattle Sh*theadville. Hopefully this will recognized the rich history of people who have inhabited the area for hundreds of years.

Posted by regular joe 2014-10-13 11:00|| 2014-10-13 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Lewis and Clark thought the local indians (Chinooks) that inhabited the colombia river area all the way to puget sound were pigs then too

Posted by 746 2014-10-13 14:49|| 2014-10-13 14:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey! Not everyone in Seattle is a slithering sh*thead democrat like the good mayor and City Council.

But most are.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-13 15:05|| 2014-10-13 15:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Columbus was not a very nice guy by today's standards. Really, not even by 15th century standards.

Those were not nice times in Europe; the reconquest of Spain, muslim piracy/slaving, Ottoman expansion, and the Christian schism building into the Protestant Revolution. All the nice people were enslaved or killed.

Champlain notes how much fun some natives had in dispatching their war captives, and he was up in what we would consider towards civilized behavior. There were not nice things going on with the Natives among Natives either. In fact they then could probably not conceive what we consider nice or we understand the absolute fatalism of that era.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-13 15:54|| 2014-10-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#9 And to be fair, some good things do come out of Seattle; just ask any Oklahoma Thunder fan.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-13 15:55|| 2014-10-13 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 We all should be grateful for the things that the stone age civilizations brought to the world on its opening in 1492. Oh wait, 'human progress' would only occur through the outside world's civs.

Do I detect in the usual Left's driven self hatred of Western Civ a deep desire to return the world back to that stone age? Exempting themselves, the ruling caste, of course.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-13 16:05|| 2014-10-13 16:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Odd... When the Native Americans of Washington State wanted to hunt whales since that was their 'tradition' and they chased it all the way up to the U.N. When they got permissions and starting hunting they did it using modern gas-powered boats, large caliber ~~cannons~~ guns, radar, and all the advantages of an industrialized nation.

No dugout canoes, spears and, everybody lining up to haul the carcass onto the beach for them.

I guess traditional ways only go so far.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-13 16:52|| 2014-10-13 16:52|| Front Page Top

#12 How about we celebrate "Right Of Return Day"?

Posted by Snavise Cholurt4299 2014-10-13 18:05|| 2014-10-13 18:05|| Front Page Top

#13 If you're around Boston on Thanksgiving, head on down to Plymouth for the National Day of Mourning Parade. Every couple of years some of the "indigenous" peoples get a little too much into the firewater and gets a nice little riot going with the Plymouth PD.

Posted by tu3031 2014-10-13 22:23|| 2014-10-13 22:23|| Front Page Top

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