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freak80
2013 Oct 4, 6:24am
Yeah, but the "occupation" of the native Americans was more like genocide, no? Granted, much of it was unintentional (smallpox, etc).
freak80 said: But did the natives want to assimilate into an agricultural & industrial society? Their whole way of life and culture was so radically different it would have been hard for them to assimilate.
Difficult, but not impossible. Here's how Robert Busko put it when reviewing "Empire of the Summer Moon" by S.C. Gwynne"
Quanah perhaps killed more Americans than any other Native-American. However, the closing years of his life, after he fought the good fight, he raised cattle, ran for the school board and attended the 1905 inauguration of Teddy Roosevelt as a personal guest of the President. Astounding!
I cannot recommend the book "Empire of the Summer Moon" enough. Its an account of rise of the Comanches and the final confrontation between the US and the last great power on Southern Plains. Did I mention that Quanah, one of the leaders of the Quahadi band of Comanches, was the son of a white woman, Cynthia Parker (who had been captured as a girl in a raid) and Peta Nocona, a war chief of the Comanches. This book is hard to put down. Be forewarned that many of the passages read like something from AFs nightmares.
the laws are very explicit.. an illegal alien in the US is still a Citizen/Resident of his/her original home nation and therefore legally taxed by their own country.
Ok now you've got you 6th opportunity to show us the very explicit law you keep talking about. Surely you can come up with the statute since it's something you claim to know so much about. What's holding this up? Surely you can come up with SOMETHING other than it's true because I want it to be true. Got to love the right wingnuts faith in the gospel of rush.
I'm beginning to suspect that you ignorance on this issue is so overwhelming that you honestly don't know that a large portion of illegals work with a phony ss # and pay taxes with no hope of refund if they overpay and pay ss with no hope of collecting. anything back ever.
freak80
2013 Oct 4, 2:42pm
Calvinism probably didn't help. They probably considered the natives to be predestined by God for eternal damnation.
"Kill the reprobate heathens!"
Bigsby
2013 Oct 4, 6:01pm
That too was incredibly predictable. But thanks for demonstrating my point.
Edit: Ah, I see that you felt the need to remove your original post of your oh-so-predictable 9-11 image.
Bigsby
2013 Oct 5, 2:17am
you aren't actually a professor
Are you really big?
No, I'm Bigsby. And there's no need to be curious about my size. I'm clearly more than man enough for you.
Bigsby
2013 Oct 5, 2:22am
No, I'm Bigsby.
And I am the professor!
Not when you first joined, you weren't. Your attempt at giving yourself increased gravitas has fallen rather flat. But then again any attempt at bolstering the veracity of 9-11 cobblers is likely to have that effect.
Bigsby
2013 Oct 5, 2:28am
Not when you first joined, you weren't.
Now I remember! You are the one that convinced me to change my personas' name!
I can't recall you ever saying anything original or of substance on this board.
Anything original? What is that supposed to mean? All you ever do is post other people's shite about 9-11. How 'original' is that?
And I didn't convince you. Your own bloated ego led you to misname yourself.
marcus
2013 Oct 5, 3:24am
Seems to me that the spanish were more humble and able to see the natives as humans that were worthy of some respect.
Really?
The conquistadors saw the natives as slaves to be exploited,
Wow, that's unusual.
Spanish priests who saw them as heathens needing saving, to toil on the missions.
Again. I'm shocked.
So, the conquistatadors and the Priests. Is that everyone ?
Were they the ones who were fucking native women and having families with them? (excuse my language).
Ever noticed that we quite often do. And that I live in Kuwait, so for the
most part there's a slight time difference. But hey, as you aren't actually a
professor, you probably have difficulty understanding that.
Ya ever hear of Alghanim Industries?
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Ted Cruz is a Republican senator for the state of Texas. Cruz was born on December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Canada. Yes, Canada. That's not Ammerika to you inbred rednecks. However, just like Barry Barrack Hussein Obama -- aka secret Muslim man -- Cruz's mother is an American citizen. Unlike Obama, Cruz was born in one of 'dem foreign countries. But let's say for sake of delusional argument that Obama was not born in Hawaii, but rather Kenya, like the Republican nuts claim.
The Republicans have bitch and moaned that Obama is not a legitimate president because in order to be a "natural born citizen", your momma has to birth your ass on American soil. It's not sufficient to be born to American citizens.
Well, now that the Republicans want Ted Cruz to be president, they are faced with another undeniable hypocrisy. There is no logical way to conclude that Ted Cruz can legitimately be president but Obama is not legitimately eligible to be president. You simply cannot resolve this direct contradiction.
So, what does a Republican representative supposed to do when confronted by this contradiction? He has to attempt to deceive people by implying that Ted Cruz is a legitimate candidate for president but Obama wasn't even though the situation is exactly the same (or rather is in the hypothetical that Obama was born in Kenya). Of course, such deception is so blatant and ridiculous it just makes Republicans look like fools. More still, it makes people who vote for Republicans look like fools.
Here's the entire spectacle. I almost feel sorry for the Republican. …almost.
http://www.jqq3MXBeyZE
The fact that Republicans actually think they can hold such blatantly contradicting and hypocritical positions and that the public is so stupid that they will buy that crap is exactly why the Republicans are batshit crazy.
P.S.
That Republican looks like the Blob.
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