betcha wouldn'ta been a fan of virginia's old lee-jackson-king holiday then either!
columbus day's about whatever you want it to be 8-ball - to me, it seems a fine excuse to have a day off and recollect that the dudes who built the country did so on the bones of the people who lived here first - shit, i think dave mathews did a song 'bout it n' everything!
Not too many Americans in the 15th century.
10-100 million americans at the time he arrived, according to the babbling horde of historians that have attempted to augor a number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
hard to find any group of meat-puppets in the 15th century taht wasn't abusing the fuck out of everybody, including themselves - the spanish, in the example of columbus, were hardly singling out americans for abuse, just ask monty python!
my fav hl mencken quote:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
the improvemetns already made are probably worth the 5 bucks already - i prefer the wild west however
banning giant rv's n generators on the other hand...
no thanks - poverty has compelled me to forego decent beer for pabst, and i can shit in a field for free and be perfectly happy reckon i can do that just outside the gate though, as has been said...
So in 500 years it will be ok to celebrate Hitler?
hitler was already considered a villian by the vast majority of the world at the time of his death
a silly non-issue, mostly - the new and old worlds inevitably were going to collide - the collision was inevitably going to go badly for the americans - as the holiday stands, it's a fine opportunity for a history teacher to call attention to both sides - the columbian exchange wasn't all bad, at least some eye-talians caught themselves the clap as a result of it
we should get out kids out there 2gether dave! my daughter caught the bug on a blasted indoor gym and i need to get herself outside b4 she goes over to the darkside reckon i should start by getting a harness...
the past couple days actually - do believe dave and i just missed each other's solo trips up the still sliiiiightly wet corner on monday
who wants to climb w/ me this weekend?!?
that's is what the mexican situation appears to validate
wonder how the numbers work out for eldiente's plan? the revolving door thing for politicians is epic bullshit for certain, i can't believe that crap is legal.