Posted on 07/12/2020 4:19:41 PM PDT by Twotone
Today happens to be Oscar Hammerstein II's 125th birthday (he was born in New York City on July 12th 1895) and last week the US Supreme Court gave him a helluva present by chopping his song in half:
We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand!
Except you've only got half as much land to feel grand about. When the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, the plain's a lot narrower to go sweepin' down. Thank you, Neil Gorsuch. But as the song and the license plate say: Oklahoma - OK! Oklahoma may be the post-Habsburg Austria of the Lower Forty-Eight, but "Oklahoma!" remains not merely an OK song, but a great song and also a great state song. Quite a few state songs are great songs but they're not great state songs: "Georgia On My Mind" and "My Old Kentucky Home" aren't exactly made for bellowing out en masse at state functions. But "Oklahoma!" is made to bellow. If you get a little lost in the lyrics, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization helpfully provide a lyric guide:
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The ongoing question will be, will that Supreme Court ruling that a big chunk of Oklahoma is still technically an Indian Reservation, be used as legal precedent to deal with contracts and ownership and other areas of the law, besides the criminal case jurisdiction that was decided?
And it was a hit despite not a single musical instrument being used because the instrumentalists were on strike.
People will Say We're in Love--Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin with the Sportsmen Glee Club (1943)
It’s funny. I’ve had a copy of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” in my book collection for years, but had only just read it as this case was decided. Our gov’t reneged on so many promises AND TREATIES that it’s hard to disagree with the finding of the court. But it sure makes a mess of things at this point in time.
“Thank you, Neil Gorsuch.”
No...F you Neil Gosuck. Oh yeah, I’ll trust him with a 2nd Amendment case.
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning--Frank Sinatra (1943)
Oklahoma is in the 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals, Gorsuch’s former court. He just handed them a steaming plate of shiite they’ll be sorting out for years.
My Daughter lives in Claremore, the setting for Oklahoma. Also the hometown of Will Rogers. Also the home town of Patti Page.
If it benefits the left, yes.
The end.
How about the new precedence for other States that incorporated after Indian Reservations were ceded?
This list is for California alone:
Indian Land Cessions in the United StatesThis includes 18 negotiated yet never ratified by Congress.
It looks like the camel's nose type of situation which could even cause reconsideration of original tribal lands, even here in Georgia.
My Mother was born in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, now since the Supremes have had their say, part of the Choctaw Reservation. I was born in Gadsden, Alabama in 1953 the year "Oklahoma!" was made the State song.
Oh, by the way, Gadsden is right inside the border of the old ancestral lands of the Cherokee tribe. I hope they won't ever require me to return there to my place of my birth to be taxed like Mary and Joseph did.
And Patti Page too. She was my Dad's favorite singer above all.
So, my Mom being born on the OK Rez, makes me Indian, right?
Reparations!
Send me my Reparations!
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