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Goodbye, Columbus: Seattle commission wants name stricken from holiday
http://blog.seattlepi.com ^ | August 29, 2014 | Joel Connelly

Posted on 09/01/2014 10:00:44 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

Edited on 09/01/2014 10:05:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: NKP_Vet

So how did they think Seattle eventually came to be?

The place wasn’t built by Indians.


21 posted on 09/01/2014 10:47:03 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Calvin Locke

And let’s not forget about William Clark. Rumor has it he had a thing for pretty little Indian girls. So if you ever see a red headed Indian down on the Washington/Oregon coast you’ll know the real reason Lewis and Clark came west. So how long will it be before Clark County, Washington is renamed?


22 posted on 09/01/2014 10:47:08 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: wac3rd

Senator Jesse Helms refused to sign the national holiday bill for the wife-beating, plagerizing communist Micheal (real name) King. He said he was a communist and if he had nothing to hide why did the FBI seal his records until 2017. I think Helms said he thought Reagan was suffering from memory problems when he approved the holiday. Long live the memory of the great Jesse Helms, the greatest senator in US history.


23 posted on 09/01/2014 10:53:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: ConservingFreedom
And the accomplishments to be celebrated are ...?

21 recipes for eating dog.

24 posted on 09/01/2014 10:58:38 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

VD. Caught by Columbus’ men, brought back to Europe. Indians did share what they had.


25 posted on 09/01/2014 11:06:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: TigersEye

Ditto from me.


26 posted on 09/01/2014 11:10:33 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: wac3rd

2027 is the date King’s records are sealed for.


27 posted on 09/01/2014 11:11:36 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: miss marmelstein
Columbus Day has become a celebration of Italian-American culture...

Right you are: That's why I agree with these bozos, get rid of Columbus Day.

It needs to be replaced with Leif Ericksson Day. He got here before Columbus.

28 posted on 09/01/2014 11:12:55 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: NKP_Vet

Why don’t these asinine idiots give their land, homes and possessions back to the Indians and move the hell out of America.
Indians would be happy and we would be happy.
Problem is these Libs want to change the holiday, but don’t want to give up a day off from work.


29 posted on 09/01/2014 11:13:07 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: j. earl carter

30 posted on 09/01/2014 11:17:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: j. earl carter

Oh, no! Then we have to do the fish-slapping dance and eat gravlax, right? Gimme my pasta!


31 posted on 09/01/2014 11:20:59 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: NKP_Vet

Ay-no esta mierda otra vez...


32 posted on 09/01/2014 11:21:07 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: NKP_Vet

I assume that NONE of those idiotic liberals (redundancy?) are currently living on land that was formerly occupied by their precious “indigenous peoples?”


33 posted on 09/01/2014 11:23:53 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: rockrr

And the accomplishments to be celebrated are ...?
21 recipes for eating dog.

Dinner was a bitch!


34 posted on 09/01/2014 11:27:04 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: NKP_Vet

Reason 27 why I’m glad I don’t live in Seattle.

The eastern part of Washington state is nice though. Even reasonably red.


35 posted on 09/01/2014 11:33:29 AM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Seattle ought to:
(1) Rename the holiday in Seattle as European Oppressor’s Day
and
(2) Require everyone who works for the City of Seattle to work from midnight to midnight for no pay.


36 posted on 09/01/2014 11:35:16 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: NKP_Vet

Well then if he did not come here and pave the path way to America. I guess those liberals have to go back where their families came from. Oh well, bye. Have a good trip.


37 posted on 09/01/2014 11:37:41 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: j. earl carter; miss marmelstein

One narrator on a program on H2 probably said it best-soon the issue won’t be who discovered America, but who didn’t...

It appears that the Solutreans from what is now Europe got here 20,000 years ago or earlier when the sea levels were much lower because of the ice. Columbus was just the “discoverer” who was backed with the most money, by the Spaniards who wanted to raid, enslave and steal from the natives to get the jump on Britain for a new place to operate from and steal the bucks to finance their expansion.

Since the ancestors of so many of us-me included-were a combination of Native and Spanish, and the natives were likely already a combination of a bunch of others-including Africans-think “Olmecs” etc-what is the point in anyone at all asking for reparations-we were all likely badly treated/enslaved by newbies aka conquerors-from day one in pre-history...


38 posted on 09/01/2014 11:40:50 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: nuconvert

Seattle is run by people with the sense and sensibility of a Junior High School Associated Student Body council.


39 posted on 09/01/2014 11:43:47 AM PDT by rickomatic
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To: NKP_Vet

Thanks to Columbus and Europeans, indiginous people, who, before Columbus, were living as savages in hellholes, can live a life proper to a rationa being in a civilized society, if they would stop whining and being victims. Boo fricken hoo.


40 posted on 09/01/2014 11:47:22 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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