[blam]

POS McCain is at it again!!!

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Soul Seeker]

Damn. Is there ANYTHING that nitwit doesn't have his hands involved in?!

[Stellar Dendrite]

This man is more dangerous than the Democommies, at least we know they're the enemy. Many naive Republicans think McAsshat is someone "great" just because he's got an (R) next to his name. One has to wonder how effective the North Vietnamese propaganda was on this man....

[Last Dakotan]

My bro-in-law worked at the Smithsonian. Among other things repatriated to the Indians were scalps taken with blond female hair.

[Hank Rearden]

POS McCain is at it again!!!

I'm rooting hard, very hard, for The Lump but it's taking 'way too long and much damage is being done in the interim.

[Hank Rearden]

The Indians are scared spitless that Kennewick Man will be the beginning of a lengthy unravelling of their claims to being the "true" Americans. Witness the bulldozing and complete destruction of the site where the remains were found, and their current demands to abort the study of this skeleton.

There will be other Kennewick Men, and competing casinos, eventually.

[Eva]

McCain has been very busy trying to round up a Clintonesque coalition of minority groups. The only thing that I can figure is that McCain either doesn't plan to run as a Republican or that he can persuade a lot of Democrats to cross over in the primary. He sure won't get the conservative vote.

[jocon307]

What is wrong with him? What is wrong with the Indians for that matter? I can understand not wanting your great-grandparents' graves treated as an archeological dig, I really can. But Kennewick man is hardly in that class.

What gets to me is the mumbo-jumbo that gets said, the Indian creation myths, and how "that truth" forbids studying these ancient bones. And the liberal media eats it up. But let some Christian start talking "creationism" and they are ready to put them in the gulag. (Yes, I said gulag on purpose).

Why, WHY, are the richest and best educated of our civilization ready to sell us all down the river in a thrall to primative cultures at their most primative, ignorant, violent and destructive?

I watched Mutiny on the Bounty (mel gibson version, yes!) last night and all I can say is Bligh, Cook, et al must be rolling in their graves.

[taxesareforever]

Kennewick Man to be studied in Seattle

Jim McDermott is going to be studied?

[Reactionary]

The bones appear Caucasian. That's what all of this is about.

The various Leftist groups that have erected the edifice of cultural guilt are bothered by that fact. They don't mind politicizing science if it suits their twisted cultural agenda.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. As seems obvious, McCain is undermining his political party by participating in this kind of crap. Does he seriously expect anyone in the country -- from the other side of the aisle -- to remember this? Even people with tribal affiliations elsewhere in the country aren't going to say, "oh, let's vote for the local Republican candidate" because of McCain's amendment.

The doctors, professors, and other scholars are going to be against it, but I doubt that they'll vote in favor of the local candidate either, once they remember what party McCain is from. There isn't enough public exposure of this action.

One way to get such exposure is to propose another amendment -- one that cuts funding for all archaeological projects on US soil. THAT would call attention to it. The rationale for the amendment would be that there's no point in digging if the finds can't be recorded and analyzed, ergo, it's a waste of money.

Obviously I'm not in favor of either amendment, but supporters of the McCain amendment are in fact advocating just that, and need to be called on it in a public way.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Email McCain here. Every voice actually HEARD from is worth a hundred silent voices.

Here's the email I sent:

Re: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act*****

Dear Senator McCain: I have been following the saga of Kennewick Man for years now, and was very relieved when it turned out that Kennewick Man could finally be studied properly. I am interested in archaeology and anththropology, but mostly I am interested in finding the truth of our human history. However, I have heard that you are sponsoring a re-wording of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act which will change things again so that tribes can demand the repatriation of remains, EVEN if they cannot establish a genetic or historic link to the remains. I hope that this is not true, and that you are NOT changing the wording so that can take place. I'm sure you are aware that many people are not interested in historic truth, but simply in furthering their own agendas, and that this re-wording would play right into their hands. I voted Republican for defense but am liberal in many matters. Basically, I am right in your demographic group should you choose to run for President in '08. However, I could not support a candidate whom I did not perceive to be on the side of truth, wherever that truth might lead. Please make sure that pre-historic remains such as Kennewick Man remain available to be studied by qualified scientists.