[P-Marlowe]

''And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.''

He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.

[Right Wing Assault]

He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.

I wonder how "Captain" Obama would have done.

[LostInBayport]

He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.

You mean the crew couldn't file complaints with their union rep., or bring a suit with OSHA? What about the guys with hooks for hands, didn't the captains make special accomodations for them under the ADA? Didn't Ferdinand and Isabella have a Commission against Discrimination to ensure 'diversity' on their ships?

One of the many reasons liberals stink as history teachers is that they subconsciously (or maybe not so subconsciously) impose their 'values' on times past instead of stopping to think about why something was the way it was.

[ANGGAPO]

Question for the nitwits. If it was not Columbus who blundered into America, but the Spanish, who arrived first, what kind of treatment would the natives received?

[Verginius Rufus]

The crews of his ships were not easy to control...and he had the drawback of being a foreigner. I ran across a quote once (maybe from Bartolome de Las Casas) to the effect that the Archangel Gabriel would have had a hard time keeping Columbus’ men under control.