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Where is the 13 tattoo on the neck of the photo of the dead body shot?

So the genocidal Lincoln had the chance to hang 303 men but he didn't? How do you explain that? He also said if he lived to see the end of the Civil War he would change the way that America treated the Indians. Lincoln sent a secretary to MN to make sure they did not hang all the Indian men against his orders.

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/thedakotaconflict.html

"Military trials of 425 pure and mixed-blood Dakota took on a farcical air, with many trials lasting only a few minutes each. Many convictions relied upon testimony of other accused who plea-bargained in return for leniency. When 321 men were convicted and all but 18 sentenced to die, a Catholic bishop who had worked with the Dakota, Bishop Whipple, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to intervene. Upon examining the convictions, Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but convicted rapists and murderers to prison. On December 26, 1862, three thousand people gathered to watch the hanging of these thirty-eight Dakota in Mankato, MN. It is the largest mass execution in United States history. Life was not easy for the survivors. The government declared the various land treaties negotiated with the Dakota as null and void due to the conflict. No Dakota were permitted to live in Minnesota and the bounty on Dakota scalps was raised. Indian annuities were ended and given to settlers to help them rebuild their shattered lives. 1700 Dakota were rounded up and marched to Fort Snelling where they lived in cramped conditions. Various epidemics took the lives of many. These Dakota were eventually repatriated by force to Crow Creek in the Dakota Territory."

"Exaggerated figures abounded immediately after the conflict but the true count of war dead was 77 soldiers, 413 white civilians, and 71 Indians (38 of which were those executed in Mankato). Both sides suffered greatly. Unfortunately the suffering would only continue as the frontier of the United States pushed farther and farther west without any significant improvements in United States Indian policy or Indian - settler relations. A memorial to the memory of the dead, both white and Indian, now stands in downtown Mankato at Reconciliation Park."

Is this proof that the death Penalty is a deterent?

When and why did they leave the Iraq Theater in the first place?

I got a call from the daycare at my work this am asking (they knew I had time off)me to fill in for a couple hours. I asked if I could smack them if they needed it and was told "no". I reponded with a "Why in the world would I want to work there then?".

Let's not forget the masterbastion scene.

I just saw the movie tonight and as a Marine in active duty from 90 to 94 I will say that this is a clusterf@#k of a movie. Did you see the insinuation that the Marine's wife that had the kids had been with the other Marine in the group? Yes this movie goes out of its way to portray Marines as bloodthirsty, murders, fools and losers.

As far back as the fifties in 'Why Johnny Can't read and what you can do about it' Rudolf Flesch was saying that Whole Language Instruction is causing dyslexia. If you were taught with the see Jill run books then that was Whole Language or Sight Word Instruction.

The purpose.....of this dinner is to make fun of yourself is it not?

Ok,I know with the tribes in South Dakota if you were gay you wore women's clothes and lived as a women. You did not hunt and hang out with the men. Imagine what would happen if we asked the gay men today to do that. It's apples and oranges.

I to was spanked and my parents knew the dirrerence. I would say to you that a parent who flies off the handle is abusive period, probably in more ways that just physically.....

Well, I'm glad you brought me to school like the imbecile I am. I guess you disapprove of spanking but approve of dark sarcasm in the classroom with kids? I hope not. But you are being sarcastic and belittling me (as an adult) here so I would take a guess that you would use those techniques on kids rather than spanking them as well. Oh, I am sorry is that another straw man?

The point I made (albeit sarcastically) was that non-spanking adults have no problem doing chemical violence to the brain.

"Which method is the truly the abusive one? Which method causes the least amount of bitterness and anger? Oh, and I forgot lets not spank him but put him on mind growth retarding drugs like Ritalin and Adderol."

The point was seconded by Taxrelief.

"The new trendy discipline method of putting kids on ritalin, dexedrine, clonadine, wellbutrin or prozac, and chemically shrinking their brains, is much more "humane".

Now you can call it childish and a straw man like you did but that takes nothing away from the point. And the point is related to the discussion in that many see drugs as a proper behavioral tool but see a problem with spanking.

Back when I was under the impression that you wanted to have a conversation about this I asked you something.

"So you contend that children are not being medicated at high rates to effect better behavior from them?"

Now that question mark means I was not stating what you said but asking you what exactly you meant calling a valid point a straw man. A sentence with one of these ? is not a statement of truth and so I could not possibly have lied. Sorry, I am not going to be a straw man for you to easily knock over on your abusive stand toward kids and parents rights.

Not much snow to be seen, I would call that a Ice Storm not a blizzard.

So you contend that children are not being medicated at high rates to effect better behavior from them? Is that what you mean my a straw man?

Where a spanking is necessary giving another punishment can be abusive and destructive. Let's see instead of administering a one minute spanking for hitting a girl I will put my third grade boy who's attention span is ten minutes on three days of consequences so by the end of it he will not remember what he is in trouble for, we will both be grouchy and angry. That's much better than doing something that takes one minute and then moving on with our lives. Which method is the truly the abusive one? Which method causes the least amount of bitterness and anger? Oh, and I forgot lets not spank him but put him on mind growth retarding drugs like Ritalin and Adderol.

Yeah, they really took the hard stance in South Dakota last time.....

Another article from the Daily Republic in Mitchell SD.http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=10953&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=83&FCID=171634&FCN=Odis%20Cosgrove

Awesome movie!!!!!!!!! Some folks just do not like to be fooled.

You know if you did brain scans of those in the holocost camps their brains would look diferent. If you had a ham and chesse omelet every am your brain would look different.

Come to the cicus and watch monkeys jumping through burning hoop and then watch the experts try to make convoluted explainations on why their brain disorder diagnosise is selective.