Tuesday’s Links
World Net Daily: Obama’s regulatory czar advocates harvesting organs from living patients.
Associated Press: US students taught to hate America in government funded schools. Lesson 1: Columbus was evil.
WPVI, Philadelphia: Third robbery of the night was of a licensed, concealed carry holder. The thug’s last robbery, ever. [Idiotic comment award goes to: “My only fear about this is that the next time a wiuld [sic] be robber THINKS his victim has a gun,He may just shoot.”]
AFP (French Press): Obama approves 13,000 new troops to Afghanistan (but it’s a secret, so don’t tell anyone, okay)
Forbes: How Obama’s socialist policies force a large wedge between the rich and the poor, by punishing the middle class.
London Telegraph: Obama’s top ten broken promises.
Investors Business Daily: Three decades of Global Cooling.
London Mail: The Joys of Socialized Medicine—Free of cancer, doctors mistakenly tell him it’s back, and let him starve to death.
CNS News: White House claims stimulus helped teachers, yet in Oklahoma most first year teachers were let go this summer, and few new teachers are being hired. So, it helped them find a new career?
Posted by Danny Carlton at October 13, 2009 8:09 AM
I told you that this cooling was coming over a year ago, but I think that you didn't take me very seriously? Maybe I had the wrong impression...
Lots of good info on the correlation between solar cycles and temperature cycles here:
www.solarcycle24.com
Something very strange is happening with the climate, may last for many years.
So Columbus was just the epitome of what we want school children to become? I think history accounts he was a little less than a great role model for children. He did sort of sail over and try to lay claim to land that others were already living on. Not that what he did wasn't integral to the foundation of our modern (American) society, but it's also probably not one of those things you want to straight out glorify when you look at the situation in context.
How does one "steal" land from people that have no concept of land-ownership?
I think you call it stealing when you run people off of it and appropriate it for uses that exclude them from it. While they may not have had any concept of land-ownership by our standards, I don't think securing it for our own mutually exclusive uses really fit into their model either. I believe the model traditionally respected by many indigenous people in "America" was a model of the commons in which many could use the land without impeding on the ability of others to also use that same land. It's clearly not a concept that we have mastered and I don't think there was any moral high ground in coming in, running off the traditional users of the land and securing it for our own purposes. I guess because they never bothered to draw up deeds it must have been free game?