[RightWingAtheist]

Here in Minnesota, we have a big controversy going on over plans to build a telescope on Mt.Graham, which is considered sacred ground to the Native American population, and the media and local leftist "social action" groups line themselves up 100% with them. Apparently, some forms of superstition and fundamentalism are more equal than others.

[BlazingArizona]

Here in Minnesota, we have a big controversy going on over plans to build a telescope on Mt.Graham, which is considered sacred ground to the Native American population,

Not only is Mt. Graham not in Minnesota (it's in Arizona, where the clear skies are), but it isn't even on a reservation. The "sacred to the Indians" idea popped up out of nowhere several years ago after a period of Green opposition to University of Arizona and the Vatican building observatories on it.

The Greens' previous excuse had been that endangered squirrels lived on the mountain. After it was found that pine squirrels were not actually endangered, but were flourishing on Mt. Graham, as squirrels always do around humans, the opposition dreamed up the "sacred mountain" argument. Funny - no Apache had ever paid particular attention to the mountain before that; not when the summer camp was built on it, not when the cabins were built on it, not when the state campground was built on it, and not when Swift Trail Federal Prison was built on it.

Now Kitt Peak, the telescope-studded mountain on the other side of Tucson, is on a reservation. But in actual fact, the only tribe that considers telescopes to defile a mountain is the Green tribe. Fortunately, this being Arizona, we can shoot back.