Posted on 10/15/2011 4:57:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
It's funny - my family also watches National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when we get together in the D.C area each year (OK, I've missed a few here and there since 2003...) usually a couple of days before Christmas while sipping holiday cocktails.
I plan on making it this year.
Good to know that this tradition is more popular than we thought. :-)
Will somebody please burn this Bitch’s broom, or use it to clean her out of office?
Another Massachusetts Marxist. Thanks Romney.
129 years apart?
Christopher Columbus... Really?
Christopher Columbus never made it to the United States, but he did make it as far north as Cuba...
Atrocities?
Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailing for money from the Spanish.
He thought he was in China or India...
The "atrocities" were from the "Conquistadors," a coalition army of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger against the Aztec Empire, 1519-1521.
http://www.mexconnect.com/photos/5986-h2-postclassic-period-900-1521-a-d-world-of-trade-large.jpg?1236899188
While the Aztec account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico does not basically change the facts we are already familiar with, it does detail brutality and massacres on the part of the Spaniards that historians have simply glossed over. Rather than bewailing the Spanish atrocities, we must accept that the way the Conquistadors conducted warfare was normal in the 1500's and earlier centuries. We have but to read the accounts of battles as revealed in the Old Testament, The Illiad of Homer, or Greek and Roman History, to recognize that the Spaniards were relatively merciful.
What the Aztec records do is give us an insight into their mind-set. They explain why they were unable to defeat the comparatively few invaders. Even with their Indian allies the Conquistadors never numbered more that 25,000 armed men in their initial move toward the Aztec Capital. Approximately 500 Spaniards with only 16 horses, plus their Indian Allies, engaged armies that outnumbered them at least ten to one. The Aztec account of the Conquest reveals a philosophy of war that explains this.
What is most remarkable is that the Aztec account of the Conquest, is almost completely non-judgmental. Although they describe Spanish atrocities in gory detail, it is done factually, with little emotion. Additionally, they give Cortes credit for attempting to negotiate peace with the various tribes he met en-route to Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital. Even in Cholula, the single city in which the Spaniards actually massacred most of the inhabitants, the Aztec report of the event includes the possibility that it may have been provoked by falsehoods spread by the Tlaxcalan allies of the Conquistadors. Nowhere in the Aztec accounts of the Conquest do we find any effort to paint the Spaniards as monsters. Actually, these records reveal more about the Aztecs themselves than about the Spaniards. They explain the way the Aztecs viewed the invaders and how their rulers attempted to handle them. We see Moctezuma himself and his people living in fear of the future and the very Gods they worshiped. In the end, perhaps their fears were justified.
Interesting. I do not see the name Christopher Columbus in there anywhere. According to the maps he was hundreds of miles away from the "atrocities" and it was decades apart. Christopher Columbus died in 1506 and the "atrocities" of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors Mizzz Anne Foley attributes to him did not occur until 13 YEARS after he was dead.
More fun... This first celebration of Thanksgiving was over a thousand miles away, 129 years LATER in 1621 and was not related to either Christopher Columbus or Hernán Cortés.
Of course, these mere facts will do nothing to deter the self-righteous indignation of Mizzz Anne Foley against the evil, vile and offensive practice of celebrating Thanksgiving.
Oh no, no, no.
It is FAR too PC to be a mindless slug of a human being and point fingers at an American tradition branding it "Insensitive" (never says to whom) to the "Oppression / Atrocities" claim based on an idiotic fabrication of three totally separate historical events occurring over a hundred years apart and separated by over a thousand miles, in which the vile WHITE MEN were not even alive at the same time.
And, Of COURSE, this twit is an Elementary School Principal in Massachusetts.
OF. COURSE.
There is actually a video of her reading from a script about how great they all are at the school website.
Prepare yourself for a non-stop verbal PC vomit fest of "inclusiveness and diversity."
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This doesn’t surprise me because I was reading comments on a liberal site the other day voicing this same thing. I’m reading a text book now geared towards AP high school or college students, and it really tends to focus on white people as people who brought the Indians disease, war, manipulated them, pitted them against each other at times, took their land, and (in some cases) enslaved them.
As for me, I think Columbus Day and Thanksgiving are holidays that are important and celebrate our history.
Come on now, Sparky. Everyone knows that when Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims in the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, the first thing they did was kill anyone whose skin wasn’t white. And that’s why you never see any people with dark skin anywhere to this very day.
Correction.
the first thing they did was kill anyone whose skin wasn’t white. And that’s why they had to import dark skinned
workers from Africa later on, to pick their cotton
and make mixed drinks.
Haven’t been to Dorcester lately, have ya?
Nope. No plans to go, neither!
I hope you do the ‘Christmas Vacation’ tradition this year. Even if you are by yourself. What I find amazing is that, as silly as that movie is, it speaks the TRUTH, and the average folk can be associated with it. Remember that crazy Uncle or Aunt?) She wrapped up the cat for crying out loud. My Aunt did that too, except it was a squirrel. Too funny. God Bless.
Hang your flag proudly. Fight for our Country and VOTE.
Also, Merry Christmas, Easter, and all the other great traditions of the Mighty USA. Traditions that soon will be banned by the Govt. under the 0pansy watch.
I just heard that Halloween will be banned in the 0pasny state of CA. I'm still confirming that. However, if true, it shows you the direction our Mighty USA is leaning twards. For as you know, should 0pansy win in 2012, you, me, and our familys will end up in the ‘goo-log’. AKA, the Mighty USA will be ‘fundementally transformed’ (by 0pansy).
Our tradition will then be lost. Dang, I cry just thinking about this.
Hey, remember, In the movie when Chevy plugged in the exterior lights? And the support his wife gave him. Even when the lights did not work. Now, that's Love. I have that love for our Country.
From the Fiddler on the Roof, “Tradition”.
God Bless you and yours. Hope you get home this year. Family is too important.
redshawk.
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