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Christopher Columbus has a few bones to pick himself
lowell sun ^ | 10/10 | Peter lucas

Posted on 10/10/2017 6:34:14 AM PDT by luke1825

Flying from Rome to Boston on Alitalia on Columbus Day, I fell asleep and dreamed that Christopher Columbus was seated beside me. He had the window seat.

“What did I do wrong?” he asked in my dream. “Why do people hate me?”

“I’m not sure,” I said.

“How did I go from a hero to a bum?”

(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.ma.newsmemory.com ...


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1 posted on 10/10/2017 6:34:15 AM PDT by luke1825
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To: luke1825

Marxism marches on!


2 posted on 10/10/2017 6:40:50 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: luke1825
“How did I go from a hero to a bum?”

The land that you discovered REJECTED the Hildabeast, so that means it must be destroyed.
All history of it's existence must be erased, scorched earth style.

3 posted on 10/10/2017 6:41:28 AM PDT by red-dawg (I want a statue of TRUMP in my city.)
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To: luke1825
Down is Up
Wrong is Right
Black is White
Alinsky is God...
4 posted on 10/10/2017 6:45:16 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: luke1825

Pizarro and his diseased men and the diseased pigs he brought on his “exploration” killed maybe 2 million Native Americans.


5 posted on 10/10/2017 7:08:33 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

How many had the natives already murdered in their sacrifices to their gods?


6 posted on 10/10/2017 7:27:01 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: mountainlion
Pizarro and the other Spanairds may have brought diseases that killed many Native American, but they also almost certainly saved the Bison from extinction.

Before the Spaniards reintroduced horses to America, the Native American (who are portrayed as quintessential environmentalists) drove both the woolly mammoth and the wild horse to extinction by their hunting techniques. Before the reintroduction of horses they hunted large mammals by stampeding herds over cliffs and bluffs.

The bison herds being much larger were holding out longer, but were destined to the same faith - but for the Spanish bringing the domesticated horses that allowed hunters to chase down individual animals.

So, in fact the white man saved the bison from extinction, before they ALMOST drove it to a later extinction.

7 posted on 10/10/2017 7:50:34 AM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

The indians got even with their tobacco and casinos! : )
The indians were certainly not peaceful. They had their wars as the rest of the world did.


8 posted on 10/10/2017 10:34:22 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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