Tuesday, October 11, 2016

How advanced is the rot? - today's edition

This advanced:

The effort to change the federal holiday of Columbus Day to “Indigenous Peoples Day” is gaining momentum across the country as two more cities make the official change.
Phoenix, Arizona is one of them, becoming the largest city to adopt the politically correct version followed by the entire state of Vermont, according to The Daily Mail
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the proclamation and said it was “an opportunity to celebrate indigenous heritage and resiliency.” 
Another difference is that government workers in some of these cities won’t just get the day off, they will participate in a celebration of the contributions of indigenous people to their cities.
According to the report, nearly 30 cities and townships in America have adopted the holiday name change including Denver, Portland, San Antonio, Seattle, and Minneapolis. A measure to change the holiday in Cincinnati, Ohio was before the city council but was dashed when five of the nine legislators abstained from voting. 
Last year, President Obama issued a proclamation against Christopher Columbus stating that while “we pay tribute to the ways in which Columbus pursued ambitious goals” we should “also recognize the suffering inflicted upon Native Americans.”
This year, the president observed the federal holiday by hitting the links with his White House buddies, because whether you’re an Italian explorer or Native American, everybody needs a day off.
When government at all levels is encouraging the West to hate itself, it is very late in the day.


11 comments:

  1. Dunno bout you, but It's been a relatively dead holiday all my life. I don't think I've ever been a day off for it.

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  2. Well, what IS the resounding truth and nothing but about the "conquest" of the New World? Have you contemplated the likes of same should our planet be discovered by so-called superior beings from outer space? Would you expect special dispensations of our laws and customs then? Guess you'd want a big strong Republican as our CIC then.

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  3. As for the people of the Great Western Metropolis of Cincinnati it's quite understandable they would want to disparage any day devoted to the great legacy and honor of a Columbus.

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  4. Our Manifest Destiny is right up there in the race for the vanity of vanities. Ahh, that craving for God's special favor. What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

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  5. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/23/stephen-hawking-warns-against-seeking-out-aliens-in-new-film

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  6. How about if we look squarely at what the phenomenon that is the subject of this post is all about? It is a tactic in the Left's war on the notion that the West has been a unique blessing to humankind. It's another tactic to drive home the message that white straight make Christians of European background have on balance been a bad thing in this world. An attempt to obliterate basic concepts such as gender distinction, sovereignty of nation-states and recognition of Jesus as Lord and savior.

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  7. Sure would never have pictured a post like that coming from you back in '06 when I first started blogging here. 10 years ago, the Pubs got slaughtered in that mid-term, after which Rummie resigned and all that you had cultivated here about our shock and awe went all limp and then the rise of Obama and of course the Tea Party of which Trump is the apotheosis. Hey, those idiots took down the wrong party, it might be said.

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  8. And whatever it is your Left is squawking about now will soon grow tiresome. Why are you so offended if someone brings up the truth they might have learned in college or many other sources elsewhere if an interested autodidact? And the truth is that the jury is still out on whether the Great White Fathers, have, on balance, been a unique blessing to the world.

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  9. You really see it that way, don't you?

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  10. Do you think our Destiny to settle the continent was made manifest by God?

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