The High Heat Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Pretty much everyone in history is a jerk. Benjamin Franklin, History's Only Sweethart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Don Draper Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Among my circle of friends, the Oatmeal comic seems to be a big reason for the visible backlash this year. People may have already had these opinions, but nothing beats the ease of clicking on "share." Yep, this is why I posted that. My feed is full of people not only clicking share but enjoying posting a good, solid rant against the man and how it is despicable that children are taught about Columbus in school. Really hyperbolic stuff. A friend posted this article in response, and I don't particularly know why we need any holiday in the first place but I do like the point that a kindler, gentler genocide isn't something to celebrate. In addition to the fact that it won't ever happen, I also don't see an Indigenous Persons Day to be any less likely to come off as "let's celebrate the race we killed off!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Benjamin Franklin, History's Only Sweethart.If memory serves Franklin was a womanizer on the highest level. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Dude loved to fuck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Total whoremonger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 What'd you think, he flew a kite all night? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 gives a whole new meaning to "early to bed, early to rise..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Some scholars believe his "womanizing" has been exaggerated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Not David McCullough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Some scholars believe his "womanizing" has been exaggerated. Some scholars believe the world is flat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 To be honest this year this is the only place I have contact with that Columbus has been brought up. Was he a homicidal maniac? Not even close. Did he help open the door for others to follow to impose their will on this hemisphere? Absolutely. Would the same things have happened had Columbus never existed? With out a doubt yes. In fact the only difference in iur lives today would be place names and the name of the day off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 To be honest this year this is the only place I have contact with that Columbus has been brought up. Was he a fenicidal maniac? Not even close. Did he help open the door for others to follow to impose their will on this hemisphere? Absolutely. Would the same things have happened had Columbus never existed? With out a doubt yes. In fact the only difference in iur lives today would be place names and the name of the day off. Same with me. I think the point of cartoon was that Columbus, who by all historical accounts was a bastard and his "discovery" really wasn't much of anything, has a Federal Holiday. And that he his on par with the likes of MLK jr and Lincoln. So I think that is problem. I am not sure if it is backlash or what, but there seems to be a growing movement to end Columbus day. So guess to bring it full circle, knowing that Columbus was just an asshole, is it appropriate that we have a federal holiday named after him? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 fenicidal? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Fixed it. Lincoln no longer gets a holiday now it's Presidents' Day. Perhaps we can have a new holiday called explorers day honoring everyone from Leif Erickson to Lewis and Clark? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 http://youtu.be/nlVIE0gZ80Y Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Dude loved to fuck.who doesn't? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The Underdog Lady from Howard Stern. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 who doesn't? ...my wife? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 sucks for you. actually, sounds like no sucking involved, either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Don Draper Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I'm guessing the shutdown ends at 11pm EST, +/- 30 minutes, the night before the default. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 maybe then my wife can get her name changed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Broken threads, broken springs. Broken idols, broken heads. People sleeping in broken beds. Ain't no use jiving. Ain't no use joking. Everything is juuuuust broken. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I'm guessing the shutdown ends at 11pm EST, +/- 30 minutes, the night before the default. The whole thing is a fucking joke. Boehner is done after this, but at the same token with such a vocal and seemingly power minority in the GOP (the TEA party), who would want his job? The TEA party is the worst thing to happen to American politics in the last 30 years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hixter Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The TEA party is the worst thing to happen to American politics in the last 30 years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I have no idea who or what that is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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