MuRiEl
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posted on May 7, 2001 03:38:27 PM
 How do I get rid of all these BORING George Bush threads...
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MartyAW
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posted on May 7, 2001 03:41:32 PM
Hi Muriel,
I can delete them for you.
$1.00 a thread.
Only kidding!
Marty
[email protected]
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MuRiEl
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posted on May 7, 2001 03:46:50 PM
You're on, buddy!! 
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uaru
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posted on May 7, 2001 04:15:23 PM
Put me down for $10 worth.
Figures that AW would come up with a way to make money off the message board. Now I'm suspecting them of the tiresome Bush posts.
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Bunnicula
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posted on May 7, 2001 04:29:21 PM
People are free to look at--or NOT look at--any thread they like. Tired of Bush threads? Pass them by & look at and/or create others.
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uaru
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posted on May 7, 2001 04:35:55 PM
People are free to look at--or NOT look at--any thread they like.
Are we also free to call them tiresome? or boring?
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MuRiEl
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posted on May 7, 2001 04:38:05 PM
What I'm tired of is LOOKING at them. I don't read them, silly. 
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Femme
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posted on May 7, 2001 04:59:25 PM
I recall a proliferation of threads at one time that bored me.
However, others enjoyed them.
I never gave a consideration of what I could do to get rid of them.
I'll be watching to see if asking politely (please ) works.
If so, I'll file that little bit of knowledge, should I find myself bored again.
 
(Just pulling your chain, Muriel)
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MuRiEl
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:06:40 PM
Ouch! 
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Femme
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:09:25 PM
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Fez
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:19:52 PM
Muriel, as Smokey would say, "I second that emotion". At this rate, it's going to be a long four years.
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mint4you
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:26:09 PM
Gimme a B....gimme a U....Gimme a S....gimme a H.....gimme a way outa here!
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krs
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:27:50 PM
Always a fan of gif posts as most people know, I still find that the predominant quality of those has taken a dive
 to a depth from which the poster can hardly have standing to complain about current event threads.
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Muriel
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:36:43 PM
I love it when you talk that way, Ken.
[ edited by Muriel on May 7, 2001 05:37 PM ]
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mint4you
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posted on May 7, 2001 05:40:31 PM
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gravid
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posted on May 7, 2001 07:10:19 PM
If the old indian zero year curse works it could wait for his last day in office - I mean the idea was to harm the nation not just the person.
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jlpiece
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posted on May 7, 2001 11:38:10 PM
No offense to the Indians, but if they were so damn good at curses and what not, where in the hell are they? Just wondering.
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enCHAnTed
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posted on May 8, 2001 04:55:46 AM
No offense to the Indians, but if they were so damn good at curses and what not, where in the hell are they? Just wondering.
Sheesh.
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Femme
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posted on May 8, 2001 05:21:00 AM
No offense to the Indians, but if they were so damn good at curses and what not, where in the hell are they? Just wondering.
This utterance has me speechless at the moment.
I'm sure I'll have something to say the more I think about it as I go about my business.
I'm pretty sure "white man", "land" and "rifles" will be in my reply, though.
[ edited by Femme on May 8, 2001 05:24 AM ]
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enCHAnTed
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posted on May 8, 2001 05:22:53 AM
thank you Femme
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Femme
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posted on May 8, 2001 05:26:33 AM
Good morning, Enchanted.
The AW early birds are making the rounds, eh?
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enCHAnTed
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posted on May 8, 2001 05:40:18 AM
yep, femme, cup of coffee in hand while I peruse the Round Table, one of my early morning pleasant habits.
jlpiece, here's a quote from the dustjacket summary of the book entitled "Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes Since 1492" written by Ronald Wright, published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1992. ISBN is 0395565006.
"History is written by the winners, and so the 'discovery' of the New World in 1492 has been celebrated as one of humanity's great moments. But America's inhabitants saw this event and its consequences differently. Their ancestors had discovered the New World thousands of years before. They had settled all of it and built great civilizations, some were democracies, others aggressive empires with cities as large as any then on earth."
"When Columbus landed, the Americas [North and South America] held about a fifth of the human race. Within decades, most of these people were dead -- victims of imported epidemics and barbarous assaults. The European invaders plundered fabulous wealth, destroyed great art, and seized the land."
end quote.
italics are mine. My personal preference if I had written the passage would be to rephrase it somehow so that it doesn't sound like the epidemics of disease (which killed many native Americans of both continents) were somehow deliberately imported. Although the diseases were devastating, I could not call it deliberate with the level of medical knowledge that existed at that time.
jlpiece, I'd be happy to ship you priority mail my own copy of this book, for your reading pleasure, at my expense. If you would like to read it, my email address is [email protected]. Feel free to contact me. It might answer your question.
Thanks.
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bearmom
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posted on May 8, 2001 10:20:24 AM
On Native Americans-the whole continent was probably a lot better off when they were the only ones here. For one, they believed strongly in living in harmony with nature..a great environmental plan!
On Bush-put me down for all my Yahoo credits worth of deleted threads-they're not good for anything else!
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gravid
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posted on May 8, 2001 12:23:31 PM
Most of the Indians besides being decimated by disease could not stop fighting each other long enough to take on the white invaders.
They had different languages customs and hated each other like the current groups in the Balkans.
The Seminole Indians in Florida successfully resisted being sent to the SW United States.
The government spent $20 million dollars which was an huge amount of money in those days to try to defeat the Seminoles. They would send groups blue coats off into the swamps and they would never be seen again just disappear with no survivors. That was really bad on morale.
Technically we are still at war with the Seminole as congress did declare war on them and never negotiated an surrender or an armistice. If they wanted to prosecute it again I would still not bet against the Indians with all the high tech stuff the army has today.
They Seminole nation never had the custom of scalping until the advent of the casino.
[ edited by gravid on May 8, 2001 12:25 PM ]
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