Why America no longer celebrates Columbus Day
.The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn was banned on first printing,
but now Peoples is a history standard in High School.
Chapter One begins with the first entry of Columbus in the Captain’s Log upon landing in the New World:
“They {Arawaks of the Bahama Islands) brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane….
They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want…”
“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information. Where is the gold?”
When it became clear that there was no gold left, the Indians were taken as slave labor on huge estates, known later as encomiendas. They were worked at a ferocious pace, and died by the thousands. By the year 1515, there were perhaps fifty thousand Indians left. By 1550, there were five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks (a tribe of 250,000) or their descendants left on the island.
When white Europeans landed at Plymouth Rock there were approximately 18,000,000 Native Americans in the USA. Today, less than a million.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Imagine if George W Bush was the Worst AND the First:
Memorial Day
.ABOVE LEFT: Memorial Day 2009 President Obama places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
RIGHT: 2011: Many of us vets would like to see our Commander-In-Chief honor the Wall of 59,000 KNOWN Soldiers who died in Vietnam. Put a name on AMERICAN OCCUPATIONS…Or better yet a FACE!
Did You Ever Wonder What 2000 (now more than double that number) Looks Like?.
This link is an amazing vid: 500 faces (of the first 2000) to die in Iraq in less than 5 minutes.
6,013 of America’s best kids have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11…Why?
Faces of the Fallen.Why?
.Click here to watch the meter spinning for The Cost of the Wars Since 2001
America topped the $TRILLION Mark at 10AM PST Sunday May 30, 2010.
The First Memorial Day…
…was observed by formerly enslaved blacks at the Washington Park in Charleston, South Carolina.During the Civil War this race course was a Confederate prison camp for captured Union soldiers and the site of a mass grave for blacks from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
.The 54th gained recognition as one of the bravest Union units on July 18, 1863, by spearheading an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina. Although Union forces were not able to take and hold the fort (despite taking a portion of the walls in the initial assault), the 54th was widely acclaimed for its valor during the battle, and the event helped encourage the further enlistment and mobilization of African-American troops, a key development that President Abraham Lincoln once noted as helping to secure the final victory. Decades later, Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first black to win the Medal of Honor for grabbing the U.S. flag as the flag bearer fell, carrying the flag to the enemy ramparts and back, and saying “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground!”
Ironically, during the week leading up to the 54th’s heroic sacrifice near Charleston, simmering racial strife climaxed in the New York Draft Riots. African-Americans on the city’s waterfront and Lower East Side were beaten, tortured, and lynched by white mobs angered over conscription for the Union war effort. These tea-bagging, yahoo mobs directed their animosity toward blacks because they felt that blacks, who CHOSE to have really dark skin, caused the Civil War.
The mass grave incident would probably would have been ignored by American history if the dumbass rebs had not dumped a WHITE GUY on top of the pile: Robert Shaw…Caucasian Leader of 54th.
Shaw’s father convinced a Union officer to ask for the return of his son’s body but was informed by the Confederate commander, Brigadier General Johnson Hagood, “We buried him with his niggers.”
Oh dear, Fox News was not around at the time to put a spin on this.
WASP Americans were outraged. Robert Lowell wrote:
Shaw’s father wanted no monument except the ditch,
…where his son’s body was thrown.
.Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, formerly enslaved people exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard. The work was completed in only ten days. On May 1, 1865, the Charleston newspaper reported that a crowd of up to ten thousand, mainly black residents, including 2800 children, proceeded to the location for included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first Decoration Day…later to be known as Memorial Day.
Monday American yahoos get a paid holiday and thus invite friends and inbred family members for cow flesh and pig tubes on the BarBQ. Do they understand?
Memorial Day honors the great patriots of the BLACK 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment! Rent the movie Glory for a painless history lesson.
Here are 10 more great movies for Memorial (and Veterans) Day:
Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick, The Hurt Locker, Platoon, M*A*S*H , Catch 22, All Quiet on the Western Front, King of Hearts, and No Man’s Land.
Happy Mothers Day!
.Tom Lehrer (greater American songster than Dylan!) declares
“No one loved their mom more than Oedipus Rex!”
BELOW: Some of our greatest artists have had issues with their moms. In This Is The End
Jim Morrison sang “Father, I want to kill you. Mother I want to (fill in the blank)”.
Nirvana covered and Kurt’s added: Mom, I want to shove a quarter in your waffle house coin slot!
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Long before Madonna and Angie Jolie (HAPPY ANGLO) began their race to scoop up every 3rd World baby Joan Crawford adopted a baby girl.
I am not one of your fans!
Really…What would Mothers Day without a little Motherly Love from Zappa?
Queen YouTube- Mother Love
Mother Love YouTube by Acid Reign
Constructive Anarchy Easter
What if Fox News had been around for the first Easter?
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.The History of Easter.
THE ONLY PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF JESUS IN THE BIBLE:
Rev. 1:14: “His head and his hair… like wool…”
Daniel 10:6: “His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass…”
This image of Jesus found in a Roman church in AD 530.
Michelangelo painted Ceasare Borgias in 1400 and used him as model for the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus American and European Christians worship today. Ummmm…Let’s get real. Jesus was a liberal…didn’t speak a word of English and probably looked more like Bob Marley than Michelangelo’s White Christ.
Halloween
Don’t have a costume? Just click on the pop-up image above right, print, cut out, add a small piece of string and you’re good to go.Below: Why not host a party tonight?
What is the Origin of Labor Day?
Labor Day.We have the day off on Monday (I’m not complaining) but only 8% of Americans still have union rights.
In 1980 Corporate Screwheads hired a really bad B actor, but Americas Best-Ever Snake Oil pitchman
Ronny RayGun. …to play president while George Bush (ex-Head of the CIA…not the retarded son) ran our country.
At the time one third of American workers belonged to a union with health care coverage for themselves, their spouse, parents, children, siblings (under 18)…thus, there was no health care crisis.
On his first day in office Ronny opened the White House doors to the Great White Corporate Shark, locked out union air traffic controllers and replaced them with military personal.
But, let’s return to the origin of Labor Day:
Beware Tea-Baggers…This is a story about BLACK PEOPLE!
In 1894 Robber Barons(industrialist) OWNED Congress (much like today) and 250,000 uppity Negroes went on strike when their pay was cut from pennies a day to half pennies.
Half Pennies have sharp edges and tend to cause holes in your pants, thus African Americans rebelled.
President Grover Cleveland ordered 12,000 federal troops to Chicago to end the strike, causing debate from his own cabinet about whether the worst President (before W) had the constitutional authority.
.13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.
History: Labor Day is America’s lame apology for the slaughter of peaceful Black Strikers.
For decades, the Pullman company was the largest single employer of black people in the world. George Pullman, who founded the company after the American civil war, established a policy of employing only black men (ex-slaves, initially) to work as porters, judging that, “for passengers to feel truly comfortable on his sleepers, they had to see the porter as someone … you could look at but not notice, as if he did not exist. An invisible man.” Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Pullman’s policy was enormously successful, and thousands of ex-slaves and their children and their children’s children became Pullman porters. During the Age of Robber Barons/ runaway greed that led us into the Great Depression (1880 to 1929) Pullman was the only steady job available to Blacks.
The Worst High-Five Ever
.Above: The brilliant, over-qualified, Clarence Muse performs his stereotype, bug-eyed thang in
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). William Powell and Myrna Loy have just got off the train when Powell remembers that he’s carrying a bottle of milk that he’d promised to fill up for a nursing mother in their carriage. As the train pulls out, Powell deftly slips the bottle into the hand of the porter who is (rather oddly, on reflection) waving goodbye to the station.
FDR offered African Americans real union jobs in the 1930s, but black actors in Hollywood were only offered roles as servants and Pullman Porters until Sidney Poitier (Tinsel Town’s Jackie Robinson)
broke the color line in the 1960s.
Separation of Church and State
.Like most early Americans, our Founding Fathers fled Europe to escape wacky religious fanatics who caused the Spanish Inquisitions (first waterboarding), the Holy Crusades (300 year war), witch burnings, etc. These great men considered themselves as FreeThinkers with a Generic God who included ALL Religions.
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion (Virginia’s new law to make Christianity the official US religion)? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 363.)
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonorable belief against the character of the Divinity, the most destructive to morality and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist.> (Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794-1795. From Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich, eds., The Harper Book of American Quotations, New York: Harper & Row, 1988, p. 494.)
Benjamin Franklin: “Think how great a proportion of Mankind,” he warned in 1757, “consists of weak and ignorant Men and Women, and of inexperienc’d Youth of both Sexes, who have need of the Motives of Religion to restrain them from Vice, to support their Virtue, and retain them in the Practice of it till it becomes habitual, which is the great Point for its Security.” (Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 61.)
Lincoln’s Birthday
Uh, oh. Nasty worst-president-ever shadow…Winter will last til November!
What do Vets get on Veterans Day?
Who benefits from this holiday? Certainly not me…not the many thousands of the homeless combat vets unable to readjust to civilian life after witnessing the horrors and disillusionment of our occupations in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan…
Not the 150,000 Americans currently serving in MidEast Hell on their 3rd, or 4th, or 5th year-long tour.
My Misadventures in Vietnam
On this date in History-11/22/63-The Death of JFK
Who is a Baby Boomer?
Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945 and two million American heroes returned from World War II.Exactly nine months later (May 15, 1946) the Baby Boom began. Our birth rate shot up 20% from the previous year to 3 million mark for the first time in USA history, and then exploded to nearly 4 million in 1947. We topped 4 mil in 1948 and remained above that dangerous level for 16 years.
This insane pace finally crashed in 1964 and returned to a normal level of 2 million…
exactly nine months after the assassination of JFK. Who killed the American Dream?
. Above: President Kennedy and one of the dwarfs (Dopey) who followed*.
How did Americans miss the obvious media reflections and not recognize the detour sign in the road dead ahead? Network schedulers brazenly predicted catastrophe: Breaking Point followed The Outer Limits. New soap opera titles, optimistic since JFK took office, suddenly hinted where fate would soon take us: to General Hospital, with The Doctors. Even the Teen Idol pop charts supplied us with easy clues as of the impending pain. (Don’t you know it’s) The End of the World (It ended when I lost you.) topped the charts for seven straight weeks in 1963 and Can’t Get Used to Losing You climbed to #7.
On Friday, November 22, 1963 Walter Cronkite interrupted the soap opera As the World Turns
to announce The President has been shot!
1963 from my free pop culture ebook
*Dwarf Presidents since JFK: LBJ (Grumpy), Nixon (Trickie Dickie), Ford (Klutzie),
Carter (Bashful), Reagan (Bonzo), Bush Sr (Wimpy), Clinton (Slick Willie), Dubya (Dopey) and Obama (Bashful Jr).
Will America ever have a real president again…like Abe, Teddy, FDR, Ike or JFK?
The real origin of American Thanksgiving
.We all know the sweet Thanksgiving story taught to us in school, but recently old official Dutch records revealed the dark side of our great American tradition:
In late November of 1637, a force of colonists (with the help of a bunch of Blackwaterish paid Dutch mercenaries) trapped an entire tribe of seven hundred unarmed Pequot Indians celebrating their corn harvest in the village long house near the mouth of the Mystic River.
Captain John Mason shocked and awed the camp with “fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk.”
Compassionate conservative Christians set the windowless building on fire and slaughted these peaceful Native Americans (unarmed men, women and children) one by one as they tried to escape the blazing inferno. “To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice to the great delight of the Pilgrims, and they gave praise thereof to God,” said the Cap.
For 66 years thereafter the Pilgrims celebrated the date as a Day of Thanks. In 1704 Massachusetts Governor Dudley declared a “General Thanksgiving” state holiday and soon after the day became a National Holiday to celebrate the Holocaust/Genocide of Red Man and Woman:
“[God’s] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors… In defeating and disappointing…. the expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands,” said the Gov. Link to article
I will say a prayer for the Pequot Indians before Thanksgiving dinner as I do each year.
Speaking of Turkey Day, Ben Franklin campaigned hard to make the wild turkey our National Bird but was outvoted.
Buy Nothing Day- My Favorite Holiday
AdBusters Buy Nothing Day.It’s so easy to celebrate: For just one day each year (Black Friday following Thanksgiving)
BUY NOTHING! Strike fear into the hearts of the Great White Corporate Shark!
The sales are nothing but crap they couldn’t unload during the first 11 months and now
they must clear the shelves to sell you more crap for XMas.
To help save America fill your gas tank and fridge on Wed and enjoy friends and family. Buy nothing…and I mean NOTHING!
Or, just for fun dress up like zombies with your posse and head down to the mall or Walmart.
Push empty shopping cart around and clog up the aisles…
.…Or, ask yourself, “What would Jesus Buy on Black Friday?”
.Buy Nothing Day is growing worldwide but you won’t hear about it on American Corporate Mass Media.
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December 7- Pearl Harbor Day…and The Great Decider
.I’m confused…Eight years and a TRILLION DOLLARS and 4400 of our finest kids dead and 100,000 or so innocent Iraqis likewise later…
Why did we invade we Iraq? WMDs? WTF?!!!
Weapons of Mass Destruction was a term madeup by the Big Oil, War Profiteers and Fox News.
Scary, and yet elusive and FICTIONAL like the Bogeyman.
Today Iraq is about to become a batshit crazy nation of religious fanatics with close ties to Iran…
Thanks to the USA. What did we win? contact Greg ..a decorated Vietnam vet.
Merry Christmas
If I hear another Christmas song I think I’m gonna puke!
I am a long-time fan of the great Constructive Anarchist David Rovics
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.Ah, yes. The North was slush in 2007 and gone in 2008 because our generation didn’t care.
How will we explain that to our kids and grandkids? Perhaps a happy tune:
NO TOYS ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY by Greg Giacona
There’s G no toys on D this Christmas G day.The C North pole has Em melted D away.
C It really is a D shame, Global G warming is to Em blame.
And C Santa’s mail got G dumped into theD bay
2- My Christmas list splashed down in icy water
And, sadly it was gobbled by an otter
…swallowed by a polar bear who really doesn’t care
if I get my toys and every Harry Potter
3- No presents beneath the Christmas tree
Cause my mom still drives her SUV
Dad’s rolling in his Hummer and freezes us in summer
So I’ll never get to sit on Santa’s knee
4- A Russian flag no flies on Santa’s workshop
at the bottom of the deep blue sea
Godless Commies now own Christmas and Santa sure will miss us
But he’s got no toys to give to you and me.
5- No toys beneath the Christmas tree
Cause my mom still drives her SUV
It really is a shame, Global warming is to blame
So I’ll never get to sit on Santa’s knee
Cause he’s C got no toys to D give to you and G me.
NY Times- Russia Plants Underwater Flag at North Pole.
Below: Worst version so far…but, thanks for trying.
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Ballad of Tiger Woods Xmas song, Buy War Toys For Christmas by Roy Zimmerman, Christmas Is Pain by Roy Zimmerman (doing his best Bobby Zimmerman), Chanukha Song By Adam Sandler, Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer A Christmas Classic! Often heard on Dr Demento before you were born. Bohemian Christmas Rhapsody, There’s No Toys on this Xmas Day Cause the North Pole has Melted Away by the Clonemasters, Santa Baby By Eartha Kitt
Print out and send this Christmas card to your Uncle Bubba
Santanarchy!
Boing Boing TVAbout this time each year thousands of EVIL SANTAS attack American cities!
From Wikipedia In 1994, the Cacophony Society staged the first SantaCon in San Francisco. Influenced by the surrealist movement, Discordianism, and other subversive art currents, the Cacophonists decided to celebrate the Yule season in a distinctly anti-commercial manner, by mixing guerrilla street theatre, pranksterism, and public intoxication. In subsequent years, SantaCon evolved, spawning many different versions of the event throughout the world.
Local Cacaphony Societies have staged SantaCons in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, San Jose,Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Austin Texas, Vancouver, London, Tokyo, and McMurdo Station in Antarctica. By 2003, the idea had spread to almost 30 cities in four countries. In 2005, enough Santas participated in the Washington DC Santarchy to encircle the Washington Monument.
Fight them at the North Pole so we don’t have to fight them here!
I barely survived these terrorists in SF last year as they hopped from bar to bar and bullied innocent tourists.
Where is Homeland Security? 1995 SF Santarachy Police Report
9/11
Arizona and Martin Luther King Day…Did you notice he’s black?
.1983: Ronald Reagan and Coretta Scott King at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day signing ceremony.
1986: an Arizona holiday honoring King had been declared, through an executive order by Governor Bruce Babbitt after the holiday bill failed in the state legislature.
1987: Newly-elected Governor Evan Mecham rescinded the holiday on the grounds that the holiday had been illegally created.
The Cardinals relocated from St. Louis, Missouri to the Phoenix, Arizona area in 1988 and the NFL was eager to hold a Super Bowl in that state. but then
Arizona voters rejected the 1990 initiative to create a King holiday…The final racist straw.
Tempe, AZ had been scheduled to host the 27th Super Bowl in 1993, but African Americans refused to play. The game was moved to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl.
Two years after the loss of $500 million in major convention business and the 1993 Super Bowl, Arizona became the first and only state to popularly vote for and pass a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
Published by Nick at 01:02 AM on January 15, 2011