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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Josquius

Right next to Nihonium too :hmm:
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Duque de Bragança


Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

Remember that guy called og something.
The weird Finnish lizard lover ?
We need more freaks.  How did they end up here?
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Razgovory

Quote from: Tyr on December 05, 2016, 04:54:04 PM
Remember that guy called og something.
The weird Finnish lizard lover ?
We need more freaks.  How did they end up here?

CdM shot him back in 2006 while he was visiting Washington for some reason.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Tyr on December 05, 2016, 04:54:04 PM
Remember that guy called og something.
The weird Finnish lizard lover ?
We need more freaks.  How did they end up here?

Paradox I assume.

citizen k


"Veterans Ask Native Americans For Forgiveness At Standing Rock"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtvZXvDN03w


http://www.salon.com/2016/12/05/we-beg-for-your-forgiveness-veterans-join-native-elders-in-celebration-ceremony/

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Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans at Standing Rock one day after the Army Corps announcement. The veterans joined Native American tribal elders in a ceremony celebrating the Dakota Access Pipeline easement denial.

Lakota spiritual leader and medicine man Chief Leonard Crow Dog and Standing Rock Sioux spokeswoman Phyllis Young were among several Native elders who spoke, thanking the veterans for standing in solidarity during the protests.

Clark got into formation by rank, with his veterans, and knelt before the elders asking for their forgiveness for the long brutal history between the United States and Native Americans:

    "Many of us, me particularly, are from the units that have hurt you over the many years. We came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke. We stole minerals from your sacred hills. We blasted the faced of our presidents onto your sacred mountain. When we took still more land and then we took your children and then we tried to make your language and we tried to eliminate your language that God gave you, and the Creator gave you. We didn't respect you, we polluted your Earth, we've hurt you in so many ways but we've come to say that we are sorry. We are at your service and we beg for your forgiveness."

Chief Leonard Crow Dog offered forgiveness and urged for world peace: "We do not own the land, the land owns us."

Despite the positive news, there is more work to do. "The black snake has never stopped and if they didn't stop at desecrating our graves of our ancestors, they'll stop at nothing." Young said. "So there will be a motion filed by the Energy Transfer today to continue the pipeline ... We are a peaceful movement, but we may have to make a move to protect our territory."







CountDeMoney

Trump is going to hate-tweet the fuck out of that.

Habbaku

Quote from: Tyr on December 05, 2016, 04:54:04 PM
Remember that guy called og something.
The weird Finnish lizard lover ?
We need more freaks.  How did they end up here?

Ogelkevinde.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

11B4V

Quote from: citizen k on December 05, 2016, 10:34:42 PM

"Veterans Ask Native Americans For Forgiveness At Standing Rock"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtvZXvDN03w


http://www.salon.com/2016/12/05/we-beg-for-your-forgiveness-veterans-join-native-elders-in-celebration-ceremony/

Quote

Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans at Standing Rock one day after the Army Corps announcement. The veterans joined Native American tribal elders in a ceremony celebrating the Dakota Access Pipeline easement denial.

Lakota spiritual leader and medicine man Chief Leonard Crow Dog and Standing Rock Sioux spokeswoman Phyllis Young were among several Native elders who spoke, thanking the veterans for standing in solidarity during the protests.

Clark got into formation by rank, with his veterans, and knelt before the elders asking for their forgiveness for the long brutal history between the United States and Native Americans:

    "Many of us, me particularly, are from the units that have hurt you over the many years. We came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke. We stole minerals from your sacred hills. We blasted the faced of our presidents onto your sacred mountain. When we took still more land and then we took your children and then we tried to make your language and we tried to eliminate your language that God gave you, and the Creator gave you. We didn't respect you, we polluted your Earth, we've hurt you in so many ways but we've come to say that we are sorry. We are at your service and we beg for your forgiveness."

Chief Leonard Crow Dog offered forgiveness and urged for world peace: "We do not own the land, the land owns us."

Despite the positive news, there is more work to do. "The black snake has never stopped and if they didn't stop at desecrating our graves of our ancestors, they'll stop at nothing." Young said. "So there will be a motion filed by the Energy Transfer today to continue the pipeline ... We are a peaceful movement, but we may have to make a move to protect our territory."



Build a casino and get over it for fucks sake. STFU Junior.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

CountDeMoney

Just never got over those John Wayne movies, huh?  :lol:


What is it with you Army types anyway?  Practically every one I've ever known has had a burr up their ass over the red man.  It can't just be the Little Bighorn.  :lol:

11B4V

Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 05, 2016, 11:11:32 PM
Just never got over those John Wayne movies, huh?  :lol:


What is it with you Army types anyway?  Practically every one I've ever known has had a burr up their ass over the red man.  It can't just be the Little Bighorn.  :lol:

:P Not so much a problem with Chief Big Dawg and the like as much as pussies like Clark Jr.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

CountDeMoney

I think you need to apologize to Iraqi tribal leaders.  For mailing it in stateside.   :P

citizen k

Quote from: 11B4V on December 05, 2016, 11:09:46 PM
Build a casino and get over it for fucks sake. STFU Junior.

The ceremony took place in a casino.