Tuesday On Turtle Island

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1. “We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you,” Riddhi Patel, the co-founder of the local chapter of the Sunrise Movement, told members of the Bakersfield City Council.

   That’s when the councilors should show her their open carry, if it wasn’t California…., and say “Bring it on b*tch”.

   1. But she wasn’t complaining about degenerate literature being foisted upon children. Huge difference.

2. One small glimmer of hope in the Paris news. The Afghan idiot who murdered two other Afghan roommates tried to burn the place to hide the crime and ended up trapping himself and had to jump out the window. Evil as hell, but not very smart. Darwinism may protect us yet.

   1. Oh, I so agree with you! I once read that the average IQ of an Israeli is 120. The average IQ of the countries surrounding Israel is 80. You do the math!

3. Happy St. George’s Day!

   1. Good call! +

4. I don’t understand why politicians don’t go straight for the rhetorical jugular and accuse their opponents of eating babies.

   1. A Modest Proposal…

5. Bizarro World writ large. The world has turned completely upside down. The lunatics are running the asylum. Jan. 6 protesters were, at least, pro American. Thanks Obama!

   The Second Coming – William Butler Yeats

   Turning and turning in the widening gyre
   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
   Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
   Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
   The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
   The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
   The best lack all conviction, while the worst
   Are full of passionate intensity.

   Surely some revelation is at hand;
   Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
   The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
   When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
   Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
   A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
   A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
   Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
   Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
   The darkness drops again; but now I know
   That twenty centuries of stony sleep
   Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
   And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
   Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

6. I bought and read “Grave Error”. There is nothing untoward or disrespectful in any of the articles contained within the book. There is a question of the validity of GPR (ground penetrating radar) as a means of reaching viable conclusions. There is a lot of history surrounding the sites on which the GPR technique was applied. And in almost all cases, there is the correct conclusion that to resolve the disagreement about the facts, digging on the sites will be required, no disrespect to native burial customs implied or stated. Without the proper excavation and publication of the results of same, we are back to hearsay.

   Too many decisions are being made by the Federal government absent factual data, like the carbon tax as an example. The First Nations mass graves argument is yet another.

   1. >There is a question of the validity of GPR (ground penetrating radar) as a means of reaching viable conclusions.

      No. There’s no question.

      GPR cannot detect what they claimed, and anyone who has ever used GPR – or even watched an episode of Time Team, FFS – knows this. This whole issue is the equivalent of the journalist who tweeted a pic of discarded silicone earplugs asking if they were rubber bullets. The Kamloomps band should have been laughed out of the news cycle from day one.

      1. I read that the company doing the GPR in all of these “alleged” burial grounds was SNC Lavalin. You know, the same company that Trudeau protected by firing his Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould when she refused to let them off the hook for bribing officials in Libya.

   2. What were the burial cultures of the first immigrants prior to contact with the churches?

      The Haida Gawaii burned their dead, not sure about the rest.