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2013-10-16 Thread Sam
I got the same article with no references. I wrote papers while at SUNY, I still want sources. . On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:24 PM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: Google October 28, 1495 columbus On Oct 15, 2013 11:20 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I can only find one

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-16 Thread Sam
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: Now you are making go back to my notes ... see inline. Bagging a hooker != rape I didn't say it was, I was giving you a pattern of men bragging about sexual escapades with women. I am sorry you are a man and

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2013-10-16 Thread Sam
He wasn't referring to Columbus, it was Nicolás de Ovando. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ovando Thus, on February 13, 1502, he sailed from Spain with a fleet of thirty ships. It was the largest fleet that had ever sailed to the New World. The thirty ships carried 30,500

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2013-10-15 Thread Maureen
Moloch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch The true ruler of the earth, or at least the politicians. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: I've been watching Sleepy Hollow and have now figured out that the Boston Tea Party was just a ruse in

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Vivec
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/10/14/8-myths-and-atrocities-about-christopher-columbus-and-columbus-day-151653 This is supported by a reported close friend of Columbus, Michele de Cuneo who wrote the first disturbing account of a relation between himself and a Native female gift

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2013-10-15 Thread Judah McAuley
Apropos of nothing, but that is one of the most awful, ungainly domain names I have ever seen. Could they really not find anything more succinct? On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote:

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2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
its mainly a paper print publication. the website has always been an afterthought. and with today's links and search engines, many companies believe the domain and url do not matter at all. (I disagree strongly, but I seem to be in a minority today) On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Judah

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2013-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
What do you expect. Columbus was Genoan. At the time Genoa was about the biggest slave merchants in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. So his behavior was thought as normal at the time. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote:

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2013-10-15 Thread Sam
1) Slaves were common, even the Aztec had slaves. He did not rape that girl nor can I confirm he knew his friend would. It sire is an odd thing to boast about. 2) The Casas awakening happened in 1515 during the Cuban Conquest. Columbus was already dead nine years. . On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at

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2013-10-15 Thread Justin Scott
What do you expect. Columbus was Genoan. At the time Genoa was about the biggest slave merchants in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. So his behavior was thought as normal at the time. Yes, at the time. I'm all for cultural relativism, but are these the actions of a man we should be

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2013-10-15 Thread Sam
What actions? . On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.orgwrote: What do you expect. Columbus was Genoan. At the time Genoa was about the biggest slave merchants in the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. So his behavior was thought as normal at the time.

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Justin Scott
What actions? Given the context of this discussion and all that has already been presented by myself and others, that is a question which doesn't merit a serious response. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

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2013-10-15 Thread Sam
So you don't know or are you sticking with the murdered millions theme? . On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.orgwrote: What actions? Given the context of this discussion and all that has already been presented by myself and others, that is a question which

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Genoa was particularly egregious back then. They traded between the Turks, Egyptian Arabs, the Circassians and the Byzantines. Just read about some of their practices at Feodosiya in the Ukraine for instance. These are not good people even by the standards of the slave traders of the nineteenth

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2013-10-15 Thread Erika L. Rich
Wow. I missed an awesome thread! I had to do a paper on Columbus for school last year. I had to use primary sources, originating from Harvard's library. some of these primary sources were indeed log books, diaries, books, written by Columbus himself, his friends, or fellow ship-mates, explorers.

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2013-10-15 Thread Erika L. Rich
Ugh. Typed most of that up in notepad, and it transferred weirdly. Sorry for the line breaks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion

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2013-10-15 Thread Sam
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: Wow. I missed an awesome thread! I had to do a paper on Columbus for school last year. I had to use primary sources, originating from Harvard's library. some of these primary sources were indeed log books, diaries,

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Sam
I can only find one reference to this: *http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/poca/POC-col.html * *Looks made up. . * On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: The WHOLE quote from his shipmate, Michele de Cuneo, in a letter from The Second Voyage, October 28,

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread LRS Scout
It's on a state college and probably has citations some place On Oct 15, 2013 11:20 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I can only find one reference to this: *http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/poca/POC-col.html * *Looks made up. . * On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Erika L. Rich

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Erika L. Rich
I'm writing a reply - hold your horses On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I can only find one reference to this: *http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/poca/POC-col.html * *Looks made up. . ~|

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread LRS Scout
Google October 28, 1495 columbus On Oct 15, 2013 11:20 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I can only find one reference to this: *http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/poca/POC-col.html * *Looks made up. . * On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote:

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Erika L. Rich
Now you are making go back to my notes ... see inline. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Bagging a hooker != rape I didn't say it was, I was giving you a pattern of men bragging about sexual escapades with women. I am sorry you are a man and haven't been

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-15 Thread Erika L. Rich
Here's a good excerpt from Churchill's book, Indian Among Us. http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v9/9.11/1columbus.html And a document I would love to see is Francisco de Bobadilla supposed 48 page document chronicling what he found after he was sent by the King and Queen to investigate complaints

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
Or like common core teaching us the 911 hijackers were freedom fighter while the people from the Boston Tea party were terrorists? . On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: Not in the slightest. They're intended to indoctrinate. For instance the Texas

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
It hasn't been proven to be less effective. They just can't prove it's more effective. But you knew that. . On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Why do people push to teach abstinence-only education when it has been proven time and time again to be

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
Because it's not true. While Columbus was no saint, this is mostly BS. Notice no references? . On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the textbooks changed? Isn't the

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I sure the two books that he references have absolutely no references either. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Because it's not true. While Columbus was no saint, this is mostly BS. Notice no references? . On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Sorge

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
I missed that. Howard Zinn? You have got to be kidding me. . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: I sure the two books that he references have absolutely no references either. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
yes Sam, it has. We have gone through this multiple times. And each and every time I provide about 4 or 5 different studies that show that abstinence education is not statistically significantly different from the controls of no sex ed. And I've also shown you a number of comparison between

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
again a story that is remarkably fact and content free. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Or like common core teaching us the 911 hijackers were freedom fighter while the people from the Boston Tea party were terrorists? . On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:22 PM,

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
I was curious, so I looked up the Common Core standards. Here is their list of text exemplars (illustrative of what kids should be expected to be reading in terms of complexity and content). Suffice to say, nothing in there is about 9/11 freedom fighters.

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2013-10-14 Thread Sam
You waving around that bs study again? Time to update your research Abstinence programs might work http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: yes Sam, it has. We have

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
so your evidence is 1 study conducted over a 2 year span with the age of kids at 12...I think the study may have to broaden it's time frame a bit to be truly useful. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: You waving around that bs study again? Time to update your

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
BTW that reminds me. From a Canadian point of view the people from the Boston Tea Party were terrorists. Moreover they didn't want to pay taxes on a war that they wanted and agitated for (sound familiar/). Nor did they like the deal the Empire made to ensure that Quebec would be quiet. The deal

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've been watching Sleepy Hollow and have now figured out that the Boston Tea Party was just a ruse in order for Ichabod Crane to sneak in and steal an occult object guard by a Hessian guard who was aligned with a demon called Morloch. It's on Fox, it has to be true. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
lets see i offered a meta-analysis of over two dozen studies, that used thousands of students as participants and published in a peer reviewed scientific medical journal. You use a newspaper article. But I looked at the article. Multiple flaws. mostly telephone followups. No actual std rates

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2013-10-14 Thread Vivec
spilt coffee. thanks ^_^ lol Was reading the serious posts before and this just ...came out of nowhere lol :-) On 14 October 2013 12:41, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.comwrote: I've been watching Sleepy Hollow and have now figured out that the Boston Tea Party was just a ruse in

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
No. My point is there were never any real studies, only one that was flawed. Now we have a study that proves we don't know the effects despite how many times Larry swears his study is conclusive. . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: so

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
Well everyone knows you hate America. We're talking about educating Americans. . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: BTW that reminds me. From a Canadian point of view the people from the Boston Tea Party were terrorists. Moreover they didn't want

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
So you dismiss this study? . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: lets see i offered a meta-analysis of over two dozen studies, that used thousands of students as participants and published in a peer reviewed scientific medical journal. You use

RE: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Roberts
thought he was off of the coast of China. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:37 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... Because it's not true. While Columbus was no saint, this is mostly BS. Notice

RE: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Roberts
ROFL! -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:42 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... I've been watching Sleepy Hollow and have now figured out that the Boston Tea Party was just

RE: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Never any real studies = no studies that support my fucked up POV... -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:46 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... No. My point is there were never any real studies, only

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Justin Scott
In other words abstinence education does not work and is associated with a potential increase in teen pregnancy rates. ... To look at it in a completely different light, what if that's actually the goal? Think about it... whites are becoming a minority (and already are in some parts of the

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
and he thought he was off of the coast of China. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:37 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... Because it's not true. While Columbus was no saint, this is mostly BS

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2013-10-14 Thread Sam
...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Never any real studies = no studies that support my fucked up POV... -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:46 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... No. My point is there were never any real

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2013-10-14 Thread Vivec
Really? So what else never happened lol...did torture and brutality during slavery happen? Or was that BS too? lol Since when did this region need to be popularised? Did the people living here ask Columbus to popularise and enslave them dude? On 14 October 2013 16:25, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com

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2013-10-14 Thread Sam
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Really? So what else never happened lol...did torture and brutality during slavery happen? Left field? Or was that BS too? lol Since when did this region need to be popularised? Did the people living here ask Columbus

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Unfortunately for the natives, come in and have some coffee in their language sounded JUST like i am your slave, here, take my daughters in Spanish. Just a big misunderstanding is all. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Really? So what else never happened

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
Yeah, I make that mistake a lot. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.comwrote: Unfortunately for the natives, come in and have some coffee in their language sounded JUST like i am your slave, here, take my daughters in Spanish. Just a big misunderstanding is

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Vivec
Columbus had nothing to do with it? So who was responsible, Sam? Who landed...went back...and then returned? And then wilfully proceeded with that course of action. Who wrote about it in his memoirs and left it for the record and posterity? On 14 October 2013 16:37, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com

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2013-10-14 Thread Justin Scott
But that's just stupid tidbits. The real BS was him slaughtering and raping and genocide et al. The main source for the comic was Zinn's book A People's History of the United States, which I happen to have here on the shelf. Got it... so this is all covered in the first chapter, pages 1-22.

RE: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Eric Roberts
They didn't keep it secret...they wrote a Saga about it called the Vineland Sagas... -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 3:26 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... Finding a continent and keeping

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Scott Stroz
Spoiler alert next time, please :D On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: I've been watching Sleepy Hollow and have now figured out that the Boston Tea Party was just a ruse in order for Ichabod Crane to sneak in and steal an occult object

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
He wrote in his memoirs that he raped and murdered entire cultures? . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Columbus had nothing to do with it? So who was responsible, Sam? Who landed...went back...and then returned? And then wilfully proceeded with that

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
And most historians and everyone that's not a liberal extremist claim Zinn's interpretation have nothing to do with reality. But if you think he's the go to source on Columbus nothing I can say will change your mind. . ~|

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2013-10-14 Thread Justin Scott
But if you think he's the go to source on Columbus nothing I can say will change your mind. I think the go-to source is his own writings. They paint a pretty bleak picture all by themselves as judged by today's standards. -Justin

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Judah McAuley
Sam has a well-know dislike of primary source material not produced by Breitbart. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.orgwrote: But if you think he's the go to source on Columbus nothing I can say will change your mind. I think the go-to source is his own

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-14 Thread Sam
Columbus never wrote that he raped and murdered people. He never wrote that he took 500 slaves, nor that he cut off hands and noses. He also didn't create a slave trade, that was already booming. He didn't mention small pox and its killing of millions. So I'm guessing you got that info from

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2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Sorge
This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the textbooks changed? Isn't the idea of a textbook to teach the truth? On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Why do people push to teach abstinence-only education when it has been proven time and time again to be less effective? A lot of times, people push to teach what is comforting to them, what they want things to be, rather than what they are or were. Cheers, Judah On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:53

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Wow. that rocks. Bartolome Day, indeed. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Why do people push to teach abstinence-only education when it has been proven time and time again to be less effective? A lot of times, people push to teach what is

RE: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Eric Roberts
Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:53 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the textbooks changed? Isn't the idea of a textbook to teach the truth

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2013-10-10 Thread Judah McAuley
culture originated on the East Coast and bears a strong resemblance to the Solutrean tool Culture of Continental Europe. Eric -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:53 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Sorge
-Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:53 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the textbooks changed

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Not in the slightest. They're intended to indoctrinate. For instance the Texas biology textbooks controversy recently discussed. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Sorge sor...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the

Re: With Columbus Day coming up...

2013-10-10 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Subject: Re: With Columbus Day coming up... This is what I always wonder. Why is it when we have this kind of information, why aren't the textbooks changed? Isn't the idea of a textbook to teach the truth? On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com wrote