Tag: american indian
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Without country
Last night at around 3 AM I was looking at a photo of an Iraqi man holding up to the camera eye a dead baby in diapers. I always wake up a couple of hours after I go to sleep and I get up and drink some water and read a little or work a…
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Torture and Human Rights Abuses – we gotta stop thinking of ourselves as the good guys gone bad because if the bad sleep well then America has had more than its fair share of many well-rested nights
Over at Nightbird’s Fountain the other day was made this post linking to the very pink Torture Tree. Someone remarked in the comments area since when did we represent torture and human rights abuses and we needed to stand for freedom again. As I noted in response in the comments area, I always feel like…
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To Phoenix and the Heard Museum
What I then did on my summer vacation. My dad had driven up to Cottonwood and spent three days with us there, touring around. Then on Saturday we went down to Phoenix for three days.
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The sky swelled and swelled…
I have on my desk, Kate of Broken Window’s “Sky/Map, an Earth Work Diary”. It is on Indian Burial Mounds. Beautifully presented and filled with beautiful photographs. The entry below the first photograph reads, The birth of the universe was slow and arduous. The sky swelled and swelled over decades and centuries, as stars were…
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Wabanog
I was going to make a post. I had made a post. But it is all screwed up in IE so I have to figure out tonight what’s going on in IE means starting over from scratch on this template and rebuilding it again and seeing what’s going on. In the meanwhile I’m going to…
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"Economics 101, no matter what course you take, anywhere, they’re going to tell you the two fundamental economic truths are scarcity of resources and individual, insatiable appetites"
I found the following audio via its airing on the Native Voices program. It’s from the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian Radio Broadcasts, the “Living Voices” series, “produced in collaboration with NMAI’s Film and Video office”, featuring audio profiles of Native individuals from across the Americas. I would just put in a link…
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Another happy July 4th posting – courtesy of the "objective" Ayn Rand Institute
The Ayn Rand Institute bills itself as “the center for the advancement of objectivism”, seeking to advance the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and free-market capitalism, spearheading a “cultural renaissance” that will reverse the anti-reason, anti-individualism, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist trends in today’s culture. The major battleground in this fight for reason and capitalism is…
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The rest of the story of our July 4th freedom happy holiday
Paul Harvey. “Not dead yet!” No, not Paul Harvey, who has a 10 year, $100 million contract with Disney/ABC Radio Networks, syndicated to 1000 radio stations, with listeners of about 18,000,000. “Not dead yet!” Paul Harvey, who my guess is would be all for capital punishment for flag burners, but has probably a few times…
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Write supporting the Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act
In my email: Proposed Legislation Would Put an End to the Slaughter of Buffalo Crossing Yellowstone’s Borders In a bold effort to end the senseless slaughter of America’s last wild and genetically pure buffalo, U.S. Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Charles Bass (R-NH) introduced legislation on May 18th to protect the Yellowstone herd. The Yellowstone…
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Techniques that profit nothing and fantastic invasions
Billmon’s left sidebar shows he’s reading Robert Gellately’s “Backing Hitler, Consent & Coercion in Nazi Germany”. I would post too in side bars what I read but the things I’m most influenced by I’ve been reading for 20 years, so wouldn’t be “things I’m reading” but “here’s my flesh and bone, looks suspiciously like paper…
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Back then “free†was a powerful word and the little arm hairs tingled positive not negative
More on Ward Churchill. Brief bio that calls to mind (for me) Lucas’ “American Grafitti”, a film that I am reminded of about once every two years at most so it’s not like my brain’s short list of synonyms equates all things 50s and 60s with Ron Howard. H.o.p. doing his online reading program becomes…