October 10, 2005
Crowning Columbus
By David Yeagley
October 10, 2005 American Indians have made Columbus the focus of all resentment in the Western Hemisphere. For the sake of condemning him, all indigenous people here are willing to dismiss their own different cultures, languages, religions, and nations, to unite in a global drone of disdain for Europe’s greatest explorer. But this grand intertribal, international pow-wow of protest has missed the mark. Columbus deserves a different kind of honor.
What he should be honored for is his unique bravery… Everyone knows Columbus wasn’t the first non-Indian person to set foot in the Americas. The Vikings were apparently first, though everyone else these days is claiming to have been first, like the Africans, the Arabs, the Chinese, and even the Irish. What Columbus did was to chart a map, and create a reliable path, which others followed in shiploads. For this, he is held up as the cause of all evil in the Western Hemisphere.
As a Comanche, I see Columbus as a daring, triumphant man. My people had a great penchant for exploring…There is oral tradition recalling certain Comanche raiding bands which had seen men with tall green feathers in the far south. This suggests that Comanches had wandered all the way down to the Yucatan (and did a lot of plundering along the way, in fact)… It doesn’t matter that there was already a civilization there. The point is that the Comanches were striking out into a brave new world, for them. They certainly didn’t consider it a crime.
And neither did Columbus…Columbus did what all brave men do. He went where no man had gone before—at least as far as he knew, on the route he took…Columbus was a scientist, much more than a sailor or an explorer. The world was his laboratory, the earth his beaker, and his own heart the Bunsen burner that kept the vision alive. Great men are compulsive and determined. Weaker men become discouraged and quit…
Columbus is entirely innocent of what developed after him. None of that drove him. Aftermath can be attributed to him only in the most artificial, generalized, “academic” theory, the kind for which our modern universities have become lately infamous…That Indians should ride this fabricated wave of prejudice is truly an irony…They will condemn Columbus for all that ensued, but they won’t honor the man for his simple, personal accomplishment: he was true to himself—and this they hate. Columbus had a profound vision, and persevered until he accomplished it…Columbus Day should honor Columbus. It’s not about European Civilization
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19773
You can trust you local College Anthropology Prof…
…El-Haj, it seems, is not really an archeologist. There is not the slightest evidence that she has ever seen the work of Israeli archeologists, ever visited a dig…
October 10, 2005 Nadia Abu El-Haj, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard, is listed among the members of the MEALAC faculty at Columbia. A graduate student at Duke University, she turned her doctoral thesis into a book: “Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.” One admiring reviewer (from the University of Chicago) said the book offers “an anthropology of colonialism and nationalism, which follows Foucault and Said” in which “she points to the convergence of archeology’s project with that of colonialism.” Others have not been so kind.
For this book is…is a relentless attack on how and why Israelis, Jews really, have done archaeology in the land they have the audacity to call Israel. For the past, like the present, is merely a cruel and daring fiction foisted on the world at the expense of Palestinians… to claim the land and its history for modern Israel, and of course to dispossess Palestinians and their “claim” to the past.
But El-Haj, it seems, is not really an archeologist. There is not the slightest evidence that she has ever seen the work of Israeli archeologists, ever visited a dig, ever studied the history of the development of Israeli archeology, ever inquired as to how Israeli archeologists choose the sites they do choose for. She appears not to have any record of the kinds of artifacts the Israeli archeologists, often working with Western, non-Israeli and non-Jewish colleagues, have discovered, catalogued, and meticulously studied.
…That such a book was written, and published, is a disgrace. That its author was, at a time when hundreds or indeed thousands of worthy graduate students in this and related fields cannot find employment, was given a job at Columbia, is deplorable.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19779
Last week it was the Univ of Oklahoma, this week Georgia Tech?
Three explosive devices found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning were part of a "terrorist act," an Atlanta police official said.
One of the devices exploded, injuring the custodian who found them inside a plastic bag. Two others were detonated by a bomb squad…"It is a terrorist act at this point and depending on the outcome of the investigation it potentially could become a federal violation as well," said Major C.W. Moss of the Atlanta Police Department.
The custodian found the three devices about 9 a.m. in a plastic-type garbage bag, Moss said. When he picked up the bag, one exploded, as it was designed to do when handled. The explosives were made up of chemicals placed inside plastic bottles and could have seriously injured someone, officials said. Numerous agencies were on the Georgia Tech campus to search for suspects…
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70306
Interesting Analysis of OU’s bombing shows how the “mainstream” press and others were not very forthcoming:
http://www.aim.org/guest_column_print/4077_0_6_0/
Thanks for Internet news and bloggers!
Real men play two football games in one day
After 106 points and eight quarters, players from Northwestern College, a Division III school in St. Paul, went to bed twice as sore as on a usual Saturday evening but with very unusual results: two wins, the product of the first-known doubleheader in NCAA history. The Eagles had scheduling conflicts that led school officials to coordinate this two-games-in-one-day rarity, a noon tilt with Trinity Bible College they won 59-0 and an evening contest at nearby Macalester College they took 47-14. … The logistics included a 6 ½-mile ride between games, hastily-eaten sandwiches, and lots of rest between games. Maybe the only problem for the Northwestern players: the lack of fresh pants. The Eagles wore their black home jerseys in the afternoon and changed into fresh white jerseys in the evening, but wore the same dirty, sweaty pants and hardware in each. "It was really strange putting wet pads back on," said sophomore Sean Yates.
(Trinity Bible College drew national attention for a 105-0 defeat to Rockford College in Illinois in 2003). The team even had a book written about it, titled "Keeping the Faith: In the Trenches with College Football's Worst Team.")
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2005-10-08-cfb-doubleheader_x.htm
Ten arrested in raids against groups linked to al-Zarqawi
October 10, 2005 ISLAMIC terrorist suspects arrested in a series of raids at the weekend are believed to be members of a group recruiting young Muslims in Britain to fight coalition troops in Iraq. The men, most of whom are thought to be Iraqi refugees living in the UK, are suspected of having ties to a group linked to alQaeda. The group is reported to have been plotting a wave of car bomb attacks across Britain and Europe.
The arrests follow concern at the increasing numbers of “jihadis” who are being sent from Britain to join insurgent groups abroad.
...Undercover officers have been investigating the group’s finances, smuggling routes and reported links with known terror leaders such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has orchestrated scores of bomb attacks against US and British soldiers in Iraq and the murders of western hostages such as Ken Bigley.
…Police and community leaders have been appealing to local Muslim populations to report any suspicious behaviour following the attacks on London’s transport system. (yeah, good luck!)
...Using their British or European passports, these men can still easily cross borders posing as students, volunteer aid workers or travellers going to visit family. Intelligence agencies say many recruits have slipped into Iraq through its long, porous border with Syria...Their numbers are not crucial to the likes of al-Zarqawi, but their propaganda value is enormous. So too are the finances these UK-based recruitment groups can provide.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C22989-1819137%2C00.html
McCain’s Blunder (McCain gave us Harriet Miers)
Mark R. Levin
October 06, 2005 [One of the arguments for W’s decision to select Harriet Miers is]…there are not enough Republican votes in the Senate to win an ideological fight over a nominee like Michael Luttig, Edith Jones, or Janice Rogers Brown. ...The fact is that this Gang of 14 moderates, led by Senator John McCain, did make it much more difficult for the president to win an ideological battle over a Supreme Court nominee. The Democrats did, in fact, send warnings that they were prepared to filibuster the second nominee. And under such circumstances, the president would have needed 60 votes to confirm his candidate, not 51…
..Lest we forget, Majority Leader Bill Frist and the overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues were poised to defeat the unprecedented and frequently used (or threatened) filibuster tactics that had been unleashed against President Bush by the Democrats to weaken his appointment power. The big media editorialized against it. George Will wrote at length against it ...And Bill Kristol's favorite presidential candidate in 2000, John McCain, the leader of the Gang of 14, was all over the media making clear he would torpedo such an effort...
http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200510061349.asp
By David Yeagley
October 10, 2005 American Indians have made Columbus the focus of all resentment in the Western Hemisphere. For the sake of condemning him, all indigenous people here are willing to dismiss their own different cultures, languages, religions, and nations, to unite in a global drone of disdain for Europe’s greatest explorer. But this grand intertribal, international pow-wow of protest has missed the mark. Columbus deserves a different kind of honor.
What he should be honored for is his unique bravery… Everyone knows Columbus wasn’t the first non-Indian person to set foot in the Americas. The Vikings were apparently first, though everyone else these days is claiming to have been first, like the Africans, the Arabs, the Chinese, and even the Irish. What Columbus did was to chart a map, and create a reliable path, which others followed in shiploads. For this, he is held up as the cause of all evil in the Western Hemisphere.
As a Comanche, I see Columbus as a daring, triumphant man. My people had a great penchant for exploring…There is oral tradition recalling certain Comanche raiding bands which had seen men with tall green feathers in the far south. This suggests that Comanches had wandered all the way down to the Yucatan (and did a lot of plundering along the way, in fact)… It doesn’t matter that there was already a civilization there. The point is that the Comanches were striking out into a brave new world, for them. They certainly didn’t consider it a crime.
And neither did Columbus…Columbus did what all brave men do. He went where no man had gone before—at least as far as he knew, on the route he took…Columbus was a scientist, much more than a sailor or an explorer. The world was his laboratory, the earth his beaker, and his own heart the Bunsen burner that kept the vision alive. Great men are compulsive and determined. Weaker men become discouraged and quit…
Columbus is entirely innocent of what developed after him. None of that drove him. Aftermath can be attributed to him only in the most artificial, generalized, “academic” theory, the kind for which our modern universities have become lately infamous…That Indians should ride this fabricated wave of prejudice is truly an irony…They will condemn Columbus for all that ensued, but they won’t honor the man for his simple, personal accomplishment: he was true to himself—and this they hate. Columbus had a profound vision, and persevered until he accomplished it…Columbus Day should honor Columbus. It’s not about European Civilization
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19773
You can trust you local College Anthropology Prof…
…El-Haj, it seems, is not really an archeologist. There is not the slightest evidence that she has ever seen the work of Israeli archeologists, ever visited a dig…
October 10, 2005 Nadia Abu El-Haj, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard, is listed among the members of the MEALAC faculty at Columbia. A graduate student at Duke University, she turned her doctoral thesis into a book: “Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society.” One admiring reviewer (from the University of Chicago) said the book offers “an anthropology of colonialism and nationalism, which follows Foucault and Said” in which “she points to the convergence of archeology’s project with that of colonialism.” Others have not been so kind.
For this book is…is a relentless attack on how and why Israelis, Jews really, have done archaeology in the land they have the audacity to call Israel. For the past, like the present, is merely a cruel and daring fiction foisted on the world at the expense of Palestinians… to claim the land and its history for modern Israel, and of course to dispossess Palestinians and their “claim” to the past.
But El-Haj, it seems, is not really an archeologist. There is not the slightest evidence that she has ever seen the work of Israeli archeologists, ever visited a dig, ever studied the history of the development of Israeli archeology, ever inquired as to how Israeli archeologists choose the sites they do choose for. She appears not to have any record of the kinds of artifacts the Israeli archeologists, often working with Western, non-Israeli and non-Jewish colleagues, have discovered, catalogued, and meticulously studied.
…That such a book was written, and published, is a disgrace. That its author was, at a time when hundreds or indeed thousands of worthy graduate students in this and related fields cannot find employment, was given a job at Columbia, is deplorable.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19779
Last week it was the Univ of Oklahoma, this week Georgia Tech?
Three explosive devices found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning were part of a "terrorist act," an Atlanta police official said.
One of the devices exploded, injuring the custodian who found them inside a plastic bag. Two others were detonated by a bomb squad…"It is a terrorist act at this point and depending on the outcome of the investigation it potentially could become a federal violation as well," said Major C.W. Moss of the Atlanta Police Department.
The custodian found the three devices about 9 a.m. in a plastic-type garbage bag, Moss said. When he picked up the bag, one exploded, as it was designed to do when handled. The explosives were made up of chemicals placed inside plastic bottles and could have seriously injured someone, officials said. Numerous agencies were on the Georgia Tech campus to search for suspects…
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70306
Interesting Analysis of OU’s bombing shows how the “mainstream” press and others were not very forthcoming:
http://www.aim.org/guest_column_print/4077_0_6_0/
Thanks for Internet news and bloggers!
Real men play two football games in one day
After 106 points and eight quarters, players from Northwestern College, a Division III school in St. Paul, went to bed twice as sore as on a usual Saturday evening but with very unusual results: two wins, the product of the first-known doubleheader in NCAA history. The Eagles had scheduling conflicts that led school officials to coordinate this two-games-in-one-day rarity, a noon tilt with Trinity Bible College they won 59-0 and an evening contest at nearby Macalester College they took 47-14. … The logistics included a 6 ½-mile ride between games, hastily-eaten sandwiches, and lots of rest between games. Maybe the only problem for the Northwestern players: the lack of fresh pants. The Eagles wore their black home jerseys in the afternoon and changed into fresh white jerseys in the evening, but wore the same dirty, sweaty pants and hardware in each. "It was really strange putting wet pads back on," said sophomore Sean Yates.
(Trinity Bible College drew national attention for a 105-0 defeat to Rockford College in Illinois in 2003). The team even had a book written about it, titled "Keeping the Faith: In the Trenches with College Football's Worst Team.")
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2005-10-08-cfb-doubleheader_x.htm
Ten arrested in raids against groups linked to al-Zarqawi
October 10, 2005 ISLAMIC terrorist suspects arrested in a series of raids at the weekend are believed to be members of a group recruiting young Muslims in Britain to fight coalition troops in Iraq. The men, most of whom are thought to be Iraqi refugees living in the UK, are suspected of having ties to a group linked to alQaeda. The group is reported to have been plotting a wave of car bomb attacks across Britain and Europe.
The arrests follow concern at the increasing numbers of “jihadis” who are being sent from Britain to join insurgent groups abroad.
...Undercover officers have been investigating the group’s finances, smuggling routes and reported links with known terror leaders such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has orchestrated scores of bomb attacks against US and British soldiers in Iraq and the murders of western hostages such as Ken Bigley.
…Police and community leaders have been appealing to local Muslim populations to report any suspicious behaviour following the attacks on London’s transport system. (yeah, good luck!)
...Using their British or European passports, these men can still easily cross borders posing as students, volunteer aid workers or travellers going to visit family. Intelligence agencies say many recruits have slipped into Iraq through its long, porous border with Syria...Their numbers are not crucial to the likes of al-Zarqawi, but their propaganda value is enormous. So too are the finances these UK-based recruitment groups can provide.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C22989-1819137%2C00.html
McCain’s Blunder (McCain gave us Harriet Miers)
Mark R. Levin
October 06, 2005 [One of the arguments for W’s decision to select Harriet Miers is]…there are not enough Republican votes in the Senate to win an ideological fight over a nominee like Michael Luttig, Edith Jones, or Janice Rogers Brown. ...The fact is that this Gang of 14 moderates, led by Senator John McCain, did make it much more difficult for the president to win an ideological battle over a Supreme Court nominee. The Democrats did, in fact, send warnings that they were prepared to filibuster the second nominee. And under such circumstances, the president would have needed 60 votes to confirm his candidate, not 51…
..Lest we forget, Majority Leader Bill Frist and the overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues were poised to defeat the unprecedented and frequently used (or threatened) filibuster tactics that had been unleashed against President Bush by the Democrats to weaken his appointment power. The big media editorialized against it. George Will wrote at length against it ...And Bill Kristol's favorite presidential candidate in 2000, John McCain, the leader of the Gang of 14, was all over the media making clear he would torpedo such an effort...
http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200510061349.asp
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