08:45 – I watched the DA announce the grand jury verdict last night. Silly me. The announcement was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET, and I expected it to be over by 9:01 ET. I mean, how much was there to say? But instead of simply announcing that the grand jury had returned no true bill, the DA stood there talking for 40+ minutes before he announced the verdict.
So, he finally announced that the cop wouldn’t be prosecuted and, as expected, the rioting, shooting, looting, and burning began soon after. If I had been running things, I would have taken the opportunity to read the Riot Act and issue riot shotguns with #00 buckshot to all of the police officers, along with orders to shoot on sight any rioters/shooters/looters/burners they encountered.
I have nothing but contempt for those racist assholes who tried to make this situation all about race. It had nothing to do with race. It was merely a cop doing his duty, protecting himself and civilians by shooting a violent criminal thug who was in the process of attacking that cop. That cop did all of us a favor. The world is better off without Michael Brown in it, and would be even better off if the cops killed every other violent criminal thug.
I also have nothing but contempt for the mainstream media, who also tried to to make this situation all about race. Listening to them, one would think that every black person in the country thought that the cop should be hanged for murdering an innocent black man, while every white person in the country thought it was just fine for cops to murder innocent black men. The real truth is that the divide was not racial, but between those–black and white–who support colorblind enforcement of law and order versus those–black and white–who believe that Brown’s skin color should have given him a free pass to behave lawlessly.
Consider this. Had the situation been reversed–had Darren Wilson been a black cop and Michael Brown a white thug–those who support law and order, regardless of their own race, would have supported the black cop who defended himself by shooting the white thug. But those who are currently out there protesting, shooting, looting, and burning wouldn’t be doing those things had Wilson been black and Brown white. So who are the real racists?
I detest how people who have not heard all the testimony and seen all of the evidence jump to the conclusion that the officer was in the wrong and should be charged, prosecuted, and jailed. The Grand Jury chooses not to indict and they riot based on what? Their amateur “gut feeling” that the officer should hang for doing his job? This is just a bunch of delinquents with a chip on their should because they have been successfully deluded by the left into thinking their lot in life is the fault of everyone else and not the sum of the decisions they’ve made.
thinking their lot in life is the fault of everyone else
Indeed. As I’ve said elsewhere, overly militarized police are a real problem. But this case isn’t a good example of that. It’s not even about race. This is a case of a young thug being stupid. That’s not anyone’s fault but his own.
ABC radio last night stated that the crowd in Ferguson did not listen to the DA; they waited just long enough to hear the verdict, then instantly began rioting. They were not there to do anything BUT riot.
Being a Barbara-type prepper myself, the thing that really does bother me, is what if, when the event or events come that trigger things, this uncivil tearing down of everything in sight, is norm? I was alive during Watts and Detroit, and there was no excuse for either, — but they happened — just as this totally unwarranted violence that occurred last night.
One of the questions to the DA last night was preceded with the statement that — with this decision — police are killing with impunity. What? Robbing stores is no crime, but attacking the policeman who catches you is supposed to get a pass, too?
Salon sums up the Ferguson Grand Jury: “Last night’s ruling reaffirmed what we already knew: America is a white supremacist state.”
Straight Whitey Must Die! I’ve read a bunch of Tweets from Black libturds and celebriturds saying just that. (I guess Gay Whitey is OK)
I may jump off the overpass at the dam to make reparations. I don’t feel supremacist, though.
So, my question to Salon is….if Murka is a white supremacist state…would such a state have a black President, black Attorney-General, and formerly black Secretaries of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Not to mention countless Representatives, a few Senators, more governors, police chiefs, etc., etc. With said state having spent in excess of trillions over the last sixty years to help African-Americans with the schools, affirmative action, the Voting Rights Act, etc, etc., mostly to little or no avail???
But Salon has become pretty much just a media organ of the old Stalin-Mao crowd anyway; rich Bay Area libturds run the operation, and their writers portray a version of reality that is like unto falling down the rabbit hole in “Alice.”
Overcast seems to be changing over to sun and blue skis with the winds finally dying down; maybe I can work outside today.
No word at all from my last interview; this is due, of course, to the fact that no one in HR or recruiting or the hiring manglers actually works or does anything during any week in which there is a holiday. Nor during most of the summer. Nor the Xmas-New Year’s period. So I won’t hear anything at all this week. Which, of course, is also long enough to be forgotten, and the following week will be catch-up for them, of all the stuff they didn’t do this week, and then, gee, look, we’re into the Xmas season! Don’t have to do shit!
Straight Whitey must die, huh? Good luck with that. Straight Whitey needs to wake up and realize we’re still the vast majority on this continent and maybe, after constantly being spit on and vilified, we can think about quitting our self-abasement and groveling before professional grievance whores and pimps affecting to lead our poor oppressed minorities. Don’t like it here? Why aren’t you moving out to someplace you like better? Which reminds me of all those lefty turds and black agitators who moved to African countries back in the 60s and 70s; they got a nasty surprise; they were not only not liked, but held in utter contempt and loathing. And not looked at as black, per se, but AMERICAN.
As the jazz critic Stanley Crouch used to give as examples: “Black people wanna see actual white people? They should go to Switzerland; that’s where they make the real white people.” (I’m loosely paraphrasing.) Or: “Two Irishmen at Shannon Airport watch a plane landing; Pat Buchanan and Louis Farakkhan walk down the stairs, and the two Irishmen say “Hey look, two Yanks!”
[snip] With said state having spent in excess of trillions over the last sixty years to help African-Americans with the schools, affirmative action, the Voting Rights Act, etc, etc., mostly to little or no avail??? [snip]
Two points: First, the trillions of dollars weren’t spent to help Negroes / coloreds / blacks / African Americans {hat tip to Reggie Jackson} but to help the poor. Lots & lots of honkies have fed from the trough. Secondly, we’ve enough data to conclude that you simply can’t cure poverty by simply spending money. And yet the left in the US remains wedded to the notion that just one more government program or one more increase in funding will do the trick.
“Intel and Micron are going to kill the hard disk drive”
http://www.itworld.com/article/2851057/intel-and-micron-are-going-to-kill-the-hard-disk-drive.html
“That seems to be ending. Not long after Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive, Intel announced its alliance with Micron Technology will yield enormous capacity SSD drives.”
“The end of HDD? Samsung debuts a 3.2TB PCIe SSD card”
http://www.itworld.com/article/2694877/storage/the-end-of-hdd–samsung-debuts-a-3-2tb-pcie-ssd-card.html
“Well, now that they are getting the durability squared away, some are going for capacity. Several have released 1TB drives. Samsung just one-upped them all with a PCIe-based drive that holds 3.2TB.”
I’ll take a 10 TB SSD drive for $100 please.
Well, this finally realizes JEP’s long-admitted miscalculation that silicon would replace spinning magnetics about 30 years ago. We knew this day was coming, but when it comes, it happens much faster than we have been used to. Color TV took over 15 years to get just 50% penetration. CD’s took similarly long to replace vinyl. But truly big SSD’s are less than 5 years old and already the death knell sounds for spinning drives.
“Lots & lots of honkies have fed from the trough.”
Yes, I realize that; most people don’t. Few people want that trough to be taken away and lots don’t even know they’re feeding from it, too. It may disappear anyway and then we’ll see some fun times in this country.
“…we’ve enough data to conclude that you simply can’t cure poverty by simply spending money.”
Or fix the disastrous publik skool system the same way.
“And yet the left in the US remains wedded to the notion that just one more government program or one more increase in funding will do the trick.”
The smart lefties know this doesn’t work, but that money goes to them and their friends and the unions. Or if not directly to them, they get to control it.
“I’ll take a 10 TB SSD drive for $100 please.”
And I’ll take half a dozen 64-GB USB 3.0 sticks.
Overcast and windy again here with gray skies; we may get a couple or three inches of snow tomorrow night into Thursday but the I-95 Corridor is supposed to get hit with a foot or so. Or here in the village on the bay we could get nothing at all. Or we could get two feet. We don’t know till it hits us. An interesting little microclimate here.
The English language gains a new word: “So much for ‘Hands up – don’t shoot.’ It’s as I thought: Brown autodarwinated, bull-rushing an armed policeman he had already injured once.”
Alas, not new. That’s another one I thought I’d coined. I didn’t end up using it because a Google search turned up an instance of it from (IIRC) before the turn of the century.
Which is a really stupid thing to do, especially these days, even if you’re white as snow, given the default cop tendency now to light up the landscape with 9mm, .40 and 5.56 rounds.
And like I said before, if you’re a cop, you really gotta know how to deal with something like that before it gets to that point; one you’re at that point, and the perp isn’t obviously armed with anything, you should be able to take him down. We had endless training with this in the military, the military police and then afterward in the cop training; some of it that I had involved the non-lethal use of the PR-24 Monadnock baton, which you can make do all kinds of tricky things and get somebody to submit and ‘come-along’ without bashing their head in. Another item was the “The Claw,” a device about the size of brass knuckles that would latch onto somebody’s wrist or forearm and I guarantee you they’re going where you want them to go. Plus the popular sap gloves, with the knuckles loaded with powdered shot. And of course CS tear gas and Mace. Now the means used are nearly always borderline lethal; tasers, choke holds and the default crunchenticker spraying.
I’m just glad I got the hell out nearly 30 years ago, as it was all starting to go down the tubes.
Why? It’s not like there’s much penalty for the cops who kill “citizens” regardless of how much or how little justification there was.
“And yet the left in the US remains wedded to the notion that just one more government program or one more increase in funding will do the trick.”
The smart lefties know this doesn’t work, but that money goes to them and their friends and the unions. Or if not directly to them, they get to control it.
The money the left gets from the government tit pales beside the money the military-industrial complex gets. They are equal opportunity bribers. They’ll support any politician they think will give them more.
Rick in Portland
Most of these perps are hopped up on meth and other drugs. I don’t care how big or well trained the cop is, one or two are not going to stop the drugged up perps (many videos of one of these drug heads dragging around a half dozen cops).
Remember, the .45 caliber came about because what the Calvary was using in the late 1890s and early 1900s would not stop the well drugged up Moro Warriers.
Today’s Tazers only serve to make the perps madder and stronger. So today’s SOP needs to be a good triple tap.
More wisdom from a Green Warrior, who at least had the decency to admit he doesn’t have much of a science background:
The conversation, alas, moved on before he could enlighten us with the nature of the second kind of hydrogen.
This was in the context of hydrogen-powered vehicles which, according to him and either the interviewer or another interviewee, are the cure to global warming, the salvation of mankind, and the remover of plaque from your dog’s teeth. OK, fine, I made up that last bit, but they were going all fangirl about hydrogen, which was especially disturbing because this Green Warrior had a tenor voice.
Feebie stats, from one of my gun site emails today:
“The FBI has released the 2013 edition of its cheerfully titled Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. [Click here to read. Press release with summary after the jump.] Once again, the greatest danger the police face is . . . accidental death. The report reports that 49 police officers died in accidents (26 killed in motor vehicle accidents, two “accidentally shot” ). “Felonious acts” killed 27 law enforcement officers. All but one of those died from gunfire. Bad guys with handguns took out 18 cops, the rest used shotguns or rifles. Six of the cop killers were “under judicial supervision” when they pulled the trigger. The total stat represents a drop of 22 percent from the previous year. It’s also worth noting that America is home to around 750k sworn police officers. So a policeman has a .0036 percent chance of being shot to death by a bad guy. That’s one out of 27,778 officers . . .”
More wisdom from a Green Warrior, who at least had the decency to admit he doesn’t have much of a science background:
Steve, he’s right. He doesn’t have much of a science background.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/isotopes-different-types-of-atoms.html
There are three types of hydrogen, not 2…
Damn the Swiss! Can’t they leave Man’s Best Friend alone and just eat cats?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-26/bid-to-stop-the-swiss-eating-their-pets/5918842
“A political leader told us parliament won’t do anything unless people revolt,” Ms Tomek said. “The Swiss need to take care of this themselves.”
She’s right. The Swiss need to take care of this themselves.
Why is she trying to the the whole world stirred up over this?
If they outlaw eating pets, the citizens with those culinary predilections will just declare their animals food animals instead of pets.
From context, the “green” hydrogen was not harmful to the planet, particularly in terms of the dreaded carbon emissions. Presumably the other kind of hydrogen is generated by dread fossil fuels and we’re all gonna diiiieeee!!!!
Alas, the uneducated knob doesn’t seem to understand that, like money, energy is fungible. A gigajoule used in cracking water molecules is indistinguishable from a gigajoule used to run a data center which is tracking your every online transaction. Furthermore, a gigajoule produced by burning coal is indistinguishable from a gigajoule produced by windmills and bunny farts. Given that we don’t have hydrogen wells, hydrogen advocates might wish to consider this.
I will acknowledge that, if water cracking can be ramped up and down quickly, the storage of electricity as hydrogen can buffer the vagaries of most renewable energy production. Whether this benefit is enough to make up for inevitable inefficiency losses and the infrastructure investment is not known to me.
I forget the exact numbers, but I think it was something on the order of a gigajoule of energy to create 100 megajoules of mechanical output.
That’s an awful lot of heat loss to be considered in cracking water and converting it back into mechanical effort.
Then there’s all that left-over highly corrosive oxygen from the water. The safest way to dispose of the surplus amounts is to run a pipe up in the air and light a match to it creating more heat and water and ash (can’t tell what will be in the atmosphere besides hydrogen that the O2 might combine with) by-products.
I still have those 1960 articles and ads for carburetors that allow cars to run on water around here somewhere. Don’t those guys know about that?
Perhaps the best way to educate greenies about the amount of energy involved in producing hydrogen would be to get them a bicycle hooked up to a generator and a mechanical compressor.
Let one sit on the bike generating electricity while another one can work the lever on the compressor to create liquid hydrogen…
Looks like even bus drivers are exhibiting prejudice against certain segments of the population for fear of a hijacking this time of year…
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4829985024/h2E872079/
Good one, Mr. SteveB; I needed a chuckle this evening.
I’m all wrought up over the horrific tragedy out in Missouri.
Mrs. OFD reported to me that one of her erstwhile acquaintances from her Brown U. days long ago is now a Lutheran clergyperson in NYC and had always been super-PC. Right after the verdict announcement this dizzy twitch posted on FaceCrack the lines from the late Irish drunk poet Dylan Thomas that go “Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Mrs. OFD pointed out to her that this wasn’t very helpful, to say the least. Multiply this dame by the multitudes of Tweets and other social media commentary.
The funniest bit to come out of this whole thang so fah is Minister Fartinacan reading Obummer the riot act about his behavior, incompetence, weakness, etc. I bet a lot of radical types, progs and libturds are very disappointed that Obummer basically just carried on most of the chit the previous regimes had going. The next Prez will do likewise, and thus we continue to swirl merrily, merrily, down the toilet.
I’ll have a smidgen (only a smidgen) of respect for Fartinacan, Sharpless and Jackass when they get out there in their $5,000 suits in the middle of the crowd dressed in Walfart five finger discount clothing as the riot they have incited breaks out.
Oh, yeah. They also need to leave their bodyguards at home and deal with the unwashed masses by themselves, up close and personal…
All three of those riot-inducing scumbags ain’t worthy of scraping the bottom of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s shoes, whatever my opinion of the bishop’s theology and other matters may be. He more than once walked into the middle of rabid armed mobs to rescue people they were about to necklace. That takes a huge set.
Swiss eating their pets? Granted, traditions differ – my mother was always pretty put off by the idea of eating horse, whereas I think “yummm”. However, having lived here for 20 years, I’ve never run across Swiss eating dogs and cats, so the numbers here certainly are not very high. Possibly rural tradition? A bit of internet research, and sure enough, it’s a farm tradition, mainly in relatively remote areas:
“Stephanie P. and her husband farm in the Canton of Jura. For her, this is part of daily life. ‘The cats feel at home here, and they breed. When there are too many, we have to kill a few. So we eat them.'”
“A farmer in the St. Gallen Rhein valley says ‘meat is meat'”
Of course, “Animal rights activists are shocked. ‘We find this awful, just gruesome. … It’s just horrible, eating housepets'”. Of course, for farmers, cats aren’t pets, they’re just handy pest control. So it’s the typical reaction: “I don’t like it, so I want the government to forbid you from doing it.”
To the current situation: As y’all know, if you manage to gather 50,000 or 100,000 signatures here (depending on the details), you can force a change in Swiss law onto the ballot. They have managed to gather 16,000 signatures, which isn’t enough to do anything. Still, they’re going to hand their petition over to parliament, where they can probably find some member of parliament to present it to the floor. Where it will be voted down and forgotten until the next time.
Yeah, like I said: some people call ’em pets, others call ’em livestock. Farmers here tend to treat them as livestock, not pets, even if all they use the dogs and cats for is pest control.
Same with Viet, Korean and other SEA delicacies.
I once lived in an neighborhood where a resident’s wife brought her grandmother here from Nam. They managed to convince granny to stop kidnapping neighborhood dogs for dinner, but never did break her of helping herself to all those free newspapers lying around at the end of people’s driveways free for the taking on her morning walks, along with all the neat stuff people put in those garbage cans out at the street every week…
Apparently some Border Collies get nasty in their old age (>= 8 years) and start worrying their sheep, so they have to be “retired”. Some farmers do that with a bullet to the head, others just keep them as non-working pets. I know which I’d do.
Yeah, it’s a very small percentage that go rogue, but without warning one BC can slaughter dozens of sheep in nothing flat. It’s like they decide they’re tired of herding their flock and it’s time to kill and eat them. Few people work BC’s after age 8 or 9.
The other problem with any domestic dog is what they do at night if they’re unrestrained. A town poodle, greyhound, German shepherd, rottweiler, bull terrier can take an outing when there’s a full-moon, easily lope 10 or 15 kilometres an hour, find a flock of sheep a couple of hours away on back roads, “play” with them until 20 or 30 of them have their guts spread over a quarter mile or so, then go home and back to sleep in the back yard before dawn. Terrible if they pack up. I’ve seen the results. However, a single sheepdog that goes bad, lives only five kilometres away, and knows the area, is worse. A lot of them would never dream of attacking their own flocks, but have no such reservations about the neighbours.
This is one of the big reasons why a farmer or pastoralist needs firearms, irrespective of the local zombie or outlaw count.
Bob, the issue of feral dogs is definitely worth a mention, both as a danger to people, to their livestock (goats, sheep, poultry, even cattle and horses if the dogs are strong and fast enough), and as a resource (meat, hides).
Thanks. That’s something I’d not thought about. I just pasted your message as a note in the manuscript.
…and as for the matter of eating the puddy tats, as an Aussie I can swear to you that it’s a way better answer than letting them go feral. A feral cat is a fearsomely effective killing machine. If you let your barn cats get over-populated, some of them will start to starve. That in itself is cruel, it looks it, and it leaves them open to disfiguring, crippling diseases. Worse, it drives some of them out to destroy the local wildlife – the songbirds, quail, rabbits, reptiles, rodents, delicately ecologically balanced native wildlife in general. That is terrible in itself, a terrible slaughter of larks, robins, wrens, doves; but even worse in a survival situation it is a waste of resources you may have needed yourself.
This is one of the big reasons why a farmer or pastoralist needs firearms, irrespective of the local zombie or outlaw count.
I was dating a girl that lived up the road from me. She had a dog that came down to our ranch and killed a small deer. Saw the dog chase the deer, down it and then kill it before I could get there. I took the dog back to my girl friend’s house. Here father tied the dog up to the tree, the girlfriend and I were standing and talking when we heard a gunshot. Her father had killed the dog. Apparently when a dog has tasted fresh deer blood you cannot break them so the father stopped the problem immediately. The girlfriend did not talk to me for a week as it was my fault the dog was killed.
Well, duh. You have a Y chromosome. Check your privilege, man!
Check your privilege, man!
Ahem, WHITE man, Mr. SteveF
I didn’t wish to presume, and there are all sorts of privileges.
Interestingly, not one privilege needing to be checked is one associated with being a woman, or non-white, or non-heterosexual, or differently-abled.
Cool. I have Amerindian blood/DNA and am myopic/astigmatic.
Therefore I do not have to check my privilege.
Outstanding!
OFD: “I have Amerindian blood”
There was a Swiss TV special on the current oil boom in North Dakota last night. Pictures of all the natural gas burning off everywhere. Idiots – what a waste. Anyway, the point of the special was to compare it to the Wild West – lots of money flowing everywhere. Either you’re up, or you are way, way down. They interviewed one of the oil companies that is drilling on Indian land, and were told that the tribe was getting $half-a-billion per year in compensation.
I muttered a comment along the line of “wonder how they’ll blow all that, ’cause they sure won’t do anything sensible with it.” My wife gives me her patented death glare, for when I’ve said something offensive. I’ve lived near enough Indian tribes and their reservations, and that was the first thought to pop into my little brain.
So…five minutes later they come to the next segment, where they interview tribe members, of which there aren’t a whole lot. Individual tribe members are getting from $300 to $800 per month of oil money from the tribe, depending on how much land they own (now that’s weird, never heard of tribe members “owning” land within a reservation). They they cut to this picture of a huge yacht. On dry land, in the middle of North Dakota. And a couple of private helicopters. Turns out that the seven tribal elders have final say on what happens with the money, and they can’t stop spending it on stupid stuff.
What is it about the Indians that haven’t integrated into society at large, i.e., the ones living on the reservations? Were they born without brains, or did they have them removed at birth?
I’m so sorry, I’ll go wash my mouth out with PC-soap now…
What did your wife say when the yacht/helicopter segment came on?
We have the same thing in Australia. Mining companies mining stuff on Aboriginal land have to pay extra to the tribe for the right. The Aboriginies call it “sit down money”.
Apparently the gas that’s being burnt off just gets in the way, and it isn’t economic to harvest it. IIRC.
@Miles: It was kind of quiet… She knows I hold some non-PC opinions, but I try not to beat her over the head with them, and she tries to avoid issues where I might make too many blunt comments…
I’ve heard that about the Aboriginies, and it exemplifies the problem, doesn’t it? They may be able to “sit down” this year, and maybe next year, but what about the future? What about their kids? Amongst Native Americans I’ve known individual people who are exceptions, but they have all explicitly left the reservations. A tribe as a whole, demonstrating foresight, working towards a better future? Maybe such exists, but I surely have never seen it.
Re the burnoffs – I understand the economic justification: overproduction has depressed natural gas prices, so it makes no economic sense to compress and ship the gas. IMHO it’s still a shameful waste of an irreplaceable resource.
Hah. My wife, to a first approximation, never admits she’s wrong. Contrary evidence doesn’t matter.
“What is it about the Indians that haven’t integrated into society at large, i.e., the ones living on the reservations?”
Two quick very un-PC reasons: 1.) They were kidnapping, raping and slaughtering each other long before Euro colonists got over here, and the academic rumpswabs can bray all they want about the marvelous cities in the heart of the Mexican and South American jungles but I was never impressed by any of that. I hesitate to bring up IQ and suchlike, but they’re on that scale somewhere and it’s not good. 2.) Once the Euros got here, though, they found that if they continued to expand across the continent, the Indians were in the way, and thus began what is known today as ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and of course a long series of atrocities on both sides. Naturally our regime sent its most efficient former Union Army butchers to do the job eventually, Sheridan being among the worst in the previous war and this one. So then they were herded onto isolated reservations and no group so isolated and separated from the larger society is going to function very well. Given massive handouts, they blow it, of course. If we won the lottery here to the tune of many tens of millions and decided in our madness to throw a couple of suitcases filled with cash across the street to the denizens of the subsidized housing or a couple of miles up the road to that trailer ville, I’m pretty sure it will get blown on bullshit and not help anyone out of their mess.
“My wife, to a first approximation, never admits she’s wrong.”
I’ve got mine trained; she’ll admit when I’m right now. And many things from the past come back that I was right about. Conversely I’ll readily admit when I’m wrong. What do I care at my advanced age of decay and decrepitude?
You left out “eating”. Not all tribes, but it wasn’t just a few isolated incidents. Understandable; when you’re hunting game with stick-and-gut bows and sharpened rock arrows, you’re likely to have a protein shortage.
Oh my, very un-PC of you to mention that, Mr. SteveF; das ist verboten, as it sorta reminds some of us that it’s still going on over on the “Dark Continent.” As is slavery.
Whoops. My bad.
I am descendant from Lakota Souix. You know Souixsie and the Banshees. (Just kidding.) I have gotten very conflicting info about that heritage. First of all the connection is my dad’s father’s mother, who was born Lakota on the reservation. Great grandfather born in Germany was brought to the US by his parents, who settled there. When she and my great grandfather met, it was love at first sight, and she changed her name to Jane Brown, eventually just abandoning her heritage, although they had my grandfather and one of his brothers before leaving the Dakotas for Columbus, Indiana. Very strangely, when he died, the newspaper notice said he was a lifelong resident of Columbus, which the entire family knows was not true because he was born in Germany and raised in the Dakotas. Guess fact checking back then was unheard of — just like today.
Second is that every male in my grandfather’s family always used to make a big deal about how when the Midwest Indians kidnapped pioneer children in the region, it often took years to locate them. When asked years later if they wanted to go back to their white families, the women always said no. If I heard that story once, I heard it a hundred times.
Third, the Indian culture on the reservations still has not changed with the times. A few of the northern tribes (and maybe Florida) have taken advantage of the casino culture, but by golly, even there, they hire consultants and outsiders to set it up and often contract out running it. They are not participants in society as the Euro-Anglos have defined it. I saw that when I lived in Minnesota, and my son saw it when he lived in South Dakota for a year a couple years back; my girlfriend in Wisconsin also confirmed it a few decades back. For my great grandmother, it was a case of all or nothing: either they lived on the reservation and lived the culture there, or they had nothing to do with it. She chose the latter, strangely. As the mother of my grandfather and his brothers, that contradicted their story about reservation women not wanting to go to Anglo society. Wish I had been sharp enough to think of that when I was a kid and they were telling me that stuff. We are talking late 1800’s as the time period they were talking about.
I do not know how to achieve it, but I really think it is imperative to engage all ethnic and cultural groups in daily participation in society, and not to let them just sit around on tribal rumps or welfare money, isolating themselves from an advancing society. Same is happening in Berlin with Turkish society there. It is effectively isolated from German society. There were women in my German classes, who had lived in Berlin for 15 years and more, but knew no German at all. That is the prime reason I oppose ‘worker programs’, which is how the huge Turkish immigrant population formed in Germany. Not many cultures could be so diametrically opposed. Not a PC observation, but it IS the reason Berlin is unsafe — especially for women in certain areas. Don’t you dare touch my woman who walks 5 paces behind me and is covered from head to foot, but I’ll be annoying and raping yours whenever I please.
“Don’t you dare touch my woman who walks 5 paces behind me and is covered from head to foot, but I’ll be annoying and raping yours whenever I please.”
There it is. Succinct summary of the prevailing attitude.
And you might expect, though you’d be delusional, to hear complaints and outrage from Western, particularly Murkan, feminists….instead….crickets.
Just as when the Taliban was taking Afghan women to soccer stadiums and stoning and shooting them before jeering crowds of hadji mutants.