Feb 272016
It’s a crappy day. Lu did not come for my shower and to help me. She just called. She’s sick. I’ll just have to give myself a whore’s bath and do what else I can, while staying down as much as possible. ARGH! Lynn, I’ll need you to do the Monthly Report for February. Hugs.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:07 (average 5:25). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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For those who want a history refresher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident
Sorry your help let you down.
Thanks JL. I have read this before, but it cannot be read too many times. I have a very interesting book about the Oglala Souix, Wounded Knee, and the 1973 incident. Unfortunately it is packed away in a box with many other books. The movie "Thunderheart" is about the 1973 incident and I think very good at depicting some of the violence perpetrated by the GOONs and the feds. But it is a Hollywood movie.
Yeah, Lynn. "Thunderheart" was good as a movie. But history is more bloody than that movie shows us. Wounded Knee was the thing that got me into "activism". The details of that was so eff-in bad that I had to do something. Made me sick how they treated them!
''More than two centuries before AIM was formed, Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota chief who helped defeat Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, said American Indians would defend their rights.
“We are poor… but we are free,” Sitting Bull said. “No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die… we die defending our rights.”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/27/native-history-aim-occupation-wounded-knee-begins-153765
Sorry about your helper, and her being sick. What a day for you! Try and rest, and Thanks, Tom.
Too bad WRT your helper not being able to come. But the last thing you need is to catch another type of bug!
3:44 Thorny plant, thorny puzzle…at least for me.
2:52 I guess I am a bit prickly myself since I muscled myself in!
Cartoon — Has anything really changed? With the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls, especially bigoted, xenophobic Trump, and a do nothing Congress, nothing will happen. For justice to be done, it must be seen to be done.
I have the book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"..it also included the Sand Creek Massacre.."Thunderheart" was based on a Tony Hillerman novel, and was originally set in the southwest, 4 Corners area where he lived. But the place & tribes were changed to something more white people would know about & understand. The point was the same & the history behind most native uprisings were the same: bad management, greed & meaness. So it still goes on today, BIA appointees who don't know or care about the people they are supposed to help.
Yvonne, which book is that? I have read all his novels and don't place it. His widow has done a few things (Anne). I looked up his bibliography and still can't place it.
My spouse is Native American. I know the struggles that the people have with healthcare! Seems like we get the bottom of the barrel when it comes to doctors to treat Native Americans. Having struggles with the right now!
6:20 (5:25) Early this morning. They would probably wake me up more effectively if I had to handle them.
Please, make that a CLIMATE CHAMPION BATH! Same thing, of course, but gives you progressive cred instead of a sexist insult.
Cartoon – I am so sick of what white people have done, are doing, see no reason not to continue to do to people who are different from them in any way, but I am not going to start a rant here and now. Everyone else seems to be very capable of speaking truth to power, and I say go to it.
"Please, make that a CLIMATE CHAMPION BATH …"
Sounds reaonable
So sorry about yor sick helper and your pneumonia. I am blown away by all that you do; the daily entries with the cartoons and Borowitz articles; and your prison work.
Wishing you and your support staff good health!
Hopefully you will get a real shower soon.
Wounded Knee is another bad example of how native Americans have been treated, and still are treated by our government. Treaties don't matter if corporate profits are involved.
Sorry you didn't get to shower, TomCat, that must have made you feel even worse than you already did. But I'm glad you're putting your health first and asking Lynn to help with the monthly report.
Cartoon: Little has changed since then for Native Americans and the little that has, is reversed by the right wing by now.
I once knew the guy who designed the cover for "Bury My heart at Wounded Knee," never read the book, probably would have suffered some form of apoplexy if I had! What the white culture has done to the Native Americans, and continues to do, is simply beyond words!