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   walruscarver2000 said, 6 months ago

   If only….
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   Sure would have saved a LOT of trouble over the last 350+ years…
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   The migrating Indians moved in, devastated an area then moved on. They had no concept of ‘owning land’. They came from somewhere and had no claim to the property of America. I don’t see Canada giving their land back to the first people that lived THERE.
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   @walruscarver2000

   You and Mike L could practice what you preach and move out. Don’t let the border hit you on the backside on the way out.
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   taratus said, 6 months ago

   The first illegal aliens were the Piligrims as they left England in 1609 in violation of English law, the 1559 Act of Uniformity, which demanded that all British citizens attend services and follow the traditions of the Church of England.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 6 months ago

   @taratus

   Of course, the real problem was that the Puritans thought that the Church of England was a bunch of Godless Heathens that were going to burn in Hell, but the CofE wouldn’t let them preach that.
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   Chillbilly said, 6 months ago

   In the real Plymouth story, the holy men of the Mayflower killed, kidnapped and tried to enslave natives. They didn’t believe in celebrations or feasting.
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   lonecat said, 6 months ago

   @Mr. King

   There’s no point trying to correct Ima. He’s stuck in a very dull groove.
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   Omnius said, 6 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Ima – you’re a total idiot and racist, definitely a tea bagger. I suggest you self deport to Somalia, you’ll love it there – no government and plenty of guns you carry around without permits. Ha Ha you lost the election!
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    Omnius said, 6 months ago

    Too totally funny Luckovich, take Mitt the Twit’s dumb idea and let the Indians tell it to the pilgrims. I say let all the whining tea baggers who want to secede from the union self deport to Somalia, their promised land of no government, no taxes and no gun control laws.
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    walruscarver2000 said, 6 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    My ancestors met the boat, paleface. As for “devastating the land” you don’t know what you’re talking about and I defy you to find ONE reputable scholar who’ll support your claim. So do us all a Thanksgiving solid and STFU!
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    Rockngolfer said, 6 months ago

    There were three guys whe were asked, “If you were in the desert, what one thing would you like to have?”
    The first guy said “A compass so I could find my way out.”
    The second guy said “A big jug of water so I could stay alive.”
    The third guy said, “A car door.”
    Why a car door? “So I could roll down the window and get some air.” -Rachael Maddow
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    hippogriff said, 6 months ago

    Walruscarver2000: Like Will Rogers, whose ancestors also “met the boat”, mine did too – but ours met Oglethorpe’s, not the Massachusetts one. Missed the Trail of Tears, too.
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    Ima is an attention pig. I suggest you ignore its posts.
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    dtroutma said, 6 months ago

    Ima: as just one example, the short grass prairie did fine under the plains tribes, for millennia, with millions of bison to sustain them. Then came the railroads and the “great whit hunters” to murder the indian by murdering his source of survival. Then the “sodbusters” came in and destroyed that shortgrass prairie, and the “dust bowl” was the result. It took that nasty FDR and sound land management policy to restore, to some extent the land.

    
    BTW, Iowa, and much of the upper midwest was forested when the Europeans moved in, and those forests are gone. The west is likewise losing all forests, because “income” from the land is the only interest of the “corporate structure”. Now that we’re ignoring the AGW issue, the bugs are winning more acres every year in our forests, so let’s follow the Watt wisdom, and just cut them all down.
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