John Deering for July 17, 2016

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    Happy Two Shoes  almost 8 years ago

    The Trump Pence Toilet Paper Party military advisor Michael Flynn called for Ayatollah Khomeini to condemn the attack in France. Khomeini died 17 years ago.

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    Mr. Blawt  almost 8 years ago

    The Donald has selected one man who will stand by and agree with his crazy ideas until he is defeated in the fall.

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    Nantucket Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    I don’t see a fat joke here. Must be your own prejudice.

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    hippogriff  almost 8 years ago

    sueamarlucanMy maternal lineage really is Cherokee and you obviously know nothing about that culture (and/or resent your own to the point of promoting bigoted stereotypes)..The Cherokee were willing to adopt anything that seemed useful, and had firearms quite early (they also used blowguns for hunting in addition to bow and arrows, the only North American tribe to do so). Unfortunately, they had a poor choice of allies: British in 1700s and Confederacy in 1800s.

    They recognized the value of literacy so that five years after Sequoyah developed a written language better suited to their spoken on that the Latin alphabet, they had a 90% adult literacy rate (surrounding whites were only 30% literate. Some of the wagons on the Trail of Tears carried the press and type fonts for the Cherokee Phoenix, a bilingual newspaper with three columns in English and two in Cherokee (a syllabary takes up less space than an alphabet)..About the only things they did not adopt were language and clothing (most men wore turbans instead of hats). They also had adult adoption, which is how Sam Houston was legally Cherokee.

    Do a little research instead of believing all Indian tribes were the same as the Hollywood stereotype of the plains tribes.

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