Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 13, 2019

There might have been more jokes about fish and chips, less about Arlo’s barbequing. Essentially this strip would have been Andy Capp instead.

If the Denisovans had continued on there is no telling what the world would be like.

I love the duck.

You know you would miss him…other than not knowing he could have existed.

(Irish and Chinese are reported to have known but not done much f anything about it other than fishing off Newfoundland and trade with California natives respectively…per Louis Dearborn L’Amour.)

I doubt there is much positive spin you could put on Columbus Day. Columbus and the Spanish brought wholesale slaughter to Caribbean islands as well as Central & South America. So called Christians enslaved and outright slaughtered people for gold and riches.

Sometimes I wished I wasn’t an atheist so I could believe that people like Columbus was roasting in Hell to pay for their crimes against humanity.

Janis looks like she walks mad.

Everything happens for a reason. Without Columbus’s New World “government of the people, by the people, for the people” probably would not have had a chance. All history is full of sins, but today we can pass to our children and grandchildren the best times in history by almost any measure.

WOW Happy Columbus Day?

Every experience and event in your past leads you to where you are today.

Not every thing in my past was pleasant but if things had happened differently I may have never met my bride. I’ll live with the pains of my past and be grateful for the joy of today.

“So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth….”

It’s all very true. My parents would never have met if it hadn’t been for WWII, and I and no doubt 10s of millions of us would not have existed if that hadn’t happened. And so on down the line back to the primordial soup.

The world is always shitty for someone.

Can’t change the past. Can try to do better with our present and future.

Religion has little to do with how people act.

HEY – where else in America can you see concrete trucks in a parade – Columbus Day in NYC. Yes they are red with green wheels or green with red wheels.

Ahhhh! The myth of the ‘noble savage’! Debunked here: https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/glass/vol/1/14.htm

The Scots discovered America !! Get real.

If Columbus hadn’t got the funding and ships from Spain? A few years later, Portuguese skipper Pedro Cabral was on a trading voyage to India. The Portuguese were good enough navigators that they swung way out in the Atlantic to catch favorable winds and currents — none of that B.S. about hugging the African coast the whole way.Anyway, Cabral got blown west by a storm and discovered Brazil. That was in 1500. We might be celebrating Cabral Day if Columbus hadn’t sailed.

Columbus, Bah! This is Indigenous Peoples day. The gift of the Europeans was disease and slaughter until only a few natives were left. The moral is to never be impressed by what one promises, but only by what they do.

I look at it as an excuse to chow down on Indian food, which Chris would’ve done if he’d gotten it right.

Meh. As a holiday this one is right up there with National Cheese Whiz Day. ALL holidays have morphed into commercialism to the max.

the same thing could be said for Ellis Island for all that passed through there.

for that matter, neither am I. What would be a nice gesture is for the US to acknowledge to the Native People that what the US Govt did to them was totally wrong. The trail of tears should be a day of remembering-like another memorial Day. Columbus Day should become Indigenous Peoples Day. A National Holiday.

Several States have changed Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. I am sorry to say, Oklahoma has not

I started questioning Columbus’ discovery of America when I looked up the routes his ships took on four different voyages. Not one of those ships got anywhere near North American shores. Just the island and parts of Central and South America. I also found out President Lyndon Johnson had made a proclamation that October 9th was to be Leif Eriksson Day to commemorate his landing in North America. Unfortunately, it wasn’t widely advertised as Columbus Day was more entrenched. It’s time to remove this holiday and replace it with Leif Eriksson Day. He and other Nordic explorers didn’t stay long and returned home. It wasn’t until the 13 colonies had started to establish themselves did Nordic people immigrate to North America. Statues of Leif have been erected one in Boston instigated by Eben Norton Horsford.

The real foolishness is, Columbus was WRONG.The flat earth thing was invented by a descendant to hide that he was wrong.Columbus thought the world was about 20,000 miles in circumference. Most Europeans thought it was about 22,000 miles (it is actually nearly 25,000 miles).Columbus also believed that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were the same ocean and it was only about 6,000 miles to the East Indies (the maximum distance a ship of the day could travel without taking on more supplies).Since he was wrong about the circumference if he had been right about the oceans, he and his crews would have died.

It seems ridiculous to celebrate an evil, brutal man who was WRONG!

I celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day!

Keokuk? I’ve been to Keokuk, IA and the streets there are not paved with gold

Columbus never made it to North America.

Here is how Christopher Columbus described the Arawak, tribal people living in the Bahamas when he landed there in 1492: “They…brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance…. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”