tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post5664923403155252643..comments2024-03-28T13:37:26.314-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: The Tomahawk ChopGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-5852578012754737582012-09-27T11:23:44.127-04:002012-09-27T11:23:44.127-04:00My real question is by what right is Fauxcahontas ...My real question is by what right is Fauxcahontas offended? They're mocking the fact that she is falsely claiming that heritage. She has as much right to be upset as I would at having someone throw Polock jokes at me. Sure, it may not be in the best taste, but I'm not a Pole.MikeDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-65764944294279357072012-09-27T10:23:42.618-04:002012-09-27T10:23:42.618-04:00The polite circumlocutions I can live with. The th...The polite circumlocutions I can live with. The thin-skinned pearl-clutching designed to shut down discourse is less appealing. It's not too bad, I guess, as long as they stay in the parlor and let the other folks engage in free discussion elsewhere. Constitutional freedom of speech always has acknowledged restrictions on time and place.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-25716815274077363792012-09-27T00:40:00.638-04:002012-09-27T00:40:00.638-04:00My comment on the Seminoles chant/chop was intende...My comment on the Seminoles chant/chop was intended to be a FYI for those at large who might not know. I think I mentioned it mostly due to every story I read on the web concerning the Brown supporters chopping at Warren mentioned the Braves. <br /><br />Now that I read your post again I see that I must have glossed over your comment about Fla. St. and Sanders. <br /><br />I think I'll stick to trying to get my work done and leave the commentary to others.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />bthunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15789441349826379510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-44601832826289085652012-09-26T23:16:20.029-04:002012-09-26T23:16:20.029-04:00" I agree. Did I say something that suggests ...<i>" I agree. Did I say something that suggests otherwise"</i><br /><br />No you did not.bthunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15789441349826379510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-26214911828356598422012-09-26T23:08:32.545-04:002012-09-26T23:08:32.545-04:00My information comes from Aaron's brother, Ric...<i>My information comes from Aaron's brother, Richard Two Elk, and the information found in American Indian Mafia.</i><br /><br />I can't speak to your conversations with his brother, about which I know nothing. The "Mafia" data, however, asserts that its source -- I clicked on your link -- is based on FBI data.<br /><br />It is hard to believe that the FBI would not have brought anything resembling compelling evidence of rape by an AIM member to court. I've dealt with the FBI often enough to know something about how they operate. If this were serious intelligence, they'd have moved on it.<br /><br /><i>...Victorian women who supposedly would gasp and blanche if someone referred to piano legs instead of limbs...</i><br /><br />Give those ladies credit. They structured a way for social conversation to turn on the sexual, in all its pleasant connotations, without anyone being degraded by it. No one is hurt by talk about piano legs, but if we're talking about "legs," we're still having all the fun of talking about the sexual. I think the Victorians were smarter than us about that.<br /><br /><i>I believe the Florida State Seminoles can rightfully claim to have originated the chant/chop well before it was adopted by the Braves fans. </i><br /><br />I agree. Did I say something that suggests otherwise?Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-83777921609112402402012-09-26T17:09:21.437-04:002012-09-26T17:09:21.437-04:00"Scott Brown has to explain his supporters...<i>"Scott Brown has to explain his supporters' tone? But that's hopeless. I don't think there's any way to explain a joke to someone lacking a sense of humor."</i><br /><br />Particularly the home grown petulant parties of the perpetually put upon.<br /><br />May mood altering drugs be in their gub'ment health/drug coverage plans. bthunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15789441349826379510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-13073272637361875532012-09-26T17:01:22.787-04:002012-09-26T17:01:22.787-04:00A minor point, at least with respect to members of...A minor point, at least with respect to members of the pre-Columbian American heritage population (I put it this way since I'm of Scot-Irish blood but I consider myself an unhyphenated, native American, thank you) having a problem with the chant/chop... <br /><br />Having been a long suffering Braves fan, prior to 1991, <i>and</i> having a long time friend, at least since our Cub Scouts days in the late 50's, early sixties, who was a big Noles fan, I believe the Florida State Seminoles can rightfully claim to have originated the chant/chop well before it was <i>adopted</i> by the Braves fans. <br /><br />I'd be surprised if I'm the only one who remembers the chronology as such, but I just want to assign CWCID.bthunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15789441349826379510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-31990689875947121762012-09-26T16:50:18.039-04:002012-09-26T16:50:18.039-04:00Scott Brown has to explain his supporters' ton...Scott Brown has to explain his supporters' tone? But that's hopeless. I don't think there's any way to explain a joke to someone lacking a sense of humor.<br /><br />I know, I know. THAT'S NOT FUNNY.<br /><br />This whole business is starting to remind me of Victorian women who supposedly would gasp and blanche if someone referred to piano legs instead of limbs. Enough with the trembling lower lips.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21913026266066424882012-09-26T06:39:41.848-04:002012-09-26T06:39:41.848-04:00Rape, especially by members of the American Indian...Rape, especially by members of the American Indian Movement, like the murders at Wounded Knee '73, is a history still waiting to be discovered by the media. My information comes from Aaron's brother, Richard Two Elk, and the information found in American Indian Mafia. James Simonhttp://americanindianmafia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-58868280206768257502012-09-25T23:55:59.371-04:002012-09-25T23:55:59.371-04:00I don't know about things that are internal to...I don't know about things that are internal to his family, and I never heard anything about the accusation of rape that you raise. Having looked about for it this evening, I find no evidence that such an accusation exists. You may wish to document the claim if you want to stand on it.<br /><br />In Aaron Two Elk I knew a man, for a while in the early 1990s, who was at that time and in that place the kind of man one has to admire. If you're right that he wasn't always or everywhere that kind of man, he was once: and that's more than I can say for most.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-62047857122473246222012-09-25T22:36:44.950-04:002012-09-25T22:36:44.950-04:00Aaron may have been nice to you, but he wasn't...Aaron may have been nice to you, but he wasn't so nice to his brother, Richard, whom he beat, or the young girl he raped on the Trail of Broken Treaties in 1972. And some members of the much vaunted VVAW became Dennis Banks' private goon squad during the occupation of Wounded Knee village. When Dennis told them to take care of someone, they knew what that meant.James Simonhttp://americanindianmafia.comnoreply@blogger.com