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  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Bosma, Long and Bauer audio all posted at http://www.indianabarrister.com. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:55 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz House has recessed until 6:30 p.m. Speaker won't say if they will get out of here tonight. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:38 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz IN House has reconvened. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:20 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Long also says his caucus has given in enough to Democrats and there's no reason to give in more. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:14 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Senate Pro Tempore David Long says there's no reason lawmakers can't adjourn right now. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:13 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Statehouse GOP leadership says a deal is being blocked by big labor demands by House Democrats. - posted on 12/03/2010 05:13 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Standing outside Gov Office. GOP leadership is reportedly in there. I don't have to be anywhere. - posted on 12/03/2010 04:48 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Watching the IN Senate negotiate with the IN House is like watching the Manhattan tribe negotiate with the white man, for the last time. - posted on 12/03/2010 04:36 pm
  • Abdul-Hakim Shabazz I am now convinced IN Senate GOP needs a UI bill more than House Ds need to go home before March 14. - posted on 12/03/2010 04:32 pm
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Happy Columbus Day?

There’s nothing like a holiday named after a guy who was headed in the wrong direction, “discovered” a place (the Vikings got here first) where a bunch of people were already there which resulted in most of them ending up dead or displaced.  Why do we celebrate this day again?

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Posted: 10|12|09 at 6:09 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • bit
    In the major cities of this country, where much of the power base lies, or at least OK, let's just say, East Coast cities plus Chicago...it is essentially the "Italian-American holiday" and woe to those political figures who might whisper about cancellation or cutting back, which is to say, if you have seen the "Columbus Day Episode" of the Sopranos, you might say they would be made an offer they can't refuse.

    People in Indianapolis by and large don't experience this because the Italian community was always pretty small and lacked political influence.

    I'm not saying it's a good idea, that's just a little more background.
  • Dave
    What will we do in these imperfect times unto which we've been born?
  • Dobie
    We celebrate Columbus Day because his voyage was the catalyst that started the colonization of the "New World". I can't dispute anything you say - but I am very happy the Columbus did what he did. If he hadn't (and no else did as well) - we all wouldn't be here. As for the Indians - I refuse to pretend that I am not happy that things happened they way that they did. If the colonists back in the 1400/1500s had decided that they didn't want to displace the Indians - we wouldn't be here. It was a war of cultures - and the Europeans won.
  • varangianguard
    So Zappatista, you're for honoring the Aztecs, the Inca and the Maya then?
  • Randyknowsbest
    Hey Columbus didn't even discover America, he discovered some islands around/infront of/ to the side of America.
  • Dave
    The least we could do is award CC a pieces of eight prize...
  • Summed UP. I have, for sometime, stated that this day should be renamed as "Rape and Pillage Day"! Quite fitting in this day and time.....
  • varangianguard
    American Indians are immigrants too, in case you might have forgotten.
  • Geg Wright
    The latest evidence is that American Indians arrived at lease 14,000 years before Columbus. However, we all are immigrants from Africa.
  • Dave
    Yep, according to Dr. Leakey, we're all African Americans.
  • American Indians do not celebrate this day.
  • varangianguard
    Banks.
  • Drew
    Who actually celebrates it anyway?
  • unigov
    Federal government employees ?
  • varangianguard
    A) He wasn't headed in the wrong direction, he was looking for something else.

    B) Well, for starters, if you had even been born (a debateable point down the alternate historical path), you likely would have been a subsistence farmer, or a low-level, backwater bureaucrat somewhere. Then what would we have done for entertainment in the morning?

    So, celebrate your existence, courtesy of Christopher Columbus.
  • Ahaha - good point! Well, i guess we just celebrate the day we were discovered and recognized.
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