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Hi and Bye!
Posted Aug 7, 2003
Got to fly. See you by and by, maybe even next week okay?
Take care everybody!
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Latest reply: Aug 7, 2003
Have a drink..
Posted Aug 5, 2003
but leave the bottle. I'm bizzzzzzzeeeee biz biz biz bizzz looking bizzeee.
Some drunks get mean and some get silly and I get mean and silly and funny. I'm funnier than hell when drunk. You can tell by all the drunks rolling on the floor under the barstools. See. Hah!! Hah!!
Ain't that funny? Yepppp
Okay next case.
In the matter of the first part overshadowing all the other parts let me just say if it pleases the court and even if it don't that there no small parts. There are only small partners or something of that nature.
This drip from the fountain of wisdom is brought Ponce de Leon Pontiac in Sarasota, Florida. Ponce wants to put you in a firebird in the worst way so come on out and help him out. You'll be glad you did and he'll be glad too and after all consumer spending is what's propping up everything right now and I do mean every little tiny thing you could think and more that you don't want to think of at least until tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow I'll stop sometime tomorrow or the next day or the day after that because it's sorrow tomorrow that makes me seem so bad that I can't find out nothing and don't give a damn crackcorn and I don't care.
You there Jimmy Cracker? You there dude? Whacking that pugnosed flush cheeked redneck. I love you dude and I love your blue tail fly my oh my. Kicking ponyturds so high in the sky by and by in the sky in the sky by and by.
I want you to know absolute that I'm on day two, or for the technically minded D2 and still going strong. Going to fly in sky by and by.
Loverly ain't it? H2D2 U2knew2fun2play2allU2foo2moo2cow2theprez2death2downwardandbackwardwegohohooops
Got to make another line too. Line 2 too.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala oops is that too far?
Nope not now. Goody.
I'm a rummy and a dummy and my mummy thinks I'm crummy.
Oh so crummy down and dirty hirty girty bong.
So long until D3 then FREEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!!
And on the third day she arose and fell in the toilet hah!!!
Clogging the precious indoor plumbing and bringing down
western civ no doubt bong!!! Bring out your dead!!! Bong!!!
Where's my friggin BONG!!!
So long farewell aufwiedersehen goodnight
I must be gone because I'm such a fright
DOODEEDOODEEDOODOERAYMEEFAHSOHLAHTEEDOE
Now everybody join in!!! Doe a dear a female dear hi dear
how's things at the office? dEar? You hear dear? You here dere?
WhereUbeendeer?
Gettiinn in some hah hah runnin form the law law laaaaaaaaaaa.
Bye bye
kshssish tinkle tinkle little star how I wonder waht you are
up above that world so bright like a diamond in the mighty
saves the day the mighty ones Xmen rated xmen oooo yep.
Down with monkey feet, there.
Going going done gone.................... oopssssss
Bing
bong the bitch is dead sticked bitch sticked bitch
bing bong the sticked bitch is dead!!
Hey ho the rodeo bulls and buck the show
bign bong the bicked ditch is wet.
WET ooopseee
Where's that friggin button? Oh ther
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Latest reply: Aug 5, 2003
Supposed to be off my soapbox...
Posted Aug 2, 2003
Yeah I know but one more thing just occurred to me.
Since America gained her territory mostly through fraud or deception, the title to the land is clouded to say the least. Therefore, anyone living on or utilizing that land other than native people are squatters.
They don't live in cardboard shacks of course which probably makes them appear to be some of the most successful squatters in history but they're still squatters even if they think they bought the land from the original thieves and had the titles cleared by the original liars.
And the way they're squandering resources they'll probably end up in cardboard shacks pretty soon anyways, which means there won't be no Third World anymore because everywhere will be the Third World, except for the gated compounds reserved for the rich and powerful.
So congratulations, Squatters. I hope you're as proud of yourselves as I am.
Maybe you should drop by the flea market and buy some more stolen property huh? Just somebody else's misfortune ain't it? Nothing you need to be concerned about, assuming of course you even have the capacity to be concerned about anything other than your own precious asses, donkeyherders through and through and more jacks than jennys I bet in keeping with the theory of the inherent superiority of old white guys.
Now, I'm not preaching okay? I'm just trying to be as sarcastic and offensive as you, only it's harder than I thought so I definitely need the practice. Bear with me okay? Maybe even spot me a few points until I get the hang of it.
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Latest reply: Aug 2, 2003
Effectively gone.
Posted Jul 24, 2003
While I might stop in from time to time to chat with old acquaintences here, my career publishing content for the BBC is pretty much over.
I've rescinded the implied copyright granted to the BBC under the previous editorial policies with prejudice, which means it's probably doubtful I'd even consider granting them copyright if I were being paid. I certainly won't grant it for free while being compelled to jump through a bunch of inane censorship hoops.
That's my personal choice.
Others might want to do something else, but I think if anyone just blows off the newest attempt at puerile and immoderate moderation at this site then they are effectively selling out everybody. But as has probably been said before, let your conscience be your guide.
So, I'll be availabe probably at RCO at http://www.bowshow.com/rco/ if anyone cares. If you go there, in addition to my work previously published here, you will find threaded discussions that work quite similar to the discussions here, some are even in protected environments like this one with usernames and passwords you can choose for yourselves, but what you won't find is immoderate moderation or inane editorial standards.
If you'd like to participate, you are very welcome. If you don't that's understandable too. Not everyone is interested in native or indigenous issues or children's stories told to grownups.
Thanks to everyone here who has offered me friendship, advice, arguments, insults or whatever. I value each and everyone of you and wish you the best in the future such as the future might be.
Thank you so much and take care.
Your fervent friend or annoying enemy,
Analiese Farthing Wing
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Latest reply: Jul 24, 2003
I ain't going to be poor no more!
Posted Jul 18, 2003
When you assert that Americans are wealthy because indian people are poor, you're usually greeted with hostile skepticism, but it's true nevertheless. Few Americans nowdays seem to recognize the importance of the landbase in establishing relative levels of prosperity yet the land underlies the credit system, by providing collateral, the economic system by providing water, minerals, agricultural produce, etc.. and so on.
And all of the land in production has been at one time or another alienated from indian people. The compensation for the loss, if it has been rendered at all, amounts to maybe a few cents per acre on the average so not only have indian people been denied the use of the land but the compensation for that denial has been mostly inadequate for them to reestablish an adequate resource base.
When you consider that reservation land, the landbase upon which the remnants of indian tribes must establish their economies upon now, is marginal for the most part, and deliberately so, you might can see that their prosperity prospects are extremely limited.
So why don't they just get jobs like everybody else?
Well, not only is the rez marginal for things like agriculture but it's often remote from settled areas where the jobs are. And often the jobs available for indian people are minimum wage, substandard positions that can hardly pay for the commute. So the choice becomes essentially to stay on the rez in relative poverty or settle in the towns and the cities and give up tenure on whatever land's left. Join the communities of strangers as individuals competing with other individuals for an extremely limited piece of the American pie.
Now at this point, people often mention how many reservations have mineral resources like oil and gas and coal which the previous generations of Anglos overlooked when allocating the reservations and now indian people should be up to their hips in money, which of course is what they need to live since the land won't support them anymore than it supports Anglo farmers or ranchers.
But these mineral resources are limited and their extraction is often expensive and polluting. The extraction also offends the spiritual sensibilities of people brought up to view the earth as their mother and any mineral extraction operations as essentially non-sustainable stewardship of the land, unlike the subsistance agriculture or whatever that was practiced in the past.
So, even when indian people become relatively wealthy it's at an enormous cultural and longterm economic cost. So what can you do?
Well, that's a very good question that many tribes are struggling with. There are of course other options like tourism and casino gambling that have been exploited, but few societies can prosper on such things very long. Both tourism and gambling depend very heavily on the relative prosperity of the dominate society, which, as we know, has had and continues to have its economic ups and downs. During the down times, gambling and travel are among the first things to be given up.
So where does that leave us?
One possibility is to renegotiate settlements for lands already alienated to more accurately reflect the values involved. Payments made in the mid-twentieth century for land alienated in the nineteenth century at nineteenth century price levels is not equitable by any stretch of the imagination.
Another is to simply return lands that were alienated but are now in the public domain, such as BLM and National Forest land. Tribes could then at least benefit from the grazing or timber leases the federal government currently collects from these lands and presumably distributes to the population at large in the form of services or whatever. These fees are the legacy that rightfully belongs to indian people and would partially compensate for their historic deprivation. The leases and associated fees should not be considered the property of the American public at large since this only continues the desparity of wealth that we're talking about without any real justification.
So then maybe it's time to consider this stuff seriously. The government for years has blown off its obligations under treaty, the courts have recognized indian rights to previously alienated lands but have usually undervalued the costs to indian people of such alienation. Indian water rights have been deemed in principle superior to all others but in practice this doctrine has been pretty much ignored with previously fertile lands being turned into desert due to the destruction or isolation of ancient irrigation systems.
It may be possible in time for many tribes to fashion sustainable economies out of a mixture of tourism, casino gambling, mineral extraction and subsistance farming or ranching but without the credit and resources that the alienated lands would have provided had they not been alienated, the assertion that Americans are wealthy because indian people are poor will continue to be true.
I don't think that's what the American dream should be about, do you?
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