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The Truth about the First Thanksgiving…

My annual re-post of one of my more popular blogs. "Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained?  Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?" – Michael Dorris  Ah, our lovely annual turkey day celebration of one of the greatest ethnic cleansings in all of human history (caveat:  by genocide, I refer not to population decimation by disease which was not deliberate save the single extant example of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces during the French-Indian War [and the image of U.S. Cavalry doing the same originates in Ward Churchill’s spurious scholarship and has been exposed as deceit], although the decimation wrought by disease was what informed Manifest Destiny ), but instead the long history of exterminationist and a...
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Was the Pentagon hit by a plane on 9/11?

Loose Change and other films further the false idea that the Pentagon was not struck by a plane on 9/11. I think there's no question that it was. The 9/11 Truthers, PrisonPlanet/Infowars fringe folk I think really do unfortunately discredit by association the truly troubling facts of 9/11 (Moussoui, 8/27 President's Daily Briefing, Phoenix Memo, Coleen Rowley, Able Danger, Harry Samet, Sibel Edmunds) by their truly outlandish and suspect claims. I think like Keane said (Republican ex-governor of New Jersey and chair of the 9/11 Commission), if history is to be remembered correctly, then it must be said that this administration had sufficient specific, actionable intelligence to have prevented 9/11 and failed to act.
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Sticking my finger in the dike…

Geese, get your heads out of the gutter.  Sort of reminds me of when I updated my status on FB to say the stripper burnt holes in my arm.  Clumsy wording, pun not intended...   I meant the chemical stripper I was using to get the polyurethane or acrylic lacquer coat off of my mom’s beautiful wooden eaves so I could refinish them, of course.  But funny mental image my friend Meg pointed out.  Yes, the stripper burnt holes in my arm.  Indeed. Not that kind of dike people…   Besides, that kind is spelled dyke .  And, by definition, I am male, so that just would not happen regardless because this stereotyped pejorative label is reserved for a particularly militant and masculine or “butch” lesbian.   And by opening this blog with a little bit of off-color humor, I should emphatically state that I’m no enemy of dyke-dom or LGBT folks.  I love rainbows! This kind…  Perhaps it would be better if we referred to it as a l...
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