Sometimes history is cruel.
Oct. 12th, 2007 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyOf our two major-party candidates for President of the United States in the year 2000, one is sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Don't mind me, I'll be over here choking on my own bitter laughter.
Oh, yes, and happy Columbus Day, too. Celebrating 515 years of rape, murder, theft, oppression, and genocide.
Don't mind me, I'll be over here choking on my own bitter laughter.
Oh, yes, and happy Columbus Day, too. Celebrating 515 years of rape, murder, theft, oppression, and genocide.
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Date: 2007-10-12 10:28 pm (UTC)I decided that Columbus Day was the Monday holiday and recognized it as Canadian Thanksgiving. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)) Not that Martin Frobisher (http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frint01e.html) didn't have his own issues with the Inuit, but I see Thanksgiving (Canada's and the US version both) as a harvest festival and harvest festivals are good things.