B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 11, 2010

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    Yukoner  about 14 years ago

    Any excellent idea.

    Happy Thanksgiving (Canadian) to everyone.

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    MontanaLady  about 14 years ago

    Happy Thanksgiving, Yukoner!

    Somehow, I don’t see a buddy system making a difference!

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    George Arnold  about 14 years ago

    Now he remembers! :-)

    GM All!

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    pouncingtiger  about 14 years ago

    He just likes to hang out.

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    pouncingtiger  about 14 years ago

    Happy Thanksgiving, Yukoner.

    Happy Columbus Day to the Americans.

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    COWBOY7  about 14 years ago

    You’ll forget next time too! LOL

    Happy Thanksgiving(Canadian), Yukoner and all! Happy Columbus Day! (Good Morning BCers!)

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Not so happy for the native Americans.

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    cdward  about 14 years ago

    Nabuquduriuzhur, your history is faulty. It’s definitely not as simple as you portrayed it. Remember that Columbus himself was taken back to Spain in shackles after his third stint in the Americas because of his brutality, and that of his brothers who were governing with him. Remember that the original Haitians ceased to exist under his administration … they were imprisoned and forced to mine for gold and had their hands cut off if they didn’t produce.

    Your argument that their behavior was acceptable because “the natives were worse,” does not cut it, certainly not under Christian scrutiny.

    As for who is a native, if you come to a place and find people living there, they are the natives, and you are the foreigner. By most standards, even then, that would give the occupants first claim - not the invaders.

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    lightblade77  about 14 years ago

    Yep, the buddy system works. That way, when both of you are caught in a trap, you have someone to talk to!

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    Sandfan  about 14 years ago

    Nabu: How does the documented torture, vicious cruelty, and constant internecine warfare of the “native” tribes stand up to Christian scrutiny? Isn’t there something about living by the sword and dying by the sword?

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    lewisbower  about 14 years ago

    When setting traps, use the brain system.

    At the risk of of being politically incorrect, Prince Henry Sinclair buried his first knight in Massachusetts 300 years before Columbus. This tombstone is still there with my family’s coat of arms. Somehow this Irishman forgot to tell anyone. It may have been the native brew. The Scandinavians settled the “New World ” several times before the Spaniards. And many historians agree Cristobal Colon was probably a Spanish Jew, not Italian (if there was such a country as Italy in 1492). Cute story though.

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    Rakkav  about 14 years ago

    Wait until you try to untangle the claims that the Hebrew and Phoenicians got here many centuries before that - and I don’t mean claims in the Book of Mormon.

    In a way I agree with Nabu, that is, on the “drop the hyphen” bit. Unless you can make stick a claim that God has given you a certain piece of land by covenant forever, possession is nine-tenths of the law.

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    GROG Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Too bad you didn’t think of that before you got snared by your own trap.

    Happy Columbus Day/Thanks Giving (Canada), Fellow Cave Dwellers.

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    gobblingup Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Or bring a knife with you…

    Happy day, fellow Cave Dwellers!

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    Anandgyan  about 14 years ago

    For a while I thought it was a Tarot innuendo!

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    photoman022  about 14 years ago

    wow, spammer have it all over the conversation this morning.

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    Trainwreck_1  about 14 years ago

    Well one thing is for sure… You’ll have a long time to just hang-out and think it over!

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    nanellen  about 14 years ago

    Why doesn’t someone point out that Columbus did NOT discover N America as we know it, but rather the Americas in the south? no matter, I enjoy reading the comments every day as well the actual comic. Thanks.

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    pamlicorat  about 14 years ago

    Good Afternoon All

    Call Brer Rabbit, he’ll get you out.

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    gocomicsmember  about 14 years ago

    Two points about some expressions that people argue about in reference to Columbus and the other explorers. (I deal regularly with words and their meanings.) 1. You don’t have to be the first to discover something to legitimately say (or have said of you) that you discovered it. Even if others knew of its existence, if you didn’t, nor the people that you tell about it, then as far as you and they are concerned, you are a discoverer. 2. It really irks me that people insist on the term “Native American” for the descendants of the indigenous populations. ANYONE born in America is a native American. Wherever your ancestors may have come from, if you, personally, originated here, you are a native. As has already been pointed out above, even if you are a member of a group generally regarded as indigenous to this continent, your ancestors’ ancestors came from somewhere else, and the exact order and method of entry, by land bridge, or boat, is hidden in the mists of antiquity. End of rant.

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Was that trap baited with a tuna fish sandwich? Looks like he needs Calvin as his buddy!

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    mystiedawn  about 14 years ago

    gocomicsmember: Excellent rant. I agree.

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    Tsali-Queyi  about 14 years ago

    I am full blood Cherokee. Most Indians that I know do not like being called Native American. It is another politically Correct term made up by politicians to obscure the crulties of the past. I am “Indian” and proud of it.

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    gamrobi  about 14 years ago

    that’s ok. i have no trouble getting into trouble by myself

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