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Holiday Open Thread

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Happy Columbus Day! During a signing event at the White House, a member of the Trump administration summarized the purpose for Columbus Day. The administration official emphasized the importance this day held for Italian Americans as one of his talking points. President Donald Trump responded by referring to the day as Columbus Day.

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    4. Many thanks! I hereby dedicate my reign in honor my brother KoB, the true king of FIRSTS! The bar is open, the smoker is smoking and the grill is grilling. Enjoy Columbus Day, just to piss off a liberal!

    1. I could have been first, but I just had to get a cup of coffee before turning on the computer! late as always

    2. “Two alleged dead, ten alleged wounded n Chicago this weekend. Trump crime reduction plan fails.”

      Alleged comment by BigBoy Pritzker.

    3. HACK,,,You are the first to know that while on Amazon buying another light so I don’t have a shadow following my pencil strokes trying to get my cursive hand writing AJ Squared Away to make my Christmas card addresses readable, all of a sudden the Magic 8-Ball came into my head and I ordered it last night, so be prepaired for some WOT comp. Only thing standing in the way is my recliner nappy poos. Later Alligator.

    2. If their societies were so advanced, why didn’t they sail East and conquer Europe? Seriously, why didn’t the Indigenous People of what is now North and South America establish cities, institutions of learning, functioning governments that forged alliances with neighboring nations, and establish international trade routes? In the 1500’s Europeans were sailing around the Horn of Africa to trade with Asian nations, while those in North and South America were living in mud huts. They didn’t even have horses until the explorers brought some on their journeys.

  6. Multiple news reports indicate that all living Israeli hostages in Gaza have now been released.

    The political left must be . . . . overjoyed.

    Yes, that last was sarcasm.

    2. And not sarcasm:

      The man will probably not receive the Nobel Peace Prize that he deserves smh

    4. Newsmax was saying that on one of the ABC news outlets the commentator was saying that it was biden that was responsible for the pisoner release. Anyone else here the same thing. My WOT competion Magic 8-Ball was ordered yesterday so it’s wait and see.

    5. Saw a meme earlier that said “thus proving it’s easier to deal with terrorists than Democrats”

  7. Columbus, a man who talked a married woman out of money for a 3 boat vacation to meet new babes.

    The Gigolo of the Seas!

    3. In Fourteen-hundred and ninety two
      A dago from Eye-tally
      Walked the sunny streets of Spain
      And Shat in every alley…..

      [chorus]
      He knew the world was round, oh!
      [He sailed a ship around, oh!]
      That navigating, masturbating,
      Son-of-a-bitch, Columbo.

      more:
      https://www.timshome.com/css/columbo.htm

      1. We were marching around Camp Able Sentry, often called Camp Anal Entry, when one of my junior NCOs starting belting this classic out. The company managed to double, or maybe triple, their volume, until some female colonel took offense.

        1. I had a Samoan Drill Sergeant. He had us sing cadences in Samoan, but would not translate. “Maybe after graduation.”

          Then one fine day as we were running along, someone spotted ahead of us a gaggle of Navy officers in their whites.

          Skirts.

          “Eyes right! Drill Sergeant! Eyes right!”

          ….

          “Shut up! Shut up! Stop singing! They’ll take my hat! Shut up!”

          A few giggled, but we hushed before they might have heard. All was cool. We aftewards avoided “our” Third Herd favs around anyone who might freeek.

          Good times….

  8. Below is the list of European explorers active by the end of the 1400s and early 1500s who would have discovered the Americas if Columbus had failed:

    1. Bartolomeu Dias
    2. Vasco da Gama
    3. João Fernandes Lavrador
    4. Gaspar Corte-Real
    5. Miguel Corte-Real
    6. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
    7. Martin Behaim
    8. Amerigo Vespucci
    9. Ferdinand Magellan (younger, but rising)
    10. Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
    11. Alonso Pinzón
    12. Pedro Álvares Cabral
    13. Diego de Lepe
    14. Duarte Pacheco Pereira

    1. So, it was a matter of time, as technology was mature enough to make cross Atlantic sailing sustainable.
      Compare to the Norse exploration of North America, which pushed the limits of technology, as long boats were not capable of maintaining a consistent supply line across the Atlantic.
      Another example is the Apollo missions to the moon, which also pushed the limits of technology for their time, as opposed to current space technology.

  9. Happy Columbus Day!

    Europeans bringing civilizing influences to the Americas – however imperfectly – was a good thing.

    Prove me wrong.

      1. One reason the Spaniards could conquer the Aztecs was there were so many other tribes who were tired of being sacrificed by the Aztec’s to their gods. The Spaniards just served as an organizing force around whom they could rally.

        3. Yup, as with Native Americans in other parts of the Americas, they saw what the Europeans had in terms of firepower and decided to align with them. They saw the Europeans as good “shock troops” that could be weaponized against rival tribes. In the case of the Aztecs, many of the conquered tribes took this as an opportunity to revolt.

        1. Sacrificing to Molech continues in another form today. In both instances, the ones giving up the child do so in hopes of a better outcome for the future.

    3. The Aztecs weren’t the only examples of nastiness. Read William Warren’s A History of the Ojibway People
      Mr. Warren was himself Ojibway,

      “During the early period of white settlement, William Warren-the son of a white man and an Ojibway woman-recorded the oral traditions of the Ojibway Indians of the Upper Mississippi and Lake Superior regions. His vivid descriptions include Ojibway customs, family life, totemic system, hunting methods, and relations with other tribal groups and with the whites. First published in 1885.”

      In there he records just how cruel the different tribes were to each other.
      https://www.abebooks.com/History-Ojibway-People-Warren-William-Minnesota/32283382674/bd

      1. “William Warren-the son of a white man and an Ojibway woman”

        Any relation to Liz Warren?
        This could be her vindication…..

        1. But it’s STILL so many generations back, that if there were any Native blood in her, it would be of the most miniscule amount.

          Somewhat like me. Supposedly back in the dim and distant genealogy, I’m related to the Stewarts of Scotland. And although that sounds nice, in the here and now, it doesn’t affect my life at all.

          Just like Fauxcahantas “supposed” high cheek bones shouldn’t affect her grifting, yet here we are.

  11. Buongiorno my paisans!

    Chris Columbus was The New World OG!
    That guy, and all of his guys had BALLS!. Big fucking balls that clanked when they walked. Him and his crew sailed the Atlantic in three boats between 70′ & 50′ and weighing around 50 tons. As someone who crossed the Atlantic several times, think about doing it 60-something foot sailboat? I was in Barcelona in ’85, and they had replica of the Santa Maria. Nope, not sailing the Atlantic in that dinghy.

    1. My first Navy deployment started in 1991 and ended in 1992. We sailed the Atlantic, from Spain to North America in 1992. Our cruise shirt had the Christopher Columbus voyage as a theme.

  12. It must take a special type of stupid to be a liberal, bless their hearts. Did I get that right? I’m not fluent in Southern having been born in Yankee territory.

    I just read a liberal whining about the airbase the US Government is building for Qatar in Idaho. The facts the Qataris are going to Mountain Home AFB and Mountain Home Air Force base has been in existence since WWII had not entered the liberal’s sphere of stupid.

      1. Heh, air base and potatoes.

        I remember when we had B-52’s and Loring AFB.
        It’s harvest season here but the Betty’s are gone.
        I guess they figured Loring was small potatoes…

      2. Years ago a farmer in Idaho sued the state because of the “Famous Potatoes” motto on the license plates. His issue was sugar beets, peas, wintergreen, hops, and many other crops were grown in Idaho for which the farmers had difficulty getting a good price for since the state itself was giving the potato farmers free advertisement. The lawsuit got nowhere.

  13. Not too bad a workday for me. On the clock for less than seven hours, with a whopping 11 ATMs serviced (I’m not used to such a light day). I’m still getting used to going into banks when they’re closed; I tend to deactivate the alarm system only after it’s gone off (waste time trying to find it and figuring out the correct code). Police haven’t shown up yet, so there’s that.

    Otherwise, yep, it’s Columbus Day! Indigenous, indignant, indigo, be damned, I prefer to be disingenuous.

    3. Eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww
      Skippy, you are one sick dickweed.
      You need to get smoked by every one on TAH

  16. I usually only care about Columbus Day because I get the day off, but noooooo, an artillery unit had to decide to train today so here I sit supporting their training while not getting paid. That last sentence was typed with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. I love supporting soldiers and know that I will get paid eventually

    Columbus Day is also the name of the first book in my favorite book series called Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. I’m not into science fiction usually, but that series is funny as hell. It’s set a couple of years into the future and the main character is soldier and a member of the E4 mafia. Humans get dragged into a war between alien species that has been going on for millennia. The main character ends up doing something where the alien species that is in charge forces the human military to promote him to a full bird Colonel as a publicity stunt. There is a lot more to it and the series is like 18 books long. I highly recomend it.

    1. I think I read that.
      The guy end up being a General?
      Big campaign in one of the gas giants, I think.
      I think I read that back when I thought Soldiers would wear power armor in the future, rather than wars being fought with invisible nano drones controlled by AI.

      1. He does end up becoming a General. If you read it then you would remember the asshole AI named Skippy.

    2. I’m always looking for a good sci-fi series, so I went to order that one for the Kindle. Turns out, according to Amazon, “You own this item.” Looks like I bought it in 2017. I’ll get around to reading it eventually. 🙂

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