--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Nope. America = Liberal and there's no denying it. Right wing > > > > religious nuts don't belong here...and they know it. > > > > Liberal = American, and the day that changes....it's not > > > > America anymore. > > > > > > Actually America was first *settled* by right- > > > wing religious nuts who came here because they > > > were being persecuted for their nuttiness in > > > the Old Country. > > > > Not sure this is totally true -- Cape Ann and Salem, Mass., and > > Maine, for example, were settled by a bunch of people wanting to > > fish in peace until the Massachusetts Puritan fundies arrived in > > 1630 and immediately took over Salem (and annexed Maine a bit > > later). Both the Popham Colony and the Jamestown Colony were > > founded in 1607, before the Mayflower Separatists of 1620. And what > > about St. Augustine, Florida? (And if by "America" you mean more > > than the USA, then we have a whole new ballgame.) > > I meant the USA, and I'll take your word for the > numerous exceptions, with thanks. It's just that > it was the Puritans who got all the publicity. > > And there *does* seem to be a lot of evidence > > that even the USA was colonized by numerous cultures through the > > millenia, if you believe Barry Fell at all :-) > > AAAAGGGGHHHH. I try to be politically correct, > truly I do... Country had been settled for > centuries (millennia?) by the <cough> Native > Americans before the first post-Columbian > Europeans showed up, of course, not to mention > God knows how many other visitors from afar > who put down roots for a while. >
The Celts were here long before Columbus, and some native American languages have much gaelic in them. The similarities are striking. Place names (and meanings), names of rivers (and meanings) etc. They must have been friendly and respectful to each other. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
