Servers must be on East Coast time, or GMT, because the ship/cockroach thingie is gone now.
Invaders (the name is kind of a giveaway) are *never* nice guys, or chums. *Always* assholes. Neil Young, and Crazy Horse, on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Put me out of my misery: is that creepy thing that crawls across the YAHOO! GROUPS logo in the top left corner of my screen supposed to be Columbus related? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: A nasty piece of work, no doubt about it. Worth mentioning though that it wasn't just Bartolomé who found his methods objectionable. The accusations of brutality were investigated and Columbus was put in chains and imprisoned and eventually sent back to Spain. After some favours were called in by his family he was eventually released and allowed to return to the New World but was never again given any political power. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: "Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which takes a somewhat different position." 'Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus' by Samuel Eliot Morison Posted by Glenn Reynolds: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/177495/ ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <wayback71@...> wrote: Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like "nice" stories. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it starts getting a little too depressing for you, finding out who Christopher Columbus *really* was and what he did, keep reading to the end. Because then you'll want to change the name of the Federal holiday to Bartolomé Day, too. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
