Doing the right thing, doesn't always work

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Doing the right thing, doesn't always work

Lindy — 9/18/2006 2:37:11 AM (archived)

Part of the Cherokee history class brought out decisions and agreements tribal leaders made hoping to appease the British, their "allies", to show support and allegience; while all the while some of the British electorate USED the Cherokee simply as a resource.

It was painful to listen to their trials which they bore in good conscience being usurped time and time again. They had "blood law", if settlers or the British killed "X" number of Cherokee, in their law, they would go and even the score and kill the same "X" number and call it a day. The British saw this as an attack on innocents and sought revenge.

A clash of cultures. Our professor (part Cherokee herself) was visibly upset over the treatment and denigration of a once very proud tribe, the eastern band of the Cherokee nation. It was not hard to agree with her. But everything she re-iterated about the clash of cultures, trade agreements and usury seems to me that not much has changed in several centuries.

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Keith Olbermann Tells It Like It Is - Donald - 9/13/2006 1:23:25 AM
- LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2006 12:57:11 AM
  - re: LOL! - Robert - 9/14/2006 1:43:50 AM
    - C'mon let's rumble. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2006 3:30:42 AM
      - I'm still waiting - Robert - 9/14/2006 6:23:01 PM
        
        too many letters - azstrummer - 9/15/2006 9:08:13 PM
        
        except... - Robert - 9/16/2006 4:07:57 PM
        
        "by cutting off the head of the snake,." - Lindy - 9/17/2006 1:41:09 AM
        
        ...and other parables - Robert - 9/17/2006 5:08:46 PM
        
        parables - Lindy - 9/17/2006 6:11:23 PM
        
        re: parables - azstrummer - 9/17/2006 9:36:23 PM
        
        Doing the right thing, doesn't always work - Lindy - 9/18/2006 2:37:11 AM
        
        Yeah! That class is not going to be biased. LOL! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2006 6:54:59 AM
        
        We need an acronym then - azstrummer - 9/17/2006 5:40:59 PM
        
        How about "acons"? - Robert - 9/17/2006 7:35:06 PM
        
        Works for me. (n/t) - azstrummer - 9/17/2006 9:31:34 PM
        
        Personally I think it sounds kind of nuts (n/t) - Laurie Street - 9/18/2006 4:27:32 PM
        
        Go Robert!! - Lindy - 9/15/2006 1:09:44 AM
        
        yee haw! (n/t) - Robert - 9/16/2006 5:14:51 PM
        
        You want in-depth? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2006 11:57:30 PM
        
        Sure. What I got was shallow - Robert - 9/16/2006 4:39:04 PM
        
        Forget Dean. - Tom Brosz - 9/16/2006 5:44:50 PM
        
        "Olbermann's doppelganger" - Lindy - 9/15/2006 1:51:36 AM
        
        " I'll coin a phrase here and call such studies and scientific sounding political propaganda, SDAI-pop-prop. (n/t) - Lindy - 9/15/2006 1:42:56 AM
        
        Typo: That's "SDAI-poop-prop" - Robert - 9/16/2006 5:14:26 PM
        
        re: I'm still waiting - Laurie Street - 9/14/2006 8:01:24 PM
        
        The GUT of politics - Robert - 9/16/2006 4:03:02 PM
        
        LOL! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/16/2006 9:12:57 PM
        
        Ready, fire, aim! - Robert - 9/17/2006 4:51:51 PM
        
        The power of selection - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2006 12:06:59 AM
        
        FDR - wiretaps, intimidation, misuse of FBI & IRS. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2006 1:32:48 AM
        
        Dang! Looks like they finally have no answers! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/19/2006 12:14:48 AM
        
        "it's up to you to take it and save yourself though." - Lindy - 9/18/2006 2:38:43 AM
        
        Saving Robert from Cannery Row... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2006 3:39:29 AM
        
        re: Saving Robert from Cannery Row... - Publius - 9/19/2006 7:28:23 PM
        
        We're from two different planets Tech1 - Lindy - 9/18/2006 3:21:59 PM
        
        Yeah, Jonathan Alter is going to tell you how it is. - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2006 6:45:33 PM
        
        Is that the best you can do? - Robert - 9/17/2006 7:40:06 PM
        
        re: Is that the best YOU can do? - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2006 9:33:15 PM
        
        "I can predict the response to this post, too." - Robert - 9/19/2006 9:41:43 PM
        
        Neither predict, nor comprehend. - Tom Brosz - 9/20/2006 1:14:39 AM
        
        "The uneducated rally behind anyone who promises them the most." - Lindy - 9/17/2006 3:02:02 AM
      - re: C'mon let's rumble. - REB - 9/14/2006 2:11:36 PM
        
        Bush bashing - azstrummer - 9/14/2006 6:11:16 PM
        
        re: C'mon let's rumble. - REB - 9/14/2006 3:11:38 PM
        
        Liberals haven't given up - Robert - 9/16/2006 5:11:53 PM
        
        "I am still very puzzled as to why Liberals......" - Lindy - 9/15/2006 3:38:01 AM
        
        re: "I am still very puzzled as to why Liberals......" - REB - 9/15/2006 1:36:18 PM
        
        "â€œIt also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them. " - Lindy - 9/15/2006 2:06:59 AM
        
        Opposing a war does not equal supporting its government - alcaray - 9/14/2006 5:51:59 PM
        
        South Africa - Tom Brosz - 9/14/2006 4:51:39 PM
      - Ya know what? Let's not. - Tom Brosz - 9/14/2006 3:57:09 AM
        
        Religionization of politics - Tony - 9/14/2006 8:04:34 PM
        
        "â€œWhat good fortune for those in power that the people do not think.â€-- - Lindy - 9/15/2006 2:10:50 AM
        
        not helping (n/t) - Tony - 9/15/2006 4:33:00 PM
        
        not helping (n/t) - Tony - 9/15/2006 4:32:58 PM
        
        Derailing the train - Robert - 9/14/2006 7:13:27 PM
        
        re: Derailing the train - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2006 12:54:44 AM
        
        I see... - Robert - 9/16/2006 5:55:48 PM
        
        Pay attention. - Tom Brosz - 9/16/2006 8:46:13 PM
        
        Try to stay focused - Robert - 9/17/2006 4:58:14 PM
        
        Focus. - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2006 6:29:07 PM
        
        Focus closer...nearer the nose on your face - Robert - 9/17/2006 8:12:18 PM
        
        I give up. - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2006 9:35:32 PM
        
        That's the problem right there - Robert - 9/18/2006 5:04:20 PM
        
        Robert, I was discussing the original sources. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/19/2006 1:32:12 AM
        
        Tom, the victim - azstrummer - 9/18/2006 8:37:22 PM
        
        Tom's double speak - Lindy - 9/15/2006 1:41:28 AM
        
        I hear ya...but... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2006 4:56:55 AM
        
        Your satire misses the mark. - alcaray - 9/14/2006 5:58:28 PM
        
        I thought not (n/t) - alcaray - 9/15/2006 3:43:32 PM
        
        Look around. - Tom Brosz - 9/14/2006 6:28:47 AM
        
        Woah. Way to drive home a point. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2006 6:38:45 AM
- A must see, indeed. Elect that man President. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 9/13/2006 5:04:50 PM
- Wow... - Robert - 9/13/2006 4:41:26 PM
  - Agreed - Lindy - 9/13/2006 5:08:23 PM
- re: Keith Olbermann Tells It Like It Is - azstrummer - 9/13/2006 3:14:09 PM

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