BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Circle the Wagons!, Gregory F. Michno, Book - Barnes & Noble



Circle the Wagons!, Gregory F. Michno, Book - Barnes & Noble: "Setting the Record Straight on Frontier History
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March 08, 2009: Veteran Western historian, Gregory F. Michno, and co-author, Susan J. Michno, are on a mission. They are out to set the record straight on the 'did they or didn't they?' question regarding Indian attacks on pioneer wagon trains. The prevailing conventional wisdom is that, despite the ubiquity of wagon train attacks in popular culture such as Hollywood film portrayals, these attacks were rare. As the Michnos prove in Circle the Wagons! Attacks on Wagon Trains in History and Hollywood, conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's 'plainly, simply, irrevocably wrong.' They decry as 'whitewashing' frontier history the recent disturbing trend of western historians to focus almost exclusively on white atrocities while simultaneously ignoring Indian depredations - presenting Indians merely as hapless 'victims' of white aggression. Therefore, ignoring the abundant historical record that clearly documents numerous Indian attacks on wagon trains,"


OMG!
WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS.....
or
BARACK OBAMA
 allowed
to indoctrinate our kids again?

Didn't even know that was the prevailing conventional wisdom.  
a lot! 

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