“2020”

By Jim Culp

Here we are again. The end of the year is coming very soon. It’s been a long one, and one that most of us would probably like to forget. We’ve seen riots, brutal police practices, and a global pandemic that still isn’t over.

Our country stands upon the brink of utter ruin, and people who cannot see that are as blind as an old man that left his readers in the bedroom, and the Sunday paper is a big blur.  It is an election year, and once again, we’re stuck with two candidates that as preferable as our country’s leaders as I am to be the next candidate for Miss America.

I watched my Steelers play yesterday, and even though they are on a winning streak this year, they still suffer from poor management and a lack of trying new things. After that game was over, I watched 20/20, and the first set was Leslie Stahl interviewing President Trump. He danced his way out of every question, lied five times, and finally got mad and walked out. Very presidential indeed. Anyone that is not convinced that Trump is a pathological liar is a very confused individual indeed. Trump lies twice as much as he ever tells the truth, and people still follow him.

Next was Leslie interviewing Vice President Mike Pence. Pence praised Trump for his victories (great and small) and supported him at every turn. He’s a true puppet. I’ve never had much use for Pence, but I am far from finished on the subject of Vice Presidential candidates.

After some commercials, we turned to the lovely Norah O’Donnell interviewing Joe Biden. Norah stuck to business, and asked Joe some tough questions, and reminded him of his age. He will be the oldest person to ever serve as POTUS if he is elected. Joe touted the normal statistics, and had a tough stance on Trump. He made a big mistake by claiming a tuition cost for so many students would be x-dollars, and fact checks immediately stated that they would be double that.

Joe, you’re getting old dude. Slow down and think before you speak. Stop trying to talk as fast as a twenty year old girl at a pageant.

The last interview was Norah with Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Kamala is a good looking Indian/British/Jamaican woman, and a very smart person. She has a massive amount of experience in running large agencies, and served as the Attorney General of California. I would have thought Joe would have picked her to be his AG, but whatever.

Kamala started the interview like she had just smoked a joint, and was going to laugh everything away. Norah set her straight in two minutes. They had a good interview, but one thing that stuck in my craw was that Kamala said she would “Do whatever Joe tells me to do.” There are a thousand tingles in my bullshit meter that tell me she won’t. I think she will follow that recipe for a short while, but then she will challenge him when it comes to extremely liberal agendas.

Once again, we are faced with two candidates, and neither one is preferable to me. One is a narcissistic douche-bag, and the other might wake up tomorrow and forget who he is. That’s how we roll in ‘Merca these days folks.

-Jim

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Columbus Day

 

Columbus Day

October 12, 2020

By Jim Culp

 

When I was in grade school in 2^nd or 3^rd grade, we “studied” Columbus Day for a few days out of the school year. We learned about the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. We also learned how the visiting Spaniards had meals with the indigenous peoples, and traded gifts with them.

It wasn’t until 5^th grade that my mother sent me to a Christian School, and we studied the “early settlement of the Americas.” This was a “Baptist” school, so naturally anything that happened in the name of God was the Catholic’s doing. We were taught (in our little learning books, called PACES) that Christopher Columbus was a slaver, but that he worked for the Pope.

When I went to college many years later, I studied all of this again. My professor was an agnostic, and taught us the truth. Here are some excerpts from good ole Chris’ journals:

“They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them. I think they can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion. If it pleases our Lord, I will take six of them to Your Highnesses when I depart, in order that they may learn our language.^”

 "These people are very simple in war-like matters ... I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I pleased.”

“While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked—as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But—to cut a long story short—I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores.^”

An entry in his journal from September 1498 reads: "From here one might send, in the name of the Holy Trinity, as many slaves as could be sold.

Historical Facts:

Columbus sent over 5,000 south and North American natives back to Spain for use as slaves.

Modern estimates for the pre-Columbian population of Hispaniola vary from several hundred thousand to more than a million. Some estimate that a third or more of the 250,000–300,000 natives in Haiti were dead within the first two years of Columbus's governorship, many from lethal forced labor in the mines, in which a third of workers died every six months.

Please teach your children the truth. They see enough fairy tales on TV.

-Jim