[W126 Coupe] Fw: Stella Awards

[Jay Hirsch]

American Values:
There is a museum in Canyon Texas.   The Panhandle Plains Historical  
Museum Canyon.
  Canyon is near Amarillo and also the gateway to Palo Duro Canyon.   
Palo Duro  is one of the best kept secrets in the US, a  very good  
rival to the Grand Canyon without the people and red tape.
In the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum  one  of the many great  
rooms   has on one wall a photograph that is 18  feet wide   by 24  
feet tall.
At first looking at the photo it appears to be a  dark mountain with  
two light  "specks" at the bottom of the  mountain.
Adjacent to the photo is a copy of an "act of  Congress" dated   1867  
or 1868...the exact year I do not recall and a caption for the photo.
The two specks are two men, the mountain behind them is not a  
mountain but buffalo hides pile almost 80 feet high.
The letter explains the cause of the mountain which I will paraphrase.
It was decided by Congress that the best and quickest way to do away  
with the Indian problem...native Americans was to slaughter the buffalo.
By committing genocide to the buffalo the Indian  nations would   
eventually collapse and cease.

So much for "red-blooded-American values" a smaller  Congress and  
simpler times.

By the late 1890s there were no buffalo on the great plains of the  
US.  In 1904 or so the soon to be state of Oklahoma had to buy some  
buffalo  from the Bronx Zoo to reestablish  buffalo stock in the  
state.  The only surviving buffalo at the beginning of the 20th  
century were in N Y C at the Bronx zoo.

I am always curious at to whose family  "family values apply to?"
The Munsons,  the Manson Family, the Hatfields and McCoys?, etc.
keep cruisin
Jay H




On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Dan Landiss wrote:


> Wow! I didn't intend to stir up a firestorm. I thought it was  

> pretty clear that I was engaging in a little good-natured teasing  

> of the original poster for revealing the email addresses of a  

> hundred more potential spam targets.

>

> That said, I wonder what it is that encourages the people who  

> compile these collections of fake reports to do so? There is enough  

> going on in the world that is both true and unusual to keep all our  

> mailboxes full forever. What is gained by false embellishments?  

> Truth is already "stranger than fiction."

>

> Of greater concern to me are the growing number of super-patriotic,  

> super-militant rants that clutter my Inbox every day. They preach  

> loudly and at great length about "love of country" and "American  

> values," but I have to wonder if monologues that show such  

> intolerance of other views, other nationalities, and other  

> religions are really showing "American values" or love for the  

> principles that America was built on.

>

> Not that anybody on THIS list would send such.....................

>

> on 12/13/2009 2:56 PM:

>>

>> Let the inquisition begin :)

>

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