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Sorry AOW not trying to steal your thunder....
Why do they hate us?
Beuller....Beuller...
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Comment by Brooke— 2007/04/26 @ 01:56 PM — (Reply)
We're sick?
(pause)
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's
brother's girlfriend heard from this
guy who knows this kid who's going
with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out
at 31 Flavors last night. I guess
it's pretty serious.
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/04/26 @ 02:20 PM — (Reply)
The American Public: What are we going to do?
Strategic Withdrawal Demorats: The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?"
Raise the white flag crowd: Please don't say were not going home. Please don't say were not going home. Please don't say were not going home.
The rest of us: [to the camera] If you had access to a military machine like this, would you take it home?
[beat]
The rest of us: Neither would I.
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/04/26 @ 03:34 PM — (Reply)
Harry Reid: Why'd you kick me?
Cheney: Where's your brain?
Reid: Why'd you kick me?
Cheney: Where's your brain?
Reid: Why'd you kick me?
Cheney: Where's your brain?
[CNN is on television]
American Public: What's the score?
CNN: Nothin' nothin'.
American Public: [not really listening] Who's winning?
Harry Reid: Not us.
Boy (aka Harry Reid in Police Station: (while speaking to the speaker of the House) You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore.
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/04/26 @ 03:42 PM — (Reply)
1. Hillary
2. Pelosi
3. Feinstein
4. Ginburg - the old bat
5. Sharpton
6. Write in: ____________________
Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/04/26 @ 03:50 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/04/26 @ 03:54 PM — (Reply)
you'll love this, Elmer's bro....my husband (a German) told me today that he had a friend from "ITZEHOE" in Germany, just outside Hamburg, I told him now THERE's a town Imus would have to stay away from ....
Comment by zabelle— 2007/04/30 @ 07:31 PM — (Reply)
that's funny zabelle
Comment by elmers brother— 2007/05/01 @ 09:02 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/04/26 @ 03:59 PM — (Reply)
o.t. - not tryin' to steal your thunder, but brooke's got a real fundy-wundy-wannabe at her cartoon you stole...i'm just sayin'...
Comment by nanc— 2007/04/27 @ 12:16 PM — (Reply)
EB,
You're not stealing my thunder. I do QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
Comment by Always On Watch— 2007/04/28 @ 03:30 PM — (Reply)
the serious answer...
Because we're NOT exactly like them.
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/04/30 @ 04:09 AM — (Reply)
...and because they don't FEAR us enough to have to love us.
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/04/30 @ 04:11 AM — (Reply)
you're right FJ...if they knew we had the resolve to follow through you can bet the situation would be different...
Comment by elmers brother— 2007/04/30 @ 07:32 AM — (Reply)
Kawania che Keekeru!
Happy St. Tammany's Day, elbro!
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/05/01 @ 03:02 AM — (Reply)
fj where is that large elm tree?
Comment by elmers brother— 2007/05/01 @ 09:06 AM — (Reply)
Which one exactly... I might be able to track it down. The one where Penn's treaty was signed? I've seen some etchings. To locate a few other landmarks, wouldn't be too difficult, I should think.
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/05/01 @ 02:19 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/05/01 @ 03:02 PM — (Reply)
fj from wikipedia
The one where Tamanend is reported to have announced that the Lenni-Lenape and the English colonists would "live in peace as long as the waters run in the rivers and creeks and as long as the stars and moon endure." These words have been memorialized on the statue of Tamanend that stands in Philadelphia today
Comment by elmers brother— 2007/05/01 @ 03:53 PM — (Reply)
Tamanend’s name - Tamanend’s name is sometimes spelled Tamanent, Tammany, or Tamine. The name Tamanend means “the affable.” The word “affable” means pleasant, courteous, and easy to talk to.
The Lenni Lenape - The Native Americans who lived in the area where William Penn made his settlement were known as the Lenni Lenape. The Europeans called them the Delaware, after the English name for the nearby river.
The Lenni Lenape tribe had three clans. They were the Minsi, the Unami, and the Unalachtigos. The Unami (Turtle) clan was the head clan. The chief of the Unami was the leader of all of the Lenni Lenape people. Tamanend became the chief of the Unami some time before 1683.
Tamanend and His People - We do not know anything about Tamanend’s early life. We know that he lived along the banks of the Neshaminy creek. His tribe lived in families in small villages. They hunted deer and beaver. They planted corn, beans, and squash.
One man who wrote about Tamanend was Rev. John Heckwelder. He was a Moravian missionary. He never met Tamanend, but he learned about him from some of the early settlers and the older native people. He wrote:
“The name of Tamanend is held in the highest veneration among the Indians. Of all the chiefs and great men which the Lenape nation ever had, he stands foremost on the list. But although many fabulous stories are circulated about him among the whites, but little of his real history is known… All we know about Tamanend, therefore, is that he was an ancient Delaware chief who never had his equal. He was in the highest degree endowed with wisdom, virtue, prudence, charity, affability, meekness, hospitality, in short with every good and noble qualification that a human being may possess. He was supposed to have had an intercourse with the great and good spirit, for he was a stranger to everything that is bad.”
Shakamaxon (Phildelphia) - Around this same time several chiefs, including Tamanend, met William Penn at Shakamaxon. This was a meeting place where a huge old elm tree grew. The elm became known as the “Treaty Elm.”
Tamanend and Penn made speeches. William Penn said,
“We have come here with a hearty desire to live with you in peace… We believe you will deal kindly and justly by us, and we will deal kindly and justly by you…We will be as one heart, one head, one body; that if one suffers, the other suffers; that if anything changes the one it changes the other. We will go along the broad pathway of good will to each other together.”
Tamanend, through an interpreter, said:
“We will live in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure.”
Tamanend gave Penn a belt of wampum. It had pictures of two men on it. The men’s hands were clasped together. One was a man in a hat, (Penn) the other a Native American. This belt was a symbol of friendship.
William Penn returned to England in 1683.
The famous elm tree under which the treaty was conducted fell during a storm in 1810. Soon thereafter, a monument was erected on the site where the elm tree was located to commemorate the treaty. The small obelisk remained tucked away in the northwest corner of a lumber yard that sat on the stite, until actions were taken in 1893 to acquire the land and build the park that we have today. The park officially opened on 28 October 1893.
links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Treaty_Park
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/marshall/country/country-IV-40.html
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/05/03 @ 03:53 AM — (Reply)
Here's the wampum belt...
link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/05/03 @ 04:02 AM — (Reply)
thanks fj I love history
Comment by elmers brother— 2007/05/03 @ 08:30 AM — (Reply)
Me too. And I love sharing it as well.
Comment by Farmer John— 2007/05/04 @ 07:34 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/05/04 @ 07:37 AM — (Reply)