Comments on: “ENDEAVORING TO PERSEVERE”

By: Sheila Wilcox

Sheila Wilcox — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:26:09 +0000

For the record, Lone Waite states that it is the Secretary of the Interior, not the President who tells the chiefs to “Endeavor to perservere”.

“I’m an Indian alright but here in The Nations they call us the civilized tribes. They call us civilized because we are easy to sneak up on.

White men have been sneaking up on us for years.

They sneaked up on us and they told us we wouldn’t be happy.

They told us we would be happy in The Nations.

So they took away our tribal lands and sent us here.

I had a fine woman and two sons but they all died on the Trail of Tears.

I wore a frock coat to Washington before The War.

We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes.

We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln.

We got to see the secretary of the interior.

He said, “Boy, you boys sure look civilized.”

He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so civilized.

We told him about how our tribal lands had been stolen and how our humans were dying.

When we finished he shook our hands and said “Endeavor to preserver!!”

They stood us in a line John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me, I am Lone Waite.

The newspapers took our picture and said, “Indians vow to endeavor to preserver.”

We thought about for a long time, endeavor to preserver, and when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.”

Lone Waite, Indian chief - from “The Outlaw Jose Wales”

By: Watcher of Weasels

Watcher of Weasels — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:17:43 +0000

The Truth Is Out There

…

By: Patterico

Patterico — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:31:54 +0000

Thanks for the link to the story about the Bat Boy/Carville connection.

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » Carville Linked to Bat Boy

Patterico’s Pontifications » Carville Linked to Bat Boy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:30:56 +0000

[...] Oh, man. Rick Moran’s post on the Truthout debacle is really quite good, so I hope he doesn’t take it the wrong way when I say that my favorite part of it was the link to the story proving a DNA link between James Carville and Bat Boy. Highlights from the Weekly World News piece: While outspoken Carville — nicknamed the “Ragin’ Cajun” — is famous for being hyper-aggressive, no one has questioned his place in the human species before. [...]

By: SShiell

SShiell — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:38:41 +0000

Tano, Thank You so very much. Too bad I can’t say the same for you! But you never know. Maybe you are just having a bad day. Or week. Or month - oh hell - maybe this whole year just hasn’t been all that good for you. You know, this could all be just a bad dream and in the morning you will wake up and find the headlines reading “Rove Indicted! Leopold Vindicated!”

Heh!

By: Tano

Tano — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:59:55 +0000

SShiell,

Thanks for your insightful remarks. You’ve made a real contribution today…

By: SShiell

SShiell — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:12:04 +0000

“Seems kinda absurd to meâ€¦.”

Just like all of your comments!

By: Tano

Tano — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:03:54 +0000

Sure, absolutely. I would love to know who TO’s sources were, and I certainly would expect them to reveal them if, in fact, this is the end of the story.

Your claims about Leopold dont seem quite plausable. How could he expect to “force the issue”? What issue could he force? Could he imagine somehow that he could force Fitz to indict Rove by claiming that he already did? Seems kinda absurd to me….

By: SShiell

SShiell — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:59:47 +0000

Tano, what went down is really simple. Leopold wished for something to be true. So he “pushed the button” in order to make it so. He decided that if he could crank up the volume enough he could force the issue. It did not work.

Is it true? Is this what really happened? I don’t know but it is just as likely as anything you have put forward in your comments.

And if you really gotta know the gory details? Great. Have TO bring out their smoking guns and show them off. It is really that simple - Have TO reveal their sources.

By: David R. Block

David R. Block — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:44:20 +0000

TruthOut = LiesIn

That’s the ticket!!!