10 thoughts on “Return Mount Rushmore!”

  1. This is why you ignore idiots. 30 years ago, when I lived in Mobridge SD a friend told me quite a bit about Sioux history. They don’t like that name, given to them by other Indians; some entire tribes of which no longer exist at all thanks to the Sioux. They prefer the racist name they gave themselves, Lakota, meaning the people.

    The B.I.A. tried to help the tribe several times by building multi-million dollar cultural centers. They destroyed them each time burning the (paid for with your tax dollars) furniture as fire wood (but not in any fire place.)

    Since then they’ve put in casinos.

    These people should say what other people can or can not do on other planets?

  2. If the U.S. is going to be doing any land swaps, or land changes. I’m hoping the government turns the U.N. complex in NYC into a parking lot or a dog park! Raze the buildings, seize the contents, sell it all and put the cash into paying the fines that go unpaid in NYC because of Diplomatic Immunity.

    I think people who hate the U.S. as much as most of them do, should get out, move, leave, take a hike…

    Let them move the U.N. to Venezuela or Cuba or The Peoples Democratic Love Fest of North Korea! Birds of of socialist, America hating feather can flock off, together, as far as I’m concerned.

  3. I remember talk quite some years back of the UN moving to an enclave (inspired by DC, I think) made for them in Paris.

    I didn’t like that idea, smacked of a “World Government” capitol. *shrug*

  4. Well I guess that solves the problem of who owns the Moon 🙂

    http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1998/01/13/95586-nasa/

    [[[A NASA official promises the U.S. space agency will never be so insensitive again as to place cremated human remains on the moon without wide consultation, including talks with Native Americans.

    The comment came yesterday after Navajo Nation President Albert Hale protested placement of an ounce of the ashes of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker aboard the unmanned Lunar Prospector.]]]

    [[[”The moon is a sacred place in the religious beliefs of many Native Americans,” he said. ”It is one thing to probe, to study, to examine and even for men to walk upon the moon. But it is sacrilegious, a gross insensitivity to the beliefs of many Native Americans, to place human remains on the moon.”]]]

    I guess the UN will now rule that lunar development and settlement is a violation of their rights and prohibit it.

    1. Limiting human development to the far side of the moon might alleviate some of the concerns people have in regard to the treatment of the Moon.

  5. Maybe we should take this notion a step further. We should go back some arbitrary amount of time and redraw the borders of Europe, the Middle East and perhaps Asia to what existed at that time. After all, most of those borders were drawn as the result of war and why should the losers be dispossed?

    This could be fun.

    1. Larry,

      It could be even more fun if its determined that the first Americans were from Europe and the ancestors of the Native Americans destroyed their culture and society 🙂

      http://www.pbs.org/saf/1406/segments/1406-4.htm

      [[[Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution spent years in Alaska and found no connection between Siberian artifacts and Clovis technology. His new theory is that Clovis people came not from Siberia, but from Europe. The Solutrean people of France and Spain were their predecessors, he says.]]]

  6. Unasked is how giving Mount Rushmore to the Sioux would help the Sioux. If National Parks turned a profit at the door then they wouldn’t need support from the federal budget. So we give the national park to the Sioux, they lose money on the upkeep costs and policing the tourists. So they try to turn it over to a private firm to run, don’t find any takers because it loses money, and find they’re stuck with a white elephant.

    So in return for us saving money and driving the Sioux nation into bankruptcy, all our past sins are expunged!

    Obviously the UN folks spent less than 3 seconds in deep thought on this issue.

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