The sterilizations of indigenous women were either genuine mistakes or less direct means of the continuation of the extermination policy against the Indian Nations. At least three indigenous generations from 3,406 women are not in existence now as the result of either human error or intentional genocide. Were the sterilizations unintentional, negligible, or intended genocide? What would the indigenous culture and political landscape be now? One can only imagine, but the sterilizations like the relocations – were forced.
September 23, 2007 archive
Sep 23 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Sep 23 2007
The Morning News
From Yahoo News THE TOP STORY
And the only one-
1 Iraq: Blackwater guards fired unprovoked
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
30 minutes ago
| BAGHDAD – Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case was referred to the Iraqi judiciary.
Iraq’s president, meanwhile, demanded that the Americans release an Iranian arrested this week on suspicion of smuggling weapons to Shiite militias. The demand adds new strains to U.S.-Iraqi relations only days before a meeting between President Bush and Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said Iraqi authorities had completed an investigation into the Sept. 16 shooting in Nisoor Square in western Baghdad and concluded that Blackwater guards were responsible for the deaths. |
My emphasis.
Sep 23 2007
What the fuck are we?
Over at big orange the denizens are collectively referred to as Kossacks, Kossians or Kossaks. The latter being a preference of buhdy and myself, et al. I like the almost palindromic look of “kossak”.
But now we are here at docudharma. So, are we docudharmics? Docudharmists? Maybe a Simpsonsesque “dod’hists”? Saying that we are “DD’s” (developmentally disabled) is too rife for derision, however apt it may be from time to time.
Sep 23 2007
I’m gonna stay at buhdy’s place, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the blogs.
He doesn’t know it yet; I’m going to show up with my hammock and my sunscreen.
No, really I mean Docudharma. Although…
I’m new as hell at this shit. The first site I went to was,
The Place Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned
(TPWNSNBM, I’m trying to start a thing, but this one may be too long).
Sep 23 2007
The Primaries: We Can Be Heroes! w/poll
First off, I heartily concure with OPOL’s diary. What it comes down to, to my mind, is whether we have the gumption to vote for what we believe, or will we vote for what we are told to believe.
Sep 23 2007
Iraq, no one speaks for them
I wish to inform and hopefully to move you. I have gathered information from various sources like UNICEF, the United Nations, WHO, medical journals and relief organizations among others. The figures are often based on estimates in part based on verifiable reports because hard figures are difficult to gather. I tried whenever possible to use multiple sources. You are invited below the fold where I hope we will find a sense of proportion and perspective.
Sep 23 2007
Announcing THUNDERDOME! (a potentially useless idea)
As I say, potentially useless but….
I want to offer it. Online debate is by nature choppy. For one main reason….no one has fully committed to debate. Even people who post a diary often just stop debating when the going gets rough.
The idea of REAL debates online has always intrigued me. So though it is by NO means compulsory, (even if someone challenges you (which, if they do I suggest you respond by laughing sneeringly at them and addressing them scornfully for being SO immature))I want it to be known that here at Docudharma we have a …..Thunderdome!!!
Sep 23 2007
Making the Government a Corporation
Since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 it has been the dream of Republicans to turn government over to private enterprise believing that it would somehow make government more efficient. What might the consequences be if such a shift were to take
place?
Sep 23 2007
Various Ramblings
So I’m thinking about all the scandals, moral scandals that have rocked America in the past several years. Bill Clinton’s blowjob. Vitter’s hookers. Gingrich’s, Guiliani’s extramarital affairs. And I’m wondering about all this.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t care about someone’s personal vices when it comes to being a leader. FDR was unfaithful to Eleanor. JFK was unfaithful to Jackie. Grant was a drunk. Churchill suffered from the black dog of depression.
I am rambling about this notion of leadership and moral vices, or morality in general. I am wondering if one of the problems we now have in government is because anyone who wants to run for office has to be so squeaky clean in their life that we may be excluding folks who would make damned good leaders.
Have we in America become even more Puritan than the Puritans? Is the measure of leadership capability the notion that one has never been wild in their youth, did drugs, fucked themselves senseless, been in jail?
I don’t know. I think there is a problem here.
Sep 23 2007
Dallying Demographics
It appears that pollsters are searching for the next semi-imaginary demographic with characteristics so broad that somebody is bound to fit in. Soccer Moms. Security Moms. Nascar Dads. I personally hope the next big demographic is Pissed Off Americans, and pundits spend energy trying to decipher just who these mystery people are and what they are so pissed off about.
The teenage daughter of a work colleague who met me on an outing told her mother that I could be a “sporty Mom, except really weird.”