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Afraid of history repeating itself?

This is a good letter to the Editor in Lafayette, IN

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Afraid of history repeating itself?

As a Native American, I have one thing to say about immigration: “Get over it.” Where does all this fear come from?

Are you afraid that you won’t be allowed to speak your native language anymore? Are you afraid that your children will be taken from your homes and sent to a boarding school and forced to adopt foreign names and learn a new language?

Are you afraid that your property will be taken from you and you will be relocated somewhere that no one would choose to live? Are you afraid that you will be killed if you don’t relocate?

Are you afraid that schools will use you as a mascot and adopt an exaggerated likeness of your image?

Are you afraid that your spiritual beliefs will be considered heathen and forbidden to practice?

Even if these immigrants form a new government, eventually you will become a citizen (we Injuns became citizens 1924) and it probably won’t take you 148 years. I am sure you will have the right to vote (we got that puppy in 1975) in less than 199 years.

I hear all these good folks talking about immigration and how bad that is. I am afraid people will just give themselves ulcers worrying about it. The sensible thing to do is just get over it.

Greg Tucker

Lafayette

Morning all

I just had to do some errands first thing this morning so I could spend all day of this beautiful morning inside staring at pixels. The wind has been coming from the east for the last 4 days so we have been covered by dust from a construction zone ½ block away so the A/C has been running not stop for 3 days and from the look of the floors and countertops and the white spots on my cats, I wish we had it on for 4 days, there is nothing like a nice layer of dirt/dust completely covering everything inside your home.

Indiana Pacers retired Reggie Millers #31 last night and TNT had it on live, very good ceremony until Gov Mitch Daniels (R) took the mic and got booed…twice… When he was suppose to be there praising Reggie he instead tried to turn it to his political gain and asked Reggie on behalf of Indiana jobs to wear a tie on TNT so more people will want to move their business to Indiana… fucking politicians… time and place people… Any way Reggie’s #31 is were it belongs hanging from the rafters.

Not much planned for this weekend, just a long list of things I need to do so I guess its time to start doing them….

I’m being watched…

While relaxing in the backyard I had a feeling I was being watched and sure enough I had this beast watching me… watching my every move… studying me… planning an attack… I could read it in its eyes… it wants me dead… I must take action!

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Then in an utter show of disrespect, he started eating my tree…. DAMN HIM!

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Oh yeah…. Here is “The Boy” who was bothering me as I watched the squirrel watch me…

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“MAD BEAST!” “LIBERAL MIDGET!”

If you have no idea what I am talking about, then you missed the best episode of “the Simpson’s” in Id say close to 5 years if not longer. With the help of the DVR we finally watched last Sundays show this morning, and it was a riot, we had to rewind twice to see/hear things we missed due to laughing. I can’t think of another episode since “Bart’s Soul” that I laughed so much.

Today we raked yet more leaves, as we have said this house was let go for over 5 years, and we have been cleaning as much as we can and now it is the outsides turn. We have raked the worse of it over the last few weeks, problem is the wind and we run out of containers to put them in and since the yard waste pickup is on Mondays only we will have a pile of leaves and branches for a few days.

We also hand sawed the hell out of a tree which looks incredibly better now that it has been cleaned up, we was going to get a chain saw today to clean up all the other trees and take out 4 stumps, but I am not sure I want to do that now, not until after we get another years lease lol so instead I have jelly for arms as I try and type. I am so out of shape.

About 74F and wind, it was 88F yesterday, we are living in a dust bowl here, about one block straight east of us was a wooded area that has since been torn out for condos, so the entire house is NASTY dirty, everything is covered in dust and I mean EVERYTHING. Even the white parts of the cats are dingy now, how sad is that? And it is going to be this way for months at least, so we are pretty much screwed.

We had a neighbor ring our doorbell yesterday worried we had a poisons snake in our yard, so I chased it and got some pics which upset her that I didn’t kill it so she left, so I think I need more snakes maybe? I’m pretty sure it is a “Racer” totally harmless and fucking fast as hell, it went over 30’ in a second. (BTW, no comments on the leaves… most are gone now)

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I will finish with this… “WHOOLY BULLEY!!!”

WTF is this cracker talking about…

You may ask? I got my DJ Ditty today, 1 day after being shipped.

Anyway, for the first time ever I downloaded a song off the internet. No, I am not kidding. I have never once downloaded a song from the internet. The DJ Ditty gave us a 30 day free unlimited downloads from Napster so I found this lovely little piece and downloaded “The Game” sung by the gentleman band of Motorhead.

I believe this was written for Lemmy’s pal HHH from the WWE, and Motorhead has sung it live at 2 Wrestlemania’s and I hope this year will be the 3rd time since Motorhead is incredible live.

When I lived in Washington I lived with a friend who was the son of true die hard bikers, his parents were real “1%” as they are referred to, so he has a wild look on life, and he was a die hard Motorhead fan, I had never heard of them until I met him, and at first I could not stand them, but over time I learned to love them, and they opened up for Metallica and Guns n Roses in ’92 in Seattle since Faith No More had to leave the tour since it ran 2 months long after James got burned.

Motorhead rocked the Kingdom.

Any way, my first song was “The Game” and then “Hurt” by Jonny Cash and then some more Cash and then I just started searching, so far I have downloaded 1.02 gigs and when Pauline has time tomorrow I’m sure she will triple that in a matter of minutes.

So feel free to welcome me to the 21st century!