Doomstead

The trapper was sent into the wilderness to find where a sawmill would be built. The trapper had to winter there, the third cataract.  He had traps for meat. The Natives had no money to buy traps, so the trapper trapped more meat than he could eat. The extra meat was left in a few traps for the natives as he collected the others.  They followed him, and did not steal the traps.

He went back east, and the next year, he returned with others to build the sawmill. All settlers received land as part of a government claim. The trapper had land—he had been born in New England and knew wood. He did not have to work the land because the sawmill was on the corner.

Natives hunted the land, but other landowners would drive them away. Some of the Natives spoke French. It turned out the land was in a zone between the Sioux and the Cherokee. The tribes warred but could not kill each other in this DMZ. The trapper, a mill owner during working hours, had good relations with the natives who extended to him the no kill policy.  He understood their plight.

A generation later, the family name was well known to the Sioux. One of the trapper's nephews, born on the land had a farm not far away. A posse rode out to fetch him one day because the only real Indian war Minnesota ever had was about to start. Warned, the nephew told them to go away.  He had nothing to fear from his friends.

But he was tied up, thrown over a horse, and taken to town. That was a good thing, too, because when the war party came through, they killed all the whites they could find. The war party had men from more than a hundred miles away.  The local Indians feared for their lives.  Any young Sioux men found were given the choice to fight in the war party or die.  Mothers hid their children.  The nephew would have been killed.

The first part of this story was told to me by my grandmother more than a century later. The second part was told to me by my mother, who has the same maiden name as the trapper. I am descended from that trapper.  With me, the story dies.

There is a town where the sawmill was.  It has the same last name.

Israeli settlers, protected by the army, ramp up violence in occupied West Bank

QuoteWhile global attention focused on the conflict between Israel and Iran, Jewish extremists intensified their attacks on Palestinian villages. On Wednesday in Kafr Malik, the Israeli army killed three civilians after 'stone-throwing' incidents.

Every time I turned on a You Tube video to see the flying missiles I knew it was a cover for atrocity.

QuoteAnd the reason that all of these politicians are not jumping on board with this is because Zoron Mandani is their worst nightmare.

They rely on propaganda to get the money from the United States of America and to get our military protection by propagandizing and lying to American citizens that:

    All Muslims are terrorists. All Muslims hate women. All Muslims want Sharia law.

And here you have Zoron Mendani who stands with, um, one of his opponents who is a Jewish man — who ended up endorsing Zoron — who says:

    "I want to join you in your fight against anti-semitism. And all of you trans kids that are getting bullied — I stand with you. I want to comfort you. I want you to have a place under my tent."

And:

    "Everybody who works hard all the time and can never get ahead — I don't care what color your skin is. I don't care what your religion is. I'm here to champion for you. I'm here for everyone. Because none of us are free until all of us are free."

So, as an objective person that lives in the middle of America in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
I don't want my taxpayer dollars going over to some homicidal maniac, Benjamin Netanyahu.  I don't think it's right.  How does this advance American interests?

I like listening to these two.

I do not believe that the Democratic Party can be reformed.  American politicians from both parties are bought and paid for, and it is not the American people who bought them.

The only way reform could happen is if every single elected congressman/woman knew they would not be re-elected if they did not do the people's work.  Unfortunately the people are not ready to lead.  If they were nonsense would end in a heartbeat.