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Tub-Thumper - 1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter. (from oed.com). This blog will be a combination of reasoned posting somedays and an occasional rant.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
INFLAMMATORY
More to come today but I loved this quote so much I just had to post it...

"Every now and then I am impressed with the thinking of the non-Indian. I was in Cleveland last year and got to talking with a non-Indian about American history. He said that he was really sorry about what had happened to Indians, but that there was a good reason for it. The continent had to be developed and he felt that Indians had stood in the way, and thus had to be removed. "after all," he remarked, "what did you do with the land when you had it?" I didn't understand him until later when I discovered that the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland is inflammable. So many combustible pollutants are dumped into the river that the inhabitants have to take special precautions during the summer to avoid setting it on fire. After reviewing the argument of my non-Indian friend I decided that he was probably correct. Whites had made better use of the land. How many Indians could have thought of creating an inflammable river?"

from the Mohawk paper, Akwesane Notes
and please sign my guest map (thanks to Rachie and the others who already did). It's on the right after all the pictures...
posted by michael the tubthumper @ 11:43 am  
5 Comments:

  • At 2:12 pm, Blogger Justin said…

    I'll try again but the guestmap doesn't like me.

     

  • At 2:24 pm, Blogger michael the tubthumper said…

    it's there now. cheers

     

  • At 4:53 pm, Blogger Keir said…

    Shouldn't it read flammable instead of inflammable? That would make more sense.

    Anyway, Cleveland did yield us something good too: Dennis Kucinich, the youngest mayor of a major American city and, for a while there, a helluva candidate for prez.

    I'm not signing your guest map. I don't like it. Sorry.

     

  • At 4:59 pm, Blogger michael the tubthumper said…

    fair enough.

    inflammable - Capable of being inflamed or set on fire; susceptible of combustion; easily set on fire

    maybe you are thinking 'unflammable

     

  • At 6:02 pm, Blogger michael the tubthumper said…

    hi

    it is confusing isn't it? i looked up UN-flammable but there is no such word.

     
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