My blog was on hiatus this past summer (I was apparently way too busy gaining weight) Now that I that I am serious about eating less, exercising more and losing weight - I have more time, and certainly more desire, to espouse my conservative right-wing positions. Today we examine Columbus Day.
Have you heard about this recent news from California?
Los Angeles cancels Columbus Day
.Columbus Day is no more in the nation’s second-largest city.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 on Wednesday to officially mark the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day on the city’s calendar — a day to commemorate “indigenous, aboriginal and native people.”
The day will remain a paid holiday for city employees, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The vote followed a contentious hearing, during which some Italian-Americans said the switch would eradicate a key portion of their history, while others argued that city lawmakers needed to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples” and dismissed the idea of celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day on a different date altogether.
“To make us celebrate on any other day would be a further injustice,” said Chrissie Castro, vice chairwoman of the Los Angeles City-County Native American Indian Commission.
Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, a member of Oklahoma’s Wyandotte Nation tribe, had pushed for the change, saying Wednesday that the move would provide “restorative justice.” In a blog post prior to the vote earlier this week, O’Farrell said the “historical record is unambiguous in documenting the horrors” Christopher Columbus and his men imposed on the native people in present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Removing Columbus Day and replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day is the appropriate action for this city to take,” O’Farrell wrote. “We must send a signal to Washington D.C. that there is no better day to honor our original inhabitants while highlighting the absurdity of celebrating a historical figure responsible for such profound suffering, still felt by generations of Indigenous People everywhere. This is more than symbolic. It is spiritually and morally necessary.”Councilman Joe Buscaino, a first-generation Italian-American, suggested replacing Columbus Day with a new name to celebrate “all of the diverse cultures in the city” before being the lone city lawmaker to oppose the switch, asking fellow councilors not to “cure one offense with another.”
With the change, Los Angeles joins a growing list of places that have already replaced Columbus Day — first recognized as a federal holiday in 1937 — with Indigenous Peoples Day, including Alaska, Vermont, Seattle, Albuquerque, San Francisco and Denver. Most recently, the Bangor City Council in Maine voted to rename the holiday, the Bangor Daily News reports.
Let's examine the lefty lunatic Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio (you know this guy, he spent his honeymoon with his new bride in that stronghold of freedom, Cuba. His Cuban honeymoon was a testament to his broken moral compass as well as his faith to the laws of the United States of America. Surely, though, I am digressing.) Mayor de Blasio has ordered a review of the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Circle in New York City.
I have some questions for the Honorable Mayor of New York:
Should we not change the name of Columbus Circle as well? (Who might that be named after?)
Now I think that is good for local politicians to send these messages to our leaders in Washington.
You are familiar with Washington, it is the capitol of our country. You might know it as Washington, DC. Did you know what the 'DC" stands for? Here's the problem: District of Columbia. There is that pesky connection to Christopher Columbus, yet again.
from wikipedia:
"Columbia" (/kəˈlʌmbiə/; kə-LUM-bee-ə) is a historical name used by both Europeans and Americans to describe the Americas, the New World, and often, more specifically, the United States of America. It is also a name given to the "Spirit of the Frontier" of which was used to illustrate Manifest Destiny among several other American political causes. It has given rise to the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies; e.g., Columbia University, the District of Columbia (the national capital), and the ship Columbia Rediviva, which would give its name to the Columbia River.
Columbia is a New Latin toponym, in use since the 1730s, for the Thirteen Colonies. It originated from the name of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and from the ending -ia, common in Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia etc.)..
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Columbia University? This is a problem. Columbia University can trace its history all the way back to 1754. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York, and fifth oldest in the entire United States. It is widely considered to be one of the finest universities in the world. This University surely would not tolerate any kind of so-called 'hate speech.' For example, a bit more than a decade ago, the University invited the Honorable President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. Aside from Ahmadinejad's fervent Holocaust Denial, he is a pretty good guy representing a country with clear cut moral values. Oops, I am digressing again. The real point is, that Columbia University is a home of political correctness. Surely, this esteemed university will have to change its name. Can you imagine being a graduate of a university which was named after a person responsible for the genocide of the indigenous people of America? Let's talk about me. I don't know if I would feel comfortable sending my daughter to a university named after Osama Bin Laden. I wouldn't care how good the quality of the education was, it just would not seem right. But that's just me.
Hopefully this is obvious. I do not think that Columbia University should change its name. I do think that it should change its slant away from politically correct, lefty, liberal thinking, but that is a different story for another blog post on another day.
I do not think that the statue of Christoper Columbus at Columbus Circle should be removed. And I don't think that one requires a formal review lefty intellectuals to come to this conclusion.
I do not think that Washington, DC needs a new name either.
And I certainly do not think that Columbus Day needs to be wiped off the calendar.
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| Another urban hike on Labor Day, this time, six miles |
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| I augmented the steps from my six mile urban hike with some walking in place while watching TV |
Your Food Diary For:
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| Egg - Poached Egg, 4 | 300 | 2 | 20 | 25 | 629 | 1 | |
| Biscuit Ham Slices, 4 slices | 60 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 680 | 0 | |
| Quaker - Instant Oatmeal Packet | 100 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 75 | 0 | |
| 460 | 21 | 25 | 38 | 1,384 | 1 | ||
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| General Tso's Chinese Chicken | 300 | 29 | 17 | 6 | 715 | 7 | |
| Vegetable Fried Rice | 100 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 87 | 1 | |
| Vegetable Lo Mein | 200 | 42 | 7 | 6 | 400 | 3 | |
| Brussel Sprouts Baked With Sauce | 100 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 190 | 0 | |
| 700 | 102 | 31 | 19 | 1,392 | 11 | ||
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| Asian Chopped Salad | 385 | 46 | 21 | 7 | 1,190 | 25 | |
| 385 | 46 | 21 | 7 | 1,190 | 25 | ||
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| Quaker - Chewy Granola 90 Calories, 2 bar | 180 | 38 | 4 | 2 | 160 | 14 | |
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| Totals | 1,725 | 207 | 81 | 66 | 4,126 | 51 | |
| Your Daily Goal | 3,075 | 384 | 102 | 154 | 2,300 | 115 | |
| Remaining | 1,350 | 177 | 21 | 88 | -1,826 | 64 | |
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| *You've earned 1,145 extra calories from exercise today | |||||||
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Here's another trip in the 'wayback machine.' This time I return to my own blog posting from September 17, 2016. It is not too difficult to predict some of the lefty loon ideas - they tend to get loonier with the passage of time. This statue in Chicago is still there. How likely is it to be there in the future?
