Happy Columbus Day
James Carroll at Boston Globe, All glasses half empty, all silver linings cloudy. Put another way: Â
Roses are red
Violets are blue
America sucks
And so do you.
Carroll’s quick summage of American suckage through history (actually relatively upbeat as Carroll’s America takes go) and in the GWOT leaves out a couple of factors that make this a happy holiday. Congress has again failed to abandon Iraq to a horrible fate. Anbar’s awakening is spreading to Diyala and elsewhere. American and Iraqi death rates dropping. The beginnings of a Shiite awakening. Growing proof of Iranian interference and indications that the United States may, at long last, act to curtail Iranian’s bloody, decades-long campaign to dominate the Middle East and the world’s major oil supplies. A WMD program dismantled in terrorist-supporting Syria. Hamas, now a pariah recognized as a terrorist organization even among Arabs. Taliban being killed at a rate of 100 to 1 in Afghanistan. Saddam, dead. Numerous plots detected and disrupted in the United States and Europe, no successful follow-on in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, with the exception of homegrown serial killer and AQ admirer John Mohammed. Â
Columbus Day may be the most unPC holiday of the year. That’s why I intend to celebrate it doing the most unPC thing I can think of. Working for a living.Â
Columbus Day celebrates the arrival of Europeans in the New World, which critics note marked the onset of a lot of death, power shifts, slavery and domination of the continent by new ethnic groups.  Essentially, a continuation of history as usual as far as the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia were concerned, all of which had practiced those things repeatedly. Only in the Americas, an acceleration of history, something different. Â
From this complex, sometimes disturbing history of boldness, vision, determination, misery, blood and hope in the cauldron of New World, emerged the greatest nation history has seen, founded on noble ideas, some of which we are still finetuning. An example to the rest of the world, which is still having trouble with a lot of the basics. Happy Columbus Day. Â
Anyway, Carroll, if you believe the European occupation of North America was such a bad thing, I respect your views, but you really need to act on your convictions: Find a hole in the Auld Sod to crawl into and divorce yourself from oppressive institutions of the European occupation of North America such as the Boston Globe. It’s the only moral choice.
CQ: 8 Most Chilling Words in Journalism. I’d call them the 8 most astonishing, but I’ve been up against the Glob for many years and not easily astonished any more.
Surber: Disease, gunpowder … civilization! No more blood sacrifice.
Welcome Pajamas, Punditeers, Surberistas, Captain’s crew, etal. Your holiday not unPC enough? Come on in. Surrender to surrender! The JFK Messiah commands it! Then check out this Haditha frame job. Hug an Iraq cop. You may already share my concerns about stability, but be sure to check the family fun at the end. We’re all scratching our heads over NYT’s latest revision of history and speaking of Haditha, where a revision is apparently in order, NYT’s funk over an atrocity undefined.
Topics: America
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:35 am on Monday, October 8, 2007
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October 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am
[...] Today we celebrate the 515th anniversary of Chris Columbus discovering America. He brought with him disease, gunpowder and oh yes, civilization. No more blood sacrifices. Jules Crittednen has more. [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Oops. I fixed typo. Great post, Jules.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Thanks Don, you just did it better in 14 words.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:50 am
[...] Jules Crittenden also has more thoughts, including how he plans to celebrate the holiday in the most American way possible — by working for a living. [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Yeah, I read about this cretin over at Captain’s Quarters. Carroll has one of the most advanced cases of self-hate and western non-guilt that I’ve seen in a long time.
And, rather like you, I keep on wondering when we will start seeing the descendants of those European imperialistic colonists returning to their ancestral homelands to atone for the sins and transgressions of their great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpappy by returning North America to the original inhabitants.
As we used to say as kids, “You first!”
October 8th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Heh. No more blood sacrifices. I love it! Just go watch Apocalypto and then see if you don’t find yourself at the end saying “thank goodness for Cortez”. That is if you don’t hate your own culture.
Columbus Day is un-PC because it is a celebration of the one culture that has advanced the condition of man. Yeah, it has had and will continue to have its warts, but it keeps improving. It might have once meant slavery, Wounded Knee and the exploitation of labor, but it is self correcting. And when you are 80 and still springing out of bed instead of having died 40 years earlier from old age, cold and disease, you’ll know what I mean.
saltydog put it best in another thread and I paraphrase: the trendy, multi-culti western civ haters disdain Columbus for the crime of being “curious while European”.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Christ, what a parody of itself. I remember someone summed up Will and Ariel Durant’s 10-volume history of civilization as “Wars broke out. Spinoza was born. And history strove on, ever ceaselessly.” This is pretty much the same thing, except in reverse.
I love that the climax of American history, of Columbus and Jefferson and Lincoln, is… “Barack Obama made a major speech.” Yeah, I’d count on it to stand with Gettysburg and Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
The Indians fought wars with each other all the time for territory.
The white man was just a better Indian.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
You might find this of interest re: climate change.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/10/criminals-and-moralists-working.html
Criminals And Moralists Working Together
October 8th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
and another:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-enron-and-carbon-trading-hansen.html
Enron Carbon Trading And Hansen
October 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
America-hating on Columbus Day
There’s always at least one liberal in the crowd who will use a holiday as an opportunity to bash America, and today is no exception. James Carroll writes today in the Boston Globe about a “troubling” turn in our history and - yep -…
October 8th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
[...] how are you evil neo-cons celebrating Columbus Day? Jules Crittenden weighs in. I think he means “half empty,” but . . . he’s on a roll. Posted by [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
What have the Romans ever done for us?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
At least Carrol won’t make the same mistake the NYTimes made yesterday.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden nails it: “Columbus Day may be the most unPC holiday of the year. That’s why I intend to celebrate [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Cleary Squared - Curious While White
October 8th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Happy Columbus Day!
Jules Crittenden writes, “Columbus Day may be the most unPC holiday of the year. That’s why I intend to celebrate it doing the most unPC thing I can think of. Working for a living.” As I’ve written before, I belonged…
October 9th, 2007 at 10:53 am
The only thing keeping this offensive moron alive is the fact that we do not use Indian laws, rules or traditions.
Ah well, I can daydream about clubbing him then skinning his head while he is still alive. What’s he look like? Nice head of hippie hair or bald as a yegg? Gonna look nice hung on my den wall or not?
Ya know, maybe he’s right, there’s something to be said for re-adopting some Indian rules.
But he’s a lefty, so he’s a cheat. I bet if I came at him with a club and a knife, he’d pull out an eeevil white man’s gun and shoot me dead. What can you do with lefties?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Carroll was a Roman Catholic who had issues with his father until an Iron John weekend with other chaps who stripped to the waist and pounded communal drums. You can imagine what came next.