Today is the 200th anniversary of the US government giving Native Americans notice that they were no longer permitted to live East of the Mississipi. Along those lines, tomorrow is the 190th anniversary of Massacre of Tohopeka, in which Andrew Jackson and his men killed hundreds of Cree. To count them, they cut off their noses, making a pile of almost six hundred, and brought back grisly souveniers — the skins of the natives, cut off like animals, to later be tanned as decorations.
This is what it looks like outside my apartment right now. There's a lot of fog. I've included two photos so you can see how kooky it is.
Of course, Saturday is Rachel's day if we're playing the anniversary game, with Saturday being the 72nd anniversary of Amelia Earhart's solo flight across the Atlantic (the first for a woman). As you probably know, as much as people like to think she flew off to a tropical love island, she was later killed by her drunk male navigator. Earheart's death is only a small part in a giant “conspiracy” to keep women from flying. After all, women test pilots and women astronauts have consistently outperformed their male counterparts from day one — so much so that NASA had to quietly scrap their female astronaut program, since they would have ended up with an all-woman moon program.
I wonder how different a place the world would be if NASA had allowed those women to — without any men involved — land on the moon and be humanity's first extra-terrestrial ambassadors? What message would it send to the people of the world (and the people of the United States)?
Other than that, I wonder if it's Condoleeza Rice that's going to take the fall for 9/11 (more). It's kind of looking that way… I wonder, in the dirty game of politics, do you throw a black woman to the wolves in a situation like this, or do you protect the few black women insane enough to become Republicans at all costs?
Other than that, I find it highly amusing that the US is saying that it can stay in Iraq as long as it wants (past the formal occupation conclusion on June 30) becuase it already has a UN resolution to do so (more)! So the June 30, 2004 date has at least been pushed back to December 31, 2005 I suppose. This game they play with the UN is really quite funny…
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