Guest,Muslims yuk,

Be advised that I did not choose the phrase "pay lip service" with reference to multiculturalism in the US lightly. I knew exactly what I was saying.

Be advised, also, that you are making some pretty hefty assumptions about my ancestors. You know nothing about them. For all you know, my ancestors could have been those very people the Europeans stole the land from.

As it happens, they were not. My ancestors were living in other parts of the world until my father's parents and my mother's grandparents came here in the late 1800s and early 1900s. So whatever awful things they may have been doing, they weren't doing them here in the US.

I don't see any possibility of having any kind of thoughtful discussion with you, so I'm going to assume that you are just a troll.

GUEST, 21 Dec 02 - 07:01 PM,

It wasn't the Indians who were stampeding the buffalo over cliffs. It was the "Americans" of European descent. They did it as a part of their campaign of genocide against the indigenous people of this continent, knowing that the Indians depended on the buffalo to survive. Many people starved to death because of tactics like these. I think you are probably just a troll as well.

DougR, it's going to have to wait a few days, I'm afraid. Me and Mr. the Sailor are fighting a stomach flu right now, and I just don't have the stomach (pun intended) for doing any heavy research.