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Should we abolish Columbus Day?

Abolish Columbus Day, replace it with Bartolomé Day?


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We have already been over this. You are wrong.
His discovery lead to this country being established.

And I told you, which yo uignored, that it was Ptolemy that made the calculations that lead Columbus to find this land. Ptolemy is who lead to this country being established. You are honoring the wrong guy.
 
The problem is that you are not correct.
Your last sentence is accurate.

Both sentences are correct on every single level...
 
Does that mean, "don't go there girlfriend!"?

It means whatever you want it to mean. :lol: Naughty boy, don't go there, oh no you didn't, etc.
 
And I told you, which yo uignored, that it was Ptolemy that made the calculations that lead Columbus to find this land. Ptolemy is who lead to this country being established. You are honoring the wrong guy.
No it was dismissed as absurdity as it was.
Ptolemy did not discover the land.
Columbus did.
 
No, you were not correct.

About what? You aren't HCP? I just said I could be wrong. How does that mean that I am not great at psychology? And how would you know that you aren't HCP? Do you have another diagnosis that confirms borderline or something? Narcissistic?
 
No it was dismissed as absurdity as it was.
Ptolemy did not discover the land.
Columbus did.

Dude!! Columbus DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA. The USA. He didn't either.

Now, how does he talk his way around this one Bodi? Not sure Bodi, but I am sure he will be right and I will be WRONG!
 
No it was dismissed as absurdity as it was.
Ptolemy did not discover the land.
Columbus did.

The land that Columbus "discovered" was discovered accidentally due to errors in navigation. :roll: He thought he was in the Indies.
 
It means whatever you want it to mean. :lol: Naughty boy, don't go there, oh no you didn't, etc.

Let me just sit back and imagine what it means then... Oh no you didn't go there, naughty boy... naughty... naugh-tee...
 
I vote we have a Genghis Khan Day. Many of us (figures are one in two hundred men) share some of his DNA so that's gotta count for something. The point is not to wring our hands about how that might have come to be, but to take pride in what we are now.

Genghis Khan Day now!
 
Dude!! Columbus DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA.
Yes he did discover the land.
And that discovery lead to the establishment of this Country.

Your problem is that you think I am saying something I am not.
Which seems to be the usual for you.


The land that Columbus "discovered" was discovered accidentally due to errors in navigation. :roll: He thought he was in the Indies.
That has no bearing on the fact that he discovered the land and what that discovery lead to.
 
I vote we have a Genghis Khan Day. Many of us (figures are one in two hundred men) share some of his DNA so that's gotta count for something. The point is not to wring our hands about how that might have come to be, but to take pride in what we are now.

Genghis Khan Day now!

I want to celebrate the guy that discovered the moon. Anybody know who that was because THAT was a discovery. Ooh Ooh... and Tacos!
 
I want to celebrate the guy that discovered the moon. Anybody know who that was because THAT was a discovery. Ooh Ooh... and Tacos!

Did he blow the moon up or rape it? If the answer is no I'm not interested.
 
Yes he did discover the land.
And that discovery lead to the establishment of this Country.


That has no bearing on the fact that he discovered the land and what that discovery lead to.

Columbus never made it to the shores of any of the American Continent. Please explain how he discovered them if he didn't discover them. You have one of the most seriously stupid arguments that I have ever heard. I mean, get an obscure argument that is correct and run with it. That is great, but it has to be correct! What you are doing is mind numbingly obtuse! :lol:
 
Did he blow the moon up or rape it? If the answer is no I'm not interested.

Uhhh... He looked up one night. I thought that was pretty significant. Shouldn't he be honored?
 
Yes he did discover the land.
And that discovery lead to the establishment of this Country.

Your problem is that you think I am saying something I am not.
Which seems to be the usual for you.


That has no bearing on the fact that he discovered the land and what that discovery lead to.

Yes it does, it was discovered due to someone else's navigational errors, and he never even realized what he had actually "discovered."
 
Your problem is that you think I am saying something I am not.
Which seems to be the usual for you

You are saying he discovered the land. We are talking about establishing America. So you are saying that he discovered the land where the modern day USA is. Don't try and be clever and say that he discovered the land that others used as a leaving place to discover the USA land or something, that would mean that my Ptolemy argument is correct.
 
You are saying he discovered the land. We are talking about establishing America. So you are saying that he discovered the land where the modern day USA is. Don't try and be clever and say that he discovered the land that others used as a leaving place to discover the USA land or something, that would mean that my Ptolemy argument is correct.

This person always seems to side with the criminal, killer or whatever. Really strange. Maybe he's a defense attorney and just getting some practice. :lol:
 
Schools are now giving Wednesday off before Thanksgiving, costing some parents and inconveniencing a lot more..
Other parents making the rules, the BOE, now have a 5-day weekend..
Hell, lots of colleges have gone to fall break all week..even K-12..gd partimers
 
Days off are the 1st thing you plan around as a teacher..
This Christmas vacation for schools K-12 looks great..Dec. 20 a Friday to Monday Jan. 6th..
Some schools have an-service for that Monday, even better..
Some poor bastards, however, have to come back on the 2nd..
I am not looking at those 2nd sem. jobs..
 
Days off are the 1st thing you plan around as a teacher..
This Christmas vacation for schools K-12 looks great..Dec. 20 a Friday to Monday Jan. 6th..
Some schools have an-service for that Monday, even better..
Some poor bastards, however, have to come back on the 2nd..
I am not looking at those 2nd sem. jobs..

Boo-hoo. I don't get any holidays off unless I schedule for them in advance. Also, I have to choose between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have to work one.
 
Now that I'm retired, I could give a **** about those overpaid and underworking teachers, except my wife of course..
I even got to grade some Algebra papers this weekend..
Boo-hoo. I don't get any holidays off unless I schedule for them in advance.
 
Now that I'm retired, I could give a **** about those overpaid and underworking teachers, except my wife of course..
I even got to grade some Algebra papers this weekend..

Let me tell you, I would KILL someone to get the summers off again like when I was a kid. :lol:
 
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