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1. about 19 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   Lucky thing for our bad guy that Dick experienced a moment of unprofessionalism there as well.

2. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   Sorry bud, it’s not biased at all. I was just following the topic that YOU started, when you tried to falsely claim that the Europeans were not a bunch of ignorant, barbaric, genocidal punks. They were. Yeah, sure, there were many good ones. As well as many good people from Africa, Asia and the New World. But the topic for today was Columbus and the barbarity of the Europeans.

   We can discuss the bad things ALL people EVERYWHERE did all day. Most cultures suck. Time to face reality.

3. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   Yes, they did. But you don’t see them returning stolen Inca/Maya treasure, do you?

   Pretty much everyone has condemned and criticized Columbus.

4. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   Sure. I read that too. And that lasted until the Catholic Spanish drove them out around 1230 or so.

5. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   No, I am showing that Spain had a long and violent history against anyone and everyone not Catholic. I never claimed that el Cid and Torquemada were contemporaries, just that they both existed to oppress anyone not of the Roman Catholic faith. Heck, as long as we’re at it let’s make sure to mention King Phillip II’s attack on Protestant England with the Spanish Armada.

   Spain not only attacked everyone that was not Christian, they attacked everyone that was not the right kind of Christian. Spain was a pretty much a theocracy, with the King obedient to the Pope.

   And this, boys and girls, is why we cannot allow people to think that the United States is a Christian nation. We are a nation of Christians, I agree. But we are not a Christian nation. We do not want the religious wars that Europe suffered and that the Mid-East continues to suffer from.

6. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   He may have been a Sephardic Jew but he was also a converted Christian. Because he was funded by Ferdinand with the promise of spreading the Catholic Church in all new lands.

7. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   OH MY GOD! You are kidding me? Christians and Muslims coexisted in Spain?

   You need to look up Torquemada, el Cid, the Spanish Inquisition. Auto-de-fey. The Spaniards were RUTHLESS in forcing Jewish and Muslim conversions to Catholicism. If you were not Catholic you either left (ask the Sephardic Jews who fled Spain) or converted. Those who remained had their property seized by the Church. Many were converted through torture and murder. Executions by being burned alive were common.

   Barbaric. It’s not RACIST. It is HISTORY.

8. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   I have never heard of a claim by anybody that Vespucci did anything other than use the knowledge of other map makers and his own observations to make a map which bore his name.

9. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   All kinds of Europeans died of disease. Malaria was a HUGE killer. Cholera. This is why the Europeans enslaved and imported Africans to work on the plantations of the the Caribbean, the Southeast of America and Mexico. Europeans didn’t care if they died or not, as long as they worked until death.

   Illness wasn’t the threat in the north so they relied on indentured servants from Europe until the slave trade was established.

10. 2 days ago on Wallace the Brave

    Sorry kid, it’s not a button, it’s a crank. Here ya go, 2,000 turns clockwise for each wheel. Hop to it!