Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Originally posted by Brenda:
The Navajo seem to have Covid-19 under control now on their reserves. Last time I looked at their web page they had had 38 new cases.
In a decision being hailed as a win for tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation.
T
Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
That is a win because the US government is well known for taking back land that was granted to the tribes by treaty.
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Except that's not what happened at all.
Ted only reads headlines. Don't believe anything Ted has to say about literally anything.
SPOILER ALERT: It was a very bad ruling on the ability to try somebody who is American Indian who murdered or raped another for murder or rape they committed in Eastern Oklahoma. It's not as if any of the 1.8 million residents in eastern Oklahoma who aren't Indian are going to have their property seized and given to natives. This isn't South Africa. Thank God.
Among those who will not be prosecuted and/or have their cases thrown out even if already found guilty in the past because of this ruling is a man who killed his girlfriends ex husband and cut off his balls, and another man who raped a 4 year old girl on the Creek reservation.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Except that's not what happened at all.
Ted only reads headlines. Don't believe anything Ted has to say about literally anything.
SPOILER ALERT: It was a very bad ruling on the ability to try somebody who is American Indian who murdered or raped another for murder or rape they committed in Eastern Oklahoma. It's not as if any of the 1.8 million residents in eastern Oklahoma who aren't Indian are going to have their property seized and given to natives. This isn't South Africa. Thank God.
Among those who will not be prosecuted and/or have their cases thrown out even if already found guilty in the past because of this ruling is a man who killed his girlfriends ex husband and cut off his balls, and another man who raped a 4 year old girl on the Creek reservation.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Can you link in the story Jack. I'm going to have to read this.
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Quote:Sadly, this is not a US Nunavut judicial moment. It's not as if the US government suddenly woke up and said - you know that land that we signed a treaty about, where we said it was yours forever but we took it anyway? That land really is yours.
Originally posted by Brenda:
That is a win because the US government is well known for taking back land that was granted to the tribes by treaty.
That didn't happen.
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Back to COVID-19 an interesting demonstration -
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And I thought this was funny!
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Walt Disney World’s Re-Opening Video Didn’t Go Over So Well
Neither the dystopian vibes of the promo nor the possible risks of visiting an amusement park during a pandemic were lost on the internet at large, and the video will now live on forever in a million parodies. Some people took advantage of the fact that you can dub anything you’d like over footage of someone wearing a mask, since their lips aren’t visible. This trick came in simple public service varieties like this one:
More at https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/walt-disney-world-reopens-florida-co
ronavirus-welcome-home-video-inspires-parodies.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The Navajo seem to have Covid-19 under control now on their reserves. Last time I looked at their web page they had had 38 new cases.
In a decision being hailed as a win for tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation.
T
That is a win because the US government is well known for taking back land that was granted to the tribes by treaty.
It's been a mess Brenda. This country is supposed to be a work in progress. This is a step forward in a period that's been 3 steps backward.
T
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Walt Disney World’s Re-Opening Video Didn’t Go Over So Well
Neither the dystopian vibes of the promo nor the possible risks of visiting an amusement park during a pandemic were lost on the internet at large, and the video will now live on forever in a million parodies. Some people took advantage of the fact that you can dub anything you’d like over footage of someone wearing a mask, since their lips aren’t visible. This trick came in simple public service varieties like this one:
More at https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/walt-disney-world-reopens-florida-co
ronavirus-welcome-home-video-inspires-parodies.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Fingers crossed...
T
Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The Navajo seem to have Covid-19 under control now on their reserves. Last time I looked at their web page they had had 38 new cases.
In a decision being hailed as a win for tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation.
T
That is a win because the US government is well known for taking back land that was granted to the tribes by treaty.
It's been a mess Brenda. This country is supposed to be a work in progress. This is a step forward in a period that's been 3 steps backward.
T
"The Supreme Court today kept the United States' sacred promise to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of a protected reservation," the tribe said in a statement.
It is NOT a “sacred promise”. There is nothing sacred. By next week, Congress could rescind the promise, assuming the Democrats in the House decide to join with Republicans in the Senate and Trump to rescind. The court's decision hinged on the question of whether the Creek reservation continued to exist after Oklahoma became a state.
"Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law. Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.
More at www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules-that-about-half-o
f-oklahoma-is-indian-land
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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