Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Fine Whines ...



                                          






So, a guy named Warren Wilhelm Jr ...
BY Ron Metzger
Makes me no nevermind that Cristoforo gets credit for what Leif Erikson did centuries earlier.  And he most CERtainly did NOT prove that the world is round.  Pythagoras demonstrated that over 2500 years ago.  And even before that, Hinduism referred to the planet as a sphere as early as 1500 BCE.




A guy named Warren Wilhelm Jr. at birth decided to become a NYC politician, so to attract the great numbers of Italian-Americans in the city he changed his name to Bill deBlasio (his Italian-American mother’s family name).

Oh, O.K.  Who gives a rat’s ass, right?  Phony, but not entirely unheard of.  Italian Americans had been Anglicizing their names for over a hundred years so as to assimilate more readily in their new home.

But now that same guy who went to court to embrace his Italian heritage wants to get rid of the statues of Christopher Columbus (born Cristoforo Colombo), who was from Genoa, Italy, and later called Cristobal Colon in Spain and Portugal.

Today it’s politically correct to associate Colombo, or Colon, or Columbus, or whoever the hell he was, with oppressing and spreading disease amongst the peace-loving native American population of the New World paradise to which Europeans had NO claim.

Sheeesh!  Started out to be a nice day . . . cool, breezy, last nite’s rain all dried up, no traffic on the highway, Dawg not even tryin to rip my arm outta its socket chasin cats.  Then I get home to find a discussion of why all statues of the racist despoiler of that paradise should be removed from the very city through which gazillions of Italians came for a better life in that new world.

The moment DingleBarry took office, the United States became bad by Presidential Decree.  In fact, anything traceable back to Europe became contaminated.   Makes no nevermind that the various North American tribes were not the noble, peaceful innocents liberals like to believe they were.

Many groups, such as the Aztec and the Maya and the Inca were bloodthirsty as hell, constantly warring against each other for resources, for territorial claims, for religious purposes.  Yeah, real friggin paradise . . . until they stake you over an anthill or rip your heart out while you watch.

But the US is bad . . . don’t forget that – it’s central to the argument.  White people are bad.  America, and particularly the white people who have always run it, are the source of all conflict throughout history.  Forget what you’ve heard about blacks selling other blacks, or Arabs enslaving people, or Mongols invading everything from Vladivostok to Paris.  And pay no attention to what’s going on in Somalia or Nigeria or Zimbabwe.

Columbus.  Colon.  Columbia.  THOUSANDS of things and places are named after the guy, all over the friggin world.  Even a whole goddam COUNTRY --  Colombia.   In Canada, a huge province (British Columbia).  Rivers, parks, counties, cities, towns, universities, monuments, organizations (Knights of Columbus), holidays, songs . . . hell, even CBS is named for him (Columbia Broadcasting System).

Jay Zeus.  I mean, you GOTTA have SOME historical connection, some form of societal continuity, some source of cultural sharing.  You can’t build a vibrant, productive, meaningful society based on nothing but lonesome self and cold science.  There needs to be history, shared belief, inspiration, intangibles such as loyalty and patriotism, even religion.  Without those, it’s just a bunch of mercenary free agents running around bumping into each other, stepping on each other’s toes, bitching and moaning about everything from soft drinks to statues.

DeBlasio is an asshole.  A profligate, opportunistic, hypocritical asshole.  I don’t have a dog in this fight; I have about as much Italian blood and/or heritage as DeBlasio has integrity.  Makes me no nevermind that Cristoforo gets credit for what Leif Erikson did centuries earlier.  And he most CERtainly did NOT prove that the world is round.  Pythagoras demonstrated that over 2500 years ago.  And even before that, Hinduism referred to the planet as a sphere as early as 1500 BCE.

So what’s next?  Do we re-name all those cities and towns and rivers?  Does Columbia University become DingleBarry U.?

Should Columbia City, Missouri, be redesignated Michael Brown Town?
And what about District of Columbia . . . BLM ‘Hood?
Columbus, Ohio – Halle Berryville?
Columbus, Georgia – Ray Charlestown?
Columbus, Indiana – Dindu Nuffin City?
Columbus Day – Ahmo Kick Yo’ White Ass Day?
Columbia River – Shit Creek?
CBS – Colored Bias System?
Knights of Columbus – Kneelers and Whiners United?

And how about Colombia, the country?  Cocaine Café?  Medellín Mecca?

Looks to me as if DeBlasio has joined Waters and Cummings and Pelosi and even Shrillary in the Mental Deterioration Sweepstakes, very busily engaged in converting their brains into potted ferns.

Anyway,  I turned the TV off and came in here to read the news on line.  Gives me MUCH better control over selection and length of item.  You know . . . if I don’t like the title or the foto setting up the piece, piss on it – just scroll down to the next one.

Maybe some cookies to go with my coffee . . . yeah, that oughta help.


Nice, Ron. History teem with stories about, say, Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci's telephone invention.  Didn't matter. It had zero  impact.  A.G. Bell's apparatus did.  Columbus changed the world.  Incas and Apaches left their footprints in a pail of water.

2 comments:

rickn8or said...

And how about Colombia, the country? Cocaine Café? Medellín Mecca?

What about "Columbia, District of"?

Rodger the Real King of France said...

yeah!

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