tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post4339041597529451543..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Every Idea I Have Is NostalgiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-45244443178459467112013-11-25T13:50:10.745-05:002013-11-25T13:50:10.745-05:00Didn't occur to me to look, but damn, no (but ...Didn't occur to me to look, but damn, no (but good, no).<br /><br />I'm thinking that killing the blogs that no longer existed - as in the URLs were dead - is what sped things up since the loading process no longer is trying to resolve the links. A pleasant unintended consequence.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-2786786238318847412013-11-25T13:41:59.814-05:002013-11-25T13:41:59.814-05:00Yes!!1!!1 The loading is much quicker and the caus...Yes!!1!!1 The loading is much quicker and the causing my other open windows to fart seems to be cured.<br /><br />Used to be I could only open your bleg if I had no others open because [see above].<br /><br />Did it fix your update template button issue?Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-82334004694617946142013-11-25T09:53:45.328-05:002013-11-25T09:53:45.328-05:00speaking of original inhabitants of the continent,...speaking of original inhabitants of the continent, much reduced in numbers if not extinct - as szybist's passenger pigeons are - <br /><br />a discussion of the linkage between euro-american treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants of our own continent and american overseas imperialism can be found at<br /><br />Walter L. Williams “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism.” The Journal of American History 66(March 1980):810–836.<br /><br />The author argues against the conventional view that American imperialism began in 1898 (annexation of the Philippines and the Spanish-American war), on the grounds that our policy towards annexing the Philippines was set by our treatment of the American Indians. Imperialists themselves made this argument, and Williams suggests historians would do well to take this view seriously.<br /><br />[summary continues at the Online Library of the Liberty Fund]<br /><br />the full text of williams' paper is on the web - it cites theodore roosevelt as saying that the north american indians had no rights to the land they lived on because they did not cultivate it (apparently ignoring the fact that some did, in fact, cultivate it)<br /><br />a footnote - so far as i can tell, the author of this paper is not the Walter Lee Williams who was the 500th person on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list, arrested in Mexico the day after being listed - although both are academics, the disciplines are differentmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com