Indian Casino Pays Tribute to the Gold Standard

[4est_4est_Gump]

The theme will be L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz which was a metaphor for the gold standard.

I celebrate the fact that they want to make the tribe some money and they picked a real, American, family theme, since most Americans think it is just about good witches, bad witches, and a cute little Cairn Terrier.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

This tribe is also a real leader in the fight against the Redskins logo, because, you know, symbolism matters.

Racism matters.

Offense matters.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

“The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians,” he wrote in late 1890 for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in South Dakota. “Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; it’s better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.”

L. Frank Baum.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's okay though.


His grandchildren apologized.





Are they getting royalties?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...779c62-ac9f-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Two weeks later, Baum, the newspaper’s publisher, reiterated his point in an editorial written after the slaughter of as many as 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee. He demanded that the U.S. government “wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.”

“I think that’s a wonderful message — that we’re able to overcome by repentance and by forgiveness,” Halbritter said. “It’s looking forward rather than backward.”

lo-fucking-l

 

[pointless]

you should definitely consider masturbating.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The theme will be L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz which was a metaphor for the gold standard.

A wizard-of-oz themed indian casino.

That's like something from a late Pynchon novel.

 

[Mr_Bert_thrope]

ISIS are the sioux of today's America.

 

[Mr_Bert_thrope]

A wizard-of-oz themed indian casino.

That's like something from a late Pynchon novel.

They were probably drunk.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

A wizard-of-oz themed indian casino.

That's like something from a late Pynchon novel.

I had to look that up.

I don't read a lot of fiction...

 

[zipman]

I had to look that up.

I don't read a lot of fiction...

No, you just write a lot of it and pretend it's fact.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Typical lib reply.



Ignore the topic; the only important thing is to get off a shot at your "enemy."

 

[zipman]

Typical lib reply.



Ignore the topic; the only important thing is to get off a shot at your "enemy."

LOL, Typical right wing reply.

I thought I was on ignore. It sure seems like you just use that excuse when you don't like when I do reply to the topics.

And for the millionth time, I don't view you as an "enemy." I mean seriously, "internet enemies." Could you possibly be more immature?

 

[RobDownSouth]

THIS is your outrage du jour?

Pretty weaksauce, even for you.

 

[Adre]

He's pretty hopped up about the gold standard lately. Quite a life, huh?

 

[rosco rathbone]

He's pretty hopped up about the gold standard lately. Quite a life, huh?

"lately" lol.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He's pretty hopped up about the gold standard lately. Quite a life, huh?

He can't take viagra anymore becoz of the "atrial fibrillation" that keeps him from holding down a job, so he relies on "gold standard" stories to give himself a chubby.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He's pretty hopped up about the gold standard lately. Quite a life, huh?

typical lib

SSSSSSSshhhhh... be vewy vewy qwiet. Ahm huntin' wascaws...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"lately" lol.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

The theme will be L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz which was a metaphor for the gold standard.

I celebrate the fact that they want to make the tribe some money and they picked a real, American, family theme, since most Americans think it is just about good witches, bad witches, and a cute little Cairn Terrier.

One of many interpretations calls it a monetary allegory.
The Yellow brick road is said to be a reference to the gold standard. Dorothy's slippers, which were silver in the book, not ruby, were a reference to those who wanted to use silver in addition to gold as a monetary standard.

Another cites the work as a Political parable on Populism intended by the author to produce a gentle and friendly Midwestern critique of the Populist rationale.

But it also serves just as well as Spiritual allegory showing people how they can make miracles happen in even the most difficult of circumstances just by relying on the natural gifts they have been given by God. The characters in the book found the answers they were seeking only when they turned inward and stopped looking for someone to tell them what to do, and the lesson they learned is that the power to re-shape their realities and transform their lives had been lying dormant inside of them all along.

So many different interpretations have been brought forward that it's nearly impossible to nail down which, if any, were the intent of the author and which are mere coincidence and confirmation bias.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

He's pretty hopped up about the gold standard lately. Quite a life, huh?

Somewhere around late March he and Ishmael will start harping on about the "FairTax", just like they do every year.

 

[zipman]

One of many interpretations calls it a monetary allegory.
The Yellow brick road is said to be a reference to the gold standard. Dorothy's slippers, which were silver in the book, not ruby, were a reference to those who wanted to use silver in addition to gold as a monetary standard.

Another cites the work as a Political parable on Populism intended by the author to produce a gentle and friendly Midwestern critique of the Populist rationale.

But it also serves just as well as Spiritual allegory showing people how they can make miracles happen in even the most difficult of circumstances just by relying on the natural gifts they have been given by God. The characters in the book found the answers they were seeking only when they turned inward and stopped looking for someone to tell them what to do, and the lesson they learned is that the power to re-shape their realities and transform their lives had been lying dormant inside of them all along.

So many different interpretations have been brought forward that it's nearly impossible to nail down which, if any, were the intent of the author and which are mere coincidence and confirmation bias.

Under the category of Confirmation Bias, A_J will take the gold standard for $200, Alex.

 

[CandiCame]

Here's an article for those of you who are interested: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tribe-fighting-redskins-name-builds-casino-honoring-racist-wizard-of-oz-author/2015/02/06/9d779c62-ac9f-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

And yeah, it's pretty fucked up. Baum based the Winkie tribe off of Plains Native Tribes and made them insultingly primitive and animalistic. But, I wouldn't call stealing someone's theme after it lapsed into public domain, refusing to put his name on it anywhere, and laughing all the way to the bank an "homage" the way this article does. I'd call it a good business decision that's going to rake up controversy, which is cheaper than publicity. Still pretty fucked up.

Baum was a racist asshole, but he's dead and, you know, fuck him. Might as well make money off of him. Besides, Oz has become bigger than Baum. In fact, I've read all 40 Oz books and I would say that Maguire said more about Winkie culture in 2 books than Baum did in 40. And most people consider his work cannon.

 

[Adre]

typical lib

SSSSSSSshhhhh... be vewy vewy qwiet. Ahm huntin' fat self-loathing injuns who quote pretend Austrian economists.

Right.