Tocky on 8/1/2011 at 04:24
Bison is way more like beef than elk which is like deer. Ranch raised bison have bit of fat on them which IMO gives it a much better taste unless you are talking tender loin which is that tongue melting backstrap meat and is good on a grill from elk or deer but otherwise those two are fairly dry without any fat. Of course you can tendrise overnight in Italian dressing but just as a slab of steak bison cuts mirror beef which is a good thing.
The Tupelo buffalo park sells the meat which is a bit pricey compared to just some of the local farmers who raise them. They even have a true "great white" which is not an albino but the real deal genetic anomaly. You can tell because the eyes aren't pink. It's a fun place to take the kids on safari while giraffes poke thier head in the bus window and that sort of thing but they teach you a lot about them as you roll over hill and dale like the part about jumping six and even eight feet over a pen fence. Saw a gazelle be born which was amazing in how it affected the other animals. Some protective butting of the too curious other species. I'm sure my gandaughter got a bit of farm ed out of it too.
I'm hereby renouncing whatever race I am in favor of moon cricket.
About Jackson though, he was a bit like Forest, bad but badass as well. He once took a bullet in the breadbasket because he was facing a marksman in a duel and had lowered his coat buttons so that he would miss his heart. He knew he wouldn't live to take careful aim if he got hit there. He staggered but then took careful aim and killed the ringer sent by his enemies to entice him to duel. He survived it too. Tough bastard. I've heard the tribes refuse to use twenties though.
Comanche and Apache? Fuckalmighty he will eat our hearts by moonlight.
Muzman on 8/1/2011 at 05:54
It might have been better to just put the quotes around "Indians" instead of "Plains Indians". Seems like part of some revisionist thing where they didn't really live on the plains but in trailer parks with cable/telegraph/amusement carrying pidgeon given to them by the white man (hey, you know there's someone who thinks something like that somewhere. There always is)
PeeperStorm on 8/1/2011 at 08:20
Fuck that political correctness crap. I'm part Cherokee, and I'm giving everyone here permission to say Indian or American Indian, or anything else that isn't obviously intended to be insulting. Even dethtoll, although I'm irritated that he beat me to the M Bison connection. Not that I'm going to let that stop me.
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Fuck that political correctness crap.
Excellent timing!
SubJeff on 8/1/2011 at 10:27
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I'd bet it would be much less than if someone said "oriental" when referring to Asian people and much much less than "niglet".
WHAT is the
deal with you people and Oriental.
This word has no un-PC connection here in the UK. I remember using it in Taiwan with some Canadians and Americans and they were shocked by my use of such a racist word. Baffled.
On that note - do you know what description for person from the Far East (meaning China, Korea, Japan, etc in this context) is in Chinese? Hwang Zong Ren. Literal translation - Yellow Type People.
Kolya on 8/1/2011 at 12:06
Interestingly Germans have a special relation to the American native tribes. Although "relation" is probably saying too much, it's more that "Indianer" as they're called here, have been the target of German projections and yearnings since around WW1. Amazingly this positive and false image persists to this day, albeit the ideas projected onto these "noble savages" have changed.
They used to be admired for their honourable fighting morals and for living in harmony with nature, ideas that actually came from a white culture critical impetus, the adventure books by Karl May and conservative ideas about going back to nature. That fighter virtue was turned into a strong love-for-peace theme over time and together with the ascribed harmony-with-nature theme it evolved into an active modern German "Indianer"-myth, mostly transported by the New Age / Esoteric movement and through all kinds of ecologically minded movements. For example to this day the majority of German left wing intellectuals and all kinds of do-gooders of which we have plenty, believe and perpetuate the so called "Prophecy of the Cree" (Weissagung der Cree) as a genuine American native speech/saying/legend, although it's a product of the 1970s white American counter culture and eco movement. The general absence of significant numbers of actual American natives probably has a lot to do with this. Related themes include white guilt which (by substituting for German guilt) becomes a seed of leftist anti-Americanism. It's quite the mixture.
EDIT: It seems that the political left generally is more prone to create such myths, tales and hero stories to backup their views and give them a historical foil. Meanwhile conservative groups similarly tend to describe their own views as laws of nature, eg the separation of work and the commodities it produces.
Queue on 8/1/2011 at 14:59
This is the end of TTLG.
SubJeff on 8/1/2011 at 15:18
more like the end of hay guyz what the fuck is a paragraph
Kolya on 8/1/2011 at 15:53
When it's getting that profound, paragraphs would just look frivolous.
Nice pic. I consider myself leftist but not like that.
