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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:23 AM Original message |
Destroying A 1500-Year-Old Indian Mound To Build A Sam's Club |
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daggahead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. Who cares ... |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
58. Thanks for the sarcasm tags. |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #58 |
81. !!!QUICKLY FIND AN ARTIFACT!!! |
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daggahead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #81 |
127. Isn't the entire mound ... |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #127 |
132. If god wanted us to preserve that mound, he'da put a CROSS on it. |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:10 PM Response to Reply #127 |
190. not really, a mound 'could be anything', whereas an artifact |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
2. Check your post- Mississippi or Alabama? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. It's Alabama. The OP posted a link to the wrong city. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
28. YES, it is ALABAMA. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #28 |
65. City of Oxford, Alabama & More info on who to contact: |
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Seldona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. 'It ain't never been a burial ground. It was for (smoke) signals' |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:57 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. What a pathetic, racist comment by the mayor, who got big contributions, of course .. |
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Seldona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #69 |
75. Agreed. |
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christx30 (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:00 AM Response to Reply #69 |
91. I mostly agree with you. |
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downindixie (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #67 |
134. Since I live in Oxford |
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Seldona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #134 |
137. Pretty much par for the course then? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #28 |
80. Home of Jefferson Sessions.... |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
3. this would not happen in europe! they treat their neolothic and paleolithic sites |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. Consumerism is more important!!! |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
37. Of course they've already destroyed quite of a few of theirs |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
101. Yeah, the same way they treat their people--with universal health care! nt |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. Assholes |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
5. You know |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Half of Sam's Club customers are just Death warmed over anyways. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
7. They have no antiquities protection laws? |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. "said there is no proof the site holds human remains" |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. ignorant inbred idiots thats why |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Nice broad brush there. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. i agree with you about some of what you said |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. A lot of them, their ancesters WERE cowboys... |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. yes, and yet, if people would educate themselves even a LITTLE on their neolithic and paleolithic |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I don't think that would be relevant to people like the mayor of this town. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I really must stop being an idealist. |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 03:37 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Give yourself time. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #46 |
54. Ill be dead. Im almost 60. maybe the idealism leaves when I croak nt |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. And there was NO PLACE else for that Sam's Club? |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Oddly enough, there are those of us who embrace the fiction of a collective history. |
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PainPerdu (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
76. Rodeo Dinosaurs |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
85. Like the golf course |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #85 |
121. It looks like that site is being watched over fairly well. |
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sybylla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
56. "...their history..." That's the problem |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:46 AM Response to Reply #13 |
89. Ah, but they're protecting *their own history*. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
109. Absolutely agree. 90% of these yokels, ask them about the |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
9. The sad thing is that there are THOUSANDS of abandoned Box Stores they could just move into instead. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
51. +1 |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
98. What you said - empty big box stores and their (huge) empty parking lots |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
128. +1 also |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
143. But there is more graft potential in building new. |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. Can we buy Peyote in bulk now? |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
11. Where are the present day descendants, the Choctaws, even though there might not be |
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mrbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:36 AM Response to Reply #11 |
92. the choctaws are running casinos in Oklahoma ....... |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
14. I wonder if they will keep the excavation secret |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Probably will show up in 'private collections' |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. They haven't so far. Though, it's disturbing that they can't find the report. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
15. How sad. |
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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #15 |
73. So very sad. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #73 |
135. Thank you. |
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Helga Scow Stern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
108. Something similar happened in Ojai.... |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
17. Not the first time: |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Just about every highway in the world is built on places where people have been buried. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
64. Walmart hates history |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. Our priorities are so effed up. sadly K&R. |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
19. Don't they know what happens when they desecrate a sacred indian burial ground? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Or the Poltergeist movies |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
43. My thoughts exactly - I'm hoping the building will be haunted. |
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subcomhd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. This makes me ill. How utterly depressing. |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. You people shut up! |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
27. It's just down the street from the Trail of Tears Golf Course. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
29. Big business has no need for "culture" or "history" |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
30. Its a mound with a few rocks on top |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You could say the same about a modern-era cemetary. |
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DatManFromNawlins (640 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #31 |
60. I for one |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Why claim someone else's pile of rocks as privte property? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I imagine after enough time, yes |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #38 |
83. I don't view it so much as a "sacred" burial place |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:36 AM Response to Reply #83 |
104. It is a form of recorded history, a book written on the earth |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #83 |
106. But that's the thing |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #106 |
111. THIS comment is exactly what this is all about - |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #111 |
116. Expect it is nothing like a pyramid |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #116 |
118. A pile of dirt that took thousands of people years to build. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:44 AM Response to Reply #111 |
122. I've been to several articles on it |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:54 AM Response to Reply #83 |
110. The mounds were sometimes used for burials, but they are more |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #110 |
117. It is like destroying a pyramid... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #117 |
119. Really? Did it take 15,000 people ten years to build your house? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #119 |
120. Well only if you ignore all the effort that went into my house |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #120 |
129. Irrelevant as they may be, all those listed items concern a few |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:44 PM Response to Reply #129 |
136. So it's not the final product that matters |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #136 |
138. Yah, and the pyramids are just big piles of rocks. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #138 |
140. Very well, lets see a picture of the sacred rock hill in question |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #140 |
142. And I have a pic in an old issue of Archeology Magazine that shows |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #142 |
146. Are you really comparing the pyramids in Egypt to a dirt pile? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #142 |
154. Here's a pic of your sacred dirt pile: |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #154 |
184. Why can't you respect other cultures? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #140 |
164. People without a right to their history, it seems |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #164 |
166. Your profile says you're from the USA |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:22 PM Response to Reply #166 |
171. Obviously, you think people own the land, not vice-versa. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:38 PM Response to Reply #171 |
174. Yes, people can own land, and other property |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #174 |
177. No, the foundation of US law is that Europeans can steal other lands. The right of Kings. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #177 |
179. If they hadn't been overrun by another tribe |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #179 |
182. Rationalizing genocide with the best of them, that's for sure. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #182 |
187. Yes, because admitting that human beings are in fact human beings |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:38 PM Response to Reply #138 |
147. a highly sophisticated knowledge of astronomy? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:45 PM Response to Reply #147 |
149. ??? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #149 |
153. You claimed the mounds suggest sophisticated knowledge of astronomy |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #153 |
155. And you know that the mound builders did not? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #155 |
159. How do I know? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #159 |
160. Show me any Roman who did, either. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #160 |
167. These people aren't mayans |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #167 |
170. The Maya were not genocidally exterminated like Natives in the USA. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #170 |
173. Which has what to do with the value of this dirt pile? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #173 |
176. One nation's heritage is another nation's pile of fill dirt! |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #176 |
178. It is a pile of dirt, that's the whole point here |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #178 |
183. No, it's a monument. Piling dirt is a form of monument building, a way of writing cultural history |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #183 |
188. It's a pile of dirt, |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #188 |
191. You just keep revealing more of your ignorance with each post. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 10:20 AM Response to Reply #191 |
192. What archeaologists? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #167 |
185. You know what we call that period when ignorant peasants looted |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #185 |
189. No they were torn down in the name of progress |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #159 |
169. Obviously you do not know, but you think what you don't know is determinative. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #117 |
180. Your stupidity is profound. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #34 |
112. Someone else's pile of rocks? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #112 |
172. Not just a pile of rocks. It is humanity's history being destroyed. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #172 |
175. Erase as many portions of the bible as you like |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #34 |
151. There's one cemeteryin the news now that has done a great job of digging up and reselling. |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #30 |
50. So are most Biblical sites |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:31 PM Response to Reply #50 |
141. If the people who put faith in such monuments are still around |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:04 PM Response to Reply #141 |
144. If you are not an archeologist, then you can make no claim about |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #144 |
148. Isn't that exactly what you are doing? n/t |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #148 |
150. It is true, i am not an archeologist - |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #150 |
156. The arm chair archaeologist |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #156 |
158. No, i have not seen the mound in question. And I would some day like to. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #158 |
168. Here's a pic: |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:50 PM Response to Reply #144 |
152. No, no, that's a rookie mistake |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:59 PM Response to Reply #152 |
161. And THAT is a truly dumbfuck mistake - |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #161 |
163. They want to be there for precisely the reason stated in the quote |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:40 AM Response to Reply #163 |
186. You didn't answer my question. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 10:21 AM Response to Reply #186 |
193. Actually I did answer your question |
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Robeson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
181. What an ignorant comment. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
33. Ugh, can we get more federal oversight here, please? |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
35. this makes me so sad |
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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
36. Unfortunately, this happens alot.............. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #36 |
126. The big problem with this, of course, is that this is not a site with artifacts |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'm hoping there's ghosts on the mound |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. Why does Sam's Club hate America? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
49. recommend this important topic |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
52. There is Alabama Indian Mound Protection Statutes |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
53. The sad fate of a great many NA mounds and other structures ... |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
55. An Archeologists view....good article. |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
57. A mound with no camel toe? |
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nostalgicaboutmyfutr (991 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
59. Pictures, people, pictures!!! |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. This link in the OP has a photo series: |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:26 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Google Earth coordinates |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
63. This could be the next "Amityville Horror" if Hollywood got ahold of it. |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #63 |
68. I would never set foot in that place. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:11 PM Response to Reply #68 |
72. Oh My God....does THIS explain those "Home Depot Deaths"? |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
66. Lets just pave the entire fucking country... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
70. If this is a crime, it should be prosecuted. If it isn't a crime, it should be. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
71. I wonder if Sanford's anti-stimulus beliefs are behind this? n/t |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #71 |
77. Sanford LIKES stimulus. Just not the economic kind. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:40 AM Response to Reply #77 |
93. ... |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
74. scum of the earth nt |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:26 PM Response to Reply #74 |
78. Alabamians? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:08 AM Response to Reply #78 |
87. -- |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
79. This is worse than the Taliban destroying giant Buddhist statues |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #79 |
99. Not for a store, just for the fill dirt. Just for the FILL DIRT. For FILL DIRT!!! &**%##@*& |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #79 |
114. Corporatism IS a warped ideology. nt |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #79 |
139. The mound and the Buddhas both date from @ 500AD. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
82. In a twisted way, this actually makes sense |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
84. Man, I hate Alabamee! |
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mntleo2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
86. LtteTo Alderman and Mayor: |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
88. It's a metaphor for the past 400 years of settlement in North America |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
90. Let's dig up a pyramid and put a Sam's Club there too - make any more sense? |
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travelingtypist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
94. Lawsuit, injunctions tried and failed? |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
95. I hope the spirits go all "Poltergeist" on their asses |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
96. We were able to |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
97. I have to wonder how they would feel if people went to their |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
100. Stonehenge would be a great place for a landfill. nt |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #100 |
113. They could crush the rocks,use the gravel to build roads. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #113 |
125. Thornborough henge, Stonehenge of the north, was damaged by a gravel quarry! |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
102. Holy crap! |
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BREMPRO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
103. More evidence corporate/fascist America carries on the brutal legacy of our forefathers genocide... |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
105. sadly most americans wouldn't even flinch if a wal-mart were constructed on the Washington DC Mall |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
107. Hooo-boy.... bad Karma. I wouldn't want to work in that store... |
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Juan_de_la_Dem (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
115. So they are destroying the mound to get the dirt underneath? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #115 |
123. Exactly. The taxpayers are moving the dirt to fill a lot so Wal-Mart can build a store. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #115 |
124. More precisely, they are mining the dirt from the mound. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
130. I hope the Indians haunt the hell out of it n/t |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
131. Stories like this literally make me sick to my stomach.....and so very very tired. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
133. There is a similar controvesy going on in Oz at the moment over the |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #133 |
145. I have always wanted to clime Ayres Rock- |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
157. This is right out of a "The Sinpsons" episode |
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Bryn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
162. I am looking forward to when employees of Sam's Club call Ghost Hunters |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
165. didn't they see the movie Poltergiest ? |
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