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Virginia Dare (8/21/10)

The first child born in the Americas to English parents was Virginia Dare, born in Roanoke Colony (now North Carolina) on August 18, 1587.  The rest of her life is pretty much a mystery and has been subject to a great deal of folklore.  Her name is the inspiration of the anti-immigration group “VDARE.” 

Nice job, VDARE.  You named an anti-immigration project after one of the most obvious immigrants ever.  Real smart.  The only way this is legitimate is if the group is composed entirely of Native Americans…which it is not.

This is like naming a world-peace organization “AHITLER.”

12:53 pm, BY smartestyear

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No Cigs For You! (7/27/10)

Nazi Germany initiated the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.  Hitler smoked in his younger years, but unfortunately gave it up when he got older.  He viewed smoking as “the wrath of the red man against the white man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”  Could also be the highly addictive nicotine, but whatever.  Hitler expressed that “so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning.”  Wow, what a humanitarian.  Inversely, many cigarettes felt that too many good men had been lost to Hitler poisoning.

02:03 pm, BY smartestyear


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