Clearly All Of Minnesota’s Problems Have Been Solved

Because they have time for this:

A bipartisan Minnesota House proposal suggests the engraving on a statute of Christopher Columbus should be edited. It now reads “Discoverer of America.” The proposal says it should be re-written to read, “Landed in America.”

The bill is sponsored by DFLer John Persell, of Bemidji.  Who, to be fair, may be (fairly and accurately) representing for his Norwegian constituents, who may prefer to honor North America’s actual European discoveror, Leif Ericson.

Still.  They have the time for this?

15 thoughts on “Clearly All Of Minnesota’s Problems Have Been Solved

  1. Mitch, heard (or was it read?) yesterday that they are also changing Leif Ericson’s monument on the capital grounds. As a Norwegian-American, I am pissed. And I don’t mean that sarcastically. Its the loony left giving my people a big F.U.

  2. We can ask for a rename also, in the name of accuracy. The “Floyd Olson Memorial Highway” should be renamed the “Stalin-Loving Communist Pig Floyd Olson Memorial Highway”.

  3. I notice they still haven’t gotten around to designating an official state gay color. We have a state flower, state muffin, state everything else. Why no official state gay color? Why is the legislature such a bunch of haters?

  4. I say let’s replace “Ooff Da” with “Oh Snap” as the official state exclamation of dismay.

  5. I say let’s replace “Ooff Da” with “Oh Snap” as the official state exclamation of dismay.

  6. Still. They have the time for this?

    If doing this means that they aren’t messing with the economy using their usual idiocy, I’m all for this exercise. If getting the DFL solely into the business of busybody, trivial, and unimportant pissy-fits is it takes to get them to stop messing with actual money, I say we encourage them.

  7. How about we just get it over with and erect a nice Imperial Eagle engraved with “Veni Vidi Vici; Suck It Whiners”.

  8. Am I missing something? Unless you start with the idea that Columbus should be honored for discovering the New World for the Europeans, why put a statue of him in Minnesota? He never set foot on the North American continent. You might as well alter the plaque to say the statue is Czar Nicholas II, builder of the trans-Siberian railway.
    This isn’t being done because the Indians want it done. Some white people want it done. If the standard is to do what the Indians want, all the white people would kill themselves and leave them their stuff to play with.
    Taking the label ‘discoverer’ off of a monument to Columbus is not a reasonable compromise between killing all the aborigines and abandoning the New World. That is why normal, un-brain-damaged people think the idea is nuts.

  9. Joe, you missed the memo. The official state gay colors are purple and yellow, and there are even official colors for heterosexuals–green and gold or navy blue and orange. :^)

    (sorry, couldn’t resist)

    Seriously, we all owe Columbus a great deal. He wasn’t perfect, an early Renaissance Mother Theresa or anything, but he did open up the New World to Europeans, Asians, and Africans, and in doing so, he also ended centuries of brutal warfare and cannibalism/human sacrifice (think the Carib, Aztecs, Incas Pawnee, etc..) among the nations that were there before.

    And yes, smallpox and slavery were no great shakes, but let’s be serious here; smallpox was going to come from Grand Banks fishermen within half a century of when Columbus landed, and native americans were no strangers to slavery, either.

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