[Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Rumelhart -

If victims of bear/cougar attacks or descendants of fourth- or fifth-century Roman ancestry feel disrespected by the University of California (Berkeley) mascot . . . or the Washington State University mascot . . . or the University of Idaho mascot . . . like us, they are free to exercise their first amendment right and loudly (and proudly) express their discomfort with those mascots.

Tom "not holding his breath" Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 


 

On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:49, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> On Monday, October 03, 2011 07:26:10 AM Paul Rumelhart wrote:
>> It makes you wonder if someday descendants of the people murdered by an
>> ancient East Germanic tribe when they sacked Rome and Carthage might
>> someday look in horror upon a small college town in Idaho that had the
>> gall to name their sports team after their killers.
> 
> The biggest problem with the Vandals sacking Rome is that they didn't do it 
> often enough. It's too bad they didn't get to Nicaea and Constantinople in the 
> century and a quarter prior to the Roman sack, as that may have prevented a 
> lot of grief all around.
> 
>> Same thing with people that have been mauled by cougars or bears.
> 
> The descendants have less about which to complain in face of the realities of 
> their ancient enemies being hunted and heated to extinction.
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
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