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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 24, 2008 14:11:58 GMT -6
On the other hand, I have my website (on which has my phone and address and real name) and email on every post, and here again scout and his new shill (amazing how they appear at need, isn't it?) accuse me of dishonesty. And yet, they dare not reveal their names or what connections they have to any issue.
Also, I SAID I had no first hand information, but repeated what I'd picked up, and asked that if contrary evidence existed, that it be provided. You know something Jerome Green doesn't? Share.
Tomorrow is Costume and Lipstick Day for the Festive and Fabulous on the battlefield and environs, honoring the dead of course. Have fun.
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Post by Scout on Jun 24, 2008 15:31:10 GMT -6
My real name is well known to all on this board bonehead. I've seen your sleazy website...no thanks.
Michael L. Nunnally
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 24, 2008 15:49:49 GMT -6
"bonehead'
I like it . . . it has a ring to it!
Of course, that does a dis-service to Curly of the Three Stooges.
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 24, 2008 16:37:37 GMT -6
You have to be quicker with the ankle bites, crzhrs, if you want to be a lickspittle. Others can show you how.
scout is painter of western art with clean clothing and grim visage, and I've seen some of it, I think. Romantic. Now I know. It's always something of a shock to those well known among the very few to discover their identities aren't a source of search and wonder.
Still, if you have evidence of NPS being nasty to the CBHMA without basis, or their actions unfounded, you should provide it. To do otherwise is really sleazy.
I like Bonehead, as well. But I have older brothers and I'm used to it. Also, I'm called worse often, which I never entirely get used to, but bonehead is soothing in its familiarity. Also, there was undoubtedly an Indian called Bonehead (there was one called Rectum, after all....) so I accept the name to heroically honor him.
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Post by Melani on Jun 24, 2008 21:59:59 GMT -6
The CBHMA may be the only cooperating association to be booted by the NPS, but the Library Friends at SF Maritime were certainly threatened with the same when we objected to the superintendent closing the Library to public access. After we went to the appointments only system, use of the Library dropped by 85%. The cooperating agreement states that the association in question must support the NPS in whatever they do, or else. Our president was required to send out a second letter to the membership, saying what a good idea he thought it was to close the Library. He squirgled out of it with some dignity intact by saying he knew she had to make hard decisions because of no money, etc. Baloney. She didn't think twice about it. She is on record as saying that the internet is all you really need to do adequate research. Anybody who has ever actually DONE any research knows what a pile of garbage that is.
The point of bowing to her pressure is that it is normal in the Park Service for people to only stay in one job for a few years at a time and then move on. It's how they climb the ladder if that is their goal, unless you get somebody who is just totally devoted to a particular park. This is our superintendent's first head honcho gig, and we know she will move on as soon as she can--has been trying to do so, in fact. She will be gone--and we will still be there.
It requires a delicate diplomatic touch to successfully work with the NPS, and if you have a boneheaded superintendent, sometimes nothing helps. (No insult intended, dc--horse and scout have already taken care of that.)
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 25, 2008 6:40:52 GMT -6
And none received. But there is much opinion that it was the CBHMA who was the boneheaded entity, and much that Baker is a decent sort. As I say, I don't know either way, but dumping on Baker without any actual offered evidence, as is done with others but safely dead, necessitated the forwarding of other views. Apparently the correspondence exists and doesn't support their opinion.
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Post by Tricia on Jun 25, 2008 11:10:54 GMT -6
I agree with Dark Cloud on this matter. I know that the most radical elements of the CBHMA were quite capable of boorish--and scary--behaviour during the name-change period at the battlefield. They got booted because, frankly, they brought it upon theirselves. That said, it does appear the CBHMA is trying to become more equilateral in its approach--however unspoken--whilst the LBHA seems to be inheriting the reputation that a given few presidents of the CBHMA have tried to shed over the past decade.
Peace through unity, folks. Both sides need to be represented. Forever.
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 25, 2008 12:46:33 GMT -6
Speaking of "unity"
Obama & Clinton will be meeting this Friday in Unity, NH. That's not too far from where I live. It's a small town, under 1,500 people. The last time a big deal happened there was in 1979 when Arlo Gurthrie showed up for a concert.
The only problem is it's hard to find and there is not a building big enough to hold all the people, reporters, media, etc. that will flock there.
It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
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Post by BrokenSword on Jun 25, 2008 12:57:36 GMT -6
crzhrs - "...The only problem is ... there is not a building big enough to hold all the people, reporters, media, etc. that will flock there..."
Entirely by design, to my cynical way of seeing it, crzhrs. That way the television images will give the appearance of a HUGE crowd of adoring acolytes in joyous unity. To all those that don't know the smallness of the venue anyway.
I have to wonder if Hillary, in the spirit of the season, will drop subtle hints that Obama might/will be assassinated - for yet a third time.
B(ad) S(ort of fella)
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 25, 2008 13:12:51 GMT -6
Hopefully all the biting insects will feast on the "new" blood coming to Unity . . . you know: gnats, no see'ums, mosquitos . . . and let's not forget the latest insect to the area: TICKS!
I think it will be a short program.
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Post by BrokenSword on Jun 25, 2008 14:26:12 GMT -6
crzhrs - "...Hopefully all the biting insects will feast on the "new" blood coming to Unity . . ."
More than likely they will find blood-sucking politicians to be stiff competition.
" . . . and let's not forget the latest insect to the area: TICKS!..."
You are just NOW getting ticks? Wow.
M
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Post by rch on Jun 25, 2008 21:30:30 GMT -6
As I understand it the NPS was behaving like the the self important "we'll tell you what to think and how to think" snobs they are. The NPS drips of good taste and not boorishness. When I was at the Battlefield in 1986 you couldn't get a baseball cap. I'll bet you still can't get one with Custer's image on it.
The NPS didn't like that menbers of the CBMHA testified before Congress in oposition to the name change. They had no right to do that. Members wrote their congressmen. They had no right to do that. They didn't like that the members of the CBMHA didn't want to change the assiciations name, so they wrote a new rule or regulation, and canned the association for violating it.
They didn't want Custer's name on the CUSTER Battlefield, so they dishonored him. That was their intent from the start.
Sometimes even a scary boor sees things clearly, and knows when he's been smacked in the face.
Now who's for starting a collection to build an heroic sized equestrian statue of Custer on Preservation Committee land. Or a billboard saying the - well you may remember the Supreme Court decision in the matter of a certain nasty tee shirt.
That boorish enough for you Tricia.
rch
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 26, 2008 6:47:14 GMT -6
<You have to be quicker with the ankle bites, crzhrs>
I woulda bitten a little "higher" but I don't fight dirty! ;D
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Post by crzhrs on Jun 26, 2008 6:49:48 GMT -6
Re: Ticks.
It's been only the last few years that ticks have made their way to NH. And every year they are becoming more numerous. Now we have to worry about Lyme Disease.
Since we're outdoors a lot we have to do nightly tick checks. That can be sorta fun . . . but finding a tick embedded in a "sensitive" area is disturbing.
Hopefully the politicians, media, and outta-staters attract more of them than the locals!
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 26, 2008 8:08:56 GMT -6
There's the level of criteria. Baseball caps. And no baseball caps with Custer on it? Though the heavens fall. Given the financial squeezes, the NPS would probably sell anything that would make money.
How in the world has Custer been "dishonored" by calling the field what it was originally called: the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn? (Was Washington dishonored by not calling his Christmas cross of the Delaware Washington's Brilliant Surprise? Was Travis dishonored that it's not called the Bowie-Travis-Crockett Heroic Last Stand?) Virtually all battles the Feds fought were named for the nearest rivers, towns, or geographical prominence and NOT for the officer in charge, killed in it or not, and certainly not for the guy who got wiped out. As I understand it, there's the Reno-Benteen portion and the Custer portion, between which is private land and an easement. Custer was honored above his station by having the field named for him briefly.
Oddly, perhaps, I don't approve of the subsidiary being called Reno-Benteen, it should be consistent and just called the Reno field for the ranking officer. I don't like titles instructive for how the public is to think for national land. Calling it the Custer Battlefield is like arguing the 50th State should be Seward's Folly.
The NPS, supported and responding to Congress and therefore voters across the nation, no doubt does have the bureaucratic symptoms of being a beauracracy, and they cannot respond satisfactorily to every nitwit and nitwit group that dumps a set of demands upon them, at which point they're human and respond accordingly.
What vast plurality did/does the CBHMA represent? They're an elitist (fun word when used correctly) and exclusive group (or were) who felt they and they alone understood and knew the truth and should be allowed to control the field at the expense of the citizenry by regressive taxation. The public response to the field since the renaming has been to flood it, although that pretty much started with SOTMS in 1984. And no matter what the formal name is, people still call it Custer's Last Stand.
But, these are the High Holy Days when the obese and the morbidly obese alike wedge themselves into uniform and makeup and pretend to a sweaty virility and warrior spirit not really apparent and play soldiers and Indians, and this in Honor of Custer, the Fallen. Custer being a social climbing clothes horse, an undoubted athletic warror of talent, a party animal of society, he must be thrilled. His wife's expression can only be imagined.
Honored, he is - and she is - and crushed that his nation betrayed him by not selling his likeness on.......what again?......baseball caps.
Verily, after seeing the aged physical wrecks that honor Custer in the Montana heat, in their tight shorts and muscle shirts, with their waddling wives and bored children, with the RV's left idling and the Wing Dings in the front seat, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
Would we did not.
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