Daily Topics - Monday October 12th, 2015
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Happy Indigenous People's Day 2015
Hour One: Why Honor Genocidal Maniacs...End Columbus Day Now?
Hour Two: The Small Penis Gun Club Strikes Again - Carl Higbie, The Citizen League
Hour Three: Will Climate Crisis Mean the End for 4 Million People? Dr. Michael E. Mann, Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (2nd edition)
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#2
A caller has a weird timeline in her head. For the record:
Pangaea broke up 225 million years ago. There must have been monkeys back then, because there are Old World monkeys and New World monkeys, but no great apes yet, because all the great apes (including humans) existed only in the Old World until humans came to America.
Archeological evidence has the New World first being inhabited by humans about 19,000 years ago (or maybe it's 29,000).
The cities of Sumeria go back no more than about 5,000 years, so any contemporary cities in Peru have no bearing on how or when South America became populated.
It's also been pointed out that with the Bering Strait freezing over every year, even after the end of the Ice Age, that immigration route is entirely plausible. However, that doesn't mean there wasn't also some other immigration from, say, Asia or Polynesia.
#3
Someone in the Cocks Not Glocks event should dress as Sean Connery in the movie Zardoz, which started with the line, "The gun is good, the penis is bad."
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I still like the idea of sanging Columbus Day to New World Day. Rather than talking about indigenous peoples' day, and acting like they exist in a vacuum, we'd look at the whole story of how the Old World and the New World met.