BOB2 Wrote:
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> Joe Magruder Wrote:
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> > It was probably smallpox and flu that
> devastated
> > the Native American population.
>
> Cortez barely escaped with his life the first time
> he went to Mexico City, when he returned up to
> estimates from 70% to 90% of the population was
> dead from the disease/diseases the natives had no
> resistance to... And, the rest is history...
> Now, if you're an Aztec survivor, and you figure
> that the Spaniard's God was that damned powerful,
> you really understand why the Aztec survivors "saw
> the Virgin", and said, hell yes I'm converting...
>
>
> The pilgrim's "miracle", from being morons that
> landed in fricking Massachusetts Bay in late
> October, was that they found full native houses
> built with hearths and wood cut, and the last dead
> natives, unburied, from the wave of epidemic
> introduced by the fishermen from the grand banks
> that decimated the New England tribes...
>
> After 27,000 or so years of separation, the
> natives had no immunity to many things that didn't
> even make Europeans sick. There are claims
> I've seen and read of entire native civilizations
> were decimated across the America's. Some have
> estimated at least half to three fourths reduction
> of the native populations, that had been wiped out
> in in the hundred years from Cortez to the
> Pilgrims.
>
> There are some holes in that syphilis theory,
> though. Because they have uncovered bodies in
> medieval cemeteries from a century before, that
> have signs of syphilis. Although there is also
> evidence that natives carried asymptomatic forms
> of syphilis, that the European's were less immune
> to... Like a new "stronger' introduced or evolved
> strain, that no one had immunity to... Does that
> sound familiar???
>
> Now, what I really want to know is where are those
> goddam toilet paper trains...?
>
> And, what's schedule to load all of the black
> helicopters on those secret military trains?
>
> And, how big an orgasm mouse had on how our
> current misfortune is hurting BART ridership...
>
> This is a train site, right? Then troll about
> trains damn it...!


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