Kathleen24 at the forum posted this parody and I thought it was great! Forum link to post
[QUOTE]
HelLO! My NAME is InIgo MonTOYa! YOU KILLED MY FATHER! PREPARE TO DIE!
Count Carb: [Inigo stands up after getting stabbed by a knife thrown by Count Carb] Good heavens. Are you still trying to win?
[Inigo falls back against the wall, weak, defeated, dying]
Count Carb: You've got an overdeveloped sense of survival. It's going to get you into trouble someday.
Count Carb: [draws his sword and lunges at Inigo who then forces the blade to his left shoulder. Again Carb lunges at Inigo and the blade is deflected to Inigo's right arm] You're back? In TDC? You've got some nerve.
Inigo Montoya: [Carb swings his sword but Inigo blocks it and then begins advancing] Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You have stolen my youth prepare to die.
Count Carb: I remember you. You were here three years ago. And two. And one. Each time you were going to lose weight, remember?
[Montoya falls on a table. Carb attacks and Inigo blocks four times before he continues to advance on Carb]
Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You have damaged my body prepare to die.
Count Carb: [Now Carb attacks five times and Inigo blocks every single one] Even when you lost weight, you gained it back, remember? People here will laugh at you. You have no credibility.
Inigo Montoya: [Louder] Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You have caused me decades of shame, pain, and humiliation prepare to die.
Count Carb: Stop saying that!
Inigo Montoya: [Carb attacks and Inigo blocks it and then stabs Carb in the shoulder. Then Carb swings his sword. Inigo ducks and stabs Carb in the other shoulder. Then he advances quickly and they fight] Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You held me back when my children needed me prepare to die!
Count Carb: [Carb gets his sword knocked away and Inigo slices his cheek] No!
Inigo Montoya: Offer me a doughnut!
Count Carb: Yes
Inigo Montoya: Snickers, too promise that!
[he slices Carb's other cheek]
Count Carb: All that I have and more. Please.
Inigo Montoya: Offer me everything I ask for.
Count Carb: Anything you want. Mashed potatoes and gravy! Pizza! Chips!
[Carb attacks but Inigo grabs his arm and stabs Carb in the stomach]
Inigo Montoya: I want my life back you son of a bitch.
[Inigo plunches the sword into Carb's gut and he falls down dead] [/QUOTE]
Usually when I'm stumbling around with Stumble Upon I'm looking for entertainment. Yesterday I found two really important sites that are worth noting. One is a self publishing site that helps you with aspects of publishing your own manuscripts. Wordclay. You can pay for cover design and such but you it seems like a very easy and free (or cheap) way of getting your book published. This may be important in the future. Ever since I hyphenated my name I thought, that would look really cool on a book I'll write.
On a more serious note, I discovered Hidden From History between the Canadian government and the church run schools on-going, systematic crimes were being committed against the native people and it's been kept quiet on purpose. Kevin Annett was a minister in a small town with a large population of indians (or indigenous people) and he innocently wondered why none of them attended church services. He reached out to them and encouraged them to attend his church. In his church, after the serman, anyone was allowed to speak. People began to share stories about their abuse at the Residential Schools. At first it was hard to believe, and then later it was hard not to believe. After Kevin Annett discovered that the native's land, cared for by the church was sold to outside logging corporations he confronted the United Church of Canada. He was fired without cause in an effort to silence him. The more he spoke out the more he was threatened and blocked at every avenue. His Phd. program fell through. His wife divorced him with a $250,000 bribe from the church. More stories came out of the natives that were too shocking to believe.
Through the Indian Act, Residential Schools were one way to kill many indian children. Children as young as 3 were taken from their parents and put on gun boats and taken away to school. Abuse was common. Some were outright murdered, pushed down the stairs or out windows. Some were killed through disease and it's non-treatment, putting tuburcular students in with non-tuburcular students to encourage the disease to spread. The death rate at these schools was 50%. At one school it was 67%. Mass graves were discovered full of dead children. Article
I had heard stories about how whites had given blankets from small pox victims to indians, in the documentary I watched there were pictures to go along with it. I remember reading Lewis and Clark had smallpox vaccine on their travels (though it was a fiction book, Sacajawea but that it probably true). Vaccine did exist. Germ warfare was going on. I'm sure it was going on in the U.S. also.
In the 1970's medical experiments were done on children at those schools. The doctors sterilized boys and girls both in and out of the schools. Children were sexually abused.
Some things must still be going on today. Why the hush up? Why the blocking from the government and the church? Apparently they appologized, apparently, that's not enough for the natives. One woman said, she just wanted to look at someone (official) who said that it happened. She had testifiyed about the girl getting pushed down the stairs. Virginia died two days later. Murdered by the Roman Catholic Church
It made it more real to me when I read the list of mass graves found and one was in Alert Bay where the low carb study had been done.
At the end, nothing can be done for the people except to tell the truth. Perhaps if everything wasn't so hidden, people could learn from this and make sure that nothing like it happens again. Sometimes I lose faith in humanity, crimes like this have happened throughout human history, over and over again.
Who'll be a witness?
