OT Immigration: The Full Story of the Immigrants Who Opened theFloodgates

Western Voice

I agree, Columbus should never have been allowed to land. Once he waded
on shore the floodgates were opened for the invasion.

jue

Jürgen Exner

Neil Ellwood <> wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13:51 -0700, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>
>> I agree, Columbus should never have been allowed to land. Once he waded
>> on shore the floodgates were opened for the invasion.
>
>I thought it was Eric the Red several centuries earlier.

You are probably thinking of Leif Eiríksson, his son. No, there never
was a large viking population and a few centuries later even those few
drops had dried up.
It was indeed Columbus who's arrival opened the floodgates for
immigration to the new world.

jue

Jürgen Exner

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:09:24 -0500, Neil Ellwood
<> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13:51 -0700, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>
>> I agree, Columbus should never have been allowed to land. Once he waded
>> on shore the floodgates were opened for the invasion.
>>
>> jue
>
>
>I thought it was Eric the Red several centuries earlier.


No, he was just visting.

sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com

On Oct 31, 8:45*am, Bowser <Ca...@Nikon.Panny> wrote:
>
>
> Maybe the entire world should, by international law, make it so a
> person cannot move at all and must die within 20 miles of where they
> were born. Yes. That's the ticket.

You don't give humanity enough credit for it's persistance in the
persuit of Lebensraum:

Under the above set of rules they would simply invade their
neighboring countries at the rate of 20 miles per generation.

Twibil

Bowser wrote:
> Maybe the entire world should, by international law, make it so a
> person cannot move at all and must die within 20 miles of where they
> were born. Yes. That's the ticket.

Then some of my ancestors couldn't have left Scotland to work on a
plantation in freakin' Ireland in the 1740's....
Dang!

--
john mcwilliams

John McWilliams

On Nov 1, 4:24*pm, Bowser <Ca...@Nikon.Panny> wrote:
>
>
> >You don't give humanity enough credit for it's persistance in the
> >persuit of Lebensraum:
>
> >Under the above set of rules they would simply invade their
> >neighboring countries at the rate of 20 miles per generation.
>
> I'll take my chances. But come countries, like England, would be safe
> for generations, no?

No. The English Channel is only circa 20 miles wide.

> And Iceland, well, we're good there.

See "neighboring countries", above.

Iceland doesn't have any.

Twibil

In article <>,
says...
> Neil Ellwood <> wrote:
> >On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13:51 -0700, Jürgen Exner wrote:
> >
> >> I agree, Columbus should never have been allowed to land. Once he waded
> >> on shore the floodgates were opened for the invasion.
> >
> >I thought it was Eric the Red several centuries earlier.
>
> You are probably thinking of Leif Eiríksson, his son. No, there never
> was a large viking population and a few centuries later even those few
> drops had dried up.
> It was indeed Columbus who's arrival opened the floodgates for
> immigration to the new world.
>
Surely it was 20,000 years earlier when a group of people arrived on
foot from Siberia?

Mike

mike