Say Anything Blog

Crossposted and reprinted from Ski-blog.com

I am republishing this today for a couple of reasons.  First, Rob is being attacked by the Turtle Mountain Tribe.  I want to show some solidarity and let him know that the tribal leadership in Arizona is just as bad.  They haven’t tried to ban me for my blog yet, but probably should.  Second, Falwell’s death caused me to go back and review this.

The folks with the Hopi Tribe need to put the pipe down.

Hopi attorney Scott Canty said it is up to the deities, not man, to make snow.

“To usurp their authority is a crime, an insult,” he said. “It desecrates the entire mountain that the Hopi believe is a living entity.”

The tribes say Snowbowl is an affront to their religion and its existence may have caused the Sept. 11 attacks and other universal calamities. The resort, one of two in the state, might go out of business because of a lack of snowfall.

I seem to remember 9-11 being caused by 19 hijackers with knives crashing jets into buildings and farm ground.  Even if you are a nutjob conspiracy theorist, 9-11 was at worst caused by George Bush.  I never thought it was caused by skiing.  I am declaring a skiing jihad.  From this point forward, I will attempt to cause calamity across the globe by offending the deities of the Hopi tribe by desecrating their sacred land with my two planks.  Gotta say, me thinks that the 9-11 hijackers were not real concerned with the Hopi Gods when they were chanting Allah Akbar and crashing planes into buildings.  But that is just me.

How do they expect us to take them seriously when they throw crap like this out there?  This is a serious lawsuit and it is just retarded to throw out the rhetoric that they are using.  They ought to be ashamed.  But if their Gods are behind 9-11, we are all in trouble.  I think their Gods should probably be more upset about the fact that 50% of Arizona Indians have diabetes, their only real source of income for the reservations is casinos, there are massive alcohol problems among the tribes, and the Indians traded away vast amounts of their deity’s land for trinkets and beads.  As I said, if the worst that their God has done to punish us for our disobedience in those matters was 9-11, I think we are safe to make snow there. 

Update:  Sorry, for those of you who missed the Jerry Falwell reference, he made the following statement about 9-11 two days after the attacks:

On the broadcast of the Christian television program “The 700 Club,” Falwell made the following statement:

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”

Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God’s judgment on America for “throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked.”

I consider these kind of comments to represent the most reprehensible kind of rhetoric possible.  To use a national tragedy to advance ones own religious or political views is just sickening.  Every action that we take that someone does not agree with now affects some other person’s “GODS”.  If the Hopi Gods are that upset with the ski industry, maybe we should all give up skiing to appease them.  I hate to think that I might personally be responsible for 9-11 because I have never used a box cutter to hijack an airplane.  And if I offended anyone by posting Jerry Falwell’s statements (for which he later appologized), please just explain the difference between what he said and what the Hopis said.  At least Falwell appologized for his outrageous statements.  No one is asking the Hopis to.