Josh Brolin?
That you?
didn't you say you'd only "sun" your bum once?
the natural thing
that's a lot of Pharisee yeast right there
The chef was messin' with Sasquatch
~ Nov. 1980
It began 10 years ago - on Oct. 10, 1980 - when President Jimmy Carter signed an agreement to give the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes of Maine $81.5 million to settle a long and nasty land dispute. The tribes had contended that they owned nearly two-thirds of Maine, which they said had been unfairly taken from them in the past 200 years.
The federal government agreed that the tribes had been wronged and offered them money. The Indians, weary of fighting in court and fearful of ending up with nothing, accepted.
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The compromise may become a model for settlement of other Nonintercourse Act cases pending in Rock Hill, S.C. (144,000 acres claimed by the Catawbea); Oneida , N.Y. (300,000 acres claimed by the Oneida); St. Regis, N.Y. (14,000 acres claimed by the Mohawk); Chalmette, La. (813 acres by the Chittimacha); and others.
"These other parties are more willing to settle when they know the significance of these claims," says Tim Vollman, assistant solicitor for the US Department of Interior. The Maine case could force Congress to look at the whole picture of Indian land claims in the US, says US Sen. William S. Cohen (R) of Maine.
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Rod was an accountant from Bangor, Maine. His troubles started when he was asked in the late 1980s to do an independent audit of the books of the Penobscot Indian Nation who had received an eighty million dollar land claims settlement in the early 1980s. The group who won the settlement for the Penobscots also went on to manage it for them and the Indian Nation felt that this group was not being honest with them. Rod had unwittingly stepped into a high level, far reaching operation that was basically siphoning the Indian’s money away from them. He never talked a lot about what he had uncovered in his investigation that took him to the Cayman Islands. I believe Rod never talked about what he had uncovered because he understood the enormity of what he had stepped into and wanted to protect his family. They offered him a lucrative business deal to get him to play along but when he chose not to get involved they began to work to destroy him.
Corrupt factions within the Justice Department and the FBI set out to demonize and destroy Rod. He fought the good fight for many years wanting his day in court to quell the false allegations being perpetrated against him. Civil lawsuits were brought against him by people who claimed it was “out of my hands” or those who said they were intimidated to do so by federal officials.
At one point we thought it was over. Rod called his mother and said that he was told by the FBI (the good ones) to shine his shoes and put on his best suit and that big trees were going to fall. The family gathered around the television as instructed to wait and hear the good news. The good news never came. Rod later found out that a powerful politician put the kibosh to the truth coming out. Apparently this high level politician was compromised which allowed for him to be used to stop Rod from bringing the truth to light.
Rod disappeared on September 16, 1992, on his way to obtain, by force if necessary, a copy of what appeared to be a blackmail tape implicating this powerful politician in unsavory activities. Rod intended to immediately deliver this tape to the state’s attorney general who was expecting him.
just wanted to be a saucier