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Post by joshjones1 on Sept 19, 2010 20:51:19 GMT -8
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 20, 2010 7:39:18 GMT -8
I told Al Luginbill to go down there and out-recruit BYU. He did not do so, and he was always short linemen. That, more than anything cost him his job. You may have the best running back in the country, but if your line can not block for him, you can lose a lot of games, as was the case. If he brought in two or three Samoan linemen from the islands every year, he would still be the Aztec head coach and we would have had ten national championships by now. It is all won or lost in line play. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2010 9:47:38 GMT -8
I enjoyed the Jimmy Carter interview.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 20, 2010 10:34:33 GMT -8
I enjoyed the Jimmy Carter interview. In his opinion Jimmy Carter was a great president. He accomplished more in less time than any other president. Only LBJ got more legislation through Congress, but LBJ has more time to do so. |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Sept 22, 2010 16:43:55 GMT -8
I remember an article in the U-T, at least 20 years ago, that discussed all the Samoan players in Oceanside and why they do so well in football. It's just a damn shame that MIP has such an advantage in recruiting them because LDS is constantly busy converting them - along with Tongans and Fijians.
=Bob
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 23, 2010 11:48:08 GMT -8
I remember an article in the U-T, at least 20 years ago, that discussed all the Samoan players in Oceanside and why they do so well in football. It's just a damn shame that MIP has such an advantage in recruiting them because LDS is constantly busy converting them - along with Tongans and Fijians. =Bob When I was down in Samoa 1951 to 1953, the London Missionary Society (LMS) was having a hell of a hard time getting the ladies of the Islands to cover up their tits. They tried to get them to wear Mother Hubbard dresses that buttoned tight on the neck, but the Samoans thought that wearing clothing that went from the neck to the bottom of the ankles was just stupid. Tits were for feeding babies. They were always supposed to be available to feed any of the village children (The whole village raised children, not just the mother and father.), or any stray or visiting children. Tits were always available for the babies up to about age three. Well the LMS decided to teach the women about original sin and that only a woman's husband should be able to see her tits, not all of the men of the village, and tits slowly became a sexual object. They used to wear a Lava Lava (home made cloth in traditional style that was worn wrapped around the hips and tucked in, sort of like a large bath towel). Most of the women preferred the Lava Lava around their hips and went topless during the hot part of the day 10 AM til 5 PM when the trade winds would pick up in the evening. But since men started staring at their tits on the eastern side of the island they started to cover their chests up. The Missionaries gave up on the far side of the island (the side where the French sailors were killed and eaten a hundred years before.) and concentrated on the Pago Pago (eastern) side of the island, and at least on Sundays all of the Samoan women on the eastern side of the island covered their tits. That gradually increased until most of the women were covered every day of the week on the eastern side of the island. It took a while, but the LMS was very happy with their effort. Market day was another thing altogether. Islanders from east and west would bring their arts, craftwork and produce to market so that they could trade or sell their products. The western side of the island women always came topless while the eastern side of the island were wearing full length clothing. My father, who was one of the few doctors who traveled to all of the islands, took some surveys of his own with his dental assistants translating for him. He found that with the advent of Christianity on the eastern side of the island, spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) doubled and then tripled and then quadrupled on the side of the island where the girls were covering up their bodies. On the western side of the island spontaneous abortion was very low. On the eastern side the women had menstrual cramps while on the western side the women did not know what they were. Most unusual. By probing with more questions he found out that the miscarriages were self induced abortions. The Samoan girls were going into the ocean and inserting a reed that they pulled from a plant on the shore into their cervix and leaving it there for about a minute. Within 24 hours they would spontaneously abort. They were terminating their pregnancies because it was a sin to get pregnant outside of marriage. All the missionaries taught them about pregnancy prevention was that they were not supposed to have sex. No sex, no pregnancies. That, of course, was ridiculous to the Samoan mind. Young people always had sex in the islands. The concept of preserving virginity was not understood. Before a woman married, she frequently had two to three children from her various lovers (Remember, a village raises the children.). She brought those into the family and her husband raised them as if they were his. Quite frequently they were, anyway. The menstrual pain issue seemed to be related to the degree of shame that the LMS had taught the women. On the side of the island where the women had not been educated to think of sexuality as evil, they had no problems with what was a natural process of a woman's body. It is a shame that the innocence of the islands was so horribly destroyed. A little religion appears to be a good thing. Too much religion brings injustice. When it comes to religion, do not teach cultural values as God's values. |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Sept 23, 2010 16:07:33 GMT -8
When I was down in Samoa 1951 to 1953, the London Missionary Society (LMS) was having a hell of a hard time getting the ladies of the Islands to cover up their tits. They tried to get them to wear Mother Hubbard dresses that buttoned tight on the neck, but the Samoans thought that wearing clothing that went from the neck to the bottom of the ankles was just stupid. It is a shame that the innocence of the islands was to horribly destroyed. A little religion appears to be a good thing. Too much religion brings injustice. More to it than that, according to my Cultures of Oceania Prof, who was a serious feminist, even in '71. When they forced them into those clothes, in that sort of tropical (read wet) climate, the incidences of pneumonia went sky high. =Bob |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Sept 24, 2010 7:13:22 GMT -8
The same information was put out about the Hawaiian and Tahitian and Mauri Islanders. Supposedly their damp dresses chilled them and that facilitated the spread of the pneumonia causing bacteria. (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
The bacteria is almost always present in humans, but acts up when people are stressed. The beautiful but simple living islanders were not prepared for staying wet all day long from perspiration and rain along with the trade winds that blew every afternoon. Even in the tropics you can be chilled, especially if your body did not know how to handle that stress.
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