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People should remember the true origin of Thanksgiving. It had nothing to do with turkeys and friendly Indians. It was a celebration of the Pilgrims’ narrow escape from their misguided experiment in socialism, which they had tried in the first year with disasterous results.
Happy Thanksgivings Day to you all too.
And thank you for all you do to bring us Post Script.
Re Peggy’s:
Happy Thanksgivings Day to you all too.
And thank you for all you do to bring us Post Script.
Ditto
Happy Thanksgiving to you, and thanks for all the time and effort you put into this blog.
Jack
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I do mean all of you.
Today I’m particularly thankful for the fine men and women who serve in our military. I ran across this article today and thought I’d share it:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/24/MN401M0JGJ.DTL
Re Soaps’: People should remember the true origin of Thanksgiving. It had nothing to do with turkeys and friendly Indians. It was a celebration of the Pilgrims’ narrow escape from their misguided experiment in socialism, which they had tried in the first year with disasterous results.
Just to set the record straight, it wasn’t known as socialism back then. It was correctly identified as stupidity, and it only took a year. Could it be that way back then people were smarter than they are today?
Just got home from my first Thanksgiving with about 30 firefighters and their families at my son’s station in Sacramento. The food was delicious and great fun watching all the little ones playing while the football game played and all the cooks carved, chopped and mashed.
I’d never thought before how many families spend their holidays at a fire or police station, but there were plenty of people who had from the number of pies that were brought in by people who just wanted to say thank you. I’ll be baking a couple of extra ones for Chico stations at Christmas.
I join Tina in thanking our military men and women, but also want to thank all those that serve here at home to keep us and our homes safe too.
We actually made it through dinner, but not dessert before the alarm went off and all engines rolled out the doors. Another first for me to stand in the bay and watch my son go off to fight a fire.
On the way home up hwy 65 I had to pull over three times for ambulances and fire trucks. Just after I left Lincoln my son called from a hospital where hed taken a homeless, sick man. It was a very different and busy night. God be with you all and keep you safe. Thank you for giving. Cant wait to see everyone again for Christmas.
Did anyone else notice the usual suspects did not care to wish anyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Something else to be thankful for, not being one of them.
Toby, yeah I noticed, maybe they don’t believe in celebrating this part of our history? …(sigh)
That’s a wonderful story Peggy, thanks for sharing it with us. Your son is one of our hero’s.
Maybe they all got invited to dinner by a 1% who could afford to feed them. Hope they got to take home some leftovers so they could make a sandwich to take to OWS protest.
Soaps you are so right…a great recounting of the roots of our tradition of thanksgiving, including the failure of the collectivist beginning recorded by William Bradford, can be read at The Patriot Post, here:
http://patriotpost.us/reference/the-first-thanksgiving
What are you talking about? Socialism, as a political construct, was a couple hundred and years off.
Are you, perhaps, referring to their efforts to establish a society in keeping with Christ’s teachings?
If you feel this was foolish, I think you should say so, explicitly.
Libby: “Are you, perhaps, referring to their efforts to establish a society in keeping with Christ’s teachings?”
And what teachings would those be, Libby?
Tina, the man was a commie. That’s why all he gets from capitalist Christians is lip service.
You cannot know how irritating this is.
Not good enough Libby. I want you to tell me why you believe Christ was a communist. If you can’t, then you need to knock it off.
Tina don’t you remember the huge picture of Jesus that hung in Red Square whenever they had a military parade! What is wrong with you? lol
Ahh geez, I forgot…palm slap to the forehead…DOEEEEE!
So does that mean Jesus is the father of communism? Could explain why red is the predominate Christmas color. Hey now, Jesus had a beard, Lenin had that silly little beard like thing and Santa has a beard, something to think about. Oh and what is one of the top three things placed on top of a Christmas tree, a STAR!
Why bring up Jesus Libby? You’re not into that stuff and he was not even political so why go there? You’re not trying to deliberately offend Christians are you?
Say I think you’re on to something, Toby. In fact…we could stretch this a bit to include others that better reflect the values and ideals of the faith.
Red is the favored color of that pillar of love and kindness, Hugo Chavez, although I have to admit he has no beard, unlike his mentor, Castro.
Libby is a liberal that means she will be or believe in whatever the moment calls for. If need be she would be anti-abortion and pro-gun.