Tag: Thanksgiving
Grateful for Not Starving
Guest Post by John Stossel
When we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I will give thanks for property rights.
Property rights allow each individual or family to do what we want with our small piece of the world without having to answer to the whole community.
On Thanksgiving, we’ll probably be told to think of America as one big family — and for some people, government is the head of that family. That idea warms the hearts of America’s new “democratic socialists.”
But thinking like that nearly destroyed this nation before it began.
The Pilgrims at Plymouth didn’t share a feast with Indians after arriving in 1620 because America was so filled with bounty.
How Communism Almost Ruined The First Thanksgiving
Guest Post by Richard M. Ebeling
This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, Americans gather with their families and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. It marks a remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make a new start in Plymouth, Massachusetts. What is less appreciated is that Thanksgiving is also a celebration of the birth of free enterprise in America.
The English Puritans, who left Great Britain and sailed across the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620, were not only escaping from religious persecution in their homeland. They also wanted to turn their back on what they viewed as the materialistic and greedy corruption of the Old World.
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The Thank You SOMEBODY Thread
What gets posted on the Internet is …. Eternally There.
So, this is your Big Opportunity, folks … to sow your seed of thanks. May your good thoughts return to you a hundred fold … blessings upon blessings upon blessings, shaken, pressed down, and overflowing.
Of course, many will be thankful for family members. This is well and good. Tell us. We want to know!
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
Erma Bombeck
“Here in Britain, of course, it’s Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day”
Warren Ellis
“I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
Craig Ferguson
“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments.”
Mark Twain
THANKSGIVING QOTD
By Steve Candidus
In addition to the normal and expected traditions, what other things do you do on Thanksgiving?
I always revisit this wonderful tape Of Johnny Carson and Doc Severensin talking about Thanksgiving.
And no Thanksgiving would be complete for me without listening to Arlo Guthrie’s masterpiece, “Alice’s Restaurant”
Steve Candidus is a writer and a history buff that works as a product and application specialist of large AC electric motors in Spring, Texas.
AX FREE ZONE
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Leaving for Avalon’s sister’s house in Phoenixville. Brother-in-laws and nephews will occupy the living room, watching football, drinking beer, and busting balls. I’m sure there will be plenty of talk about Trump. The gals will occupy the dining room. I’m not sure what they talk about. No room for a formal sit down dinner. Everyone will grab a plate and find a seat somewhere. It’s always a good time.
I wish all TBP regulars and lurkers a happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for your support. Thanks for your contributions. Thanks for trying to make America great again. See ya tomorrow.
THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Dexter Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING QOTD
What are you thankful for?
George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
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ALICE’S RESTAURANT
Another TBP tradition.
THANKS
Gettysburg, Ghosts, Gifts and Gratitude
by Uncola for TheBurningPlatform.com
Earlier this week I posted a piece entitled “Thanks for Nothing, and Everything” which was generally political and fairly sardonic in nature. Today, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I thought I would give thanks again, but this time distilled into a form more pure. A Gettysburg Address of Gratitude, if you will:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Today, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude to the founders of the United States of America. Thank you for mutually pledging to each other your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor. Thank you for sacrificing all so I could take part in the fountainhead of blessings flowing centuries into your future; none of which I either earned or deserved.
Thanks for Nothing, and Everything
by Uncola
During this season of Thanksgiving, I would like to express my overwhelming gratitude. Thank you, President Obama. Thank you for not upholding your oath to the U.S. Constitution to protect America’s southern border. Thank you for illegally granting amnesty via executive action and avoiding the unnecessary hassles of passing the legislation through Congress. And thank you for your efforts in turning the United States of America into a third-world refugee camp.
Thank you, Obama, for your broad support of Islam and for labeling American citizens as bitter, xenophobic racists clinging to their guns and religion. I would also like to express my gratitude to you, your enablers, and all of the sycophantically corrupt, establishment politicians for near doubling the national debt of the United States these last eight years.