normiss 620 #1 November 22, 2018 To everyone here, enjoy your time with friends and family. Hopefully we ALL have something to be thankful for. Remember that and appreciate it. I have a LOT to be very thankful for this year and I hope you do as well. Now back to the gravy.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erroll 49 #2 November 22, 2018 normiss To everyone here, enjoy your time with friends and family. Hopefully we ALL have something to be thankful for. Remember that and appreciate it. I have a LOT to be very thankful for this year and I hope you do as well. Now back to the gravy.... We don't celebrate Thanksgiving down here, but we did inherit Black Friday from you. I work for a large financial institution and tomorrow is going to be scarily hectic again......Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,121 #3 November 22, 2018 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you south of the border. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 197 #4 November 22, 2018 Happy Thanksgiving.Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtrusBatleth 0 #5 November 22, 2018 It amuses me that you posted this in speakers corner. Happy Thanksgiving? Brace yourself for a heated political/religious argument. But seriously, happy Thanksgiving to you too. Be thankful indeed. Max Peck What's the point of having top secret code names, fellas, if we ain't gonna use 'em? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 1,903 #6 November 22, 2018 AtrusBatleth It amuses me that you posted this in speakers corner. Happy Thanksgiving? Brace yourself for a heated political/religious argument. But seriously, happy Thanksgiving to you too. Be thankful indeed. Well, Happy Thanksgiving to all my non-native American friends! But an SC post would not be complete without some reference to this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/native-americans-mark-thanksgiving-day-mourning-59361915 Enjoy yourselves watching team redacted play this afternoon. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/thanksgiving-game-cowboys-just-another-insult-native-americans-season-full-ncna939296 Cowboys VS Indians........Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 620 #7 November 22, 2018 I try to bear in mind, no matter how varied and different our opinions on all things in life are, we are all much the same. Today we Americans like to pause to remember that and be thankful for everything in our lives. Weird that it's an immigrant holiday though, given our current environment here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iago 8 #8 November 22, 2018 gowlerk ***It amuses me that you posted this in speakers corner. Happy Thanksgiving? Brace yourself for a heated political/religious argument. But seriously, happy Thanksgiving to you too. Be thankful indeed. Well, Happy Thanksgiving to all my non-native American friends! But an SC post would not be complete without some reference to this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/native-americans-mark-thanksgiving-day-mourning-59361915 Enjoy yourselves watching team redacted play this afternoon. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/thanksgiving-game-cowboys-just-another-insult-native-americans-season-full-ncna939296 Cowboys VS Indians........ I prefer my annual meal of Native American medium to medium-rare with a side of mint jelly.Confirmed cynical sarcastic bastard since 2003 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,050 #9 November 23, 2018 QuoteWeird that it's an immigrant holiday though It is a blessing of thanks for that year's harvest and until Lincoln made it a holiday - was celebrated at different times in different states. Many countries also observe Thanksgiving... not about immigrants - about giving thanks for the harvest (i.e., Japan has a Thanksgiving)Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,121 #10 November 23, 2018 BIGUNQuoteWeird that it's an immigrant holiday though It is a blessing of thanks for that year's harvest and until Lincoln made it a holiday - was celebrated at different times in different states. Many countries also observe Thanksgiving... not about immigrants - about giving thanks for the harvest (i.e., Japan has a Thanksgiving) True, though currently their Thanksgiving is much more Labor Day. It is called Labor Thanksgiving Day, but did morph from a Harvest festival. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 620 #11 November 24, 2018 It was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 1,903 #12 November 24, 2018 normissIt was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. That is pretty much the story of America. That and armed insurrection from those with no voting rights.Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtrusBatleth 0 #13 November 24, 2018 normissIt was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. How were they illegals? I wasnt aware of any native immigration laws.Max Peck What's the point of having top secret code names, fellas, if we ain't gonna use 'em? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 1,903 #14 November 24, 2018 AtrusBatleth***It was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. How were they illegals? I wasnt aware of any native immigration laws. Well, technically, in God's eyes, no one is illegal. But you are just being obtuse. You know full well what is being said here.Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,050 #15 November 24, 2018 Why are you opposed to the Spaniards & French so much?Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 620 #16 November 24, 2018 I'm sure there were good people on both sides. Those Texans and Mexicans though! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtrusBatleth 0 #17 November 24, 2018 gowlerk******It was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. How were they illegals? I wasnt aware of any native immigration laws. Well, technically, in God's eyes, no one is illegal. But you are just being obtuse. You know full well what is being said here. What was being said was a false equivalence.Max Peck What's the point of having top secret code names, fellas, if we ain't gonna use 'em? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,050 #18 November 24, 2018 Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolfriverjoe 1,340 #19 November 24, 2018 AtrusBatleth*********It was first celebrated in the US by illegal aliens who were here seeking refuge from their government. How were they illegals? I wasnt aware of any native immigration laws. Well, technically, in God's eyes, no one is illegal. But you are just being obtuse. You know full well what is being said here. What was being said was a false equivalence. Not really. The Europeans were invaders. And the Natives knew this. QuoteOver time, the Wampanoag, like other Native societies in coastal New England, had learned how to manage the European presence. They encouraged the exchange of goods, but would allow their visitors to stay ashore only for brief, carefully controlled excursions. Those who overstayed their welcome were forcefully reminded of the limited duration of Indian hospitality. ...In 1605 and 1606 Samuel de Champlain visited Cape Cod, hoping to establish a French base. He abandoned the idea. Too many people already lived there. A year later the British nobleman Ferdinando Gorges tried to found a community in Maine. It began with more people than the Pilgrims’ later venture in Plymouth and was better organized and supplied. Nonetheless, the local Indians, numerous and well armed, killed 11 colonists and drove the rest back home within months. Source:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/native-intelligence-109314481/ The natives had treated the Europeans this way since the Vikings first showed up in what's now New England and Canada's Maritime provinces. The Pilgrims had to fight off natives for the first winter. It was the spring of 1621 that the locals decided to meet with them and offer an alliance. The coastal tribes had been nearly destroyed by illness and were in danger of being taken over by inland tribes. The disease had come from, of course... Europeans."There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 18 #20 November 25, 2018 Family and friends are what is important. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your family and friends as well. May they all find health and happiness moving forward into the next year."America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 620 #21 November 25, 2018 The false equivalence of religion is what I read into that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
