It’s Thanksgiving morning, and the bird will go into the oven soon, family members will start trickling in around noon, and it will be a good day. Still, there is something different about the holidays, the same thing I noticed on the 4th of July, then again on Columbus day.
There were towns in the area that didn’t have a fireworks display this year. The official word was the displays drew unnecessarily large crowds, and sometimes there were problems with people drinking too much beer or being rowdy. So a lot of grandchildren, nieces and nephews, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, and aunts and uncles didn’t get to celebrate the birth of this nation. Some never have, and apparently never will. Curiously enough, the same towns celebrated virtually all local cultural holidays, complete with fireworks displays. When I speak with friends and acquaintances in other countries, they are excited, enthusiastic and quite interested in sharing the meaning of their important national holidays . I’d sure like to express the same for my country without having a fire hose turned on me.
I’ve had the privilege in my life to travel extensively, and I’ve had the opportunity to witness the proud celebration of those same holidays in their native countries, and for the life of me I couldn’t believe any would set aside their national holidays while honoring only the holidays of other countries. So Christopher Columbus has now been identified as a slave trader, and he has been given the “retro historical” treatment and we are now bowing I believe in celebration of our large Viking population. Mention Christopher Columbus to a child anymore and they’ll give you a ten minute speech on why he was an insignificant and evil man, a theory taught to them by a tenured teacher of failing public school children.
Pilgrims were also evil slavers, “white man stole the land from the Native Americans”. I guess the end game is to find out who the original two people were, ignore the fact that basically all modern civilizations in all countries developed under the influence of war and aggression, and give it all back to the descendents. Oh…that would be us. I guess it would have to go back to whoever makes it into the politically correct spotlight dance these days. I have no doubt who will make claim to this country when he sees fit, the same person who brought us here, and he knows no country or politics and could care less about these trivial pursuits.
Turkey of course is evil also, or at least the people who terminate it’s life. Was the turkey treated kindly, did it have a fulfilling social environment, did it have enough space and decent home, was it with family when the end suddenly came? Seem to me we have more productive animal rights groups than we do human rights and the folks who would elevate an animal to the level of a human have no respect for human life.
It will be interesting to see how the theft of a presidency will play out in the South East and if this marks the end to free elections in this country. We had a President who wasn’t much of a man, and degraded the office. Now we have yet another pretender to the throne who would steal an election and commit obvious election fraud on national TV with the help of the national news organizations. If you doubt this intent, what do we think it means when a count supervisor or group of volunteers say they need to do a manual count so they can “get the necessary votes for Al Gore”.
So we will celebrate this holiday, enjoy and appreciate what we have, understand why we have it, and hope for a better day for this country when we are once again become a cohesive country, joined together as Americans rather than a collection of special interest groups competing against one another..
Thanks
Joe
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