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Happy Thanksgiving to you and to All !!
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Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!
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Fullervision 2015 Thanksgivinguide (http://www.fullervision.net/thanksgiving15.html)
I have a collection of recipes and a media guide (with live links to parades and football games) on that page right now. I put this page together every year.
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And by the way, happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone...whether you are Trump lover, Trump hater or someone in between :laugh:
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The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
November 27, 2014
Richard J. Maybury
Mises Institute (https://mises.org/library/great-thanksgiving-hoax-1)Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.
It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.
The official story has the Pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America, and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620–21. This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them.
The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America.
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hard-working or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.
In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." The crops were small because "much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."
In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their hungry bellies filled," but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first "Thanksgiving" was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty," Bradford wrote, "and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God." Thereafter, he wrote, "any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.
What happened? After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, "they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop." They began to question their form of economic organization.
This had required that "all profits & benefits that are got by trade, traffic, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means" were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, "all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock." A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take only what he needed.
This "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that "young men that were most able and fit for labor and service" complained about being forced to "spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children." Also, "the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak." So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate.
To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of the famines.
Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. ...
Read the rest (https://mises.org/library/great-thanksgiving-hoax-1)
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Happy Thanksgiving...
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone......I've been cooking and baking all day....don't eat toooo much..lol
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone......I've been cooking and baking all day....don't eat toooo much..lol
How much is TOOO much?...
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Happy Thanksgiving to all. We do have a lot to be thankful for, in spite of some of the horrible things happening around us.
And, I've got football tickets. That's where I will spend the evening. Hook 'em Horns!
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all! Fun times with family ahead. NO politics will be discussed. :laugh:
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from an old Tread Head.
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Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!
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Have a fantastic Thanksgiving to everyone!! And remember, calories don't count tomorrow. Eat what you want :)
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OMG! So funny! :silly: Captured his speech pattern perfectly.
I'm thankful for hot water on a cold morning and that we have the freedom to fight among ourselves about politics.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends at TBR!
And a special thanks to myst and her patient family.
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That's hilarious Katz! I too, am thankful for Mystery and for all the hard work she does here - thankless work at times!
0005 :grouphug: :flag: ***hair on fire :hands:
*patience* :kisses2: :baby: :thumbsup: :broc: :th_10444: :laugh:
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GREAT work Katz! Happy Thanksgiving and don't be such a stranger!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my TBR brethren and thank you Nancy for providing this forum. DON'T GIVE UP!
....sorry for shouting!
And thank you Katz for your custom graphics. You captured the current mood splendidly.
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Unremarkable day overall.
Turkey w/gravy
Cranberry sause
Stuffing - mash potato
Green beans
Pumkin pie
It doesn't get more classic than that.
Trying to watch that Hunger Games movie, because I have to. There are too many references to it in the media for me not to see it.
So far, I'm not impressed. Fairly cliche standard story line. Trying not to doze off. All is calm and well in my house.
I wish the same to each and all of you.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I wish you all peace and health. May you prosper in the coming new year.
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The family just left. I had prepared a gluten-free dinner because of our niece's rather severe celiac disease, and then she couldn't come, so I guess I could have had a crust on that pumpkin pie after all! Otherwise, turkey, a GF rice dish instead of dressing, brussels sprouts, carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy. I hope everyone had a nice day.
I'm not a Cowboys fan, but come on - please beat Carolina!
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A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you all.
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That looks awesome, Bigun!
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Wow! Looks delicious! ...and huge! That puppy's gotta be what? 25 pounder?
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Wow! Looks delicious! ...and huge! That puppy's gotta be what? 25 pounder?
23# to be exact and, as a testament to it's taste, there is only about two sandwiches worth left.
We also had a large ham with all the proper sides and deserts of every description. 14 people were served and all left happy!
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That looks awesome, Bigun!
Thanks! It was!
Once you've eaten one prepared this way there is no going back to the oven method.
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This year, when all is said and done, I will have attended three thanksgiving dinners!
(Alas...not a deep fried turkey among them...)
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Back to work for me now. It was a nice break.
Thank heaven I didn't travel this year. Today is just another day.
Hoping everyone gets home safely.
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This year, when all is said and done, I will have attended three thanksgiving dinners!
Three? I only had one and could hardly walk afterwards.... :)
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We had a nice cozy Thanksgiving - just the two of us! I made tons of food, to give some to my brother and to have leftovers, which I love. Today, I am going to try to finish decorating for Christmas - cats and all!
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We had thirteen adults and a baby at our Thanksgiving (here at our home). It was absolutely glorious!!