I am not thankful for Trump.
I am thankful for the indigenous peoples of North America!
I am not thankful for Christopher Columbus.
I am exceptionally thankful for Wendy!!!
I am not thankful for Bought Bitch Mitch or Lyin’ Ryan.
I am thankful for TomCat.
I am not thankful for Trump supporters.
I am thankful for all of you.
I am not thankful for pseudo-Christians.
I am thankful for the strength to
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
This is, for the most part, a repeat of Tomcat’s greeting last year. The “I am” on lines 2, 3, 6 and 7 however is me, Squatch, while the rest are from TomCat. Hey, why try to reinvent the wheel.
I am a Canadian and we celebrated Thanksgiving in October. As I wrote last year,
In Canada, Thanksgiving dates back to 1578 and the exploration of the Northwest Passage by Martin Frobisher. Canada was untouched by Columbus but many non Canadian people associate Thanksgiving with the US Columbus Day. Rather our first contact with Europeans came in the 12th century with the arrival of the Norse explorer Leif Erikson of Iceland, and later Greenland. From Wikipedia Thanksgiving in Canada
“Years later, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, in 1604 onwards also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed the Order of Good Cheer and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours.”
The Canadian Thanksgiving “… corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, … drawn from biblical stories relating to the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.”
Whatever country you live in, there are many things for which to be thankful!
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Well, then Happy Un Thanksgiving to you, kind of like an Un birthday!
I’m glad for you, and for the crew at PP.
Any new word on TC?
I wasn’t able to call again (and won’t be until Monday.) With Nameless out of town and Lona in Australia, maybe Squatch can call TC before then. We have called so much attention to ourselves, I guess we need to trust that no news is good news for a bit.
I agree, Joanne. If something is very wrong, Wendy or Amanda would have contacted one of you. For now he needs a lot of sleep, I guess.
Everything we were taught in school about Thanksgiving was lies anyway. No point going over it all again.
Here’s a tidbit you may not have known: the concept of democracy, of course, goes back to ancient Greece. But the three-branch system with checks and balances does not. We borrowed HEAVILY from the Iroquois (as we call it) coalition of tribes for that. And in their system, what corresponded to our judiciary (which I like to think of as the conscience of the system – ideally anyway) was all the older women of the tribes. They knew the customs and ways backwards and forwards, and took no crap. Right now it’s difficult to feel that we HAVE a national conscience, but we can hope – and work – for better days to come.
Thanks for that very interesting tidbit, Joanne. I love to learn about things like that.
No thanksgiving here, so I almost forgot about it until I watched Planet America last night, half an hour dedicated to the political, and social, situation in the US each week on late Friday night by the national Aussie broadcaster, ABC. Its mostly about Drumpf and Republicans, but they give an excellent view on American politics in general and try to stay as objective as possible.
But anyway, it ended with a TV interviewer asking Drumpf what he was thankful for. Answer: “For having a great family, and for having made a tremendous difference in this country. I’ve made a tremendous difference in the country.” I hate to go to bed with a heaving stomach, don’t you?
Nice tidbit about the Iroquois JD. I am originally from northern Iroquois country but that is something I did not know, or if I heard about it in school, I had forgotten. There is so much we can learn from First Nations peoples.
Thanks all. I hope your Thanksgiving was all you hoped it would be.
Ah, then you probably know the true name – the Haudenoshaugee League.