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Apr 012019
Feb 182019
Politics Plus will reinstitute the holiday,
when and if we actually have a President.
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Nov 222018
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!
Posted to Care2 HERE
Nov 112018
Happy Remembrance Day
to our Canadian friends!
RESIST!!
Oct 312018
Happy Halloween to You!
Crappy Halloween to all
Rump Dump Deplorables!
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Vote Blue!!
6 Days!!
Sep 032018
For most of my early life I considered Labor Day little more than a day off at the end of summer. That’s because I am not a union man. I have never belonged to a union, nor has anyone in my family. So what has the labor movement done for me? I have learned what organized labor has done to improve the lot of all American Workers, and I have come to understand that Labor Day is a celebration of Union labor, and one that is well deserved. This is a minor variation on last year’s article.
ThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all:
1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — almost double what most Americans work now…
2. Unions Gave Us Fair Wages And Relative Income Equality: As ThinkProgress reported earlier in the week, the relative decline of unions over the past 35 years has mirrored a decline in the middle class’s share of national income…
3. Unions Helped End Child Labor: “Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organization’s like the “National Consumers’ League” and the National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor…
4. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage: “The rise of unions in the 1930′s and 1940′s led to the first great expansion of health care” for all Americans, as labor unions banded workers together to negotiate for health coverage plans from employers…
5. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act: Labor unions like the AFL-CIO federation led the fight for this 1993 law, which “requires state agencies and private employers with more than 50 employees to provide up to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid leave annually for workers to care for a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill family member or for the worker’s own illness.” … [emphasis original]
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It’s well worth the time to click through for the rest of this article. Furthermore, here is an excellent video on what labor has done for America.
Therefore, to begin my celebration of Labor Day in the best possible way, I wish to thank all of you who are or have been union workers. My life is better because of you. And to you and everyone else, have a Happy Labor Day!
Sadly, because of predatory Republican impingement on workers’ rights, this article is less true than it was last year. It’s up to YOU to change that trend.
Support Labor!
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VOTE BLUE!!
64 DAYS!!
Jul 132018
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Jul 042018
This article is a repeat of last year’s with minor additions.
Traditionally I have celebrated Independence Day with excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, videos of the local fireworks display, and lessons on the differences between true patriotism and nationalism. However, then the US was an independent nation. Now it is under foreign domination. I’m sorry, but as long as Donald Trump, Putin’s Puppet, and his Republican Reich stay in power and keep the US in thrall to Russia, the 4th of July will be a day of mourning.
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