WHAT'CHALL doin' on THANKSGIVING?

I hate to say this, but if you take everything serious about what is happening out there you will drive yourself crazy, just be happy that you got friends and family by your side and take it a little easier. trust me if you take your mind off this shit from time to time you will feel a lot better.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34

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... beginning the celebration of Chanukah ...
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Happy Chanukah..I had forgotten it also begins the same day as Thanksgiving this year.

Tantric fucking ...

and it was much better than eating a lousy turkey !

cooking all day ...! hoping NO Blackout !!!

maybe the day after then lol

Yep its a farce but I'll take any occasion to get together with my family. Last year I told the story of how the day is a Day of Mourning for Native americans - all were unaware and my young nieces and nephews were very interested.

This Thanksgiving I'm heading to Kentucky and will be with a larger group of family. I'll be telling the story again and I'm sure they will appreciate hearing it since my Grandmother was 1/4 native American.

Can I crash the party too?!?

Having the kids, 8 and 4, over for the first Thanksgiving after my divorce. Wife cheated on me and the kids and here we are.

I have no clue. I got pissed and told my husband that I was sick of the planning and whatnot every year. I was fed up with the lack of participation from the household so I threw the holiday planning on his plate. It will be interesting to see what happens on Thursday.

Last Edited by Amelia B on 11/26/2013 02:29 PM

You will probably be having pizza or some other fast food.lol

An attitude of gratitude will take you through some rough times and make the good times a lot more fun!

As for the other stuff, well, do the let go and let God thing, and it always clears up.

Have a good one, dear. Enjoy your day, it's the only one you got. :-)

I will think about how we put the Native American Indians on reservations.

First everyone shows off their new guns. Then we head down to the river for some target shooting. Then we enjoy a huge feast. No kids, thank god.....

The Real Story of Thanksgiving
[link to www.rushlimbaugh.com]

What is the story of Thanksgiving? What I was taught, what most people my age were taught, maybe even many of you were taught, the Pilgrims got to the New World, they didn't know what to do. They didn't know how to feed themselves. They were escaping tyranny, but they got here, and the Indians, who were eventually to be wiped out, taught them how to do everything, fed them and so forth. They had this big feast where they sat down and thanked the Indians for saving their lives and apologized for taking their country and eventually stealing Manhattan from 'em.

But that's not what really happened.

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"On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example.

"And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found -- according to Bradford's detailed journal -- a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims -- including Bradford's own wife -- died of either starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.

"Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives." That's not what it was.

"Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share." It was a commune. It was socialism. "All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well," not to the individuals who built them.

"Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage." They could do with it whatever they wanted. He essentially turned loose the free market on 'em. "Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism." And they found that it didn't work.

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What he was saying was, they found that people could not expect to do their best work without any incentive. So what did they try next? Free enterprise. "Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.'"
They had miraculous results. In no time they found they had more food than they could eat themselves. So they set up trading posts. They exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off the people that sponsored their trip in London. The success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans, began what became known as the great Puritan migration.

And they shared their bounty with the Indians. Actually, they sold some of it to 'em. The true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed. With all the great expectations and high hopes, it failed. And self-reliance, rugged individualism, free enterprise, whatever you call it, resulted in prosperity that they never dreamed of.

:1031 KK:

It's a nightmare...

Far too many leftists loons sitting at the table and the conversation is awkward...

I am going to try to sign them up for 0bamacare, they deserve nothing less...

Well, today I have to load the ducks ass with chicken feed. A bit later I am going to coax the chicken to shove itself up the ducks ass. Tomorrow it's the same thing, only I have to catch this big Ole tom turkey and stuff his ass full of bread crumbs. Now this chi-duck probably wont give me any guff about running full bore up tom-turkey's ass, cause I starved that bastard for two weeks now. That being said, we'll have a Turduckin this year.


Happy Thanksgiving day to you friend.

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Yup, me too.

Might saunter over to the neighbor's house cuz she invited me, but will only stay for a few minutes.

I do not do "christmas", so I do not have to worry bout black friday: instead I will go out and take some nature photos.



Have a Blessed day off with family and friends NO matter WHAT you do!
~~Much Peace, Love, and Light~~~Always

Yumm ! Throw down some boudin and I'll be knocking on your door . Happy Thanksgiving !

Hubby and I are having a quiet day, eat a lot and then sit in front of the fire maybe. My oldest grandson took over the management of the holiday, and it degenerated into a Dessert
Feast the evening after, so we will have our family thing on Friday evening. At least, I think that is the final plan.

Everybody has scattered as the kids and grandkids have got older and divorces have made holidays complicated.

One year my husband and I decided we were going to eat at a local restaurant and it turned out to be quite fun, there were other couples our age doing the same, it was like old home week seeing people we hadn't seen for a while.

I am grateful for so many things, I have been very blessed.

GO PACKERS!!



*(please,because you've been such a let down this year.)

Last Edited by A Mery Can on 11/26/2013 03:05 PM

Eat. Drink. Repeat. Poop.
Thanksgiving is nothing with out proper bowel movements.

Eat....drink, and go fishing if the sea ain't too rough....otherwise its eat and drink some more....

We'll be having turkey, and some of our home raised ducks. Our turkeys aren't big enough yet, but that will be a good Christmas meal. I always make pecan pies. That's my favorite part of the holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving, turkeys!

Don't stand beside the guy shootin' the 50. I made that mistake once. When that monster goes bang, the compensator will sand-blast anything within 6 feet.

:1126 H and T:

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah will not overlap again for another 78,000 years...see you then...

In the meantime I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving...

That will be okay as long as he remembers to lead the family in us all disclosing what we are thankful for. The kids always surprise me in what they are truly thankful for.

sorry to say this but these kind of innocent sounding threads may be a way of polling and mining information from predatory types. Be that as it may a pray for a Very Blessed Thanksgiving to all and let us remember when giving thanks that only one thing is lasting and that is the spirit/mind so fill it with positives and i thank God for you all.