The history of this holiday
is two-fold, literally...
The original Thanksgiving
with the Native Americans and the Pilgrims happened at harvest in 1621 http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving
and the holiday became an official American holiday declared by Abraham Lincoln
in 1863 http://history1800s.about.com/od/abrahamlincoln/a/Lincoln-Thanksgiving-proclam.htm;
yep, over two hundred years after that momentous happening. Weren’t we in the
midst of the Civil War then? The whole timing of the when is quite curious; as
many things in life are, but good for him just the same.
Ah presidents, not unlike men
in general, can’t live with them and apparently we cannot live without them,
hmm?
Get it guys?
A turn around of the old
joke?
Oh well… any-who, the verdict
is in!
And no, I am not speaking
about Ferguson.
At times although I have been
right there with all of you on the story watching and reading and all the other
stuff that goes with another travesty of justice creating havoc with all the
participants and anger without forethought and allowing intelligence to come
through, and I am talking before and after the horrible death under suspicion
of how to handle the end result by people who were not actually there, such as
myself or many of the people who might be guilty of playing the game telephone
and having the original message distorted of what actually occurred? I don’t
know, but it reminds me of so many other protestors then called rioters
reacting and making things even worse for so many other innocent people who
were not responsible for what happen but somehow have been thrown into the mix
of anger and bear the brunt of those overly reactive mobs mentality…nightmares
of Rodney King who survived and begged his supporters to stop and of the race
riots of 1965 in every major city that we left on our road trip across country
that summer of ’65 on mostly route 66…
At first in my ridiculousness
I thought perhaps the Ferguson
they were talking about was Craig of late night TV fame and he had gone berserk
for in reality he was sorry he had quit his ten year tenure on CBS late, late
night after Letterman and wanted to really stay, huh?
Nah, a young man by the name
of Brown was killed by a deputy named Wilson, and the deputy felt he had no
other option, but, and there is always a BIG but a Facebook friend of mine
reminded me, retired deputy’s wife that he could have used his Taser,
"Taser Definition
dictionary.search.yahoo.com
- A trademark for a brand of electronic apparatuses designed to cause neuromuscular incapacitation."
on the kid
and the story result could have, would have been so much different, but the
deputy stated he did not carry his due to its bulkiness or some other lame
excuse… my in-house deputy said that as a marine patrol officer they could not
due to Tasers and water not mixing very well… And so I am stymied, there has to
be an answer and we as a nation have got to find a better way than kill twelve
year olds due to their toys looking too real and all these other reasons that
to me at times seem, unreasonable…But I am me and not in law or a tough kid
who is a bully and very big and or a child who thinks pointing a toy at real
police is funny, what do I know from both sides although we MUST find a way to change
these horrid endings to these news stories with horrible endings to lives…! Just my unbiased opinionated opinion, again.
Oh wait, I started this
talking about the verdict being in and then got sidetracked with my opinionated
opinion, only fair to chime in after the rest of you, hmm?
Hubby said that our turkey
dinner was better than any in any restaurant that he has been had in his whole
sixty five years or something similar to that, not a direct quote so don't hold me to it, and in this house his opinion is the only one that
matters/counts on subjects of that nature with mine on many others! LOL!
On that upbeat note allow me
to wish all of you the best black Friday's ever and for the snow to stop long
enough to max out your cards on those loved ones and that by going out and
fighting for those deals while you whittle down those 3K plus calories you consumed in one
sitting, AMEN!
Love to all seriously and
drive carefully and watch your wallets…On those additional notes allow me to be
the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to
kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who
and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
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