Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate it whether it is an official holiday where you are, or not.!! I am temporarily back in the humid, dripping from trees land of the tall pines for Thanksgiving with my 2 wonderful sisters and all their families. (My nearest son lives in Tomball but he and his wife went to Louisiana this year to be with his wife's family for turkey day.) We had our traditional 'Mexican night' last night, and will do the turkey, ham and dressing thing later today and then wife and I will go back West. I have missed my sisters so much the last 6 months and am happy to be here but will be happy to get back out in a dry open land too.
Glad to be here, but had almost forgotten just how damp it stays here. Back in my new place in Cove, I may not have room to fart without a neighbor smelling it, but at least I can see the sun come up and the most mornings the clear spacious sky. Not so here. 7 am and the light sensitive outside lights still on.
Of the many I am thankful for Pennock's Fiero Forum.
Also, lest we forget............
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
' It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. '
' The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. ' ~ George Washington
' Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ' ~ John Adams
A struggle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those men that gave their all.
From Thanksgiving Day 2012, 10 years ago... the enduring preeminence of the Butt Fumble.
"A Decade of Butt Jokes and Misery, It’s the Butt Fumble’s [Tenth] Birthday"
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On Thanksgiving [Day] 2012, Mark Sanchez and the [New York] Jets delivered one of the most memorable and hilariously bad plays in NFL history. Why does that one moment still resonate a decade later?
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