Happy Thanks Giving to All.
However if you are a turkey then Happy, Thanks and Giving are three words you don’t want to hear.
A pardon of one lucky turkey from highest office in the land isn’t much consolation. Particularly from clown like George Bush.
But if the sacrifice of life for the wellbeing of overstuffed Americans (I included) is giving then what noble creatures turkeys are or perhaps selflessly naive.
It is well documented that this special day highlights the acknowledgement of indigenous people (Native Americans) helping and offering starving English pilgrims food and knowledge of land cultivation.
The Mayflower contained Puritans fleeing religious persecution from a country awash in a vice grip of reformist Protestantism.
The payback was disease, slaughter and doggy ale. Not much gratitude or religious freedom there folks...
But the fact that we now give pause in a hurly-burly world to consider the virtues and grace of such giving people is a wonderful statement.
So without commerce, religion and up manship we congregate around dining room tables offering only food, drink and tales of horrendous traffic.
A pardon of one lucky turkey from highest office in the land isn’t much consolation. Particularly from clown like George Bush.
But if the sacrifice of life for the wellbeing of overstuffed Americans (I included) is giving then what noble creatures turkeys are or perhaps selflessly naive.
It is well documented that this special day highlights the acknowledgement of indigenous people (Native Americans) helping and offering starving English pilgrims food and knowledge of land cultivation.
The Mayflower contained Puritans fleeing religious persecution from a country awash in a vice grip of reformist Protestantism.
The payback was disease, slaughter and doggy ale. Not much gratitude or religious freedom there folks...
But the fact that we now give pause in a hurly-burly world to consider the virtues and grace of such giving people is a wonderful statement.
So without commerce, religion and up manship we congregate around dining room tables offering only food, drink and tales of horrendous traffic.
This communal spirit however comes to a grinding halt when retail stores punctuate the proceedings with bargains before bedtime. This encroachment of gratuitous consumption before the day is over is a hard one to swallow.
Reports of people lining up at midnight before the start of Black Friday only confirms the fraying of values once held.
And it is with great horror that people are dying in the process.
There was one bulletin posted that a young man working in a store in Valley Stream Long Island was trampled to death due to two hundred crazed shoppers.
It is really necessary to get that flat screen TV over board games?
Have we lost the art of conversation to Game boy?
In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved up the Thanks Giving Holiday to the last Thursday in November in order to longer stimulate the Christmas holiday season.
Perhaps President Obama should have Thanks Giving moved back to June so we can enjoy the day without retail interference. The Turkeys might be in favor. That would give them a six month stay of execution.
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