Tag: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Listed As a Day of Mourning …

December 3, 2024

by Right Side Up

This week, we talk about the war on Thanksgiving, how DEI is harming our students’ mental health, and how Firewood is in the government’s crosshairs.

Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner

November 30, 2024

by Ryan McMaken

The Thanksgiving holiday in the United States has a checkered past. Its more recent origins lie largely in government attempts at pushing propagandistic narratives. For example, Abraham Lincoln demanded Americans be thankful for ”the advancing armies and navies of the Union” during the Civil War. George Washington instructed Americans to give thanks for the new constitution in … Read more

America’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation Was About The Constitution — And Not Everyone Liked It

November 30, 2024

by Terence P. Jeffrey

When the first Congress met at Federal Hall in New York City in 1789, there were three days in September that saw a telling sequence of events. On Thursday, Sept. 24, the House of Representatives finalized the language for what the states would later ratify as the First Amendment to the Constitution. The first part of this amendment declared: “Congress shall … Read more

the-first-thanksgiving Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1912 Weirs Times

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

November 29, 2024November 29, 2024

by Richard J. Maybury

Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy … Read more

National Unity for Thanksgiving 2024

November 28, 2024

by John Klar

Regardless of who won the 2024 election, America has multiple blessings to ponder this November. The motivation behind the Thanksgiving holiday originated in a spirit of gratitude and a unifying celebration of blessings rather than divisive rhetoric. Ironically, the fledgling country called the United States was anything but united when Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a … Read more

Decolonizing the Decolonizers

November 28, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Marxism and its advocates are notoriously violent, and we can trace that tendency back to Sergey Nechayev. His 1869 pamphlet, The Revolutionary Catechism, explicitly advocates exterminating everything to replace it with Marxism. The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire State to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, … Read more

Our Day of Thanks

November 27, 2024

by Jim Bowman

Often, the tactics of the enemy are plain to see. This is the case with a repetitive Thanksgiving Day query that simply is a brazen attempt to erase one American day of thankfulness and family unity. Rather than allowing recognition of this special occasion as a reflection back to America’s beginnings and humble acknowledgements to … Read more

Dems Volunteer to Not Ruin Thanksgiving

November 15, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

It might have been the insufferable Joy Reid, or Whoopie, or – I actually can’t recall where I heard it, but some machine-media talking head(s) has instructed their audience that you (they) ought to distance themselves from family members who voted for Trump. Do not validate their choices by giving them the honor of your … Read more

Did Your Kids Learn About the First Thanksgiving in School?

November 24, 2023

by Ann Marie Banfield

Have you checked to see if your local public school taught the students about Thanksgiving? Did they learn about the first Thanksgiving? Did they learn what happened on the first Thanksgiving? Public schools were closed to celebrate Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t students learn about the first Thanksgiving?

Banana’s: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Review

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023

by Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

The gang at NBC and Macy’s visited us again this year with their latest iteration of a holiday tradition – the Thanksgiving Day Parade. The tradition of Thanksgiving is one celebrated in many places around the world.

Decolonizing the Decolonizers

November 27, 2024November 23, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Marxism is notoriously violent, as are its advocates, and we can trace that tendency back to Sergey Nechayev. His 1869 pamphlet titled The Revolutionary Catechism is explicit about the need to exterminate everything so that it can be replaced with Marxism.

Pulpit Polity: The ‘First’ Thanksgiving!

November 23, 2023

by Op-Ed

Most readers of Granite Grok were exposed to the traditional story of the Pilgrims and the Indians sharing a meal on Thanksgiving to God for their success and survival in the new world settlement of Plymouth Plantation.

What’s the Best Food on Your Thanksgiving Table?

November 23, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Today is Thanksgiving, and whatever the circumstances, political, cultural, or economic, we call upon the blessing in our lives, no matter how small, and give thanks. We also eat a lot of food. Typically.

Thanksgiving – a Quick Rememberence that Family Matters and Advice to Young Parents

November 24, 2022

by Skip

In trying to find a couple of Thanksgiving posts from the past that I wanted to post up, I stumbled upon this and thought that I’d share it again. After all, who knew that I and TMEW would have to be re-living my own admonitions below in raising the Grandson (a “GrandFamily”)? An abstract from … Read more

Prayer at First Constitutional Congress Rev Peter-Michael Preble

Thanksgiving Proclamation: Continental Congress – November 1, 1777

November 24, 2022

by Skip

Bumped from 11/27/2014 Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to Him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased Him in his abundant mercy not only … Read more

Humor – Yes, If I Had a Nephew That Old, I’d Be That Conservative Uncle

November 24, 2022

by Skip

Minus the beer, however. But I’d be ready…and waiting…eyes twinkling in anticipation. Anyone willing to lay odds on how it would turn out? Heh! (HT: Matt)

And Be Thankful For Your Sense of Patience As you will need it for this Thanksgiving tweet

November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

by Skip

Wait for it….wait for it…it’s all about the flavor!

The Story of Thanksgiving – Only As Rush Limbaugh Could Tell it.

November 24, 2022

by Skip

(Image H/T: Rush Limbaugh) I thought that I had used his recounting of the First Thanksgiving. Instead, in trying to find his Thanksgiving post on communal vs private property rights, I found this one instead. It’s a good one all on its own and I urge you to read it. However, it was Rush I … Read more

Democrats Want You to Ruin Thanksgiving with Biden’s Accomplishments

November 24, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

If you are looking for a Thanksgiving tradition you’d like to forget, we’ve got some, and yes, we’re here (like every year) to remind you. The Left has released its annual cheat sheet, and this year it comes from the White House, and it’s nothing but gaslighting.

Thought Splinters (Part 4)

November 22, 2022

by NITZAKHON

This seems to be becoming an ongoing series of pondering topics that have made, are in the process of making, or may make, fundamental shifts in my thoughts about, and perspectives of, the world.