[From The Washington Examiner ScrappleFace Archives, DATELINE: Nov. 24, 1863]
Two days hence the United States will mark, for the first time, a new holiday created by a presidential proclamation last month, which has generated substantial furor among Democrats and journalists alike.
Leading congressional Democrats see in President Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Thanks-giving day” declaration not only “a disturbing streak of irrational mysticism,” as one senator called it, “but a view of human nature inconsistent with the modern enlightenment understanding.”
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29 responses so far ↓
1 Hawkeye_R // Nov 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Good one Scott. Happy "Thanks-giving" to you and yours. (:D)
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 24, 2009 at 1:08 pm
3 Upnorthlurkin // Nov 24, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Sadly, in today's secular America, I doubt Lincoln could get elected. It's especially scary when a pol talks about God…he/she's probably going to judge us…. Can't be havin' that now can we?!
4 ChileSerrano // Nov 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm
This is just appalling. Is this the level of understanding we should expect from a lawyer – even a lawyer from Illinois, which only recently emerged from the uncivilized wilderness to become a state ? Has Mr. Lincoln never heard of the principle of “separation of church and state ? If this “proclamation” were reviewed by the Supreme Court, it would doubtless be summarily rejected. Mr. Lincoln should have followed his own advice : “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” It’s time for him to stop stirring up this sort of divisive controversy, and focus instead on how to end our illegal military adventurism against the Confederate States of America. No blood for Cotton !
5 RAM1 // Nov 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Well Red, I guess we see how much about 150 years can "CHANGE" what a "lawyer from Illinois" stands for!
Happy Thanksgiving EVERYONE!!!
Please read this part of George Washington's farewell address, (a TRUE, GOD/JESUS loving President!):
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
You won't find it in ANY public school text book, and I am not sure it was there when I was in grade school in the late 50's early 60's! Maybe the politicians today could read it since it is a LOT shorter than their bills they rush through the Congress?
The full text of this great speech is here:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/mileston...
6 RAM1 // Nov 24, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Words DO mean something! (Now where have I heard that from before?) Barry doesn't like ones like, "sin", "terrorist", "victory", "JESUS", "thankfulness", "Christianity",—well, you get the point.
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8 CallMeShelly // Nov 25, 2009 at 4:11 am
Now, this is just a rumor so don't go spreading it around but I heard Barack O'Bama bowed down before the national turkey before he released it into the hands of Green Peace ( who immediately consumed him).
This was a better death for the old turkey who was to be released to the Humane Society of America who would have released him to the peaceful forest where he would have been mauled by a half-starved endangered polar bear who swam to the coast line after his ice chunk melted.
But to one and all Merry Thanksgiving
9 boberinyetagain // Nov 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Happy Thanksgiving gang!
10 ChileSerrano // Nov 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Have a happy, everone.
Gobble gobble gobble …
11 camojack // Nov 25, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I'll be thankful for what I (still) have. Hope I get to keep it…
12 Upnorthlurkin // Nov 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Whew! So relieved we don't have to worry about terrorism here ….. bob?!
Crickets…..
13 Upnorthlurkin // Nov 25, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I'm glad you'll sleep well….I'm only sorry you have no idea who makes it possible!
Personally, I am grateful to God that we have the finest military, police force and fire departments in the history of the world. Without them, willing to do violence to protect our freedom and liberty, we'd be just another third world mess. My heartfelt thanks to all who serve and protect! May we someday be worthy of your sacrifice! God Bless!
14 boberinyetagain // Nov 25, 2009 at 9:33 pm
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway
15 boberinyetagain // Nov 25, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. ~Gandhi
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~Pope John Paul II
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. ~Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
16 boberinyetagain // Nov 25, 2009 at 9:34 pm
The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein
and finally…pretty much sums them all up…
O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"
17 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 25, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I hope everybody has a good Thanksgiving.
I wonder who posed this photo of BHO. (via Swampland)
18 Upnorthlurkin // Nov 25, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Ah yes….the old John Lennon, pinko, hippy, "peace through weakness"…..works every time it's tried… Heh!!
19 RAM1 // Nov 26, 2009 at 1:35 am
I am surprised he didn't bow, he has done it to lower "life forms"!
Check out the look on the face of his youngest. Even she knows how lame this man is!!!
A jack@$$ reprieving a turkey.
20 RAM1 // Nov 26, 2009 at 1:44 am
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and GOD bless the America I was raised in and will reemerge, (hopefully), with fervent prayer by HIS people! I am THANKFUL that I have read HIS book and HE, (GOD ALMIGHTY) WINS in the end while the evil ones lose and are condemned to HELL for eternity! It is STILL not to late to "CHANGE", (the GOOD kind of change to GOD and JESUS!!!)
Speaking of "turkey's", check out "Gilligan" in my new avitar.
21 CallMeShelly // Nov 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Hey, me too. Have a slap happy Thanksgiving from the Bunker.
22 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 27, 2009 at 11:16 am
Random thought:
I think the imminent eruption of Yellowstone should be the next focus of environmentalist hysteria; that is, now that AGW has been exposed as nothing more than Conspiratorial Hucksterism perpetrated by an international ring of Frauds.
I was shocked, shocked to find that my [and all other logical thinkers'] assertions had been validated! Not.
( c :
God Bless You
God Bless America
23 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:37 pm
On this date, a Monday in Oslo, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian parliament announced that no Nobel peace prize would be awarded for 1939.
Hm.
24 Libby_Gone // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Sorry I'm late.
While I missed my family I spent a most memorable Thanksgiving with people truly Thankful. Homeless, addicts and alcoholics. All seeking relief thru Gods mercy in a place where good people take the time to help the down trodden. Glad I was there. (Plus I get 2nd Thankgiving at Moms Sunday….. yoo hooo!!!!)
25 SGT_USMC_1ea // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I came home from work yesterday and had a banquet $1.29 microwave turkey and dressing dinner in my depressing little hotel room in Santa Barbara county California. I was immensely thankful for it. I WILL be home for Christmas. May God bless you all and hope you remember: Jesus is the reason for the seasons- All of them!
Deus est Semper Fidelis
26 RAM1 // Nov 28, 2009 at 4:39 am
I spent my first Thanksgiving away from family on a plane to Germany in 1972 en route to my assigment with the 3rd Infantry Division. I remember being very sad that day. Then Thanksgiving Day 2009, I spent with my pets and felt sorry that my illness did not allow me to leave home, so I was alone.
At least that is the mistake I realized too late. I asked GOD to forgive me for not realizing that I had the ONE who loves me more than anyone on this earth, AND will ALWAYS be with me, never forsake me or let me down.
I am ashamed that I forgot HIM on the day I SHOULD have been telling HIM how Thankful I am to be HIS child. I will try to never let it happen again!
PS: My dinner was a frozen Red Baron pizza. MUCH better than what a LOT of people had. An awful lot had NOTHING!
27 SGT_USMC_1ea // Nov 29, 2009 at 6:05 pm
RAM,
I was out in 3rd Herd (3rd Infantry Div.) country not too long ago. I had to go to El Paso for a mission at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico in October. It was successful and the world is safer because of it, for that I am thankful as well. I loved those "Tank Crossing" signs and the Oryxx were beautiful. I unfortunately made a road runner, a cayote, a fox and several fluffy bunnies into pavement pizza frappe during my drives to work.
The SGT forbids you to mope around the holidays. God never goes on vacation. Life is good and the blessings are many. That Red Baron pizza sounds marginally better than my TV dinner.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
28 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 29, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Praise the Lord! We are never alone unless we choose to be.
Hope. Hope based solely on the Blood of Jesus and the Power of the Holy Spirit…..
God Bless America
29 RAM1 // Nov 29, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Sgt and JL3: Yes, you are both right. ALL of us in America have been and continue to be blessed more than we deserve. As JL3 said, if we are alone, it is our fault and NOT GOD's!!! "I will NEVER leave you, nor forsake you!" saith the LORD!
Sgt: You are VERY right about the dinners! EVERYTHING is marginally better than a "banquet TV dinner"!
Didn't they have any Stouffers or Marie Callendar dinners? Either one of those would be even better than the pizza.
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