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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
President Bush fell ill at a banquet during a trip to Japan and vomited on
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The Pilgrims Were Chased Out of Europe 'Cause They Were Nuts
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:01:00 -0800, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote:
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how "God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. What a bunch of crap! Go burn some witches. |
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Made up crap. People did not talk that way in the 17th century
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:29:13 -0800, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote:
On Nov 24, 11:38Â*am, David Hartung wrote: On 11/24/2011 09:22 AM, Kevin Cunningham wrote: Yep, our once great nation started out as a socialist colony. Â*Both the early Virginians and the Plymouth settlers subscribed to socialism. And it worked. It worked? Please explain.- Hide quoted text - A group of separatists from the Anglican Church left Plymouth, England in September 1620 for the New World, where they felt they would be able to have both civil and religious liberty. They sailed across the Atlantic, in a very rough two-month voyage, until they landed in November. They finally disembarked in December at a place they designated "Plymouth Rock." Before leaving the ship, however, they all signed the "Mayflower Compact." This was America's first document of civil government, and the first ever to institute the concept of self-government. The colonists immediately held a prayer service and then began the process of building shelter against the cold Massachusetts winter. They were not prepared for the starvation and sickness that accompanied a harsh New England winter, though, and by spring of 1621, nearly half of those who had arrived in December were dead. Persevering, and with the help of the native Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest that summer. In December of 1621, the grateful colonists decided to thank God and celebrated a three-day feast with their Indian friends. Reports of this celebration show that colonist Edward Winslow expressed the gratitude of the colony during the feast by saying, "[Y]et by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want[.]" That is the story we all remember, and the three-day feast really did occur in 1621. But that was not the origin of the Thanksgiving Day we celebrate today. In large part, the first Thanksgiving Day, which was celebrated in 1623, was a celebration of the abundance arising from the pursuit of individualism and incentives associated with free markets, amazing as that may seem. The background for understanding Thanksgiving Day is found in records kept by the governor of the Plymouth colony, William Bradford. He informs us that the colonists' English sponsors had arranged for all crops and goods to be held "in the common stock," from which they would be supplied to each family according to its needs (sound familiar?). As with many other recorded instances of collectivism in the history of mankind, there were disastrous results. Governor Bradford wrote that this experiment reflected a belief of his that common ownership of property would allow the colony to flourish. Instead, it was soon found that communal sharing resulted in unintended consequences. The colonists, as many others have discovered over time, found that individuals work harder within an incentive system that allows them to maintain and enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Desperate not to repeat the mistakes made by the failed communal settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, where half of the original settlers were lost to starvation or disease, the colonists met to find ways to escape a similar fate. They decided to abandon their communal arrangement for the distribution of goods. Instead, according to Gov. Bradford, from that point forward, "they should set corn every man for his own particular [need]." Each family would be given a parcel of land to cultivate, and they could keep what they grew from that plot of land (even if they could not deed the land to their heirs, since the ownership of the land was still held communally). Records were kept, and the records showed that the American colonists in Plymouth Plantation exhibited a dramatic increase in productivity after this change of economic system, where everyone could produce his own food on his own plot of land. Unfortunately, this success was offset the following summer (of 1623) by a drought. The colonists prayed and offered contrition to God, and, to their amazement, shortly thereafter, the drought ended, and the harvest was saved. And so it was that the colonists set about to celebrate a "day of thanksgiving to God" that Americans continue to celebrate to this day. Their new economic system that relied on individual efforts and the incentive of keeping the fruits of their own labor ensured that they would be able to produce enough food for the future and brought them great happiness. This system continues to thrive within the freedoms enshrined in America's national heritage. Nearly 170 years later, in 1789, following a proclamation issued by President George Washington, America celebrated its first official "Day of Thanksgiving to God" under its new Constitution. That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which President Washington was a member, announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, "unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities." It wasn't until some seventy-four years later, in 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving. Over the next seventy- eight years, presidents followed Lincoln's precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day. Then, in 1941, Congress permanently established the fourth Thursday of each November as a national holiday. So there you have the history of the celebration. Now, a few words on what Thanksgiving means in 2011. The lessons of the benefits of individual enterprise, and the increased productivity resulting from the freedom to keep what you produce, had dramatic affect on the productivity at Plymouth Plantation. It also had great effect on the growth of the United States of America for over two hundred years. However, for the past hundred years or so of our American history, there has been a minority of Americans who have felt that the American tradition of individual enterprise fails to adequately provide an equal result for everyone. They, in opposition to American tradition, feel that wealth inequality is not healthy, and they wish to move the country to some sort of communal arrangement, as they had in the Plymouth Colony and in Jamestown, where wealth effectively belongs to the government and is distributed to those in need by the benevolence and wisdom of said body. That is not the American way. We believe in the sovereignty of the individual and private property rights, not the sovereignty of the collective. On this Thanksgiving Day in 2011, let us give thanks to God for the bounties He has provided us in America. Those include the "blessings of freedom" mentioned in the preamble to the greatest governing document ever written, our Constitution. We should thank Him for enabling us to continue to be able to preserve our liberty in this unique and exceptional country of ours, and to prevent from achieving their stated goals those who would destroy this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave by replacing our free- enterprise, private-property system with a collective redistribution of resources to equalize wealth. And, last, but not least, we should thank the American Armed Forces, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, for their defense of this great Republic, and its freedoms, for the past 235 years. Our Declaration of Independence states that it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. That is, every man is born with the same opportunity to make of his life what he chooses. Not every man will seize that opportunity, which is why there is an inequality of results. But, allowing each to plow his own plot of land and keep the fruits of his labor is what the colonists discovered was the secret to productivity, wealth, and happiness. We must work hard to preserve that exceptional American tradition. We have much to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day in 2011. God Bless America! http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...rica_2011.html George Washington hated church. He was not religious. |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
On 11/24/11 23:13 , Bret Cahill wrote:
Any religion of any faith doesn't need or want gummint. You need to look up "Islam." |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
George HW Bush Pukes in Japan, he had vomited and then slid to the floor,
thrown up at his seat just before collapsing, rolled his head to the left, and was clearly fainting before being helped to the floor, actual moment of puke was only shown once on US television |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
On 11/24/2011 11:52 PM, John Smith wrote:
On 11/24/2011 7:07 PM, Bret Cahill wrote: On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how "God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is. http://www.ToThePointNews.com/content/view/4762/2/ Written by Dr. Jack Wheelerwww.ToThePointNews.com Dr. Wheeler needs to know that God help those who can't help themselves which is what he did on the cross. Man had no hope, but God intervened and took the penalty for all sin. Now, all man has to do is believe and he is forgiven of all sin. The first Thanksgiving was all about giving thanks to God for his many blessings he had given the Pilgrims as they crossed the sea and afterwards when they had established homes in the Cape Cod area. The first Thanksgiving was a prayfull three day celebration. What Tracey won't talk about is that the Mayflower Compact prescribed a socialist style of property distribution and socialist government. Yep, our once great nation started out as a socialist colony. Both the early Virginians and the Plymouth settlers subscribed to socialism. And it worked. Separation of church and state got started with the pilgrims. Bret Cahill Yet We have settled for keeping the Federal government out of religion..... The word *separate* is NOT used in the constitution to describe the relationship between government and religion. Just the more powerful term "establishment." Bret Cahill Oh, I think "we" have ... take marriage for example, given to Adam and Eve by God ... the government simply has no right to redefine it ... and Yes they do ignore the constitution that tells government to stay out of the "business" of religion. My point was that "we" The People decided in the constitution that "congress shall NOT establish a National religion" but there is NOTHING written in the constitution saying that religions can't be present in government. The constitution powers/laws limit government, they're NOT there to limit religion. |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
On 11/25/2011 12:13 AM, Bret Cahill wrote:
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how "God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is. http://www.ToThePointNews.com/content/view/4762/2/ Written by Dr. Jack Wheelerwww.ToThePointNews.com Dr. Wheeler needs to know that God help those who can't help themselves which is what he did on the cross. Man had no hope, but God intervened and took the penalty for all sin. Now, all man has to do is believe and he is forgiven of all sin. The first Thanksgiving was all about giving thanks to God for his many blessings he had given the Pilgrims as they crossed the sea and afterwards when they had established homes in the Cape Cod area. The first Thanksgiving was a prayfull three day celebration. What Tracey won't talk about is that the Mayflower Compact prescribed a socialist style of property distribution and socialist government. Yep, our once great nation started out as a socialist colony. Both the early Virginians and the Plymouth settlers subscribed to socialism. And it worked. Separation of church and state got started with the pilgrims. Bret Cahill Yet We have settled for keeping the Federal government out of religion..... The word *separate* is NOT used in the constitution to describe the relationship between government and religion. Just the more powerful term "establishment." Bret Cahill Establishment is one sided and directed towards government while separate has the connotation that it also directed at the religions themselves. There is Nothing that stops religions from having an opinion or supporting government. Any religion of any faith doesn't need or want gummint. But it is clear that GOVERNMENT can't establish a NATIONAL religion. Or have anything to do with any religion. NO, that power is NOT ever given to the Federal government, it's NOT written in the constitution/Amendments. If you see that wording please show it to me. For someone that likes to quote Marx and the Federalist papers, you know damn little of what is actually written in the constitution. It simply says " *CONGRESS* shall make no law" establishing a National religion. Nor can *CONGRESS* write any law banning people from practicing their Religion. *Amendment I* ["Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"] How did *CONGRESS* pass that law that bans religion in a school? Congress is clearly told NOT to pass laws that limit/ban religious expression. I see Nothing that limits the States power or ability to ban prayer in schools, but *CONGRESS* did it unconstitutionally instead. If the people in a State choose to allow religious prayer in their schools then they have that constitutional power to allow it or to deny it State Wide. That 1st amendment is aimed at Federal Government *CONGRESS* and we know Schools are run by the States. If they were Federally created and run schools then you might have a point except that too is unconstitutional. Congress has no power to set up schools or to write appropriation laws for money for schools. Obviously the CONGRESS is overstepping their authority and passing FEDERAL LAWS telling schools what they can *NOT* do and that is clearly "PROHIBITING religion". Which is exact what the constitution told congress that they may NOT do. Bret Cahill -- |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
President Bush fell ill at a banquet during a trip to Japan and vomited on
Kiichi Miyazawa The prime minister cradled the head of the president in his lap afterward while Barbara Bush wiped the president's face. |
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Made up crap. People did not talk that way in the 17th century
On 11/25/2011 5:49 AM, dave wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:29:13 -0800, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote: On Nov 24, 11:38 am, David wrote: On 11/24/2011 09:22 AM, Kevin Cunningham wrote: Yep, our once great nation started out as a socialist colony. Both the early Virginians and the Plymouth settlers subscribed to socialism. And it worked. It worked? Please explain.- Hide quoted text - A group of separatists from the Anglican Church left Plymouth, England in September 1620 for the New World, where they felt they would be able to have both civil and religious liberty. They sailed across the Atlantic, in a very rough two-month voyage, until they landed in November. They finally disembarked in December at a place they designated "Plymouth Rock." Before leaving the ship, however, they all signed the "Mayflower Compact." This was America's first document of civil government, and the first ever to institute the concept of self-government. The colonists immediately held a prayer service and then began the process of building shelter against the cold Massachusetts winter. They were not prepared for the starvation and sickness that accompanied a harsh New England winter, though, and by spring of 1621, nearly half of those who had arrived in December were dead. Persevering, and with the help of the native Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest that summer. In December of 1621, the grateful colonists decided to thank God and celebrated a three-day feast with their Indian friends. Reports of this celebration show that colonist Edward Winslow expressed the gratitude of the colony during the feast by saying, "[Y]et by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want[.]" That is the story we all remember, and the three-day feast really did occur in 1621. But that was not the origin of the Thanksgiving Day we celebrate today. In large part, the first Thanksgiving Day, which was celebrated in 1623, was a celebration of the abundance arising from the pursuit of individualism and incentives associated with free markets, amazing as that may seem. The background for understanding Thanksgiving Day is found in records kept by the governor of the Plymouth colony, William Bradford. He informs us that the colonists' English sponsors had arranged for all crops and goods to be held "in the common stock," from which they would be supplied to each family according to its needs (sound familiar?). As with many other recorded instances of collectivism in the history of mankind, there were disastrous results. Governor Bradford wrote that this experiment reflected a belief of his that common ownership of property would allow the colony to flourish. Instead, it was soon found that communal sharing resulted in unintended consequences. The colonists, as many others have discovered over time, found that individuals work harder within an incentive system that allows them to maintain and enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Desperate not to repeat the mistakes made by the failed communal settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, where half of the original settlers were lost to starvation or disease, the colonists met to find ways to escape a similar fate. They decided to abandon their communal arrangement for the distribution of goods. Instead, according to Gov. Bradford, from that point forward, "they should set corn every man for his own particular [need]." Each family would be given a parcel of land to cultivate, and they could keep what they grew from that plot of land (even if they could not deed the land to their heirs, since the ownership of the land was still held communally). Records were kept, and the records showed that the American colonists in Plymouth Plantation exhibited a dramatic increase in productivity after this change of economic system, where everyone could produce his own food on his own plot of land. Unfortunately, this success was offset the following summer (of 1623) by a drought. The colonists prayed and offered contrition to God, and, to their amazement, shortly thereafter, the drought ended, and the harvest was saved. And so it was that the colonists set about to celebrate a "day of thanksgiving to God" that Americans continue to celebrate to this day. Their new economic system that relied on individual efforts and the incentive of keeping the fruits of their own labor ensured that they would be able to produce enough food for the future and brought them great happiness. This system continues to thrive within the freedoms enshrined in America's national heritage. Nearly 170 years later, in 1789, following a proclamation issued by President George Washington, America celebrated its first official "Day of Thanksgiving to God" under its new Constitution. That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which President Washington was a member, announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, "unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities." It wasn't until some seventy-four years later, in 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving. Over the next seventy- eight years, presidents followed Lincoln's precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day. Then, in 1941, Congress permanently established the fourth Thursday of each November as a national holiday. So there you have the history of the celebration. Now, a few words on what Thanksgiving means in 2011. The lessons of the benefits of individual enterprise, and the increased productivity resulting from the freedom to keep what you produce, had dramatic affect on the productivity at Plymouth Plantation. It also had great effect on the growth of the United States of America for over two hundred years. However, for the past hundred years or so of our American history, there has been a minority of Americans who have felt that the American tradition of individual enterprise fails to adequately provide an equal result for everyone. They, in opposition to American tradition, feel that wealth inequality is not healthy, and they wish to move the country to some sort of communal arrangement, as they had in the Plymouth Colony and in Jamestown, where wealth effectively belongs to the government and is distributed to those in need by the benevolence and wisdom of said body. That is not the American way. We believe in the sovereignty of the individual and private property rights, not the sovereignty of the collective. On this Thanksgiving Day in 2011, let us give thanks to God for the bounties He has provided us in America. Those include the "blessings of freedom" mentioned in the preamble to the greatest governing document ever written, our Constitution. We should thank Him for enabling us to continue to be able to preserve our liberty in this unique and exceptional country of ours, and to prevent from achieving their stated goals those who would destroy this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave by replacing our free- enterprise, private-property system with a collective redistribution of resources to equalize wealth. And, last, but not least, we should thank the American Armed Forces, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, for their defense of this great Republic, and its freedoms, for the past 235 years. Our Declaration of Independence states that it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. That is, every man is born with the same opportunity to make of his life what he chooses. Not every man will seize that opportunity, which is why there is an inequality of results. But, allowing each to plow his own plot of land and keep the fruits of his labor is what the colonists discovered was the secret to productivity, wealth, and happiness. We must work hard to preserve that exceptional American tradition. We have much to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day in 2011. God Bless America! http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...rica_2011.html George Washington hated church. He was not religious. Actually, George Washington believed in God, he just had disdain for organized religion, whether instituted by government, devious individuals, or corporations ... much the same as any sane person ... however, he did attend church in respect of God. If you are going to make statements, you could, at least, make accurate statements ...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...n_and_religion Regards, JS The calendar says 2011, the heart says 1776! |
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The Pilgrims Were Thankful For The Bounty Of Capitalism
On 11/25/2011 8:13 AM, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
On 11/25/2011 12:13 AM, Bret Cahill wrote: On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country. A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how "God helps those who help themselves" applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America's birth. This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable - for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let's drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is. http://www.ToThePointNews.com/content/view/4762/2/ Written by Dr. Jack Wheelerwww.ToThePointNews.com Dr. Wheeler needs to know that God help those who can't help themselves which is what he did on the cross. Man had no hope, but God intervened and took the penalty for all sin. Now, all man has to do is believe and he is forgiven of all sin. The first Thanksgiving was all about giving thanks to God for his many blessings he had given the Pilgrims as they crossed the sea and afterwards when they had established homes in the Cape Cod area. The first Thanksgiving was a prayfull three day celebration. What Tracey won't talk about is that the Mayflower Compact prescribed a socialist style of property distribution and socialist government. Yep, our once great nation started out as a socialist colony. Both the early Virginians and the Plymouth settlers subscribed to socialism. And it worked. Separation of church and state got started with the pilgrims. Bret Cahill Yet We have settled for keeping the Federal government out of religion..... The word *separate* is NOT used in the constitution to describe the relationship between government and religion. Just the more powerful term "establishment." Bret Cahill Establishment is one sided and directed towards government while separate has the connotation that it also directed at the religions themselves. There is Nothing that stops religions from having an opinion or supporting government. Any religion of any faith doesn't need or want gummint. But it is clear that GOVERNMENT can't establish a NATIONAL religion. Or have anything to do with any religion. NO, that power is NOT ever given to the Federal government, it's NOT written in the constitution/Amendments. If you see that wording please show it to me. For someone that likes to quote Marx and the Federalist papers, you know damn little of what is actually written in the constitution. It simply says " *CONGRESS* shall make no law" establishing a National religion. Nor can *CONGRESS* write any law banning people from practicing their Religion. *Amendment I* ["Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"] How did *CONGRESS* pass that law that bans religion in a school? Congress is clearly told NOT to pass laws that limit/ban religious expression. I see Nothing that limits the States power or ability to ban prayer in schools, but *CONGRESS* did it unconstitutionally instead. If the people in a State choose to allow religious prayer in their schools then they have that constitutional power to allow it or to deny it State Wide. That 1st amendment is aimed at Federal Government *CONGRESS* and we know Schools are run by the States. If they were Federally created and run schools then you might have a point except that too is unconstitutional. Congress has no power to set up schools or to write appropriation laws for money for schools. Obviously the CONGRESS is overstepping their authority and passing FEDERAL LAWS telling schools what they can *NOT* do and that is clearly "PROHIBITING religion". Which is exact what the constitution told congress that they may NOT do. Bret Cahill The Constitution is a document which gives the government few and tightly controlled powers, indeed, specifically only those power necessary to run a safe and sane society while granting all members maximum freedoms and their creator given rights. If the government is NOT given a specific power in the Constitution, it simply doesn't have an agreement with the people that they can exercise such power(s.) The Constitution is a document created around the proven evils, and truth, that government will always seek to take too many powers for itself and mistreat the people it should be serving. In short, the Constitution is pro-citizens and anti-government ... and is only willing to tolerate the exercise of the absolute minimum of government powers ... Regards, JS The calendar says 2011, the heart says 1776! |
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