The Vatican's 2020 nativity scene. Image from Twitter.
Under Pope Francis, we can count on the Vatican saying and doing odd things.
Take the Vatican’s 2020 nativity scene. Please…
Raymond Arroyo, host of The World Over on EWTN (which is one of the most-watched programs on the entire planet) and executive producer and frequent co-host on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, gives us our first look at this year’s Vatican take on the birth of our savior...Read all.
The True Story of Thanksgiving - The Rush Limbaugh Show "...What the History Books Never Told You: The True Story of Thanksgiving.” ...“On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims,” now known as Pilgrims, “led by William Bradford. ...During the first winter, half the Pilgrims — including Bradford’s own wife — died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.” They endured that first winter. “When spring finally came,” they had, by that time, met the indigenous people, the Indians, and indeed the “Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers” and other animals “for coats.” But there wasn’t any prosperity. ...“This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than what it really was. ...That all happened, but that’s not — according to William Bradford’s journal — what they ultimately gave thanks for. ...“All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well.” Everything belonged to everybody and everybody had one share in it. They were going to distribute it equally.” That was considered to be the epitome of fairness, sharing the hardship burdens and everything like that. ...“Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that” it wasn’t working. It “was as costly and destructive…” His own journals chronicle the reasons it didn’t work. ...“What Bradford and his community found,” and I’m going to use basically his own words, “was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else… “For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense,'” without any payment, “‘that was thought injustice.’ ...“So what did Bradford’s community try next? ...Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? ‘ This had very good success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all hands [everybody] industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.’ … ...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. That’s the first Thanksgiving. Nothing wrong with being grateful to the Indians; don’t misunderstand. But the true meaning of Thanksgiving — and this is what George Washington recognized in his first Thanksgiving proclamation."
Barack Obama accuses Republicans of creating 'sense that white males are victims' | Daily Mail Online
"Obama accuses Republicans of creating 'sense that white males are victims' and says Trump benefited from 'evangelical Hispanics' who liked anti-abortion policies, in Breakfast Club interview
Former president tells The Breakfast Club that Republicans have 'created a sense that white males are the victims'
Narrative 'doesn't jive with both history and data, and economics' and will be difficult to unwind he says
Obama also said that evangelical Hispanic voters who backed him for 'fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion'...Read all.
Lots of misinformation from the people who are charged with giving the public information….as usual. And Senators who don’t know what they are talking about, and the constitutional ramifications of what is going on right now in our nation.Here, Mark Levin explains the civil litigation process, hat tip to YouTuber Mike Mickevicius:
“They were the worst of conquerors. Inordinate pride, the lust of blood and dominion, were the mainsprings of their warfare; and their victories were strained with every excess of savage passion.”
..that’s not a description of the Pilgrims’ treatment of Indigenous peoples.
It’s a description of some Indigenous people’s treatment of other Indigenous peoples, written by the late Francis Parkman, Harvard professor and the world’s foremost Indian scholar.
The Wampanoag, who joined the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, had a lot to celebrate.
Contrary to Hollywood’s American-hating rendition of “Pocahontas,” in which the Indians feared the “White Demons,” the Wampanoag were thrilled with their well-armed white allies, who helped them repel the hated Iroquois and Narragansett.
The whole reason the Wampanoag were clustered so close to the coast where the Pilgrims encountered them was that the Iroquois had “pursued them with an inveterate enmity...Read all.
Bat Masterson 1853 - U.S. Army scout, lawman, gambler, journalist
1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.
1975 - Lynette"Squeaky" Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
Law enforcement will be “out in-force” as the holidays approach, stopping vehicles at certain New York City checkpoints, and there will be “consequences” for violating quarantine requirements, Sheriff Joseph Fucito said on Tuesday.“Sheriff teams will be out in-force as the holidays approach. There will be vehicle checkpoints at key bridges and crossings throughout New York City,” Fucito announced during a Tuesday press conference alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).
"When a different viewpoint offends you, try to deplatform it. If that doesn’t work, heckle until the person gives up. This tried-and-true tactic of campus leftists was adopted by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Brandeis University in response to a Nov. 13 event promoted by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Titled “Cultural Genocide: An Overview of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China,” the panel discussion was sponsored by the university’s Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies Program and International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. ...According to The Brandeis Hoot, which interviewed participants after the event but didn’t view it live, the event was “Zoombombed multiple times with unknown attendees writing [‘FAKE NEWS’ and ‘Bullshit’] on slides and playing the [Chinese national] anthem.”
Most participants had their video turned off, making it impossible to identify the virtual vandals.Evidence suggests students involved with the Chinese Students and Scholars Association played a role in the disruption...Read all.
"With all of the intolerance of “offensive” speech and ideas, it’s worth considering what could be happening.
Is it all just to create a better society or are we being coerced into a certain mindset?
...And who today dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use?
Usually, those that matter originate in our universities and institutions of higher learning.
They then trickle down through society as those who were embedded with the new words and phrases make their way through society and eventually into positions of leadership.
“Such is the Pavlovian device: repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity of communicating dissent and opposition. This is the simple formula for conditioning the masses. This is also the actual ideal of some of our public relation machines…”
And the goal of political conditioning?
“Political conditioning should not be confused with training or persuasion or even indoctrination.
It is more than that.
It is taming.
It is taking possession of both the simplest and the most complicated nervous patterns of man.
It is the battle for the possession of the nerve cells.
It is coercion and enforced conversion.
Instead of conditioning man to an unbiased facing of reality, the seducer conditions him to catchwords, verbal stereotypes, slogans, formulas, symbols.
Pavlovian strategy in the totalitarian sense means imprinting prescribed reflexes on a mind that has been broken down.”
If political conditioning is the goal, how is it achieved?...Read all.
"With the election, COVID-19 seems to be taking a back seat, other than corporate media outlets breathlessly reporting COVID-19 cases and tin-pot tyrant governors telling you exactly how you may or may not celebrate Thanksgiving based on that metric.
So, here is a rundown, with detailed sourcing, linking to recent news and previous information. The job of media is to inform so people can make individual decisions based on all available information. This is especially important as we move into the season of gathering with friends and loved ones. And Dr. Anthony Fauci, CNN, and Andrew Cuomo are hardly the final word on everything.
Vaccines...
A recent peer-reviewed retrospective study that looked at the use of HCQ in combination with zinc and an antibiotic demonstrated an 84% reduction in hospitalization for high-risk patients over 60; under 60 with shortness of breath; and under 60 with specific pre-existing conditions like diabetes and morbid obesity using untreated publicly available data...Read all.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, whose administration said last week that masks are now required indoors, announced new rules on Monday to combat resurgent coronavirus cases. Among them was a ban on alcohol sales for on-site consumption.
"...Harry Dunn lived in Charlton, near Banbury.[2]
On the evening of 27 August 2019 he died in hospital after a collision with a vehicle while riding his motorcycle
...The car was driven by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US government employee working at the United States Air Force listening station at RAF Croughton.[3]
Police said they believed the car, a Volvo XC90, had been driven on the wrong side of the road from the base exit...
Call handlers for the emergency telephone call categorised Dunn's injuries as category 2, requiring ambulance attention within 40 minutes; the ambulance arrived 43 minutes after the collision.
The chief executive of East Midlands Ambulance Service later said that because of a shortage of ambulance crews, the categorisation did not make a difference, because the nearest doctor was far away.
Dunn was pronounced dead at the Major Trauma Centre of John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford...Read all!
Government Internet in Traverse City: Behind Schedule, Over Budget and Missing Projections
Red flags raised on government owned network
"Traverse City has been rolling out a government-owned broadband network.
But like most municipal internet systems across the country, it’s running behind schedule, over budget and attracting fewer customers than projected...Read all.
Post-George Floyd, a Wave of 'Anti-Racist' Teaching Sweeps K-12 Schools Targeting 'Whiteness' | RealClearInvestigations
"The notices to parents began arriving fast and furious in the weeks after the death of George Floyd in late May.
In dramatic, urgent language, K-12 schools across the country – both public and private – professed solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy, as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves into racism-free zones.
Megyn Kelly: The former Fox News anchor, who now has her own podcast, says she’s pulling her three kids from their New York City schools.
“It’s out of control, on so many levels. They have gone off the deep end.”
podcasts.apple.com
The president of the Lower Merion School Board on Philadelphia’s affluent Main Line declared to families: “We need to eradicate white supremacy and heteropatriarchy in all of our institutions.”...Read all.
"It's frustration - you're shut down, have a good day, no notice," said Jeremy Syrocki.
Syrocki, the owner of Truago in downtown Trenton put up a larger than life blow-up Grinch in front of his restaurant on Friday. The sign hanging around the iconic character's neck is a sign that says "Gretch the Grinch."
...“On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims,” now known as Pilgrims, “led by William Bradford.
...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. 
...The first Thanksgiving was William Bradford and Plymouth Colony thanking God for their blessings. 
"...Harry Dunn lived in Charlton, near Banbury.[2] 
