The history of Thanksgiving
Let me give you a brief Reality check on the history of thanksgiving so
that you truly understand why Americans love to celebrate it.
Many many years ago when the pilgrims first came here they were not very
attuned to the ways of living in the wilds. Being that the pilgrims were very
GRIM to begin with they would huddle in thier makeshift huts and pray to God
for a miracle. Well the prayer was answered and the indians showed up and said
"Boy you white people are pretty **** stupid trying to live in this art of the
land in the dead of winter. even WE dont live here".
Of course the pilgrims being superstitious thought that the devil had come
to them with his minions to kill the puritan way of life. The pilgrims would
have shot the indians but they were so cold that they did not have much
feeling in thier fingers to load and pull the trigger.
So the pilgrims prayed for god to deliver them from these devil heathans and
yet again god answered with an indian with a pipe who came up to them and said
"here smoke this,,it will make you feel better".
Now that the pilgrims were stoned and high as a kite they realized " hey
were freakin hungry"
But there was no food around and when you have several stoned people with the
munchies, its not a pretty sight.
SO the indians went out and got some turkeys and squash and other things and
fed the stoned purtians. they were so thankful and they prayed to god and
everyone was happy.
The pilgrims had enough strength now to load thier guns and shoot the indians
in the back and raid thier villiage and steal all thier food and kill thier
women and children. some say it was because the indians ran out of pot and you
know how some people get when they got no pot.
So anyway thats why we Proud Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. To
celebrate the coming together of different peoples to share food and warmth
and good tidings.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING KFM FORUM!
mrtws
The True Meanng of Thanksgiving
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Originally posted by Xebsball
Rest of world be not trying to emulate no nuthin.
Hard work my ass :p who you tryin to fool, fool.
Xebsball you couldn't keep it real, you FOOL?
Here in New York on a daily basis you get to here both the native the immigrant population bad mouth their hosts.
Abroad in many countries you here the same sentiment.
However the latest figures show that Americans are not flocking overseas to a better place. The opposite has always been the case. Actually it's the rest of the world that seeks to recruit our talent and they pay us handsomely for our services.
While the fact is that our economy drives more than half of the worlds economic engines goes largely ignored by those who benefit. The Israelis recieve over 15 billion a year in aid and they are on the low end of our good nature. American aid monies far outweigh the all UNESCO contributions combined and when we as a nation balk at a UN proposal or fee, American private interests and charities continue to spread the wealth and aid.
All of South and Central Americas, Africa and recently a good part of Asia rely on money earned here to keep them from bankruptcy and anarchy. Try to remember, if more than half of the money spent or saved in your country comes from the USA, your country is a failure by any standard.
So for the recent past, we forgave all your war debts from WWI and WWII because who are we kidding, only one European country ever even tried to pay us back. We packed up and defeated Nazism even after the atrocious behaviour of Europe after the first world war we won for them. American economic boycotts of South Africa did more to end apartheid than anything any native African attempted. By the way, that was a popular movement and it was not sponsored nor was it supported by the American goverment at the time.
The Japanese only have affordable oil because we sell them what comes out of Alaska. We go to war in the Mid-east to protect european interests. The US and Russia have the worlds largest oil reserves and production ability we don't need the Arab oil, we're looking out for countries that haven't been able to care for themselves for the last century. Think hard, we export oil. If need be the Japanese can take advantage of the natural gas pipeline in the Russian Sahkalin to drive their industry, we can keep our low grade from Alaska and Europe can feel free to freeze and starve.
For those of you who want to look at our Human Rights record, try to remember that the countries we bought our slaves from, still have slavery today. The recent forum for reparations to the descendents of former African/African-American slaves was held in country that openly enslaves Christians. That movement did not include any discussion of the English, Scottish, Irish, German or Dutch who were sold into the same servitude. People also forget that both white and black laborers, whether called slaves or indentured servants had the opportunity to buy their own freedom.
For those of you not on the current page, the last 50 years have seen massive reparations to American Native Peoples and they are financially, educationally and doing better than most. The Indian nations exist as free econimic, social and political entities. Oh and they recieve aid money also.
We even send food and money to Russia and if you didn't know, they worked against us the longest and hardest. They unlike the Chinese, never defeated us in battle and never saw fit to take us on directly. Hey even after we fought to a stalemate with them in Korea and set up a DMZ there, we eventually freed up enough technology/trade in the past 10 years to make China a modern nation in every sense.
Come to New York and see the cities we built for our disenfranchised, the massive projects that have been turned from affordable housing to free housing, to gang and drug infested ghettos by the inhabitants. See the people who do not report crime to their police force and expect police protection. Visit nation within a nation that attacks firefighters who come to put out their fires and rob emergencey services workers who come to aid them in their hour of need. Come and listen to them cry about the level of crime they create, tolerate and maintain by themselves. Try to remember they get free medical insurance, educational aid, public schooling, money for college, food, SSi benefits, housing and the privelidge of living in nation which has not had war on our soil for over 140 years. While those who do work, pay taxes and pay for their own housing here do not.
When you see all that for what it is, the fact that we feed, power and clothe the rest of you as well as our own, it is no big surprise that you have ended up as ungrateful, weak and dependent on us as you are.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who get to spend my tax dollars and will never contribute to my countries wealth, whether you live here or afar. I know your not grateful but that's because you're embarressed at your own failures and need for our charity.
For those of you who bother to read the whole thing, sorry for any mis-spellings, this place sorely needs a spell checker, not just for me but for those who post this forum to bash the USA too.