By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
"He has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it."
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Monday, November 27, 2017
Democrats' Failed Leftism
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Leftism is failing. . . again.
History is filled with the stories of the rise and fall of leftist systems. The only system of government to truly prosper and stand the test of time has been the moral and religious system of limited government and a free economic market established by the Founding Fathers of the United States through the United States Constitution.
While the Democrats, like the socialists of the communist failures before them, rail against the wealthy, the hypocrisy is deafening. Seven of the ten most wealthiest members of Congress are Democrats. There is, however, a difference between socialist wealthy, and capitalist wealthy. Nonetheless, the Democrats keep screaming about how the GOP loves the wealthy, and want tax cuts for the rich because they want to put the rich into their back pockets. Then, the Democrats, like Kamala Harris, screams about how in the GOP tax bill there is a break for buyers of private jets, and then is confused when she finds out the original idea was by a Democrat, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) who had two proposals to provide tax breaks to owners and operators of private jets.
While the Democrats scream about how they think the GOP is a part of the rising national debt, but looked the other way when the debt rose to astronomical numbers during the Obama years, they are also demanding Universal Health Care, but have no plan to fund it and no revenue source to pay for the system. They also ignore the bad news about the failures of socialism and a collective world system in Europe.
While the Democrats claim to be the party of science, they have turned their back on the science of biology. They have not only embraced the mental illness of transgenderism, but are working to expand the concept by mandating it be taught as natural and normal to our children.
While claiming to abhor terrorism, they continually side with Islam, from which nearly all worldwide terrorism comes from . . . and then Democrats in Congress start calling for more lenient treatment for young terrorists who murder Israelis.
But, don't cross the Democrats (especially the Clintons), because if you do, you may wind up with a bullet in the head.
In California, an allegedly shining example of progressivism in action, the failures are piling up worse than ever, with corruption and mismanagement strewn throughout the Democrat Party's agenda, especially when it comes to Jerry Brown's bullet train monstrosity, of which is so over its budget, and poorly managed as a project, that one legislator is calling for an emergency audit of the high speed rail project.
And, don't forget, to the Democrats the ends justifies the means, so they will do anything to gain full power and push their agenda. Or as Teen Vogue columnist Emily Lindin tweeted, "Sorry, if some innocent men's reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price that I am absolutely willing to pay." She also tweeted, "Here's an unpopular opinion: I'm actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations."
It looks like the faminazi socialist man-haters are doing their job just fine, from Lindin's point of view.
So, how is it that these people aren't refused by the voters to ever have any semblance of power again? How is it that anyone gives them any support?
Socialism is a powerful ideology. People buy into the misleading propaganda, and do not understand what it really stands for. Failures and hypocrites, but they are convincing chameleons.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Uranium One Informant: Politically Motivated
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The headline at Fox News: Identity of Uranium One Informant Revealed, and He Has Video Showing ‘Briefcases Full of Cash’
He will be testifying before a congressional committee about the 2010 sale of Uranium One, where a Russian-backed company bought a uranium firm with mines in the U.S and about the bribery that went on before the sale.
“There is documentation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it,” Campbell revealed.
Russian efforts to influence the Uranium One nuclear purchase gave Russia control of roughly 20 percent of America’s uranium, and put money into the pockets of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.
From Daily Caller:
When Clinton served as secretary of state, Russia routed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, and former President Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees as part of Russian efforts to influence the U.S. government to approve the deal, The Hill reported.
The informant wants people to know the story, and the liberal leftists in government doesn’t.
The headline at Fox News: Identity of Uranium One Informant Revealed, and He Has Video Showing ‘Briefcases Full of Cash’
The consequences of sin always finds the sinner - eventually. The Clinton Crime Machine's dirty political criminal dealings is running out of lies, and the truth is rising to the surface.
Information from the Department of Justice reveals has revealed the name of a confidential informant and Reuters put it out there for public consumption.
William Campbell, who was a consultant, went to the Department of Justice after he discovered Russian bribery going on with American uranium companies and he worked undercover providing the FBI information on the case for almost five years.
He will be testifying before a congressional committee about the 2010 sale of Uranium One, where a Russian-backed company bought a uranium firm with mines in the U.S and about the bribery that went on before the sale.
“There is documentation relating to Uranium One and political influence does exist and I have it,” Campbell revealed.
Russian efforts to influence the Uranium One nuclear purchase gave Russia control of roughly 20 percent of America’s uranium, and put money into the pockets of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.
From Daily Caller:
When Clinton served as secretary of state, Russia routed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, and former President Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees as part of Russian efforts to influence the U.S. government to approve the deal, The Hill reported.
The informant wants people to know the story, and the liberal leftists in government doesn’t.
According to The Hill’s John Solomon, there are videotapes of Russians giving people briefcases full of cash and that these were the people that we then gave uranium to and nuclear fuel contracts.
From Conservative Tribune:
“The bribery schemes included delivering thousands of dollars in yellow envelopes, laundering tens of thousands of dollars in briefcases or wiring thousands of dollars through shell companies through the Seychelles Islands, Latvia, Cyprus, and Switzerland, to name a few,” explained Circa investigative reporter Sara Carter.
Both reporters say there is ‘irrefutable’ evidence that the government knew this bribery was going on, they knew about the Russian government and Putin were behind it before they signed off on the sale of Uranium One.
Russian firm “Rosatom” wanted to take over Uranium One, which would effectively transfer control of 20 percent of American uranium to the former Soviet Union. For that to happen, a committee called CFIUS needed to sign off on the deal — and guess who were powerful members of that group?
“At the time of the Uranium One deal the panel was chaired by then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and included then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Attorney General Eric Holder,” reported Circa.
Event though there was growing evidence of backroom deals and bribery, the Obama-run Department of Justice dragged its feet until the questionable deal went though.
So they did it anyway. Solomon says there was actually a discussion where the Russians talked about how dumb the Americans were to do this.
Campbell’s testimony can also tie into it all other criminal activities by the Clintons, including the unusual nature of the FBI giving the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails ‘special status.’
Carter said there were FBI agents who were very disturbed by the special treatment that they felt Clinton received.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
From Conservative Tribune:
“The bribery schemes included delivering thousands of dollars in yellow envelopes, laundering tens of thousands of dollars in briefcases or wiring thousands of dollars through shell companies through the Seychelles Islands, Latvia, Cyprus, and Switzerland, to name a few,” explained Circa investigative reporter Sara Carter.
Both reporters say there is ‘irrefutable’ evidence that the government knew this bribery was going on, they knew about the Russian government and Putin were behind it before they signed off on the sale of Uranium One.
Russian firm “Rosatom” wanted to take over Uranium One, which would effectively transfer control of 20 percent of American uranium to the former Soviet Union. For that to happen, a committee called CFIUS needed to sign off on the deal — and guess who were powerful members of that group?
“At the time of the Uranium One deal the panel was chaired by then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and included then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Attorney General Eric Holder,” reported Circa.
Event though there was growing evidence of backroom deals and bribery, the Obama-run Department of Justice dragged its feet until the questionable deal went though.
So they did it anyway. Solomon says there was actually a discussion where the Russians talked about how dumb the Americans were to do this.
Campbell’s testimony can also tie into it all other criminal activities by the Clintons, including the unusual nature of the FBI giving the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails ‘special status.’
Carter said there were FBI agents who were very disturbed by the special treatment that they felt Clinton received.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Protesting American Consumerism
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| The similarities of the red fists in the communist sign (left) and the Enact CPAC sign (inset) are striking |
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
Yesterday was Black Friday, traditionally the day after Thanksgiving, and the biggest shopping day of the year. Shoppers charge the shopping malls for luring deals by the millions. The carnage was amazing during the 2017 version (I chose not to participate - been there, done that, twice before), and some stores, like Macy's, Lowe's, and Bloomingdale's, experienced technology problems, making the time in line to pay one's money for the Christmas presents in their arms a little longer. As the shoppers were inside, outside were protesters chanting and screaming out against capitalism.
Never mind that statistics completely dismantle their argument.
Democrats, with leftist progressive policies in place, have been running the big cities for generations with their collectivism agenda, and nothing has improved. If anything, it's getting worse. Crime is escalating. Black on black violence is escalating. Education in the black community is in a state of dismal failure.
Based on data released by the FBI, there is no epidemic of cops shooting black people. While there is no such thing as a police brutality against blacks problem, black on black and black on white violence is out of control.
But, we are supposed to believe that "racism against non-whites is everywhere", and it is the fault of the American System as it was established two-hundred and forty years ago.
Dan Calabrese wrote: In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243.
The black community should not be fearing violence by the police, the police should be fearing violence by the black community.
Calabrese continues: Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
Andrew McCarthy wrote that the whole systemic racism narrative is a giant fraud.
What is really haunting the black community is not racism, but the community's refusal to hold on to moral values and the importance of the traditional family unit.
► In 1960 only 22% of families in the black community were single-parent households.
Now, that number is about 72%. Daily Signal
► According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, in 1938 about 11% of black children were born to unwed mothers. Today about 75% of black children are born to unwed mothers. Walter E. Williams
► Two-parent black families are rarely poor. Only 8% of black married-couple families live in poverty. Among black families in which both the husband and wife work full time, the poverty rate is under 5%. Poverty in black families headed by single women is 37%. As early as 1900, when racism was rampant, the duration of black unemployment was 15 percent shorter than that of whites. Today, in a time were we just finished two terms of the first black President, and experienced the candidacy of a black neurosurgeon named Ben Carson in the last election for the White House, it’s about 30 percent longer. Daily Signal
Is the move away from a moral compass, the traditional family unit, and the coincidental appearance of the Democrat policies of welfare and government assistance at the same time possibly at the heart of the problem? Or, is the claim of police brutality by white cops against innocent black victims truly a nationwide epidemic?
► In 2016, only 16 unarmed black men all year were killed by police. In 2015 the number was 36. Washington Post 2016, Washington Post, 2015.
► The black population in the United States is roughly 47 million (43 million "black only"), or about 14.5% of the total American population. Lightning strikes about 300 Americans annually. 14.5% of 300 is 43.5, which means if one was to stick strictly to the percentages, about 43 to 44 blacks are possibly struck by lightning each year. Taking into consideration that only 16 unarmed black men all year were killed by police last year, and 36 the prior year, based on the numbers an unarmed black is more likely to be struck by lightning than to be killed by a police officer. Black Demographics
► The National Review reports it's not true that black men are constantly stopped by the police for no reason. Indeed, black men are less likely than white men to have contact with the police in any given year, though this includes situations where the respondent called the cops himself: 17.5 percent versus 20.7 percent. Similarly, a black man has on average only 0.32 contacts with the police in any given year, compared with 0.35 contacts for a white man. It’s true that black men are overrepresented among people who have many contacts with the police, but not by much. Only 1.5 percent of black men have more than three contacts with the police in any given year, whereas 1.2 percent of white men do. Only 0.6 percent of black men experience physical force by the police in any given year, while approximately 0.2 percent of white men do. To be fair, these are probably slight undercounts, because the survey does not allow us to identify people who did not experience physical force during their most recent contact but did experience such force during a previous contact in the same year. Only 0.08 percent of black men are injured by the police each year, approximately the same rate as for white men. A black man is about 44 times as likely to suffer a traffic-related injury, according to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Moreover, keep in mind that these tallies of police violence include violence that is legally justified. Data from 2015 suggests that black men are three times as likely to commit violent crimes as white men. To the extent that cops are more likely to use force against people who commit violent crimes, which they surely are, this could easily explain any disparities, even though the differences are very slight.
The facts show us that racism and police brutality is not running rampant throughout the United States as we are being falsely advised by the media and leftist politicians. In fact, based on the poverty numbers as compared to the numbers regarding the family unit, it is apparent that the problem does not lie in the Democrat Party's false accusation of racism, but in the reality that the family unit has been devastated by some kind of interference that is plaguing the black community more so than other communities.
The decline of marriage contributes to declining self-sufficiency and increased official poverty in future generations. Children living in single-parent homes are 50 percent more likely to experience official poverty as adults when compared with children from intact married homes. This intergenerational poverty effect persists even after adjusting for the original differences in family income and poverty during childhood.
In short, the whole thing has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with something else.
► The National Review reports it's not true that black men are constantly stopped by the police for no reason. Indeed, black men are less likely than white men to have contact with the police in any given year, though this includes situations where the respondent called the cops himself: 17.5 percent versus 20.7 percent. Similarly, a black man has on average only 0.32 contacts with the police in any given year, compared with 0.35 contacts for a white man. It’s true that black men are overrepresented among people who have many contacts with the police, but not by much. Only 1.5 percent of black men have more than three contacts with the police in any given year, whereas 1.2 percent of white men do. Only 0.6 percent of black men experience physical force by the police in any given year, while approximately 0.2 percent of white men do. To be fair, these are probably slight undercounts, because the survey does not allow us to identify people who did not experience physical force during their most recent contact but did experience such force during a previous contact in the same year. Only 0.08 percent of black men are injured by the police each year, approximately the same rate as for white men. A black man is about 44 times as likely to suffer a traffic-related injury, according to the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Moreover, keep in mind that these tallies of police violence include violence that is legally justified. Data from 2015 suggests that black men are three times as likely to commit violent crimes as white men. To the extent that cops are more likely to use force against people who commit violent crimes, which they surely are, this could easily explain any disparities, even though the differences are very slight.
The facts show us that racism and police brutality is not running rampant throughout the United States as we are being falsely advised by the media and leftist politicians. In fact, based on the poverty numbers as compared to the numbers regarding the family unit, it is apparent that the problem does not lie in the Democrat Party's false accusation of racism, but in the reality that the family unit has been devastated by some kind of interference that is plaguing the black community more so than other communities.
The decline of marriage contributes to declining self-sufficiency and increased official poverty in future generations. Children living in single-parent homes are 50 percent more likely to experience official poverty as adults when compared with children from intact married homes. This intergenerational poverty effect persists even after adjusting for the original differences in family income and poverty during childhood.
In short, the whole thing has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with something else.
Which brings us back to the raised fists.
The raised fist, while a symbol used by a number of ideologies and movements, has come to be ubiquitous with imagined or real struggles, defiance or resistance against an authority or authoritarian power. The symbol of the raised fist was first used by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a union organization created by socialists to combine general unionism with industrial unionism in 1905. As time passed, the raised fist (usually the left fist) became a symbol of the Marxist struggle of the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie. Communist and socialist movements from the Soviets to the Chinese to Western embedded leftist movements adopted the raised fist as their own. Marxist inspired Black Nationalism from Black Power to Black Lives Matter have used it, as has the socialists of La Raza. Even feminism and the homosexual has used the raised fist symbol, albeit the right fist in the case of the feminazis.
In the name of a false resistance against a false system of institutionalized racism, the liberal left's call for equality is not about equality at all, but equity. They are calling for "equality in results", which is Marxist at its foundation, and has no place in the American System. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson did not write, "all men are expected to live with equal results thanks to government mandates." He wrote that "all men are Created equal." In other words, equality in the American System is not based on man's communist definition of equality, but God's definition of equality. After our creation, the equality stops, and our pursuit of happiness takes hold. Our individual talents and work ethics, combined with various environmental conditions, lead us all in different directions. Some of us achieve higher than others. I, myself, am still working to achieve some of my dreams and aspirations. Our happiness and achievements are ours to pursue, not government's to give us. In short, while the protesters thrust their fists in the air with the expectation of government to somehow fix the woes of some members of society, the reality is, healing won't begin until the heart issues are resolved first.
As Benjamin Franklin so wisely said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
This morning's news critters, as they discussed the protesters calling for a boycott of Black Friday, none of them said anything about the fact that the signs that the protesters were holding had communist symbols on them (in the form of the red raised fist). Why is it that the news media, including Fox News, is so afraid to admit that we have a problem with an infestation of communists in this country.
Perhaps they are complicit.
For the cultural Marxists in America, the Democrat Party, and the Clinton Crime Machine, the Ends justifies the Means. Their hate for any opposition, especially from those who defend the system of liberty established by the United States Constitution, is more than mere hate. The disdain for any opposition to their socialist aims is at a khrushchevian "We Will Bury You" level.
Today's socialists are the ideological descendants of the communists who began the modern communist movement a hundred years ago, November 7th, 1917. The Communist Revolution birthed the Soviet Union. It was definitely on its way, for countries had been shaking hands with socialism throughout the progressive era. Once Soviet Union was established, the true horror of communism went into action, and communism became the most murderous political philosophy in human history.
With the rise of communism, the complete antithesis of American liberty, came an enemy intent on destroying American liberty. Modern communism infiltrated the United States, infiltrated the Democrat Party, and it has been aggressively, but incrementally, dismantling the American System ever since.
Now, socialism is accepted by a large portion of Americans as something this country should pursue. Most millennials have polled to prefer socialism (but it turns out are also not very informed about what socialism really is). Shockingly, in the United States, a proud socialist, Bernie Sanders, placed second for the nomination of a major political party.
Hence, the reason for the protests against our free market system. It's not about racism, but instead is just another outcropping of the infiltration of communism in the United States. The protesters are pawns. Willing lemmings in the communist desire to overthrow the U.S. Constitution and establish a communist regime right here in the United States.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Over 300 Killed in Terrorist Attack, Sinai, Egypt
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In the Sinai region of Egypt a terror attack has claimed over 300 lives, and has left 128 injured.
Hours after the massacre, the Egyptian military initiated airstrikes on terrorist locations believed to be associated with the terrorists who carried out the bloodshed. Several vehicles used in the attack had been located, targeted, and bombed.
During the slaughter people were jumping out of windows and the mobs were trying to stampede to safety, mowing down children and the slow in the process.
The terrorists were shouting "Allahu akbar" as the attack was being performed, amidst the screams of children.
The attack targeted a mosque frequented by Sufis, members of a mystic movement within Islam not accepted by other sects of Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS consider Sufis to be heretics because of their less literal interpretations of Islamic writings.
Egypt has been in a state of emergency over that last year, as Islamic jihadists seek to spread violence not only against Sufis, but Christians, as well. They have been targeting with bombings various churches in Cairo and other cities.
A local Islamic State affiliate in Egypt is also believed to be behind the 2016 downing of a Russian passenger jet that killed 226 people over Sinai.
Islamic jihad by Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS affiliated groups have increased in Egypt since the removal of Mohammed Morsi from power in 2013 - who was directly answering to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The internal war has been largely carried out through surprise attacks, mostly targeting outposts and convoys - and other military and police facilities. As all of this has been happening, journalists and independent investigators have been disallowed from being in the area. The Muslim Brotherhood jihadists have also assassinated a large swath of targeted individuals because it was believed those persons were spies for the government or religious heretics. Egypt has also faced attacks by jihadists in its Western Desert.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Egyptian Mosque Attack Death Toll Rises to 305 - Fox News/Associated Press
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Constitution Radio - Mark Meuser: Flipping California Begins with Eliminating Voter Fraud
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Today's Guest is Mark Meuser, Candidate for California Secretary of State in the 2018 Election.
In his message, Meuser says that California voter fraud is out of control, and correcting that problem will be among his primary goals. He is a Bay Area lawyer and constitutionalist who has taken on Antifa in court, and has a victory against the terrorist organization notched on his belt.
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⬝ Giving Thanks
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-earliest-thanksgiving-feasts-menu.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/11/george-washingtons-thanksgiving.html
⬝ Judge Blocks Trump's Order to Stop Funding to Sanctuary States
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/11/judges-unconstitutional-ruling-seeks-to.html
⬝ The Economic Importance of Traditional Marriage
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/11/marriage-and-economic-prosperity.html
⬝ Sexual Harassment Plague Spreading
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/11/sexual-harassment-plague-spreading.html
⬝ Death Toll in Egypt
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/25/egyptian-mosque-attack-death-toll-climbs.html
⬝ Democracy Alliance Conference
https://www.scribd.com/document/364654492/Democracy-Alliance-Fall-Investment-Conference-Agenda?secret_password=DdVkqsjgUPrHic6jxmDz#fullscreen&from_embed
⬝ Uranium One Informant Identified
https://www.americanewshub.com/2017/11/17/identity-uranium-one-informant-revealed-video-showing-briefcases-full-cash/
Conservative Voice Radio: Tea Party Strong
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Friday, November 24, 2017
Frightening Scenario of the Swarm of Locusts
by Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
Imagine what would happen if the government began to target their own warped definition of who the bad guys are. Imagine if patriots who are being falsely accused of being racists, fascists, and the alt-right suddenly found themselves on the minority side of politics like they do in California.
Is it in the realm of possibility that when the liberal left regains control of the federal government, after showing us over the last year or so that they are capable of violence in their anger of losing the White House, that they would be willing to target conservatives in ways far worse than what we saw under the Obama administration, such as with the IRS scandal against the Tea Party? Would they be willing to assassinate, using locust-size drones, those who speak out against their version of government tyranny? Would they begin to take out one by one the defenders of the United States Constitution, and anyone who stands against their growing tyranny of progressive statism?
And, what if when they decided to do it, they used the technology depicted in the below speculative video? Would there be any way anyone could possibly stop it, because of the technology being used. Would these drones be programmed to not only zero in on face recognition, but perhaps those who refuse to bear the Mark of the Beast?
*Note: Could the Mark of the Beast be a computer code, or implant - of which, if such a mark is missing, the person could be targeted for execution by locust-sized drone?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
Imagine what would happen if the government began to target their own warped definition of who the bad guys are. Imagine if patriots who are being falsely accused of being racists, fascists, and the alt-right suddenly found themselves on the minority side of politics like they do in California.
Is it in the realm of possibility that when the liberal left regains control of the federal government, after showing us over the last year or so that they are capable of violence in their anger of losing the White House, that they would be willing to target conservatives in ways far worse than what we saw under the Obama administration, such as with the IRS scandal against the Tea Party? Would they be willing to assassinate, using locust-size drones, those who speak out against their version of government tyranny? Would they begin to take out one by one the defenders of the United States Constitution, and anyone who stands against their growing tyranny of progressive statism?
And, what if when they decided to do it, they used the technology depicted in the below speculative video? Would there be any way anyone could possibly stop it, because of the technology being used. Would these drones be programmed to not only zero in on face recognition, but perhaps those who refuse to bear the Mark of the Beast?
*Note: Could the Mark of the Beast be a computer code, or implant - of which, if such a mark is missing, the person could be targeted for execution by locust-sized drone?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Thursday, November 23, 2017
The Earliest Thanksgiving Feasts Menu
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The concept of a Thanksgiving Feast is not uniquely American. The Spanish Colonies also had thanksgiving ceremonies and meals as well. The colonists in the New World, be they English, Dutch, French, Spanish, or of any other European origin, were a deeply religious people, and felt it necessary to give thanks to God for their survival, and prosperity, in their new land. The Pilgrims had plenty to be thankful for, and so theirs is the story that has been most publicized (perhaps with a little help from the 1861 push for a Thanksgiving Holiday). However, Turkey was not the dominant item on the menu, nor was many of our other traditional favorites.
The original menu for the first Thanksgiving was very different to what we have on the table today. Wild Turkey may have been an item, but the likely collection of other birds probably included Goose, Duck, Crane, Swan, Partridge, and believe it or not, Eagles. Other meats included Venison, and Seal. Seafood was also a large part of the diet, so the banquet most likely included Cod, Eel, Clams, and Lobster. The corn, not originally an item favorable to the palates of the colonists, was off the cob, ground down into a mush, and made into bread that resembled pita bread. It was a three day banquet, and it was a celebration of survival as a result of good harvests, and a free and dynamic economic arrangement (of which, today, we call "capitalism").
The Pilgrims were religious separatists who wound up landing way north of their intended target. Since they were separatists, I like to tell people they landed way north of the rest of the Massachusetts Bay Colonies "accidentally on purpose." Many believe as I do that since they were separatists, the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England purposely navigated north of their intended target.
The reason for the Pilgrim's journey to America was to seek religious freedom. They were persecuted in England as the King made it law that everyone be a member of the Church of England. To escape the tyranny, after a short stint in Holland, they braved a treacherous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean that lasted 66 days.
The Pilgrims established a village using a communal system that used a central dispensary for food, and other items. The colonists were expected to work for the good of the community, placing into the central store all of their labors, and taking from it as needed. As Christians, they felt they could trust each other to put forth a good effort, and to be honest about what they took from the central stores for survival. The first winter was brutal, and most of the colonists remained on board the ship. More than half of the new colonists died from exposure, scurvy, and outbreaks of contagious disease. Less than half of the original colonists survived that first winter.
Of the Mayflower’s original travelers that survived through that winter, life was difficult. They were sick, hungry, and psychologically devastated. In the Spring, the colonists all moved ashore, and continued to maintain their collectivist system of communal living.
Days passed, and the Pilgrims were greeted, in English, by an Abenaki Indian. Several days later, as the story goes, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to grow corn, extract and use sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. Through the process, with Squanto's guidance, the colonists also formed an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe. The friendship lasted more than fifty years, and is a shining example of how the colonists and the Indians attempted to live in harmony in the New World.
The English Colonists were families fighting for survival, and did not desire war with the Indians like the Conquistadors of the Spanish Colonies who wiped out entire tribes, and raped and forcibly took as wives the women of those tribes. The English Colonists did not want to fight with the Indians largely because they needed their help in order to survive. They were not there to create empire, like the Spanish. They were there as individual families to start a new life.
Even after help from Squanto, starvation continued to rampage through the colony because under the communal system not all settlers were putting forth their best effort, and were taking more than they put into the stores. Those that did work hard were angry because they were expected, through their labors, to carry the entire colony. Unrest was breaking out, and the colony knew that if they did not do something about their situation fast, the colony would not survive.
A new system was devised that gave each Pilgrim a parcel of land. They were told this land belonged to them, and they could work the land as they pleased. The settlers would keep all that they produced, and could bring any excess to market to trade with other settlers for goods they desired. This new system moved the colony away from the communal system they had been suffering under, and instead established a system that in today's world we would call "Free Market Capitalism."
The Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, and as a result of changing their system to a more capitalistic system based on personal incentive, personal responsibility, and self-sufficiency, the colony was not only prospering, but their food was bountiful. In fact, they had so much food, they began to trade with the Indians.
Governor William Bradford, wishing to give thanks to the Lord for their good fortune, organized a celebratory feast and invited their Indian allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. The festival lasted for three days, and based on writings from the time period the menu is believed to have been rich in fowl and fish.
In addition to the above mentioned items in the feast, five deer were brought by the Indians. While turkey was not the main dish, it is possible that a wild turkey or two was on the table. Pumpkin may have also been on the menu, along with various berries. The Indians made a stewed mix of corn, roots, beans, squash and various meats called sobaheg. On the table were also onions, turnips, and greens from spinach to chard.
Many of the menu items, it is suggested, were also prepared with traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled, the meal did not feature pies, sweet cakes, or other desserts. Because of the culture, it is also possible that the women did not participate.
In 1623, after a long drought that threatened the year's harvest, and yet still a bounty encouraged by their "keep what you produce" capitalistic system, Governor Bradford once again called for a feast for the purpose of giving thanks for the survival and prosperity of the colony.
As the years progressed, a thanksgiving feast on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation. He called upon Americans to express their gratitude and give thanks to God our Lord for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Two of his successors, John Adams and James Madison, also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.
In 1817, New York officially adopted an annual Thanksgiving holiday.
In 1827, noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale, known for her nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," began to campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Hale published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians over a period of about thirty-six years. In 1863 at the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln heard her cry, and issued a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to "commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife" and to "heal the wounds of the nation." He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan was met with passionate opposition determined to keep with tradition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.
Though turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries (cranberry sauce), and pies were not on that original menu, over the passing of time these have become the traditional menu items of Thanksgiving. The true essence of Thanksgiving, however, is not the meal. This unique American holiday was, and still is, a day for all of us to give thanks to God for our blessings, and for the difficulties we have endured that have made us stronger and wiser. And, the story I have given you may not have been technically the "first Thanksgiving," for throughout the colonies there were ceremonies of thanks that predate the Pilgrims' celebration.
Despite the tales of a bloody relationship between the Indians and the settlers, which did exist to some extent as the colonies began to encroach on native hunting grounds, the early tales of Thanksgiving reveals that there was a time when the Indians and colonists existed in harmony, and gave thanks to God for their relationship, and the miraculous survival of the early colonists, thanks to a little concept we now call today "capitalism."
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
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Thanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
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I find it noteworthy that the language in this proclamation is as such that if a politician in today's political landscape was to utter similar language, he or she would be chastised for being a religious right kook, or criticized for betraying what the liberal left considers to be the separation of church and state. Obviously, Washington's definition of statesman, and religious freedom, was different than that of today's secularists.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Douglas V. Gibbs
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving is the proclamation that established the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. The day of Thanksgiving was an important observance to Abraham Lincoln, and in fact, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."
Prior to Lincoln's Proclamation, States scheduled the Thanksgiving holiday based on their independent schedules, often at different times than other States. President Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately. The woman had been an advocate for a national day of thanksgiving for 15 years, and prior Presidents had ignored her requests.
George Washington was the first president under the United States Constitution to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.
In Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, he sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."
In Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, he sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."
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Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Thanksgiving. . .The Real Story
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The REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING by Rush Limbaugh
"Well, let's allow our real undoctored American history lesson to unfold further. If our schools and the media have twisted the historical record when it comes to Columbus, they have obliterated the contributions of America's earliest permanent settlers, the Pilgrims. Why? Because they were a people inspired by profound religious beliefs to overcome incredible odds. Today, public schools are simply not teaching how important the religious dimension was in shaping our history and our nation's character. Whether teachers are just uncomfortable with this material or whether there's been a concerted effort to cover up the truth, the results are the same. Kids are no longer learning enough to understand and appreciate how and why America was created.
"The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs. A group of separatists first fled to Holland and established a community. After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a perilous journey to the New World, where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible.
"The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work. But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford's detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford's own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper!
"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 as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.
"He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson if it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future."
Now, I'm going to cease and desist at this point because I don't want to get started and have to interrupt myself for a commercial break with the passage from Bradford in his journal about the decision to scrap socialism, this common share business, and he turned everybody loose, and this new social experiment, forerunner to capitalism, is profoundly detailed in his journal.
Here now, in its entirety, the William Bradford journal, what he wrote about the social experiment after abandoning what essentially was socialism shortly after the Pilgrims had arrived in the United States or in the new world:
"'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote. 'For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. 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...that was thought injustice.' Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They un-harnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the under girding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products.'"
Not just use themselves and not just send to a common store but they could market. They could grow as much, they could sell it for what they could get for it, and the incentive was clear to do as much as possible on both sides. "And what was the result? 'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.' Bradford doesn't sound like much of a Clintonite, does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes. Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph's suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the 'seven years of plenty' and the 'Earth brought forth in heaps.' (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.' Now, let me ask you: Have you read this history before? Is this lesson being taught to your children today? If not, why not? Can you think of a more important lesson one could derive from the Pilgrim experience?
"Guess what? There's even more that is being deliberately withheld from our modern textbooks. For example, one of those attracted to the new world by the success of Plymouth was Thomas Hooker. Thomas Hooker established his own community in Connecticut, the first full-fledged constitutional community, perhaps the most free society the world had ever known. Hooker's community was governed by the fundamental orders of Connecticut, which established strict limits on the powers of government. So revolutionary and successful was this idea that Massachusetts was inspired to adopt its body of liberties. The body of liberties included ninety-eight separate protections of individual rights, including no taxation without representation, due process of law, trial by a jury of peers, and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. Now, those no doubt sound familiar to you and they should because these are ideas and concepts that led directly to the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Bill of Rights."
"Nevertheless, the Pilgrims and the Puritans of early New England are often vilified today as witch burners and portrayed as simpletons. But to the contrary, it was their commitment to pluralism and free worship that led to these ideals being incorporated into American history, and our history books purposely conceal the fact that these notions were developed by communities of devout Christians who studied the Bible and found that it prescribes limited representative government and free enterprise as the best political and economic systems. Now, there's only one word for this, folks. It's censorship. There was a time when every schoolchild did learn these basic lessons of the American culture. Now these truths are being and have been systematically expunged from history books in favor of liberal social studies clap trap," and the chapter goes on. "This brings us to our Founding Fathers, the geniuses who crafted the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
"These were men who shook up the entire world by proclaiming the idea that people had certain God-given freedoms and rights and that the government's only reason to exist was to protect those freedoms and rights from both internal and external forces -- and that simple, yet brilliant, insight has been all but lost today in liberalism's relentless march toward bigger, more powerful, more intrusive government," and that's why I wanted to add to the reading today the George Washington First Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789. Thanksgiving was about thanking God for bounty and freedom and opportunity and blessings. Thanksgiving is a time we celebrate the Pilgrims realizing the best way to enjoy prosperity in a new world that was foreign to them. Yes, there was cooperation with the Indians and, yes, the Indians did extend the handshake of freedom when we arrived by teaching the Pilgrims how to farm and so forth, but after that, all the bounty that was created by the first settlers were shared with the Indians.
There was no wiping them out. There was no infiltration. There was no introduction of various diseases and -isms like environmental wackoism or sexism or racism or any of this, as have been attached in recent multicultural curricula to the so-called white Europeans who invaded this pristine land and destroyed the goodness and the oneness that the Indians enjoyed with this land. That's what's being taught today. What is not being taught today is the devotion to God that these people had, but the failure of a socialist compact to adequately provide for the residents of the first colony and how William Bradford himself saw it was failing almost from the outset and devised a new compact which was basically capitalism and unfettered competition, and incentive, and then it was Katie bar the door. All of these things are part of the original Thanksgiving, and even when I go back and remember my days in school, I was not taught this. I was not taught the involvement and the references to God.
I was not taught that the Pilgrims had all this bounty after awhile and shared it with the Indians. It was quite the opposite. The purpose of teaching Thanksgiving when I was a kid was to tell all of us just how wonderful the Indians were and how well they treated us when we arrived because we were basically inept and incompetent. I enjoy passing this story along every Thanksgiving because we've been doing it here since I published and wrote the book, and the book is actually 1993. It came out in November of '93. By the end of the year, it had sold two million copies, and since then, I guess this is our 11th year now of reading the real story of Thanksgiving, and it always reaches new people. Every year we do it, people who have never heard it before are amazed. Now, if I was able to find it and get the true story, it's out there, but it's not in conventional history textbooks that you'll find in many of the public schools.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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