Happy Thanksgiving

Today will be a short day for posts….that is unless all Hell breaks lose and I need to write……let’s hope it is an uneventful day, as far as the news goes…….

I want to take advantage of this day to wish all my readers and followers a very happy Thanksgiving…..enjoy fun, food, football and family….I will return Friday to my normal ranting and raving…like the opinionated SOB that I am……..

Enjoy the day, my friends.

on the menu:

Roast turkey/duck and ham

Scratch Dressing (my special recipe)

Mashed garlic potatoes

Green peas

Candied yams

Gravy

Cranberry sauce

Homemade bread

Desert–apple crisp

On Thanksgiving

Today is a day of rest….a day to spend with family and friends…..a day to give thanks for the things in our lives……I want to thank my regulars for their support and participation and I want to especially thank all my new friends and followers……without you guys this site would be a boring and uninteresting lump……I try to keep Opus Libertas a place of information and discussion and you guys have helped in so many ways….thank you.

Just kick back today and enjoy football, family, fun and food…….and next week I will get back to being a pain in the butt……once again……..THANK YOU!

On Thanksgiving Day

Today is turkey day and we all deserve a day of calm and reflection….so I will begin….I want to first thank all my readers for their diligence and patience and all their fine comments that keeps the conversation moving forward….we can make a difference…it just may not be overnight….but if we continue on we will make the difference that we all desire…..and thanks for all you who have started reading the newspaper The Daily Agitator…hopefully it will only get better with your help……

Hopefully today will be a down day for us political junkies….but we know that idiots are seldom silent….maybe with a turkey bone lodged in their throat they will spend more time with their mouths shut….we can hope!

Please enjoy your days of fun, family, football, food and for some of you shopping….and we will continue our conversations…….

Thank you, my friends your participation in Info Ink is much appreciated….

Morons…Each And Every One!

I really do not like calling people names….but as my grandfather said, “when you smell sh*t,  you just have to say it”…….

I wish to apologize to any of my conservs friends who I may offend….with that said the Right just keeps filling up with morons….some new and others have been around for a long time…..and in that time one would think that they would learn a thing or two……but apparently, they do not have the mental capability to grasp facts, instead just make crap up as they go along with the hope that NO one will notice that the sh*t is getting deep…..

We already know that Limbaugh, Beck, FOX News and a wealth of Righties think or believe that Obama is a socialist….and they could give some facts that support their position….they would be wrong….but they could make a case for it…..but over the Thanksgiving holiday a couple of right wing morons have stuck another foot in their mouths….

First is John Stossel, who use to be a pretty creditable journalist….those days are gone!

“The Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony organized their farm economy along communal lines,” [John Stossel] continues. “The goal was to share the work and produce equally. That’s why they nearly all starved . .”

“When people can get the same return with less effort, most people make less effort,” he remarks. “Plymouth settlers faked illness rather than working the common property. Some even stole, despite their Puritan convictions. Total production was too meager to support the population, and famine resulted. This went on for two years.”

The harvest feast that we call Thanksgiving was all about sharing a bountiful harvest…..do not think that had anything to do with starvation……Stossel is a MORON!

Next we have is Mr. Limbaugh, the mouth that will NOT shut the Hell up!

“The true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed. Of course we showed them gratitude. We shared our bounty with them. Not because we didn’t know how to make it. It’s because we first failed as socialists. Only when we turned capitalists did we have plenty. The Indians didn’t teach us capitalism.”

And then there is a Representative, one Todd Akin…..a supposedly informed individual that does the business of the country…

“It might be helpful to think back and say, there’s more to Thanks-giving than the Pilgrims. They were a group of people who were willing to change the system, to think of different ideas. They came here and separated civil and church governments. They came here and created the model of a written constitution, the idea that the government should be the servant of the people. […] They came here with the idea that after trying socialism that it wasn’t going to work. They realized that it was unbiblical, that it was a form of theft, so they pitched socialism out. . . we can remember their first Thanksgiving when they put a few kernels of corn on a plate to remind them of how close to starving to death they had been at one time.”

Okay people ….ONE more time……SOCIALISM as a form of government did NOT come into being until the 1800’s……lots of ideas, but NO government!  Akin and Limbaugh join Stossel…….they are MORONS!

Just another indication that the conservatives will do and say anything factual or not to try and make a point…..

I will not lie to you…there were problems when the pilgrims first got here, but by the time of that first feast thing s were moving along famously….

Hey…OLD FARTS!  Try opening up your mind and see these lying pricks for the useless lumps of crap that they are……you might find a new way of learning….it is called thinking!

A Thanksgiving Note

Tis the season to be jolly….ah CRAP!….wrong holiday…..

I spend a lot of time reading, ‘riting and ranting…..so on a couple of occasions I take a day of  ZEN….basically to give my brain a much deserved break…….I shall return on Friday…(we were warned)……I sincerely hope everyone has a great day and would like to say thanx to all those readers that participate…it makes all the hours of reading, ‘riting and ranting worthwhile…..

See you guys in the funny papers……Peace…out………

A Thanksgiving Thought

I really hate it when people use history to make a point andf then make up the facts to suit their presentation.  I was reading a transcript of a Rush Limbaugh show where he said:

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford.”

Actually, I believe the first governor was name Carver, Bradford became the leader after his death.

There is more:

Now, you know the usual story of Thanksgiving: They landed. They had no clue where they were, no idea how to feed themselves. The Indians came out, showed ’em how to pop popcorn, fed ’em turkey, saved ’em basically — and then white European settlers after that basically wiped out the Indian population.”

He was right, this is not true either.  The Natives showed up at a harvest festival but brought NO food.  It was there custom that the guess was fed and entertained.  The Pilgrims had guns and hopefully knew how to hunt.  The Pilgrims were taught to plant by one Indian, Squanto.  The Indians needed the whites as allies against their neighboring tribes.  So it was a mutal pact.

But what Rush was basically doing was saying that the original “socialistic” community doid not work…but it did…it was the only thing that kept the Pilgrims alive….since out of the original 100 or so..less than 40 survived the first winter.  If they had not pulled together then they could have made all Indians happy by perishing.

Rush needs more fact and less fiction…he would look more informede…but then his listeners have NEVER allowed facts to cloud their judgement.