November 27, 2014, - 4:37 pm
Thanksgiving ’14: Thankful for Freedom, G-d & America; And That Obama’s Gone in 2
Happy Thanksgiving, America! And Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and readers.
American Thanksgiving Used to Look Like This . . .
What Thanksgiving Will Look Like in a Few Generations if We Continue with Biz as Usual . . .
Halal Thanksgiving Artwork by David Lunde/Lundesigns (& Norman Rockwell); Design by Debbie Schlussel (& Norman Rockwell)
As on every Thanksgiving to date, I’m thankful I’m still free and that I live in the greatest country on earth. That’s the United State of America, to those of you in Dearbornistan, Minneapolistan, Fergustan, and all the other Third World fiefdoms that have sprung up in our midst and seem to think this is Dar Al-Harb, just an extension of the Muslim Mid-East to be “reverted” and destroyed. That will come in a few generations (and has already begun), but we, thankfully, won’t be around to see it. That’s another thing I’m thankful for: while America has been Kardashianized and Oprahfied and subject to the non-“breaking” of the Internet by someone’s artificially enlarged butt, we’re still here, and in our time remaining on this earth, we will see far worse. But we won’t see the worst. That’s coming, but it isn’t here yet.
For now, we can be thankful for our good health (for those of us who have it, and not everyone does, so my heart goes out to those people afflicted) and for the roofs over our heads for those of us who have that. With ObamaCare soon to be in full force, we may be in danger of losing both. Fortunately, there are only two more years (plus a couple of months of non-sensical pardons) left of the Barack & Michelle years. The Obama’s will soon be gone. Sadly, I’m pretty confident that, despite all the “what ifs,” Hillary Cankles Clinton will be there to feed at the trough in her ever-expanding pantsuits after the Obamas leave. And, then, things will get worse. So, be thankful now, while the going is still better than it’s gonna get.
Today, we have the freedom to eat turkey (torfurkey if you’re one of those people–that’s gotta suck!), watch football, and brave the mobs in crazy Black Thursday that used to be Black Friday. And I guess that says something: that things are still relatively good here–good enough that we can worry about unimportant things like football and bargains on 50-inch TVs and whether or not Kim Kardashian’s silly, loathsome photos “broke” the internet (and how long it will take her transvestite stepfather, Bruce Jenner, to make the full transition; what Wheaties box?!).
I appreciate our fellow Americans who man the counters at convenience stores and gas stations so we can carry on today. No matter why they are there, I’m happy they are, so life still functions today, though it functions more in commerce and regularlity than it should for a national holiday of thanks. I’m thankful for those who really have no choice in the matter and are working today and every other day, the men of the U.S. Armed Forces, many of whom are overseas and away from their families, and a good number of whom are still risking life and limb for Muslims who hate us in Afghanistan. Let’s give thanks for them today and hope they are brought home to American soil very soon.
As I said, I’m thankful that I still have enough money to eat and sleep in shelter that I can afford to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. It gets cold in Michigan, but I like the change in seasons and am thankful I can afford the lifestyle to live amidst those varied seasons and weather. For many Americans who’ve lost jobs and wages to illegal aliens–and many more who will lose them now that Obamnesty has been declared–and for those who lost full-time jobs to ObamaCare, I feel and pray for you. Let’s pray for them and hope these triple Obamaconomy, ObamaCare, and Obamnesty debacles end soon.
Like I also said, I’m thankful that I’m healthy and in one piece. Sadly, for many American middle-class families, that’s no longer been the case since last January, when their insurance policies were canceled and their healthcare premiums soared far past the point of affordability, with deductibles well out of the realm of the reasonable, all due to the implementation of Obamacare. Many of them do not have the luxury of Black Thursday and Friday spending and other necessary vital expenses because of this. Once the employer mandate takes full effect, next year, and once many employers throw employees to the ObamaCare wolves and off employer insurance plans, that will only get worse. So be thankful now, as you probably won’t be later.
I said this last Thanksgiving but it bears repeating: get a medical check-up before the year ends. It will probably be your last under good, capitalist doctors. The best and brightest don’t tend to go into professions heavily regulated by socialism, and that’s what ObamaCare is.
I’m thankful, today, that I grew up in a more idyllic time–a time without reality shows and Kardashians and breaking the Internet and people paying $20 for selfies with some guy who was a checkout person at Target. In fact, I’m glad I grew up in a time before selfies and reality shows altogether. I’m thankful I grew up in a time when parents didn’t need to urge their children not to take naked pictures of themselves and send them out to the world. Even if there had been the internet and capability to do so then, we knew that the way to success wasn’t to become a porn star. That’s all gone now.
I’m thankful that I grew up in decades in which women in hijabs–the Islamic garb of oppression–weren’t a regular sight at the supermarket, movie theater, and everywhere else. But even that seems to be a dated statement because now I’m glad I grew upin decades in which women in full-ninja niqabs (with only eye-slits visible) weren’t a regular site all around me. Now, sadly, they are, and they are multiplying and expanding like cancer. In that day and age, as bad as the INS has been described, we didn’t open the floodgates to those whose religion preaches hate and death to all non-believers. Jihad, then, was over there. Now, it’s here, and we do nothing about it. Oh, wait, we do in fact do something about it: we announce amnesty for all of them and invite more to come over, letting them know they’ll never ever again have to fear arrest because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been told they are now hands off forever. Moreover, we embrace and bend over backward for this violent cult. The numbers of Muslims and mosques in America have both doubled in the decade plus since the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by Arab Muslims. The message: attack us and mass murder 3,000 Americans, and we’ll willingly bend over and allow you to invade us by doubling your numbers via immigration in just a decade. And that was before Obama announced amnesty in spades. Imagine how much worse it will soon get. I can’t say I’m thankful for the Republicans, who have done not a thing to stop this and preserve our country’s existence so that there might be Thanksgivings and an America 100 years from now. Thirteen-plus years since 9/11, and what have they done? You think that’ll change when they take over in January? Ha!
And while, as I said, I’m thankful that our armed military men are serving overseas on behalf of America, I’d be more thankful to American politicians if they dared have the leadership to guard and secure our own borders. Instead, they hypocritically send our boys to die or give limbs to Muslim enemies overseas (and were doing that again now to protect Shi’ite Muslimss who hate us from ISIS Muslims who hate us), then do nothing to stop those enemies from invading and taking over from within. In fact, all the Republican grandstanding over Obama’s amnesty executive action is just that: grandstanding. Just months ago, Republicans (including Paul Ryan and Marco Boob-io)–wanted to give illegal aliens instant amnesty just like Obama did and never did anything to stop the current de facto amnesty, which began under Bush and was stepped up under Obama. Under Republicans AND Democrats relatively few illegal aliens–including hardened criminals and known terrorists–were ever actually deported.
I’m thankful I grew up in a more idyllic, civil time, when kids like me were told by our parents to respect authority, to listen to our teachers and the orders of the police patrolling our streets. Today, parents applaud their students for harassing teachers and causing mayhem. And teachers are posing in lingerie online and sexting and worse with students. Today, kids and adults who commit crimes and attack police are the heroes. And the cops are the villains. And if and when those cops aren’t indicted for defending themselves and trying to do their jobs, the parents join their kids in rioting, violence, and burning down their sections of America. See Fergustan, Missouri. I’m thankful for the day I grew up, when parents were parents, not friends and buddies who accompany you to NC-17 Miley Cyrus concerts and violent movies like “The Hunger Games.” I’m thankful my parents weren’t into reading “Young Adult” literature with me. They read actual literature and demanded I do the same. I was lucky to be a kid in those days. I would not consider myself as lucky to be a kid today.
I’m thankful that I can still eat an actual turkey today (I prefer the White meat–the breast slices and the wings), and that the animal rights food Nazis haven’t been able to force me (yet) to their diet. And I’m grateful that the turkey I eat is still a kosher one, pursuant to my Jewish dietary needs. In many places around the world, the animal rights jihadists have succeeded in ending kosher slaughter of animals. By the way, as I always note, kosher is the original brine (we pre-salt all of our meat and poutry to remove the blood). My Thanksgiving dinner, today, was prepared by my friend, Chef Cari, of Chef Cari Kosher Catering. Yum!
And, as usual, today–and every day–not only am I thankful for my freedom and the ability to say and do as I please on this site without government intervention, but I’m also tremendously thankful for you, my dear readers and friends. For your readership (which keeps growing each year), for your insightful and observant comments, for your news tips, and for your generous support–both morally and financially. All of that helps keep this site and my work going. I’m thankful for not just my freedom and health, but yours as well. Without you, I wouldn’t be able to do this. And without our brave men protecting America and serving here and overseas, I wouldn’t be able to do this. Without them, we wouldn’t have a First and Second Amendment to speak of.
I’m thankful today–and every day–that I don’t live in a place like Iran. I’m not thankful that we continue to do nothing and look the other way as Iran develops nukes. All of the things I’m thankful for here in America today–those are things that Christians and Jews (and Zoroastrians and others) in Iran do NOT enjoy (some of them are even punished with death for practicing their faiths). Yet we do nothing about it, while we send troops to help pro-Iran Shi’ites who run Iraq. Are they really better than ISIS or just a different Muslim sect that doesn’t depend on U.S. support like Iraq does? The freedoms and other things I’m thankful for are things that will also never again be enjoyed by the victims of Iran’s Hezbollah–including hundreds of U.S. Marines and Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem. They will never again enjoy freedom or good health or tasty turkey, as they turn over in their graves and their ghosts cry out over our inaction and cozying up to the ayatollahs.
To those who wished me a Happy Thanksgiving, Right Back Atcha! A repeated thank you for reading this site this past year, over the years before that, and, I hope, in the next year. Again, I am thankful for all of that and all of you.
I wish a joyous, delicious, fun Thanksgiving to you all! And I hope you will take the time beyond the turkey, stuffing, dressing, cranberry sauce, and all the other fixin’s to give thanks that our country is still free and that we are all alive and kicking. Give thanks that you still have a roof over your head and think of those who do not. Give thanks that you have family and friends, and remember that many do not. Many people are alone on Thanksgiving, more this year than before–the statistics show it. Those are my primary things to be thankful for, in addition to being a citizen of the greatest country on earth. Or at least what still is the greatest country but soon may not be (and isn’t as good as it once was), given the course on which we currently find ourselves.
While left-wing self-hating Americans want us to regress to their phony version of history–ie., that we are the oppressors of Indians, turkeys, Fergustan’s violent “gentle giants,” “ObamaPhone” donees and users (that’s redundant–see Fergustan “gentle giants”), and every other “victim” imaginable or unimaginable, don’t forget that the real oppression is going on elsewhere . . . all over the world today. Be thankful that you don’t live there. I am. A large part of that real oppression is under Islamic totalitarian rule, some of it is under Communists and “former” Communists, and the rest is under lands soon to be controlled by Islamic totalitarian rule. I give thanks that we are not like them, that we don’t live under them. And I give even more thanks that WE. ARE. BETTER. THAN. THEM. (But less better than them than we used to be.) Never forget that.
If you are reading this site, you know that you and I still have the ultimate in freedoms: free speech. And though we have a pan-Marxist, Islamo-pandering President and a Republican Congress that is hardly much better, and though times are tough for Americans all over, we are still citizens of the best damn country on earth. Most of all, I am thankful to be an American. Thank G-d for that!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! May G-d bless you all. And G-d Bless America.
Happy Thanksgiving to Debbie and all the readers of this site.
JeffE on November 27, 2014 at 9:46 pm