while Americans struggle with the costs of Thanksgiving, at least our troops overseas are enjoying a bountiful meal with all the trimmings; LeBron James who should stick to excelling in basketball instead of using his athletic superstar status to become a political pundit may have learned something after being suspended for 1 game for hitting an opposing player in the eye as instead of attacking 2 hecklers in courtside sides at Indiana at a Paces game complained to the refs and security to have them removed (we do not know what sin the hecklers committed but on social media LeBron has a new handle “LeSnitch”; the MSM that consistently blames gun deaths on the gun as opposed to the shooter was true to form as the SUV was blamed for the deaths and injuries caused by black anti-white racist Darrell Brooks (fortunately such idiocy generate a storm of social media ridicule); on the issue of inflation it is all hands of deck for the MSM to minimize the hits Biden and his Blues are projected to endure in 2022 by blaming shoppers and trying to obfuscate and minimize its effects (looking at poll numbers of Biden’s disapproval ratings soaring through the roof would indicate that Americans are not as dumb as the MSM believes them to be and are not buying the MSM’s snow job); the three men found guilty of Ahmaud Aubrey’s death in Georgia will now face next year trial for federal hate crime and kidnapping charges; the wave of smash and grab thefts is not subsiding in California as 5 thugs stole $25,000 of high end purses from a Nordstrom’s in the Topanga Mall in Los Angeles, spraying the security guard who tried to prevent with bear spray (only a question of time before thieves emboldened by weak D.A.’s like Gascom and Boudin up the ante and start shooting; Americans living in cities with misguided ordinances designating them as “sanctuary cities” for illegals and suffering as a result at least can try to laugh at the symbolism of turkeys trying to ape pro illegals’ ordinance in this political cartoon:
Chicago
Gun Violence: Hey Jackass.com is alive and well to collect data to show that
through November 24, 2021, gun violence involving mostly persons of color
shooting mostly persons of color in Chicago is alive and well with 4192 persons
shot of whom 733 have died.
As always, I hope you
enjoy today’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest for this day in
history, recording links “Do They Know Its Christmas” by Band Aid
and “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Fred Martin and His Orchestra, the fact that
you far removed from being a Sinophile and opposing quotes on HUAC’s
investigation of the Hollywood 10 by J. Parnell Thomas and the Hollywood 10, secure in the knowledge that if you want to
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1. Thanksgiving Day—designated by the Continental Congress in 1777
and by General Washington following the defeat of the British at Saratoga in
1777 then as President in 1789 as the first designation by the federal
government which repeated by successive presidents and state governments until
President Lincoln designated the 4th Thursday of November in 1863 as
the date of celebration which has since been followed each year.
2. Turkeyless
Thanksgiving—clueless who or when created this observance which is
not to promote a vegetarian or vegan Thanksgiving but to promote a different
meat as the main course such as duck, geese, prime rib, or seafood to more
closely ape the first Thanksgiving by the Pilgrims in 1621 which consisted of
deer, geese, duck, pigeons, bass and cod and flint (a variety of corn grown by
the local Indians); if you want to keep the turkey but adhere to some seafood,
stuff the turkey with wild rice oyster stuffing.
3. 1941
Number 1 Song USA—the
number 1 song in 1941 on this day was “Piano Concerto in B Flat” by Freddy
Martin and His Orchestra on a run of 8 weeks in that position to join 10 other
songs that achieved number 1 status . Here’s a recording of Freddy Martin and His Orchestra performing “Piano Concerto in B
Flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckgH8UlIu1k
4. Word of the Day—the word of the day is “Sinophile” which means
someone of admires China which after its involvement with COVID-19, its abuse
of human rights and its desire to supplant the U.S. as a leading power whose numbers
given China’s behavior are shrinking dramatically.
5. Doing
What You Love To Do When the Time Comes—celebrating the birth on this day in 1951 of noted singer/songwriter
Bill Morrisey who was a heavy smoker and drinker and who while on a musical
tour of the South died of heart disease on July 23, 2011 at age 59.
On
this day in:
a. 1947
the members of the Hollywood Ten were blacklisted by the movie studios.
b. 1984 36
top musicians gathered at a Notting Hill studio to record Band Aid’s “Do They
Know It’s Christmas” to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia which in the
first 12 months following its release raised £ 8 million: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fSknbR7Y4
c. 1986 Attorney Edwin Meese admitted
the proceeds of covert arms sales to Iran were funneled to the Contra Rebels
fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
d. 1992 the
Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia voted to split the country in 2 to the Czech
Republic and Slovakia effective January 1, 1993.
e. 1999
a 5 year old boy Elian Gonzales, floating in an inner tube off the coast of
Florida after the boat that he, his mother and Cubans fleeing Cuba sank, was
rescued by 2 fisherman which prompted competing lawsuits by his great uncle in
the U.S. and his Cuban father in Cuba for custody which was determined in the
father’s favor prompting a predawn raid to remove him when his relatives in the
U.S. refused to turn him over:
Reflections on HUAC and its contempt of Congress leading to the Blacklist: “The Constitution was never intended to cloak or shield those who would destroy it.” J. Parnell Thomas, Chairman of HUAC “The United States can keep its constitutional liberties or it can keep the Thomas committee. It can’t keep both.” The Hollywood Ten. Sadly today conservatives have become the Hollywood 10 and the Social Media Giants like Facebook and Twitter have become HUAC.
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