Thursday, November 22, 2018

Thanksgiving

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 tranquillity, 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.
Go: Washington




Saturday, November 17, 2018

Pop Culture Frenzy, Round 73

Welcome once again to Pop Culture Frenzy.   According to assorted polls done in the past several years, the number of people in the United States who identify as witches has increased.  So much so, that now it is believed that there are more witches than there are Protestants.


Why?
Fluffy?





Christianity has been effectively vilified 
to the point that God is cast as a toxic white male
 tyrant misogynist.  Little wonder that some kooks 
and dimwits seek to fill that void with silly pseudo
self empowering mumbo jumbo.  Thus, we have neo witches
 prancing around celebrating a post Christian era.



Hostmaster:  that's deep.




They tell themselves they have power. 
 Like those neo hags who put
 a hex on the president.





Witchcraft is a return to the earth and
 nature.  All answers are there.





No wonder squirrels are always
 digging in the earth!





What a hoot!
The hip and woke turn to the earth rather than
the God who created the earth.  Most of the older witches were
 probably into New Age crap a couple decades ago.  That was a
 repackaging of gnosticism.   They keep reinventing
 themselves, each time pretending to have found truth.





They are returning to a simpler more authentic
 way of relating to our world.  No hate, no greed.




 Simply sacrificing goats.  How authentic.
  No greed?  Thanks to witchery, the psychic services industry
 is busier than ever.  Witches are capitalists.
They must have some wicked self hate going.




 I'm suddenly hungry for goat.





Witches don't do sacrifices.
That's promoting a stereotype.  





So no Chevon Pie at your coven's pot lucks then?





This round is over.






It's a good thing practicing voodoo would be cultural 
appropriation or we'd really be in trouble.






Round 73
Fluffy/Molly  36
Bryan/Cyndi   34












Here's an article on those polls.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Fun Vocabulary Word!


kyoodle  (kahy-ood-l)
verb
to bark or yelp noisily or foolishly; yap


It wasn't me.  It was the squash.