This is the history of the quirky, obstinate people who built America. Tell your children and your grandchildren this story. All kids need cultural roots, and they won't get them in today's schools or churches.
History? We don’t need nonsteenking history! Next thing we know is that you will say English schools should teach about how great Winston Churchill was.
Thanksgiving. Sigh. (I'm actually descended from Mayflower peeps.
Through two paths. _That I know of_. LOL. Long story.
The Family Tree is part of the collective Yankee Family Bush, so to speak... there wasn't a lot of variety in white women the first hundred years or so. (And the native chicks were smarter than to have anything to do with us.)
That "heroic" stuff always cracks me up. It was more like _where tf did we land and wtf did we just do_.
I don't mean to devolve into libtardia. My point is: hindsight is NEVER 20/20... everybody's got a story to tell. And by tell I mean hide. And a hatchet to bury. Next to the indian we took it off of. Before he got us. (Shit was rough back then. King Phillips War. Close run pogrom; the worst kind.)
I would, at this point, give up after 350 years and "go back to the Empire" and that would be fine, because I could move up to Vancouver BC and chill with my fine friends Matt and Fay... but The Dominion seems to be run by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle escaped from ComicCon... not sure it would be a win net-net. Thoughts? ;)
I'm descended from the Mayflower peeps on several lines too. I don't know whether those folks were insane, tough or lucky. I suspect a combination of the three. Regardless of all that, it's a fine story to tell. Perseverance (otherwise known as hanging on for dear life) is a fine quality.
Happy Thanksgiving comrades! Despite all your gloom and doom you have a beautiful country and at the moment a president who at least wants to do the right thing, even if the other side are trying to stop him.
Enjoy your holiday and appreciate the freedoms which other countries can only dream of!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm late to the party. I've had to work a killer schedule this week, and my last shift was awful. I came home yesterday and SLEPT. Today, I'll make a feast for Mom and I.
Since it's just the two of us, I'm making a 3 lb turkey roast, mashed/gravy, stuffing, corn, asparagus, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls. :) Mmmm!
After supper we're going to watch movies with our furkids.
Lewy darling, I got your email. I'll peruse your links this morning. I didn't want to do it at work (since I need my job). YaknowwhatImean?
> That is, they believed that England and the English Church had become so corrupt (read: Catholic) that, at any moment, God might declare His mighty and just wrath by wiping the English isles off the face of the globe.
> IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
^ Has anyone pondered the significance of this document? It says effing nothing!
The significance is in the *context* of the contract, not the contents - which are a punt, a "To Be Determined At A Later Date We're Busy Now K Thx".
They literally pledged obedience to laws they'd figure out later, passed via a process to be figured out later.
THAT my friends is faith in God and one's Fellow Man. Not to mention a keen sense of priorities.
We had a quiet but nice Thanksgiving, no travel, which was good. Tom requested a rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. He kind of surprised me! But luckily, I had Fay's great recipes for both - foolproof - and it was delicious!
I did faint when I saw what the rib roast cost. But my better half is worth it ;-) God bless, thank you for posting about the Mayflower, lady red.
History? We don’t need nonsteenking history! Next thing we know is that you will say English schools should teach about how great Winston Churchill was.
ReplyDeleteWe can’t have that!
Yup, next on the agenda, the tearing down of Churchill monuments.
ReplyDeleteMy heart aches.
Thanksgiving. Sigh. (I'm actually descended from Mayflower peeps.
ReplyDeleteThrough two paths. _That I know of_. LOL. Long story.
The Family Tree is part of the collective Yankee Family Bush, so to speak... there wasn't a lot of variety in white women the first hundred years or so. (And the native chicks were smarter than to have anything to do with us.)
That "heroic" stuff always cracks me up. It was more like _where tf did we land and wtf did we just do_.
I don't mean to devolve into libtardia. My point is: hindsight is NEVER 20/20... everybody's got a story to tell. And by tell I mean hide. And a hatchet to bury. Next to the indian we took it off of. Before he got us. (Shit was rough back then. King Phillips War. Close run pogrom; the worst kind.)
I would, at this point, give up after 350 years and "go back to the Empire" and that would be fine, because I could move up to Vancouver BC and chill with my fine friends Matt and Fay... but The Dominion seems to be run by a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle escaped from ComicCon... not sure it would be a win net-net. Thoughts? ;)
DeleteI'm descended from the Mayflower peeps on several lines too. I don't know whether those folks were insane, tough or lucky. I suspect a combination of the three. Regardless of all that, it's a fine story to tell. Perseverance (otherwise known as hanging on for dear life) is a fine quality.
DeleteTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles escaped from ComicCon would be an improvement over the current cast of characters. :))
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving comrades! Despite all your gloom and doom you have a beautiful country and at the moment a president who at least wants to do the right thing, even if the other side are trying to stop him.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your holiday and appreciate the freedoms which other countries can only dream of!
Seen on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteIt's Thanksgiving today. Long story short: It's where Americans give thanks to the English for inventing them.
You're welcome.
:))
Thank you, annie!
DeleteWe prefer to believe we "re-imagined" the Free Englishman. Kinda like that late model Mini Cooper. As English as the original, only better!
LOL! That's certainly one way of looking at it!
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm late to the party. I've had to work a killer schedule this week, and my last shift was awful. I came home yesterday and SLEPT. Today, I'll make a feast for Mom and I.
ReplyDeleteSince it's just the two of us, I'm making a 3 lb turkey roast, mashed/gravy, stuffing, corn, asparagus, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls. :) Mmmm!
After supper we're going to watch movies with our furkids.
Lewy darling, I got your email. I'll peruse your links this morning. I didn't want to do it at work (since I need my job). YaknowwhatImean?
> That is, they believed that England and the English Church had become so corrupt (read: Catholic) that, at any moment, God might declare His mighty and just wrath by wiping the English isles off the face of the globe.
DeleteStill waiting on that one, Lord... ;)
> IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.
ReplyDelete^ Has anyone pondered the significance of this document? It says effing nothing!
The significance is in the *context* of the contract, not the contents - which are a punt, a "To Be Determined At A Later Date We're Busy Now K Thx".
They literally pledged obedience to laws they'd figure out later, passed via a process to be figured out later.
THAT my friends is faith in God and one's Fellow Man. Not to mention a keen sense of priorities.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my CKT friends!
ReplyDeleteWe had a quiet but nice Thanksgiving, no travel, which was good. Tom requested a rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. He kind of surprised me! But luckily, I had Fay's great recipes for both - foolproof - and it was delicious!
I did faint when I saw what the rib roast cost. But my better half is worth it ;-)
God bless, thank you for posting about the Mayflower, lady red.
hi flo! happy rib roast day ;)
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