Comments on: Happy Thanksgiving

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:29:39 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving. I just saw the four posters on display at the Sacramento Crocker Museum. If the Rockwell exposition comes to your town (don’t know if it’s moving around) you should definitely go see it.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:16:32 +0000

THANK YOU, Geoffrey Britain! Me, too. God, how I value and honor that world to which you accurately refer. Thank you, my great, strong, honorable, consistent, loving, guiding parents. The older this ’44 kid gets, the more profoundly I appreciate you.

And, Dad, I always appreciate and understand the 462nd Hellbirds Group motto on the noses of every B-29 in your outfit: WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME.

AMEN.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:46:22 +0000

There's a difference between nostalgic and corny. It is nostalgic but it's only 'corny' if you believe that, in that time, a loving, psychologically healthy family was such a rarity that to depict it as an ideal is disingenuous. Growing up in the 50's & 60's I remember plenty of holidays like that and knew plenty of friend's families who shared that experience. Even today there are families where that is the norm. If Mom & Dad love each other and raise their children with love and 'guiding discipline' that is generally the outcome. Especially when society supports that ideal. It's 'gentlemen' like this who out of personal bile seek to portray Rockwell's nostalgic remembrance as phony propaganda.

By: blert

blert — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:33:58 +0000

To equate the trite to the horror of the Shoah shows just how lost for expression such a clown is.

At the time of the original Thanksgiving all then there were religious refugees — chowing down with the locals.

Big meals before the hard winter arrived were universal in the Neolithic. This goes double for the New World. French monks writing the oldest accounts tell of feasts that would go on for days if a bear had been caught.

If only the Pilgrams and natives had known how to boil lobster. They’d have stuffed themselves silly.

By: NancyB

NancyB — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:38:30 +0000

I love that Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving picture but have to laugh at the depiction of the older woman carrying that (what, 18 pound, 20 pound?) turkey to the table. The china platter would have added to the weight. When my mother roasted a bird that big, my father did the carrying.

By: Mitsu

Mitsu — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:24:30 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Neo, and to every American.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:56:59 +0000

Still, the power of Life, the power of Love, the power of Wisdom controls the affairs of men. M of Hollywood, there are two sides above men, and within men they both are incorporated and thus contained and expressed. We have the Universe in us. Thanksgiving is the Holiday in which we assert their abode is not everlasting, and above all that such decision was made by the Eternal, the Creator, the Voice against nothingness.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:43:47 +0000

Happy thanksgiving all!!!!

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:29:44 +0000

Thanksgiving Celebrates Our ‘Original Sin,’ ‘Views Virtually Identical To Nazis,’ Journalism Prof Preaches

http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/thanksgiving-celebrates-our-original-sin-views-virtually-identical-nazis-journalism

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:37:41 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to you, Neo, and to all who visit your blog!