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Giving Thanks 2010

“Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.”
- Proverbs 18:24

I’m thankful for God in heaven, who has blessed me with my greatest gifts – a sense of humour and creativity – as well as the people who find their way onto this list every year, and everything that you’re aboot to read.

I’m thankful for my mom who still doesn’t mind me freeloading in her basement, even if it’s never as clean as she would like it, but also because she’s an amazing woman.

I’m thankful for the head Brodigette who, while I may have started the year thinking she was a spy, has become the one person I look forward to hearing from the most each day. Plus, her mac and cheese has ruined me.

I’m thankful for all the participants of TURDUCKEN 2009 (including Mark, who was there in spirit), for all the reasons I’m thankful for them each year and have been thankful for them for the past fifteen years, and who best represent the later half of the quote I started this with.

I’m thankful for Melissa for not being a psychopath, and for providing her husband with the most joy and happiness I’ve seen him get out of life for close to ten years now.
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Happy Thanksgiving from JBdotC

America has much for which to be thankful. The unequaled freedom enjoyed by our citizens has provided a harvest of plenty to this Nation throughout its history. In keeping with America’s heritage, one day each year is set aside for giving thanks to God for all of His blessings.

On this day of thanksgiving, it is appropriate that we recall the first Thanksgiving, celebrated in the autumn of 1621. After surviving a bitter winter, the Pilgrims planted and harvested a bountiful crop. After the harvest they gathered their families together and joined in celebration and prayer with the native Americans who had taught them so much. Clearly our forefathers were thankful not only for the material well-being of their harvest but for this abundance of goodwill as well.

In this spirit, Thanksgiving has become a day when Americans extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. Long before there was a government welfare program, this spirit of voluntary giving was ingrained in the American character. Americans have always understood that, truly, one must give in order to receive. This should be a day of giving as well as a day of thanks.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving in 1981, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance.

Let us recommit ourselves to that devotion to God and family that has played such an important role in making this a great Nation, and which will be needed as a source of strength if we are to remain a great people.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 26, 1981, as Thanksgiving Day.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixth.

RONALD REAGAN

It was like the turkeys mounted a counter attack…

Contrary to what the liberal activists at MSNBC and the NYTimes want you to believe, that Sarah Palin video was not the worst thing to ever happen to turkeys…

Click here to watch a longer video…