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Thanksgiving 2022
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Has anyone read "Animal Farm" lately? This view of the future is not even far-fetched.
Thanksgiving 2022
>
> "Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to
> her husband.
>
> "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered.
> Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday
> football game between Detroit and Washington .
>
> Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017,
> outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad
> example it sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a
> football fan than he used to be.
>
> Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.Yet it wasn't the game that
> Winston was uninterested in.
>
> It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey . Even though it
> was the best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised
> the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of
> federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry
> sauce,
> and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey.
>
> And ever since the government officially changed the name of
> "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to
> officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of
> Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.
>
> Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting.
> The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made
> the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was
> always cold.
>
> Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating
> all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric
> company - be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the
> house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.
>
> Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the
> family.
>
> Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used
> up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment.
>
> He had had many heated conversations with the
> Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market
> finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government
> health care program.
>
> And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile
> effort.
>
> "The RHC's resources are limited", explained the
> government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the
> phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled.
> I'm sorry for your loss."
>
> Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car
> last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of
> 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but
> government officials.
>
> The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't
> want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and
> there.
>
> Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
>
> Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had
> extra cushions for the occasion.
>
> No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon
> after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which
> severely aggravated his hemorrhoids.
>
> Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity
> bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience"
> was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the
> terrorists."
>
> Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such
> probing ever since the government expanded their
> scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via
> Anti-Profiling Act of 2022.
>
> That law made it a crime to single out any group or
> individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable
> cause was involved.
>
> Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus
> depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine.
>
> Almost.
>
> The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a
> Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the
> law intact.
>
> "A living Constitution is extremely flexible", said the Court's eldest
> member, Elena Kagan. " Europe has had laws like this one for years. We
> should learn from their example", she added.
>
> Winston's thoughts turned to his own children.
> He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly
> because she ignored him.
> Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone
> at any time, even during Atonement Dinner.
>
> Their only real confrontation had occurred when he
> limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could
> afford.
>
> She whined for a week, but got over it.
>
> His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it
> was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming,
> the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were
> "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic
> attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility.
>
>
> It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for
> smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking
> Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet
> of another human being.
>
> Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive
> before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of
> QE13.
>
> The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated
> was, once again, to "spur economic growth."
>
> This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate
> of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
>
> Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought,
> before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.
>
> At least, he had his memories.
>
> He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never
> know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government
> promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential.
>
>
> Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much
> things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by
> little, so people could get used to them.
>
> He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while
> there was still time, maybe back around 2011, when all the real nonsense
> began.
>
> "Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is
> enough' when we had the chance," he thought.
>
> Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.
Thanksgiving 2022
>
> "Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to
> her husband.
>
> "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered.
> Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday
> football game between Detroit and Washington .
>
> Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017,
> outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad
> example it sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a
> football fan than he used to be.
>
> Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.Yet it wasn't the game that
> Winston was uninterested in.
>
> It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey . Even though it
> was the best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised
> the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of
> federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry
> sauce,
> and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey.
>
> And ever since the government officially changed the name of
> "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to
> officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of
> Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.
>
> Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting.
> The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made
> the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was
> always cold.
>
> Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating
> all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric
> company - be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the
> house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.
>
> Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the
> family.
>
> Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used
> up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment.
>
> He had had many heated conversations with the
> Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market
> finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government
> health care program.
>
> And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile
> effort.
>
> "The RHC's resources are limited", explained the
> government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the
> phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled.
> I'm sorry for your loss."
>
> Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car
> last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of
> 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but
> government officials.
>
> The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't
> want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and
> there.
>
> Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
>
> Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had
> extra cushions for the occasion.
>
> No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon
> after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which
> severely aggravated his hemorrhoids.
>
> Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity
> bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience"
> was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the
> terrorists."
>
> Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such
> probing ever since the government expanded their
> scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via
> Anti-Profiling Act of 2022.
>
> That law made it a crime to single out any group or
> individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable
> cause was involved.
>
> Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus
> depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine.
>
> Almost.
>
> The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a
> Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the
> law intact.
>
> "A living Constitution is extremely flexible", said the Court's eldest
> member, Elena Kagan. " Europe has had laws like this one for years. We
> should learn from their example", she added.
>
> Winston's thoughts turned to his own children.
> He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly
> because she ignored him.
> Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone
> at any time, even during Atonement Dinner.
>
> Their only real confrontation had occurred when he
> limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could
> afford.
>
> She whined for a week, but got over it.
>
> His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it
> was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming,
> the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were
> "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic
> attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility.
>
>
> It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for
> smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking
> Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet
> of another human being.
>
> Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive
> before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of
> QE13.
>
> The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated
> was, once again, to "spur economic growth."
>
> This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate
> of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
>
> Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought,
> before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.
>
> At least, he had his memories.
>
> He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never
> know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government
> promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential.
>
>
> Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much
> things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by
> little, so people could get used to them.
>
> He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while
> there was still time, maybe back around 2011, when all the real nonsense
> began.
>
> "Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is
> enough' when we had the chance," he thought.
>
> Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.
Comments
What I notice happening with Thanksgiving is less observance as Christmas begins earlier every year. Too much God in giving of thanks. Christmas is all about secular consumerism and Santa.
quote:Originally posted by Amish
Actually the Pilgrims got along fine with the natives. It was the earlier Spanish who subjugated them. Then later after 1776 Washington's troops did also. If you look into the Indian Wars you'll find most were after 1776 out west. Men like William Penn who founded Pennsylvania made treaty and got along fine with the natives. As good as can be anyway.
King Phillip's War 1675-1676
The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip".
The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in seventeenth-century Puritan New England. In little over a year, nearly half of the region's towns were destroyed, its economy was all but ruined, and much of its population was killed, including one-tenth of all men available for military service.
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict.
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, New York: Vintage Books
Looks like a war.
Some natives attacked the Colonist, not the colonist attacking the natives. And notice the colonist were allied with regional tribes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War
That conflict was unlike the Spanish who subjugated the natives or after 1776 when Washington took native lands out west. This particular war was most likely the brought on by the Spanish who got the tribes to attack the colonists. I never said there was no war, only that most was before the British Colonies or after 1776.
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quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
quote:Originally posted by Amish
Actually the Pilgrims got along fine with the natives. It was the earlier Spanish who subjugated them. Then later after 1776 Washington's troops did also. If you look into the Indian Wars you'll find most were after 1776 out west. Men like William Penn who founded Pennsylvania made treaty and got along fine with the natives. As good as can be anyway.
King Phillip's War 1675-1676
The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip".
The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in seventeenth-century Puritan New England. In little over a year, nearly half of the region's towns were destroyed, its economy was all but ruined, and much of its population was killed, including one-tenth of all men available for military service.
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict.
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, New York: Vintage Books
Looks like a war.
Some natives attacked the Colonist, not the colonist attacking the natives. And notice the colonist were allied with regional tribes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War
That conflict was unlike the Spanish who subjugated the natives or after 1776 when Washington took native lands out west. This particular war was most likely the brought on by the Spanish who got the tribes to attack the colonists. I never said there was no war, only that most was before the British Colonies or after 1776.
New World holocaust under Spain.url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Spanish_New_World_colonies"]1[/urlurl="http://www.reformation.org/new-world-holocaust.html"]2[/url
I agree, the Spanish were harsh...and the New England colonist also had local indians on their side..I just love to talk history[:)]
> was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming,
> the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were
> "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic
> attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility."
We already have Jason here in multiple guises....