Thread: Taking Aim At Thanksgiving

Taking Aim at Thanksgiving
by Gary Bauer

11/28/2008 Print This

As you begin to come out of your tryptophan-induced coma, here’s an easy bit of Thanksgiving trivia.

Thanksgiving is:

A) A day to celebrate the coming together of Puritans and Indians to give thanks to God for a successful harvest. Continued
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B) A time of mourning and cultural self-flagellation.

The answer may seem straightforward. But it’s not, according to the activist Left. Having done all it can to turn Christmas into merely a winter retail festival and to scrub Easter of all its religious meaning (that is, all its meaning), the Left has opened up another front in the culture war by taking dead aim at Thanksgiving.

And, as usual, the Left has honed in on students as the most likely converts to its pessimistic point of view. In more and more public schools, students are no longer taught the historical facts about the Pilgrims and American Indians, no longer simulate Mayflower voyages or hold feasts to commemorate the coming together of these two very different groups.


[b]Instead, in many schools Thanksgiving has become a day of mourning, a time to focus on the left’s interpretation of the Native Americans’ experiences. Last year, the Seattle School District sent a letter to its teachers warning them that, “Thanksgiving can be a difficult time for many native students.â€

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

By Sara Burrows

(CNSNews.com) – A nine-year-old girl was recently asked to remove her “Indianâ€

Throw the bums out, and lets get back to being Americans already.

Sell your soul for a nickel? This may sound insulting to some, but watch the atheistic hand shoot forward, palm up.

Get rid of Christianity and then a person is only accountable to another heathen.

Get rid of Christianity then the cathedrals could be turned into Romanesque bathhouses.

Get rid of Christianity and watch the guilt magically disappear.

Get rid of Christianity and watch how the atheistic master the concepts of morality.

So, is it the sociologist, the revisionist historian, academia, the intelligensia, the liberal, or the atheists that objects to the Christian holidays?

If the atheist is not constrained by the concepts of sin, are there any limits to where or with whom he may sleep? Where can he make allies to further his goals? With the media? With government officials? With the secularists? With secular education facilities? With the semireligous? With the new age religions? With the yoga masters? With the liberal churches?

Is the devil in the details?

Perhaps a book review is in order. No, I am not trained professionally to review books, nor am I a book critic, but, I think I can handle this one.

The title of the book, We Gather Together...Now Please get Lost By childrens author Diane deGroat

This is a book for Kindergarten to perhaps 2nd or 3rd grade.

All of the little charachters in the book are little juvenile animals mimicking little mush brained children.

The possum kid, Gilbert is laying in his cute little bed wrapped in his cute little blanket that has printed on it space aliens and planets. Ofcourse he also has his cute little space alien doll in bed with him. Gilbert is excited and cannot go to sleep as tomorrow Gilbert is going on field trip to a Puritan town in order to learn more about Thanksgiving.

Gilbert sleeps late and almost misses the bus to school. Gilbert the little possum kid is paired up with Philip the cute little duck kid for the field trip. Philip is always the last picked by the other kids for anything.

All of the little mush brains arrive at the Puritan village and field trip begins. Gilbert need to use the bathroom and ends up being unable to get out of the restroom. Philip saves the day and opens the door and out comes Gilbert, just in time for the Thanksgiving meal.

The picture in the book of the huge long table with all of the little mush brains seated are all dressed like good little Puritans,........NO Indians to be found anywhere.

The next page, actually both pages is the closeup at the table with 4 of the little animal mush brains portraying mush brained children, one of the children has in front of him on the table, a lunch box themed with the alien and planets,....yes,again.

My take on the book....If you wish to re-write history, educate the little mush brained children first!

About the author, back flap of the jacket. (this should make you feel real assured that your little mush brains are being educated well.)

Diane deGroat is the illustrator of nearly one hundred books for children. She is also the author-illustrator of the other popular books about Gilbert, including Roses are Pink, Your feet Really Stink and Happy Birthday to You, You Belong in a Zoo, both IRA-CBC Childrens Choices.

MS. deGroat says the most difficult part of creating this Thanksgiving book was finding a story that did'nt involve turkeys. (and I would incude Indians) "These are vegetarian creatures of course. Remember Mrs. Byrd (the teacher in the story) is a bird!"

The author lives in Amhearst, Massachusetts.

The charachters in the book include Gilbert and his family, all opposums, raccoons, cats bears, badger, owl, rabbits, duck, and birds. All vegetarians of course!

The dedication in the beggining of the book, To Andrea Spooner, who saw that no author, illustrator, or any form of poultry was harmed in the making of this book.