Simple Gifts

The Thanksgiving Day Proclamations of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln

"The first Thanksgiving Day celebrated under the new Constitution took place on November 26, 1789, the first year of George Washington’s presidency. President Washington issued this proclamation recognizing November 26 as “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” John Adams and James Madison also issued proclamations calling on Americans to observe certain days with fasting, prayer, and thanksgiving, but after Madison no President of the United States issued a proclamation for Thanksgiving until Abraham Lincoln.   On October 3, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln made the traditional Thanksgiving celebration a nationwide holiday. Since this proclamation, each of his successors as president has issued a Thanksgiving proclamation every year, appointing the day first specifically set by Lincoln—the “last Thursday in November.”   In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday to the third Thursday of November to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.  After a storm of protest, Congress established the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday following the passage of a joint resolution, H.J. Res. 41, by the House of Representatives on October 6, 1941, declaring the "last Thursday in November a legal holiday." The Senate then passed an amendment "making the fourth Thursday in November a legal holiday."

From: Thanksgiving Day Proclamations 1789–Present (whatsoproudlywehail.org)

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Chapter 15, Sections 169 - 174

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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PARADISE LOST

Book 6, The War in Heaven

Lines 262 - 468

The angel Raphael continues his account to Adam of the conflict in heaven. Abdiel returns to find heaven in preparation for the war he came to warn was coming. God praises his faithfulness. Satan experiences pain for the first time as he is severely wounded in his battle with Michael. The first day is a victory for the ranks of heaven, as the rebel angels understand pain for the first time, retreating to nurse their wounds. Satan and his angels devise the infernal invention of cannon and gunpowder during the night, seeming to turn the tide in the morning's engagement. As heaven itself becomes more chaotic God calls an end to the battle, sending His Son to conquer and cast the rebels into the Pit. Driven by fear the demons and their leader throw themselves the Abyss. Raphael warns Adam from this example:

Satan ... who envies now thy state,/Who now is plotting how he may seduce/Thee also from obedience, that, with him/Bereaved of happiness, thou mayest partake/His punishment, eternal misery ..../But listen not to his temptations, warn/Thy weaker; let it profit thee to have heard,/By terrible example, the reward/Of disobedience; firm they might have stood,/Yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

Paradise Lost Book 6 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else."

Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces."

"One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human."

Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream.

It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE!

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Chapter 14, Sections 159 - 168

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

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During their brutal first winter in the New World, the Pilgrims draw up a deed of government, meet Squanto and begin to relate formally with the natives, and lose half their number to death.

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PARADISE LOST

Book 6, The War in Heaven

Lines 1 -261

The angel Raphael continues his account to Adam of the conflict in heaven. Abdiel returns to find heaven in preparation for the war he came to warn was coming. God praises his faithfulness. Satan experiences pain for the first time as he is severely wounded in his battle with Michael. The first day is a victory for the ranks of heaven, as the rebel angels understand pain for the first time, retreating to nurse their wounds. Satan and his angels devise the infernal invention of cannon and gunpowder during the night, seeming to turn the tide in the morning's engagement. As heaven itself becomes more chaotic God calls an end to the battle, sending His Son to conquer and cast the rebels into the Pit. Driven by fear the demons and their leader throw themselves the Abyss. Raphael warns Adam from this example:

Satan ... who envies now thy state,/Who now is plotting how he may seduce/Thee also from obedience, that, with him/Bereaved of happiness, thou mayest partake/His punishment, eternal misery ..../But listen not to his temptations, warn/Thy weaker; let it profit thee to have heard,/By terrible example, the reward/Of disobedience; firm they might have stood,/Yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

Paradise Lost Book 6 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else."

Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces."

"One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human."

Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream.

It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE!

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