Thanksgiving’s Origin as a National Holiday - Paul Craig Roberts

 As a national holiday, Thanksgiving originated as war propaganda.

It was Abe Lincoln in November 1863 who made Thanksgiving a national holiday.  The Union Army under Grant had finally won a battle at Shiloh, and the victory called for celebration......

.....The invasion of the Confederate States of America by the Union has been incorrectly labeled a “civil war” by court historians.  It is completely clear that there was no civil war.  A civil war is when contesting sides fight for the control of the government.  The Confederacy had its own government in Richmond and no interest in the one in Washington.  It was the North that invaded the South by sending an army into Virginia where the Union army was defeated at the Battle of Bull Run.

I have often wondered how corrupt historians got away with calling a war that began with an invasion of one country by another a “civil war.”

I have also wondered how the same corrupt historians got away with falsely claiming that the war was fought for the purpose of freeing black people from slavery when Abe Lincoln made it completely clear that he initiated the war in order to preserve the union.

I have also wondered how the liberal/left and black studies departments in universities got away with demonizing white Americans for slavery when the greatest casualties in American history were the consequence of a four year war allegedly fought to free black slaves. Altogether 594,000 white men died in a war allegedly fought to free the slaves.  Where, then, does the charge of white racism come from?

I have also wondered why the Union preferred one people of color over another.  Allegedly, the Union suffered 642,427 dead and wounded in a four year effort to free the black slaves, and then immediately on the cessation of the war began with merciless attacks a war on the Plains Indians......

Full text: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/11/26/thanksgivings-origin-as-a-national-holiday/ 

....The facts are so clear and simple.  Yet they are denied.  Slavery existed for thousands of years prior to the colonization of the New World.  The South did not create slavery.  The South inherited slavery as the agricultural labor force.  The black slaves in America were enslaved by the black king of Dahomey who sold the excess as slaves.  It was the main business of his kingdom.

All races and ethnicities suffered enslavement.  It was President Thomas Jefferson who had to send the US Marines to the Shores of Tripoli in order to stop North Africans from enslaving US citizens.

When one looks at the total mess historians have made of the War of Northern Invasion and slavery, one cannot help being sympathetic with Henry Ford’s dictum that “history is bunk.”

Have They Known For 35+ Years? - Denninger (Seed oils are POISON! - CL)

 But what if in fact more than 30 years ago a study was done on dietary differences in hairless mice and it found a rather interesting thing: Those mice which were fed a diet containing PUFAs, those "seed and vegetable oils" you're told to eat, developed skin cancers when exposed to UV while those fed a diet devoid of PUFAs but with the same fat content from saturated fats did not.  Worse, those mice originally fed the saturated fat content, which developed no tumors, were then switched to the PUFA-containing diet and did develop them.

Full text:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254487 

Ecclesiastes 8 - by bionic mosquito - (Do your job, Christian! - CL)

 So, as Solomon writes, “…then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it…” Some things of God are infinitely above our pay grade. Change that: most things, or almost all things….

Ecclesiastes 8: 1(a) Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing?

When it comes to the things of God, the answer is often “no one.” We want God to fit in our human box, but that isn’t how things work.

Full text:

https://bionicmosquito.substack.com/p/ecclesiastes-8?publication_id=2189155&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

...Again, why does God allow such things? It seems to me that to spend too much time trying to understand the answer to this question is vanity: futile, a waste of time and effort. God has His reasons and purposes.

Does this mean I am to sit by, and not do what I can for justice? Not at all. Perhaps God is presenting me with an opportunity to do just this.

For me to take some action is not vanity.

Is Dispensationalism Even in the Bible? Rev Matt

 What I want to do is show you that conversation, but at the same time I want this article to serve as a template for using AI intelligently. Some people just ask AI a question and then accept its answer. But AI is not an authority on anything, it is an information aggregator that can very quickly search and summarize information. This has its strengths and weaknesses.

In this piece I am going to taken you through how I assessed dispensationalism, while also using AI critically. I think the results are informing from both angles. AI answers will be in italics, to distinguish them from my writing, and I have summarized some of them to make this article more accessible.

My First Question

Out of curiosity I decided to ask Deepseek this question: “What theme is most prominent in the Bible?”

It gave me an incredible answer, one I was not actually expecting:

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Excellent question. While the Bible is a complex library of books written over centuries, most theologians and scholars agree that one overarching theme binds it all together:

The Kingdom of God.

This theme acts as the central narrative thread, and it can be broken down into a more specific and powerful storyline: God’s unfolding plan to redeem and restore His broken creation through a promised Messiah.

Here’s a breakdown of why this is the most prominent theme and how it develops from Genesis to Revelation:

(Read the rest - it will blow your mind in its insight and broad perspective! - CL)

https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/is-dispensationalism-even-in-the?publication_id=1182452&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

...This analysis and argument will not convince many dispensationalists. In fact, I know some might even see it as evidence that AI is of the antichrist, as it downplays the importance of Christians focusing on a nation that calls itself Israel. I had someone say that to me online once, so I am not just surmising here. But this analysis is interesting, because AI is good at recognizing patterns and collating information. And when it studies the patterns in the Bible it finds that a Christocentric unified story about God calling one people to himself through faith is the consistent message of the Bible. Dispensationalism is not found in the mix.

But this analysis is also interesting, because it shows you should not just accept AI’s first answer to a question. It’s first answer was based on the majority opinion. Eventually, I got it to analyse the text itself, and it confirmed the Covenantal or unified framework, but I needed to tease out why it answered questions in certain ways first. AI is a useful tool, but we need to use it critically.

Friendsgiving With the Yarmulkes - Donald Jeffries

 

I’m not sure what kind of “family” that is in the picture above, but it reflects what has become reality around too many Thanksgiving meals. With the insertion of Trumpenstein into the body politic, the dysfunction skyrocketed. Adult children or grandchildren not coming to the family get together because the person carving the turkey voted for Trump. Unforgiveable. I wouldn’t disown anyone because of who they voted for. Look, if you voted, the odds are you voted for somebody really awful. That’s because you only have awful selections to choose from. We all fell for the messaging to varying degrees. So relax. Watch the “Woke” Macy’s parade, and turn on the fixed football games. If you’re at a Thanksgiving, and actually asked to give thanks, then you ought to be able to think of something to be appreciative of. Your health. Your children. Your grandchildren. The love of your spouse. The blessings of a nice home and enough personal possessions to lead a comfortable life.

Full text:

https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/friendsgiving-with-the-yarmulkes?publication_id=344941&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

The Romans Didn't Learn - Vox Popoli - (And neither have we. - CL)

 Spacebunny and I were watching a English documentary on the sack of Rome in 410 AD by Alaric and the Goths. The lesson, apparently, is that the sack of Rome was caused by the following:

• Extreme income inequality
• Roman distrust of Stilicho due solely to his half-Roman background.
• A failure to be nice enough to the migrant refugees

So really, you know, it was the Romans own fault that the people of Rome were massacred, the women were taken away for sex slavery, and their civic and private treasures were looted for three straight days.

Sadly, it appears that the Romans still aren’t being nice enough to the migrant refugees 1,615 years later, as one engaged young couple recently discovered.

https://voxday.net/2025/11/25/the-romans-didnt-learn/ 

This is what happens when you don’t let the poor refugees die at the hands of the Huns. This is what happens when you don’t sink the damn ships. Sixteen centuries have passed and still Man has learned absolutely nothing about the fundamental purpose of walls, borders, and oceans, which is to keep the foreigners out, no matter how dire their plight or desperate their sob stories.

Let Experience Be Silent - Vox Popoli - "You can't fix a corpse!"

 When Reason anticipates it by more than 21 years:

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2025/11/25/let-experience-be-silent-2/ 

It’s not that Rep. Greene is wrong, it’s that there was no need to send her to Washington DC to discover what I was already pointing out publicly in 2004. Because you can’t fix a corpse.

Any last vestiges of hope in the Republican Party have been shattered by the current regime, wherein a Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate and Republican-nominated Supreme Court have demonstrated that they have zero interest in the timeless vision of America’s founders. Supporting them in the hopes that they will revive American liberties is akin to hoping that shock paddles will suffice to revive a month-old corpse. American freedom is not only dead, it has been rotting for some time.

Republicans fixed nothing and restored nothing when they had complete control of the government two decades ago. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they did very little this time around.

Representative democracy is entirely incapable of reigning in a rogue ruling elite. More and more people around the world understand this; the Japanese people are merely the latest to learn that no matter how you change the “representatives”, the will of the people will not be heard, much less obeyed. Which is why it is obviously and observably impossible for the American people to vote their way out of the collapse of the United States, as Clown World is neither capable of giving up its control nor restabilizing the situation.

Remember back in the 1980s and 1990s when the innocent Clown Worlders used to believe that education, diversity, and calling white people racist was somehow going to make things better? Thirty years of relentless downward spiral later, and that’s still their only solution to the problem, although they’ve apparently improved it by substituting antisemitic for racist.

Is there one single solitary individual anywhere in the United States who can still assert with a straight face that continuing the Clown World program is going to prevent the United States from collapsing of the weight of its political, economic, demographic, and philosophical incoherencies?