The Patriotic Code of Honor – “One nation, under God” – “In God We Trust” – A Prayer for Thanksgiving

I grew up in the Midwest, the breadbasket of the world.  We never learned how to sit around pissing and moaning and being angry with everyone who dared oppose any view we may have or embrace.

Long ago, thanks to our brother Samuel Clemens from Hannibal, Missouri, better known as Mark Twain, he captured our particular views through his masterful words.  Twain said we should never be upset with anyone just because they thought they knew better because, “everyone is entitled to their own silly ideas.”

We are about to begin the fourth year of Donald Trump’s presidency so I thought it is a good time to issue a report card on Congress and the News Media.  We, the people, have high standards for our elected officials since they volunteered to be our eyes and ears in public office.  They also promised that if they were elected, they would serve all the people.

There is nothing in the Patriotic Code of Honor that says political parties have the answers to anything let alone everything nor that parties should direct those officials elected by the people on how they must vote.  As far as we are concerned the elected officials work for us, not the political parties, and they must do what is best for the state or nation as a whole.

The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Pledge of Allegiance and other pertinent American documents do not mention political parties, Democrats or Republicans.  So, what did our Founding Fathers know that we seemed to have forgot along the way?

There are a couple of things they knew about politicians and politics.  First, you can throw everything you know about America to a simple test.  According to our Founding Fathers, America must follow a course of political evolution “Under God,” with liberty and justice for all.

In other words, our wise old Founding Fathers said, “in God we trust,” would be our motto and stand before people, politicians, political parties and popular fads.  They were a lot smarter than we are today.

But we can fix it, our stupidity that is.  We already have to some extent.  You do not need to spend thousands of dollars on polls, focus groups, town halls or advertising to know what the people think.

What we also do know, the news media and Democratic party leadership are united against our nation that does trust in God first.  Guess what, we could care less what the pious and self-indulgent squishy politicians or the gadfly news media thinks.

According to the latest national polls, eighty-seven percent (87%), of Americans do not believe nor trust the news media and over seventy percent (70%) do not trust Congress.

‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News

Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out.

When it comes to the news media, the irony of where Americans get their news about the government, and what sources they rely on to deliver news about the government they can trust, was exposed in a survey published this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research and USAFacts.

It found that 54% of Americans say they get government-related information from social media at least once a day, compared with 52% who said they get information about government daily from local TV news, 50% from national TV news, 47% from cable news and 19% from nationally circulated newspapers.

Yet the survey found only 11% of Americans say they trust information about the government they see on social media a great deal or quite a bit. Nearly two-thirds said they have little to no trust in government news they find there. Of all the potential places to find news about the government included in the survey, social media was the least trusted.

You have to go back 10 years in Gallup data to find a single poll in which Congress' approval rating was at 30% or above. That's by far the longest stretch that Congress has had a sub-30% approval rating since polling on this began.

The decline in congressional approval is almost certainly linked to the decline in trust of government in general. According to the Pew Research Center, only 17% of Americans currently trust government always or most of the time.  While trust in government has generally been on the decline since the Vietnam War, it's never been that consistently bad

Recent polling could be a warning sign to House Democrats that they failed to convince the public that President Trump should be impeached when they held hearings on the matter last week, Washington Post reporter Rachael Bade said on Tuesday.

"I do think that this polling, is sort of a warning sign for them. I mean, if they’re not able to move public sentiment at all with those five hearings with ... a dozen State Department or [National Security Council] officials coming forward and testifying against the president," Bade told CNN. "I mean, that's a problem for them. I mean, this should be a high point for them in terms of making the case to the voters."

CNN's John King reported on polling that showed 40 percent of Americans believed Democrats were abusing their constitutional powers.

HOUSE DEM SEES NO 'VALUE' IN IMPEACHMENT, AS POLLS SHOW FAILING SUPPORT AMONG INDEPENDENTS

Polling has shown that both independents and Democrats have started to lose interest in impeachment.

Meanwhile, 50 percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist  poll conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from office, with just 42 percent backing such a move.

Americans trust God first, and most all Americans do not trust our sources of news information about the government or politics.  That does not say much for the elected officials nor the news media, self-proclaimed defenders of freedom.

Nonsense.

Once upon a time the media might have been the defenders of freedom or watchdogs over the government, but not in recent memory.  When the news media stops fact checking itself it has thrown honesty to the wind and nothing could be more apparent than the genuine bias, hatred and loathing of certain members of the media toward President Trump.

No matter how high of an opinion the news reporters, anchors and politicians have of themselves, they are still just people like you and me.  We make mistakes, have silly opinions, get greedy, hunger for power, hate or are tempted by a host of other equally idiotic ideas.

It is very clear the media and extremist political parties and politicians are not operating “Under God” by any stretch of the imagination.  Nor do they demonstrate any understanding of the motto “In God We Trust!”

Someone or something stole their spiritual, ethical, and moral foundation and it is more than obvious to those of us outside of the media and political circus - they can be trusted no more.

No matter how many times you tell lies, how many lies you tell, distractions you promote, self-serving interests you embrace and how much hate you may spew, we know better.  You cannot be trusted.

You have self-destructed and become the lunatic fringe of society, and no one cares what you think, do or say.  Just look at the flight away from TV news viewing on broadcast and cable.  Look at your fading Nielsen ratings.  Look at your failure to win the trust of the very people you represent if you want the truth.

It is not Republicans or Democrats that are bad.  People know there are just bad and good Democrats and Republicans.  Unlike the press and politicians, the people know who they can trust.

Remember the Spirit of Thanksgiving, that most American of American holidays!

It is Thanksgiving, a time for family and friends to remember the beauty and good of America, and the symbol of freedom we project to the world.  There are times when it seems to the outside world that we are beating ourselves up.

Do not underestimate the resolve nor patriotic spirit embedded in Americans.  Our Flag rose from the flames of revolution to become the beacon of freedom to the world.  We may disagree, even carry our spirit and emotion too far on occasion.

But in the end our Founding Fathers left us a most sacred gift, a Constitution that has weathered the most difficult storms and attacks from inside and afar ever conceived by an evil force in the world.

We have stumbled but never failed to protect the principles of our rich heritage, “One nation under God” and “In God We Trust.”  So, while you are being thankful remember to thank God for the gifts he gave us and pray to God to give you the knowledge to know how to use your gifts to help others.

The final report card…

The News Media - Grade [F]    The Congress – Grade [F]

Happy Thanksgiving from America's oldest continuously settled chartered settlement St. Clement's Manor

Today is Thanksgiving, a national holiday, yet many people have no idea of the history of the holiday. Those of you living around Coltons Point should know this history as it began around the colonial days.  Coltons Point is the oldest continuously lived in town in the American colonies and was the third landing point for pilgrims from Europe, arriving here in 1634.  Exactly 155 years after the colonists landed here, the Thanksgiving tradition began.

Originally called St. Clement's Island Manor, after the island just offshore where the pilgrims landed, it was home to two wives of President George Washington's great, great grandfather.  One of the Gerard daughters, whose father was most responsible for the settlement, married Washington's great, great grandfather who lived across the Potomac River within eyesight of Coltons Point.  When she died early into the marriage, her younger single sister took her place under the tradition of British Colonial law.



Now not to overlook the Spaniards, they did hold some form of Thanksgiving celebrations in Saint Augustine in 1565, then San Elceario (near today's El Paso) but neither was part of the original thirteen colonies. In 1619 Virginia colonists held such a feast and in 1621 the Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists held such a feast but this was before the founding of the nation and they were not annual traditions.



After the founding of the United States the first holiday was declared by President George Washington, a religious feast to thank the "providence of Almighty God" for his help. Still, it was not designated a national holiday but states were encouraged to participate.



Of course George was born directly across the river from Coltons Point and when younger he walked this area as a surveyor.



George Washington

As President, on October 3, 1789, George Washington made the following proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.



The national holiday came during the darkest hours of the Civil War when Lincoln was president. The year was 1863, and it was the bloodiest days of the Civil War. It followed the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg and Lincoln's trip to Gettysburg to honor the most soldiers killed in one battle in our history, Lincoln, heartbroken by what he had seen at Gettysburg, may have used Thanksgiving as a time to give the people to reflect and hope. He was not a publicly religious man, but he used his Thanksgiving proclamation to find humility and gratitude, and to remember how richly blessed we as a nation really were despite everything. His proclamation was one of the first times he used strong religious overtones in his public speech.



Abraham Lincoln

In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863.

Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.



I hope you all join me in Thanksgiving, honoring the Almighty God as Washington and Lincoln told us, and honoring our sons and daughters around the world defending our right to be free.

Now, for your delight, here are all the presidents since Roosevelt with their Thanksgiving turkey.

FDR

 

Truman

Ike

JFK

Johnson

Nixon

Ford

Rosalynn filled in for Jimmy

He was busy hunting turkeys

Is he the turkey?

Reagan first to officially pardon turkey

Bush Sr

Clinton

Bush Jr

Obama

Trump

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American Pride – It’s Alright, to be White, and to Fight for what's Right! – Politically Correct or Not – the Truth will Prevail once more!

American Pride

It’s Alright

to be White

and to Fight

for what's Right!

Especially when the fighting is for you...

What a couple of decades we have survived.  In fact, turn the clock back to 1960 and next election year, 2020, it will have been 60 years since 1960.  Seems like there is some metaphysical karma about the way the numbers fall.

Some drug induced tormented source decided back then to blame White people for all the ills of modern society.  It seems things were not moving fast enough for the rebellious anarchists pushing change as their agenda.  Then they got violent and change fell by the wayside, until the cataclysmic event when Trump got elected.

After the tumultuous Sixties we thought we had seen it all but did we underestimate the power of destiny?  If the 1960’s were the black hole for causes and social radicalism, it was just a harbinger of what was to come.

By the end of the second decade of the 21st Millennium, today, a whole new vitriolic, vociferous, vicious and violent social radicalism has taken over the agenda of well-meaning reformists.  At the forefront of the movement is the same old tired catch phrase for blame, blame it on the White Supremist.

In fact, the keepers of political correctness, are the same advocates of left-wing hypothesis, Hell bent on driving America off the cliff.  Armed with the knowledge that whatever they propose is bound to be well beyond the capacity of any human being with a brain to embrace, they have nothing to lose.

Disenfranchised Media and the lunatic fringe in control of the Democratic Party are not the defenders of America but the destroyers of American faith, patriotism, freedom and principles.

  

Thus, we find them today in a frothy frenzy of fatalism with quicksand as their foundation.  Impeachment, shredding the Constitution, tarring and feathering President Trump – oops, how dare me make such a biased and politically incorrect statement as “tarring and feathering” with the horrible images of bias and terror it projects.

Are you nuts?  For the record, as if that means anything to the media or left bank, I am only referring to a rather hilarious and classic scene regarding the fate of Brer Rabbit in the beloved Disney classic movie Song of the South.       

Thanks to the Politically Correct movers and shakers the 1946 Disney film cannot be shown on TV, in the movies, or sold on DVD because it was labelled racist for how it depicted African Americans.

The setting for the film was a post-Civil War plantation in the South and the live action combined with animation was pioneering film work.  This film classic won an Oscar for Best Music Original Song, “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, “ was nominated for Best Music Scoring of a Musical, and received the extraordinary distinction of being granted the Honorary Oscar award to James Baskett, a Black actor, “for his heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and storyteller to the children of the world, in Walt Disney’s Song of the South.”

Song of the South - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - James Baskett

The Academy Award for the Song and the Honorary award for his performance were the first time a Black actor had been so honored in those categories.  Yet this enduring film cannot be seen because of racist depiction, stereotyping, or implied racism.  Just what exactly do you think might be the truth about life at the end of a bitter and bloody Civil War that took place over 150 years ago?  The film is a victim of overzealous censorship for the stupidest of reasons.  Oh yes, it was a White President, Abraham Lincoln, who during the same time period, gave his life for freeing the slaves.

Political Correctness is riddled with collateral damage including denying God, rejecting Constitutional protections, stimulating polarization, and embracing the dark forces of the universe.  Advocates of PC are terrified at the thought of competition, winners and losers, exceptionalism, initiative, pride and self-esteem.

To them Trump is the enemy, the public his defenders, and they must be stopped at all costs.  Much of the News Media feeds the whacky, psychologically disturbed, and runaway minds of the PC movement, since the Media share the goal of ending the Trump presidency and restoring the old political establishment, the so-called Swamp.

The goal of the lefties in the Media and Politics is simple, use their offices and resources to control the minds of the people.  Take away their rights and individual freedom, break their spirit and initiative, and convince them the left agenda is the will of the people.

PC fanatics claim White people are extremists, nationalists, bigots, biased and dumb.  White Supremacy motivates Whites, to be Whiter, I guess.  But the last time I checked White people are not the monolithic bunch of machine-made, pattern-stamped, assembly-line minds often depicted by a lame media.

Whites are the Middle-Class foundation of the nation.  Some are rich, others poor, and most caught somewhere in between.  Most of their families were outcasts from other nations fleeing discrimination against religion, unfair taxation, and all other aspects of life.\

So, for those of you waging war against all those White Supremacy flag wavers, here is a dreadful bit of truth for you to swallow.  They are the same people who gave everyone in America equality and freedom, fairness and individual liberty.

They passed a Constitution binding us to equality forever and forcing us to address the principal forms of slavery and discrimination of the day, including women's rights and equality and equal justice and opportunity for all.

Not only did they pass laws that would reach across generations and millennia but they fought and died for the successful implementation and enforcement of those laws.  The actions and foresight of the Whites preserved a nation for the equality and protection of all.              

According to the latest US Census news, the following is the breakdown of Americans by race as reported by Americans.

White only                             60.4% of the population

Black and African only          13.4%

Hispanic and Latino only      18.3%

Asian only                               5.9%

Native and others only            2.0%

There is one huge catch.  Those that report mixed races always report White as their primary race and that means 16.1% of the total population is shifted from other races to White, thus indicating White and mixed White represent 76.5% of the total population.  In other words, three-fourths of the population is White or White mixed, and just 23.5% is all other races.

If that is not enough to shake your faith in the destruction of American patriotism and the fallacy of political correctness, consider the following.  One of the premier issues of the far left is gun control, or gun confiscation to be honest.

Absorb the following regarding gun ownership in America.

The American Military – Two guns for every soldier

2,225,404 members of military own 4,400,000 military weapons

The American Civilian Militia – Seven Guns for every civilian

54,863,700 civilian households in US own 393,000,000 weapons

In other words, there are 24 times as many civilians with guns as soldiers, and civilians have 89 times as many weapons.

No wonder our Founding Fathers adopted the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution which reads: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."