Updated: Thanksgiving for Dummies...Sorry, I Mean College Professors

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Ann Coulter

. . . Before the first European stepped off Mayflower, the Iroquois' genocidal wars against their fellow Indians had already depopulated large parts of New England. Their murderous raids had scattered the farming tribes in all directions, often to their demise. "Northern New Hampshire, the whole of Vermont and Western Massachusetts had no human tenants but the roving hunter or prowling warrior," Parkman writes.  . . .

"As every contemporary school child knows, the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when our Pilgrim forefathers took a break from slaughtering Indigenous Peoples to invite them to dinner and infect them with smallpox, before embarking on their mission to fry the planet so that the world would end on Jan. 22, 2031. (Copyright: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

"Consider this description of the Pilgrims' treatment of the Indigenous Peoples:" 'They were the worst of conquerors. Inordinate pride, the lust of blood and dominion, were the mainsprings of their warfare; and their victories were strained with every excess of savage passion."

"You've probably guessed -- unless you are an American college student -- that that's not a description of the Pilgrims' treatment of Indigenous Peoples at all. It is a description of some Indigenous Peoples' treatment of other Indigenous Peoples, provided by Francis Parkman, the world's foremost Indian scholar.
"It was Indians, not Pilgrims, who let out the "Mohawk war-cry" that made the blood run cold.
"This is why the Wampanoag had a lot to celebrate that first Thanksgiving. They were delighted to have such excellent (European) allies against the terroristic Iroquois and Narragansett.
"The Pilgrims also had much to be thankful for. Of more than 100 passengers aboard the Mayflower, only 44 survived the first winter, felled by scurvy, malnutrition and the bitter cold. Even the ones who made it did so largely thanks to the friendly Wampanoag, who shared their food with the Europeans and taught them how to till the land."  . . .

The warm relations between Pilgrims and the (mostly) gentle Algonquins doesn't fit the White Man Bad thesis that is the entire point of all history taught in America today. In fact, as any sane, reasonable person can probably surmise: Some white men were kind, and some were cruel. Some Indians were neighborly -- and some were bloodthirsty killers.

                                                        Case in point:  

Democrats illustrated

Tony Branco

Anti-Iranian Demonstrations and Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood

DrRichSwier.com  "The Lebanese have been demonstrating for weeks against Hezbollah’s control of their government, which is just another way of saying that they are demonstrating against Iran’s control of their country by proxy.  They are demanding a new government of technocrats not connected with any political party be appointed to run the government.
"The protestors are made up primarily of Sunnis and Christians.  The Iranians have ordered their proxies in both Lebanon and Iraq to do what ever is necessary to put a stop to these demonstrations.  Though the violence here has not been as severe as in Iraq, there has been some shooting with live rounds, and last night Hizbollah thugs attacked a group of protestors with motorcycles.
"In spite of the Hizbollah violence, the non-terrorist Shi’a Amal party has long ago sold its soul to Hizbollah and has sided against the demonstrators.  Likewise the largely figurehead president, Gen. ‘Aoun, a Christian, has sold his soul to Hizbollah, thus he too has sided against the demonstrators (and against his own ethnic group).
"The Iraqis have also been demonstrating for weeks.  While these demonstrations ostensibly began to protest corruption in the government, lack of services, and a rotten economy that can not provide enough jobs, they quickly morphed also into anti-Iranian protests.  What is most interesting about these protests is that they are taking place mostly in the southern portions of the country which is predominantly Shi’a.  In other words, we have Shi’a Iraqis in huge numbers protesting Shi’a Iran’s hegemony over their country.
"In fact, these Shi’a protestors are burning pictures of Khomeini and Khamenei, burning Iranian flags, and chanting “death to Khamenei.' ” . . .

Media Applauds As Melania Trump Is Booed At Youth Opioid Summit

Hot Air

. . . "The First Lady was also booed and jeered as she left the stage upon the completion of her remarks. To be clear, neither of the outbursts of boos and jeers were greater than the cheers and applause she received. Normal polite behavior is not noteworthy, though, in press reports for anyone in the Trump administration universe. Apparently, the tide is turning for the First Lady.

"After thinking about the response to Melania Trump, I reached a conclusion that it is probably to be expected, given the behavior we so often see on college campuses today. If the adults in their lives behave in disruptive ways or encourage the behavior, then it is to be expected that young people mirror that behavior. Remember that nurses and hospital staff members (adults) first protested publicly, outside of the hospital. College professors and public school teachers are often liberal, anti-Trump members of the left. Occasionally there are news stories of a public school teacher putting an anti-Trump question on a test. None of this is helpful for an already divided nation.

"Melania has shown a love for children and young people from the beginning of her time in the White House. She visits schools and hospitals across the country and the world. One of her goals in her Be Best initiative is centered around helping youth deal with the opioid crisis." . . .

A Shameful Abuse of Congressional Power

The sleazy Schiffite proceedings at the House Intelligence Committee were so lopsided, arbitrary, and contemptuous of the rights of the Republican minority on the committee and of the president as the investigated party, no American court could possibly accept a requested prosecution that emerged from such a tainted proceeding.

Conrad Black  "The rise of the hot air balloon of impeaching President Trump has taken place without any attention to several material factors that assure it is not an airworthy concept and is doomed to a hard landing.
"First, and as I have been writing and saying until I am almost blue in the face, not one scintilla of evidence has been adduced that President Trump was seeking a false judgment on the conduct in Ukraine of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. He was asking for an investigation, not seeking to dictate the conclusion. Trump said to President Volodymyr Zelensky in his famous July 25 telephone call that it “looked horrible,” but was clear he was seeking a neutral judgment of whether there had been influence-peddling or other wrongdoing. There is absolutely no legal or ethical problem with that, so this entire controversy has been even more fatuous and unfounded than it appears.
"The foreign service witnesses made evident throughout the unspeakable proceedings of the House Intelligence Committee their personal and policy animosity to Trump. Some—such as Fiona Hill, English as she is—communicated their animus more graciously than others (namely, the stuffed-shirted Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman). Nevertheless, none of them suggested they believed Trump was agitating for a false accusation against the Bidens.
"The government of the United States, administration and Congress, and the entire American population have a right to know if the former two-term vice president was involved in influence-peddling in Ukraine (or elsewhere), and since it has been raised, they all have an equal right to be reassured that he was not. (What Hunter Biden may have done on his own is of no concern to anyone but himself and, if it was improper, prosecutors.)" . . .

American Thinker reveals the left today

Hilarious: CNN's Brian Stelter worries that media aren't sufficiently anti-Trump

"With more than 90% of media coverage of President Trump negative, you might think Trump-haters would take satisfaction in their dominance of political messaging.  But so intense is the hatred, so cult-like the insistence that heterodox thought must be eliminated, that CNN's media critic Brian Stelter is worried that there just hasn't been enough negative reporting about the 45th president of the United States.

"Remember: Stelter is the guy calling Trump supporters cultists who need deprogramming."

Leftists show their class, allowing kids to 'boo' Melania Trump who was there to help them  "In a non-partisan speech to middle school and high school students seeking to protect them from drug use, first lady Melania Trump was booed by the kids, signaling just how bad the leftist school system is in instituting manners." . . .

. . . "There was no reason for it, Melania wasn't there on any political mission, she was just promoting help and protection from drug use, something all school kids tend to hear about. But the booers had the O.K. from their administrators to go ahead and put on a show, and put on a show they did. The event was piously covered by one of the New York Times reporters who covered for Hillary Clinton earlier, explaining it out as something linked to President Trump's statement earlier about the liveability of places like Baltimore under one party blue rule.

"Actually, it was disgusting, a perfect display of children being raised like livestock by far leftists conveying far-left values. Rep. Pete King had an appropriate response to the act, one that most Americans would agree with:

“If any issue should be free from abusive, rude behavior, it should be protecting kids from opioids. Has the left no sense of decency?!?,” King said on Twitter.

(Democrat) Rep. Brenda Lawrence ordered back onto the Democrats' impeachment plantation   . . . "And we heard her the first time.  What's obvious now is that the Democrat machine somehow got to her, telling her to knock it off or they'd punish her in that way they punish all dissenters.  Get back on the Democrat plantation, or else." . . .We heard her the first time.

"Sandy O": The girl is a job-killer "We remember how Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, or the Bronx Evita, as my friend Bill Katz calls her, led the campaign to kill an Amazon project in the New York City area.
"She killed a few thousand jobs, maybe even more. It was a disaster for workers, but Miss Sandy O got another invitation to MSNBC.
"Well, she is back, and she is killing jobs again." . . .

Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez's advice to form a union. . . .

The obsessive, intolerant, despicable do-nothing-but-obstruct Democrats . . . "It is the Left that has undone the tenets of Martin Luther King.  It is leftists who have branded any words they don't like as hate speech and destroyed higher education in America with trigger warnings and safe spaces."
. . . "With his silly secret, Stalinesque and then public overly-gaveled hearings, Schiff has made a complete, unmitigated fool of himself and his party. Beria would be proud. The Democrats are officially the party of rigid identity politics, racism, hate speech, the abrogation of the Constitution and an obsession to impeach the President." . . . 

Democrats are Serving Word Salad as their Main Course  "Recently Bret Baier commented that some of Joe Biden's answers at the last Democrat debate were "word salad." Sleepy Joe's malapropisms have been well known for some time, and probably suggest on-going mental difficulty. None of us would readily suggest that his slips represent a more serious problem, such as schizophrenia, which is known for word salad." . . .

The Danger of Elizabeth Warren

Shame on sour grapes Hillary Clinton for opening the door to ending the Electoral College.

. . . Then there was Warren’s response to an endorsement by an obscure, fringe activist group calling itself “Black Womxn For.” “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy…,” she tweeted November 7th. . .

Selwyn Duke  "Senator Elizabeth Warren, one-time Indian and beer drinker, would make a very dangerous president. This isn’t just because of her policies, which include ending the Electoral College, banning fracking everywhere, regulating a naturally occurring gas (CO2), being radically pro-abortion, decriminalizing illegal border crossing, and free health care for illegal aliens. It’s not only her complete phoniness, which is in one way actually reassuring: it informs that the aforementioned policies are surely as pliable as her family history narrative. No, it’s also because she’s frightfully out of touch with reality in a largely unrecognized way, one common to leftists.

"Approximately 25 years ago, I attended a local feminist conference concerning how our “patriarchal” society supposedly hobbled girls’ academic performance. Because I’d articulately refuted the speakers’ thesis using facts and reason during the commenting period, some of the organizers approached me afterwards, suspicious, wondering what organization I represented (only myself). The group, perhaps four middle-aged women, remained civil, but the arrows shooting from their eyes betrayed their thinly veiled feelings. Anyway, uninterested in my thoughts, they quickly begged out of the conversation by offering to mail me literature on their positions. I said, jokingly, sure, “as long as you don’t send a hit squad to my house.” The response?

"Very seriously and sternly they replied, “We don’t do things like that.” They didn’t get that it was a joke (and, mercifully, I didn’t get the literature).

"But perhaps those feminists graduated from the Patsy Schroeder School of Comedy. To wit: Engaging in demagoguery during a 1990s budget battle, the Democrats claimed the elderly would have to eat dog food to afford medicine if the GOP prevailed. Radio host Rush Limbaugh then spoofed this in a GOPAC speech, claiming he’d bought his mother a new can opener so “she can get the dog food easier when she has to eat it.”

"Taking this seriously, liberal congresswoman Patsy Schroeder (D-Colo.) appeared on the House floor the next day and emotionally exclaimed that “this is what it’s come to! …Rush Limbaugh actually said he's going to buy his mother a can opener so she can have dog food. Wow!” The point?" . . .

The List Of 31 Democrats (With Phone Numbers) In Vulnerable Districts Who Support Bogus Trump Impeachment

100%FedUp  "Investigative journalist Paul Sperry created a list of Democrat House members who won elections in vulnerable districts, yet took the risk of supporting the radical Democrats in their efforts to undo the 2016 election results by agreeing to move forward with bogus impeachment proceedings.
"Every one of these 31 Democrats who supported the impeachment circus in districts that lean Republican, need to held accountable for their actions at the ballot box in 2020.
"Here is the list of vulnerable Democrat lawmakers who need to be sent home from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020. We’ve included the phone numbers of these vulnerable Democrats, so Americans can let them know how they feel about how them dragging our President through a bogus impeachments circus:" .  .  .

Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.) (202) 225-3361
Lucy McBath’s (D-Ga.). (202) 225-4501-
Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.)  (202) 225-2976
Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.). (202) 225-5905
Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa)  (202) 225-2911
Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa)  (202) 225-6576
Cindy Axne’s (D-Iowa)  (202) 225-5476
Jared Golden (D-Maine)  (202) 225-6306
Former CIA analyst, Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)  (202) 225-4872
Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)  (202) 225-8171
Angie Craig (D-Minn.)  (202) 225-2271
Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)  (202) 225-2165
Susie Lee’s (D-Nev.)  (202) 225-3252
Chris Pappas’s (D-N.H.). (202) 225-5456
Jefferson Van Drew (D-N.J.) (202) 225-6572
Andy Kim (D-N.J.)  (202) 225-4765
Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.)  (202) 225-4465
Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) (202) 225-5034
Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) (202) 225-2365
Max Rose (D-N.Y.) (202) 225-3371
Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.)  (202) 225-7944
Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.)  (202) 225-5614
Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.)  (202) 225-3665
Kendra Horn(D-Okla.)  (202) 225-2132
Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.)  (202) 225-5546
Conor Lamb (D-Pa.)  (202) 225-2301
Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.)  (202) 225-3176
Ben McAdams (D-Utah)  (202) 225-3011
Elaine Luria’s (D-Va.)  (202) 225-4215
Former CIA agent, Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) (202) 225-2815
Ron Kind (D-Wis.) (202) 225-5506