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No Agenda Special 1716 Working on a Holiday AGAIN. WHo Does This? Dear Producer, Tomorrow's Show is on Thanksgiving and we are working yet another holiday for you. Become an Executive Producer for the 2024 Thanksgiving Day Special. It's a real credit and lasts a lifetime. Click here for that. Otherwise be generous for the holiday and give a do-it-yourself donation to support your No Agenda Show. Click here to use PayPal or click here to use Stripe as your credit card processor. Help the show. 'You can also grab a Doctor of Education in Climate Science Studies directly from the No Agenda Show. This is a bonus, along with an insta-Knighting and a Executive Producership when you combine all three with this special donation offer. This offer ends this week. Click here. to get one now and in time for Christmas. Those of you who want one of these before years end, we will reserve one if you request it. Send a note to notes@noagendashow.net. ALSO Sending a check to PO Box 339, El Cerrito CA 94530 is ANOTHER way to contribute. There are various systems that will send checks for you too. Learn about these systems by clicking here. Non USA checks written in foreign currency are accepted. NO AGENDA is Your True Independent Media. And thank you for all your support. Who comes up with these ideas? Thanksgiving Every year it is fun to deconstruct Thanksgiving itself with the various backstories as to how it came to be – a No Agenda tradition. Today’s Thanksgiving was originally a temporary Holiday designed to honor the dead of the Civil War which evolved into a tale about a bogus feast with the Pilgrims and the Indians. Over the years it has evolved to a yearly family event where turkeys are served to as many immediate and extended family members one can cram into a household often devolving into political disputes, screaming matches, divorces and who knows what. What a great moment! Other situations emerge too which result in year-round discussion. Above all, copious amounts of food are consumed by overdoing it. The turkey itself is too damn big to be practical, except in a soup kitchen. In the meantime, enjoy this classic essay written for the No Agenda 2017 Newsletter: Backgrounder on Thanksgiving John C Dvorak I’m always amused by the cock and bull story about Thanksgiving being about Pilgrims, maize, turkeys and Indians when the holiday stems from an Abe Lincoln proclamation at the behest of a magazine editor. The road to today’s Thanksgiving has had a rocky road, in fact. Nobody is sure when the baloney about Pilgrims and Indians actually took hold as folklore, but I find it offensive that it is taught in schools as fact . That said, who is complaining about days off? And I do like a good turkey and gladly spend the extra money for a real old-fashioned bird with real flavor. A great "heritage" turkey actually tastes more like pheasant and does not have that exaggerated turkey stench you get from commercial birds. I’m convinced that the only reason that people are deep fat frying these birds nowadays is to minimize that obnoxious taste and odor only recently bred into the birds. “This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving. The holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was recommended to Lincoln by Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor. Her letters to Lincoln urged him to have the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.” The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” According to an April 1, 1864 letter from John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. Fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary on October 3 that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later, the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops and since then has disappeared.” Oh, and I apparently bitched about this in 2004 with a snarky, but well-researched piece on the various iterations of Thanksgiving. Show mercy on this fallen white man. Make your revenge in the form of  tribal casinos. For No Agenda, Thanksgiving is the opportunity to those who contribute support for the show-once-a- year, it’s now your time to help. 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