Things I'd Like To Be Thankful For Someday

newsmax ^ | Nov 22, 2017 | Michael Reagan

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Thanksgiving's the day we Americans are all supposed to give thanks and show appreciation for all the good people and things we have.

I'll do that — and like most Americans I have a lot to be thankful for.

But first, here are some political and personal things I'd like to have the chance to be thankful for someday but now can't.

I'll give thanks . . .

. . . when the president quits taking everything so personally.

. . . when CNN and MSNBC report all the news.

. . . When the mainstream media finally announces that there was nothing to the charges that President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.

. . . when the members of Congress actually does something to fix the health care system they destroyed.

. . . when all the members of Congress are forced to live under the same laws they say we have to.

. . . when Congress tells us who it was that put together its $15 million-plus "hush fund" to pay off the women and men its members are accused of sexually harassing.

. . . when Congress reveals the names of the members who've had to pay their accusers to go away — and what their offenses were.

I'll give thanks when the Republicans in Washington can find their rear ends with both hands.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I retired to Spain last year and Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here. They sell turkeys but they are barely larger than an oven roaster chicken. I am making my own stuffing the old fashioned way by laying out slices of bread to go stale. No bagged stuffing cubes anywhere. Most of the sides I grew up with aren't available. We will have Brussel sprouts and a sweet potato with our turkey. But we will give thanks for the fact that I grew up in a country that gave me the opportunities to prosper and live out my final years in comfort. A shocking number of my fellow expats are of the opposite opinion and feel they escaped an oppressive, hateful environment even as they too live off of the gains realized there. I will never turn my back on my homeland. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

[80skid]

It’s not criss cross applesause, it’s Indian style.

I’ll be thankful for when the PC Left Nazis are crushed in this country.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well we ought to start with thanks for the things that exist right now.

I’d rather have a president who took stuff “too personally” than one who didn’t give a crap.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This won’t happen until Christendom fills the vacuum that the secular left is filling.

[80skid]

Agree.

[vette6387]

” . . when CNN and MSNBC report all the news.”

Better still when they are both no longer in business!

[vette6387]

” . . when CNN and MSNBC report all the news.”

Better still when they are both no longer in business!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just like Michael I was adopted. Things change slightly and I’m Michael Reagan and he’s **** ******. He should ponder that. He’s listened to because of who adopted him, not anything that he has achieved. Sorry.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

When politicians and liberal can thank American taxpayers for doing all the heavy lifting ...instead of mocking them and blaming them for everything.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Right now I’m finding out that Christendom seems to not even be able to fight their way out of a wet paper bag marked “Satan.”

And this is disgusting to me. I might be on the way to becoming the Chuck Norris of spiritual fighters (churches can’t even cope with the satanic blowback from what I’ve been doing), but what good is it to have just one of me?

Oh my dear Lord. The secular left is there, because Christendom can’t even give a... crap.

[Lopeover]

My maternal grandparents were from peasant farmer famlies in Spain. Cities of Malaga and Granada. Both their families immigrated to the US to work in the sugar cane fields of Hawaii when they were children. From there they moved to California. My Grandfather became a carpenter, then had his own business as a contractor. He built many residential homes in Castro Valley. When he retired, he and my Grandmother took their Cadillac on the ship with them to Spain. They drove through their home towns visiting extended family and friends, extolling how they built their fortune in the land of milk & honey! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, I would imagine an authentic Thanksgiving would use the abundance of whatever place it found itself in. Rather than aping the abundance of some different locale. If the Spanish thing is beef and not turkey, for example, I’d go with the beef.

[TheConservativeParty]

Having Hillary Rotten Clinton behind bars for selling our uranium to the Russians would be something half our country would be grateful for.

How the hell does she get away with taking 145 million dollars while she’s Sec. of State, from the Russians, while giving them our uranium? It’s horrific. She needs to be in prison.

Anyone know if all that ill-gotten money at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation was given to them tax exempt?

I bet all that money they’ve grifted all these years has had no taxes taken out of it.

They are no doubt a “charity” (for themselves) and have paid no income tax on all that money.

They’ve had quite a lot of fun at our expense while on this side of the dirt. Won’t be so fun for them on the other side.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The Spanish thing isn’t Thanksgiving at all. There is no equivalent and we follow their diet all year so this turkey is a treat. But Black Friday sales start today so they do emulate America in some ways.

[Nateman]

Spain use to have a holiday in its cities celebrating its victory over Islam. That’s a holiday I’d like to see come over here! What is the status of that holiday in Spain nowadays?

[Vlad The Inhaler]

I’d be grateful to see the US government honor and enforce the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment so that all Americans receive equal treatment under the law.

No more special treatment for people like Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Lois Lerner.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Spain use to have a holiday in its cities celebrating its victory over Islam. That’s a holiday I’d like to see come over here! What is the status of that holiday in Spain nowadays?

Holidays in Spain are a jumble. Each municipality is allowed to have a maximum of 13 public holidays per year; a maximum of nine of these are chosen by the national government and at least two are chosen locally. That means there could be a holiday celebrating victory over Islam in one region but not the others. I don't know of any specific holiday where I live.

Here is a picture taken from my terrace. At the base of the first of the 3 rocks you see jutting out into the Med is a statue of Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman I of Damascus, the founder of the Emirate of Cordoba, who arrived from North Africa to establish his Moorish kingdom in 755 at that spot. To the left is a castle that used to guard the old harbor. On the top of the first rock is a large cross commemorating the defeat of the Arabs, their surrender in Almunecar and the beginning of Christian rule in 1489. Try finding a cross on public property in the USA. About 30 miles from here is the palace of Alhambra. After the Arabs were defeated the palace was repurposed by Ferdinand and Isabella and that is where they decided to fund the expedition of Christopher Columbus.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Enjoy then your turkey stuffed with Spanish rice (kidding about the Spanish rice).

I take it from your description that potatoes and green beans and cranberry sauce isn’t a possibility there?

Well thank the good Lord for Christmas.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is picturesque and a bit like the pueblos of American southwest places like New Mexico that have similar terrain.

I’m not huge on whether we put crosses on government dedicated land. That tends to be associated in many minds with state churches, which vitiate the principle of it. Unless a church can choose who is an active member without having to yield to a sponsor daddy government, it can’t have integrity before God, even to err.

But, let a million crosses stand on private property of all sorts.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I’m not huge on whether we put crosses on government dedicated land.

But nobody complains about the cross and most people like it. It's a popular tourist attraction. In America even if 99.9% of the people don't mind it someone looking for headlines will file a lawsuit to get it removed.

Spain had a state religion during the Franco years but that was abolished after his death.