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Dear Produceer, The 2022 Executive Producership drive continues. Become the Executive Producer for  the “No Agenda Thanksgiving 2022 Special” and use it as a legitimate credit for a lifetime. Click here for that. Your No Agenda Show is live on Thanksgiving (note: one hour earlier). Your hard working hosts work the holidays unlike almost everyone in the mainstream media and most all podcasts. Some of the sneakiest news happens on the holidays.This is an effort you should support with a donation of any amount, You choose. Click here. Be a Part of True Independent Media Tom Turkey learns to write. 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 disputes, screaming matches, divorces and who knows what. Other situations emerge too which result in year-round discussion. Above all, copious amounts of food are wasted by overdoing it. The turkey itself is too damn big to be practical, except in a soup kitchen. In the meantime, enjoy this 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. I’m not 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. Your No Agenda show covers and analyzes news without interference. This is because the show is not owned by a large corporation nor beholden to advertisers and is solely supported by you. There are no creepy advertisers or corporate or communist influencers telling us what to cover and how to slant things. Please contribute to support the show today. Click here and be part of the team. Sincerely, John C. Dvorak & Adam C. Curry PS Checks should be sent directly to the No Agenda Show, Box 339, El Cerrito CA 94530. Your support means everything. C:\support The Show is healthier with sustaining donations known as subscriptions. Here are a few to choose from. The favorite is the lucky $33.33 a month. Click here. The 2022 donation to celebrate this new era. Click here for that. And there is a weekly version of that too. Click here. Hypocrite of the Week

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