Saturday, November 29, 2025

TERRI GREEN: Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin . . .

The Father Knows Best episode "Thanksgiving Day" November 1954 features a plot where the Andersons decide to go out for Thanksgiving dinner instead of cooking, much to the family's initial dismay. The episode shows Jim Anderson relating a Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin:

"Oh Lord, we give thee thanks from the depths of our humble hearts for all the blessings thou has seen fit to bestow upon us. We thank thee for the food, which graces our table, the roof, which covers our head. "We thank thee for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose. "We thank thee for making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understanding. "But most of all, dear Lord, we thank thee for giving us the greatest gift a family may know--the gift of love for one another. Amen." 

— C3 (@C_3C_3): By the numbers the Democrats have around 50 fraudulent Congressional seats due to illegals. 760,000 people per seat. 40,000,000 illegals. Every 760,000 illegals deported the Democrats potentially lose a seat.

BRIAN YANG: Someone who can't be accountable is not cruel. They're drowning in shame.

Someone who can't be accountable is not cruel. They're drowning in shame. They grew up where mistakes weren't corrected, they were punished with shame, where doing something wrong meant you're bad, you're wrong, you're a bad child, and you ruined everything.  So now admitting their faults feels like total annihilation, like saying" I'm sorry" proves that they were always the problem.  And here's what no one tells you.  Their apology won't heal you because someone who needs accountability is carrying another wound, a wound where you felt unseen, unheard, and dismissed.  Your pain was twisted.  Your reality was denied.  So when someone can't own their behavior now, it reopens this very original wound.  For myself, it was my mother, never accountable, always twisted the facts, always the victim.  So I held that silent wish that many kids have.  If she could just admit it, I would feel safe and seen, and that wish becomes the wound. The wound then becomes the trigger.  Every time someone I loved refused accountability because they were too much in their shame as well, I was upset about that moment.  I was back in my childhood as a little boy begging to be seen.  You're not really waiting for their apology. You're waiting for the permission to trust yourself. The healing is not in what they say, it's in meeting the part of you that is still waiting to be believed and that means beginning to feel through your own emotions and meet that child inside yourself.  

I really don't like this concept of "finding the inner child."  The language is too simplistic, too psychobabble, and infantile.  The idea of authentic self is better; the child concept is time locked, whereas authentic self is fluid that involves your creativity, your imagination, your work arounds, your problem solving skills, pointing to your skills as a warrior where you've been tested, contested, bested, your valor sharpened. 

WALL STREET APES: 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) and 2) Los Angeles County, California

SAMA HOOLE: "We're running a population-wide starvation experiment and calling it health advice," thanks to the founder of the Mediterranean Diet.

1944: Ancel Keys runs Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He puts 36 men on semi-starvation diet for 6 months: 1,570 calories. High-carb, low-fat, low-protein. Results within weeks: - Food obsession - Depression - Irritability - Loss of libido - Social withdrawal - One subject cuts off three fingers in frustration Keys documents this meticulously. Publishes 1,400-page book: "The Biology of Human Starvation." His conclusion: Semi-starvation causes severe physical and psychological damage. Now here's the interesting part: Keys' starvation diet: 1,570 calories. High-carb. Low-fat. Modern "healthy weight loss diet": 1,500-1,800 calories. High-carb. Low-fat. They're nearly identical. Keys documented this causes food obsession, depression, metabolic adaptation, intense hunger, psychological distress. Then spent the rest of his career promoting low-fat diets. 1960s-present: Dietary guidelines recommend calorie restriction, low-fat, high-carb. This is Keys' starvation diet. Rebranded as "healthy eating." Results, 1960-2025: - Obesity up 300% - Depression epidemic - Food obsession normalised - Eating disorders skyrocketing These are the exact symptoms Keys documented in his starvation experiment. We're running a population-wide starvation experiment and calling it health advice.