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Gobbledygook About Thanks Taking Formerly Known As Thanksgiving

Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête worst day of year turkeys do hate though vegan lifestyle sweeping culinary tables of late though me and the missus still omnivorous foods sate palates sprinkled (of course while mouths full with borscht, and eyes wide shut) with garbled tête-à-tête yum pumpkin pie for dessert, I can hardly wait! I credit our "star student," a twenty something recent University of Penn alumna currently residing in Oakland, California, whose smarts as a single young woman her papa doth envy, no matter dearth of employment prospects, during COVID-19 pandemic (she vocationally trends toward engineering) experiences economic dire straits educated me and the missus, this despite our chronological seniority, how times gone by hundred of years ago during supposed Age of Exploration untrammeled native people's lands got "discovered" vis a vis exploited courtesy "discoverers," no matter established civilizations linkedin with Earth Mother sanctified with lovely bones. Even today indigenous tribes marginalized forced off their sacred grounds and/or blithely killed unfairly skewered in short as nasty brutes nevertheless the Leviathan beast of western civilization glorified, idolized, lionized, romanticized... post reprehensible genocide exterminated original occupants place names peppering towns across North and South America token remembrance of obliterated magnificence scattered remnants forced groveling along the boulevard of broken treaties. He/she who wielded the biggest stick vanquished innocent men, women and children extinguishing chalice, smiting mighty legions deliberately transmitting disease which decimated in one fell swoop legions of unsophisticated souls purposely mistreated with vengeance pillaged, raped, torched if not outright abducted happy hunting grounds near pristine tracts literally stolen eminent domain disguising manifest destiny modus operandi. Yours truly doth not claim the last wordsworth accuracy within compact poetic frame begetting extemporaneous told ill-fame Maya feeble attempt to codify bloody atrocity tis rather lame, and bereft of gory details causes good grief overcame yours truly, when might overruled right barring (lock, stock and barrel) for rightful inheritors to reclaim old rotten Gotham long since sank into behavioral sink, which fellow coining last sentence I (pretend) forgetting the author - what's his name?

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Date: 11/21/2020 4:22:00 PM
You are so spot on about “the big stick”. Sad to me that the biggest bullies, the most ruthless, the ones who are bad sports without integrity are still at the top. This write makes sense in all ways for Thanksgiving 2020. Well penned!
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