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Isn't it just lovely weather?

I wore shorts today as my Wife, Daughter and I visited friends.

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Looking forward to all the new trampling and fighting videos at Walmart, Bestbuy etc. that will most likely happen tomorrow.

I actually heard a news caster refer to tomorrow as a shopping "holiday".....in all seriousness

Speaking of shopping.....ah, that's another thread

It's hard to believe it's Thanksgiving, being I,m sat in shorts and a beach top, in sunny SoCal. I'm not cooking no point for the two of us, we're off to the Casino for a Champagne Buffet Dinner.I'm more interested in getting my decorations ready to trim Mr. Bridger for a couple of Christmas Cruise ins.

To my American friends have a wonderful and peaceful Thanksgiving.

OMG robster!   You're even using apostrophes properly! Now you're showing your double major!  I'll bet you know the proper way to use there, their, and they're too!!   There now, I suspected as much!  Happy TG day to all! 

well it's United States of America's turn to celebrate Thanksgiving day!!!!  

Happy Thanksgiving to all American people!!! 

what are you cooking this TG day??

turkey? chicken? ... i'll cook deep fried frog legs for a change.

TTT     as I just heard on the news that the USAmerican one is coming up....stay warm.... -33 here today....sh$t

Have a good day/weekend

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aarg.....the POS isn't worth it

what is it that you thank for on thanksgiving?...nothing else, but be thankful that God created you....forget about the platypus, the galapagos tortoise of even pygmy orangutan, it's all about mankind,not animal kind.

(still on cars..??)

I also think that Lucas Electrics are right up there with the Platypus....as far as "what was He thinking", goes.

Because He has a sense of humour. (Or is it wimsy?) Sea horse, kangaroo, duck-billed platypus, giraffe, manatee,.... logic for humans (and other critters too).

Of course he gave us Sir Alec and the Mini. Things to be thankful for ... and that also fit my point. A car that makes smile old men who remember them and little children who've never seen one before.

(Still on cars!)

....And out here on Vancouver Island....we're thankful that we are not living in a "winter Zone".....like all those rich people in Alberta..... and those living in the "Centre of The Universe' better known as Ontario. Sure we rust and get mould and it rains a lot....but after 13 years in Nfld, BC rain ain't nothin' like St Johns RDF (rain,drizzle & fog....also known as "St Johns Summer"). I'll slam the other provinces later.    

The Canadian Thanksgiving is both older and quite different from the US tradition.

Good read here from the Edmonton Journal:

Canada's first Thanksgiving: Frobisher set stage for our celebrations in different spirit than U.S.

The first Thanksgiving celebration by Euro-peoples in North America was not in New England but in Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher, 42 years before the Pilgrims.

Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin.

Given the fierceness of Arctic winter and the tragedy of these other expeditions, we can understand why he was grateful to come out alive. But why a special thanksgiving?

Frobisher sailed under Elizabeth I, whose reign was marked by gratitude from beginning to end. For her first 20 years she held public thanksgiving simply for having lived to ascend the throne -- having escaped the fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn, at the hand of her sister, "Bloody Mary," in the previous reign.

Ten years after Frobisher's return, England gave thanks for delivery from the Spanish Armada. And in her last speech to Parliament the great Queen began "We perceive your coming is to offer thanks ..." and went on to return those thanks to her subjects.

It was in this spirit of thanksgiving --for being alive, protected, and appreciated -- that the English language and culture flowered in the works of Shakespeare, Spencer and Ben Johnson. England was very different then -- it was known as "Merrie Englande: its grown men laughed, cried, danced and loved exuberantly -- like their Sovereign." This was the context of Frobisher's 1578 Thanksgiving in Newfoundland.

We don't know much of that tradition in Canada. That's because most of Canada that was colonized then was under French rule -- except for Newfoundland, which had been discovered in the name of Elizabeth's grandfather, Henry VII.

The Thanksgiving we know began on a different rock under a different sovereign and in a different spirit. The Puritans were refugees from Elizabeth's successor, James. He and son Charles's insistence on the divine right of kings brought England to revolution and civil war a century before the American Revolution and two centuries before the U.S. Civil War. From Puritan rule in Britain came the unemotional Englishman with the "stiff upper lip."

Thirty years before they banned Christmas carols, feasting and dancing in Britain, the Puritans established a stern upright rule in New England. Having fled from persecution themselves, they persecuted others who believed differently. With the exception of Rhode Island, the New England colonies were driven by a sense of self-righteousness that grew from the grievances their leaders felt they had suffered in their homeland.

This eventually fired the American Revolution. Two-thirds of the Declaration of Independence is a list of grievances. Later this spirit pitted Americans against each other in the Civil War. It was this sense of rightness and others being wrong as much as slavery that led to the split in America as it had in England earlier.

Canada has followed a different tradition. Through the paternalism of the French regime and the British rule that followed it, Canadians have been seen as more colonized and less democratic than our southern neighbour. Yet that became an umbrella for pluralism.

Peace, Order and Good Government is a framework where native and immigrant, Catholic and Protestant, French and English could live side by side. To have adopted Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness here would have set our peoples at each other's throats.

This co-existence was possible in a spirit of gratitude: to God, the Queen and the benefits believed to flow from both. Gratitude is the foundation of society and ultimately of life on Earth. Frobisher's 1578 service of Thanksgiving is a milepost on a planetary journey to wholeness.

The difference between Elizabethan gratitude and Puritan grievance can be seen in the symbols of the societies that grew from them. In the north a beaver chews the branch of a fallen tree. To the south, an eagle carries a different load and message in each of its talons: in the one an olive branch, in the other a bundle of arrows.

Our lack of this ambivalence in Canada is something we have to be thankful for.

Robster........did you cut and paste that or did you type it?  I don't think there is a spelling mistake in that anywhere. And no texting shorthand (lol).

I think Robster just showed his hand. Full house!

I’m not sure you’ve quite grasped the argument. Laws of logic cannot exist in a materialistic, atheistic, Mini-istic universe because laws of logic are not material. The laws of logic are a universal standard for reasoning, but how can an atheist have a (non-arbitrary) universal standard for anything? Atheists do believe in laws of logic, God did not create logic, it is the mirror of his Godliness, but they cannot justify the existence of universal, abstract, invariant laws within their worldview. An unjustified belief is arbitrary, which is one form of irrationality.

dont start religion on me, lol

im still busy fixing my mini.. no time for a debate right now, lol

  If God Wanted People to Believe in Him, Then Why Did He Invent Logic? :-)

Now back to cars......

Didn't realise you had sold it already Rick.  Shuswap...holiday'd there in 2010....Wow 

Happy Thanksgiving to all the people of CA... 

God Bless

Nice Spitz!

Wishing you a bountiful Canadian Thanksgiving in Prince Albert, Sask.  (only been there once and was escorted out of town)

We have current and past Mini owners bringing their families for Thanksgiving Dinner tonight...and the chap who bought my refreshed MGB says, he might come down from the Shuswap this weekend.  I hope he doesn't want to leave me the B and take his money back...I've spent it!

Rick

Photo:  My son Jeremy & me on the Coquihalla Highway on the run from the coast to deliver the B in Salmon Arm, B.C.  Top down cruising at 75 mph in 4th at 2,200 rpm.

As it's Thanksgiving weekend....and harvest time.... thought I'd post a pic of my new to me Harvest Gold GT  :-)