Num13v27 Recipes Ldot 15

Numbers 13:27 NAS Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Your Annual LCom Staff Thanksgiving Recipe Thread

Lucianne.com News Forum – Thread [/] http://j.mp/0RecipeL15 [/] or http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=853018

Lucianne.com, by LcomStaff / Original Article / Posted By:LComStaff, 11/25/2015 6:50:11 AM

Here is a collection of traditional Thanksgiving recipes Feel free to add your own favorites. Last year Igor forgot how to make mashed potatoes and found this thread helpful.

Reply 1 - Posted by: StormCnter, 11/25/2015 6:53:30 AM (No. 10542931)

Recipe later if I have time, but first and more important: / Happy Thanksgiving, safe travel, good food, warm company wishes to all L-Dotters and the staff.

Reply 2 - Posted by: BirdsNest, 11/25/2015 7:18:48 AM (No. 10542967)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. No recipes from me this year. I will be spending my day with Hagar in rehab, eating whatever the place has to offer in the way of a traditional meal. I am counting my blessings, there have been many of them these past 6 months. Be safe.

Reply 3 - Posted by: Italiano, 11/25/2015 7:29:30 AM (No. 10542980)

Better focus on the Ham recipes. According to Vladimir Putin, there may not be any Turkey left by Thanksgiving.

Reply 4 - Posted by: StormCnter, 11/25/2015 7:34:49 AM (No. 10542989)

HOLIDAY GRAPES / 1 8 oz. package soft cream cheese / 1 cup (8 oz.) sour cream / 1/3 cup sugar / 1 tsp. vanilla extract / 2 pounds seedless red grapes / 2 pounds seedless green grapes

For Garnish / 2 tbsp. brown sugar / 3 tbsp. chopped pecans

Beat cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until blended. Add washed and stemmed grapes and toss to coat.

Cover and refrigerate until serving. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans just before serving. Yields 21-24 servings

This is really good. I make it several times a year. It will keep in the fridge for about a week.

Reply 5 - Posted by: Mushroom, 11/25/2015 7:35:40 AM (No. 10542990)

Here´s a favorite of mine. / Go to fridge, grab beer, open beer, drink. Repeat.

Seriously, I wish you all the best, My loving spouse will be with family and I will be here with the dogs.

Reply 6 - Posted by: ScarletPimpernel, 11/25/2015 7:38:51 AM (No. 10542998)

I wish my fellow LDotters a safe and blessed Thanksgiving wherever you are. I will try to post a recipe later on. In the meantime, here are the words to a wonderful Dutch hymn (1597). I especially take comfort in the second verse:

1. We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; / He chastens and hastens His will to make known;

The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing; / Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.

2. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, / Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;

So from the beginning the fight we were winning; / Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!

3. We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant, / And pray that Thou still our Defender will be;

Let Thy congregation escape tribulation; / Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

Reply 7 - Posted by: saguni, 11/25/2015 7:43:10 AM (No. 10543004)

Just a short "Happy Thanksgiving!" for now, I´m off to volunteer for now, but I´ll be back later.

Reply 8 - Posted by: Daylily, 11/25/2015 7:48:01 AM (No. 10543009)

Many thanks #6 for posting the hymn; it´s very familiar and found myself singing as I read it.

Reply 9 - Posted by: Keekng, 11/25/2015 8:02:17 AM (No. 10543024)

Our favorite turkey gravy for the past 50+ years.....Enjoy!

Herb Turkey (Tarragon) Gravy / Turkey giblets and neck / 10 cups water / 3 onions, peeled, quartered / 3 ribs celery, cut into sticks / 3 carrots, peeled, in sticks / 1-2 teaspoons salt / 3 chicken flavored bouillon cubes / 3 bay leaves

1/3 cup cornstarch / 1 teaspoon dried tarragon leaves / 1 cup dry white wine

Make broth a day ahead using first 8 ingredients

Bring to a boil, reduce heat, remove liver after 25 minutes and simmer broth until reduced by half. / Drain cover and chill.

To make gravy pour pan drippings from turkey into large measuring cup leaving only brown particles in pan. Spoon off fat drippings, discard. Add broth to juices to equal 4 cups, return to roasting pan. IN small bowl stir together corn starch tarragon and wine. add to roasting pan. Stir constantly bring to boil over medium heat, scraping up brown bits from bottom of pan. Boil 1 minute, makes about 5 cups.

Reply 10 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 11/25/2015 8:14:54 AM (No. 10543040)

Multiplied blessings to all my Ldot friends and neighbors. I will cut & paste all these offerings to save for Christmas. My Thanksgiving dinner will be at the Waffle House. In September I remarried my DxH who has now become my DH (again) and we will be moving into our new home on this Thursday and Friday (and probably the rest of the month). Combining two households into a new place was the best plan. Don´t gainsay the Waffle House or Cracker Barrel, since those are open all day on both holidays. If all else fails, there is always ´´scattered, smothered, covered and chunked.´´

Thank you, dear Hostess and Staff, for helping us stay sane in this troubled time.

Reply 11 - Posted by: nightvision, 11/25/2015 8:43:01 AM (No. 10543081)

Don´t have a recipe on hand at the moment, but thank you, Lucianne, for yet another wonderful foodie thread.

I have saved past ones and they are great to revisit, not just for the recipes, but for the laughs and camaraderie Ldotters have shared over the years.

#10, congratulations on your (re)marriage! / I wish you many years of happiness!

Reply 13 - Posted by: seamusm, 11/25/2015 8:52:38 AM (No. 10543096)

Giving thanks to God Almighty.

Green Beans and Bacon (not the usual) / Cook 1 lb of bacon in a pan. / Pour off some (not all) the grease. / Add 4 cans of drained whole green beans

Liberally add black pepper./ Add 1 cup of vinegar. / Heat - then eat.

From Lilly Miklis - her cooking sealed the deal to marry my wife of 37 years.

Reply 14 - Posted by: Susannah, 11/25/2015 8:59:41 AM (No. 10543108)

#12, I don´t know about a plain old squirrel recipe, but LCom DOES have a very famous and beloved WHORE SQUIRREL recipe.

Where is it? Time for the whore squirrel recipe.

Reply 15 - Posted by: broken01, 11/25/2015 9:04:31 AM (No. 10543115)

I would like to wish my fellow LDotters a very safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving. Even though we still have a stuffed turkey and all of his sides like his mashed potato headed Vice President in the White House we as Americans have many things to be thankful for. As for me I´ll be spending the holiday with the in-laws. They are wonderful people but their son is a diehard Obama hoper and changer. Pray for me.

Reply 18 - Posted by: vulcanrider, 11/25/2015 9:32:58 AM (No. 10543189)

Here you go, the ever popular "Whore Squirrel" recipe:

Succulent Squirrel Recipe / Serving size: Four Servings

Day One:/ 4 cleaned, whore squirrels.

1 16 oz. bottle of Italian dressing / 8 small potatoes, sliced. / 4 carrots, sliced. / 2 medium sized onions, / 4 tablespoons barbeque sauce,

1/4 cup salt, black pepper, / 1 pinch celery seed, / 1 pinch paprika, / 1 pinch sage, / 2 tablespoons of bacon bits.

Soak squirrels overnight in refrigerator in large bowl of fresh water to which the salt has been added.

Day Two: / Next day, rinse squirrels off and place on their backs in cake pan.

Pour Italian dressing over them and put back in refrigerator for 4 to 6 hrs.

In center of a sheet of aluminum foil large enough to wrap one squirrel, place layer of sliced onion and potato.

Put one dressing doused squirrel on its back on the veggies, .sprinkle with pepper, Paprika, celery seed, and sage (takes very little spice).

Sprinkle bacon bits inside body cavity. Stuff cavity with carrots sliced long and thin.

Pour on BBQ sauce to taste. Put a layer of onions and thinly sliced potatoes on top. Wrap each squirrel thus dressed with two wraps of foil,

Sealing well-do not puncture foil. Place the four servings on a double-burner gas grill with lid closed.

Set on low temperature, and grill for 45 minutes, turning every 10 to 15 minutes.

Reply 20 - Posted by: sudmuf, 11/25/2015 10:13:02 AM (No. 10543254)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I´ve always enjoyed this thread, the recipes and the frivolity. In years past I´ve printed off the

recipes and have actually used some of them. I posted one also a couple years ago. I learned how to puree pumpkin this year to make my pies. It´s a little messy but not that difficult. The taste is supposed to be far superior to the canned stuff. We´ll see.

So if that perks your interest I´m sure there are a number of cooking websites with the "how to do it" Basically it involves heating the pumpkin to soften the meat and the skin will peel off easily.

Reply 21 - Posted by: 4freedom, 11/25/2015 10:13:17 AM (No. 10543255)

I got a recipe for the greatest Thanksgiving ever, arrest Barry on treason charges, celebrate, pass out candy on the streets.

Reply 22 - Posted by: yottyhere, 11/25/2015 10:31:16 AM (No. 10543277)

Well, in between making the bed(fighting with the pugs) and folding a load of wash(again fighting with the pugs)

PS Congrats to Poster #10

BUTTERNUT SQUASH HUMMUS

HUMMUS / 1 cup (140 g) cubed butternut squash / 4 cloves garlic, skin on (12 g) / 4 cloves garlic, peeled + minced (~2 Tbsp | 12 g)

1 lemon, juiced (2 Tbsp or 30 ml) / 1 15-ounce (425 g) can chickpeas, lightly rinsed + drained / 1/3 cup (80 g) tahini

3-4 Tbsp (45-60 ml) olive oil, plus more for roasting garlic / Sea salt + pepper to taste (~1/4 tsp each)

1/2 cup (30 g) fresh parsley, chopped / 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon / 1/2 tsp ground cumin / Whole Wheat Pita Chips / Roasted Carrots*

Instructions / Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and position a rack in the middle of the oven.

Add cubed butternut squash and 4 unpeeled garlic cloves to a baking sheet and drizzle with 1 Tbsp olive oil and a pinch each salt and pepper. Toss to combine.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until all squash is fork tender and the garlic is golden brown. Let cool 5 minutes.

Peel roasted garlic and add to food processor or blender, along with squash, 4 cloves fresh minced garlic, lemon juice, chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley, cinnamon, cumin and smoked paprika (optional).

Purée until creamy and smooth, scraping down sides as needed and adding more olive oil or a touch of water if it´s too thick.

Taste and adjust seasonings, then serve immediately with pita chips and vegetables of choice (see notes for roasted carrots). Alternatively, refrigerate until fully chilled - about 3-4 hours - for a thicker, creamier dip.

Store leftovers, covered, in the refrigerator up to 4-5 days, though best when fresh.

Reply 23 - Posted by: PAdiva, 11/25/2015 10:35:04 AM (No. 10543282)

Enchilada Sauce / 3 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce (or 26 oz can) / 2 cloves garlic, crushed / 1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp ground cumin / 1/4 tsp crushed oregano leaves / 1/8 tsp pepper

In medium saucepan, combine all ingredients. Mix well. Heat to boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

(Easy and more economical than the commercial stuff.)

Reply 24 - Posted by: hollyhock, 11/25/2015 10:46:36 AM (No. 10543299)

Happy Thanksgiving to all who come here and to the staff and especially Ms Lucianne.

Can anyone post a copy of Ms Lucianne´s Bacon Jam recipe?

Reply 25 - Posted by: gaeditor, 11/25/2015 11:03:30 AM (No. 10543308)

Looking for a quick and easy but delicious recipe to take to dinner? This is a good one.

Cranberry Relish / 1 bag of fresh cranberries (4 cups) / 2 cups sugar / 1 cup orange juice / Juice of 1 lemon

1 cinnamon stick / Dash of nutmeg / 1/2 cup raisins (I like the golden kind)

Rinse the cranberries, removing any bad ones. Stir all of the ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook until the berries begin to pop. (About 5 minutes). Keep in the fridge until ready to use.

My sister sometimes adds in 1/2 cup toasted walnuts, if you like nuts... in your cranberry relish. (I didn´t mean to sound redundant, I apologize, but one only need remember the most infamous, shoot-coffee-out-your-nose, Thanksgiving typo on Lucianne...the oh-so-famous Whore Squirrel...

Thank you vulcanrider.....

Reply 26 - Posted by: daisymay, 11/25/2015 11:04:56 AM (No. 10543310)

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Ldotter friends. We´ve been here for years and years and may have our disagreements from time to time, but we will survive them and still come out on the other side as friends.

#10,Congrats on your re-marriage. I wish you a lifetime of happiness!

As for the Whore Squirrel recipe...that´s not exactly how I remember that whole story!

Reply 27 - Posted by: Hazymac, 11/25/2015 11:09:24 AM (No. 10543317)

Instant Spiced Tea recipe

2 cups Tang / 1 1/2 cups sugar (or Splenda equivalent) / 3/4 cup instant tea / 2 packages instant lemonade mix

1 tsp ground cloves / 1 tsp ground cinnamon / 1 tsp allspice / 1 tsp coriander / 1 tsp cardamom

1 tsp ground ginger / 1 tsp ground nutmeg

Mix ingredients well then add to hot water, to taste. It´s especially good when it´s cold outside.

Reply 28 - Posted by: Me_Opinionated_Nah, 11/25/2015 11:17:24 AM (No. 10543324)

Just as the sound of the first jingle bell I hear tells me it’s Christmas, I know it’s Thanksgiving when I hear that unmistakable sound of the first cylinder of jellied cranberry sauce as it uniquely slithers its way out of the can.

Again this year, I’m going back to the Kids’ Table where it’s always more fun.

Reply 29 - Posted by: Duchess, 11/25/2015 11:25:15 AM (No. 10543332)

My Canadian friends made this whole menu.It was fantastic. The pork loin paired with the side dish of bread pudding was great.

http://www.lcbo.com/content/lcbo/en/lets-get-together/harvest-menu/dry-riesling-and-pork-rib-roast.html

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Heb11v13to16 Pilgrims

Heb. 11:13-16 KJV ¶ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

On Plymouth Plantation

by William Bradford [/] http://j.mp/0OnPlymouth [/] or https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/nereligioushistory/bradford-plimoth/bradford-plymouthplantation.pdf

It is well known to the godly and judicious, how ever since the first breaking out of the light of the gospel in our Honorable Nation of England ([…] after the gross darkness of popery […]) what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan has raised, maintained, and continued against the Saints […]

Mr. Foxe records how beside those worthy martyrs and confessors which were burned in Queen Mary's days and otherwise tormented, many fled out of the land to the number of 800, and became several congregations at Wesell, Frankfort, Basil, Emden, Markpurge, Strausborough, and Geneva, etc.[...]

The one side labored to have the right worship of God and discipline of Christ established in the church, according to the simplicity of the gospel, without the mixture of men;s inventions, and to have and to be ruled by the laws of God's word, dispensed in those offices, and by those officers of Pastors, Teachers, and Elders, etc,, according to the Scriptures. […]

So many therefore of these professors as saw the evil of these things [bishops, ceremonies, and other relics of popery], in these parts [the north of England], and whose hearts the Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for his truth, they shook off this yoke of anti-christian bondage, and as the Lord's free people, joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, the the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all his ways, made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them. And that it cost them some thing this ensuing history will declare. [...]

But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them. […]

So after they had continued together about a year, and kept their meetings every Sabbath in one place or other, exercising the worship of God among themselves, notwithstanding, all the diligence and malice of their adversaries, they seeing they could not longer continue in the condition, they resolved to get over into Holland.

But these things [learning a new language and new trades, etc.] did not dismay them (though they did some times trouble them) for their desires were set on the ways of God, and to enjoy his ordinances; but they rested on his providence, and knew whom they had believed. […]

And afterward endured a fearful storm at sea, […] the mariners cried out, We sink, we sink; they cried (if not with miraculous, yet with a great height or degree of divine faith), Yet Lord you can save, yet Lord you can save. {..] The Lord […] brought them to their desired Haven where the people came flocking admiring their deliverance, the storm having been so long and sore, [….]

And so they left that goodly and pleasant city [Leyden], which had been their resting place near 12 years; but they knew they were pilgrims (Heb 11[:13-16:]) and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.

Of the troubles that befell them on the coast [of southeast England], and at sea being forced, after much trouble, to leave one of their ships and some of their company behind them […]

And thus, like Gidieons army [Judges 7.7], this small number was divided, as if the Lord by this work of his providence thought these few too many for the great work he had to do. […]

They met […] with many fierce storms, with which the ship was thoroughly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky; and one of the main beams in the midships was bowed and cracked, which put them in some fear that the ship could not be able to perform the voyage. […] The master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm under water, and for the buckling of the main beam, there was a great iron screw the passengers brought out of Holland which would raise the beam into his place; which being done […] So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed. […]

Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. [...]

[But,] What could now sustain them [separated from friends on an alien coast with winter coming on and no shelter] but the spirit of God and his grace? [...]

[O]ne of their company being abroad came runing in, and cried, “Men, Indians, Indians”' and their arrows came flying among them. [..] But they soon got their ams and let fly among them and quickly stopped their violence. [...]

Afterward they gave God solemn thanks and praise for their deliverance, and gathered up a bundle of their arrows, and sent them to England afterward by the master of the ship, and called that place the first encounter. […]

On Monday they sounded the harbor, and found it fit for shipping and marched into the land, and found diverse cornfields, and little running brooks, a place (as they supposed) fit for situation; at least it was the best they could find and the season and their present necessity, made them glad to accept it. […]

“In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and the honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have here-under subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the 11^th of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland the eighteenth and of Scotland the fifty-forth. Anno Domini 1620.” [- The Mayflower Compact, signed by all the adult male colonists, both “saints” (members of their congregation) and “strangers” (volunteer paid co-colonists).]

But it pleased God to visit them with death daily, and with such a general increase of illness that the well were wholly unable to care for the sick and the living scare able to bury the dead. [from an alternate source text of the account]

But that which was most sad and lamentable was, that in 2 or 3 months time half of their company died, […] being the depth of winter and wanting houses and other comforts; being infected with scurvy and other diseases, which this long voyage and their in-accommodate condition had brought upon the; […] of 100 odd persons, scarce 50 remained. And of these in the time of most distress, there were but 6 or 7 sound persons, who, to their great commendation be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their breads, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them; in a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren. [...]

But about the 16^th of March a certain Indian came boldly among them and spoke to them in broken English, […] Squanto [another English speaking Indian] continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died. He was a native of the place, and scarce any left alive beside himself.[...]

May 12 was the first marriage in this place, which […] was thought most requisite to be performed by the magistrate, as being a civil thing, upon which many questions about inheritances do depend, with other things most proper to their cognizance, and most consonant to the scriptures, Ruth 4, and nowhere found in the gospel to be laid on the ministers as a part of their office.[...]

They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against the winter, being all well recovered in health and strength, and had all things in good plenty; for as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, aboute cod, and bass, and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want. And now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when the came first [...] And besides water fowl, there was great store of wild Turkies, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides they had about a peck of meal a week to a person or now sin since harvest, Indian corn to the proportion. Which made may afterwards write so largely of the plenty here to their friends in England, which were not exaggerated but true reports. [...]

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, [Gen 1.1; 1Co 1.28; Rom 4.19] and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation. [from Wikiquote]

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Luk7v31to32 Leftie Thanksgiving

Luke 7:31-32 KJV ¶ And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

_ lucianne.com/shortcuts or http://j.mp/0CutsL earlier today gave the WashTimes link below with the comment: Second amendment advocates are warned to bring sidearms to ensure peaceful Thanksgiving. Bookmark the Ldot Must Reads or /shortcuts page for daily chuckles from link comments and cartoon of the day.

_ The last name of the Democratic National Committee communications director seems to me to be providential. Law enforcement will be particularly reminded to read him his Miranda rights.

_ Advocacy of political correctness seems to be as all consuming of common sense and common decency as the advocacy of sharia law or the advocacy of the dictatorship of the proletariat or advocacy of the germanic superman. Much more destructive of common sense, and common decency, actually, than these other perversions.

_ Lord willing, I will attempt to post better things about our great All-American holiday soon. Stay tuned.

DNC offers holiday guide for dealing with Republican relatives

The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com [/] http://j.mp/0ThanksDNC [/] or http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/24/dnc-offers-holiday-guide-dealing-gop-relatives/

The Democratic National Committee sent an email Tuesday to supporters with advice on how to talk to their Republican relatives during the holiday season, referring them to a website aimed at debunking right-wing talking points.

“It’s that time of year — full of food and fun and celebrating with family and friends. But we here at the DNC know that occasionally all that togetherness can lead to some … let’s call them ‘lively’ conversations about politics with one Republican uncle,” reads the email, sent by Luis Miranda, DNC communications director. “So I’m officially deputizing you to serve as a Deputy Democratic Spokesperson this holiday season — and giving you special access to all the facts you could ever want.

“We’ve designed a handy website with the perfect responses to all the most common right-wing talking points spouted by your family members who may spend a little too much time tuned into factually-challenged conservative talk radio,” the email reads.

Mr. Miranda advises Democrats “not to blame your Republican relatives too much — after all, they’re only taking after the GOP’s presidential candidates and their loose interpretation of reality.”

This week Republican presidential front-runner Donald J. Trump came under fire for saying that thousands of people in New Jersey cheered when the World Trade Center crumbled on 9/11. Fact-checking [N.B. Leftie-speak for “fact-spinning”.] website Politifact said the claim “defies basic logic” and gave Mr. Trump a “Pants on fire” rating.

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2Ch35v18 Josiah vs Darby I

2Ch35v18 Josiah vs Darby I

 
2 Chr. 35:18 KJV And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

1 Cor. 5:6-8 KJV ¶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Cor. 11:23-26 KJV ¶ For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

1 Cor. 10:2-4 KJV And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

1 Cor. 11:7 KJV For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

1 Cor. 14:31 KJV For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

1 Cor. 14:35 KJV And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

1 Cor. 11:19 KJV For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

1 Cor. 11:27 KJV ¶ Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

_ The historic parallel between Josiah's passover and the re-discovery of the proper biblical ordering of the Lord's supper in Dublin around 1840 is striking once it is, through the grace of God, stumbled upon. Stay tuned. More later. Lord willing.

[Reflections on 2 Chronicles 35]

touchstonemag.com [/ by ]Patrick Henry Reardon [/] [Look for “Saturday, November 35 (sic, - for 14)” at:] http://j.mp/0Reflect [/] or http://touchstonemag.com/daily_reflections/

Saturday, November 35 [sic. /] 2 Chronicles 35: Although 2 Kings 23:21-23 tells of the Passover observed in Jerusalem in the year that the scroll was discovered, the account of that same celebration here in Chronicles is far more ample and detailed. Indeed, verses 2-18 of the present chapter are peculiar to the Chronicler.

Josiah entrusted the organization and preparation for this feast to the ever-reliable Levites, who were especially charged with the actual slaying of the paschal lambs (verses 3-5). At each part of the ritual the Levites performed their sundry duties as assistants, musicians, and doorkeepers (verses 10-15).

So great was Josiah’s celebration of Passover that the Chronicler’s mind was forced back to the time of Samuel to find its equal (verse 18). For two reasons this high estimate is unexpected. First, it makes Josiah’s celebration of Passover eclipse notable Passover celebrations of David, Solomon, and Hezekiah. Second, it suggests a liturgical standard in the pre-monarchical period, a time about which, as we have seen, the Chronicler had fairly little to say at the beginning of the book. These considerations render the Chronicler’s assessment very surprising.

The Chronicler is careful to note that this Passover celebration involved “all Judah and Israel” (verse 18). Josiah’s ability to bring together the entire Chosen People, all the descendents of those who celebrated that first Passover on the night before the Exodus, indicates the recent political changes in the Fertile Crescent. Obviously no one was any longer afraid of what the Assyrians might think.

It is very significant of Josiah’s thinking, moreover, that the remnants of the northern tribes were invited to the feast, as Hezekiah had done in the previous century. The Passover was not just any feast. It was the feast in which Israel was separated from all other peoples of the earth. It was the feast that rendered Israel God’s Chosen People. Therefore, it was preeminently the feast of the unity of the People of God.

Being restricted to Jerusalem, Josiah’s celebration of the feast, we observe, corresponded to the prescription of Deuteronomy, which we believe to have formed, at least in part, the scroll so recently discovered. In that text it was commanded, “You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice” (Deuteronomy 16:5-6 ESV).

Perhaps more than any other feast in the liturgical calendar, Passover roots Israel’s worship in the concrete, documented facts of history. The annual feast itself is part of the historical continuity inaugurated by the events remembered on that holiest of nights. Israel represents, in this respect, a religious adherence profoundly different from that of the religions of India, which involve various efforts to escape from history into some kind of experience transcendent to history. Israel’s worship does not endeavor to escape the flow of history but to place the worshippers into the People’s historical identity established by historical events. Those who keep this feast become one with those who have always kept it, including those who stood to eat the Passover on that first night, protected by the sprinkled blood of the paschal lambs.

The proper celebration of the Passover, however, is more than a “then and now.” The “then and now” forms only the two extremes of the greater continuity. The full continuity is also important, because this feast is essentially an inherited feast, and the inheritance is received, not simply from the distant past, but from the more immediate past of the previous generation of worshippers.

What was true of Israel’s celebration of the paschal feast is, of course, likewise true of that new Pascha celebrated by Christians (in the identical historical continuity, for those Israelites were our own forefathers!). This is how we should understand the words of the Apostle Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians at Passover season, “Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast” (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).

The closing verses (20-27) of this chapter bring us to the year 609, when the final remnants 1 Cor. 5:6-8 KJV ¶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. of the Assyrian army were destroyed at the Battle of Carcemish. Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, had fallen to the allied forces of the Medes and Babylonians three years earlier in 612 (to the great joy of the prophet Nahum, who made this the theme of his book). In 610 the vestigial, refugee government of Assyria were driven out of Haran, at the top of the Fertile Crescent. The Assyrian situation had become desperate.

To the new pharaoh who took the throne of Egypt that very year, Neco II (610-594), this was not a good development. He felt certain that the Babylonians, after they finished off the Assyrians, would begin to cast its gaze down toward the southwestern border of the Fertile Crescent. Deciding to cast in his lot with the remaining forces of Assyria, Neco marched his army northwards along the coastal road through the Carmel range, heading toward a rendezvous with the Assyrians at Carchemish on Euphrates River, with the hope that with joined forces they might stop the march of the Babylonians and the Medes.

This road lay, of course, right through the territory of Judah, and Josiah was forced to make some determination about the matter. Perhaps recalling that his great-grandfather Hezekiah had been friendly toward Babylon (32:31), and certainly remembering all that the Holy Land had suffered at the hands of the Assyrians, Josiah determined to throw in his lot with Babylon and resolved to march counter to Pharaoh Neco and stop him from reaching Carchemish. When their two armies met at a crossroads on the plain beneath Armageddon, the “hill of Megiddo,” King Josiah perished in the battle.

Whereas in 2 Kings this story is told in two and a half verses (23:28-30a), the Chronicler provides a longer, more detailed, more colorful account. According to this account Pharaoh Neco tried to dissuade Josiah from fighting him, claiming even the will, protection, and providence of God for the side of the Egyptians (verse 21). What is important here is not the nature of Neco’s claim, but the fact that the Chronicler apparently agreed with it (verse 22). In the narrator’s eyes, this was one more occasion when a king of Judah refused to pay heed to a message from on high, with disastrous results for the kingdom. He will summarize this theme in the next chapter (36:15-16).

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2Ki18v14to17 Appeasement Hanson

2Ki18v14to17 Appeasement Hanson

2 Ki. 18:14-17 KJV And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

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Appeasement defined the global conflicts of the 20th century. Time after time, America and other forces for freedom and democracy withheld their power in efforts to appease the most evil regimes in recent history. Over and over again, the policy of appeasement has ended in disaster. Now, conservative giant Victor Davis Hanson asks: why is appeasement so seductive and where will it take us in the 21st century?

In this collection of Hanson’s best columns from the last four years on the policy of appeasement today and in history, the path becomes clear. If America continues down the road of appeasement with radical Islamic groups and aggressive regimes in Russia and North Korea, the world will see a conflagration rivaling World War II.

The 20th-century world—after horrific losses—made it through its last appeasement disaster; but will we be able to recover to face and ward off the present gathering storm?

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Isa13v19 End of Oworld

Isa13v19 End of Oworld

Isaiah 13:19 KJV And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

_ Imaginary dominions also collapse. As the Marxist error of assuming an inevitable dictatorship of the proletariat. In practice a dictatorship of the lumpen proletariat results from the various forms of this madness. As the adoption of a religion which explicitly denies the deity of Jesus and the obvious moral superiority of the average man to its Prophet has resulted in an obvious inferiority of culture. So also the imaginary world of our undocumented and very impeachable president is working out obvious evil.

The end of Obamaworld

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In denouncing Republicans as “scared of widows and orphans” and castigating those who prefer Christian refugees to Muslims coming to America, Barack Obama has come off as petulant and unpresidential.

Clearly, he is upset. And with good reason.

He grossly, transparently underestimated the ability of ISIS, the JV team, to strike outside the caliphate into the heart of the West, and has egg all over his face. More critically, the liberal world order he has been preaching and predicting is receding before our eyes.

Suddenly, his rhetoric is discordantly out of touch with reality. And, for his time on the global stage, the phrase “failed president” comes to mind.

What happened in Paris, said President Obama, “was an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.”

And just what might those “universal values” be?

At a soccer game between Turkey and Greece in Istanbul, Turks booed during the moment of silence for the Paris dead and chanted “Allahu Akbar.” Among 1.6 billion Muslims, hundreds of millions do not share our values regarding women’s rights, abortion, homosexuality, free speech, or the equality of all religious faiths.

Set aside the fanatics of ISIS. Does Saudi Arabia share Obama’s views and values regarding sexual freedom and the equality of Christianity, Judaism and Islam? Is anything like the First Amendment operative across the Sunni or Shiite world, or in China?

In their belief in the innate superiority of their Islamic faith and the culture and civilization it created, Muslims have more in common with our confident Christian ancestors who conquered them than with gauzy global egalitarians like Barack Obama.

“Liberté, egalité, fraternité,” the values of secular France, are no more shared by the Islamic world than is France’s affection for Charlie Hebdo.

Across both Europe and the United States, the lurch away from liberalism, on immigration, borders and security, fairly astonishes.

But again, understandably so.

Many of the Muslim immigrants in Britain, France and Germany have never assimilated. Within these countries are huge enclaves of the alienated and their militant offspring.

Consider the Belgium capital of Brussels. Belgium’s home affairs minister, Jan Jambon, said his government does not “have control of the situation in Molenbeek.”

Brice De Ruyver, a security adviser to a former Belgian prime minister says, “We don’t officially have no-go zones in Brussels, but in reality, there are, and they are in Molenbeek.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, after the Paris attacks, “French security forces … conducted hundreds of anti-terror raids and placed more than 100 suspects under arrest. … France has some 11,500 names on government watch lists.”

How many of those 11,500 are of Arab descent or the Muslim faith?

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The nations of the EU are beginning to look again at their borders, and who is crossing them, who is coming in, and who is already there.

And the world is reawakening to truths long suppressed. Race and religion matter. To some they are life-and-death matters. Not all creeds, cultures and tribes are equally or easily assimilated into a Western nation. And First World nations have a right to preserve their own unique identity and character.

When Obama says that to prefer Christian to Muslim refugees is “un-American,” he is saying that all the U.S. immigration laws enacted before 1965 were un-American. And, so, too, were presidents like Calvin Coolidge who signed laws that virtually restricted immigration to Europeans.

Barack Obama may be our president, but who is this man of the left to dictate to us what is “un-American”?

Were presidents Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson, who called ours a “Christian nation,” un-American? Did the Supreme Court uphold our “universal values” with Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the Obergefell decision on same-sex marriage last June?

The race issue, too, has returned to divide us.

Half a century after Selma bridge, we have “Black Lives Matter!” on college campuses claiming that universities like Missouri, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth are riddled with institutional racism.

Attention must be paid, and reparations made, by white America. And a new generation of academic appeasers advances to grovel and ask how the university might make amends.

In Europe, tribalism and nationalism are on the march. Peoples and nations wish to preserve who they are. Some have begun to establish checkpoints and ignore the Schengen Agreement mandating open borders. Eastern Europeans have had all the diversity they can stand.

With Syrian passports missing, with ISIS besieged in its Syria-Iraq laager and urging suicide attacks in New York and Washington, we may be witness to more terrorist massacres and murders in the States.

The time may be at hand for a moratorium on all immigration and a rewriting of the immigration laws to reflect the views and values of Middle Americans, rather than those of a morally arrogant multicultural elite.

Obamaworld is gone. We live again in an us-versus-them country in an us-versus-them world. And we shall likely never know another. [My emphasis.]

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