Thursday, December 03, 2015

Psa137v4 Leftie Quislings

Ps. 137:4 KJV How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

Canada Awaits a Pair of Impending Catastrophes

There are two countries that I once regarded as home: Canada, where I have spent most of my life, and Greece, where I lived for five years. Both are now lost to me. Governed by a leftist administration and effectively submitting to the adhan—the call of the muezzin—each is now under siege.
Greece has become a way-station for a vast press of Muslim refugees sowing disorder and mayhem in their wake. Fishermen on the island of Lesbos, which I know well, have seen their livelihoods disrupted, and are unable to navigate through the filth and garbage littering their shores. Elsewhere the migrants reward their hosts by going on rampages. A graphic video shows what lies in wait for this once anti-Islamic country, which endured over 400 years of Ottoman oppression. As one Greek respondent says, “We are under occupation.”
As for Canada, the future augurs poorly. Under the partisan and incompetent administration of Justin Trudeau—like Barack Obama the most unqualified and dangerous person ever to occupy his nation’s highest office—we are witnessing the importation of a veritable Muslim army that will ultimately change the face of the country beyond recognition. Trudeau, who has ended Canada’s military contribution to the war against ISIS and vowed to weaken anti-terrorist Bill C-51, is opening the gates with intemperate haste to 25,000 Muslim refugees, aka “Syrians,” a number proportionately equivalent, as author Howard Rotberg points out, to 225,000 Muslims flooding in short order into the U.S. CTV News reports that up to 900 Syrians a day are set to land in Montreal and Toronto, starting December 1.
A part of the first wave of these intruders will be housed in Kingston, Ontario, only 20 miles from the small town where my wife and I recently settled. Military personnel at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) and Royal Military College in Kingston are being displaced to make room within days for 600 of these new arrivals. Such evictions are becoming common practice around the country. I have just heard from a correspondent who lives in the Gulf Islands region that military personnel plus their families are having to move out of their lodgings at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island to make way for the refugees. “No matter,” as Daniel Greenfield has commented, “soldiers aren't important. Muslim victims are.”
America, as we know, has been under siege for some time, in ways that dwarf our own problems in Canada: a porous southern border swarming with illegals who now number in the millions, and a growing and restive Muslim community that has brought Mogadishu into parts of the country. Barack Obama has only exacerbated the coming disaster, bringing it closer to its malign fruition, with his open-border advocacy for multitudes of Muslim interlopers, whom he now compares to “pilgrims” on the Mayflower. Justin Trudeau is cut from the same cloth. With his penchant for mosque-hopping and his love-in with the Islamic community, he may well concur with Obama that the muezzin’s call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.”
It should be clear by this time that we are letting ourselves in for two impending catastrophic eventualities.
First, an upsurge in jihadist violence, as in France, Greece, the Scandinavian countries, Macedonia, Hungary, Germany (German federal police chief Hans-Georg Maasen estimates that among the migrants there are approximately 8000 Islamic radicals planning combat missions), and other nations that have succumbed to the siren call of compassion or a false solution to offset declining birth rates. This is to be expected of Western Europeans who, as Michael Walsh writes, “have been softened up by years of cultural relativism, soft-core socialism and the American willingness to shield them from the consequences of their moral, social, and military weakness.” That game is just about over for them—the same game that we in Canada are now playing in earnest.
Second, apart from the imminent threat of violence, there is also the delayed effect of cultural expropriation, the attenuated jihadism of values-encroachment in which an alien and retrograde view of the world impacts a modern host society. It is characterized by a mindset hostile to the history, moral codes, legal instruments, technological innovation and intellectual vitality of Western civilization, gradually infiltrating and changing all we have taken for granted into an accommodationist parody of itself. In this latter case, the damage is even greater than most terrorist atrocities, and likely irreversible.
There is yet another factor that further complicates the issue. According to the World Health Organization, Europe is experiencing an alarming rise in infectious diseases, including HIV, associated with the migrant efflux on the continent. The WHO director absurdly blames the high rate of HIV infection—an increase of 33 percent—on the “social exclusion” migrants ostensibly suffer and recommends providing them with free medical treatment, obviously at great expense to the taxpayer. But Carol Brown at American Thinker provides the real solution: “do not let these people in.”
Too late, it seems. Anyone who doubts that the enemy is now firmly embedded within our gates has not been paying attention. I refer not only to the denizens of a civilization incompatible with and antithetical to the patrimony of the West, but to our own complicit governments, educators and opinion leaders intent on committing national and civilizational suicide. I sometimes wonder if the time has not come for the military to step up, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk fashion, and refuse to obey the destructive commands of our civilian governments.
I do not say this lightly. I vividly recall my experience as a young man living in Greece during the reign of the military junta: being fired from my ESL job in Crete for making seditious statements, shadowed by the Asfalia (Security force), and awakening every morning to a police officer stationed by the chestnut tree in the courtyard to keep an eye on my movements, finding myself threatened with prison and the dreaded bastinado, facing down a tank in the streets of Piraeus, and finally having to take asylum in the Canadian embassy in Athens. It wasn’t a picnic, to say the least.
Times change, and the threat we are now confronting is posed not by a military putsch but by the soft fascism of our current socialist administrations and a military marching in lockstep with its ideological overlords whose deceptive rhetoric and destabilizing policies will cost us all dearly. Our generals, very much like our university administrators and media apparatchiks, have become political sutlers fearful for their reputations and protective not of the country but of their cushy billets. Some are cowards. Some are ignorant. Some are corrupt. But they all have one thing in common: they are what the French call vendus, they have sold out the country, and they have done so, regrettably, with a majority electoral accomplice.
The issue for me has become immediate, close-range and intimately personal. My wife and I have already had several unpleasant encounters with Muslim supremacists in the area, some of which I recounted in an article for this site titled "The New Colonizers." There have been more. And as we are practically next door to Kingston, I am now speculating whether the abandoned school building and curtilage just up the street will be converted into an affordable housing complex for sixty to eighty “Syrians.” This will transform ordinary life in our quiet neighborhood in ways we can scarcely imagine—unless we have been following the reports of the devastation being wrought in European towns and cities by the incoming hordes. Even the mainstream media have not been able to suppress the horror stories coming out of Europe.
Perhaps we should not complain. After all, our situation is appreciably better than in Germany where, as the Gatestone Institute reports and the leader of the Free Democratic Party [FDP] Sebastian Czaja has warned, a proposal was tabled in the Berlin Senate to enact “emergency legislation that would allow local authorities to seize private residences to accommodate asylum seekers. The proposal—which would effectively suspend Germany's constitutional guarantee of private property—would authorize police forcibly to enter private homes and apartments without a warrant to determine their suitability as housing for refugees and migrants.” That such a proposal has not yet been considered here offers rather cold comfort. Eventually, we too will have our no-go zones and some of us will learn first-hand the meaning of Koranic sura 4:89.
I don’t know if I will ever revisit Greece, whose language, culture and people have long appealed to me, but I do know that I no longer feel at home in my own country. Indeed, it is hard to feel at one with a people that has voted a bare-chesting juvenile into power and “opened its heart” to a migratory invasion from backward and violence-prone cultures whose basic values, endemic anti-Semitism, deep-seated misogyny, religious convictions and social assumptions are in millennial conflict with the traditions and beliefs that the West, despite its lapses and deviations, has represented—until now. The Canadian electorate is one I can no longer respect or enjoy any bond of sympathy with. It is probably unfair to rebuke Trudeau too harshly, for this puerile and self-inflated individual is merely the comprehensive image of the country he governs.
Canada has joined the cultural declension of the West and I fear there will be no turning back. Were it possible, we would now be packing our bags. The problem, of course, is where to go. [My emphasis.]
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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Mat19v12 Cultural Castration

Matt. 19:12 KJV For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Gen. 9:1 KJV ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
1 Pet. 3:20 KJV Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Heb. 11:7 KJV By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Cultural Castration
_ C. S. Lewis was more prescient than we realized. When I first read “The Abolition of Man” a half-century ago I was particularly struck by the last sentence in the first chapter, “We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
_ With the denigration of traditional moralities and the availability of modern birth control technology cultural castration is the rule in the world today.
_ It is not only the Europeans who have deplorable birth rates. American rates are significantly below replacement. Rates in some Muslim nations have gone from high to deplorable in the last few decades.
_ It is, of course, worse than Lewis predicted. Our leaders bid the geldings to be fruitful through the importation of strangers with their strange cultures.
_ The only groups that demonstrate a trust in the value of their culture through population growth are evangelical Christians and orthodox Jews. They remember the command given to the eight who were saved from universal destruction through faith.
_ There are other valuable lessons in Lewis's work and the article that brought it to my attention. See below:

The Abolition of Man
[Last three paragraphs of Chapter 1, “Men Without Chests”]
They probably have some vague notion (I will examine it in my next lecture) that valour and good faith and justice could be sufficiently commended to the pupil on what they would call 'rational' or 'biological' or 'modern' grounds, if it should ever become necessary. In the meantime, they leave the matter alone and get on with the business of debunking. But this course, though less inhuman, is not less disastrous than the opposite alternative of cynical propaganda. Let us suppose for a moment that the harder virtues could really be theoretically justified with no appeal to objective value. It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat', than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment. The crudest sentimentalism (such as Gaius and Titius would wince at) about a flag or a country or a regiment will be of more use. We were told it all long ago by Plato. As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element'. ^o The head rules the belly through the chest — the seat, as Alanus tells us, of Magnanimity,^! of emotions organized by trained habit into stable sentiments. The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment — these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man: for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.
The operation of The Green Book and its kind is to produce what may be called Men without Chests. It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence. It is not so. They are not distinguished from other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardour to pursue her. Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering devotion to truth, a nice sense of intellectual honour, cannot be long maintained without the aid of a sentiment which Gaius and Titius could debunk as easily as any other. It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so. [N.B. These last sentences seems to explain the pseudo-intellectual aura of our undocumented president.]
And all the time — such is the tragi-comedy of our situation — we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more 'drive', or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or 'creativity'. In a sort of ghastly simpUcity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. [My emphasisi.]

How C. S. Lewis Predicted Today’s College Campus Craziness—in 1944
pjmedia.com [/] By Tyler O'Neil December 1, 2015 [/] Article printed from Faith: http://pjmedia.com/faith [/] URL to article: [ http://j.mp/0NoChests or ] http://pjmedia.com/faith/2015/12/1/how-c-s-lewis-predicted-todays-college-campus-craziness-in-1944

When events at Yale University and the University of Missouri propelled college politics to national news, many conservatives were caught off guard by the power of “political correctness.” To those familiar with the works of C.S. Lewis, however, these events were of little surprise. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man explains both the confusion and the radical ideology on campuses today, and how Americans should respond to these dire threats.
What’s Happening on College Campuses?
In the September issue of The Atlantic, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, described a peculiar movement on college campuses, which they named “vindictive protectiveness.”
Haidt and Lukianoff cite Harvard Law Professor Jeannie Suk, who wrote in The New Yorker about law students demanding their professors not even teach rape law -- and in one weird case even to avoid using the word “violate” (as in “that violates the law”) -- because it may cause students distress. This culture of overreaction is being institutionalized, as demonstrated by demands for the resignation of Yale’s Silliman College masters Erika and Nicholas Christakis for an allegedly insensitive email about Halloween costumes.
As Haidt and Lukianoff explain, “a claim that someone’s words are ‘offensive’ is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feelings of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong.”
The idea of “microaggressions” -- small actions or word choices that seem to have no malicious intent but are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless -- twists the objective idea of being “offensive” into a subjective charge on behalf of someone claiming to be offended. Some campus guides denounce as a microaggression the very act of asking an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?” because this implies that that person is not a real American.
The craziness of this new morality may seem unprecedented, but C.S. Lewis warned of something similar in his 1944 book The Abolition of Man.
The Abolition of Man
Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man to warn people about the corrosive effects of subjective morality. He starts out by attacking a children’s book which teaches that judgments of value are not objective, but only statements about the speaker’s feelings.
By contrast, Lewis argues that morality is fundamental to humanity. He traces the principles of conscience, the reasoning behind calling something “right” or “wrong,” throughout different cultures and religions, from ancient Rome to Christianity, to Hinduism, and Buddhism. While many attack this “traditional morality,” it is the building block for all moral values, and such principles as the Golden Rule -- “do as you would be done by” -- are nearly universal among men.
Lewis admits that this universal moral law has many aspects and can be improved -- as with the discovery that slavery is wrong and the movement to abolish it -- but says that any attempt to build morality on a separate basis will fail.
Nevertheless, teachers -- and especially university professors and students -- try to present new moralities, more “in fashion with the times.” To this, Lewis responds, “There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgement of value in the history of the world.”
While some people may argue (for instance) that a man may steal from his neighbor if he will otherwise starve to death, they are not really ignoring conscience but focusing on one aspect of universal morality while minimizing another. “What purport to be new systems [of morality] all consist of fragments from [conscience] itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation,” Lewis explains.
Nevertheless, even these “alternate moralities” rely on conscience to give them validity. The "vindictive protectiveness" on college campuses may trample on free speech or the pursuit of truth, but it does so in the name of conscience, which warns people not to harm others. This morality is not, strictly speaking, a new morality, but a twisted form of the original. It is not amoral or evil, but warped and mistaken.
“Vindictive protectiveness” minimizes the value which traditional morality (and arguably conscience itself) places on the pursuit of truth. To nearly all scholars who have gone before, the pursuit of truth is worth being offended or having your feelings hurt. Students today seem to disagree.
Views of justice provide further evidence that “vindictive protectiveness” is a warped morality. In the name of equality, campus culture elevates the importance of some groups over others, and silences dissenting opinions in favor of groups that are seen as “underprivileged.”
How Did We Get Here?
In addition to helping conservatives understand campus morality, Lewis’s book also explains how an education in subjective values can create this lopsided system. The Abolition of Man discusses two very different kinds of education -- one closely connected to objective morality and one which considers itself superior to a morality which it considers subjective.
“In the older systems both the kind of man the teachers wished to produce and their motives for producing him were prescribed by [conscience] -- a norm to which the teachers themselves were subject and from which they claimed no liberty to depart,” Lewis explains. “They did not cut men to some pattern they have chosen,” but rather “they initiated the young neophyte into the mystery of humanity which over-arched him and them alike.” It was merely “old birds teaching young birds to fly.”
The newer system, by contrast, regards morality as flexible and unnatural. According to this understanding, “judgements of value are to be produced in the pupil as part of the conditioning.” The new teachers -- whom Lewis calls the Conditioners -- “know how to produce conscience and decide what kind of conscience they will produce.”
The recent history of higher education follows a similar trajectory. As Ross Douthat explained in the New York Times, collegiate education rejected traditional morality to embrace scientific efficiency, and then fell prey to a new, more destructive, form of morality.
“Between the 19th century and the 1950s, the American university was gradually transformed from an institution intended to transmit knowledge into an institution designed to serve technocracy,” Douthat explained. Religious foundations were stripped away, classical curriculums replaced by specialized majors, and professors transitioned from instruction to research. As a result, the university lost “the traditional sense of community, mission, and moral purpose.”
The student radicalism of the 1960s aimed to destroy the traditional moral footing of the university, but it also sought a “kind of remoralization.” The new morality focused on the anti-war and civil rights movements, feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ activism, and a laundry list of “social justice” causes.
When “political correctness” emerged in the 1990s, “left-wing pieties dominated official discourse, but the university’s deeper spirit remained technocratic, careerist and basically amoral.” Today, however, students are revolting against the imbalance -- demanding full institutionalization of liberal values at the expense of the university’s technical and scientific expertise.
In response to what Douthat calls “a strange blend of [being] pampered and exploited,” college students present the twisted morality of “vindictive protectiveness” as a way to fill the moral gap in the university. They lash out against perceived injustices, but with a morality that perpetuates injustice and destroys freedom of inquiry.
As David French explained in National Review, “the same secular-progressive movement that fought for free speech in the Sixties wrote the first speech codes in the late Eighties and then raise the Millennial social-justice warriors who are now turning on their parents’ generation as insufficiently faithful to the cause.”
Lewis warned that, for the Conditioners, “their skepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people’s values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly skeptical enough.” This double standard has come to college campuses. As French explains, “freedom is useful to put the right people in power -- after that, it’s a threat.”
Persons Without Chests
Modern education, Lewis warns, aims to produce “Men without Chests,” by which he means men and women with a deformed understanding of morality. Plato, Aristotle, and St. Augustine argued that the goal of education was to grow a young person’s conscience, so his moral understanding conformed to reality.
“The little human animal will not at first have the right responses,” Lewis explains. “It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likeable, disgusting and hateful.” The desires and passions of the gut must be mastered by the reason and knowledge of the head. Classical education sought to improve the heart -- the sentiments and passions which bring appetite into conformity with right reason.
“The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment -- these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man.” Lewis even claims this spirited element may be what makes us truly human -- “for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.”
Modern education, by contrast, teaches the young to debunk morality and follow their own course. It produces what may be called “Men without Chests,” men and women without the grounding in right response to the reality which makes it possible to live a good life.
Instead, they elevate their feelings of being victimized and offended into claims for illegitimate power. Rather than controlling their feelings and using their minds to understand what others are saying, they claim these words are aggressions and demand apologies. Morality abhors a vacuum, and if children are not taught to discover objective right and wrong they will create their own values -- and more often than not, use those values to grasp for power.
These Men -- or “Persons” as they would correct Lewis -- without Chests now haunt the halls of the university. They demonstrate our country’s urgent need to return to a traditional understanding of morality, and seek to educate our students rather than coddle them. [My emphasis.]
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

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.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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
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 11th 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 16th 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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