Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s hope we’ll all set aside our politics this Thursday and give thanks for all that is good about us — America and Montana. (more…) Continue Reading →
Remembering past squabbles over Thanksgiving dates
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Thanksgiving
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Police chief accepts PETA offer, cops to hand out Tofurky
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Compliments of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Billings police officers could soon be handing out tofu turkeys to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. (more…) Continue Reading →
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From the Outpost: How to save the Thanksgiving holiday
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Four years before his death in 1910, Mark Twain wrote his estimate of Thanksgiving Day. The passage didn’t appear in print until 2010 because Twain stipulated that his autobiography not be published until 100 years after his death. As usual, Twain was a century ahead of his time:
“Thanksgiving Day … originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for—annually, not oftener—if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors the Indians. (more…) Continue Reading →
