Hoping your Thanksgiving holiday was best ever

Hope each of you have had a delightful Thanksgiving – full of good times with family and friends and lots of delicious food.

I’d think the delicious food part would be a given, realizing the culinary skills of Kingfisher County ladies.

I’ve always thought Thanksgiving was the best of all holidays.

It seems to me it is totaly American, although other nations have adopted similar holidays, since ours began.

It goes back to America’s earliest days – 1621 in Plymouth, Mass., although another New England town is attempting to claim that honor, I’ve read.

Why is it so American? First, it recognizes a divine creator to thank. Some of our more leftist officials - eager to make government god - have been busy for some time and attempted to convince citizens that no deity actually exists, even though our entire government is based on Judeo-Christian principles. It might be recalled here that the first goal of communism is to stamp out religion.

While our federal government has taken steps in recent years to dissolve the Constitution, which ensures citizens “unalienable” rights, (how they hate the idea that their thoughts and actions are not superior to those found in the Bible) along with the checks and balances the Constitution provides citizens. To date the left’s attempts have fallen short of a complete take-over although their red tape regulations become increasingly entangling.

With President Trump in the President’s seat, left-wing attempts to rewrite the Constitution have been somewhat thwarted. But the Left never gives up. Their goal is total control.

Speaking of President Trump, he has pointed out previously that the hatred the Left exhibits toward him, actually is directed toward those he represents. He simply stands in their way.

At least two attempts have been made on the president’s life thus far – that we’ve heard about.

The first one during the 2024 campaign where the gunman came within centimeters of killing him appears to have created a belief in the president that he is here for a special reason.

Matt Vespa, writing on the Townhall.com website, had more to say about the attempt in Butler, Pa., quoting a retired FBI assistant director.

He wrote:

An Ex-FBI Agent’s Thoughts on Assassination Attempt

“An ex-FBI assistant director is venting his frustrations over the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Chris Swecker, a 24-year veteran of the bureau, said that the digital footprint that’s now being revealed about would-be assassin Thomas Crooks showed that this person would’ve been on the FBI’s radar long before he fired multiple shots at the president. Police killed Crooks during the incident. Swecker added that former FBI Director Chris Wray was desperate to pin this crime on a far-right individual (via NY Post): “The FBI had multiple “missed opportunities” to stop Thomas Crooks before he tried to assassinate President Trump, a former assistant director at the Bureau has told The Post.

“Last week, The Post reported on multiple extremist social media posts believed to be tied to Crooks, including numerous threats of political violence and a dramatic shift against Trump, after previously expressing his admiration for the Republican.

“If even ‘half’ of Trump’s would-be assassin’s extremist digital footprint turns out to be true, he should have been on the FBI’s radar long before the 20-year-old opened fired on the then-presumptive GOP presidential nominee during a rally in Butler, Pa., said Chris Swecker, a retired FBI assistant director.

“It’s clear that he was popping off on the social media sites and saying things that should have garnered attention,” Swecker, who served in the FBI for 24 years, said.

“That constitutes a miss on the part of the FBI,” he added, saying that the Bureau’s handling of the investigation earned a “a C- grade.” […] “Swecker, who retired from the Bureau in 2006, also claimed that the FBI under then-director Christopher Wray was desperate to pin Trump’s would-be assassin as a far-right lone gunman.

“He said it seemed clear to him that when agents found evidence to the contrary, the Bureau ‘had its thumb on the scales’ of the investigation.”

This led to a lack of transparency in the investigation, which allowed conspiracy theories to spread and multiply, he said.

“A little bit of transparency goes a long way in these types of investigations,” said Swecker, who served as assistant director of the FBI for the Criminal Investigative Division from 2004 to 2006.

“There was a bias in the FBI towards right-wing extremists. And if there was a right-wing extremist ideology, that got surfaced real quick in any of these shootings. But if there was a left-wing extremist ideology driving it, it was glossed over,” Swecker said.

“He said that view was ‘shared by a lot of my colleagues’ in the FBI.”