Thursday, November 24, 2011

Buffalo Hunting

Did passengers on the Central Pacific Railroad shoot buffalo out the windows of the train?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

To understand the history and significance of the first Thanksgiving in November, 1623, read the journal of Pilgrim Governor William Bradford. The Mayflower Compact set up a commune at the Plymouth Bay Colony with equal collective ownership, hence destroyed all incentive and half the Pilgrims starved to death. This disastrous socialist experiment was successfully replaced with capitalist individual farm plots on their plantation according to Bradford so that the Pilgrims would be incentivized by benefiting from their own individual efforts, and with farming knowledge learned from the local Pokanoket Indians, food became abundant leading to the first Thanksgiving celebration and subsequent success of the colony.