56% of Americans Say that Thanksgiving is One of the Most Important Holiday

Americans say that Thanksgiving is one of the most important holidays.

A recent Rasmussen poll stated that 56% of Americans believe that Thanksgiving is one of the nation’s most important holidays. Most likely because it brings families together and reminds each of us to remember what we are thankful for and who to give thanks to.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of Americans view Thanksgiving as one of the nation’s most important holidays. That’s up three points from a year ago.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds that just four percent (4%) think it’s one of the country’s least important holidays, while 40% say it’s somewhere in between.

Barack Obama’s Happy Thanksgiving, Err, Umm … Hajj Message

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Barack Hussein Obama …

On the eve of Thanksgiving, Barack Hussein Obama offers a special Thanksgiving message to, um, err, Muslims on the Hajj.

Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major religions.

Things that make you go hmmm.

President Obama provided a Thanksgiving proclamation HERE, but this is just odd. There is just something inherently wrong with this over-reaching with Muslims and the Muslim religion. There is something that is so wrong with having seen the long lines that US citizens had to wait to get their H1N1 shots, yet it is reported the following.

US Parents on a pilgrimage for the H1N1 vaccine

This year, I am pleased that the Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with the Saudi Health Ministry to prevent and limit the spread of H1N1 during Hajj. Cooperating on combating H1N1 is one of the ways we are implementing my administration’s commitment to partnership in areas of mutual interest.

Maybe the Department of Health and Human Services could have taken care of their own citizens first in a better manner. Just a thought.

• Long Lines At Local Clinics For H1N1 Vaccine
• Long Lines Wait for H11N1 Vaccines at Weekend Clinics in NY
• CDC: 114 Children Dead From H1N1; Vaccine Shortages Continue

Does This White House Get Anything Right? Secret Service Says Couple (Michaele and Tareq Salahi) Crashed Obama State Dinner

Obama State Dinner Party Crashers.

I wonder if Barack Obama will blame George W. Bush for this as well?

Oops! The Secret Service is admitting that a couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, breached security at the White House during the Obama State Dinner. It is kind of hard to believe in this day and age in a post 9–11 world that anyone could get access like this to a President, First Lady and VP. I guess if this administration actually acted like there was a war on terror, maybe they might take security a little more serious. This White House just continues to lack an eye for the details. As American Power opines, can you imagine if this occurred under a Republican President how the MSM would be screaming for the near-catastrophic security lapse.

Michaele, Tareq Salahi & Joe Biden

“Honored to be at the White House for the state dinner in honor of India with President Obama and our First Lady!” one of them wrote on their joint Facebook page at 9:08 p.m.

But a White House official said the couple were not invited to the dinner, not included on the official guest list and never seated at a table in the South Lawn tent.

A woman describing herself as a publicist for the Salahis denied that they were interlopers. Pressed for details, Mahogany Jones sent a statement saying simply: “The Salahis were honored to be a part of such a prestigious event. . . . They both had a wonderful time.”

As Jammie Wearing Fool points out, the story went on to say it appeared that the couple belonged at the event. The only thing that was left out was an air of entitlement. So if they were say GOP’ers or looked like Tea party goers then the Secret Service would have jumped in? What would some one look like who did not belong at this event, a God fearing, First & Second Amendment loving Republican?

The story goes on to say they “looked like they belonged” so I’m figuring they walked around with a chip on their shoulders, their noses up in the air and an angry look on their faces.

Exit Question: It was stated that they looked like they belonged … so was their profiling? I though we were not supposed to profile under Barack Hussein Obama!

Happy Thanksgiving 2009 from Scared Monkeys … Remember to Give Thanks

Scared Monkeys wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and reminds all today while you are with family and friends and enjoying your Thanksgiving meal to remember to give thanks. It is even more important to give thanks in trying and difficult times.

The following Thanksgiving proclamation comes from George Washington and was wrote in 1789.

Two things are self evident from Washington’s proclamation. One, no one writes like this any more and it is sad that we do not have any Statesmen that can. Two, so much for separation of Church and State. Our Founding Fathers had no problem thanking Almighty God for the blessings that were bestowed upon them. In fact, they felt it necessary to do so. Please remember what America had just been through and George Washington felt it necessary to give thanks to God for the birth of a new nation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.  (Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.)

A Happy Thanksgiving to all …

UPDATE I: From Michelle Malkin, some Thanksgiving hello’s and Thanksgiving shout-outs from our troops in Iraq to their families. Let there be no mistake, to our military … Thank you!

Daily Commentary – Thursday, November 26th, 2009 – Three Navy Seals Charged With Giving Notorious Terrorist a Bloody Lip

• The commandos who apprehended Ahmed Hashim Abedm, allegedly the mastermind behind the 2004 murder and mutilation of four Blackwater guards in Fallujah, are being court martialed.