'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'

[Old Rocks]

Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'


On Thanksgiving week in 1954, NBC aired a holiday-themed “Father Knows Best” that ended with the family praying before their meal, including thanking God “for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.”


Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men' | CNS News

And we are thankful for living in a nation capable of moving past its bigoted history and electing a good man of dark complexion as leader of our nation.

 

[Seawytch]

Are we supposed to believe that in 1954 that we had more freedoms than we have now? Which ones have we allegedly lost since 1954? The freedom to discriminate against blacks? The freedom to keep them from marrying whites? What freedoms have been "lost"?

 

[beretta304]

Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'


On Thanksgiving week in 1954, NBC aired a holiday-themed “Father Knows Best” that ended with the family praying before their meal, including thanking God “for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.”


Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men' | CNS News

And we are thankful for living in a nation capable of moving past its bigoted history and electing a good man of dark complexion as leader of our nation.

Any other PC talking points, Small Stones?

 

[editec]

Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'


On Thanksgiving week in 1954, NBC aired a holiday-themed “Father Knows Best” that ended with the family praying before their meal, including thanking God “for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.”


Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men' | CNS News

Well given that the fictional Anderson family lived a very affluent life, they had a LOT to be thankful for.

Remember their house? By the standards of that day the Andersons were living lives of very well off...probably in the top 10% of all incomes of that age.

I lived near a country judge and the dean of Lafayette college in those days and their houses were smaller and less impressive than the Andersons'.

Not that I think I'm telling any of us anything new, but the 1950s TV families lifestyles were not remotely like the lives most Americans lived.

 

[beretta304]

BUt why did you pick that thread on that TV show?

Because you pine for a day when the white male held political supremecy... and now that they don't... you feel less "Free".

See the problem. It is really your inability to adapt that's the problem. Obama's victory is illegitimate to you because people like you didn't vote for him.

When did you develop mind reading capablilities or do you just say whatever you pull from your ass? Short of that, you seem to have a knack for making up WHAT YOU SEEM TO THINK PEOPLE'S INTENTIONS are.

Guy, you've spent 6000 posts putting your thought processes on display.

But If I am judging you incorrectly, please feel free to make a correction.

I can say more pertinent things with a fart than you can with 10,000 posts. Obsess much like jillian? Or do I have to set your ass straight and refer you to my post of a few days ago?

You might have caught it if you weren't so self aborbed dwelling on the same issues and responses all day long.

Never a new thing out of you.

 

[beretta304]

Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men'


On Thanksgiving week in 1954, NBC aired a holiday-themed “Father Knows Best” that ended with the family praying before their meal, including thanking God “for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.”


Hollywood's 1954 Thanksgiving Prayer: 'We Thank Thee for the Privilege of Living as Free Men' | CNS News

Well given that the fictional Anderson family lived a very affluent life, they had a LOT to be thankful for.

Remember their house? By the standards of that day the Andersons were living lives of very well off...probably in the top 10% of all incomes of that age.

I lived near a country judge and the dean of Lafayette college in those days and their houses were smaller and less impressive than the Andersons'.

Not that I think I'm telling any of us anything new, but the 1950s TV families lifestyles were not remotely like the lives most Americans lived.

I love all the deep analysis of "Father Knows Best" and what my intentions are.

Ever think it was posted just for the season and the fact that we should be thankful for what we have?

I love the assumed and alleged innuendo. Keep it coming.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Does this thread have a point?

Just an Idealized longing for the past that never was... Conservatives fantasize about an idealistic past. Liberals on the other hand fantasize about an idealistic future.

 

[beretta304]

Does this thread have a point?

Just an Idealized longing for the past that never was... Conservatives fantasize about an idealistic past. Liberals on the other hand fantasize about an idealistic future.

A future paid for by one of those "relics" from the past.

 

[Ravi]

I wonder how that affects insurance company payouts...Is it a "technicality" for them to get out of their responsibility?




The National Weather Service has determined that the massive coastal storm that buried Ocean City under record floods on Oct. 29 was not a hurricane when it made landfall near the island.

Staff writer Richard Degener reports in The Press of Atlantic City that meteorologists have determined that Category 1 Hurricane Sandy was a "post-tropical cyclone" by the time it reached the New Jersey coastline. The designation has an important impact on how insurance companies process claims for storm damage.

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It's Official: Sandy Was No Hurricane - Middletown, NJ Patch

It will benefit the homeowners because there will no longer be hurricane deductibles that will harm them.

Are you this stupid in real life or must you work at it?

 

[Ravi]

Does this thread have a point?

Yeah, he prefers the 1950s Hollywood version of reality rather than the current Hollywood version of reality.

 

[beretta304]

I wonder how that affects insurance company payouts...Is it a "technicality" for them to get out of their responsibility?




The National Weather Service has determined that the massive coastal storm that buried Ocean City under record floods on Oct. 29 was not a hurricane when it made landfall near the island.

Staff writer Richard Degener reports in The Press of Atlantic City that meteorologists have determined that Category 1 Hurricane Sandy was a "post-tropical cyclone" by the time it reached the New Jersey coastline. The designation has an important impact on how insurance companies process claims for storm damage.

__________

It's Official: Sandy Was No Hurricane - Middletown, NJ Patch

It will benefit the homeowners because there will no longer be hurricane deductibles that will harm them.

Are you this stupid in real life or must you work at it?

Stupidity in life is your forte like commenting on a post that was already pointed out...is on the wrong thread.

 

[uscitizen]

Father Knows best. And most say that our minds are not programmed by TV programming

Wasn't 1954 about the same time we started putting "In god we trust" on our money?

 

[Ravi]

I wonder how that affects insurance company payouts...Is it a "technicality" for them to get out of their responsibility?




The National Weather Service has determined that the massive coastal storm that buried Ocean City under record floods on Oct. 29 was not a hurricane when it made landfall near the island.

Staff writer Richard Degener reports in The Press of Atlantic City that meteorologists have determined that Category 1 Hurricane Sandy was a "post-tropical cyclone" by the time it reached the New Jersey coastline. The designation has an important impact on how insurance companies process claims for storm damage.

__________

It's Official: Sandy Was No Hurricane - Middletown, NJ Patch

It will benefit the homeowners because there will no longer be hurricane deductibles that will harm them.

Are you this stupid in real life or must you work at it?

Stupidity in life is your forte like commenting on a post that was already pointed out...is on the wrong thread.

Your lack of personal responsibility is noted.

 

[beretta304]

It will benefit the homeowners because there will no longer be hurricane deductibles that will harm them.

Are you this stupid in real life or must you work at it?

Stupidity in life is your forte like commenting on a post that was already pointed out...is on the wrong thread.

Your lack of personal responsibility is noted.

Yes, that reply from you makes all the sense in the wold no matter how unrelated to anything it is.

 

[007]

It seems like a little oppression is what some people need to snap the hell out of it. Perhaps history classes should spend a little more time on freedom, and who does and doesn't have it.

Sadly we are headed in that direction. We have lost our roots.

That's right, we have, to liberal/progressive/socialist/Christian hating/racist/arrogant/self grandiose/MORONS that have been brain washed and indoctrinated in the public school system by garbage of the same description. Now there's enough of them that they can elect and keep in office trash of the same ilk.

The great America of the past is dead. Say hello to the new socialist/euro style/soon to be just another broke third world shit hole America all engineered by the same human debris posting in this thread putting down what was once a great country.

 

[Ravi]

It seems like a little oppression is what some people need to snap the hell out of it. Perhaps history classes should spend a little more time on freedom, and who does and doesn't have it.

Sadly we are headed in that direction. We have lost our roots.

That's right, we have, to liberal/progressive/socialist/Christian hating/racist/arrogant/self grandiose/MORONS that have been brain washed and indoctrinated in the public school system by garbage of the same description. Now there's enough of them that they can elect and keep in office trash of the same ilk.

The great America of the past is dead. Say hello to the new socialist/euro style/soon to be just another broke third world shit hole America all engineered by the same human debris posting in this thread putting down what was once a great country.

^You can't even honor a messageboard bet. You have no honor.

 

[Seawytch]

Does this thread have a point?

Yeah, he prefers the 1950s Hollywood version of reality rather than the current Hollywood version of reality.

No thanks. Too many advances in Civil Rights to want to back to the 50s.

 

[beretta304]

Does this thread have a point?

Yeah, he prefers the 1950s Hollywood version of reality rather than the current Hollywood version of reality.

No thanks. Too many advances in Civil Rights to want to back to the 50s.

Yes, I'm sure that's something that you have dedicated your life to. Probably as long as it took you to type that politically correct reply.

 

[Seawytch]

Yeah, he prefers the 1950s Hollywood version of reality rather than the current Hollywood version of reality.

No thanks. Too many advances in Civil Rights to want to back to the 50s.

Yes, I'm sure that's something that you have dedicated your life to. Probably as long as it took you to type that politically correct reply.

Fighting for MY civil rights, I have. Mine would be severely limited in the 50s.

 

[rightwinger]

Good ole 1954....when you could thank god for living as free white, christian, heterosexual MEN

Todays Republican Party