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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:23:03 -0300, wrote:

>On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:15:29 -0600, graham > wrote:
>
>>On 2018-10-08 1:10 PM, wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:44:23 -0400, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-10-08 7:15 AM, wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:30:04 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>>
>>>>>> I will stand by my personal experience growing up in Canada that our
>>>>>> holiday is very strongly linked to the Pilgrims. I asked my wife about
>>>>>> it this after noon. She is into Thanksgiving in a big way, just like her
>>>>>> mother, who was proud of her Loyalist roots. She mentioned that when
>>>>>> she switched to a high Anglican church a few years ago she was a little
>>>>>> disappointed that they did not do anything special for Thanksgiving and
>>>>>> realized it was because they had done they Harvest Home thing the week
>>>>>> before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ball is in your court, YOU prove to me that the Canadian Thanksgiving
>>>>> has even a little to do with the Pilgrim Fathers - I can't imagine why
>>>>> you want to associate it with some religious nutters anyway!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh yeah. I aced that serve and you failed to return it. As I explained
>>>> to you... twice.... I grew up here and I know the tradition that we were
>>>> raised with. For some reason, you are more inclined to go with an author
>>>> with the last name of Ali to argue about Canadian culture. While you
>>>> came to the UK, many of us have roots in the American colonies and have
>>>> ancestors who came here as Loyalists. How typical of you to try to
>>>> bolster your lame argument with a slur against the people credited with
>>>> organizing the first Thanksgiving. The fact remains that for those of us
>>>> who were born and raised in this country, Canadian Thanksgiving is
>>>> essentially the same celebration as the American Thanksgiving, sharing
>>>> the same roots and the same traditional foods, but held on different dates.
>>>>
>>> I mentioned this at the club this afternoon, NOT ONE Canadian agreed
>>> with you. You are not giving me a link to it, because you can't. You
>>> prefer instead to make racist comments. You are a very poor
>>> Canadian that you don't know Canadian Thanksgiving is linked to a
>>> church festival, even Megatron knows that now, not the Pilgrims.
>>>
>>But Lucretia, you should know by now that Dave is always right! Always!
>>On everything! :-)
>
>Yeah you're right, up til now I had him pegged as a misogynist but now
>I see he is a racist as well.

Hey, Lucretia, he's also a fat shamer! Remember "Big Niece"? That
label alone! So we have race card, gender card and fat shame card.
That leaves age card and disability card. Only a matter of time!