{"id":17541,"date":"2020-11-26T06:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17541"},"modified":"2020-11-26T06:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:44:45","slug":"overnight-news-thanksgiving-was-a-holiday-established-by-productive-people-to-celebrate-the-success-of-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17541\/overnight-news-thanksgiving-was-a-holiday-established-by-productive-people-to-celebrate-the-success-of-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: \u201cThanksgiving was a holiday established by productive people to celebrate the success of their work.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cBusy day for me, too: Heavy dropunder\u00a0duty.\u201d<\/p><\/div>I like that quote in the headline, but by now I like Thanksgiving better as a celebration of the success of a colony of religious rebels: It is our<\/em> freedom they were consecrating. Even so, I’m working this morning. Scut work, too, the kind I’m usually better at delegating. But if I can get the patch-and-paint done today, the cleaners can finish tomorrow, so I’m patching-and-painting on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

From ten years ago, same headline:<\/p>\n

Greg Swann:<\/strong> \u201cThanksgiving was a holiday established by productive people to celebrate the success of their work.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

And elsewhere:<\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> The best new home sales report ever.<\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Record low mortgage rates hold steady at 2.72%.<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Byrne:<\/strong> Election 2020 Was Rigged: The Evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Victoria Taft:<\/strong> Sidney Powell Releases the ‘Kraken’ in Georgia with Explosive New Lawsuit.<\/a><\/p>\n

Issues and Insights:<\/strong> Impeach Joe Biden.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner:<\/strong> ‘Strongly biased in favor of liberals’: Psychologist says Google manipulated content ahead of election that swayed votes.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner:<\/strong> Study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations for patients treated with controversial drug hydroxychloroquine.<\/a> Media lied, thousands died.<\/p>\n

Big League Politics:<\/strong> Study Points to Pervasive Mental Illness Among White American Liberals.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBusy day for me, too: Heavy dropunder\u00a0duty.\u201dI like that quote in the headline, but by now I like Thanksgiving better as a celebration of the success of a colony of religious rebels: It is our freedom they were consecrating. Even so, I’m working this morning. Scut work, too, the kind I’m usually better at delegating. 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