This year, Thanksgiving + Hanukkah = Thanksgivukkah
BY JAMES A. FUSSELL – The Kansas City Star
Somebody call Adam Sandler. We need another Hanukkah song.
Hit it, Adam. “Tell your Aunt Viv-ica … Here comes Thanks-givukkah!” Ahem.
From a purely numerical standpoint it’s a pretty big deal. Math geeks say the last time it happened — at least since President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday — was 1888. And by one calculation it won’t happen again for another — hold onto your latkes — 79,000 years.
Seventy-nine-thousand, forty-three years, to be exact. But who’s counting?
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I am disappointed in the way the Government of Guyana is running the country. People are suffering and they are not doing anything about it. When it rains everywhere floods and the water goes into their homes and even destroys their homes. People throw their trash in the gutters and drains. I know this for a fact cause when I was there I saw it with my own eyes. My sister placed screens in her drains along the street and the neighbors throw trash in. One house was being built next door to her and they threw all the garbage and block the drain up and another home was flooded. Trash is being dumped everywhere. I saw worse when I was at Kaieteur Falls. No latrines available cause they were plugged up. This is called the Garden City someone in Chicago said it was the Garbage City.
I am thankful for life and family. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I would like to think of this rare convergence as a cosmic reminder to humankind that we share a common origin and the same planet.
May all be blessed on this day!
This guy’s cognitive functioning is highly questionable…
“For Steve Wilson, who taught sixth grade Sunday school for seven years at the Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah in Overland Park, the two holidays are compatible. After all, he said, there are amazing similarities between the Pilgrims’ quest for religious freedom and the ancient Hebrews’ fight for freedom from the Greeks in the Hanukkah story.
“That ties into the Thanksgiving motif of being thankful for the religious freedoms that we enjoy in this country,” he said.”