Thanksgiving Gumbo

 Yesterday was not a typical Thanksgiving. My wife had just had gall bladder surgery earlier in the week, then her father had a small stroke and possible TIAs from this past weekend until Tuesday in the AM. That is a long story in it self. So if you notice anyone especially your loved one slurring there speech, stumbling, losing use of a limb, c/o blurred vision, not being able to answer general questions they should know the answers to immediately force them against their will into the car and take them to the ER STAT!!! So anyways I was the cook and for some reason no one wanted a traditional T-Day meal. So cut up the turkey, some venison sausage, First made the roux, chopped up some onion, celery and bell pepper, sauteed with the roux. Then dumped into stock pot and added 4 quarts water brought to boil added the meat. a few more "secret" family seasonings and simmered for 1 hour. As it simmered put on a pot of rice and the night before made a potato salad, a few pies. When all said and done everyone was stuffed and happy. All in all I am thankful for my country and the freedoms that are trying to be taken away from us. I am not thankful for alot of the things that happened to my people as I have said before I am part native american. I learned to make gumbo form my MawMaw and her GGGrandmother was 1/2 Cajun 1/2 Karankawa (a now extinct tribe that lived along the gulf coast from Texas to Louisiana) they where all murdered off and now any of us that claim any blood have no say because they "government" says the tribe no longer exist. My Cherokee/Choctaw ancestors had all their lands stolen and too many died on a forced march to their "new" home. And my Cajun ancestors had been treated bad as well their entire existence that is why they stayed in the swamps figured no one would come their to kick them out. So no I am not Thankful for how they where all treated but I am Thankful how they continued to survive and make something out of the nothing they was given. Because we should never ask a government to give us anything. We should all work to get what we get. And shuldn't be forced to give away what we earned to someone who doesn't even try. But give out of our on hearts if we see it that way. But to help those that need help to get back on there feet and make something anything of there lives. It will be a continuous battle from here on out to try an maintain a symblance of the freedom this country once new. The most freedoms this country ever had before the europeans ever came would be ideal. But I know that will never be seen again. I just remember the story of the two wolves I believe I have posted earlier here. And just try to feed the good wolf so I can be good!

I continue to do the things that I have always done. I myself am a Latter Day Saint and didn't want to vote for Romney but did because I knew we would be in for a ride I don't really want to go on. If the alternative was re elected. But I manned up and voted for him anyway. I tried to get co workers and friends to do the same, some did vote, others didn't. I told them I was ashamed that they allowed Obama to be re elected. Now as I continue to live my life and prepare to for a future that is even though still unforseeable but knowing the consequences of this election, that trouble is brewing on the horizon. I, as a student of history, look as the posted flag above. The original Flag of the Republic of Texas. And I see that there could be hope, although there would definitely be some sort of retaliation from the Federal government. But hope that as my GGGGG adopted uncle Sam Houston "Raven" once said "Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages." he also stated "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may." And to that I quote the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


So to all those who say Texas can't secede, I say this our Founding Fathers wrote it into the Declaration of Independence that we have a right to do so. We are now fighting the very same battles they did. They where considered traitors to the crown. If we oppose the things this tyrant that has just been re elected passes down then we will considered traitors also. Colonel William B. Travis stood in a mission in San Antonio de Bexar and drew a line in the sand when the time came to decide who would sacrifice to buy time For General Sam Houston. I say we should all draw a line in the sand this very day, that when the time comes we have already made our decision. That we will keep a true Republic and not this socialist democracy that our country has turned into. That we start over here in Texas and that Texas will again lift its head and rise among the nations. I know the true patrioitism in every Texicans heart that they will proudly stand, fight and die to keep Texas a FREE REPUBLIC and that we will have our LIBERTY again! And when the time comes we will shout, Not only REMEMBER THE ALAMO!, REMEMBER GOLIAD! but we will add REMEMBER BENGHAZI!,REMEMBER ISRAEL!, WE FIGHT FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR HOMES, and OUR GOD!

I urge everyone who reads this to pass it along to their friends and family and make a decision now!