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I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone now if I don't get the chance to do so tomorrow. I'll be going with two very close friends to dinner tomorrow at Wiggins Tavern in Northampton, Mass for a nice, sitdown turkey dinner. It should be a homey experience, with a chance to remember why we are friends, and a reminder of what life is all about. It might snow--first snow of the season here for us, which will be fun as well. I have to make sure I have my digital with me to take some pictures. We're all feeling a little left out in one way or another, I think, and there is so much going on beyond our own lives that we are cognizant of that must be at least acknowledged.
What am we all thankful for? I think this year we must be thankful for the following:
1) There are some good people in our government that ARE fighting for us, and will continue to do so: Kerry, Dean, Murtha, Reid, Waxman, Kennedy, Byrd, Conyers, Edwards, and so many others I can't even begin to name right now.
2) People like Michael Moore who aren't afraid to be laughed at if what they need to tell people gets said and acknowledged.
3) People like Al Franken, Jon Stewart and others like them, who can help us find a little humor in horrible situations, and give some people a chance to understand where the left is coming from.
4) Yes, even people like Cheney and Pat Robertson, who, upon even opening their mouths show exactly what we're fighting against.
5) Special prosecutors who, despite death threats and other weight bearing on them, are determined to find the truth, regardless.
6) Sites like DU where we are able to let off steam and support each other as fellow, rational thinkers in a world gone mad.
7) The flying spaghetti monster, who will remain our defiant symbol against a bunch of crazy nuts out there!
8) Ourselves. For fighting the regime, for helping to know the truth can often hurt, for trying to make it known, anyhow. For people like Cindy Sheehan, Deborah Davis, and so many ordinary people who have fought in some way the onslaught of hysteria, hatred and intolerance, and who have made us all think better of ourselves, who have made each and every one of us think that regardless of how "ordinary" we think we really are, that we CAN and WILL make a difference somehow. It's the smallest, most overlooked thing that often makes a hero, and not always that big gesture that does it. Let's keep that spark of dissent alive this holiday season, as it helps remind us all that it's one of the reasons we're Americans.
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