When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Although many Europeans are angry with the U.S. due to a bizarre and uncooperative foreign policy, this country has a big fan in our friend in the second-smallest principality in europe. He writes:
I'd like to hear some comments -- who among you finds Thanksgiving boring? who knows how to be grateful for American freedoms (despite current attempts to limit them) without sounding pompous and self-righteous?
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Thank you!
Although many Europeans are angry with the U.S. due to a bizarre and uncooperative foreign policy, this country has a big fan in our friend in the second-smallest principality in europe. He writes:
"Many among You may have observed Thanksgiving as a sort of tedious, more or less compulsory, family obligation. Rather constraining & somewhat boring.
Friends, Thanksgiving Day signifies that You, Your close Ancestors, safely arrived in the New World from the Old World. "Old Europe", as it is termed today.
Be under no illusions, the Old World has remained faithful to its Feudal Traditions. There may have been a momentary waivering in the 60s & the 70s. That is now definitely over. The place is riddled with Class War, massive Corruption, the most un-democratic Sleight-of-Hand imaginable, a crushingly materialistic Cynicism, & no Civic Sharing Sense whatsoever.
You can, once again, seriously give Thanks that You are out of it. However tough You may consider the States to be. As is usual in Feudal States, like the European Community (EU), merely as an example, the Ordinary Individual can neither move backwards not forwards. You are locked in place: Economically & Socially; Geographically & Space-wise. You cannot move - in any sense of the word.
For those that doubt these affirmations, You might care to cast a glance at the numbers of US residents who desperately wish to leave the United States, via various foreign Embassies : practically Nil - & the tens, & probably hundreds of thousand who are queuing up to get out of Europe. It's been like that for years. And will continue. If they get out, they will never come back.
That might give You an idea of why Thanks Giving Day is still on the cards, Friend. Eat Your Turkey, Kid. And Thank the Lord You are not born in Europe."
--Mike O. [Edited very slightly as to paragraphing but not as to capitalization, by this patriot who happens to love the annual family gathering and finds an occasional expression of gratitude salutory, even when not thanking Anybody in particular ]
I'd like to hear some comments -- who among you finds Thanksgiving boring? who knows how to be grateful for American freedoms (despite current attempts to limit them) without sounding pompous and self-righteous?
Palema
4:18 PM
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