So on this day when Angry (and not-so-Angry) Americans of all sorts gather together to share food, family, and thanks, we Angry Men here wish everyone a Happy, Healthy, and Thankful Thanksgiving!
But, never content to simply wish you well, we also want to ask you: What do you give thanks for this year?
Answer however you wish: be partisan or pluralistic, secular or sectarian, serious or frivolous as you choose. Only share with us your thoughts and thanks this season.
To start things out, I’ll share my thanks this year:
- For living in the greatest nation on earth, where we can all celebrate Thanksgiving in whatever way feels best to us, even if it’s no way at all!
- For a 2008 Election season which promises to be fun and bloody, if not terribly edifying about the character of many of our leaders.
- For our troops, especially those in peril abroad, who give us a loyalty and service we frequently don’t deserve as a culture.
- For all those, throughout the world, who risk life, health, family, and property to oppose injustice, oppression, ignorance, and poverty: from Iraqis trying to rebuild their country in the face of terror and barbarism to Pakistanis trying to find a middle way between military dictatorship and rule by gangs, and everyone in between. May God bless them and their work.
- For all of you who read our words, whether you agree with them or not, and especially for you who take the time to leave words of your own. Thanks for caring enough to read what we think and share what you think!
The 12 Angry Men Blog 
November 23, 2007 at 12:42 am
I’m thankful for a wonderful family, and for a world that may one day know the love of the people within it.
I’m a bit curious about one of your statements, AOC, however,
For our troops, especially those in peril abroad, who give us a loyalty and service we frequently don’t deserve as a culture.
I’m surprised you give such a progressive view. We certainly don’t deserve their loyalty and service. After all, we have been electing officials who are abusing their lives overseas for personal gain, and sending them to die over half truths, and veiled lies.
We’ve placed people into power who have so abused our trust that they are justifying torture, and depriving children of education and health care.
I’m thankful that some of our leaders may get the chance to change things, and will pray the American people will help them achieve it.
November 23, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Among other things, I’m thankful I could take more than an entire day off the computer! (Well, mostly…. 😉 —MPA
November 27, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I’m quite thankful I didn’t lose my finger. I was quite worried when portions turned blue and numb on the night of the accident. Too bad about the wedding ring, though. Had to cut it so that the doctors could access the cut on the finger. But I’m OK now, thank God!
Also, I learned something new today: that WordPress actually places Google AdSense ads on their users’ blog pages without the users knowing about it, or even seeing the ads! Clever, eh? Read about it at:
http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2007/11/21/making-money-with-adsense-without-annoying-the-community-wordpresscom/#comment-191575.
(BTW, my meditations on my finger are in my site)
Cheers!