Mmmm…leftovers…
Rachel Maddow Gives Us 15 Reasons To Be Thankful Romney Lost The Election by Elisabeth Parker:
For anyone who does NOT fully understand the full extent of horrors our country has — thankfully — rejected, I have transcribed, compiled, and organized Maddow’s quotations into an easy-to-read list format we can all easily appreciate and share. Read more
A LONG List of Reasons Why You Should Be Thankful The President Was Reelected – With Citations by Milt Shook:
If you’re one of those folks who thinks President Obama is a “disappointment,” you haven’t been paying attention the last few years. And those of you who try to draw comparisons with the Bush Administration should put away the hallucinogens and have your memory checked. If you were in a coma for the eight Bush Years, I apologize and forgive you. But please join the real world. Read more
Fox’s Fear Mongering Won’t Stop With The Holidays by Anjali Sareen:
Talking Points Memo yesterday posted a compilation video they called Fox News’ “Scariest Christmas Ever.” In it, they highlight several instances, just between November 17th and November 21st, in which Fox News has already begun to scare their gullible conservative viewers with ideas of a “War of Christmas.” Read more
How To Survive Thanksgiving With The Conservatives At Your Table by Nathaniel Downes:
Many of us will be travelling to visit relatives this Thanksgiving. Many of us will be seated at the Thanksgiving table with relatives who are of the more conservative mindset. For those of us who are going in to the situation, we here at AI have come up with recommendations on how to survive dinner with a minimal amount of shouting. Read more
When you have a state legislature adamant to prevent voting fraud, putting down requirements so insane that members of their own body would have difficulty in adhering to it, one must take a closer look at their own behavior. Read more
The devastation to the family cannot be imagined. The devastation to her classmates also could not be imagined. One of us was gone, taken from us without a sign. When one of us was home sick, the whispers began, was it another? The innocence of childhood vanished for all of us, we knew we were not invulnerable. Read more
But there’s a better way than boycotting Papa John’s, a more efficient way to fight Wal-Mart than protesting them; we need to turn our backs on them. We need to walk away from companies that underpay workers while funding political campaigns that attempt to control our economy and our rights. It’s time to remind these companies and ourselves, that they exist and thrive by our leave alone. They need us to survive, we do not need them. Read more
Beyond Black Friday – Higher Consciousness Gift Giving by Lorraine Devon Wilke:
Black Friday. A hedonistic affair that’s loosely defined as “the first day of the Christmas shopping season”; a day when sales are rampant, shoppers are rabid, and millions are spent in an orgy of consumer overindulgence. Merry freakin’ Christmas. Read more
The First Thanksgiving – What Your Third Grade Teacher Might Not Have Mentioned by John Viall:
Sometimes, it’s easy to look at the world today and assume humankind has lost its collective grip on whatever marbles it had. (We might even wonder, if we live in a red state, whether God has forsaken our nation.) Our Pilgrim ancestors and their favorite neighbors, the Native Americans, would scoff at our whining. Read more
A Progressive Gives Thanks – Op Ed by Jack Watkins:
Today marks an American tradition that goes back all the way to our earliest settlers, the Pilgrims who arrived from England in 1620. Ironically, it could be argued that they were among the first “illegal immigrants” to the New World, surviving a grueling voyage across the treacherous Atlantic, seeking religious, political and economic freedom in a strange new land. Read more
Thanks To The Voters Of Maine, Maryland, Washington And Colorado by Michael Hayne:
Voters in Maine, Washington, and Maryland voted en masse in support of marriage equality and allowing gays the right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. After all, if Kim Kardashian and Newt Gingrich get to do it there isn’t any more possible damage that come to it. Read more
