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November 24, 2009
Thanksgiving is here
We should give thanks that Obama has not caved (yet) to the military request for thousands of new troops for the graveyard called Afghanistan. Bill Moyers just devoted an entire program to LBJ's decision to bomb North Vietnam and send tens of thousands of troops to fight and die. It was scary--same clowns different circus (or maybe vice-versa--same circus different clowns).

LBJ was upset because the government we were trying to help (prop up) was corrupt and out of touch. How does that compare with the government in Afghanistan today?

Can this nation send these precious young people to die for a corrupt government? Do we really believe that hundreds of thousands of Afghans are ready to join the army and fight? If we answer no, then I think it is immoral to send one more troop. If Obama caves it will be the end if the dream. As Willie Nelson sings, "Dreams don't make noise when they die."

Watch Wall Street go nuts if the House accepts Ron Paul's proposal to give Congress control of the Fed. Whoa Nelly!

Enjoy family, Packers and feast, but think about 30,000 in Wisconsin who might lose their homes to foreclosure this year--unacceptable! Imagine their last Thanksgiving at home.




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We have much for which to be thankful...
Show your thanks by serving those who have less...

Work at a community meal...
Help at a food bank...
Carry extra McDonalds, Burger King, etc, coupons to hand out to the sorry bloke standing at the entrance to a Wal-Mart parking lot...
If work we must do, then let us work for livable wages...

Heck, go do something good for someone you don't even know.

-Franz Fripplfrappl | Stoughton, WI | November 24, 2009


 

"Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?"
-Old Irish saying