And Now Something Different

Now is the time that most Americans are starting to make plans about Thanksgiving. And a few ( and very few, it seems) start thinking about those things they are most grateful for. I do this every year, and while entries on my list may change from time to time, the feeling tends to grow stronger and stronger with each passing year. Maybe thats just getting older, or maybe these things and people just mean more to me than in the past. But this year I am making an additional list that is probably as important as the old one. This year I'm making a list of the things I am definitely not grateful for. Guess what? The 1st item on the list is the same for both. Go figure, huh?

Item #1 - Things I Am Grateful For - The fact that we have 10,587 folks interested enough to run for President. It's not really that many, it just seems like it. What other political system in the world would allow this many candidates for the nations highest elected office. Not many. And this tells me that it is truly wonderful that this many Americans care enough, and are interested enough, and want to be President enough that they have entered the race. Just think of the opportunity for so many different viewpoints to be heard, so many different solutions to problems that plague our country. What a wonderful blessing this must be!

Item #1 - Things I Am Not Grateful For - The fact that we have 10,587 idiots that are stupid enough, that care nothing about the issues except when its time for a sound bite, that none of these morons ever had a viewpoint and certainly couldn't come up with solutions in ten lifetimes and whose life-long ambition is to be a men's room attendant, want to be President. What is this country coming to??? I guess these ding-dongs think that if an actor or a peanut farmer can become President, why not me? And who ARE these people? Just the run of the mill business as usual politicans who believe that they can lie and cheat and steal with the best of them and at the same time pick up a few bucks and lots of power along the way. What a sad band of intellectually challenged glow worms we have here. And are our founding fathers turning over in their graves. No......they're collectively jumping up and booking flights to New Zeland as fast as they can.