Thanks be to George...

Over Thanksgiving weekend, take the time to remind yourself of all of the things you have to be thankful for this year. Perhaps your Republican family members and you can find common ground with a short list of the wonderful things America has given us and can't take away.

Until, of course, the right-wing agenda gets underway in a few short months.

I am thankful the emotional rollercoaster that is sure to be the next election is just under 4 years away. Hopefully some of us will have enough time to heal by then.

I am thankful Bush promises to make the tax code simpler. Finally we will have a definitive, easy-to-understand system of how the wealthy screw everyone.

I am thankful that the intelligence community is getting a makeover and America will no longer be embarrassed in the eyes of the global community. With the CIA becoming more partisan, there won't be any intelligence that makes us look bad. Or makes us look honest either, I suppose.

I am thankful that doctors can now make decisions based on their conscious. It was terrible before when they were forced to make decisions based on science and fact and the choices of their patients.

I am thankful that this past election was not rife with as many problems as most Americans feared. Isn't it great to learn that 51 % of the country really did vote against their self-interest or the interest of their fellow citizens?

All sarcasm aside, though, I am thankful for stuffing.