Thanksgiving Thoughts

[Lucky Larry]

Special thoughts and best wishes to all during this Thanksgiving holidays.

Let us give thanks for all that we have.

Let us give keep in our thoughts the many in our country who are less fortunate and in need during these trying times.

Let us give special thanks to all who serve to protect our country, especially those serving away from home this holiday.

Let us give thanks for the incredible country we live in and confidently know that our best times still lie ahead.

Happy Thanksgiving

LL and Sweet C

[Webman]

Happy Thanksgiving to all... 

[jim18]

Happy Thanksgiving Lucky Larry.Now, for my complaint.  It is sort of hard to find anything controversial about your posting.  How do I respond?  While there must be reasons to be thankful, are there not even more reasons to be upset or not thankful?While you want to give thanks for all that we have, I will respond by being  thankful for what we have.  Who exactly is we, anyway?Lets see, I am thankful for not living in or near Nevada.  Why?  Addicts and prostitutes everywhere there.  I am thankful for the weather in Ohio.  Much nicer than that of NV.Certainly, I am in no position to speak for the millions of veterans that served in the military over our nations history.  However, I did spend 3 years and 9 months in the Air Force.  I never expected to be treated differently from others due to my service.  And I guess I got my wish, as none of my family or friends praise me for my service on Veterans Day.Veteran’s day is just another paid holiday for union types.I suspect the best times may lay ahead.  This is called HOPE.  As for CHANGE, we will get that when we vote the bums out of office next year.  I can almost hear the chant “no more years”.Hope I have responded to all of your points.  Wonder who will be the first to talk about Christmas?

[edog743]

 I bet it probably will not be you, Jim

[brmcc74]

Veteran’s day is just another paid holiday for union types

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Im in a union and I dont get paid for Veterans Day............Merry Christmas

[jim18]

So, we have touched on Thanksgiving Day, Veterans Day, and Christmas, and all you guys can do is two responses - short responses at that.  That don’t impress me much, really.Today is black Friday.  I listened to the comments of retail workers that thought it was wrong for their employers to make them work on Thanksgiving Day.  I agree.  But where is the outrage by the unions over how labor is being treated?  Asking that question is like asking what good are unions?  There is no outrage by unions, and there is no use or purpose of unions.  Still, forcing people to work on a holiday is wrong under most circumstances.Christmas is 30 days away, but it has been in our stores since before Halloween.  Even before Christmas arrives, I am tired of the holiday, as it has been overdone.How can anyone make the case that a pine tree, real or artificial, has anything to do with the meaning of Christmas?  What is the connection between decorations and lights on a pine tree and Jesus Christ?   Are there pine trees in Jerusalem?  In schools near you, the teachers (union people of course) take all meaning out of Christmas songs.  In their place are winter songs, with no mention for the reason of the season of Christmas.Christmas in America has lost its way, just as America has lost its way.  Of course there are lots of reasons for this , but high on my list of reasons for the fall of America are cooperate greed and unions.

[itsalock]

Jim:This is a video poker forum, go find another board to bit$$ to. Sorry life as treated you roughly and you hate the holidays, go take your BS somewhere else.Sorry everyone.

[Frank Kneeland]

Well I am thankful for life itself. Having had a recent brush with
cancer, I am only too happy to still be sucking air. And whether or not
you believe life comes to us from a natural process or a supreme being
is irrelevant, similarly how one chooses to appreciate life, or on what
day is equally irrelevant.  Life is a marvelous gift that deserves all
the thanks we can muster every day all day.~FK

[jim18]

Good Afternoon ItsalockI am sort of confused with your response.  Yes, this is a VP forum.Have you noticed the name of this topic is “Anything and Everything”?Have you noticed that I did not create the original posting - dealing with Thanksgiving.As far as I know you have not complained about all of the other topics which have nothing to do with VP - for to do so would be shallow and show a lack of manners.You have not criticized anyone that has posted on this topic of Thanksgiving, except me.  Are you really being fair and balanced.?If in your mind you have the right to insult me, and try to deny me freedom of speech on a topic that is open to all, then what thoughts should I have of your character - or lack of character?

[jim18]

Good Afternoon FrankYour post starts off well enough with an expression of how you feel on this topic.  However, I am left with a feeling that by the end of your post, you are speaking in absolutes.  Meaning that everyone must love life as much as you do.  And that how you feel about life is more correct than how others may feel about life.It is a nice touch for you to accept that not all people think we are a product of evolution.  But it is not irreverent to Christians as to how we came to be.  Again, this is an example of you speaking in the absolute.How about telling us what you think or believe.  And not telling us what we should think or believe.Perhaps you are 100 % right that life is a marvelous gift.  Clearly, not all people see life as a marvelous gift.  I submit to you the proof of this idea in the number of abortions that occur each year in America.What do women that elect to have an abortion, generally speaking, have to be thankful for?As to the life that is snuffed out by the abortion, do you think that it has reason to be thankful?Using the about two premises, I form the conclusion that not everyone has reason to be thankful.Beyond this, I submit that each person should decide for themself if they are thankful or not.  Being thankful, everyday, as you want people to be is not a right, a responsibility, a requirement, nor does it resemble reasonableness or randomness.