My whole family pools our holiday money and donates to Heifer International — not one of us needs anymore stuff. We have so my much fun deciding which animals to pick. Very worthwhile organization.

* No retroactive immunity to telcos. They knowingly spied on Americans without warrants in order to get big government contracts. Billion dollar fines need to be levied and people need to go to jail.

* No basket warrants. I am not a basket. I’m a tax paying U.S. citizen. If the government wants to spy on my communications they need to go to a judge, PROVE PROBABLE CAUSE, and get an INDIVIDUAL WARRANT!

The country is crumbling Senator. Your help is urgently needed! Please tell your fellow Senators how very important this issue is. I’m not sure you guys in the Beltway have any clue what’s important to us in the real world. Thank you!

Comment by Blue Stater

It’s all they got, they are desperate, Butteater is gonna have a heart attack anyway with all the beef.

Buck Fush

Open letter to Senator Kennedy..My dear old friend, we have been together for all the worst and the best…I cast my first vote ever for JFK, we were united as a nation..I grieved openly when we lost JFK and Bobby, you were my family just as surely as a blood kin would be..You still are..

Fast forward to the present day, I am tired and weary….The party of old democrat’s does not exist except for a tiny few…For over 7 year’s we have (the voters) been neglected, our country and constitution abandoned and abused and the majority have turned to republican lite.

.Our own, Madam speaker Palosi has refused to listen to us and betrayed us by taking impeachment off the table…Majority leader Reid and the senate time and again has rolled over and become enabeler’s to the most evil administration I have ever seen..If I could leave my country and go some where else I would, that’s how much shame I feel for what our representatives have allowed to happen, indeed help pramote.

We can no longer go along with a repeat of viet nam and worse….We can no longer let foreign countries buy our port’s, dump ton’s of led filled toy’s on our children, borrow trillion’s of dollars to fund war’s against innocent countries and allow criminals in our administration write the very law’s that allow them to get off scott free.

I can no longer support the majority of the democratic party…Kucenich will be my pick and if he is not chosen I will write his name in and check the rest….Untill and unless the Democrat’s bring about impeachment, stop funding this unjust war and change their deaf ear attitude toward’s us except to raise more fund’s for their constant campaigning I will be flying in the wind and no longer count my self as a democrat…It is with deep respect I ask you to pass this message on to the democrat’s, for if they do not listen the democratic party will dismantel just as quickly as the republican’s are…..Thank you so much for your time and please forgive all the errors….Blessings to you and your’s…Sharon Cox

As usual Mary Jo could not be reached for comment.

Comment by Beefeater — November 15, 2007 @ 3:16 pm

It took 19 posts for someone to bring this up, I think the trolls are slipping.

To Jay Randal, I think it’s a shame to judge Thanksgiving based on how much money it makes for various industries. Thanksgiving in our family is a time to get together and enjoy each other’s company. Although we certainly buy extra food for the holiday, it feels like one of the few holidays left which is still about family rather than about crass commercialism.

And then there’s the terrible shopping orgy the day after Thanksgiving, but I blame that on Christmas. I don’t exactly celebrate Buy Nothing Day, but I do avoid doing any “shopping” that day, instead only buying day to day stuff I might buy any day.