“We give thanks and ask God’s blessings as we receive His bounty this Thanksgiving Day.”
I guarantee you won’t see this on DailyKook. There’s probably a lot of babbling on there about America being a racist, cracker nation that celebrates the genocide of Indians and turkeys.
Most of them probably sit all alone in front of a computer posting hateful little screeds to the net out of bitterness because they’re miserable SOBs who’s family won’t invite them over for the holidays.
The one time I read the local rag is Thanksgiving. I go straight to the editorial and invariably I read something like the above--a full-on guilt trip about why I'm a POS for thanking God for our bounty. I always say that I'll subscribe to the paper when the Thanksgiving editorial is a simple message of thanks, but it's going on 20 years now and it isn't looking good...