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<p>During my 1980s peace activist days, my mom made the mistake of letting me say grace before one Thanksgiving meal. I’ve never been one to just mindlessly repeat some prayer drummed into my head in Sunday school class - that’s way too uncreative. So I thought hard and came up with something like this: "God, thank you for letting us live in a country where we have the freedom to sit around a dead bird trying to think of things we’re thankful for, as many people around us lose their jobs and homes and can’t carry out this dead-bird tradition."</p>

<p>Tuesday, November 19, was truly [1] a black, black day for this nation and one I never dreamed would happen here.</p> <p>I remember vividly as a child watching Nikita Khrushchev standing at the UN beating his shoe against the podium and shouting that they (the then Soviet Union) would take us over without firing a shot. Little did we know or ever dream then that the Soviet Union would fall but that a truly [2] evil man from Texas and his equally evil regime from Cheney on down would take us over from within and that the Democrats would completely collapse before our eyes and help him do it. This truly [3] began with the stolen election of 2000.</p>