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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Now, that would be foul.

One Thanksgiving/Christmas tradition at my house is to ""SIGN THE HOLIDAY BOOK"." That means that family and friends who visit during either or both of these holidays are asked to write a few lines in a Holiday Journal about what they're thankful for or what their most outstanding memory is of the passing year. They sign their statements and date them. This little book was begun at Thanksgiving, 2001 and is over half full now. It has become one of our most cherished possessions. There are pages of my late parents' comments. There are the scribblings of the grandchildren, nieces, and nephews, which allow me to watch their budding maturity as their handwriting improves. There are a few pages devoted to a record of the Christmas ornaments that are hung on our Christmas tree each year as to where they came from and why they're important to the family. This year, I will add to the list what my 2008 Christmas ornament is: WHITE HOUSE 2008. I ordered it from the White House Historical Association to commemorate the historical 2008 Presidential election and our wresting the White House from the Republicans. I'm going to also print the list below of 17 REASONS TO GIVE THANKS THIS YEAR to paste into the Holiday Journal:

17 REASONS TO GIVE THANKS THIS YEAR!


I'M ALSO THANKFUL TO JESSE FOR THIS UPDATED WEBSITE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY HERE.

Just remembered to make my annual contribution to KGO radio's Thanksgiving charities.

In the past, I would send a check. This year they made it easier, but allowing people to donate online (without the overhead cost!).

Thanks Catherine. Loved the reasons to be Thankful, and the comments are interesting too.

27 Reasons To Give Thanks

We're thankful President Obama is thinking long and hard about committing more troops and money to Afghanistan.

We're thankful President Bush feels liberated now.

We're (not) thankful Dick Cheney has elected to move from his undisclosed location to the media spotlight.

We're thankful Al Franken has gone from playing self-help guru Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live to helping rape victims receive justice from their employers.

We're thankful for the healing power of beer.

We're thankful there are some on the right who think Glenn Beck is "incoherent," "mindless," "erratic," "bizarre," and "harmful to the conservative movement."

We're thankful for long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.

We're thankful Michael Steele understands that he can't "do policy" and that no one has any reason to trust his "words or actions."

We're (not) thankful for "birthers," "deathers," "tenthers," or "tea baggers."

We're (not) thankful conservatives believe they love America so much that they can root for our President to fail and for our nation to lose out on hosting the Olympics.

We're thankful NFL players refused to "bend over and grab the ankles" for Rush Limbaugh.

We're thankful six companies have resigned from the Chamber of Commerce due to its denial of climate change science.

We're thankful Falcon "Balloon boy" Heene wasn't actually in the balloon.

We're thankful Lt. Dan Choi and Lt. Col Victor Fehrenbach bravely spoke out against Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

We're thankful Shep Smith doesn't always drink the Fox News kool-aid.

We're thankful more than 80 companies refused to lend their sponsorship to Glenn Beck's hateful rants.

We're thankful there are progressive organizations in D.C. lobbying for a two-state solution in the Middle East.

We're (not) thankful for the filibuster.

We're thankful that more than 20,000 of you stood up to Bill O'Reilly's harassment machine and called for impeachment hearings against torture advocate Jay Bybee.

We're thankful that Iran's authoritarian rulers live in fear of their own population.

We're thankful we'll no longer have to listen to nativist rhetoric on CNN and global warming skepticism on ABC News.

We're (not) thankful for bailed out CEOs who think they're doing "God's work" by doling out billions in bonuses.

We're thankful for the legacy of the Liberal Lion.

We're thankful Bill O'Reilly won't be following us home for Thanksgiving.

We're thankful a "wise Latina" sits on the Supreme Court.

We're thankful our boss helped rescue imprisoned American journalists in North Korea.

We're thankful for our readers and the support you give us.

Link: The Progress Report via email

Happy Thanksgiving!

My brother and his friends are hosting something for his side. My brother-in-law will be visiting them. Thank goodness. Not sure I could stomach his praise of -- all people -- Sarah Palin.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

I will be thankful if progressives manage to get a decent health care bill passed. They are working hard for it, but the health care business, Rs, and conservaDems are working to water it down to being worse than meaningless.

Go Progressives!!!