The Thanksgiving of Our Dreams: Open Your Eyes, It's Right Here

Please don't forget that the finer things in life are free........ Such as being able to enjoy the sunshine, and the greenness of the trees--fresh air and the butterflies that dazzle our imagination--If you listen closely, the birds are singing a song of pure fascination--Don't forget about the natural glitter of the snow--Or the calmness of the rain--Nor the spectacular spring-time flower show––Simply turn off the TV!--Turn off the radio!---And you will see--The best things in life really are free-–Just thought I’d tell you so-—There are some things that money just can’t buy--Just look around you--and you’ll know why--Our dreams will NEVER die! By: R.M.B.

The United States of America is dead. With what the American people have allowed the EVIL REPUBLICAN Party do to them it is obvious that they are hopeless. I will just sit back and watch this country self destruct. We truly do have the blind leading the blind.

i only hope that, a few years from now, whether it be five, ten, twenty or sixty or more, james or some other reporter will be able to write a similar column with similar sentiments, because we are fast on the road to losing more and more of our freedoms.... (and why does the word "column" have an "n" at the end, any way? that makes no sense.....)

Amen Mr. James, For all of our bluster we still have a government that works fairly well. No militants running amok on or streets, death squads knocking down our door, neighbors, friends, and loved ones being "disappeared" and separatists are still laughing stocks and the economy is no longer in free fall. We have enough leaders and political participants who want the best for this country to ensure that those who don't, would turn this country into a kleptocracy, are kept at bay, at least for today, perhaps tomorrow too. Today it ain't to bad to be under the red, white, and blue.

People missing the point again. Don't feel bad dreams are hard come by in an environment of fear. Fear is really just terrible grief with a pinch of anger. Fear is fanned by hate mongering radio and tv hosts who need to keep their ratings and thnk that reporting on the antics of various political politicos will hold an audience . . . but today there were plenty of people at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and they weren't watching or listening to the fear/hate mongers and maybe they had a small taste of what they had before, what they have always had . . Hope and a thankfullness for even the smallest things in their lives. And pray, ask the universe, what ever spiritual pathway you use, to lighten hearts, improve lives and maintain, even in these difficult times, the mircle that IS America.

Thank you James that put a smile on my face.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is hardly the foil to Obama, in fact as far as I can see there is no difference at all.

Which of the dreams you mention has been made more attainable under Democratic administration? The job? The home? The reliable, affordable electric power? I can't even hope to board an aircraft without being groped or irradiated in the name of "fairness". There is something screwey around here, and even Elmer Fudd could see it.