tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3866332059717265595..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Thanksgiving 2020Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-28752962388580350922020-11-27T09:06:58.322-06:002020-11-27T09:06:58.322-06:00Are Americans just spoiled children, unwilling to ...Are Americans just spoiled children, unwilling to gracefully endure this little hiccup in our lives so fewer die from the pandemic? Do the anti-entitlement conservatives feel entitled to the primacy of an America not wholly our doing but assisted by the arc of history? Ted Cruz voted to deny New Jersey FEMA funds after Hurricane Sandy, but he was first in line when Texas got slammed. Too many Americans resent neighbors more than they appreciate what they have. Liberals didn't kill Christmas and Obama didn't take away their guns but still they cry, ungrateful bastards. Thanks for another year, Neil.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63555712190978589852020-11-26T22:35:08.543-06:002020-11-26T22:35:08.543-06:00Well, beginning in 2022, to get a running start on...Well, beginning in 2022, to get a running start on the 2024 election. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87542241939829934962020-11-26T20:06:24.631-06:002020-11-26T20:06:24.631-06:00This Thanksgiving I am grateful for family, of cou...This Thanksgiving I am grateful for family, of course, and that Trump was voted out. I am thankful for others who think as I think and welcome a new Administration. I am also thankful for you Neil and for your commitment to an everygoddamnday column. You probably don’t even feel like writing it some days. I usually find something to smile about when reading it. Today it was when you wrote about Cruz possibly running for the presidency in 2022 “(assuming he’s still not crouched over Trump’s shoes, licking).” Great line!Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373960140777556685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-88253368358595506852020-11-26T13:17:13.645-06:002020-11-26T13:17:13.645-06:00I grew up hearing the whining in other nations abo...I grew up hearing the whining in other nations about the "Ugly Americans"...those were the days. Now, half of us are the selfish, ignorant, clueless, stupid Americans. Can't even put on a mask, stay the f'k home, and give up our gatherings, both public and private, to save ourselves and our families and our countrymen.<br /><br />I'm saddened, appalled, angry, and disgusted. Half my countrymen don't give a flying fork, and are actively trying to kill the other half. Including me. Is turkey and all the fixins REALLY worth dying for, you covidiots?<br /><br />America's millions of wingnuts and sheeple, and America's prevailing attitudes of avarice, hostility, and outright meanness, have made me want to emigrate tomorrow, if I could. But I can't. Gonna die here one day, hopefully with a snow shovel in my hand and not on a ventilator. Truth is, no other place on the planet, including Canada, wants any of us around. And who can blame them?<br /><br />Thanks to all those short-sighted covidiots, anti-distancers, and all the maskholes, I see this going on for at least another year, if not longer, and maybe a million or more deaths. If we'd behaved this way in 1942, after a year of war, we'd already be bowing and heiling to our new overlords and masters, and lining up to learn German and Japanese. I'm relived that my parents and grandparents are no longer around to see what we've become.<br /><br />The original "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (1944) assured us that "Next year all our troubles will be out of sight." Both Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland sang the original lyrics. Next year? I seriously doubt it, even with Our Joe.<br /><br />They also sang "Until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow..." Americans no longer know the meaning of that term, which we borrowed from the Blitz and the Brits. Sacrifice for the common good, perseverance, postponing of gratification now for a better outcome later...all that is gone with the wind. We've also borrowed "Keep Calm and Carry On" from the English. But we smirk when we say it, and we certainly don't mean it.<br /><br />America, despite its multitude of crises, persists in its shameless attitudes of "I want it all and I want it now" and "The hell with you!" and "It's all about ME." None of which originated with Orangy the Clown and his bottomless glasses of the Red Kool-Aid. All that began decades ago.<br /><br />Ted Cruz and his ilk are like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz, raving at "the leftists" and whining that somebody is pulling their tails. Nobody did all this to us. We did it to ourselves. Is he so stupid that he doesn't realize that countless Americans have already had to unwillingly "give up" their holidays? My wife and I are home alone this Thanksgiving for the first time in 25 years. Thanks, wingnuts. Thanks, maskholes.<br /><br />Innoculations may soon save our lives, but too many Americans will remain unvaccinated from the self-centered greed that has been so rampant during this Crisis of 2020. Even when the masks come off and we can go to festivals and concerts and ballgames again, too many of us will still be among the "sick"... <br /><br />But, hey, that's America, buddy. Ain't it grand?<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving to you and the missus, Mister S, and to all the EGD die-hards out there. Stay home this winter, so you don't die hard.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39710762437658262062020-11-26T11:01:48.782-06:002020-11-26T11:01:48.782-06:00Sorry, that was me Joyce Meggett. Sorry, that was me Joyce Meggett. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706666922972227659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-4626774741560391982020-11-26T10:08:21.267-06:002020-11-26T10:08:21.267-06:00i GAVE THANKS FOR YOUR COLUMN AND BLOG, AND THE AM...i GAVE THANKS FOR YOUR COLUMN AND BLOG, AND THE AMERICANS STILL INTERESTED IN REASON AND RATIONAL THOUGHT. SKIMMING THROUGH A FEW STREAMING "NEWS" CHANNELS I HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT IT MAY BE HOPELESS. THOSE WHO WOULD LISTEN TO THE FACTS MAY NEVER HEAR THEM. TOO MANY OF THESE CHANNELS ARE SO DEDICATED TO RIDICULOUS CONSPIRACIES AND DOWNRIGHT WORSHIP OF TRUMP AS THE DELIVERER OF AMERICA THAT THEY DON'T EVEN PRESENT ANOTHER SIDE. THEY PROPOSE THAT THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, THAT THE COUNTS ARE ALL LIES - A LIBERAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONSPIRACY TO STEAL AMERICA FROM AMERICANS AND GIVE IT TO ????? (THEY NEVER SAY IT OUTRIGHT BUT I THINK THEY MEAN EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T CONFORM EXACTLY TO THEIR VIEW OF THE WORLD, WHICH IS DEFINITELY CONTRARY TO AMERICAN IDEALS) - WHEN WE ALL KNOW THAT THE FACTS SAY THAT, IF ANYONE IS CONSPIRING TO UNDERMINE AMERICA, IT IS DEFINITELY THE SIDE THAT WANTS TO SILENCE EVERY VOICE THAT DISAGREES AND HAS TIES TO DICTATORS AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE STATED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO DESTROY DEMOCRACIES. AND THE NUMBERS OF THE TRUMP FAITHFUL HAVE GROWN.<br />MY DAUGHTER IS HOOKED ON "KAREN" VIDEOS THE DISPLAY OF IGNORANCE AND ENTITLEMENT IS MIND SHATTERING. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION SO MUCH IGNORANCE EXISTS. <br />OH, SORRY. I RANTED LIKE THOSE THAT SCARE ME. <br />HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE. HOPE YOU GOT A LAUGH.Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57459822193282432872020-11-26T07:19:40.125-06:002020-11-26T07:19:40.125-06:00Happy Thanksgiving, Neil. Thanks for your blog.Happy Thanksgiving, Neil. Thanks for your blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706666922972227659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73828090651640542162020-11-26T06:25:05.286-06:002020-11-26T06:25:05.286-06:00The abject stupidity of so many people this year i...The abject stupidity of so many people this year is truly disheartening. Those of us whose parents went through the horrors & privations of WWII just can't believe how appallingly selfish these fools are. <br />It's just one year, we can't get together to celebrate holidays with family & friends, just one year. <br /> <br />Next year, all of us sane people will be vaccinated with at least one of the vaccines, created by scientists, that the wing-nuts disparage regularly & whose hero, an orange faced moron threw out the pandemic playbook created by his nemesis, the previous president, who just wanted to leave the country a better place than went he went into office! <br />I don't believe anyone from Obama's administration was ever indicted & convicted of any crimes, let alone needed to be pardoned.<br /><br />Yet we've had dozens that were indicted, convicted or just had to quit, due to their criminal behavior & we all know there will be dozens of pardons coming in the next seven weeks, including drumpf's entire corrupt family & I believe drumpf will resign just before January 20, so his Q-Tip looking lackey can become president long enough to pardon him, from federal crimes, thus guaranteeing that New York State will indict him for all sorts of the financial shenanigans he's pulled over the last few years.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com