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politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving
    #7669319 - 11/23/07 07:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Last weekend they had an early thanksgiving parade in the town I live in here in Maryland... right at the edge od DC... so there are a lot of democrats out here.

I've never been to a thanksgiving day parade though. It didn't really suprise me that a lot of the float were really just rolling advertisements for local businesses.

I started noticing a lot of local politicians who were up for re-election had some floats. It didn't bother me too much. Some of them at least tried to dress up their trucks to look all thanksgiving0y.... and at least the politicians living in the area so they had some sort of stake.

What REALLY pissed me off though was when the political floats started being for politicians that were farther and farther removed.... like the senators that represent us in congress. The local politicians, like I said... just had their pickup trucks, pulling wagons behind it with corn husks and ppl dressed like pilgrims.

The cherry on the cake was seeing a MASSIVE triple decker float (with no thanksgiving theme at all) advertising Hillary Clinton. It made me want to puke. I come out to watch the local dance groups, schools and marching bands put on a show and here you've got this giant advertisement for hillary clinton rolling down my street accompanied by about 50 women who looked like clones.. alll about 40-50.. all with really short spikey grey hair... it looked like a march of the big fat jaded lesbiens.

I hate Hillary... and my anger came a little from this, but mostly because a simple holiday tradition was being tainted by a bunch of political bullshit.. Hillary... MccAin.. Obama.. I do't care who it was I still would have been steaming mad. The people who organized the parade should be ashamed of themselves.

Everyone was cheering and waving flags and stuff.

I was the only person that decided to audibly BOOOO when the float made it over to my section and I made damn sure I was loud enough that tons of people around me could hear me. A lot of people looked at me like I was doing something wrong but fuck it... If you're going to introduce a hot-button political edge to what's supposed to be a relaxing, theme oriented thanksgiving day parade... then get ready to get some political backlash. Vote for Hillary.. she's for freedom.. unless it's you expressing your dissatisfaction with her. Then be SILENT, insolent peasants!

I'm going to write a letter to the editor of the paper here voice how disappointed I am with what I saw and to berate the city's parade blanners for blasphemizing what's supposed to be a holiday tradition. Not just for the Hillary float, but for all the floats run by the politicians that don't live anywhere close to here.

If I had a carton of eggs with me at that parade... I would have plastered all these floats with them... especially the march of the fat ass lezbos welfare queens.



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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7669373 - 11/23/07 07:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

She can't be that bad, can she? I mean she has already started to police Saudi Arabia for us and she hasn't even been elected yet. I call that motivation! (sarcasm for the impaired)


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7669633 - 11/23/07 09:55 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

The good news is that Ayman Al Zwahri may have converted to Christianity.

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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7670212 - 11/23/07 12:14 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

That's too bad, and unfortunately of little surprise.  Good luck with that letter, perhaps share a copy and whether or not it makes publication.

During a brief and rare political discussion yesterday after dinner my uncle asked in disapproval of the candidates "Who do we vote for?" and my dad (to my grand surprise) replied "Ron Paul."  I live in an area in which I perceive half the population to not vote and the other half to vote for the #1 most televised candidate on Fox "News". :shrug:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7670464 - 11/23/07 01:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I always thought parades were lame anyway.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: Silversoul]
    #7670472 - 11/23/07 01:04 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Except when you're young and the people on the floats throw candy.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: Redstorm]
    #7670593 - 11/23/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Or beads, which you can later redeem for flashes of titties.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7670607 - 11/23/07 01:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I never quite understood that behavior when I was a child, though.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: Redstorm]
    #7670618 - 11/23/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I did.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7671065 - 11/23/07 03:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

You must have had an amazing childhood


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: Gastronomicus]
    #7671464 - 11/23/07 05:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Meh.. my in laws were in town so i figured i had to do some touristy shit

besides... my town has tons of immigrants so it was cool to see all the ethnic dance groups marching down the street showing us their traditions

It was fun

Until I the big fat Hillary wanna be lezbos started rolling down the path


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7671596 - 11/23/07 05:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

don't let hillary rain on your parade, bro  :patriot:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: Arp]
    #7672313 - 11/23/07 07:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

why the hell do we celebrate thanksgiving anyways? i mean our REAL "thanksgiving" was to steal, rape and pillage... right?


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7672915 - 11/23/07 11:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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why the hell do we celebrate thanksgiving anyways? i mean our REAL "thanksgiving" was to steal, rape and pillage... right?




oh good god, what's your point?

Thanksgiving is a time to be lazy, fat, get fatter, and catch up w/ family you like/ remind yourself why you never liked the rest.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: johnm214]
    #7673534 - 11/24/07 05:09 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

my point is, we shouldn't need a federal holiday to tell us when to get together with our family. I can understand valentines day, being made up... but I mean thanksgiving is almost the exact opposite of history.

on topic, please understand that's what thanksgiving is really about! it's a political holiday, aimed at promoting the usa's fabricated history. So don't be surprised that it's filled with so much other propaganda. It's actually amazing the OP would just take note of this now.

Just like any other holiday, the true meaning is trivialized into obscurity, and the impact of that date within the psyche is exploited for commercial gain. In this case, instead of being appalled at the parades full of advertisements (like me), the OP was irritated that one of these products happened to be a presidential candidate.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7673589 - 11/24/07 06:02 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Oh stop being such a college student hippy that has to protest everything.

Be thankful it's a holiday that gives you a day off work.

>So don't be surprised that it's filled with so much other propaganda.

You do have a point here though


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7673724 - 11/24/07 07:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Believe it or not, i'm well out of college and i shave and shower everyday.  this is who i am.

stop being such a defensive consumer.  i just think it would be better if more people embraced their families on a daily basis, or on their own schedule - not on the schedule of the government and corporations.

if that makes me a hippy, than so be it.  I'll stick with reasoning and logic - you can stick to ad hominem, it's much easier anyways.

this IS the political board, not OTD.

p.s. I didn't get a day off work :tongue:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7673747 - 11/24/07 07:34 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I'm just saying what's wrong with having a federal holiday for thanksgiving? It forces a lot of corporations to give ppl days off, corporations who, if they had their way, would probably force people to work on a day reserved for giving thanks.

Anywho... besides.. I'm saying... parades are fun.

And thanksgiving wasn't some hallmark holiday created by the government to stimulate the economy. Not everything the government does has to have some evil intention behind it. God forbid the government declare a holiday to actually try to focus on the good things in life.

Just because today's corporations and politicians have batardized a holiday into a way of making money doesn't mean that was the original intention for the concept of thanksgiving.

Sure we screwed the Native Americans. Howe4ver thanksgiving was supposed to look beyond that and celebrate a day where the new world and the old world actually sat down together and got along.

The original thanksgiving dates back to the 1619.

History lesson. In 1619.. we DIDN'T have doorbuster sales. Nor did we have a federal government.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7673750 - 11/24/07 07:34 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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p.s. I didn't get a day off work :tongue:




Sorry to hear that. Your employer deserves a beat down.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7673849 - 11/24/07 08:18 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Not everybody can get the whole day off and some people can't get any of it. Even on Thanksgiving, the carts must be returned to the store after those oh so essential last minute grocery runs.

Are you in Seattle kotik?
http://www.king5.com/education/stories/NW_111407WAB_no_happy_thanksgiving_TP.3449914.html


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7673880 - 11/24/07 08:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Yea that's too bad. It sucks. Even with federal holidays we Americans work like 20 more days a year than most Europeans and we still have companies forcing people with nonessential jobs to work on the few days we have off that are supposed to be reserved for family occasions.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7673930 - 11/24/07 09:09 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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all about 40-50.. all with really short spikey grey hair... it looked like a march of the big fat jaded lesbiens.




:rofl2:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7674191 - 11/24/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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my point is, we shouldn't need a federal holiday to tell us when to get together with our family.



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i just think it would be better if more people embraced their families on a daily basis, or on their own schedule - not on the schedule of the government and corporations.



It sounds like you are attempting to make a point where there is none, your viewpoint is idealized.

My family is scattered between Boston and Orlando - we don't see each other often except for on the well established "Federal Holidays" of which we all know the dates. People are busy at different times throughout the year and having a few holidays in which the average person is given time off, or is expected to take time off, makes it easier and smarter to gather on those holidays.

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what thanksgiving is really about



Thanksgiving, like anything else, is what you make of it.

The propaganda and the commercialism is there for you if you seek it. When my family gets together it is for the sole purpose of being together - no parades, nor American history nor football. I'm fairly certain most of us are well aware of the reality of our history and the last thing on my mind on Thanksgiving Day is Pilgrims and Indians.

So enough with the rampant blanket-statements and OMGCorporateAmericaFederalManipulation extremist pseudo-argument.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7674256 - 11/24/07 11:43 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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thanksgiving was supposed to look beyond that and celebrate a day where the new world and the old world actually sat down together and got along.




lol, ya.. for one party to look beyond it.  while the natives were the ones being looked beyond.

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It sounds like you are attempting to make a point where there is none, your viewpoint is idealized.




or perhaps you are looking for an intention where there isn't one.

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So enough with the rampant blanket-statements and OMGCorporateAmericaFederalManipulation extremist pseudo-argument.




sorry, my reply was on topic.  regarding the exploitation of the holiday.  your reply seems to be targeted directly at my statements.  so enough of that :tongue:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7674268 - 11/24/07 11:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Holidays true meanings are whatever you make of them. To me, it's getting together with family who live hundreds and thousands of miles away from me. We don't sit down and say grace or go around the table and say what we're thankful for.


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: BrAiN]
    #7674309 - 11/24/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

the title of this thread should be:

"MY politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving"

amirite?


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: kotik]
    #7674385 - 11/24/07 12:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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sorry, my reply was on topic. regarding the exploitation of the holiday. your reply seems to be targeted directly at my statements.



I disagree with your statements and that is why my reply should be targeted directly at your statements.  Argumentation theory, are we catching on yet? :eyebrow:


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Re: politics attemps to ruin thanksgiving [Re: elbisivni]
    #7674678 - 11/24/07 02:04 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

ooh, and sarcasm to boot.  quite the catch you are  :smile:


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