Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist

By Jason Miller

Thomas Paine's Corner

http://www.bestcyrano.org/T HOMASPAINE/?p=453

Gluttony and greed kill more than the sword.

--Italian proverb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

~Charles Lamb, 1821

Another propaganda-driven greed-fest has nearly passed in the land of the corporatized and the home of the subservient. Obedient little wage slaves and consumers that most of us are (to varying degrees of course), we have once again dutifully greased the wheels of the monstrous capitalist machine and made our proper sacrifices at the altar of Mammon. Between our voracious inhalation of all manner of edibles to our obscene spree of rapacious spending using money eagerly fronted by the usurious kings of finance capital, Thanksgiving and Black Friday are celebratory days indeed for the moneyed elite comprising the allegedly non-existent ruling class in our "egalitarian" and "democratic" nation.

I hope each of you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is also a time to think of those in need. Please consider volunteering for a charity, visiting a hospital, nursing home, or shut-in, or donating to a charity.

Some worthy charities I support are on ActGive which also lists many thousands of other charities around the country.

http://www.justgive.org/bas ket?acton=viewList&dono rId=58995&listTypeId=1

Rob
http://robwire.com

To get you through the holiday, I offer up a three-course meal of the best Thanksgiving jokes (culled from the joke books I edit, including The Comedy Thesaurus (Quirk Books).

Burp-free, enjoy!

I celebrated Thanksgiving in the traditional way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast. And then I killed them and took their land. -- Jon Stewart

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, "Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave."--Dylan Brody

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England."--Jay Leno
 

DON'T serve them a cardboard
cut-out turkey...!

i spent two thanksgiving and two christmas holidays eating in a mess hall in vietnam... the mess sergeants really tried to make it home-like and festive but, somehow, eating your holiday dinner in a war zone in a uniform just doesn't quite cut it... the best support we could possibly give those men and women serving in iraq is to make sure they get home without any more of them having to die...

http://takeitpersonally.blo gspot.com/2005/11/how-not-t o-support-troops-on.html