Thanksgiving - an obscure holiday commemorating struggles that early American Puritans, fleeing religious persecution, endured. Or, if you're an oblivious agnostic or atheist... funny people, in clean black-and-white clothing, smiling and eating potluck luncheons with "Native Americans" (don't get me started on hypenated-Americans - another post for another time).
And although I could pontificate and extol the nobler practice of (actually) being thankful the other 364 days of this particular year, I'll forego it in lieu of communicating something else ENTIRELY, and with a slightly warped sense of relief (humor).
As South Carolina's most prolific gruntled veteran, I want 44% of the state (and 51.5% of the national electorate) to know why I am NOT thankful for certain things:
I am NOT thankful for...
1) wrath - defined as: vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger
Because the last thing we need are individuals behaving badly after general elections - no matter who the electorate inadvertently put back in office - just because the country is on the precipice of a fiscal waterfall.
2) greed - defined as: excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
Because the last thing we need is a government taking more from those who built their own businesses - who employ the majority of the local citizenry - to the point where they cannot afford to provide benefits for those they'll (soon) have to let go, to say nothing of having to shut their doors permanently.
3) sloth - defined as: habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness
Because the last thing we need is a country that discourages success and drives its point home by continuously re-gifting a growing majority of those in lesser circumstances with funds they would have had to earn for themselves.
4) pride - defined as: a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
Because the last thing we need is a group of individuals in the government with an unwritten mandate to facilitate class warfare for the sake of the haughty egos in a certain marble-lined town up north - completely out-of-touch.
5) lust - defined as: a passionate or overmastering desire or craving (usually followed by for)
Because the last thing we need are public servants who are more interested in accommodating their own comforts prior to - and often to the exclusion of - that of their electorate (read: constituents)... and then to escalate the threshholds of their comfort at the taxpayers' expense.
6) envy - defined as: a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
Because the last thing we need to believe - as a people group - is that someone else has something they shouldn't, that they didn't earn (read: build) that - to internalize that to the nth degree, to the point of influencing law (read: legislation) in order to corrupt, steal from and otherwise vandalize our free-market economy, our neighbors, and public places (respectively) - also, see "wrath", above.
7) gluttony - defined as: excessive eating and drinking
Because the last thing we need is to cope with the desperation of our country's economic slip-n-slide by immersing ourselves in alcohol and "comfort food"... effectively pulling out of society and draw up tight within our holes we call "homes", with no deep and abiding fellowship, not even light social interaction with our own partisans.
I'd like to thank dictionary.com for all the definitions - without their support, this topic wouldn't have been made possible... and the smell of the color 9. MMLIA
And although I could pontificate and extol the nobler practice of (actually) being thankful the other 364 days of this particular year, I'll forego it in lieu of communicating something else ENTIRELY, and with a slightly warped sense of relief (humor).
As South Carolina's most prolific gruntled veteran, I want 44% of the state (and 51.5% of the national electorate) to know why I am NOT thankful for certain things:
I am NOT thankful for...
1) wrath - defined as: vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger
Because the last thing we need are individuals behaving badly after general elections - no matter who the electorate inadvertently put back in office - just because the country is on the precipice of a fiscal waterfall.
2) greed - defined as: excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
Because the last thing we need is a government taking more from those who built their own businesses - who employ the majority of the local citizenry - to the point where they cannot afford to provide benefits for those they'll (soon) have to let go, to say nothing of having to shut their doors permanently.
3) sloth - defined as: habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness
Because the last thing we need is a country that discourages success and drives its point home by continuously re-gifting a growing majority of those in lesser circumstances with funds they would have had to earn for themselves.
4) pride - defined as: a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
Because the last thing we need is a group of individuals in the government with an unwritten mandate to facilitate class warfare for the sake of the haughty egos in a certain marble-lined town up north - completely out-of-touch.
5) lust - defined as: a passionate or overmastering desire or craving (usually followed by for)
Because the last thing we need are public servants who are more interested in accommodating their own comforts prior to - and often to the exclusion of - that of their electorate (read: constituents)... and then to escalate the threshholds of their comfort at the taxpayers' expense.
6) envy - defined as: a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
Because the last thing we need to believe - as a people group - is that someone else has something they shouldn't, that they didn't earn (read: build) that - to internalize that to the nth degree, to the point of influencing law (read: legislation) in order to corrupt, steal from and otherwise vandalize our free-market economy, our neighbors, and public places (respectively) - also, see "wrath", above.
7) gluttony - defined as: excessive eating and drinking
Because the last thing we need is to cope with the desperation of our country's economic slip-n-slide by immersing ourselves in alcohol and "comfort food"... effectively pulling out of society and draw up tight within our holes we call "homes", with no deep and abiding fellowship, not even light social interaction with our own partisans.
I'd like to thank dictionary.com for all the definitions - without their support, this topic wouldn't have been made possible... and the smell of the color 9. MMLIA
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