Displaying 871 To 900 Of 10,917 Comments Weekend Music Thread – Giving Thanks What a wonderful world – LOUIS ARMSTRONG. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 26, 2011 @ 5:53 pm KT–we have such similar tastes in music. I love that. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 26, 2011 @ 5:51 pm Did you post it too, KT? Sorry if I missed that–I thought I checked first. 🙂 But it’s the most grateful song I know. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 26, 2011 @ 5:37 pm In My Life: Grandma’s Hands: You Needed Me: » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 26, 2011 @ 5:19 pm A Thanksgiving Tradition – 2011 I am also grateful for the way CBS News reported this story–really, no snark! Most Americans spent Thanksgiving snug inside homes with families and football. Others used the national holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement that has gripped a nation consumed by economic despair. Across the bay in Oakland, where protesters and police previously clashed when an Occupy encampment was broken up, occupiers enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast outside City Hall with music and activist speakers, including Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the Minnesota-based American Indian Movement. And in New York, in an amplified version of a family Thanksgiving squabble, shouting erupted Thursday when police ordered a halt to protesters’ drumming at an otherwise mostly traditional Occupy Wall Street holiday meal. About 500 protesters were digging into donated turkey and all the trimmings when police told a drummer at lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to stop playing. Things heated up for about 15 minutes. About 200 of the protesters surrounded a group of about 30 officers and began shouting. “Why don’t you stop being cops for Thanksgiving?” yelled one protester. “Why don’t you arrest the drummers in the Thanksgiving parade?” hollered another. A van rolled up with more officers, but they hung back. The protesters, part of anti-Wall Street movement that has gripped a nation consumed by economic despair, held an impromptu forum and decided to call off the drumming. Occupy organizers distributed Thanksgiving meals at Zuccotti Park, where the protest movement began on Sept. 17 before spreading nationwide. Protesters were evicted from the park on Nov. 15. “So many people have given up so much to come and be a part of the movement because there is really that much dire need for community,” said Megan Hayes, a chef and organizer with the Occupy Wall Street Kitchen in New York. “We decided to take this holiday opportunity to provide just that — community.” She said some 3,000 meals were distributed. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57331047/occupy-movement-does-thanksgiving-nationwide/ » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 24, 2011 @ 2:37 pm President Obama: The very first Thanksgiving was a celebration of community during a time of great hardship, and we have followed that example ever since. Even when the fate of our union was far from certain – during a Civil War, two World Wars, a Great Depression – Americans drew strength from each other. They had faith that tomorrow would be better than today.
» Posted By Chernynkaya On November 24, 2011 @ 1:10 pm Khirad, I adore Sarah Vowel. And my son has had a crush on her for years! (I think she’s his ideal woman.) » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 24, 2011 @ 1:08 pm So much to be grateful for! It needs to be said how grateful I am for the Planet and the very wonderful people who created it and keep it going! AdLib, KQ, bito, and of course, Kalima are—and I say this with complete sincerity– some of the kindest, most ethical, and smartest people on planet Earth. They have attracted a group of people likewise smart, kind and just old fashioned DECENT. I am proud to call you all my friends and comrades. I feel grateful for good people everywhere—my family (whom I thank for all being staunch Liberals!), my dear friends who put up with me, my neighbors who are quick to share and to help each other, and all the many strangers I encounter around the city who are friendly and make every-day chores easier. We are all in the same boat. I am so grateful for my beloved family. Each of them are so loving and funny! I am grateful for the daily laughs!! I am lucky to laugh before I go to sleep almost every night. Yesterday I got my first Social Security check, and I am grateful that our government cared enough about us working stiffs to create a program that put something aside for us when we retired. Woo Hoo! I am grateful to President Obama and the Dems who enacted the Affordable Care Act, and the many other acts that are starting to reverse the terrible path our enemies (domestic and foreign) have laid out. It’s good to know that there are still many decent people in government who believe in serving and protecting. I am grateful to activists who put their bodies, time and money on the line to preserve Democracy and justice. I am even grateful to the few remaining writers and journalists who shine a light on all they are doing for us. I am beyond grateful for hearts that can remain open and for minds that are not closed. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! PS, I am also grateful for Ted Turner and the TCM Channel! And House marathons and the creators of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and everyone connected to Breaking Bad! » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 24, 2011 @ 12:16 pm What Republicans Are Thankful For Heh! I love that scene. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 27, 2011 @ 11:23 am http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35cihf/ » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 7:40 pm HAHAHAHAH!! Bito, I must be getting punchy because this also made me laugh more than it should: » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 7:20 pm Perfect, Khirad! Now here’s where I go on a mini rant in support of OWS. Things like this, and not just the fact that some lone idiot says this crap–that they are given media attention and that the whole GOP presidential debate is sickening and that the media takes any of their craven ideas seriously–in short the entire “Shit is fucked up and bullshit” situation we are in; well this all makes me want to inarticulately take to the streets and scream while tearing out my hair! That’s why, even though it is not necessarily logistically or politically effective, I support the movement! I agree with others that it’s not nearly enough to effect change, but GODDAMMIT, enough of this is enough! Step one: Take to the streets and cry out against all the hundred of major problems–if not thousands of crises! Steps 2-10 will follow. This is all so fucked up. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 3:47 pm Know what is NOT on the menu? Butterball Terrorist turkeys! Boycott Butterball, Pam Geller wrote, because: Turkeys that are halal certified — who wants that, especially on a day on which we are giving thanks to G-d for our freedom? I’d like to serve her a huge helping of Islamophobe turkey smothered in food-product pepper spray with some castor beans, peach pits, and some mustard gas condiment on the side. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 3:05 pm Apropos of what they are thankful for, Iowa Democratic Party Releases Romney’s Thanksgiving Menu: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/2109 » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 2:29 pm I’M thankful for that good laugh, AdLib! » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 2:25 pm Khirad, I like your cartoon much better! I knew you’d appreciate that piece on the cop meme even though it was terribly academic and over-written, IMO. It’s the first analysis of that meme from a scholarly perspective and I like stuff like that. It talks about how filtered the OWS stories are. We knew that, of course, but it still made me realize how MUCH that is the case. And those funny phototshopped images kind of cut through all of that. I think the image has legs. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t C&P the Shepard Fairey article–computer refused. I’m glad you took the time to click–he’s articulate and a clear thinker! I get it but he’s nuanced so he will be misunderstood. The media consolidation chart made me depressed! That should NEVER have been allowed to happen in free country. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 12:12 pm Cheers, KQ. I have to admit that there is really a lot even I–who follows the news–still don’t know about the ACA. That particular story from the woman clarified it for me. I mean, sure, I know enough to go to the HHS website and find out about ACA if I need to, but I don’t know it automatically in the way I knew what my insurance policy covered. Over time this will change of course and everyone will begin to know what the ACA does but it’ll take years–I don’t know any way around that. I guess HHS could send pamphlets to everyone explaining what ACA does for us–and maybe they will by 2014–and maybe they are waiting until after the SCOTUS decides about the mandate, but I hope they do. It’s expensive, but I think we all need something we can read–on paper. As an aside to that, I just signed up for early SS. The woman from SS who helped me asked if I’d gotten one of those yearly statements that SS sends out before retirement telling you how much SS credits you’ve earned. I told her I hadn’t gotten on this year. She said, “Oh, yeah. We haven’t sent those out since they cut our budget and staff.” (Not payment cuts–cuts to the agency.) It may be a little thing, not getting yearly statements, but shows one way cutbacks impact the services of the government. It means there are fewer SS workers available to answer questions too. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 23, 2011 @ 11:56 am Thanks, bito! I couldn’t remember where I saw that, but it’s pretty funny–I really like ridicule as a from of shame, and those are so good. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 22, 2011 @ 12:38 am No, none of the shows had anyone on with a hat. (And I thought kepis were only for the French military–learned something new!) » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 11:57 pm Khirad, I like them too! I put up a few of the early ones on TO/OT yesterday, but if you want to see more I’m pretty sure the site Boing Boing has them–they were the first to put them out there. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 11:29 pm HEHEHE! 😉 For my other partner in crime- you: » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 11:04 pm Thanks, AdLib–I’m happy to be back on my route. (Sorry that you had the sprinklers on though!) » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:53 pm It’s great to be back, Em and to hear from readers like you! That story from Justice Breyer was shocking to me too! How come we’ve heard nothing about it? » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:51 pm Kes, I honesty despair that he will ever face true justice, but we gotta try! He is not only corrupt, he’s not even smart. Huge irony is he got where he is through a policy he hates for everyone else: affirmative action. Thomas is the pubic hair in the can of Koch. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:50 pm HAH! Thanks, funk! » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:46 pm That was my favorite story of the day. Sometimes (really, most times) I feel facts and the truth are just to high a bar for our media. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:45 pm My intrepid crack-reporter gal pal! It’s COOOOLLLDDD here tonight. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:43 pm Cheers, KQ! » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:41 pm Em, he really did a good job. All the shows tonight had victims of the peeper spray, but the young man on Ed was the best! » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:40 pm Hi, KT–I thought it was so plainly and clearly written too–the best kind. » Posted By Chernynkaya On November 21, 2011 @ 10:39 pmComments Posted By Chernynkaya
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“Occupy movement does Thanksgiving nationwide”
In San Francisco, hundreds of campers at Justin Herman Plaza in the heart of the financial district prepared turkey dinners that were handed out by volunteers, church charities and supporters of the movement against social and economic inequality.
We’re grateful that they did. As we gather around the table, we pause to remember the pilgrims, pioneers, and patriots who helped make this country what it is. They faced impossible odds, and yet somehow, they persevered. Today, it’s our turn.
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