The other day on Facebook one of my cousins asked, “What are you thankful for?” My comment to his post was:

A recent study, sorry for no link, indicates that those who are “grateful” are happier than those who have no gratitude for anything. How very true that seems to be in my own life.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

‘Okie’

Hey, I’m not flyin’ this week, but if I was — those X-rays would be lookin’ mighty fine . . . just sayin’!

It’s self explanatory — so just watch it already. Then remember to tell the new Congress to get the Bush tax cuts made permanent! It’s the American Dream, man . . .

THE AMERICAN DREAM!!!

We are still America — right?

Sarah Palin is the REAL DEAL! She reminds me of my late Mom, all independent, resourceful, super-strong and stuff. Mom showed her heavy metal when she stepped up to the challenge of taking care of my father as he suffered with Alzheimer’s, and again when she made the fateful decision to stop taking all her meds the day after Christmas, choosing to go off to the great beyond to be with her beloved Duke rather than live weakly here with the rest of us.

Don’t know if Sarah Palin is ready to be the Chief Executive of the U.S., but the one we got ourselves now proves everyday that he’s not ready, and not worthy to boot! S.E. Cupp writes at the Daily News that the Left hates Palin so much because she’s so gosh darn happy!

And then it hit me. The reason Palin has become such a lightening rod, a kingmaker and a punching bag, a celebrity and a power player, is simple. It’s because she’s so gosh darn happy.

For her fans, like the ones I had the pleasure of meeting in Chicago, she’s refreshingly upbeat and resilient, the bubbly friend from childhood who was always great at cheering you up and cheerleading you on.

But for her detractors, nothing raises the ire of cynical liberals more than a happy-go-lucky, totally unburdened, freethinking and self-assured conservative woman who has everything she wants and then some. And without anyone’s help.

You know, if you are a woman and aren’t a part of the entitlement frame of mind, Leftists don’t/can’t understand you at all. Whining, my-me-mine dependency is what gives them power over those same folks, and having power over those they disdain as “inferior”, or as Katie Couric said a week or so ago, are the “unwashed masses” of the heartland. These would be “masters” of our universe are elitist in their own minds. For me, pompous prigs is more like it.

So when someone like a Sarah Palin “goes off the feminist reservation” and does something as heretical as not aborting a fetus that she knew would be born with Down’s Syndrome, and then relishes taking care of that precious little life, and at the same time runs a state, runs for Vice President, writes a best selling book, campaigns for and helps to get elected 30 out of 45 candidates she supports in the midterms, and puts on the most successful show launch on The Learning Channel — all without seemingly missing a single beat — it just drives the Left nuts!

They can’t take it! It calls into question ALL that they believe about women, and about what being a feminist is all about.

You go girl!

To all that have served and are serving today. To those that gave it all and never came back. To those that are reminded everyday by their injuries. To those that are willing to do so right now to keep us all safe and to preserve our amazing country and way of life:

A very sincere, heartfelt thanks!

From USA Today:

The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

The fast-growing pay of federal employees has captured the attention of fiscally conservative Republicans who won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in last week’s elections. Already, some lawmakers are planning to use the lame-duck session that starts Monday to challenge the president’s plan to give a 1.4% across-the-board pay raise to 2.1 million federal workers.

This problem has been growing for a long time, but to have the number of Fed workers making over 150-large DOUBLE in the last two years under Obama’s watch is insane! As Ace remarks:

Let’s make sure we make government jobs the most attractive jobs around in all ways — security, benefits, and now salary, too — to make sure that our best and brightest don’t go into careers that increase the nation’s wealth, but instead careers that reduce it.

Too bad they can’t just pay ‘em in Obama-bucks!

Heh!