The Promise of Living…

...with love and thanksgiving. (Turn up your volume.)

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[Dan Schiavetta]

thanks

[Dr. Ed 2]

Sorry, nothing to be thankful for this year....

[Currentsitguy]

I figure the fact I'm still around to bitch is reason enough. Got my wife, got our daughter, got our grandkids... It's all good.

[Dr. Ed 2]

In my case, the town literally looted my house, stealing absolutely everything we own, and now are in the process of stealing the $600K house as well.

And there is nothing we can do about it because we don't have the $50K-$100K in cash for a retainer -- so all the rights that I grew up thinking I had as an American are literally not worth the parchment they are written on.

No, I don't have a lot to be thankful for....

[Currentsitguy]

Within the past 5 years I've been told twice by doctors I was within 48 hours or less from death. It all seems pretty minor after that. It helps to put things into perspective.

[Orbital Mechanic]

Thankful for a nation of laws, flawed as it is.

Thankful for the chance to do better next year.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Nation of laws, my a**....

The concept of a nation of laws has broken down because the average person doesn't have the ability to enforce his rights under the law. And this is not good for the society as a whole because people who themselves don't benefit from rule of law are not going to support it for others.

There was a somewhat similar situation in France prior to the French Revolution -- ones rights depended on ones social class and when the drunken nobles ran their carriages recklessly through the streets of Paris, running over and killing commoners, it was the commoner who was responsible for the accident -- and his estate had to pay for the damages to the carriage.

It's part of what led to the French Revolution -- the shortage and high price of bread was another -- but the lack of a shared "rule of law" didn't help.

[Orbital Mechanic]

I bet you are a big hit at parties.

[Dr. Ed 2]

For what it it is worth, I used to be the spoilsport at parties -- I was the person who took the car keys and/or firearms away from people who either had too much to drink or (worse) were really upset about something.

Yes, you are considered a "spoilsport" for doing either -- but I am (was) an Eagle Scout and had a sense of duty. Now I don't.

It's scary how much everything changes once you realize that the rule of law is a myth -- I can now -- WILL now support -- jury nullification.

[tkamenick]

The Tender Land is excellent, I love this song.

[Purple Martin]

Me too (well, at least much of it), but Copeland's deceptive surface simplicity forms a large part of the attraction.

First time I've heard this arrangement and John Williams seems not to have been able to resist fluffing it up, muddying the precision underlying the simplicity.

Definitely not my favorite version.