Thankful Things

Granddaughter Noelle was quizzing my wife Ruby the other day about the proximity of Thanksgiving.

Told it was then two days away, Noelle said that meant she really needed to get started on her list of things for which she is thankful. I can’t wait to hear that list when we sit down at about noon on Thanksgiving for the first feeding of the day.

Along that line, I’ve cobbled up my thankful list, omitting the obvious one about not being a turkey on this day, having given your life in the interest of being the centerpiece of so many feasts.

I’m thankful that Anthony Fauci has taken his considerable ego out of the government bureaucracy, thereby sparing us the Mr. Science talks, even when the science was unproven and Fauci’s view was shifting (see masks, vaccines, etc.). If only he had exited a few years earlier, we’d all be better for it.

I’m also thankful that our family still can afford all the trimmings of a traditional Thanksgiving feast, which reports say has gone up 20 percent under the economic ministrations of Clueless Joe Biden. My wife did yeoman service turning up a turkey in the over-20-pound category, one of the shortages the Biden regime has produced.

I’m thankful that disgraced crypto currency exchange guy Sam Bankman-Fried is not a Republican. If that were the case, we would be subjected to nonstop hysterical wailing from LameStream media and it would take some of the joy out of the holiday. But, because Bankman-Fried is a mammoth contributor to Democratic election causes, his alleged problems keeping his hands off customer’s money is no big deal.

I say thanks nightly that California continues to count votes in the mid-term election for Congress. Just keep on counting as we enter the third week post-election and don’t be at all embarrassed that places like France, Brazil and Iraq can get the votes tabulated the evening of elections.

I’m thankful (and so, too, should be Clueless Joe) that Pennsylvanians saw fit to send unfit John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate, thereby relegating Biden to the second most unqualified politician in Washington, D.C.

I’m thankful that the word finally is out, on the record, about the flood of Filthydelphians to Johnstown, where they take advantage of public housing and some help boost our only growing industry, that being crime.

I’m thankful that Elon Musk posted those pictures of the closet at Twitter full of hashtag Stay Woke T-shirts. And you didn’t believe that Twitter was a full-on socialist operation.

I’m thankful I don’t need to go out Friday and buck the crazed crowds of shoppers – assuming they still exist – to take advantage of Black Friday sales.

I’m thankful that despite the over-the-top spending and customary voting games of the Democrats, they were unable to hold the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, a reality not changed by California’s slow-roll vote counting.

I’m thankful I don’t own stock shares in Tesla, Apple, Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google), all of whom have had come to Jesus moments this year regarding outrageous valuations and runaway spending.

Most of all, I’m thankful for the health and happiness of my family, a fantastic anchor in otherwise troubled times.