Happy Thanksgiving.

Hey, remember when Barack Obama was accused of "paling around with terrorists?"  Apparently that's one of the many things that are OK when Republicans do it.  Ted Cruz - you know that Canadian born son of a Castro Communist has been praising a leader of an anti-abortion group responsible for several murders and of planting bombs. Troy Newman recently deported from Australia as an unwelcome extremist is a great leader says Candidate Cruz -- the kind of guy we need more of in the US.  

Of course Fox News has long been a major fan of Vladimir Putin, the crooked and probably homicidal  Russian Dictator who has no problem conquering and annexing sovereign nations when he can get away with it. He's also the kind of leader we need, or so they keep saying.  It's just really hard to see the radical right, by which I mean the mainstream Republican party and their propaganda organizations  as anything but dangerous and indeed murderous terrorists.

On Thanksgiving day we have as much if not more to be disgusted with than we have to be thankful for.  For my part I'm grateful that we have an opportunity to reject the kind of  ancient evil that has brought us mass murder, tyranny of the worst kind and has undermined liberty, justice and anything resembling humanist values for most of history, posing as good, posing as Godly while cursing the very things we were supposed to be thankful for.