Happy Thanksgiving

I woke up this morning to a winter wonderland! It is snowing here in No. Central Mass - hooray! My 13 year old snowboarding son is in his glory. Keep your fingers crossed that Wachusett Mountain opens tomorrow, or I'll be hauling him and his buddies off to NH.

One thing I'm thankful for this year is no hockey tournament! We get to feast and loaf and watch movies all day. Good times.

I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday. I'll leave you with a list of 20 things to be thankful for from American Progress.

American Progress has a good gratitude list that doubles as a quick look back at some recent developments:

This Thanksgiving, progressives have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s our list:

We’re thankful for our country’s troops.

We’re thankful for Rep. Jack Murtha for showing us it’s patriotic to speak your mind.

We’re thankful for 90 Senators who stood up to Vice President Cheney to say that torture is not an American value.

We’re thankful for 79 Senators who demanded the Bush administration detail a plan for Iraq.

We’re thankful that Sen. Bill Frist is not our physician.

We’re thankful for the generosity of Americans, who raised some $2.3 billion to help victims on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

We’re thankful all Americans can still rely on Social Security.

We’re thankful for American Airlines, Verizon, and Nissan, who all agreed to Drop the Hammer.

We’re thankful for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for conducting a “very serious” and “very dignified” investigation.

We’re thankful for good friends.

We’re thankful for the success of progressive talk radio.

We’re thankful to the voters of Colorado for putting priorities like education, health care, and fiscal sanity over right-wing ideology.

We’re thankful for autumn. Out West, where some PR readers vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.

We’re thankful Judy Miller won’t be reporting on Iran’s WMD program for the New York Times.

We’re thankful we don’t live in Samuel Alito’s America…yet.

We’re thankful for HorsesAss.org, for exposing (in such ironic fashion) ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown’s checkered past at the International Arabian Horse Association.

We’re thankful for Tai Shan, the National Zoo’s newest celebrity.

We’re thankful we’re not Scott McClellan.

We’re thankful for the residents of Dover, Pennsylvania for doing the right thing for their kids’ education. (Don’t listen to Pat, we’ve got your back.)

And last but not least: We’re thankful to the Progress Report readers for their tips, energy and support.

Happy Thanksgiving! – The Progress Report Team.

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