Protesting Thanksgiving. Are you fucking serious? I don't even celebrate it and this seems like a load of shit. You know, I live right next to a reservation, most of the troubled kids I work with are Native and there are much, much larger issues than whether Americans get together with their families based on a tradition where some Puritans sat down and had dinner with the Indians their descendants would sometimes end up exploiting. If we go looking for some reason to get pissed off about any holiday, we could find it, including rituals the local Navajo and Hopi engage in. Thanksgiving is about as innocuous as it gets. No wonder people laugh at the left (which, at the end of the day, I do consider myself a part of), we're too busy bitching about Thanksgiving's historical significance (which, frankly, you don't seem to understand anyway) and not trying to make things better in any real way. Get a life and a set of priorities. And please don't act like hand-wringing liberalism is some sign of moral courage. You didn't attend Thanksgiving, big whoop. I don't attend 4th of July functions. Nobody gives a shit either way.