Happy Thanksgiving Bing.

happy thanksgiving to you. I am thankful that paul volcker will light a fire under bernanke’s a$$.

I’m thankful that the guys at US Customs seemed, finally, HAPPY to see me as I made my way to a conference in Vegas a couple weeks ago.

Even thankful for me, dear Bing?

I am always thankful when I can reach out and make a connection with another fellow human– be it family, friend or complete stranger. Connections on the human level, that touch the heart or the bright side of the mind, are more valuable than any stock portfolio.

Unlike cash assets, you can take those things with you when it is time to pierce the veil.

So happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Bing. And may your spirit be as full as your belly!

And thank you for sharing your thoughts with all of us.

And I’m thankful that I just got to read a “what I’m thankful for” list that was so much more on target (to my taste, anyway) than almost any other such list ever put forth.

I’m thankful for the following:

To be living where I am.
Not owning too much GM stock.
Obama got elected.
Having great parents.
Out smarting my ex-wifes lawyer.
Crown Royal
Living in an age where the internet dispells old propaganda and gives people a chance to see the reality of the other side.

Best of holidays to you all.

Yes, Mike. You too.

Thank you. Have an most excellent Thanksgiving, and if you don’t like turkey have at least one martini so cold slivers of ice appear.

I am thankful for technology that allows us to talk with people the likes of which we’d likely never cross paths with.

Bing,

I am thankful that all of the self-proclaimed masters of the universe found out that the position was already filled.

What they have learned from that is to be determined.

Happy turkey day.

I’m thankful for a job, good health, great family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Ah, the Crown Royal. Yeah maybe all of this “change” that is happening will lead to something better. Also, thankful for no x-spouses and two different thanksgiving dinners this weekend.

This year we have many things to be thankful for, not the least of which is our hard earned capital in the bank raised just weeks before the crisis….

I am thankful that after being told my job was being eliminated on election day that I was able to work another week. I am grateful that another opportunity came up today. These are wonderful things, but without family, friends and health…

I’m thankful to all military personnel under all flags that that protect Democracy; especially, those deployed to wherever, and probably on some isolated outpost, only enjoying the warm thoughts of this festive holiday.

I’m thankful to C.N.N. and the Bing Blog for for the opportunity to vent in an open forum about complex issues.

I’m thankful to Stanley Bing; because, he serves as my most cherished Mentor.

Last, but not least, I’m thankful for our beloved Detroit Lions; they have heart and fearless resolve in facing the N.F.L. one team at a time. Go Detroit!!!!!!!

Wishing you a pleasant and happy thanksgiving. I am very thankful for Furtone magazine which allowed me to read your articles. Your articles attracted me to check them on website and I learned a lot from simple words that you use. Thanks for you to provide us the opportunity to read your articles.

No matter how bad you think you got it, there is always someone who has it worse…always. I am thankful I am not them. Not that I am happy for thier misfortune, I just wanted to give people a band aid for thier imaginary wounds…stop licking it and let it scab already.

Give thanks for everyone and everything that brings you joy; and for life, love, and liberty.

Special thanks to Mr Bing for his writngs, they continue to be a source of epiphanistic revalation for me as I walk through my own Biz-Zen existence.

But curse this Blackberry keyboard…indeed it is tiny…

I’m thankful that I am not the owner of the metallic silver 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL that was sideswiped in the parking lot of the West Towne Mall in Madison, WI today, Black Friday, as I sat nearby waiting for the wife, by an old man who got out of his dusty Honda Passport and looked and drove just exactly like Mr. Magoo.

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Bing, words fail me. I had to check your column, which says a lot. And your readers are terrific. You attract a good crowd.

Thanks for being kind to Mike, and everyone else. You inspire me with your generous nature. This is what Thanksgiving is about, in my mind.

People, best wishes in the rough months ahead. I consider you all to be my friends. We will never meet, but I lift a glass to salute you on this Thanksgiving weekend.

I went to an inter-faith service Thanksgiving morning where, among other things, I discovered one of our local rabbis is really funny; maybe Woody Allen’s lost cousin – he was that funny.

But I digress. The service also quoted from Lincoln’s presidential proclamation for Thanksgiving in 1863 (when the nation had a few things on its mind), a part of which seems worth reproducing in full:

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever
grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

“It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”

I think that we should all be thankful for our families. I battled a drug addiction for years and lost touch with my family. After going through Narconon drug rehab, I finally have my life and family back. That is what I am thankful of this Thanksgiving.

I am grateful for have a life in which I get to enjoy! There are always 2 sides of things (if not more) and I choose to look at the side which makes me smile or gain some home.

Thanks.
Be Well.
Paul.

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