A day for thanks

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Thanksgiving Day 2012. A day for thanks.

For what are you thankful?

A country in which we live freely?
Family?
Friends?
Feeling safe?
Having what you need?

For me, it is certainly not about Black Friday, Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday.

The first thing for which I was thankful today was that I don't pay for my daily newspaper by the pound. And that I'm not the newspaper delivery man. I'm thankful for my Northwest Herald carrier, because he delivers my paper to the door.

The desperation of retailers screamed by the pile of advertising as I headed for the recycling bag with it. Every last piece of it. Black Friday seems to start now on Thanksgiving Eve, continue through Thanksgiving Day and into the evening and resume earlier and earlier on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Will the American public ever come to its senses?