Dangerous driving holidays

I am a trauma RN and sadly there are ALWAYS more then enough people willing to risk their lives, yours and your families. The cries and soul shattering screams of mothers/fathers that echo through the halls when they find out their son/daughter/spouse is dead (sometimes their entire family) haunts me. I can not conceive how they suffer. DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE.

Everybody is down on smokers, it's time to do the same on drinking.  There is actually no excuse or reason to drink any at all.

drunk drivers....cell phone drivers...drunk cell phone drivers....Too  bad that there is not a driving while stupid law....that would thin out the traffic

You can't tell a drunk to stop drinking but you can tell them not to get behind the wheel of a car. First time drunk drivers need much more harsher sentences to say nothing of repeat offenders.

YES, we exterminated the Native People here,  YES, we took their land.  YES, we even fought each other in a bloody Civil War.  YES, we subjected people of color to slavery and apartied.  YES, we have treated women and other groups unfairly.   YES, we have plundered our environment.  YES, we have squandered our energy and natural resources with unbridled consumerism.  YES, we did all these bad things and more.  But also ....YES there is a lot of goodness and kindness in our land.  YES, our democratic ideals, the many ways we revere the universe, and our feeling of family are all beautiful things.  But how does this measure up to our past.  Should the Native Peoples, the African-Americans, and the others who have suffered also give thanks, and forgive us.  Well, this is what I believe......that....all in all ....when the final score is tallied..... when we are standing there to be judged ...the one thing that stands out about Americans......the one thing that may redeem us....is....WE ARE STILL TRYING TO BE BETTER!  The past is past..... AND........WE CAN make amends to the Native Peoples and each other.  WE CAN heal the racial divide.  WE CAN treat our environment better.  WE CAN truly be that great, and ethical nation.   WE CAN be that country where the world  looks to us for the power of our example and not just the example of our power.   WE CAN strive to truly be "as a city upon a hill"  ....the real one .....not the one as Bradford envisioned ......but the one  Martin Luther King envisioned in his "I Have A Dream" speech.  Let that be one of the meanings of  Thanksgiving - that in addition to giving thanks for our families and the food and our religion, we give thanks to a vision of our country of WHAT WE CAN BE and that we can still try to get there. 

Yep! and Christmas too, and St Pat's Day, and what abou that Easter.  What's the point of this stupid headline?  Are we to think that Thanksgiving is the culprit in here?  At least that's what the headline seems to lead to.  Maybe next time we make a study on that irrational Ramadan celebration where just about hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims get crushed to death in one of those typical stampeeds.  Of course, MSNBC is not going to touch that hot potato; bunch of cowards! they attack our Christian celebration in whichever form possible but won't dare to criticize Islam.  Enough I say!