Do You Worship the Turkey?

Another Thanksgiving Day has come and gone. America's corporate belch bubbled up before dawn: Black Friday. This most glorious, most patriotic day did bring it's casualties, though. Friendly fire was reported in a Long Island Walmart:

A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.

The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

I've heard that George W. Bush himself is going to lower the flag at the White House for this most patriotic of Americans. He died doing his duty-- serving the American people with their lust for shopping in the noble cause of the war on "terrorism."

So how was your Thanksgiving holiday? Mine was quiet, something of which I am most appreciative. I managed to get in a few more hours of sleep, and browse a few websites. Seeing the content on websites caused me to wonder if, in a 1,000 years or more, future generations will look back on our civilization and believe that we worshiped the turkey in November.

I saw a constant stream of turkey photos. Many said "Happy Turkey Day," especially television weathermen. Schoolchildren learn not that the Pilgrims gave thanks to Almighty God for provision, but that they gorged on corn and turkey with the Indians who had saved their silly British skins. The children are taught to color turkey feathers, make turkey puppets, and wear Pilgrim hats. All hail, the American turkey!

What a sad state of affairs. Forget the trillions- our country needs an immorality bailout, and fast.