And there really are things that make us feel thankful. Here’s mine, and for once, I’m not going for the laugh: something we haven’t talked about much in public is that at the time SP and I got married, she was under a medical death sentence. I remember a long and serious talk with Spudalicious shortly after she and I decided to get married, where he very carefully made sure I knew what I was getting into. My take was, look, our time may be limited, but she’s the One and I want to enjoy it while I can. Remarkably, she has well outlived her prognosis. This week, we got the news: she has actually beaten her condition, and we may have a real chance to get to our 25th anniversary.
This is beyond “something to be thankful for.”
Of course, we are thankful for birthdays today, which include an early import from Canada; a rather noisy fellow; a guy who was truly the catalyst for a technological revolution; a guy who wasn’t a Jew but it would have been perfect if he were; one of my very favorite novelists; a superb cartoonist who unfortunately found fame and fortune; an absolutely iconic sculptor; and a guy that always had the protection of Triumph.
Now for the actual news.
The Supreme Court gets one right. And George W Bush’s judicial gift to the nation is again on a par with his foreign policy gifts. And his gift of TSA and DHS.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture.
Old Guy Music goes back to my childhood roots. Rahsaan was a freak show and convinced me to give up music as a career goal. Correctly so. Fun, brilliant, coked to the gills. This is a tone poem about the incident that caused him to go blind.
Happy Thanksgiving Glibs.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
This situation absolutely requires a stupid and futile gesture. – good thing America has just the guys to do it
Turkey is bland. Stuffing is just shitty bread. Cranberry sauce, being American, is probably too sweet. Mashed potatoes are fattening. Pecan pie I never tried but I have a feeling it ain’t much. And whatever drinks y’all are choosing I could probably choose better.
Enjoy Thanksgiving everyone.
I really can’t argue with Pie on this one.
I’ll raise a glass to Pie when I have my first Bloody Mary of the day.
Pecan pie is sickeningly sweet. You’re missing nothing.
Yeah, I have kind of a sweet tooth and even I don’t like pecan pie.
Yeah, but fresh roasted pecans are delightful.
Yes
Shitty pecan pie maybe.
I was thankful until I read all of this pecan pie hate.. now I am very sad.
Cherry pie is the worst pie btw.
You’re certifiable, the correct answer is rhubarb.
Can’t argue, but strawberry rhubarb is the best.
North Koreans would sell their parents for a slice of rhubarb pie. But too good for you, eh?
Cherry pie and strawberry rhubarb pie are delicious.
I’ve never had straight rhubarb pie.
The one kind of pie I won’t touch.
Pecan pie is glorious.
And dressing is one of the many dishes that takes crappy starting ingredients and makes something wonderful. If Romania doesn’t have a deicious dish that starts with stale bread then shame on Romania. And yes, tortillas count as bread.
I think they screwed up the pecan pie if it is sickeningly sweet.
I made some pecan pie from a recipe I got out of a beer magazine. Bourbon barrel aged stout, some bourbon in the crust. Delicious.
Smoked Brisket, smoked beans, slaw, Garlic Shrimp, and garlic noodles are on the menu at casa de sloper. I am thinking I will do the shrimp and noodles as first course and follow with the BBQ. No pie here.
Pumpkin pie > pecan pie. And more closely associated with Thanksgiving.
The critical question is – Cool Whip or Reddi-wip?
It depends, are whippits a holiday tradition in your family?
Reddi-wip, but only if you don’t have actual cream. It takes about 5 minutes to make whipped cream by hand, even less with a stick blender with a whip attachment
The best part of whipping your own cream is you can serve it unsweetened as God intended, and you can flavor it with booze. Bourbon is good for whipped cream going on fruit dishes, cognac for chocolate dishes. I made a ‘nanner pudding with Chambord in the whipped cream that my sister still talks about decades later.
We just picked up one of these, mainly to make salsa. (First attempt came out rather more like chunky applesauce.) So….ummmm….can you make whipped cream from skim milk?
Make the whipped cream by hand.
Not a euphemism.
Oh crap i forgot i had that attachment! I should do that.
Jeez I did not realize how truly bad pecan pie was
One of your European betters confirming the greatness of pecan pie:
https://youtu.be/igTSeSwz5I4?t=297
I come from England – so no taste to speak off
Pecan tarts are good: thinner with less corn syrup goo. Choc-pecan tarts, even better.
Oh dear god, neither! I always make my own whipped cream.
I solve the dilemma by making LOTS of pie. Since there are only going to be nine of us this year, I made three. Pumpkin, bourbon pecan, and a blueberry.
Happy Thanksgiving, Glibs!
A properly brined and smoked turkey breast is glorious. Just finished putting a 7lb breast on the smoker. Yum!
I like stuffing if it is not dried out and has sausage in it. My sister is making oyster dressing this year from my Grandma’s old recipe. It’s pretty good and not made from bread.
I am not a fan of cranberry sauce, pecan or pumpkin pie. I prefer fruit pies – preferably peach, apple, or cherry. My wife is baking a pumpkin cheesecake, so you see where I rate in the household. Right above the dog this week. I moved up a notch.
Mashed potatoes maybe fattening but we don’t have them often so I will be eating some slathered in gravy.
We will be having wine with our meal. I am not normally a wine person but will drink it.
Happy Thanksgiving all!
I will be looking for things to grate nutmeg on.
YOU SHUT YOUR LYING WHORE MOUTH!!
Pecan pie is the One True Pie. Any other contention is Pie Heresy.
What about key lime pie? If you say it with a southern accent I mean…
^This guy gets it.
Key Lime Pie is good too.
I’m not even a Yank, but even *I* think pecan pie’s pretty amazeballs. Mind you, just like tarte au sucre (Quebecois maple sugar pie), or buttertarts or chess pie, it’s best eaten in thin slices to stave off the ‘beetus.
Oh, and Kirkland (Costco) candied pecans? The spousal unit’s forbidden me from buying them, ’cause when I do she speed-eats ’em. ;-)
In my younger, single days, I had to go on a trip for work down to Camp Lejeune to help with a training course that was being presented. One of the guys responsible for getting us set up with lodging and class space etc, gave me a pecan pie his wife had baked for the team. I ate the entire goddamned thing within the space of 24 hours and shared it with no one.
Good thinking
The dark meat on the turkey is good, the white…not so much. I agree on the cranberry sauce. Clearly you have not had my mashed potatoes, pecan pie or dressing/gravy.
Fucking Roberts, what the Hell do they have video of him doing?
It’s not what, but who.
Sheep qualify as a “what”.
You’ve never been in love with Flossie, then.
That was my great-grandmother’s name. Her sister’s was Eussie.
That guy needs to be in a different line of work
“The death comes as the Trump administration is making plans to withdraw more than 600 troops from Somalia in the near future.”
We have troops in Somalia? I thought we bugged out of there in the ‘90s.
If we don’t have troops on the ground in literally every country on earth, those deaths are on our hands.
No, we’re at war, apparently.
*reads first paragraph*
Wow. That’s amazing.
I hope you have continued good prognosis SP and OMWC !
My best wishes for your continued good health!
That’s great. Talk about something to give thanks for!
A world without SP might have been possible? And some of youse goofs say that this is the best possible timeline? SMDH!
I didn’t read the first paragraph until now.
That is amazing. Good for OMWC and SP! Hopefully SP continues to have good health.
Where is everywhere? Are you people drunk already? You need to do your chores and get the table ready first before you start drinking.
Maybe the Rapture happened.
So…less traffic on Monday?
I started drinking 2 1/2 hrs ago, I ain’t got no table to set, biotch.
Pie, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is second only to New Years Eve for drinking. The regulars won’t stumble in for a few more hours except for the Canadians.
I had two drinks and crashed at 11pm. Same as every day, lately. Maybe with the 4-day weekend I can learn how to party again.
You mom was a chore. But I did it.
I am thankful for mom jokes.
I’M ON THE SHITTER! LEAVE ME ALONE!
Jeffrey got started early with a big breakfast?
Washing the first set of dishes.
I slept in. Skipped the gym. Had some boozy coffee. I’m going to do a few chores around the house before I head out for Thanksgiving dinner with some folks I know.
This week, we got the news: she has actually beaten her condition, and we may have a real chance to get to our 25th anniversary. – I’ll drink a glass of wine to that
We’ll be drinking several bottles.
make sure you check IDs
…she has well outlived her prognosis.
I’ll drink to that!
“Dead mink are rising from their graves in Denmark after a rushed cull over fears of a coronavirus mutation led to thousands being slaughtered and buried in shallow pits – from which some are now emerging.”
https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1331717310105600000
The zombie mink apocalypse has begun!
Checks out https://youtu.be/3yTT50gzHec
Most of the people I know who go to food banks aren’t people who need food banks, they are people who just like to take advantage of every chance to get something for free.
You don’t expect them to actually get food with their EBT cards, do you?
Most of the people I know who get EBT trade the use of said card for…other things…
Bingo!
Relevant
Well, 2013, so it coulda been real like Obama phones!
A guy at my office who’s definitely not hurting for money was talking about doing that yesterday. He’s a good guy but man was that disappointing to hear.
“Government is not free to disregard the First Amendment in times of crisis.”
-Neil Gorsuch in his write up
Judges won’t save us but I’d feel a lot better with a lot more like him.
We need to get New Jersey’s gun laws in front of this court.
There is a Muh Roads joke in there somewhere but I got nothing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1331700167901405184
Apparently there is no real crime in Sandusky. Fining restaurants takes precedent.
Sandusky takes it up the ass again.
The replies are infuriating
You don’t need restaurants if you like the taste of boots.
Werner Herzog liked both once: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNczjk-xLfM
There is a Sandusky, MI?
Yeah, they changed the name to honor the Penn State football coach.
My local rag is pining for the good ole days of 1918 when business owners were arrested for violating restrictions…..
” Those regulations, unlike today, were in some cities commonly enforced through arrests, Beutler said. In St. Louis, for example, police arrested 22 saloonkeepers that November for violating a city quarantine, including the owner of restaurant that had planned to offer a Thanksgiving dinner, according to a Missouri Historical Society video depicting those times.
And it did fuck-all to stop the spread.
Great how all these people look up news accounts of 2018 but nobody bothers to wonder if maybe those measures made things worse.
I saw a couple local bars on the news last night ignoring Governor Chucklefuck’s no liquor after 5 pm edict.
??
Drinking after 5 causes the Rona!! Don’t you even science, brah?
there’s a thing here with no dine-in service. So some restaurants are doing it with ice- shanty – like things outdoors. This is somehow safer than dining in, I guess, but it looks trashy. If I want to drink cheap beer on a frozen lake with my uncle & my cousins, while we “fish,” that’s one thing . . . .
I saw that too. I also saw some assholes issuing citations for a few that stayed open.
This week, we got the news: she has actually beaten her condition, and we may have a real chance to get to our 25th anniversary.
That is fucking awesome! SP, we’re all glad you’re gonna be around for a long, long time.
Go fuck yourself, Trashy. This sappy stuff is making me feel.
Is that what this is? I thought maybe I was having a stroke.
The other nun couldn’t reach that far.
Remarkably, she has well outlived her prognosis. This week, we got the news: she has actually beaten her condition, and we may have a real chance to get to our 25th anniversary.
OFFS. Goddamn fucking shit. What in hell is going on here? I feel something which may be an emotion similar to joy.
I know, that really is awesome news. Much happiness for SP and OMWC.
You too?
It’s fucking weird, man.
Must be Rushun Collision!
Jews must push leaders to act
There are 3 words in that sentence that take it from a noble sentiment to an evil one.
“Jews” being one of those three words, right. 😉
That’s truly great news! Congratulations SP and OMWC!
I had some apple leftover from the tarts, so I warmed it up and had apples and ice cream for breakfast.
….had apples and ice cream for breakfast.
Nice. I woke up drunk and am now eyeing the cheap box wine for some Fauxmosas.
I’m not very good at “practicing gratitude” or whatever the latest pop psychology buzz term is for it, but my mom’s medical issues this year have brought into stark relief that which is important and that which is worthy of gratitude. When she was diagnosed in August it wasn’t certain we’d get to celebrate thanksgiving together this year. I know you’ve never cared for me much, OMWC, but I just wanted to tell you it was heartening to read this.
I know you’ve never cared for me much, OMWC,
Where did you get that idea? Serious question.
You still leave the toilet seat up after all these years ?
He takes the toilet trainer home when he leaves.
You and I, OMWC, are two of the luckiest guys around. Every day is a happy one, in spite of the news emanating out of local political assholes. I have been lucky my whole life, even in times of despair.
I’m happy for you and SP, happy to be in a crowd of like thinkers. You’ll make 25 easy, the 2nd 25 may be iffy. Reality is a wake up call, enjoy every day. The calendar is not our friend.
Just recognized the intro photo, he and I share the same initials but that is about the only thing we have (or had) in common. Different tastes…
He takes the OMWC shtick seriously.
I didn’t mean any offense, I just had the impression from some of our interactions in the old days at R*ason that I was pretty low on your list of favorite people. Doesn’t matter, either way, it was wonderful to read that news.
The other day I asked a question about expressing gratitude taking the sting out of one’s current situation, and Tundra came up with the most wonderful reply, which was basically that expressing gratitude was ongoing work like losing weight or getting strong.
Glad to hear your mom is doing OK.
Thanks. Since they discovered she had a targetable EGFR mutation and got her onto a targeted therapy drug she’s been doing much better. They were able to remove her pleural drain, which has been a big quality of life improvement. If you didn’t know any better, you wouldn’t even realize she was sick right now. I hate to be over-optimistic, but there’s reason to be hopeful this won’t be our last thanksgiving together. Here’s hoping.
Best wishes to you and her both.
It’s good to hear your mom is hanging in there.
Which one of you?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EntLwBtWMAUVBm3?format=jpg&name=large
That looks like Serpentor.
Yikes.
Looks like the perp was enjoying it.
One of the few crimes where I might accept bite mark analysis evidence, right there!
No mask?
Happy to hear OMWC and SP!
Enjoying the suggested serving vessel on this delicious @WayfinderBeer
hazy double IPA.
https://twitter.com/timberninj/status/1331810352598712321
Meh seems gimmicky to me I would doubt the quality of the beer if I saw that on a can
That ruling shouldn’t have been 5-4. Wtf?
You can’t make the Supreme Court political by having it enforce Constitutional limitations! – John Roberts
I feel like restricting Thanksgiving should be unconstitutional too somehow.
Like it’s tantamount to letting government goons into your home.
Less than zero chance I Toobin it during my Zoom thanksgiving.
Well good, we expect some visits to the panty vending machines and whatnot, but that would be beyond the pale.
The Kraken has been released.
https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT-CJ-PEARSON-V.-KEMP-11.25.2020.pdf
Given what Biden has been saying and seeing who he’s appointing, I bet you there are a lotta people who are all like ‘D’oh!’ and hoping this thing actually did have fraud.
I’m of the opinion there absolutely was fraud. No way in hell did Lord of the Losers and hoodlum like Biden won. Not buying it. Nope.
There was fraud but proving it strongly enough to overturn a national election is an entirely different thing altogether.
Overturn it must.
If anything to preserve the sanctity of the election.
But in a bigger picture, there’s too much at stake. This may sound a little ‘hyper’ but Trump does represent a bulwark against the globalist push that is making its major move during the pandemic. Trump represents national sovereignty and countries ARE looking to see if he can prevail.
“This may sound a little ‘hyper’ but Trump does represent a bulwark against the globalist push that is making its major move during the pandemic. Trump represents national sovereignty”
But which part of that is not true or even exaggerated? Biden will bring in every globalist hack in the country. He already has Lurch as his climate change czar. This is going to be a nightmare.
I’m sure CCP, the EU, and every tinpot dictator at the UN are happy as can be. It’s every day Americans and sheep herders in the ME who will pay the price.
If there was fraud, it wasn’t an election.
I don’t care about overturning the election. Pursuit of any and all election weirdness is a good thing.
Multiple people were fired in Florida after election shenanigans in previous elections and they just had the smoothest election ever.
Keep investigating.
And then going on to recount conspiracy theoreis without evidence…sigh…more like baby octopi than a kraken.
RELEASE GOSSIMER!
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/349873464781574912/
I never noticed the mirror frame here before: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e0YFxuZpSzg/U_Wl1tKu_lI/AAAAAAAAJfU/K8TaHKYGD7c/s1600/Hair-Raising%2BHare%2B(52).jpg
Also, peak Bugs cuteness.
There absolutely was fraud. I agree, no way Biden won this election, it makes no sense at all. But nothing will happen and for at least the next couple of years, we’re going to endure every bad policy decision and executive order imaginable.
I bet a lot of those dead people who voted for Biden are going to be rolling over in their grave with buyer’s remorse.
As a chronicler of history including following Canadiana, it always impressed me how many became part of American folklore. Early Hollywood is filled with pioneering Canadians.
It’s a journey of sorts well depicted in ‘Band of Brothers’. ‘The Weight’ was Robertson’s experiences from Ontario into the heartland of Americana. A band that connected ‘Canadiana with Americana’ and Helms was the connector.
what?
accident
https://twitter.com/causticbob/status/1331765536758362112
Well no wonder. The driver didn’t have his hands on the wheel.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m thankful you guys tolerate my opinions on American politics! But you gotta admit, I’m better than David Frum!
It’s Thanksgiving. Enjoy.
https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1331693030496104448
I started watching that last week, and finished it this morning since its my “day” off and I was drinking.
Thats some funny cuts, right there.
LOL. As a video and audio editor, THAT IS A TRIUMPH! Literally brought a tear to my eye, just one. I like The Hyperbole may be having a stroke.
It’s all about the involuntary gut laughs. Tear to my eye, too.
I’ll take a pissed off Muppet over David Frum any day.
NPR seems more than usual insufferable and authoritarian this morning. Maybe it is just my mood.
Nope, you’re not wrong.
I really enjoyed the story about the vaccines coming out which opened with a speech from Biden. New level of propaganda right there.
Biden developed the vaccines in his basement.
And they passed his sniff test!
What you did there just now. It was noticed.
lol!
I really don’t get how people like government funded political propaganda
Why are you listening to NPR today or ever? Are Car Talk reruns on?
I like to keep up to date with what the enemy is saying.
Word. The only show worth listening to on NPR.
“Wait Wait- Dont Tell Me” has its moments, but hearing Paula Poundstone makes me want to drive into a bridge pillar.
The host is like a less talented Daily Show/John Oliver type who constantly makes snarky, but really dumb and unfunny jabs at Republicans, but not at the stuff they actually need to be mocked and/or criticized for.
The episode after Trump was elected was hilarious. In the same way that watching the Young Turks on election night was hilarious.
Motor man Kaplan with his stupid clean jokes? Like, ” what did the right butt cheek say to the left butt cheek? You crack me up!”
I’ve never listened to NPR in my life and I’m not going to start now.
*standing ovation*
Once again, the flaws of the capitalist approach to healthcare delivery rear their heads. In a sane society, a workers’ committee would have been appointed to discuss options and select a research team to develop the vaccine at a specific cost, without all this redundant effort.
https://twitter.com/ProfBootyPhD/status/1330903725813088260
this has to be trolling right?
I can’t tell anymore.
Or “soviet”, for short.
Revealed: How this athletics star went from Mo Farah’s rival to a nobody
TWENTY years ago, a friend of mine topped the UK athletics rankings as the fastest under-15 boy over 800 metres.
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/615572/Mo-Farah-rival-athletics-running-star-nobody
tl;dr white men can’t run
a friend of mine topped the UK athletics rankings as the fastest under-15 boy over 800 metres
Sure, I guess if you don’t count left-handed Geminis born on a Thursday.
As E-mailed to my good friend LOL-Bot this morning, I am doing better so calm yer tits. I need a little more time away but the experiment is working quite well thus far. Had a couple of really good days on the job and my trash-mouth has been declining. Happy Murderin’ Injuns Day!
As always, Old Man, I will go back and read the birthday links. Just can’t help meself.
We only murdered the ones that really needed it.
I just made biscuits & gravy for Jugsy, with proper White Lily® flour, and from scratch; Ive been up since midnight, and drinking beer. And I have to work tonight.
Current titty status = fair to middlin’
Diego Maradona.
He was crazy but man oh man was he an icon.
I saw those shrines to him in Naples. In Naples it’s God and Maradona. Literally.
Three days of national mourning in Argentina. I only caught the crazy that came later in his life and hoo boy there was lot of that.
He won the 1986 World Cup by himself. Basketball you can do that stuff. Not soccer.
Oh. And same thing for Napoli. On his shoulders. It was enough for Scudettos and UEFA cups. Had they added a couple of players for support there would have been a Champions League in there – not that it matters.
Watch St. Peter jump in with a fist and close the gates.
I realize I am not really that thankful although my life could be a lot worse. I suppose perspective is not enough for me.
I’m very glad to know the Libertarian Power Couple can expect many more years of happiness together, no joke. I won’t go into my personal life here but let’s just say that I’m very, VERY grateful for all of you, in more ways than the obvious.
Bless you all, ignore the Satraps, and socially close in on your family.
*high fives TH
That thoundth like a thex move.
https://twitter.com/MAGA2ARIGHTS/status/1331964105968799745?s=20
Heh.
New Michael Malice with Glenn Greenwald:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPdI7jbVfM
Glenn Greenwald is a fascist though.
Bolsonaro is no Trump. But he’s better than all the alternatives in Brazil and better than any democrat in the USA.
If I move to Brazil, I’ll vote for him… oh wait, I can’t because only Brazilians can vote in their national elections and they have voter ID laws they actually enforce.
Is there a country anywhere in the world with looser voting requirements than the U.S.?
The UK Government plans to transition to entirely electric vehicles by 2035.
> Nationwide infrastructural overhaul
> 15 year time-frame
> UK Government
https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1331625737271521281
Meh, I think a 15 year time frame is long enough for a government to replace it’s vehicles. What use they will be? That’s a different argument than can bureaucrats spend more money.
I think it is the whole country not just government vehicles
Well, then tweet is mis-representing that argument.
I english, that means the government will transition, not the populace.
Same as if it read : UK Government plans to masturbate for 15 days straight.
I hear what you’re saying but the policy is the ban on the sale of ICE cars period, a policy Johnson is pushing as part of his Green Industrial Revolution initiative:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/17/21572312/uk-ban-combustion-engine-vehicles-sale-electric-cars
What a disappointment that damn fool is.
His girlfriend is a Greenie. And apparently he introduced many bike lanes as Mayor of London (along with traffic-blocking bendy buses).
Losers! We already shot that foot off here. I work on “alternative fuel” vehicles and it can’t be said enough how bad they suck. And yes they mean everyone, just like Cali.
Yes, it is the whole country, and no, it will not happen. But it is an excellent choice for leftist politicians to pat themselves on the back while throwing billions of taxpayers at it.
And their dollars.
EurosPounds.¤s
How prominent is solar power in the UK equation? In a dozen or so trips there, I can’t remember more than one or two really sunny days.
Enough to power a calculator?
Congratulations to you and, especially, SP. It sounds like you definitely made the right decision.
One thing about all of those futile gestures, at least the US ones, is that they are starting to add up. I am really starting to see a breaking point.
Or, Mabey it is just Keanu surfing.
A commercial just told me that ” it is clear that people without symptoms can spread the virus”
WTF?
It’s clear. It’s #science! We don’t have to present evidence! That’s just what Trump wants us to do! We aren’t falling for that!
Experts say
They like their little dictatorships. They will say anything that justifies keeping the sheep frightened.
Joe Biden C’mon Man REMIX
Happy Thanksgiving!!
For all the shit I’m still thankful for this country. Beautiful places.
I’ve been watching this for five minutes.
“she has actually beaten her condition”
Wow, that’s awesome. Transcends the petty bullshit of our time.
As promised on your Thot Thanksgiving, plump juicy breasts to go with your thighs and drumsticks.
https://archive.li/EjlBH
Pie is smelling tasty, but I need an apron, flour and Black pants don’t work so well together,
OMWC and SP! May you have many more Blessed years together,
you don’t know what you have til it’s gone….
Happy T day to all!
We must resist the future being planned for us
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/we-must-resist-the-future-being-planned-for-us/
I would have though a site name conservative woman would have all chick writers
But, conservatives won’t allow women to learn to read or write! – ‘liberal’
Yay, SP!!!!
XX and I are going over to my mom-and-her-two-sisters’ house early to help cook because heaven knows that kitchen needs two more big female asses in it, but hopefully we can move the three elderly asses out and do the heavy lifting.
@TH and Festus, I’m glad you guys are feeling better.
I am ignoring the news.
The only silver lining of this election is that the constant screeching from the left has died down a bit. I’ve started unfollowing anybody who can’t stop screeching whether they bought my books or not.
^^ That was actually one thing i thought about when biden one. “At least Family gatherings won’t be minefields of “DID YOU SEE WHAT OMB DID!?!”
Yay for SP and OMWC!! Glad SP is keeping OMWC too busy to chase other little girls. 🙂
And of course I am grateful for all you Glibertarians out there, pitching out tents around the campfire together and getting alternately silly, serious, shallow, and profound.
Speaking of stupid and futile gestures
Kids are watching the Macy’s parade. Jimmy Fallon and some rapper are dancing around singing Dancing in the Streets. No masks on, but the dancers around them are wearing them.
No spectators, I assume. That sounds like fun. ?
Thanks for all the well-wishes, kids. Even though we all know it’s just your relief at knowing the site will continue to exist…until the first subpoena lands.
This isnt the hill you are willing to die on?
Are any of us worth protecting?
kids? that must be somehow microagressing
Really glad to hear the word from OMWC about y’all’s situation. I hope you see your 50th anniversary as well.
“until the first subpoena lands.” – I can only hope TPTB understand how close they are to the line and know to chose their adversaries based on how armed – or not – those adversaries might be.
Hooray SP!
Turkey is at 105F. Cruising along nicely.
I decided to opt out of Turkey this year since it’s just 2 of us. Going to put a leg of lamb on the rotisserie instead.
It’s been a while, but the rotisserie winked at me from an obscure cabinet, so I’m giving it a go.
I will rub salt in and outside of the lamb, then fix a butter, Italian seasoning, garlic, red wine, and a little mustard mix. Spread that on inside and out of the lamb.
Then stuff dried fruit into the center. I’m using mango and pineapple this time. Truss it up and fling on the rotisserie. The heat will cause the fruit to hydrate and then melt and drip along the outside of the lamb as it turns, self basting along the way.
Hoping for the best!
America has lasted 400 years since the Mayflower landed with about 135 passengers and crew. Those hardy settlers had a much clearer view of what actual risks were as opposed to fretting about safe spaces and preferred pronouns.
They took a rickety ship across the Atlantic, during which only one passenger died. Then the winter of 1620 took about half of the survivors, since they had to take less supplies than originally planned, being downsized from a 2 ship plan to a 1 ship plan.
They came to America to worship freely in whatever faith tradition they liked, to exercise free association, to escape a culture of hereditary nobles vs commoners.
Yet 400 years later, the nobles are the elite politicians, of whom several could be seen as hereditary positions. On Thanksgiving Day itself, we’re supposed to avoid traditional gatherings, some states limiting by time (2hours tops), some by number of attendees, and some by number of households.
We are just grinding our teeth and tolerating it. Would the Mayflower bunch have gotten on that ship from Holland with that attitude? Probably not.
But neither would they expect that their kids would be made to rat their own parents out at school next week when they get grilled about whether Grandma, cousins. and Uncle Felix came over for thanksgiving.
As long as that faith was their faith. The pilgrims weren’t heroes of religious freedom in practice, only in idea.
“Word!” Says Hester Prynn.
Still beats the heck out of the European religious wars of Reformation, Restoration, Puritans vs Everybody etc. Those were bloody wars. At least in the Colonies, if you didn’t like your neighbors, you could go found another colony.
Mary Dyer’s words:
She was willing to die for it,
I’m still “church shopping” because I don’t quite like the ones we’ve tried.
1st world problems.
I am a direct descendant of the Mayflower so I don’t know where I would be in the world otherwise and I am damn thankful they made the trip.
Oldest didn’t want to make the trip out and that is okay. He is assessing his risks for himself, regardless if I think that they are overblown. We here at house of OBE will enjoy a small dinner with the in-laws and maybe a quick hello to our scattered families via video chat.
OMWC and SP, great news about SP’s victory! Y’all have a merry Thanksgiving!
Oh, and all of you lesser glibertariat shitlords and make believe glib wiminz, merry Thanksgiving!
I stuck the bird in the oven.
I was going to get up way earlier, but I had a headache and was trying to sleep it off.
I stuck the bird in the oven.
That’s a new euphemism for me, but I’ll try it.
These days, with all the shit that’s going on, it’s nice to get some good news for a change. Our best to you both – Happy Thanksgiving. Hope to see you both in the Great Land one of these days.
“These days, with all the shit that’s going on, it’s nice to get some good news for a change.”
When you put it that way it’s like 2020 is somehow changing for the better. Like we’re being allowed something actually substantially good in return for all the negative pushed our way so far this year.
I’m getting warmed up leftover pizza for breakfast with my coffee. I’m going to make fresh salsa and wifey will go on a cooking marathon as usual on this day of the year when it’s just the 2 of us.
Then we need to prep for the arrival of the new TV tomorrow. Put the old fried TV in the graveyard of late toys and gadgets. The base of the damn thing is too deep to fit on my entertainment center. WTF was Sony thinking? The entertainment center is 16″ deep and that damn stand is 16.25″ wide. Sigh… I have a TV stand that is big enough for it, but that means taking all of this stuff out (it’s 9 ft long), putting it in the guest bedroom and bringing that stand in here. Or, I could take the glass top off that TV stand and put it on top of the entertainment center. It’s 20″ deep, so it will overhang about 2″ in the back and front, which is fine. And it’s plenty wide enough. There was an old 80″ home theatre TV on there. Thing weighed like 200 lbs.
Oh, question for you gamer glibs. The new TV is 4K and 120hz and will work for PS5. I wonder if it’s worth buying a PS5? I’m a PC gamer and don’t really like controllers, but I’m thinking Sony typically has some really good Sonly exclusive games.
The PS5 has been nearly impossible to find, though some might pop up tonight/tomorrow for Black Friday. But they’ll probably disappear just as quickly. There’s no need to get one now anyway. Maybe next year when new exclusives start dropping.
I have a cow orker dealing the same for the new X-box offering. I’m just amazed that after 25 years they still have these shortages, unless of course that is the sales strategy.
I think covid set production back quite a bit. They were able to launch on time, but didn’t have nearly as many ready as they had originally planned.
Save your money get an RTX 3000 series GPU, whenever they are available…
Hell, I have an RX 580, and going by past performance I’ll be able to play every PC game released for the next decade, as long as the drivers don’t suck.
Unless you absolutely HAVE to have RTX the 6800xt is looking like a better value, IMO.
I’m still running my 2070 Super and it’ll probably be my last gaming build. I’m starting to feel really weird about gaming in my mid 30s. It dawned on me that most of my gamer buddies are in their mid 20s and I’ve been playing with them since they were teens. I feel like the fucking creeper who hangs out at the high school trying to pick up girls.
You play games with other people?! I’m sure that is the textbook definition of a prevert.
I don’t mean literally, but A) I’m starting to feel self conscious about being a 34 year old manchild, and B) come on, there’s no way it’s not a little bit creepy to hang out with a bunch of kids 10 years your junior.
What TV did you get?
“Sonly”
Heh. Great slip-up.
“We agreed to go out together the last evening the pubs were open before lockdown. My girlfriend started complaining of a headache as it was very noisy. I suggested we both go home but she insisted I stayed out to enjoy the last of the fun and I got talking to another woman. Stupidly, I agreed to go back to her flat. We started to have sex but I soon stopped, as I knew I was making a massive mistake.”
Dood, the deed was done. You had already crossed the rubicon, at least get your rocks off. Not like it makes a difference to your soon-to-be ex.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13297117/cheated-girlfriend-guilt-save-relationship/
Can’t fool me. That’s Disclosure Deidre’s writing about.
That right there, is why you are my non Digby site bestie.
Fun fact: “Look fat” in Spanish is apparently “Look fat.”
Mira gordo, if don’t vote for me you ain’t latinex.
Happy Black Friday Eve, everybody!
OMWC and SP, that’s wonderful news, congratulations.
In celebration of your American holiday I just poured the last of my bottle of Wild Turkey Rare Breed.
Well, at least it’s some kind of turkey.
I’m pouring some 1792. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
Going with the pumpkin spice latte with a hefty shot of Old Grand Dad in it today. Got some toddies planned for the afternoon.
i rated the 1792 small batch bellow the wild turkey rare breed and somewhat equal to the four roses single barrel
Nice. Of the two, I’d probably rate the Four Roses higher overall, although I find the 1792 a bit more robust, which I like. A lot of the premium bourbons are almost overly smooth. The 1792 has a bit of bite. Woodford Reserve is still probably my favorite. My next splurge is going to be one of the single barrel Knob Creek varieties.
Three Thanksgiving traditions:
1. Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant.” Done.
2. WKRP “God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly…” In progress
3. “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” – later tonight.
Bugger – turkeys. Why the hell did I put the ‘ in there…
You learned that on the internet. Always use punctuation, even if not needed, better than not enough.
Y n’ ‘ell did i use that extra apostrophe ? Didn’t cost nothin’ so y not ?
Great traditions there. The last couple years we have watched Captain Ron after the kids have gone to bed. I think it.l go on again tonite.
This meme’s for you (taken from Powerline this morning)
https://imgur.com/gallery/vyvoEL1
Wait, why not watch Captain Ron with the kids? I was a kid when I first saw it, oldee mcold.
The younger two (5 and 7) would likely be kinda bored by it. Also likely will want them in bed by time we get to start it about 9. It definitely qualifies as a family friendly flick tho.
There was nothing that angered me more growing up than grups thinking I couldn’t ‘grok’ something. Yes, when I wanted to be Robocop for Halloween in kindergarten I did in fact understand the movie, and when Robocop 2 came out I thought it was dumbed down and ‘kiddie’…Don’t even get me started on Robocop 3, I was all of 10 yrs old and knew that was childish watered down bullshit.
I didn’t know Hyperbole was British…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/builder-attacks-new-build-home-23072458
“This week, we got the news: she has actually beaten her condition, and we may have a real chance to get to our 25th anniversary.”
Great news!
Very good news OMWC and SP. Congrats on that you two crazy kids, at least something good came of 2020. I know I am not alone in being thankful for this place especially in this year of hysteria where it feels like the whole country (and world) has gone batshit crazy. My large family will not be having our usual thanksgiving dinner at my parents house because my mom has got the Fear of the Vid, so I’ll be cooking for my wife and kids and our hilarious Irish neighbors and their three little girls. At least our small house will have plenty of pittas patter of little feet as my three boys chase them about. Having a second cup of coffee and then gonna head out to the beach with the kids with some crab snares and try to snag some crabs as the season just started here. Wishing all the Glibs the health of a salmon, a long life, a good heart and a wet mouth.
Three Irish brides for three brothers, in 15 years or so?
Há! You never know. That would make my parents ecstatic. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Hayek!
Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and neighbors!
Evidently “pilgrim” is out and “colonizer” is in.
If I’m gonna be forced to use the term “colonizer” then I’m calling the Injuns “vicious savages”
Fuck the wokestapo.
Those vicious savages also stole the land they were on from the original inhabitants. Somehow the wokestapo doesn’t much seem to realize that the Indians that were here when the dirty Spanairds arrived were only there because they kicked other people off that land.
If i were inclined to believe there was any logical basis for their beliefs, and not “Destroy Western Civilization” as the only basis for their “theories”, i would say that they have some weird fetish with history and races and making nothing changes from the way it was circa 1000 BC
But seeing as i’ve seen the claim (on BBC) that “The Sami are the only native Europeans left in Europe”, it is clear they just hate everything.
I am sufficiently culturally biased that I sincerely believe that what is now the US of A was colonized mostly by the English rather than by the Spanish.
I also don’t believe the Sami or the indigenous peoples of America would have brought us the steam engine, the industrial revolution, and certainly not the Scottish Enlightenment that was so important to the formation of American thought of the 17th-18th centuries.
Just so, “Western Ways of Knowing” put a man on the moon. When tribal shamanism leads to a space program, then we can talk. Until then you can stuff your ‘indigenous wisdom’ where the sun doesn’t shine.
Hell, the Comanche were nothing but a tiny, basically stone-age tribe hiding in the northern Rockies until they discovered – and arguably mastered better than any other tribe – the horse. After that point they ruled the plains down through Texas and up through Missouri until the invention and proliferation of the revolver. Any other tribes that might have been there before aren’t even recorded.
The Americans are simply the last tribe to show up and dominate.
The Comanche didn’t even exist before Europeans were here.
I think that the consensus is that hybrid Desnovian/East-Asians were the first ones to cross the land bridge into the Americas, where the advocacy group for them?
Everybody is on land that was taken from somebody else, it is part of the human condition. It is just that Europeans turned out to be better at it than everybody else. At least partially because they had been taking land from each other for millennia.
That’s different … for some reason.
But that’s offensive!!
That’s stupid. They were definitely driven by religion.
I think I may have told this story here before, but one of my maternal uncles casually used the term “filthy fucking savages” in reference to native American/Indians at a family dinner in which his brother’s then-new girlfriend was in attendance, not realizing that she was half native American. Uncouth? Surely. But that will never not be a hilarious story.
Lol.
My husband was telling a story while bartending in which he stated that the guy in the story was “drunker than seven hundred Indians.”
A lady at the bar clutched her pearls and said “You can’t say that!” To which he replied, “Oh, I’m sorry. I meant ‘drunker than 700 Native Americans’.”
…So less alcohol than mouthwash was involved…
When I was in the Marines one of the guys in my unit was a Mohawk – couldn’t even grow peach fuzz. He never drank booze until one evening when he decided he would polish off a fifth of Wild Turkey. He went on a rampage which ended up with him crashing a stolen maintenance vehicle into the perimeter fence of the base armory.
#Respect
When journalism shits the bed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-26/ex-trump-lawyer-files-election-lawsuits-in-distrcoict-court
A lawyer who was dropped from President Donald Trump’s legal team filed typo-strewn lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia alleging massive election fraud.
The Michigan lawsuit, which was on the court website, was frequently marred by formatting problems that removed the spacing between words. For example: “TheTCFCenterwastheonlyfacilitywithinWayneCountyauthorizedtocountthe ballots.”
In the Georgia complaint, which was only available on Powell’s website, the word district in the court name was misspelled twice on the first page of the document. First there was an extra c for “DISTRICCT” and then, a few words later, “DISTRCOICT.”
Public schools for the win! Need more money for teachers.
My wife’s an appellate attorney. She takes months to build a good brief. This shit was done in weeks, while acquiring evidence and continuously investigating. If nothing else, Sidney should get a medal just for completing a serious complaint in such a short amount of time. It’s obviously a very complex case, with multiple affidavits and witnesses. Fucking typos? Fuck these enemies of the people.
Yes, it’s petty to latch onto typos. However, proof read your shit before submitting it. Typos are unprofessional, and it gives dickheads a reason to dismiss your arguments. Like in this instance.
Yes, typos, that is definitely the big take away from that court filing. FFS
Congrats SP!
Everybody bailed on the Sensei family so it’s just us.
Still making the best of it. Most ridiculous thing is watching the Macy’s parade with no spectators or marching bands. Everyone on the floats looks miserable. The light rain we have here is the perfect backdrop.
I hadn’t even thought to put the parade on tv this morning. Damn.
OT- here’s a timekeeping related video for you- https://youtu.be/InE16PqH2m8
Japanese and timekeeping! I’m in. Thanks!
Also the parade is rated PG. Is it because of “suggestive” dancing?
Cracked me up when I noticed. Sigh…
Must be the Cuties float.
The Brazilian Carnival float must be extra spicy this year.
It’s providing some work and income for all those out of work actors/servers. The wife watches (cause she grew up in No.J) so I catch parts of it.
Usually to say, “who the heck is that singer” and “what does that song have to do with Thanksgiving.”
All in all, we glib perverts still have a lot to be thankful for and it certainly will be an interesting 2021.
Good morning Old Man!
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of my pals here in Glibtown!
I really have nothing to say about the lynx – but I am thrilled to read the news about SP! That is amazing!
I hope all of you have a fantastic Thanksgiving! I’m gonna eat until I pass out.
+1000
Happy Thanksgiving, Glibs and Gliberinas! Glad to hear that SP has triumphed, although I’m going to assume the condition was a preying mantis like need to kill her mate (with rusty can lids natch) because I like plot twists.
Happy Thanksgiving ya liberty lovin’ malcontents!!
Great news SP!!
Going to be quite a few less this year, 25 or so from usually around 60, but still good.
Really don’t blame the older aunt’s/uncles, they are all in their 70’s, with a few co-morbidities, so probably best, but still disappointing .
I always assumed that potato pancakes were a traditional Belarusian dish. But apparently they are a must buy for the coming Hanukkah. Who knew?
I had never even heard of potato pancakes until my Jewish friend explained latkes to me.
I knew potato pancakes before I ever heard the word ‘Latke’…lots of Germans around here who fled Germany before the Nazis came to power, but they were all totally Catholic or Lutheran, not Jews, like some might say!
“Happy Thanksgiving to all–even the haters and losers!
2:22 PM · Nov 27, 2013”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/405778664039534592
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Thank you SP and TPTB for this site.
Please remember our friends and family in Pennsylvania. They need help getting rid of some useless tools. I took a screenshot of the Craig’s List ad in case it gets disappeared.
Grade-A trolling. Might very well get yeeted .
In the late-night decision, Barrett sided with her conservative colleagues in the dispute, while Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal justices in dissent.
Barret ruled against lockdowns? WTF? I guess I will have to change my opinion of her.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic group outing to the French Laundry and his decision to send his kids to in-person private school are reigniting talk of a recall that was once relegated to the fringes of conservative groups in deep blue California.
This site is better than PornHub. I have given them money but I have never given PornHub money.
They are missing the point though. The Emporer of California’s hypocrisy is one thing, but the fact that he is comfortable taking these “risks” should make people think that maybe the measures in place are stupid and pointless.
30-ish minutes until the food is ready. Dammit, I want to eat NOW!