GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER JOSIAH SMITH AT FIRST THANKSGIVING. HIM SPECIAL GUEST OF COLONY!
STEVE SMITH LIKE THANKSGIVING. HIM HAVE MUCH BE THANKFUL FOR – HIKERS, CAMPERS, SNACKS, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS. HIM STILL WORKING FREE CASCADIA.
STEVE NO HERE TALK SELF. STEVE SMITH LEAVE GEORGE WASHINGTON WORDSES HERE. LET HOOMANS COMMENT:
Thanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
(Swiss Servator sends: Glibs Zoom – if you have Black Friday Off)
drink responsibly.
Why? I’m in my own house and I’m not going anywhere
Now it is past noon, and the ribs are about to hit the smoker, beer will be consumed.
Syrah has been opened.
I hope you mean Shiraz. If it is not from Australia it is not worth drinkin’
Now you’ve done it, Pie: you’ve pissed OMWC off.
(AIUI he thinks all Australian Shirazes are too full-bodied and overpowering.)
he thinks syrah only comes from North Rhone and Romania
Pie prefers coconut tinged prune juice.
What proof is responsibly? And since I’m trying to keep my girlish figure, is there a responsibly lite?
Like at the bar named “Moderation”?
Thank you for the site.
This.
Thirded. The last 4 years were tough, but having the Glibs community around helped me keep my sanity.
So say we all.
Slumbrew gets it.
Go Glibs!
Preach on brothers and sisters! This site has been a refuge of relative sanity.
Happy Thanksgiving all!
Ditto.
I am currently reading Robert Nisbet’s Quest for Community, first published in 1953. I keep finding books written many years ago that are far too relevant to our current society, even as I am ever defective as a human (in terms of the normal human instincts described in these books). But today I am particularly thankful for this particular community, as virtual as it tends to be, and for a curmudgeonly misanthrope to be as welcome in it as I am.
I’m here because no one else will put up with me.
Let me phrase that better – you lot are more tolerant than the so-called tolerant people.
Indeed. Thanks for this site and the work involved by those keeping it going. Thanks for all the bounty that we have just by virtue of being lucky enough to be born in the United States. Thanks for being on the right side of the dirt. Thanks for family and friends. Thanks for having the health to enjoy the best holiday of the year, Thanksgiving.
Amen, KS.
Cheers Swiss, that of course includes you as those who keep this place going. Best wishes for a happy holiday and into Christmas. Thanks!
I’m gonna add an exuberant “HEAR, HEAR!” here, right about here, ya hear?
This place has legit helped keep me (moderately) sane. I’d say it’s gotten harder lately, what with the insanity accelerating around ‘us,’ and all. It’s semi-shocking how quiet I (and others) are often ‘forced’ to keep quiet, not just at work but socially and within the family. A sane place to vent and share is good for everyone.
Well done, one and all.
Amen and +1000
I will also thank my lucky stars for this site. Even though today they asked me to do a math problem to login “to prove I’m human”! Since when did being a human be a requirement for joining Glibs?
STEVE SMITH won’t be happy.
Being human is a requirement? I think not.
I add my thanks to the growing heap o’ thanks for the site.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor
*staggers off toward fainting couch*
lol
Tone down the preachy, George.
The best of his kind he was still a politician. He sold what people were buying.
One of Truman’s:
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/proclamations/2756/thanksgiving-day-1947
Short and to the point, unlike modern ramblers. It’s interesting how much closer Truman’s is in verbiage and spirit than to modern ones. Truly the past is a different country.
You can bet your last dollar that Harry didn’t puss out and pardon any turkeys. He probably had to be restrained from cooking them with a nuclear blast.
Judged too soon: My father once said to me “A lot of people may not like how the civil war turned out but it turned out for the best.”
That was in the early ’70’s. Today I would say we dont know. If we lose rein on this FedGov beast, which we seem to be dangerously close to, the answer will become clear very quickly.
Our problems don’t stem from the Civil War, they kicked in a little later – with the original Progressive era.
I’m at Mater and Pater Dean’s, Bro Dean and his daughters (and their fiancées) just rolled in. A Swedish exchange student who stayed with Bro Dean and my parents years ago is also here with her father. The kitchen is busy, there is food everywhere. The proverbial cup runneth over.
So, a happy Thanksgiving to all.
Go on …
Well, her boyfriend is 6’5”, so . . . .
Good on you to invite the strays to your table.
I’ve been the recipient of an invite to some one else’s family Thanksgiving several times and really appreciated it. I’ve also dragged some oddballs to our big family meal.
The most depressing Thanksgiving ever was the year I pulled duty while at Memphis. Eating at the chow hall was a real bummer.
Pope – I remember one Thanksgiving in graduate school with a take home test over the holiday weekend.
I took one look at it and told my family there was no point to me coming home with the 2.5 hour drive and the traffic.
That teacher was the biggest ass of all my professors in grad school. Managerial accounting. Naturally.
🍾🥂
Yesterday I hit a peak in sales that put November in fourth for this year – 3.
Someone bought Shadowdemon, Lucid Blue, and Shadowrealm. So I guess they finished Shadowboy and liked the series.
👍
The closest I’ll be to a turkey today are those strolling past the window. Seems to be about a dozen but no Puritans in the house so they are safe.
Happy Thanksgiving to the Glib Community and all the guest wannabees. Thanks to the TOS for giving us a reason and opportunity to want to leave.
No turkey for me this year either. We had green bean hotdish, mashed potatoes and
squawNAW corn.*To avoid offense, we changed the name to Native American Woman corn (even though all the natives on the rez use the word all the time). Also that recipe isn’t how we do it. We just use bacon and corn.
“…they are safe.”
Wild turkeys…the longer you cook them the tougher they get. I never could think of a reason to shoot one.
^This^
Fun to hunt them, but pretty much worthless to eat. Amazing how lean they are compared to those fat butterball domestic turkeys.
Throw the legs into soup and that is about it.
Brine and smoke the thighs. Everything else gets braised.
Soon to be a popular beach resort
As NASA scientist Chad Greene flew over northern Greenland with a team of engineers in April, they never expected their radar to find something manmade buried deep within the ice. Greene and his team were flying above the Greenland Ice Sheet on a NASA Gulfstream III plane, scanning the barren expanse of ice that’s more than a mile deep in some areas, when their radar instrument picked up something unusual.
“We didn’t know what it was at first,” Greene said in a statement released by NASA’s Earth Observatory this week, along with new images of the discovery. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century.”
It turns out the team had stumbled upon an abandoned Cold War-era military base built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1959. Nicknamed the “city under the ice,” the compound consists of a network of tunnels carved into the ice sheet. It was abandoned in 1967 and, over time, became buried about 100 feet below the surface as snow and ice accumulated.
The base was built as part of Project Iceworm, a then-secret plan to experiment with building a missile launch site under the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Cold War, when tension soared between the U.S. and the then-Soviet Union. Camp Century, a remote, nuclear-powered installation, was built to study the feasibility of such a project, but it was never realized and the base was decommissioned under the assumption it would be buried forever under the ice.
While the “city under the ice” had been picked up by previous radar scans, the instruments used on the NASA flight in April provided a more detailed, if unexpected, survey.
“In the new data, individual structures in the secret city are visible in a way that they’ve never been seen before,” said Greene, who works with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Never seen before, except by the people who built and worked and lived in it.
To be fair, being probed by ice-penetrating radar is a way these buildings have never been seen before.
STEVE SMITH COUSIN YETI DO ICE PENETRATING AND PROBING!
“over time, became buried about 100 feet below the surface as snow and ice accumulated”
Global warming FTW!
Damn your nimble fingers and my stubby thumbs.
I was told that Greenland would be melted by now.
We have already tried that. the vikings used to have settlements there and farms in the south of Greenland. That didnt work out.
Getting ready to stake the claim for Greenland under Trump 2.
We have always been at war with
Eurasiawhatever the Russians are calling themselves.I guess I’ll start cooking at some point. Having no company for Thanksgiving for the first time…ever…is a revelation. No schedule to keep, no one who doesn’t want to watch hoofball.
I am forced to root for da Bears this Thanksgiving
The Diamond Company?
How DOES America react to a winning football team from Detroit?
The same way Vancouver reacts to a losing hockey team?
There are Thanksgiving traditions in this country, and Detroit stinking up a game is as venerable one as any. So this is almost as novel as a Congress that actually does its job.
Being happy for them, even though I wish it was in a year where my hopes and dreams of a Browns/Lions Superbowl could come to fruition?
Let’s try that link again.
At the time [of Camp Century], the Cold War was considered to be the greatest threat to humanity,” Ruetenik said. “And now, the area has become a destination for climate scientists trying to study changes in the environment. So, it has a second purpose now.”
Spoiler alert; it’s still really fucking cold there.
Because of course it has.
Have they explained why the ice is doing the opposite of what they have been claiming it would do for decades?
A conspiracy of Kulaks has been shovelling ice on the shelf.
you lot are more tolerant than the so-called tolerant people.
Life is just one big Bud Light commercial.
Green bean casserole is in the oven, and I’ll be leaving shortly for my sister & BIL’s house.
As always, thankful for this site and (almost) all of the denizens thereof!
So which of the cats is entrusted with turning off the oven when the casserole is done?
One of them ALMOST climbed into the box in which I plan to transport the casserole – it’s in a turkey-shaped bowl with no lid. (The casserole – not the cat.)
“Surprise, it’s a catterole!”
*meow*?
UCS:
IT ISN’T A CASSEROLE!!!!
Surprise, it’s a hotpussy!”
FIFY
Since you are in Japan.
https://tokyogirlsupdate.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/comiket-94-0810-003.jpg
PG-13.
Sensei:
The place I’m staying at has a lot of cosplayers walking around on the weekends. Nothing as racy as the young lady you linked to, but some definite cuties.
Mrs. Holiness would probably put her foot down at he idea that we adopt that kitty. Even if I promised to take care of her every day. If I went ahead and adopted anyhow, you’d probably find my body in the litter box the next day.
You are in Kobe, right?
https://youtu.be/tQV8lwqoJqI?si=zmFlRpraeazVRnco
Just popped up in my playlist. Some restaurants to consider of moderate price.
Sensei:
Yup. I’m in Kobe. I’ll check out the video later.
Wife and sister-in-law are heading out now for lunch at a Korean restaurant in Osaka. It has the best jjajangmyeoung anywhere. I decided to stay home and have left over green bean hotdish.
Jimbo, I’d eat that for sure!
One of my Japanese friend’s former language student and now just friend is a Korean immigrant so she has given her the insight on lots of authentic Korean places in Osaka and Amagasaki.
I also laugh because her last name of (English) Park becomes Paku (Japanese). Took me a second to figure out when she first spoke about her.
Ahem. *hotdish*
You want to eat green bean hotdish. It took some doing here in Japan but we managed to make a pretty decent version of it. The hardest thing to get was the green beans. We had to use frozen green beans because we couldn’t find any canned ones.
Tar-jhay has a hot Santa in its ads. cc: Mojeaux
🤤
Derpbook tells me that five years ago (also a Thanksgiving Day), I was in George Town, Grand Cayman. As a small boat took us from town to our cruise ship, I turned to my wife:
Me: This might be my favorite part of vacationing with you.
Wife: ???
Me: These tender moments
Her: (exasperated sigh)
My friends told me that it’s nautical thing to do to my long-suffering spouse. I just figure that buoys will be buoys.
Fuckin-a
KK with the sodomy; where are the rum and the lash?
It’s the Caribbean. Rum is all over the place. You’re going to have to supply your own lash.
Well, we need to keep Teds on a short lash.
She puts up with these jokes and your mispronounciation of bouy?
As Flava Flav said “Yeah, Buoy!”
One of these days she’ll respond in anchor and keel you.
You think she’ll put a capstan in his ass?
Bust his rudder and she can put the prow up his aft.
Shpip, today I am giving thanks for you and your puns.
Your master of them is pierless.
Wait, who is his Master and Commander?
Fuck Cali and their brussels sprouts
https://x.com/GayPatriot/status/1862192360551023074
But without Brussels Sprouts, what would I wrap my bacon around?
There is no shortage of other foodstuffs for that role.
I was gonna ask – could you send me some pics from PR and DR that I could use in an article? Text me for my email address if you don’t already have it
Asparagus, wrapped with bacon, is a marriage made in heaven.
Jalapeño peppers, perhaps.
A better euphemism?
That’s actually kinda interesting for the green beans and potatoes – right along the 100th meridian.
PUMPKIN AND PECANS SUCK AMERICANS!!!!eleventyone1!!1!
Amen + the sweet potatoes 🤢
Hey GT and early morning crew; the rest of you lot will catch up 😉
So, I was supposed to have cataract surgery Tuesday afternoon. It didn’t happen. My heart rate is high and in a fib, so no surgery. Saw the cardiologist yesterday, but “we’ll order these tests and scrips” was about all that could happen[1] the day before Thanksgiving ;-\
So, I’m in limbo, waiting for tomorrow to see what it brings.
[1]Well, aside from setting my new personal ‘best’ at ‘losing my car in giant interconnected hospital/clinic(s) parking lots.’ Took 2 1/2 hours and two guys from security. smdh How embarrassing is that? Sigh
Oof. Rough day.
The car gave me flashbacks to a cold, rainy November night a couple of decades ago. I was newly divorced and not happy about it, arrived at Atlanta after midnight and walked out in the rain to find my car where I left it, all the way on the far end of the lot near the fence.
After 20+ minutes of walking around I went back inside, wet, cold and depressed.
I checked the map of the lot and the section i had written down. Huh. No such section.
Another look.
No such section.
Found a security guy on a golf cart.
Yeah, there are 2 identical symmetrical lots on opposite sides of the building. I went out the wrong door.
Another mile walk in the freezing rain gets me to my car….. which has a dead battery.
Sometimes life just kicks you for no good reason.
I don’t want to be a dick or nothing but a real man takes out his own cataract no surgery required.
I hope things go well tomorrow and you get things done.
Reminds me of when my best friend in the Corps, Luke, gave me a ride from 29 Palms to LAX.
A half hour into the drive, he asks me “How do you get to LAX?”, I said, “I don’t know, I thought you did”.
I could see m wife’s face, she was thinking,”Your friends are as dumb as you”.
We stopped at a 7-11 and got directions and made it with plenty of time.
Since we were trying to fly Space-A to Okinawa, we had to wait awhile before we found out we weren’t making that flight, so we went to get a taxi to a hotel for the night.
As we walked on the sidewalk I saw Luke and he was very embarrassed to see us.
Mind you, this is 3 hours after he had parked and helped us carry our luggage into the airport.
Turns out, he knew which level he was parked in, but didn’t know which of the several identical garages he was parked in.
Since Boston Market mismanaged all the locations out of business near me, our newly minted tradition is Perkins.
Reasonable cost and quality. Turkey and some carbs (!) already eaten and back home. Yay.
They should have hired Mojeaux’ XY.
No, Boston Market fucked up at the corporate level. I can’t remember exactly what happened, but they closed a whole lot of locations at once.
And I only know that because Boston Market had the best mac’n’cheese I’ve ever had (except for Stouffer’s).
For those who deny that censorship is a problem on non-X social media platforms, I give you the Daisy BB gun company.
https://x.com/DaisyRifles/status/1861863379893153920?s=19
They are responding to a comment by Smith & Wesson about getting repeatedly banned on Facebook.
Nothing is more Murican than a Chinese made Red Ryder under the Xmas tree.
Bigots
Boise State, which twice boycotted regular-season matches with San Jose State, pulled out of the Mountain West women’s volleyball tournament Wednesday night even after securing a spot in the semifinals against the Spartans.
San Jose State, which received six forfeit victories because of boycotts from Mountain West opponents, is seeded second in the conference tournament and received a first-round bye. Now the Spartans will advance to Saturday’s championship match rather than take the court Friday.
Boise State released a statement that read: “The decision to not continue to play in the 2024 Mountain West Volleyball Championship tournament was not an easy one. Our team overcame forfeitures to earn a spot in the tournament field and fought for the win over Utah State in the first round on Wednesday. They should not have to forgo this opportunity while waiting for a more thoughtful and better system that serves all athletes.”
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Mountain West members Boise State, Wyoming, Utah State and Nevada as well as Southern Utah canceled matches this season against the Spartans. Nevada’s players stated they “refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes,” without providing further details.
A lawsuit was recently filed in Colorado by players from various schools against the conference and San Jose State officials calling for a Spartans player to not be allowed to participate in the tournament, citing unspecified reports asserting there was a transgender player on the San Jose State volleyball team, even naming her.
U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews in Denver ruled Monday that the player is allowed to play, and a federal appeals court upheld the decision the following day.
The volleyball player has not spoken about her identity, and San Jose State has not commented on her identity due to federal privacy laws. ESPN is not naming the player.
ESPN so brave and righteous.
I am impressed by these ladies standing up for themselves at personal cost.
San Jose State is just despicable in this, if reports are to be believed. Putting a young athlete in the same room with the trans athlete without telling her or asking her consent is the worst I heard. They also ordered everyone to be silent about the issue, under pain of expulsion or firing. An assistant coach who spoke out was indeed fired in short order.
Same tactic as covering up for child molesters.
The boycotters need to put together their own league, leaving San Jose uninvited
/We don’t need your trans team
Yes. Private clubs, invitation only.
I haven’t seen anything on it…how are the fans responding to this perversion?
“Her” identity.
Although nobody has confirmed that San Jose has a dude on their team, nobody has denied it either. Odd that I’ve never seen a picture of this person, either.
https://sjsuspartans.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster
It’s a dude. Likely still playing with a bat and balls.
There is no 1
I had no idea there were that many ~6ft women in the world. A whole league of them? Wow. That is a lot of leg.
The activists have so successfully got the country walking on eggshells that nobody has the balls to talk honestly about this stuff.
…or anything else. The vast majority of humanity is composed of cowards.
The girls of SJS, and their former coach, are in on the Title IX lawsuit against SJS.
The only cowards here are the administrators at SJS and the judges who enable their insanity.
As usual this is your periodic reminder that roast duck >>>>> roast turkey. Carry on.
The truest of true things. Happy Thanksgiving, Pie!
The girlfriend and I have a smoked turkey breast from a local BBQ place sitting in the fridge that we’ll reheat tomorrow. We also managed to leave my parents house without any leftovers (even though I would have taken some of my sister’s balsamic bacon brussels sprouts).
Relevant for Thanksgiving.
Awesome!
Too bad my kids know better.
roast duck >>>>> roast turkey
Indeed.
If roasting means pressure cooked with onion, salt, garlic, a little cayenne, in chicken stock, deboned and ground with a little fresh orange zest then yes, you are so very correct.
Braising ain’t roasting, and I’m not going to argue which is superior because I’d be happy to eat either.
Fun fact, most people have never roasted anything.
Cooked in an oven is baked. Roasting requires an open fire.
Now do grilling vs barbecuing.
barbecue is very much about the seasoning while grilling is about the heating method. You can have grilled barbecue, but you can also have roast barbecue.
Cooked in an oven is baked. Roasting requires an open fire.
Gas oven has open flame.
The fire of a gas oven is in a firebox separated from the food to create a convective current and not the wall of flame used in roasting.
Then there’s broasting, which is pressure frying.
Happy Thanksgiving, gang!
I’m grateful for you, for this site and for the freedoms we still enjoy.
Now get out there and make me proud!
We think you are grating as well Tundra!
In honor of americanize holidays, while Thursday is a no alcohol day, I have poured a glass of Penelope toasted barrel finish
Another crackpot for the cabinet
Just weeks after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Bhattacharya co-authored an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal questioning the severity of the virus.
At the time, Bhattacharya argued that shelter-in-place measures and universal quarantines were likely not worth the cost they would impose “on the economy, community and individual mental and physical health.”
A month later, Bhattacharya co-published a statistical analysis of antibody data and claimed the population immunity to the virus was significantly higher than originally thought—but the study’s methodology and conclusions quickly came under criticism from infectious disease experts.
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Bhattacharya remained a noted critic of lockdown measures over the following years and called them “the single biggest public health mistake” while at a gathering organized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021.
He’s a danger to medicine as we know it.
Another brairpatch story. The masking alone should have been a dead giveaway.
All of what he said turned out to be true, was proven to be so and widely published yet they are using that to label him a crackpot?
Red flags like this should have people up in arms and sharpening their pitchforks.
I still laugh at the 1 way arrows at the stores. It’s like You Can’t Make This Up, because no one would believe you but yet…
I’m grateful for the faithful that went out of their way to keep me safe.
I wish I’d had a welding mask, I’d have worn that.
I was about to ask some rando on Twitter why they bothered to type out snark at my tweet that was not directed at him, but then decided not to because I do that all the time.
Learning is hard.
After a bunch of fighting with the computer I have Thirteen seconds of intro which needs audio of some sort, probably music.
I’ve got three hours of footage to work through.
*grumble*
of course my mouse decides to start randomly double-middle-clicking on me, and I cna’t crack it open to clean the interior. I think they either glued or plastic welded the cable in.
🤬 ARRRGGG!!!
Due to all the processing that the gopro and the audio signals went through, they’re now running at different rates. It gradually drifts into an echo which I have to correct by slicing the audio track and nudging part one frame to the right, which realigns the audio for a bit, until it desynchs again.
Why not just mute one audio track? Because when the gopro picks up my voice it’s a clearer sound than the microphone I was wearing, which is a backstop for when I’m not situated where the gopro can pick up my voice, so I want them in sync to switch between them or even have both going in stereo.
I suppose I should treat this as a blessing. Since I have to listen to every segment for the echo, I am force to evaluate what can be cut from that segment.
Ugh. My natural cadence of speech makes shatner impersonations sound like the micromachines man.
The number of thinking pauses I’ve had to trim out… This will take forever.
Try some speed.
I don’t think that’s going to work too well, I mean it’s already recorded and I’m not sure it would help me edit better.
*puts on laundry*
*forgets spin cycle is loud*
*tries to resume editing video*
*can’t hear the audio*
😫
The wind and rain are getting worse here in southern NH. Yuck.
It’s supposed to get pretty nasty up there I think. For the next couple weeks, even.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC4otHVzTUr/?igsh=MW9rbjZwanQydXdudg==
That is never going to get old.
*hic*
Happy Thanksgiving All! Heading out to the boat to look for whales. Afterwards we will anchor and enjoy leftovers made into turkey sandwiches and various rum drinks.
So you’re assuming you won’t catch any whales and have already resigned to having turkey?
You could just go to Walmart.
Landwhale isn’t as good as sea whale.
Scorched earth, please.
I don’t think I would be able to restrain myself had I been treated the way he was.
People are losing their minds (rightfully) about some of the other picks. But RFK2 and Jay are gonna have so much more power than, say, the surgeon general. I do hope they go scorched earth.
Happy Thanksgiving, Glibbies!!!
Happy Thanksgiving, Spud!
What’s on the menu?
Disturbing trend, or hype?
More than 1 in 4 holiday shoppers (27%) say they plan to go into debt this season by carrying a credit card balance or using a buy now, pay later service, according to Bankrate’s 2024 Early Holiday Shopping Survey.
And Bankrate’s Impulse Shopping Survey shows that more than half of Americans (54%) made an impulse purchase last holiday season. Nearly 1 in 4 of them (24%) were influenced by social media.
I’m not sure if carrying part of your balance over for a month or so qualifies as “going into debt.”
Yeah. Xmas is a time of giving. It requires more funds than the normal budget allows for. To sacrifice a few months of (shitty) interest in order to have a nice xmas is not some new crisis.
That was a tasty little Thanksgiving snack. A piece of salmon, fried in butter and dill, in my new little no stick skillet. I even managed a little bit of a crispiness at the edges. And some mashed potatoes.
Golden Corral for the win!
No cooking, no cleaning.
If there was a Golden Corral here, I’d now and then. I used to go for lunch in Indianapolis. Pot roast, FTW! And a hot fudge sundae.
Michael Moore showing off what a complete idiot he is:
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/do-the-math-trump-is-toast
From October:
Right now, if you know how to really read the polls, or if you have access to the various private and internal polling being conducted by and shared only amongst the elites, Wall Street, and Members of Congress, then you already know that this election was over weeks ago. Trump simply refused to believe that “Sleepy Joe” was no longer his opponent and that there was instead “some woman” claiming she was “Black” who was now going to pummel him on Election Day.
Didn’t we just hear something about internal polling?
Yes, and it showed her losing.
Mike’s full of shit. Shocking, I know.
“Which is why maybe at this point in my rant I just need to say out loud that which is being said to me in private by people I respect — and not just in whispers, but in excited tones of exuberance: That a new era is being born, one where caucasian is just one of the options but no longer the bossy pants of the world.”
Wow, that’s some fine writing Mike.
If that is what excites him, maybe he is the racist.
So……he doesnt know anyone that voted for Nixon?
Yeah, he’s off. But I just find it fascinating that an “informed” writer can think the phrase “the bossy pants of the world” is good writing.
Traditional Thankful Ray of Sunshine
Just a great story.
+1
Some Thanksgiving invites are better than others
Fucking amazing what happens when you stop putting up with shit.
Paywall
https://www.ft.com/content/7ee200fa-89a1-4058-b4cf-83a37ee6d8a9
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Canada’s provincial leaders late on Wednesday to agree a united response to the US president-elect’s pledge this week to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada, which he said would remain in place “until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country”.
After the meeting with Trudeau, Canada’s public safety minister Dominic LeBlanc said: “We believe that there is a circumstance where we can make additional investments to reassure Canadians that all of the measures necessary are in place and will continue to be in place”, although he declined to say how much extra money the federal government would make available.
“We believe that there is a circumstance where we can make additional investments to reassure Canadians”
What a steaming pile of mush.
Well, there is – Justin and his party avail themselves of MAiD and put them out of Canadia’s misery.
Repost from the deadthread:
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We’re celebrating quietly here, no turkey, nothing special at all. It’s in the 40’s and (was) raining down here in Delco, PA, not a fun day to be out, but I’ve a roof over my head, heat, power, a wonderful wife, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg for what I’m thankful about.
And thanks for all the interesting conversations and info I’ve read on this site, thanks for allowing me to join!
Delco question. Not that PA is ideal, but it’s close to NJ family. I’m considering PA retirement and Lancaster and Delco are on the list.
Do you have any preferred town locations to look?
So you are looking for genuine Delco parts?
Chadds Ford. 30 minutes to airport, bridge to NJ. Plenty of good restaurants within 15 minutes.
Thanks creech. Proximity to DE is nice too.
Allowing?
Pretty sure everyone here pushed through several doors, checked several boxes, and solved some complex math… or was that just me?
First Thanksgiving alone and it was AWESOME.
Yes, it’s the perception of inflation. Not the actual inflation.
In First Post-Election Interview, Kamala Harris’s Advisors Admit that Democrats Are “Losing the Culture War”
https://archive.fo/dQfOd
What a plate of nothingness. May they continue to lose for decades!
Yeah, they are still lying to themselves. Don’t expect any changes if they still can’t fess up and say that it might have been bad for her to have ghosted Rogan, but it would have been way worse if she had done Rogan.
“Look, she can’t survive a real interview. Going on with Rogan would have exposed her as an idiot to a huge audience.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/x-users-left-stunned-terrible-video-harris-speaking-supporters-who-thought-good-idea
Great observation.
It’s hilarious that nobody has to pretend to like her anymore.
Thanksgiving went remarkably well, with nothing social even talked about. Work also went exceptionally well and was re-qualified on takin’ the needle OUT of people’s veins. Not utterly thrilled with another 6am day tomorrow, but I’m quite enthused w 1.5X pay.
It’s nice when things swim along just fine. ‘Accomplishment’ is a great way to ensure a chill, perhaps serene eve. Always a reminder to me to remember to cherish those moments. (“I can’t remember to forget you.” <– In a positive way. It's not in the flick I'm thinking of.)
Hope all is well with y'all, or the best it can be.
You should have passed your kidney stone right at the table. *That* would have been a Thanksgiving to remember.
“LOOK WHAT I MADE!”
Listen, Christmas is only a month away. I’m not wholly unconvinced my body hasn’t eaten this non-rolling renal rock, but it is welcome as a helluva party gag. Festive, I can make it.
Rolling away the stone, mixed with the celebration of Christ’s birth? I dig. (I’d prefer just to get the fucking 4-6 miserable hours over with. I’ll get an appointment. Sunday evening works just fine. How about at 6pm? Well. Let me check if my doc has something extra for me. I really should do that before we agree on a time. Thankssomuch, talk soon.
In their first post-election interview, they blame, among other things, her shortened campaign and a political environment poisoned against the Biden administration.
A shadowy cabal of outside influences did that. It had nothing to do with his actual performance and policies as President.
“The Republicans have a well-tuned, well-oiled, well-invested echo chamber that exists beyond where they’re campaigning,” said David Plouffe
Keep telling yourself that, Dave, while you and the rest of your team continue to live in your fantasyland of moral superiority.
It’s always projection.
Look just because they have to keep leaving platforms shows how big the right wing bubble is!
Home from Thanksgiving dinner at my NPR-fed sister & BIL’s house. A bit chaotic in the kitchen, but it all turned out OK. Politics did NOT come up, for which I am abundantly thankful.
Saw Tres Sr. today who still thinks Hillary is the bees knees, and no mention of Trump. It was fake, but quiet.
Another ray of sunshine.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241127/news/mail-carriers-compassion-inspires-a-city-sparks-a-friendship-this-thanksgiving/
Thanksgiving stroganoff will be ready soon…
Thanksgiving greetings from OKC! I’ve been working on a property for my boss and got to have a nice old fashioned dinner,
Enjoy the day!
HEY YUFUS!
After a nice quiet day home alone (with cat of course) I thought I might watch Friday football at a sports bar.
But I see it’s on Prime!! So basically no bar will be showing it. What a pain. Streaming services just aren’t practical for restaurants/bars.
Meh. It’s on at noon pacific, so pretty early anyway. Maybe football at home, excursion later.