I guess every front pager has a Thanksgiving post, so here is mine. Mom, dad, Seth, Devon and her husband are coming for dinner. The house has been cleaned, the turkey is in the oven, the stuffing is made, the potatoes are peeled and soaking and ready to go, applesauce is chilling in the fridge, cranberry sauce is likewise chilling, sauerkraut is in a pot ready to go, and I am playing a little warcraft before I take a nap. Dad is bringing a couple dishes, as is Devon.
Hope you all have a good one. I hope Trump’s suck and his cheeseburger is shitty.
patrick II
Happy Thanksgiving John , and thank you for creating this wonderful blog. The posts are amazing, and the conversations that follow are often more so. “A community of Kindness Smarts, and Realism” could be an alternative, but much less colorful name for your blog.
Have a good one.
Warm Regards,
Patrick
West of the Rockies
You know, for as wealthy as he is, for as much power and privilege as he and his family have, none of them look genuinely happy or even content. They al look annoyed, dissatisfied, put-out, disappointed, and unrelaxed.
raven
Just up from the beach to get some dinner going. Not much happened until I was chatting away with my bride and one of my rods flew out of the holder and headed out to sea. I dove for it and scraped up a knee. It was a hell of a fight and people followed me way down the beach. It turned out to be a ray but, when you don’t know what is stripping your line, it’s still really fun!
debbie
@West of the Rockies:
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone very powerful, wealthy, and privileged looking very happy.
debbie
@raven:
Glad you’re enjoying it, but your vacation is sounding very rough and tumble!
jeffreyw
We went to Applebee’s! I had their house salad.
trollhattan
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to all you frontpagers, blog fathers and jackals. BTW, it has been determined by Science that the Venn diagram of those three shows everything enveloped by jackal.
Family is off to adventure on I-5 over the Grapevine, which was closed overnight by snow but shows traffic now going, slowly, over the summit. They have a few hours for things to sort themselves out.
We had our dinner yesterday and I have enough leftovers for several food comas. And a dog to entertain.
It’s all good.
As to that crime family in charge, a hearty efgoldman to them all. Live long and prosper, Nancy SMASH, Adam Schiff and Notorious RBG. And may Jimmy Carter make it to a hundred.
James E Powell
Happy Thanksgiving, John Cole and to Jackals everywhere for whom this is not just another Thursday.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Happy Thanksgiving Cole and everyone! I can’t wait to eat the Honeybaked spiral sliced ham for Thanksgiving dinner!
Here’s a cute video of a wild turkey chasing a mail truck. Bet this little guy is happy he’s not on a dinner table this holiday : )
raven
Always! @debbie:
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@trollhattan:
I miss efgoldman and Schlemiel : (
This must be the first Thanksgiving Schlemiel’s family has without him
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@raven:
That’s too bad it was only a manta ray. Do you just fish for sport or have you ever cooked what you catch? The fresher the fish, the tastier it is.
schrodingers_cat
More people than at T’s inauguration for the swearing in of Maharashtra’s new CM.
India’s biggest state now has a BJP free government! Best of luck to all 3 the coalition partners. They are going to need it.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
Awesome! Did you hear about the fake university ICE set up to deport Indian students? I hope Herr Modi still likes his best buddy Trump now
schrodingers_cat
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Herr Modi cares as much about regular Indian people as T does about ordinary American citizens who are not MAGA devotees.
raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I caught a nice big redfish and a blue yesterday. We had the blue for dinner and will eat the red tomorrow.
Baud
All you need is a bag of salted dicks for a truly John Cole Thanksgiving.
Mike in DC
@debbie:
We just need to get Rich Man Syndrome diagnosed as a serious mental illness, then we can adjust our tax policies to alleviate this pressing societal problem.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
FelonyGovt
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I am very grateful for this blog, for its founder, all the front pagers and commenters. Having a nice quiet family day here, watching it rain in Southern California.
Major Major Major Major
Happy thanksgiving, JC and everybody else!
My folks are in town so we’re getting early dinner at a restaurant in a couple hours, then we might go see Knives Out after. Walked down the street to see the parade earlier. Missed Pikachu but saw Olaf ??♂️
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I sent you an email the other day FYI, I know you don’t really check that account
schrodingers_cat
@Baud:
With mustard!
WaterGirl
@Baud: I am grateful that you are back with us. I have to ask, what did you say last night to flip you into spam? twice? must have been something interesting, but when I released them, there was nothing there.
Happy Thanksgiving to *all!
*And especially Dad Cole. I am usually pretty good at games, and last night I could not catch a break while we were playing Rummikub. I picked up tile after tile that matched with NOTHING, finally exclaiming “oh my god!” – I sound just like Dad Cole when he caught the wet pups jumping on the furniture while he was vacuuming all those years ago. I wonder if I saved that link somewhere?
HRA
Happy Thanksgiving John!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@West of the Rockies:
Being them is both their crime and their punishment.
Yutsano
Happy Turkey Day! The bird is in the oven, the stuffing tastes fantastic, and everything is coming together. I still haven’t gotten up and showered although that’s the next step on the agenda.
Oh and I am wearing a great quote from one fictional professor regarding not wanting to live on this planet anymore.
Ben Cisco
Happy Thanksgiving to the Jackalteriat. I’ve got a full crew inbound, and it will be fun-filled and 45-free.
HumboldtBlue
At least Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench are still a thing on Thanksgiving.
trollhattan
@Ben Cisco:
45-free? On my way! What kind(s) of wine should I bring? :-)
scav
The turkey is at a neighbor’s; our job is to stare down a mountain of roasted veggies including potatos, beets (variously colored), parsnips, carrots and celeriac. The cows across the street will be thankful for the peelings and odd bits. No one will be left out of the feast.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Major Major Major Major:
Just checked it! I appreciate the offer and will try to take you up on it after December 12th. Finals and all that.
WereBear
Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Jackals. Especially those who have kept the blog going all these years.
If we are going to reminisce about favorite posts, I fondly remember one about the face of Jesus appearing on a dog’s butt. The comments became so filled with outrageous puns someone wrote us up on the Great Orange Satan.
Patricia Kayden
Thanks for this blog which is helping to keep me sane, John. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving day with your human and furry family.
Ruckus
Cole
I hope Trump’s suck and his cheeseburger is shitty.
A good thought for Thanksgiving!
But of course it will suck and his cheeseburger will be shitty, it’s trump. Everything in his orbit is shitty, because it’s the trump effect.
Websters.
The trump effect.
Everything within his sphere of exposure will be distorted, disabled, deluded and/or destroyed, just by exposure to his being. It is immeasurably worse than just the opposite -see Midas Touch. The only thing positive about the trump effect is that good people can see what needs to be fixed, what the obvious problems are, because the trump effect highlights each and every possible issue that needs correction while it’s putting them in the place to cause the most damage. The trump effect is the manifestation of conservatism, the concept that staying with the known shitty is preferable to the better, because the better is unknown and therefore unreliable. The trump effect is the mobius strip of conservatism, it’s making the bad worse just because you know it’s bad so it’s not a surprise that it is.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@raven:
Cool! I love seafood and it’s not something I get to eat every day and should eat more of tbh
@schrodingers_cat:
Funny how men like Modi or Trump claim to care for the “common” man but don’t in reality, esp if it’s convenient for them
Ruckus
@debbie:
Why would they look happy? The only thing that makes them possibly happy is more. And there are limits to everything, much as it disturbs the powerful, wealthy few.
Major Major Major Major
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): just do it!
The Pale Scot
Hectic in the kitchen at the moment, just want to point out WBGO Newark’s blues program is on, it’s rockin’ except when it’s not
Peace to all
Bruce K
Mr. Cole, thank you for hosting this island of (sometimes irritated) calm in a storm-ravaged sea. The world needs more places like this.
I’m having dinner alone; the last Thanksgiving I spent with family was 2007. But I’m still lucky; I can call them and see them over video chat. I’ll set aside a moment’s prayer for the thousands who aren’t nearly that lucky.
Granted, they need more than prayer. A lot more.
geg6
He apparently grew a pair and dropped into a Iraq or Afghanistan to greet the troops. I have to say I’m amazed.
bystander
While I’m loving the Giuliani shitshow, I want to throw a brick every time I hear the “he was America’s mayor!!” No, you peabrains on tv called him that. Real New Yorkers knew he was a media creation, just like twitler. When you live with their b/s 24/7 you have to realize what grifters they are.
Quiltingfool
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I love Balloon Juice, and I enjoy reading all the comments; I read several blogs, and the commenters (is that a word? Should I say jackals?) are the absolute best. I just got done making 4 batches of cookie dough – chocolate chip, peanut butter, snickerdoodle and brownie. Our family dinner is Saturday, so tomorrow is my prep day. My husband’s family loves cookies and they go over much better than pie. Go figure, cookies are tasty, but I love pie! Still, the cookies make me very popular, so there is that. Sounds like everyone is having wonderful food, and I hope the fellowship is even better.
Kayla Rudbek
Happy Thanksgiving to you jackals who are celebrating! We have yet to start the cooking, but there are just two of us at Casa Rudbek so we can set our own schedule. We already did the running/exercise to justify our eating.
Raven
A lady shot video of the ray fight and I love her commentary!
oatler.
Whenever I hear fire trucks howling down the street today I assume someone tried to deep-fry a turkey.
Calouste
@geg6: The shitgibbon you mean? Well, if I had the choice between a trip to Afghanistan and spending a day with that family….
Bruce K
@Calouste: Hell, I’d sooner spend Thanksgiving in Pripyat than with the Trumps.
otmar
Happy Thanksgiving!
We don’t do that thing here in Austria, the closest thing is Erntedank, but that is a lot earlier and definitely not a national holiday.
eclare
@Raven: Wow, great video!
justawriter
I think in the spirit of the season people need to remember that the modern thanksgiving celebration had nothing to do with genocidal pilgrims sponging off their neighbors but was created in 1863 to celebrate the beginning of the end of the MAGA hats of that era.
cliosfanboy
Heading to 4 Ps in Falls Church with the wife for Thanksgiving buffet. Enjoy your holiday everyone.
Jackie
@Raven: Very cool! And, your poor knee!?
debbie
@Raven:
Looking at that knee, it must have really been a leap to catch up with your rod. One would almost think you’re a football player! ?
debbie
@geg6:
He also lied through his teeth when he said he was only the messenger in expressing how much the American people love the soliders.
Raven
@debbie: I was in a chair above the water line when I took off. It was moving really fast and it was $150 reel so I had to give it all I had. I dove and my knee hit first. . .the price we pay.
HeleninEire
LOL. So CNN sent me an alert that Trump and Melania went to Afghanistan to visit the troops. I just received the following alert.
“Correction: the previous alert said that the first lady was with the President in Afghanistan. She was not.”
LOLOLOLOLOL. Yeah no shit.
Jay
@Raven: Bat Ray?
Martin
Happy thanksgiving all. I’m thankful for all of you and for having a place like this to rant about stupid political shit and whatever else my family doesn’t want to hear me rant about. I’m especially thankful for Cole for hosting us here.
John, best wishes to you and your family. May your dad be free of hospital visits, your pets free of illnesses, and your Subaru free of ditches.
Steve in the ATL
@trollhattan:
I also have enough leftovers for several food comas or, in the alternative, 3/4 sating one of the two dogs.
@raven: I caught a nice red at the neighborhood wine shop and am drinking it today.
@debbie:
I don’t know—I’ve met Ruckus and he seemed pretty happy
J R in WV
My introduction to Rays was just off Key West in the early 70s, when a huge Ray jumped right in front of us, seemed as big as the 17 ft boat we rented from the EM club. Wasn’t, but such a shock to see it airborne like that! amazing moment I hope to never forget.
ETA: And thanks for reminding me of that wonderful sight!
AND John Cole, Thank You for this blog, I know it’s a ton of work, thanks for everything!!
mrmoshpotato
@raven: Exciting!
Raven
@J R in WV: that’s funny, we saw weird triangular critters jumping at sunset. I asked a marine biologist friend I’d rays jump and she said yes! I had no idea!
Sab
@WereBear: Can you remember when that was? I missed it.
Sab
@WereBear: Also, my dad’s blind cat is downstairs yowling. He has food. He has water. I think he is lonely. He has become a random pee-er so I don’t want him in the bedroom ever again. Am I a bad person if I ignore him for a while?
ETA: He might also want the turkey in the oven. He loves turkey. First thing I ever fed him, when he was a random stray, was a Thanksgiving turkey wing.
J R in WV
What blew our minds was the size of the monster we saw jump clean into the air. It was really big. Even given the tendency to inflate over the decades, it was huge, not even a splash when it hit the water.
Sab
@Raven: YIKES!
Raven
@J R in WV: I hooked on off a pier on the outer banks and it looked like a VW!
Jay
chris
@J R in WV: Probably a manta. I saw one in a Florida canal that was at least twelve feet across. And here are some
breaching mantas.
debbie
A sweet holiday ad from Xfinity:
Pete Downunder
It’s already Black Friday here in the land down under. It’s a bit of a puzzle since we don’t do Thanksgiving, but it’s a trend that started a few years ago, probably due to increasingly desperate bricks and mortar retailers. We are also slowly adopting Halloween, which was not a thing here even 15 years ago.
Happy Thanksgiving to the jackals, g’day everyone.
MisterForkbeard
@geg6: Yep. Credit for finally putting in the minimal effort to show up and pretend he cares.
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
Thanks!
But I’m not wealthy or privileged, in the traditional sense.
I do try to be happy, the alternative sucks and doesn’t feel good. And wealthy and privileged happy is a fools happy. Happy is inside, not superficial crap you surround yourself with to make you look happy. Contentment is happy. Greed is not happy, that’s why greedy people have to continue to collect things which will never make them happy because they think things are happy. But they never are. Contentment is happy.
cliosfanboy
This is late but if Tbogg reads this thread i was so sorry to hear about Fenway. :(
I am thankful for the time we have with our fuzzy family members…..
Jay
zhena gogolia
I’m in my office in the middle of Thanksgiving Day because my internet at home has been out since 10:00 AM yesterday and all I get from Frontier is a recorded message saying there’s a service outage and no estimated time of restoration. I can’t wait until a business day so I can dump Frontier.
zhena gogolia
Not having the greatest Thanksgiving of my life. Hope you’re all in a better mood than I am.
Jay
trollhattan
Oh, fark me sideways Bloomberg is advertising on the NFL pregame show. Dramatic voiceover with dramatic piano. I’m sold!
Spend some damn money on me, Mike, I have a big-budget yard makover in mind plus our HVAC will be 30 YO next year. I will stimulate this damn economy and defeat climate change.
Annnnnd, there’s a second Bloomberg ad.
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
{{{{❤️}}}}
J R in WV
@chris:
The ray we saw jump could easily have been 12 feet across. As I said, we were in a little outboard, max the boat could have been was a 19′, more likely 17’…
We did in the water sports, snorkeling until I bought a scuba tank from a shipmate for $75. Read the US Navy Divers Handbook, went out and did it. Shallow reef water, one tank, no wet suit, no gauges, no problems.
The boat was IIRC under $20 from the EM club. Saw things, colors, critters, amazing to a kid from WV. Was like flying on another planet!
Jay
feebog
Happy Thanksgiving Jackels. John, thank you for creating this wonderful community of experts, gadflies, curmudgeons and misfits, you all keep me sane and grounded. It’s Thanksgiving, so of course the tankless hot water heater went out. At least we were able to shower in the guest house. The missus is making butternut squash with candied bacon and cranberries. It smells so good I am ready to cry. Headed out to the In-Laws for dinner shortly, so signing off for the day. Hope everyone enjoys their day, no matter how you are spending it.
pattonbt
I moved from the US more than 15 years ago. I miss Thanksgiving most of all.
Sab
@zhena gogolia: I am in a better mood than you. I am also sympathetic. Next year will probably be better.
Jay
Sab
@feebog: Let us celebrate Thanksgiving on Balloon Juice with a pedantry war: how do you spell “jack*l”. I typed a comment, and realized that after many years here, I didn’t actually know. AL or EL?
Mary G
@Raven: You had a paparazzi! Cool.
But how do you unhook it? Very carefully?
Jay
MisterForkbeard
@Sab: Go with the postmodern “UL” for maximum pretentiousness :)
Keith P
Can anyone shed some light on this – I was making green bean casserole using those whole beans in a bag. I rinsed the beans, trimmed them, cooked them with some rendered bacon and white wine….and it started smelling like dirt. Literally, like dirt after it rains (it’s a bacteria making the smell IIRC). I was hoping the smell would go away after cooking with all the casserole stuff for a half hour, but it came out of the oven smelling like dirt, and after the first bite, I could not ignore the dirt taste.
Is this remotely common?
trollhattan
@Jay:
Possibly history’s greatest troll.
zhena gogolia
@Sab:
I realize it’s because I can’t constantly track Trump’s misdeeds in real time via Twitter. I see Sondland’s a sexual harasser. What a surprise.
Have a great day, everyone! Off for goose.
Sab
@MisterForkbeard: Yes! I will! Thank you.
John Revolta
@Ruckus: Money will never make you happy. And happy will never make you money. That might be a wise crack but I doubt it.
-Groucho
Mary G
The humongous rainstorm that was predicted for yesterday kept getting pushed back and pushed. It finally arrived at 8:30 with an emergency cell phone alert that scared the shit out of me, ferocious winds and has been raining ever since. I am bummed I will have to cancel going to my friends, because they live up in the hills with stairs coming out of the garage and a very steep driveway that is a nightmare for a wheelchair on a dry day and I just can’t face it. Everyone tries to help but we are all older and health challenged and I envision us all tangled and mangled in a pile on the street below. They will bring me leftovers tomorrow and I have a defrosted steak and potatoes I have been meaning to cook for two days I can eat if I want.
Raven
@Mary G: Carefully with needlenose pliers. I actually cut the line and that took the pressure off the rig and it came out easily. It’s getting them back in the water that is a trick. It’d not huge like the one’s described but it was plenty big and when they are flat in the sand they are very difficult to move. I managed to drag it with the pliers enough to get water under it. The crowd really liked that!
Jay
@Keith P:
in order to keep the beans from browning, and to increase the shelf life, they flood the sealed bags with inert nitrogen gas.
some people are very sensitive to the smell and taste, some don’t ever notice it. For some it’s dirt, others, plastic. It’s kinda like the cilantro effect.
to avoid it in the future, don’t buy cut green beans or whole green beans in a sealed bag. By them loose or in the loosely knotted bags. Within a certain distance of the growers, fresh green beans are sold year round in flats and loose bagging, not just the branded sealed bags and semi processed.
Ruckus
@zhena gogolia:
Don’t go with Spectrum. Had Spectrum for 4 yrs. Four crappy years. My 8 months experience with Frontier is that it is far, far better. Now I am in a Frontier all fiber optic. 200mps up and down. Was with spectrum supposed to be 100mps up, far less down but it never was over upper 20mps and cost $10/month more. I did get to practice my swearing with spectrum though, should I be happy about that?
Jay
debbie
@Keith P:
I’ve never had this happen, but who knows what’s going on inside those bags during the weeks it takes to get to the store?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jay: Nothing to see here, Obummer was golfer in chief! /RWNJ
Emma
@Keith P: yes. Don’t buy sealed bags of green beans. I either buy farmers market or flash-frozen.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: You stay careful down there, it moved through here earlier and a bit less intense that I saw in the predictions for the area further to the south.
Keith P
@Emma: I would have actually been better off buying canned beans in this case. Lesson learned. But the casserole *looked* great, so I have that at least.
Jay
Yutsano
@Jay: The ADL has gone to trash. They’re not even worth bothering with these days.
Raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Damn, my brother & co are about to drive from Sherman Oaks to Irvine!
Jay
@Yutsano:
the ADL is still a “go to” for the MSM and certain think tanks. That the ADL has become trash, is just a bonus for them.
Sab
@Yutsano:ADL. What is their current position on George Soros?
feebog
@Ruckus:
OK, I said I was signing off, but we are waiting for the squash to cool a bit so it does not melt the container bag. I had Verizon fios and then they sold it to Frontier. Had to switch to ATT for phone and TV because I could not get Frontier out for service right after the switch. I have Spectrum for internet, with no real issues. But I would love to have it all back together. Any problems with Frontier service? I am in North Valley area.
Skepticat
I’ve spent most of the day in the blazing sun sorting through what I can get to in a nine-foot-high pile of debris from my home. It’s amazing what survived—generally totally useless things, like lightbulbs in a defunct ceiling fan, while what I cherished most is in tiny shards. However, I did find the ashes of my beloved Maine coon cat. Once I can get help to move the remains of the west wall, I may find more from the kitchen. I’m about to head down island to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with The Eight Who Stayed (the working title of the book about the ordeal of Dorian I’m helping write)—the heroes on this tiny island who stayed in a bunker through the entire storm (sixty hours in winds up to 220 mph, with six dogs and three cats) and have worked incredibly hard and held the place together since. One of the only seven houses on the island still inhabitable, indeed largely undamaged, is the home of my closest friends, the lead couple and their teenage son, and though we have power only a few hours from the generator each day, no hot or fresh water, and no grocery or hardware stores, we’re going to have a very happy and thankful meal together. I may have lost my home and fifty years of small treasures, but the large treasures I retain are some of the most wonderful friends anyone was ever blessed to have. We who are Abaco strong wish each of you a very, very happy Thanksgiving. (To the big turkey in D.C., not so much.)
Jay
@Yutsano:
and it’s not just that they have become lying trash, in the time of Trump and Bibi, they have become morons, catering to morons, as well.
”Boogaloo” is not an antifa code word for inciting a antifacist race war against all whipple.
”Electric Boogaloo” is,…..////
Jay
@Sab:
they don’t like him, his foundations or his policies, for the most part, but they also don’t like how he is used to express veiled and unveiled antisemitism.
Steve in the ATL
Apropos of nothing, is Cape Town a decent place to visit in December?
Jay
@Skepticat:
So sorry for your losses,
so glad that everyone is okay,
HeleninEire
@Steve in the ATL: Dunno about December but one of my best Ireland friends is from Cape Town. What do you need to know?
Amir Khalid
@otmar:
Is Erntedank a harvest festival?
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Be safe.
The fam texted to say they’re allowed southbound on the Grapevine now, so fingers crossed they get over with no further excitement. Their reward is an 8:30 soccer match tomorrow, then back over the Grapevine immediately afterwards for Saturday’s XC meet in Fresno. Weather allowing, of course.
Winter 2019-20: MIA, now making up for lost time.
Amir Khalid
@MisterForkbeard:
Sometimes I like to go with jahquell.
Yutsano
@HeleninEire: December is the middle of summer down there. I have no idea what that means other than South Africa is in the middle of a horrific drought.
trollhattan
@Skepticat:
I can’t imagine. Best of luck on your very long and ambitious journey.
chris
@Skepticat:
Sorry for your loss. Will you/can you rebuild?
debbie
@Skepticat:
Wow. I wish you and your friends all the strength needed to recover from this.
rikyrah
Happy Thanksgiving, Cole ??
Jay
rikyrah
For any Black women who wear their hair natural
Mielle Organics is having a sale until Midnight CST today.
EVERY PRODUCT is $5
EVERY PRODUCT ?
debbie
@Jay:
Unsurprising he’s pimping his interview on Thanksgiving Day.
burnspbesq
@debbie:
if that fucker really loved the troops, he wouldn’t be doing what he’s doing.
Barbara
@Skepticat: Gosh, I am sorry. I hope next year brings you better times.
debbie
Sniffle.
debbie
@burnspbesq:
I’m hoping that was exactly what they were thinking as they listened to him.
Jay
Steve in the ATL
@HeleninEire: is December a good time or a bad time to visit?
debbie
Oh, FFS.
debbie
@Jay:
The hell they do!
Jay
@debbie:
that’s when his natural audience will be free to tune in. MAGAt’s banned from family gatherings and registered sex offenders.
Mary G
joel hanes
@debbie:
Paul Newman
Jay
@debbie:
the DRPK News Team has a strong commitment to being accurate and responsible, thus their coverage of Gym Jordan, Boris de Piffle Johnson, etc.
thus when they made the error of posting that Dolt45 had pardoned the Country of Turkey on November 28, 2019, only to discover that Dolt45 had actually pardoned a turkey, the domestic fowl, and that the Country of Turkey had been pardoned weeks earlier and given a free hand to commit another genocide,
they were duty bound to correct the record.
debbie
@joel hanes:
He had Joanne Woodward.
Jay
Square G54 on your Impeachment Bingo Card,…….
joel hanes
I made stock Tues from wings and necks, did prep work Wed, brined the turkey, stuffed it this morning, did steamed string beans in garlic butter, roasted acorn squash with butter and brown sugar and raisins, mashed potatoes, hot rolls, _copious_ gravy. Mom made the crudities relish tray; sister brought excellent scalloped corn. One sister couldn’t make it, so there were only four of us for dinner with enough food for twelve. Very relaxed pace, though I’m amazed at Cole being able to take a _nap_ while the bird is in the oven — I spend those hours making side dishes and setting the table.
Twelve degrees outside, snow on the ground and more coming within a day or so.
Best to all of you, and all of us.
May there be better days ahead for our nation.
Jay
Jay
Don’t forget to tell your RageBook Uncle where his political donations wound up,……..
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Raven: On the 405? Yuck.
MagdaInBlack
@Mary G:
???
Thank you !
?
frosty
Thank you John Cole for this blog and to all my fellow commenters and lurkers. You help keep me sane and fighting.
Jay
Remember? The guy with the shady mystery years in Russia, the National Security Clearance granted with no vetting, and all the Russian Ogliarch buddies?
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
Paul Newman earned his happiness. The money came along for the ride. Different than say bloomberg.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Just looked at the traffic, the 405 looks pretty good. It’s a miracle!
Ruckus
@feebog:
Frontier has been the best service I’ve ever had.
However and it’s a big however it is all fiber optic in my area. You can get from 50/50 to 1t/1t service here. I have 200/200 and it’s more than adequate for normal house service. If your area doesn’t have all fiber optic service I have no idea how good it would be.
mrmoshpotato
@Skepticat: Sorry to hear that. Let us know how we can help from afar.
Jay
Redshift
Happy Thanksgiving, all! We went to my parents for the day. My sister and niece are in town from Louisiana, my brother is local, and my cousin and aunt stopped by after dinner.
Our contribution was veggies and dip before dinner, and potatoes/onions/peppers roasted with olive oil. Everyone liked them, and all of the other traditional dishes were good, as always. Everyone behaved and things were pleasant. (I don’t have any maga types in the family, but some years dad gets cranky and makes things unpleasant; not this year.)
realbtl
Just finished up my single old fart’s T day, 6 friends, simple food and good times. Wishing the same to the jackals.
Redshift
Jay
Judging from y’all’s posts, the Leftie/Democratic War on Thanksgiving isn’t going all that well.
dogs inc.
@debbie: Oprah!
Miss Bianca
@Skepticat: Happy Thanksgiving! Glad for the update, sorry to hear about the devastation.
Miss Bianca
@Mary G: LOL!!
Jay
On the bright side:
The Brexiteers are diving into the deepend with out their water wings,…….
You seen this, Tony Jay?
Jay
Renie
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Glad to find out I’m not the only one who has HoneyBaked spiral ham on Thanksgiving. It’s a tradition since none of us like turkey!!! Love their chocolate cake but they always run out so fast.
Jay
oldgold
The gaslighting is getting worse.
The Trump’s campaign is attacking The Washington Post with a bizarre claim.
@TeamTrump
· Nov 27
Washington Post claims – without evidence – that @realDonaldTrump shared a “doctored” photo. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1199734452672446464
Citizen Alan
@Jay: The comments were nauseating. The most disgusting thing about living in 21st century America as we draw closer to Christmas is the universal belief that “successful” is just a synonym for “unbelievably rich.”
“A man cannot serve two masters or else he will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”
Villago Delenda Est
Hear hear, John Cole. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the jucitariat.
Kayla Rudbek
@Jay: nitrogen gas shouldn’t have any odor/smell at all. I would bet that there was something wrong with how the beans were cleaned and there was some sort of contamination present.
John Revolta
@Kayla Rudbek: I was thinking this myself. Air is what, 80% nitrogen? Unless these people walk around smelling dirt all the time, there’s got to be something else going on.
Fair Economist
@Jay: The “dirt” smell comes from certain soil bacteria which can live on food. The sealed bag is probably the key issue, not nitrogen, because the responsible bacteria do fine in air. I get the smell when I pour boiling water in my sink; they can grow in the food scraps in my garbage disposal. The boiling water kills them and releases the smell.
Wiki says acids will break down the components; I’ve never tried because it’s not in the food I’m planning to eat.
Jay
@Kayla Rudbek:
I looked it up. Apparently there is a small number of people to whom nitrogen smells like either dirt or plastic. Because they are using it as a “preservative”, excluding O2, that doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be anything “off” with the beans.
It’s apparently like “the cilantro” effect. SWIMBO says cilantro tastes fresh, clean, citrusy. To me it tastes like Ivory Snow Soap, fresh or cooked.
http://camcarb.com/food-packaging.html
Jay
@Fair Economist:
the thing is, if the soil bacteria are present enough to make even the cooked beans smell like dirt, well then the beans started off as 90% compost, and that’s visible, ( brown spots, black spots, white fur, yellow dots) and readily apparent texturally, ( slimy, gooey paste).
firm clean green beans that still have snap in them, will never smell like dirt, even when partially covered by dirt from the garden.
tybee
@Raven:
looks like a cow nose ray
zhena gogolia
@Skepticat:
I am so sorry!