Michael Ramirez
To continue where we left off for recipes, rites and memories, here’s an open thread to expand on the day’s theme.
Football isn’t the only game to be watched this day. For a lot of families this will be the first gathering mixing branches over a table eleven months after Hope-n-Change blew into Washington. Will you be asking your illiberal Democrat members how its going for them? Do you hold your tongue to hold the peace? Will you sit at the dining table reading Going Rogue? How much different will be their attitude from last year? Or will you rub it in?
More Thanksgiving linkies:
The gals of The Cotillion gather onsite with yummy recipes
Michelle Malkin offers up several videos from our troops
Scott at Powerline posts on one of the forgotten lessons of the Pilgrims at Plymouth – one we are poised to repeat.
Redstate posts the best ever Thanksgiving comedy bit of television history — WKRP in Cincinnate’s “Turkey Drop”. “With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
Comment by Joe on 11/26 @ 10:22 am #
Thank you Darleen. Thank you Jeff. Thanks to all regular and balanced PW commentators and readers.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/26 @ 10:36 am #
What Joe said.
Well…except for the “balanced” commentator part.
But I’m working on that with my therapist.
Comment by Joe on 11/26 @ 11:06 am #
Lamont, I was thinking of certain other commentators (aka trolls).
Comment by Pablo on 11/26 @ 11:10 am #
Thanks to all of you for being thought provoking, funny and most of all relatively sane. Y’all are fine company, except for some of you and you know who you are.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/26 @ 11:27 am #
Thank you for hanging in there Darleen I know I’m not always unabrasive. Happy Thanksgiving to you and also to Mr. Jeff.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/26 @ 11:27 am #
My wife flipped me the bird this morning.
Anyway, Happy Bird Day to everyone here at PW.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/26 @ 11:51 am #
Who is this Jeff fellow you speak of? Is he a troll or something?
Comment by Joe on 11/26 @ 12:08 pm #
This is an pretty simple but very good Thanksgiving dinner.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/26 @ 12:11 pm #
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Count your blessings, God Bless you and yours, and safe travels to those doing so. All the best-Bob
Comment by Adriane on 11/26 @ 12:39 pm #
May all the non-companion turkeys in your life be served on a platter with stuffing and surrounded by casseroles and pie.
I give thanks for Jeff’s patience and Darleen’s hard work and the wit, analytical abilities, even the simple goodness of the many commenters here.
Comment by dicentra on 11/26 @ 12:59 pm #
Taking a cue from an old Orson Scott Card essay (YOU google it), I would like to observe that the least among us lives better than the Pharaohs of Egypt because of the following:
hot and cold running water
flush toilets
electric lights (electric everything)
refrigeration
air conditioning
internal-combustion engines
airplanes
central heating
antibiotics
anesthesia
transistors and circuit boards
telecommunication
etc.
Not to mention the fact that most of our ancestors didn’t have the following privileges:
democratic elections
free markets
freedom of religion, assembly, and speech
property rights
citizenship, instead of being a subject
rule of law (BIG. ONE.)
education
career paths
Given those two lists above (and given what I’ve left off), there is no reason for any American, no matter what his situation, to complain for 10 seconds about anything. Ever.
And yet I’m grateful to the Protein Wisdom community for the opportunity it provides to whinge, gripe, carp, and expound most tendentiously on subjects large and small.
God Bless America.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/26 @ 1:12 pm #
I thought this Thanksgiving Day mini “G-File” from Jonah Goldberg was particularly awesome and folds in nice with what dicentra said.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/26 @ 1:12 pm #
The ancient Egyptians also did not have big fat turkeys. The genetically modified ones that are widely praised for their tastiness.
Mmmmmmm…Thanks Butterball Corporation!
Comment by Darleen on 11/26 @ 1:27 pm #
dicentra
I’ll take one good, honest plumber over any number of Womyn’s Studies professors any day of the week!
Comment by SGT Ted on 11/26 @ 1:56 pm #
I’m smoking a 16 lb bird stuffed with quartered onions, garlic cloves and celery. SGT Babe made a chocolate peanut butter pie, a chocolate silk pie and artichoke fritata.
Blessings on you all and thanks for the thought provoking posts throughout the years.
Comment by Joe on 11/26 @ 2:02 pm #
I liked Jonah’s article. Having been in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Autralia for past Thanksgivings, you can still have a great time and still make it Thanksgiving. Football (the real kind) may be nonexistant. Turkeys and pumkins hard to fine. But provided you have friends and family (or even a few wayward Americans) with you it can be great.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/26 @ 2:19 pm #
Happy Thanksgiving to all you racists, wingnuts, sexists, religionists and religionistas, homophobes, did I mention racists? and crusty old conservative war mongers! I love you all…in a platonic kind of way. But, seriously, Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for trying to hang on to an America worth hanging on to. I do sometimes despair that the weak willed, spineless relativists have won, but this place continues to give me hope (ha!). And Jeff, if you’re lurking, best of luck my friend. Happy Thanksgiving and know that you have fans. I’m hoisting a single malt, as I type, in your honor. All the best, Mr. Goldstein. All the best!
Comment by JD on 11/26 @ 2:39 pm #
Happy Thanksgiving from the mountains of Utah.
Comment by sdferr on 11/26 @ 2:55 pm #
“five kinds of pie.”
Thanks to you, sailors and airmen. And thanks to you too, General P. You all do us proud.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/26 @ 3:13 pm #
You guys are all great. Happy Thanksgiving.
Comment by Joe on 11/26 @ 3:33 pm #
Stalker in Chief Andrew Sullivan pledges to fight Sarah Palin forever:
Why I Worry
And why I will not relent on Palin and the danger she represents:
“The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions — racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war — which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action … [H.G. Wells] was, and still is, quite incapable of understanding that nationalism, religious bigotry and feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than what he himself would describe as sanity.”
And we appease or ignore those forces at our peril.
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I fear one day we will be discussing Andrew Sullivan’s danger signs as we are doing now with Nidal Hassan.
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost! on 11/26 @ 4:20 pm #
Some more Thanksgiving goodness from Johnny Carson… now with less Andy Sullivan!
Comment by cynn on 11/26 @ 5:35 pm #
Bear in mind that Thanksgiving is just one big gravy delivery system.
Comment by TmjUtah on 11/26 @ 5:40 pm #
I give thanks that I know what freedom is, and isn’t.
Can’t fight for what you don’t understand. Fight well, at least…
and thanks, Jeff, for giving us this forum.
Comment by newrouter on 11/26 @ 6:15 pm #
see the homepage of Prof. Mann of mann made warming fame. nice tree specimens professor
here
related:
“There are some problems still. I note that 1032 is not cold in Yamal.
Seems odd. Is it cold in *all* of the three chronologies at issue?
Or did a reindeer crap next to one of the trees?”
here
Comment by JD on 11/26 @ 7:04 pm #
I sure wish I knew how to get in touch with TMJ and dicentra. Hint. Hint.
Comment by newrouter on 11/26 @ 7:39 pm #
“But slashing carbon dioxide emissions also could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Government regulation of health care justifies government regulation of the environment: Ingenious!”
here
Comment by McGehee on 11/26 @ 7:48 pm #
I’m thankful my wife finally got home from having to work on Thanksgiving, so we could go have Thanksgiving dinner at Cracker Barrel, because I was really tired of tasting yesterday’s damn hot dog.
Comment by dicentra on 11/26 @ 7:59 pm #
Geez, JD, I was gonna say.
But there’s this little problem: I’m in the Boise area for the holidays. My mom and 2 sisters live there.
Whereabouts in the mountains, BTW? Somewhere nice, I hope.
Comment by TmjUtah on 11/26 @ 8:04 pm #
tmjutahAThotmail.etc Baddabing!
Comment by JD on 11/26 @ 8:34 pm #
Dicentra – I am at my little brother’s place in Park City @ The Canyons ;-). I lurv Utah, bigtime.
Comment by JD on 11/26 @ 8:37 pm #
TMJ – If you are anywhere near here, I would enjoy meeting up.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/26 @ 8:39 pm #
“Comment by cynn on 11/26 @ 5:35 pm #
Bear in mind that Thanksgiving is just one big gravy delivery system.”
And mine fucking ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by cynn on 11/26 @ 10:25 pm #
As an agnostic, I have to count my blessings continuously, or they might disappear. Here’s wishing you all the best, and hold your loves tight.
Comment by dicentra on 11/26 @ 11:05 pm #
JD:
Park City is beautiful. Are you going to ski opening day tomorrow?
I worked at Deer Valley (ticket office) for one season. Lived in Heber because I couldn’t afford Park City. I’d drive to work just as the sun rose and get home as it was setting. Delicate pink, blue, and orange hues all around, and all the creeks and ditches were lined with bright-red-wooded shrubs.
We had a few skiing days at –30°F (1998-99). People could do one, maybe two runs before having to thaw out in the lodge.
Comment by dicentra on 11/26 @ 11:05 pm #
I lied. That was the 1988-89 season. Before global warming :D
Comment by geoffb on 11/27 @ 12:49 am #
Happy Thanksgiving, I hope everyone had full plates and homes.
I worked from 4pm to 1am but since both my wife and I have little family left and our friends are scattered to the 4 corners of the USA, it is a quiet day here. I’m fixing our turkey on Sunday to have after Church.
I feel blessed in too many ways to recount in less than essay form. As an early present to all I will refrain from doing so.
And an OT, Howard Dean: Health Care Bill Is “Bad For This Country”, “Republicans are right.”
Comment by B Moe on 11/27 @ 6:26 am #
Boy Howdy. Talk about a profound lack of self-awareness.
Comment by Carin on 11/27 @ 6:50 am #
So jealous of JD.
Sigh.
We don’t have any snow here yet.
I’ve got new skies! I wants to try them OUT.
Comment by McGehee on 11/27 @ 7:40 am #
There wasn’t much gravy on my meal at the Barrel — but we’re heading to the mother-in-law’s today and will feast there tomorrow. She always comes through with the true Southern beverage.*
*I suspect the lack of gravy here in Coweta County last night was because here it isn’t gravy that’s a beverage, but mayonnaise. Fortunately there was no way to justify mayo on last night’s dinner.
Comment by KingShamus on 11/27 @ 8:04 am #
The few libs in my family were quiet as a church mouse. I’m having an after-Thanksgiving get together today with some people and the leftists that will attend that shin-dig are a lot more mouthy. That should be fun.
Comment by sdferr on 11/27 @ 8:42 am #
KA-WHAM-wham! We just got the sonic boom of the Shuttle returning to Kennedy Space Center. The house didn’t so much shake as suddenly move a quarter inch southwest on its foundation.
Comment by Danger on 11/27 @ 9:18 am #
Giving thanks downrange: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=T0o91z6J41Sc&PBID=38d9706d-802f-4102-821a-db2745ae54a8&skip=
Hope you all had a blessed day.
Comment by -Ed. on 11/27 @ 11:09 am #
My family is chock full of Obama acolytes, so it shocked me yesterday to hear several of them make Obama the butt of several after-dinner jokes. That never happened before. Of course, to cleanse their palates after uttering such jokes, they immediately brought Sarah Palin’s evil uterus into the conversation.
Comment by Darrell on 11/27 @ 2:32 pm #
Happy Thanksgiving American friends!
D in Canada
Comment by LTC John on 11/27 @ 11:39 pm #
Danger, I hope you were treated well for Thanksgiving – KBR can pull out all the stops for just such a day.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/27 @ 11:49 pm #
why did the turkey cross the mall?
cuz bobby orr’s skates ensure quick death
Comment by Danger on 11/28 @ 2:31 am #
LTC John,
They put on a pretty good spread and brought in some entertainers including Aaron Tippen, so it was a good day.
Comment by Danger on 11/28 @ 6:46 am #
A heartfelt post by Doc Zero:
“First, thank God for the Navy SEALs accused of punching out that Iraqi terrorist.”
Read the rest:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-to-the-necessary-men/