Gratitude is the Answer – Thanksgiving Day Open Comments
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Happy Thanksgiving Folks.
And Mornin’ Gang
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Morning gang and Happy Thanksgiving. My crew all showed up last evening, ate a hearty dinner, ad despite teir best efforts were unable to polish off all the desserts. They didn’t even touch one of the buttermilk pies. I credit that to their consumption of a full half gallon of Blue Bell along the way, and I’ll say they did make a big dent in everything. We all enjoyed a movie called Rams (which cost $4 on amazon which I thought was outrageous).
Anyway, here’s the Mid-Week in Pictures for your review. Got to get going on breakfast before they all get up., https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/midweek-in-pictures-special-thanksgiving-day-edition.php
BTW, there’s a storm blowing through, and not sure if they will want to go out to the Bend General Store for dinner and then to the Colorado Bend State Park. We’ll have to scrounge around here since the stores are all closed. I know, chili cheese dogs with home made chili – that sounds like an All American Thanksgiving meal. Have a great day you all.
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I am grateful for so much. My family here for starters, and the privilege of knowing them that are with us no longer. Food for the table, a roof over my head, a living husband and, of course, my children and grandchildren. I have a car that works so I can get up and go when I want and enough money to take care of my needs. But most of all, I have a loving God and Savior who watches over me in his time and in bad.
I am grateful. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, including any lurkers.
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2 Shannon
Checking the family tree…
Anybody that good looking has to be related to us.
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I am grateful for Squawkbox. He is the Man.
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It’s apparently been shadow-banned by Big Tech and I don’t remember seeing this in 2016, but Michael Moore made a video for Donald Trump during the campaign.
Did you know that ? I didn’t.
Watch it here. It’s quite powerful and being Michael Moore includes a number of F-Bombs.
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Happy Thanksgiving y’all.
Been grounded for the day because of rain but that is okay. BSue and I have cobbled together a semi-traditional Thanksgiving meal so we will get by.
I hope y’all have a blessed thanksgiving with whoever you are with, wherever you are.
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Think I’ve enjoyed this Thanksgiving tune as long as I can remember……..
SING it Arlo!!!
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Just like that. One third of Methodist churches rebel against the Woke UMC and they are gone.
Nearly one-third of the congregations belonging to a regional body of The United Methodist Church have left the mainline Protestant denomination amid its ongoing debate over homosexuality.
At a special called session of the UMC North Carolina Conference Saturday, delegates voted 957-165 to approve the disaffiliation votes of 249 congregations seeking to leave the denomination.
According to a statement from the North Carolina Conference, the number of departing congregations represented 32% of the regional body’s member churches and about 22% of its membership.
“The future is bright, especially because God has something to do with it,” said North Carolina Bishop Leonard E. Fairley.
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OH BTW Shannon you mentioned pulling the string on getting a Mac. Today BESTBUY online and tomorrow in store they have the best prices going on Macs. I saved $200 on a Macbook Air basic model.
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This is Dennis Prager’s PragerU Fireside Chat about Gratitude. It is, without saying, wonderful stuff. It’s 31 minutes long, but you can listen to it while you are getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Otto the Bulldog has a supporting role.
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Here is your bizarre story for today. Drunken Secret Service agent attacks and brutally beats an Israeli woman in Jerusalem for no reason.
The Israeli woman allegedly assaulted in July by an off-duty Secret Service agent — who was in Jerusalem to prep for President Biden’s visit — filed a civil lawsuit Monday.
Tamar Ben Haim brought the case in DC federal court against the unidentified agent over the July 12 attack, which took place in an alleyway while she was walking home around 1 a.m.
The 30-year-old graphic designer says the man — who she saw had a gun — “began hitting and slapping her” and she thought “that these were her last moments on Earth.”
The man “held Tamar tightly, hit her on her chest, repeatedly, slapped her, causing her earring and earphone to fall to the ground,” the court papers claim.
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Did you know that ? I didn’t.
NO! I guess it’s been hidden away by the Woke Crowd. It is quite compelling and 100% true, Michael Moore describing how all the normal people feel and why he was going to vote for Trump. Just damned amazing! How long did it take before the Woke crowd turned him around and got him back on the Reservation? FWIW; Michael Moore has always said he was for the little guy but his Communist/Progressive/Woke ideas always mucked it up. I also wonder how long it will take for that single post to be brought down?
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Good Morning, Gang… I’m thankful for this community, and how ya’ll share information, encouragement, and humor (twisted tho’ it may be)… Have a blessed day, friends ♥
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My all time favorite Thanksgiving joke.
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Super Dave
I tell ya what, I will grab the Henry 410 lever for ya if you will pick this up for me.
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Thanks, SQK.
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#11 Squawk, that is a beauty but my Piggy Bank isn’t near that large, if it was I would pull the trigger on this baby; 450 3 1/4″ Gibbs Double Rifle. I’ve been drooling over it ever since that Westley Richards 505 Gibbs Bolt Rifle popped up the other day. 😉
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I need to offer up my thanks for all of y’all that make this place so special by contributing, posting open comment threads, and making sure all the cogs and gears in the background keep on turning.
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Happy Thanksgiving Hamsters,
I hope the weather has not ruined long-made plans to celebrate. We had some rain overnight but not enough to wake us up and then a few drizzles this morning. However the forecast for later today is for rain, lots of rain in the Houston area, possibly 5-6″. Hope that is very wrong.
Three does and three bucks have visited us so far, not at the same time or in the same pasture. The does must now be off at a reindeer school getting ready for Christmas. The bucks are looking for them here and are not finding them, so they are hanging around and grazing before going off to look elsewhere. There is a mature buck with age-appropriate antlers and the two younger ones with not so full antlers that seem to follow him around.
I watched most of the parade this morning and found it very entertaining. A lot of hard work went into making it outstanding.
Spouse says he’s hungry now, so I shall put together the dinner we bought ingredients for yesterday.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all Couch Critters. I am thankful that The Couch has survived, even though we lost Hammy. Hope everyone enjoys this special day.
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Since the weather spoiled our birding outing tradition for Thanksgiving Day, God sent us some Ibis to our little subdivision out here in the woods… A couple adult white ones, and 4 or so mottled dark colored ones which I believe are juveniles… WOOOOO HOOOOO
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Since BSue and I got rained out for our Thanksgiving roadtrip we ran to the store and bought their discounted turkeys. Already thawed and ready to cook so we thought we were getting a good deal. that was till BSue unwrapped it and we found this. HOTDOGS yeah that is the ticket, we are gonna have hotdog for thanksgiving dinner.
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My black friend and his wife have been coming here for Thanksgiving for at least twenty years got a text from me.
Me: “I ordered a 24 lb. White Supremacist turkey and when I carved this bird up I realized they gave me an African American BOC. I’ve never seen so much dark meat on one turkey in my life.”
Him: “ROFLMAO.”
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Happy Thanksgiving all y’all. I hope you remembered to set your bathroom scales back 15 pounds last night.
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19 Squawk
It looks like you might have one of those non-binary, deranged bird peddlers running loose in Cut & Shoot.
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I had to turn on the a/c. Fortunately, the boiler is on a thermostat now, so I was able to adjust the temperature way down so we wouldn’t have the systems fighting each other. When I had to go out to the mechanical room to turn off the breaker, we’d sometimes forget to turn the other system off, and we’d have the boiler trying to warm up the house while the other was trying to cool it down. Love those utility bills!
The humidity is increasing and I’m getting busier. My internal comfort meter – or discomfort meter – is starting to move in the wrong direction, so it’s better if the house is too cold but dry so my body doesn’t feel uncomfortable.
Catholics on the Couch may want to check out Return to Tradition’s podcast today. I wish I could say I was shocked, but this papal resident stopped shocking me a while back. /spits
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Good rainy afternoon, and I do mean rainy. Coming down in sheets, puddles galore forming fast. Last night’s 10pm weather forecast for the Richmond area seemed to be for much too much rain, but the week’s rainfall predictions for today and through the weekend kept getting for more and more heavy rain. Well, it is here. Looking outside is like trying to see nearby homes through a rain/fog.
The overnight rainfall on the gauge was something like 0.40, but now it is reading 1.93 and is rising as fast as it can. A comment on the gauge is that “it is raining cats and dogs”. Nope, it was raining elephants and dinosaurs. It has slowed down again, and there is lighter sky to the west.
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#19 Squawk,
Good grief, what a nasty surprise. It looks like a leftover from Halloween.
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Hey Tedtam – thanx for the heads up about the ForJars thing – got 100 of each size, which should keep me for a little while 😉
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It’s been raining here all day. The group had a late breakfast and are headed to the Bend General Store. The State Park was a wash out. Before they left the loaded up on buttermilk pie, apple dump cake, and Blue Bell, so they should not be too hungry out there. My fall back dinner is chili cheese dogs made with home made chili and Ball Park dogs, so there will be no one ging hungry around here. So far I’ve managed to avoid the carbs and all the desserts. The cornbread was hard to pass up too, but I did. I have enjoyed cooking for everyone and trying to be a good host. I’d like to think that I could one day rejoin in all the desserts and delicacies of the holiday, but alas, those days are over I’m afraid. I do feel better about it when I step on the scales every morning though.
It’s hard to explain, but if I fell off the carb/sugar wagon, it would take a good 2 weeks of will power just to get back on (ask me how I know this). I’m just better off not touching it in the first place.
Enjoy the rest of your evening. Today’s rain should clear tomorrow, and the group will want to head back out to do something I’m sure.
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Well Thanksgiving 2022 is Done! For the second year in a row it was just my wife and I for Thanksgiving so we thought about scaling back a little but I just have a hard time with that, although there were a few items missing from our usual table when kids are here. Brined oven baked turkey, fried squash, turnip greens, rice, dressing, giblet gravy and candied sweet taters. Daughter, sent her Mom a nice Fall centerpiece so it made the table look extra nice. Oh and we cranked up the A/C since it was 78 outside and the stove/oven was heating up the kitchen, doncha’ just love southern weather? 😉
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Oh and Texpat, thanks for the Brinning recipe. The turkey came out great, very moist and tender. I always start with a drumstick if one is available and it seemed more tender than usual and my wife commented on how moist the breast was.
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I was invited to do Thanksgiving next door at 80-Y.O. neighbor Ken’s house. Guests were his grown son and college-age granddaughter from Dallas, myself and another neighbor lady on our street, his BFF in Oak Forest, and his caretaker who lives in quarters inside his house. He had done all or most of the cooking himself, except for 4 store-bought pies. Most were very exotic, but I zeroed in on the top-notch pecan pie. He had roasted 3 chickens, each one stuffed with a different type of dressing. (I had the conventional cornbread stuffing, not even sure what the other 2 were.) He had baked sweet potatoes with other veggies — not sure what they were, but it was a tasty dish. Made a salad with green peas and a bunch of other stuff. I couldn’t identify most of what I ate, but it was all delicious.
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Our Thanksgiving feast was suitably filling… we had Spinach and Artichoke filled, bacon-wrapped chicken breasts (from Sam’s – and they are GOOOOOOOOOD)… green bean casserole (that I’d never made before), and baked sweet taters with nothing on ’em but butter…. and home-baked bread… and I am as stuffed as the Christmas goose!!!! Not an inch of room for Squawk’s Dutch Apple Pie – but the nite is young yet… Glad every-buddy seems to have had a safe and blessed Thanksgiving Day.
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I spent the afternoon processing food, since the fridge was overpacked. I had a lot of canning failures last night, which caught me by surprise, so I knew I needed to reprocess those jars. I made my curry chicken and finished filling the canner with those jars. While that was going on, I refilled Fred with more veggies. And cooked dinner.
Dinner was simple – a ham, buttered broccoli, and some whole cranberry sauce made with monkfruit sweetener instead of sugar. It actually came out rather well. We’ll have ham with eggs in the morning, I bet.
My timing was impeccable. Just as I was serving the plates, the timer went off for the canner. So I was able to eat dinner without worrying about the canning cycle. I have only a few jars that look like they’re going to fail this time. Not sure what’s wrong, but when they cool, those meats will be eaten or frozen. Maybe I missed a teeny tiny chip on the rims of the jars.
Handsome Son and LDIL invited us to join them at their house for a turkey dinner, but I’d already started loading the canner, and her in-laws are coming to visit them so they couldn’t come join us. Ah, well. Maybe next time.
I’ve been fighting ear popping and headaches all afternoon. Maybe a change in the air pressure as this weather moved in is sparking those symptoms, as well as louder tinnitis, especially in my right ear. Normally I can ignore it, but the electronic tones are louder than normal today. Again, weather related? And almost no sleep last night? Who knows.
The older I get, the more a mystery my body becomes. Where did this pain come from? How did I do that? And what will stop *that* symptom?
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A fine Thanksgiving Day it was.
Though if I had my druthers I would’ve been in New Jersey, or CutnShoot, or Fredericksburg, or Sugarland or Kerrville.
Bless you all.
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My eyes are shot for the night. I’ll post on the front page tomorrow. Use this till I get back.
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30 Tedtam – not being silly by pointing out the obvious… Did you have proper head-space? Did you wipe the rims with vinegar before putting the flat on? Raw pack, or cooked meat? And my usual failure cause when canning meat – was there too much grease/fat/oil in the jars?
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Football is on, and bedtime is near. A fabulous holiday with old friends.
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Fried turkey was a big success as always, it’s not the cook but the method. Had all the usual fare sans yams/sweet potato which was fine by me. Wife panics no longer having her mom, sister or aunt to ask for guidance on the dressing but it was fantastic.
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#32
I think it was headspace issues. Not sure the second time around, but most of the problem jars the first time sealed the second time – after I cleaned the rims thoroughly, of course, and used new lids.
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I was sitting here thinking about the days when I would sit with my 3 year old (who is now all growed up). We would watch hours and hours of cartoons and Sesame Street. What wonderful thoughts and memories. But as is usual my penchant for reality sets in to ruin my thoughtful bliss. So to get to the point am I the only person in the world that noticed “they” never tell us how to get to Sesame Street?
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I guess everybody is sleeping off the big meal. Time to get up and about, not sure what we’ll be doing today since we have rain heading this way but we need it and I can’t complain about the 70+ weather all week. Looking at the radar, the rain is just north of us with more coming in from the west. Now for coffee.
Mornin’ Gang
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#37 Squawk
We do now know though, that Oscar lived in the Astros dugout.
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Morning gang. I had some leg cramps last night, I supposed for being up running around all day. We watched football last night until bedtime, and that was about it. Looking rainy again today, so not sure exactly what might be in store. Sean likes to play chess, but he’s beat all of us so many times it’s not even funny. I hope you all have a great recovery day, and I’ll report in later as things develop.
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Here’s Ammo Grrrll. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/305084.php
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Lady on the neighborhood FB group asking if anyone else is having toilet flushing issues. We are all on our own septic systems. :shrugs:
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Ammo Grrrll,….WHAT THE,…….?
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#42 GJT 😀
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I allowed myself to sleep in, since I got about zero hours’ sleep the night before. Getting my coffee and steroids in – the breakfast of champions!
The arm is doing better, at least for now and since I’m still trying to protect it. I have some jars to can today, some leftover chicken curry that wouldn’t fit in the canner yesterday. But first, I need to upload my accountant’s Quickbooks file and then do payroll. Somewhere, some time today, I need to get some overdue exercise in as well.
Maybe Hubby and Handyman will pull my totes full of Santa Clauses out for me. Santa, nativity set, and Mortimer’s and Ferd’s Christmas hats are about all the Christmas decorating I do. The magic of having little ones around disappeared years ago. My Santa Claus collection brings me joy, the nativity scene reminds me to focus on the real reason for the upcoming Christmas season, and Mortimer and Ferd (and I think I have a hat for Moolissa, my goofy booted cow) in their Christmas attire makes me smile.
Onward!
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I’ve been watching videos of a lady named Stephanie Canada (“Yes, that’s my real name and no, I don’t live there!”). She specializes in buying/selling vintage dress patterns, and making them as well. She can be delightfully sarcastic, especially about her need to resize these old patterns to fit her plus size. I’m learning stuff about dress patterns and adjusting sizes.
Anyway, she thought she had picked a pattern for a 40’s Thanksgiving event she was joining that wouldn’t need to be resized (vintage pattern sizes are NOT the same sizes we see today on the shelf). But no, “it will still need to to resize, because I love tacos…and doughnuts….and little sprinkles cupcakes…”
Yeah, I feel that.
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Friday Open comments is open now.
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Well, I went out and checked the rain gauge, and w got a second inch or rain since I poured out 1″ from yesterday morning’s rains, so 2 inches is quite a bit of rain for out here. It’s been slow and steady, so it is a good soaking rain hopefully with some run off to recharge the stock tanks around which still need it. No flooding reported though.
I went to bed last night leaving behind a sink full of dishes which I seldom do, so this morning I attacked and loaded the dishwasher and made a pass through the kitchen wiping counters and clearing away crumbs and the like. The crew is mostly still in bed, but I’ll be ready to start breakfast to order when they begin stirring about.
Some good college football games on tap for today,so I may be ready to settle in about 11 this morning and become pretty worthless (or even more worthless than I already am). OK, you all have a good one, and I’ll be back around checking in with you later.
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This is a good corrective to the fake history peddled by American education for generations about Thanksgiving. It has been a sly fabrication that early pilgrims established a socialist collective on the shores of the New World. It was all a lie. You’ve most likely read other versions, but this is a concise piece by Richard J. Maybury.
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hard-working or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.
In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with “corruption,” and with “confusion and discontent.” The crops were small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable.”
In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, “all had their hungry bellies filled,” but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first “Thanksgiving” was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, “instead of famine now God gave them plenty,” Bradford wrote, “and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” Thereafter, he wrote, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.
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Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609–10, called “The Starving Time,” the population fell from five-hundred to sixty. Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth.
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