Giving thanks will cost more this year:
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Last year set the record for the most expensive Thanksgiving on record – and on Joe Biden’s watch, that record is set to be eclipsed once again this year.
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In fact, prices have increased so much for that for the first-time ever it will be cheaper to dine out for Thanksgiving, as Wells Fargo food and agribusiness analyst Brad Rubin calculated.
Back in the early days of the Biden administration, they tried to preempt inflation concerns by assuring the American public that the price of a Fourth of July cookout had declined an entire sixteen cents in 2021 from the year before in a widely-mocked tweet.
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I will never be convinced a majority of this country is dumb enough to vote for a candidate that never left his basement and was startled to learn he’d “won”.
We started paying the price for his – and his party’s – corruption a long time ago, and it continues today. Enjoy your turkey and stuffing (or tamales, or whatever your tradition is) this year. We’ll see what’s available and affordable next year.
I didn’t see a “balanced meal” in the fridge, so I decided to just put together several things: a corndog, a helping of sweet potatoes, and a small garden salad that just needed a few grape “maters” sliced onto it. I liked it! So I’ll have to try unconventional pairings like that one more often.
I still occasionally make my great-grandmother Sadie’s spice pie. It is essentially the same recipe as buttermilk pie, but with more cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.
My buttermilk pie came out of the over all pretty and just the right shade of brown on top. Smells good too. But my willpower will just have to prevail. Ball game is going ok, but I think it’s actually bedtime. You all have a good evening now. Hope we get some of that sleet and snow we’ve been promised.
Wife just picked up a bunch of pies to pass out to clients from Flying Saucer today, got us a cheesecake man is it tasty. Garage fridge is full of them it’s going to take courage to leave them alone.
Man, I could use a big hot piece of homemade pecan pie with some Blue Bell vanilla on it right now.
ESPN has always been a tool of Satan.
#77 – When ESPN said they would pay for a week night broadcast. In other news, I got stir crazy waiting on the football game to start, so I checked out my recipe, gathered up all the stuff, and popped an easy buttermilk pie into the oven. Even washed up all the measuring cups and such. Ziggy (my Alexa Echo)… Read more »
So when did college football start playing on week days?
I’ll bet the following would not get slapped with a “sensitive” content label by FB.
Only broccoli stinks up the house worse than Brussels sprouts, but they are neck and neck.
There’s a Verboten sign on both of my entry doors.
A friend tagged me in FB, and FB covered the post with a “sensitive content, you may not want to see this” cover on it.
It was a script: “Be still and know that I am God.”
Hoe. Lee. Crap.
Tedtam – I grew up in a one horse town that only had 2 TV stations… There were lots of programs I never saw until I went away to college because they were on the network we didn’t have. Howdy Doody, Combat, Hogan’s Heroes just to name a few… Which was actually a blessing – Hogan’s Heroes was one of… Read more »
The last of of the cast from “Hogan’s Heroes” has passed away. Robert Clary portrayed Cpl. Louis LeBeau on “Hogan’s Heroes.” The little Frenchman who could win the war with his cooking. I guess it’s the end of another era. I grew up watching HH, with a crush on Bob Crane, then Richard Dawson. Just one more reminder…oh, never mind.… Read more »
I can assure you that I have nothing against mutton (unless it is served cold).
But if I go to anyplace claiming to be a steak house, I ain’t ordering no sheep, Bubba.
48
Lillie frikin Langtry? Really?
Well I’ll be.
Aldi had celery and cranberries on sale. Cranberries can be worked into a keto diet, carefully, so I bought some. They’re in the fridge and the celery has been loaded into the oven to dry. We had salmon, brussels sprouts roasted and then cooked in a cream sauce, and asparagus for dinner. Hubby doesn’t normally go for the sprouts, but… Read more »
Got up from my nap and it was almost dark already outside. Plus was drizzly and cold. So after I got the backyard critters set for their supper, I came in and made a cup of hot cocoa. Warmed me up and slightly delayed when I’d be hungry.
Had my usual dinner of cheese burger patty and some sliced mater. Topped it all off with a dab of left over chili which is good for a cold and dreary day. Possible sleet and/or snow here tonight, but I’m betting against it. Now if I could just go tune in a football game I’d be just fine, but the… Read more »
I need a little Fanny. Lead singer sounds a little like Geddy Lee. The drummer style reminds me of Ginger Baker but that is about where that ends.
64 TexMo My son-in-law has been shopping for a new job. His problem is he’s a stock analyst on Wall Street, fairly high profile, and as he says, “Analysts are all overpaid for what we do.” He’s in a trough where lots of people want to hire him, but nobody wants to match or exceed his salary and plenty want… Read more »
#66 – I fully ‘get’ my analogy was a s t r e t c h at best
All I had on short notice! 🙂
I don’t want to be in either of those wastelands!
61 Katfish
Actually, NYC isn’t a good comparison to San Fransicko.
On the West Coast, it’s all about dodging urine, feces and comatose, stoned trannies in the street.
On the East Coast, it’s about stabbings, shootings and carjackings by gangbangers in broad daylight.
Choose your poison and your weapons !
I’m still enjoying the knashing of teeth by the Dems and liberals over everything going on a Twitter right now.
I just love recruiters that reach out to me with opportunities that pay 25% less than my current salary.
I’ve skimmed the manual for the wood burning stove several times, but I haven’t read it. Now I have to read it to understand the dampers and their position for start up, how to open it up to make it burn hotter, or close it down to cool it down. I’ll do my first test burn tomorrow morning. I’ll have… Read more »
I’ve suffered some minor bouts of insomnia this week and I’m tired. However, for some reason I couldn’t fall back asleep after my 6am alarm to take some medication so I climbed out of bed at 7am. Our house is a wreck with all the remodeling going on. We started cleaning this morning to make it livable again. We made… Read more »
#60 – All except for being in NYC aka the San Francisco of the East!
That Keens in NYC sounds like a tremendous dining experience.
#58
Don’t worry SuperDave. She’s just another liberal singer with all of the liberal baggage. I actually like some of her music, however, I do not go out of my way to find her stuff on Spotify nor do I keep up with her.
Watching the tube, so who is Taylor Swift and why should I care?
The Keen’s Steakhouse link worked fine for me on the first click.
Squawk, sounds like a deal to me.
#s 52 & 54 – NOW it works! Friggin interwebs!
Quick Drive-By; Here is a particularity disgusting commercial that showed up a while back; Colace
FWIW; It’s on TV and when it first started my wife couldn’t believe they’d put out something that gross on TV…Oh and you’re welcome. 😀
#52 – Actually tried all of them – the 1st try you saw the result above
the rest ‘TIMED out’
Sort of had a little nap-ette. Never actually dozed off but floated around in never never land for about 15 minutes. About got all my T’giving supplies in place. I’d like to start cooking a little bit, but I’m still afraid that I might decide to sample some of the output, and that would not be a god thing. I’m… Read more »
Katfish
Which link. They all work for me.
Re: Marriage act Reading Katfish comment #49 really is quite revealing. This marriage act is a direct attack on the church. There are still churches (I will not say denominations) that stand for traditional marriage and will not bend. We know what is coming, every conservative church in the US will be targets for the “Bakers Delight” lawsuits we have… Read more »
#48 – Your steakhouse linky resulted in:
Tried DDG search and no luck there either
#42 – Potential “workaround”?
Churches can cease performing ANY marriages! (on church property at least)
Pastor’s, Priests etc could make clandestine arrangements w happy couples to hitch ’em in their own homes in private………………I know pretty outlandish and if ANYONE has loose lips it wouldn’t work for long of course…
Texpat Okay man when I come up I will stop by and visit. We gotta make trip to Keens Steakhouse, home of over 90,000 clay pipes. I’ll flip ya to see who buys lunch. Ms Nicola White mudlarks the River Thames and collects pipes she finds in the mud. Anyway she visited New York and Keens. Here is a really… Read more »
RE: my #44 Remember the scandal when Methodist Hospital’s lung transplant program had all kinds of problems and received bad publicity nationwide: There was a reason Biscamp’s doctors initially sent him to Methodist. A year earlier, in 2012, the hospital performed a staggering 143 lung transplants, making it the busiest program in America. The hospital’s willingness to travel farther for… Read more »
Joni Ernst of Iowa
What a disappointment she is; almost as bad as Eyepatch McCain.
RE: my #42 These are the twelve Republican senators who betrayed conservatism and the rights of religious freedom for Americans by voting for the ridiculously named “Respect for Marriage Act”: Susan Collins of Maine Rob Portman of Ohio Thom Tillis of North Carolina Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Mitt Romney of Utah Roy Blunt of Missouri Richard Burr of North Carolina… Read more »
There is a story out there about a patient being rejected by Methodist Hospital in Houston’s Transplant Center for a lung transplant because the patient is not vaccinated.
And then we have this from The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation:
COVID-19 Vaccine Triggered Rejection in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
Don’t forget “diarr-I ahhh”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6oVJUWB54I
The fighting war for liberty and freedom never ends. Get ready for this. Mark Tapscott at PJMedia The occasion for this teachable moment is the “Respect for Marriage Act” now before the Senate. Democrats claim the proposal is required to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide, even though the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015 did precisely that. The House passed a similar… Read more »
EG, I guess I’m anti-up-to-date, but I don’t need all those controls. Night-time lighting downstairs is no biggie, because I have several low-wattage night lights plugged directly into sockets in rooms where the cats need to see to get to their litter boxes, water bowls, or favorite snoozing spots. During daylight, those bulbs turn themselves off. I have little reason… Read more »
The most annoying ad person for my demographic is the Progressive Insurance lady.
Now that’s someone I’d like to put on an antifreeze regimen.
I just shared the “Return to Tradition” link with my Carmel Light group, and have run up against what we see in the political realm – those that refuse the information because it doesn’t match their ingrained liberal beliefs.
No, it isn’t “trash talking” if there’s proof, no matter how shattering it may be to your sheeple inclinations.
#30- Spam calls DECREASED?????????????????
WHEN and on WHICH Planet???
I field more SPAMMER calls than I make or receive WORK calls darn near EVERY DAY!
*NO SMILEY*