There may be another one tonight, but five and a half hour car rides tend to be draining.
Also: there is only one really noticeable improvement done to a turkey by deep frying it, but it’s a doozy: you get crispy skin everywhere. This can mean the difference between peace and war at the Thanksgiving table, so it’s nothing to sneeze at.
The actor died Friday, at the age of 81. Mr. Hagman is best known for his central role in I Dream of Jeanie, Dallas, and helping to smash a wooden stake through the festering Commie heart of the murderous, tyrannical Ceausescu regime:
The best way to coordinate Thanksgiving dinner among the inlaws was to have it this afternoon. So, delay on turkey; but it’s gonna be a deep-fried turkey, which makes up for it.
Or the house will burn down. Guess we’ll see, huh?
Hey, guess what? Barack Obama’s not running for anything any more! Which means that he officially no longer has to care about progressive sensibilities.
President Barack Obama’s fundraising advisers have urged the White House to accept corporate donations for his January 2013 inaugural celebration rather than rely exclusively on weary donors who underwrote his $1 billion re-election effort.
People involved in his re-election campaign said White House staff and campaign advisers have been debating whether to accept corporate money to stage the events but haven’t made a final decision.
Continue reading Barack Obama ‘thinking’ of backing off of no-corporate-money for Inauguration.
…so far that I’m having trouble figuring out why it wasn’t canceled after a single season. It’s like the writers HATE the Idiot Plot, like the idea of using visual cues to allow you to keep track of what’s going on, and think that ‘subtle’ is preferable to ‘beat you over the head’ when it comes to revealing things.
I’m pretty sure that all of the above violates union rules, or somethin.
Everybody be well. Even the trolls.
Posting… will be erratic.
…aw, you know the rest. This is the greatest Thanksgiving moment in 20th Century American television. Well, one of the top five, at least.
I’d link to the show on Amazon, only they were forced to gut the DVD. No rights to use the music past the original broadcast/syndication run, you understand – and it was done back in the day when VHS was just taking off, so nobody really thought that this would be an issue later.
H/T: Constant reader Herp McDerp.
Now that he’s resigned it… how’s about trying to, maybe, I don’t know: win it?
Hold on, hear me out. Let’s jump back for a second to 2009. You might remember that in 2009 Rahm Emanuel resigned his House seat (IL-05) in order to bungle being White House Chief of Staff. Well, that caused a special election to trigger, and at the time I took the position that hey, how’s about trying to, maybe, I don’t know: win it? …And I was told, quietly but firmly, no. Folks didn’t like the candidate, didn’t like the idea of spending the money, didn’t want to contest the seat. And that’s fine; but here’s the thing. The Democrat who won (Mike Quigley) the primary was cordially hated by the rest of the Illinois Combine, and the general election he beat Rosanna Pulido, 30.6K to 10.6K. Two years later, Quigley’s opponent David Ratowitz got 38.9 K votes in the 2010 general election. Didn’t matter then, because Quigley got 108.3K votes… but it shows that there were in fact enough potential Republican voters in the IL-05 to win a low-turnout special election, if sufficiently motivated. Continue reading I have a radical suggestion about Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s vacated IL-02 seat.
I submit that remembering this detail may be wise.
Neighbors are on the offensive in Brookline after what some residents are describing as aggressive turkeys.
“They were attacking the vehicle,” Karen Halvorson said outside her home in the Aspinwall Hill neighborhood.
After getting in her truck, a neighbor came and ran the birds off but it didn’t stop there.
“Then, the turkeys came and started attacking my front door,” she said.
Wild turkeys also aren’t dumb. Roast a couple and the rest will get the hint. And if you’re worried about guns… well. Recurve bows are legal in Massachusetts; more to the point, they’re a lot quieter than a gun is. Not that I’m suggesting that anybody go out at midnight and take out a few of the more stroppy birds with a bow. Or get a pickup truck with a camper shell, take some bread, toss it in the back, drive to where the turkeys are. open up the back gate, wait for the turkeys to climb into the truck, close the back gate, then drive somewhere quiet to shoot the turkeys with an air rifle*.
I’m not suggesting any of that at all. I’m suggesting that MA change the laws so that you can shoot the damn things.
Moe Lane
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RT @drudge_report: Neighborhood On Alert As Aggressive Wild Turkeys Attacking Residents drudge.tw/10wbWJb Brookline, MA
— Sissy Willis (@SissyWillis) November 22, 2012
*This also works with Canada geese. Or so I have been told.
On the suddenly-dead talking point about Rubio and the age of the Earth (spoiler warning: it’s pretty much the same thing as what Barack Obama said about the age of the Earth, which is why it’s a suddenly-dead talking point):
Scientists say with 99 percent certainty that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Politicians such as Rubio and Obama instead say with 100 percent certainty that the Earth is at least some number of years old and that they like winning elections.
…You don’t say?
