Turkey Day is upon us, friends. I’m about to make a last minute run to the good people at Kroger because I’m inexplicably out of Durkee fried onions, which are necessary for the green bean casserole. Shit, and I don’t have any rolls. Or paprika for deviled eggs. And I may as well get another gallon of milk. And I wonder if I can still buy a turkey today cheap as shit and throw it in the freezer. And I wond…dammit, I better stop before this turns into a full-fledged weekly shopping run.
Anyway, as the rest of the family sleeps, I will be slaving away on my Kroger trip and then by getting everything going in the kitchen. I absolutely love this day. I get to be the king of my house, especially the kitchen, and watch everybody be happy together, and those days will get rarer as the years go by. I hope y’all get the same feeling from today.
Quick sports update: Arizona lost to NC State in basketball last night. Probably the first big upset of the season. Notre Dame shocked Wichita State in a matchup of ranked teams. In hockey, Boston won in OT, The Canucks dropped the Pens, The Islanders won. The Rangers won. The Crapitals won and the Lightning downed the Blackhawks (sorry, Swissy). Across the pond in UCL games, Chelski won, Athletico beat Roma, Barca drew Juve, Bayern won, PSG won HUGE, and ManUre lost to Basel.
OK, that’s it for all that stuff. Besides, the real game this week doesn’t happen for one day twenty hours and 5 minutes or so. Go Bucks! Beat ❌ichigan! ⭕️????⭕️!
And now we come to…the links!
Wow, talk about an incredible coincidence. I mean…what are the odds? (TW: its about Baltimore)
Kathleen Sebelius, who incidentally looks like the chicken lady character from Kids In The Hall, is spilling the beans on the Clinton White House’s handling of sex harassment and assault claims against Slick Willy. So brave to come out 20 years or more later.
Angela Merkel, who incidentally looks like the bulldog Spike off the old Tom & Jerry cartoons (the Fred Quimby ones, not the Chuck Jones ones), is sinking in the polls faster than The Bismark. Gee, I can’t imagine why.
So, who do I root for in this situation? Oh, I know…nobody! First off, he’s a dumbass for sending dick pics. And she’s looking for her 15 minutes, in my opinion. But I will give him credit: at least he’s no culture warrior SoCon. In fact:
In 1998, amid the scandal over President Bill Clinton’s affair with a White House intern, Barton was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying, “I personally don’t care a fig about what he does in his bedroom with his wife or any other sexual partners he may have, but I do care if he lies under oath.”
Another day, another proposed tax hike on the residents of Chicago. This one is for the Parks Department to shore up its $462 million budget. That’s right, the Parks Department in Chicago has a $462 million budget. Nothing left to cut though, eh Rahm?
This is what happens when you have strict gun control and a corrupt government. And that’s why we should never, ever give up our 2A rights.
More of the week’s music. Because I dig The Warriors DJ vibe here. Plus the track just never slows down.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
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262 responses to “Thanksgiving Day Morning Afternoon Links”
Everybody in TurkeyLand–have a good one. Spend it in good cheer, family, food and drink.
Likewise. I am grateful for this site as well as the wit, wisdom, and snark regularly dished out.
And the boobs. Don’t forget the boobs.
All hail Q.
You’re right. We must always remember the boobs.
*blushes*
Happy Indigenous people’s Genocide day everyone. Make sure you stop by your local Indian reservation and apologize for stealing their land. Or something like that
A few years ago I spent a Thanksgiving evening on my local Indian reservation and lost about $200 in their casino, does that make up for my part?
I never got to kill any Siberian-Americans!
Nope. You think genocide can be forgotten for only $200?
Forgotten? No. Overlooked? Maaaaaybe . . .
I mean $200 of alcohol probably would result in that.
Douglas County (OR) is in deep financial shit and closed their public libraries as well as some other services. There was talk at one point of asking the Cow Creek Umpqua tribe to bail them out, and I was laughing my ass off at that prospect. Take that, palefaces!
I’ll have you know that I spent ALL DAY in the sun.
Warren Zevon has a song if the tribes are thinking they have issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6s5Kjw5BEQ
Out here we had the protests by the Hawaiians concerning Thanksgiving. This is the same group of people who in 1776 were having an internal war of conquest to establish an absolute monarchy. I’m supposed to feel sorry that shit went by the boards?
Once again, the Washington Monument approach. If the library system can’t have an excess staff on top and fully trained MLA degree holding librarians, the public can’t have anything. It’s a comunity library, it just needs a couple of retirees to stamp check outs and call the cops when the homeless bums get out of hand.
Oregon badly needs to end mandatory public union bargaining (along with land use planning and a host of nannystatism) but good luck with that in an increasingly dark blue state.
Also bullshit is recognizing those racist pseudo governments. Pay property taxes like every other tax cattle in the state muthafuckers.
They will just have to learn to live without the services then.
I didn’t steal anybody’s land. If I actually owned it, I wouldn’t be taxed on it.
The closest natives are about 2 miles away from me at the Pechanga reservation. It conveniently also has a casino. If my mother in law once again goes on endlessly about the virtues of Hillary Clinton then I may be spending some time there.
I am literally sitting on the sofa having a conversation with my Mother-in Law about Pechanga. And Barona. She’s a super nice lady. No Trump talk. ????
Oh, look here everbody! Mr. Big Shot here doesn’t hate his MIL!
He didn’t say that.
I like my in-laws. Also, my brother in law’s girlfriend is thicc.
Is it okay that my mil just irritates me but I don’t really hate her? She talks and talks and talks. Same 7 stories over and over. There should be a point after you’ve known someone for long enough that you shouldn’t feel uncomfortable with a minute or two worth of silence. Nope, apparently not
Frankly, I’m not even comfortable with people who don’t hate their wives.
Is an ex sufficient if you don’t have a current one?
Nothing disgusts me more than people who pretend to be friends with their exes. A real man burns all bridges and then nukes the other side.
I’d prefer a cheque over an apology personally, or at least the indeterminate percentage of me would.
In America it has to be determinate if you want that check.
You’re making the Metis in me angry, you wouldn’t like the Metis when they’re angry.
Bentley owner’s car subject to a hatchet attack in attempted carjacking .
Too bad it’s England and she can’t legally carry a gun.
Yeah if only there was some small, easily transportable tool that would assist in defending life and property.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bloody-attempt-kidnap-british-princess-180950202/
Here’s something you don’t hear every day
Make sure you stop by your local Indian reservation and
apologize for stealing their landbet it all on red.Nothing spells Thanksgiving like NWA.
Two sets of links. Proof that we need big government.
Boston won in a crazy shootout for the first time this year.
The goal McAvoy put in was fantastic.
I mourn these lynx.
Silent film stars posing with turkeys
I agree, film stars are better when they don’t talk.
I *am* big! It’s the pictures that got small.
Watched that a couple months ago. Still great.
Still one of my favorites.
Still waiting for our food to finish cooking – hopefully in an hour or so. If you’ve got a few minutes to kill, feel free to check out my vid for this week – irrelevant as it is to Thanksgiving – other than to be thankful that none of us are Lee’s character. https://youtu.be/1pCMV8Ag3vI
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been enjoying South Korean films recently – the characters have a clarity that doesn’t always come through with subtitles. Last week’s film was The Royal Tailor.
Are you Pacific Time, or…. even further West?
Well, we were cooking in anticipation of eating around 6 PM EST. Worked out well enough – great turkey and a brisket from one of my aunt’s friends.
Why do they even need to ask permission?
Rhetorical question, I’ll assume?
If the government doesn’t give permission, how do we know they are doing it right?
Because without burdensome legislation, farmers would deliberately poison the food they make a living by selling over the course of a lifetime. Or maybe the argument is that they’d do it accidentally without bureaucrats giving them instructions. Whatever.
If it wasn’t for the FDA, we’d all be eating dirt and chairs.
Poison dirt and chairs I’m told.
I have decided to have salmon for Turkey Day, because I like salmon. Also, wild rice.
That’s what people should do, eat what they like. But Big-Turkey has convinced everyone they must eat turkey.
I’m sure the turkeys would prefer it too.
Because (((we))) lace the turkeys with all kinds of drugs that get people shopping on Black Friday.
I knew it! That’s why my wife doesn’t care about Black Friday, we don’t eat turkey the day before!
THE SCALES HAVE FALLEN FROM MY EYES!
Which is more wild, the salmon or the rice?
You’d have to ask Mrs. Salmon.
Is Mr. Salmon’s first name Chico?
Go Chargers!
Fuck the Chargers, the Spanish clan, and Philip Rivers. They will remain losers as long as Spanish owns them and Rivers is QB.
I don’t give a shit one way or the other about the Chargers, but I always root for Dallas to lose.
Fuck the Chargers, the Spanish clan, and Philip Rivers.
They just showed that Philip Rivers has eight (!) kids. Seems like he’s been fucking enough on his own.
Did anybody show up in the stadium?
I fell down the rabbit hole and ended up watching W C Fields clips on youtube, including one of my all time favorites:
Random Interloper: You’re drunk!
Fields: Yes, I’m drunk. And you’re crazy. Tomorrow, I’ll be sober. You’ll be crazy for the rest of your life.
-1 Winston Churchill
-100 “Things Winston Churchill Never Actually Said“
“I didn’t say half the things I said.”
-Yogi Berra
Churchill did reply to the woman (Lady Astor) who said that if she was married to him she’d poison his soup, that if he was married to her he’d drink it.
from my second link
Oh, well Boris Johnson says so – as opposed to quite a number of Churchill biographers including Manchester.
(ahem)
“”The put-down first appeared in a joke of the day column in the Chicago Tribune in 1900″”
whether that is true or not can certainly be confirmed, if one cares enough. that’s not quite the same as ‘take his word for it’
its also possible both claims are true; that it was an old joke, and Winnie just happened to repeat it in well-heeled company, and ended up being given special credit for an unoriginal witticism
Well, Boris’ book seemed to be the only source being cited. So at this point, until we see the footnote – yes it is only based on his say-so. I have no idea if he is a meticulous researcher or a sloppy blow-hard.
Wasn’t that from It’s A Gift? (which IMO is the funniest movie ever made)
+1 Carl LaFong
WC Fields is amazing.
Dammit. I wanted to do something productive today. All I’ve done is paint this Razorback model. (The IFV, not the wild hog)
Pics or it didn’t happen.
(And people think you have no life!)
I prefer to photograph finished paint jobs. so the pics might come along later. I just got to faking wear on the treads, there’s detail work and the armament left. But most of the body paint is done.
Ah. OK, you have my permission to defer the photos.
And that time is Now
One Thanksgiving IFV, painted while I snarked.
Wow – that looks great.
Thank you.
Very nice! Beautifully done.
Thank you too.
I expected all biege, but that looks great.
?
Beige takes more layers to cover black primer.
You can’t kill Chaos with that, it needs to be at least…three times bigger than that.
I haven’t fought Chaos in a long time. Orks, Space Marines, ‘Nids, Tau, but not Chaos.
Recent canon seems to indicate lots of Chaos fights in the near future.
Not if none of the people at the store buys any of it…
Dark Imperium Starter set has ’em.
Wasn’t that from It’s A Gift? (which IMO is the funniest movie ever made)
I believe so. He and the family go to California because he inherited an orange grove. The “crazy” guy was an oil man, as I recall.
Yeah, he was frustrated that Fields was trying to drive a real deal instead of rolling over.
To this day, I crack up every time I think of Carl LaFong or Mr. Muckle.
More pairs of things to be thankful for.
http://archive.is/jQoFl
Whoa, no comments here – must be the food comas.
Dinner is in a few hours so…………..#41 hello there. #5 USDA Certified bunny boiler.
I stopped scrolling at 1
Did I mention that I love pepperoni pizza?
But… but families in need need triathlon programs! You monster.
Politicians in need need payoffs for their Caribbean vacations.
I’m just amazed they aren’t even hiding it.
A portion of the funds would also go toward pension obligations
Technically, a ‘portion’ could be any percentage less than the whole. Given Chicago’s and the greater Chicago area’s completely fucked pension obligations (I heard from my sister that in her town, they are paying more for retired cops than active police) it wouldn’t surprise me if this portion is above 90% of the tax revenue.
Dinner is done, leftovers are packed away, family has left, everything has been cleaned.
Now… now I get to sit and rest. And for the first year, attempt to make stock. I’ve got a crock pot going with the turkey bones, neck, giblets, and bits and pieces from all of the veggies that were cut up earlier this week in prep. We’ll see how it turns out.
What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?
from PragerU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_o42QaVnA
He comes off like ONN’s autistic reporter.
Autistic Reporter, Michael Falk, Enchanted By Prison’s Rigid Routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04wb7P_v-4
One of my favorites. That era of the onion was really good.
Trying to pet a great white shark next to a whale carcass? That’s a paddlin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwj79xnsCYE
I have no idea what “warning” they were talking about. Stupid is as stupid does.
Why the fuck would anyone think being in the same general location as a great white was a good idea?
Shark Week?
I see no swastikas. I’m disappoint.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/23/nazi-sex-dungeon-where-gang-chained-whipped-threatened-to-rape-man.html
Click-bait. Chilling!
Live Feed: Thanksgiving at jesse’s house
Live Feed: Thanksgiving at your house
I guess I’ve fulfilled my Thanksgiving obligation by getting really, really, drunk… fuck you, shitlords!
You’re welcome.
I’m still working on that part of it. But I have had two of these through the course of the day. Currently killing of some homemade Pinot Grigio, probably move on to an Old Fashioned next.
Congratulations to Ana and Bastian!
I read her Twitter handle as “AnaI Vanovic”.
I regret nothing.
Ana Ivanović, hot tennis player (retired).
Anala https://youtu.be/XtINVmDe8Iw
We cheated for lunch and did Boston Market take out turkey meals. However, I did cook for dinner. I made bacon wrapped filets topped with garlic and butter. Oh my.
We’ve now moved on to glasses of bourbon. What a great day.
We ate at about 4:30 so we didn’t have lunch. Just Dad and me since everybody else is several hours away at a minimum.
I could eat (and drink) that.
Wait…aren’t you vegan? Or am I confused?
OMWC is. SP puts up with it ’cause OMWC can cook, and has dynamite taste in wine, and a cellar to match. Oh and (((magic))).
I larfed.
Skol, y’all!
Gods damn… that’s a reason that you shouldn’t drink Nattie Ice.
If I saw that get off a longship, I’d be torn. Laugh or run away.
Can someone ‘splain why Los Angeles has failed to support one football team for decades, but now they somehow have 2?
They like college ball more. I don’t know why they moved nfl teams there.
From what I understand, the Lakers, UCLA, and USC are the only games in town. They failed with the Raiders, they failed with the Rams. Why do they now have the Rams and the Chargers?
Two idiot franchises enter…none may leave?
They have hockey. 2 of em.
Two? The Kings and what other team?
I’d count the ducks.
So you’d add “The LA Ducks of Anaheim” to the idiotic “LA Angels of Anaheim?”
I guess. it’s a half?
I’ve occasionally wondered why America’s largest cities have to make do with a maximum of two major league teams. E.g. if Buffalo has one NFL team, NYC should have about 20 going by population.
Because 1) los angeles has the fewest real sports fans per-capita of any big city, but 2) every few decades politicians see “sports” as an opportunity to spend boatloads of taxpayer money on subsidized stadiums/crony-deals
“actual LA Sports Fans“
LOL
Chargers left San Diego because they wanted someone to build them stadium. Kroenke is building one even though they will play second fiddle there (and about 4th overall in LA after SC, Ram, and Raiders – 5th if Chip Kelly lands at UCLA). In all honesty, the NFL is built around corporate luxury suites and LA makes a great deal more sense for that than does San Diego.
And I am not drunk – just my keyboard is fucking dying on me.
What seems to be the ossifer, problem? [hic]
Wait a minute…I thought you fix printers? What do you know about keyboards?
Obviously not enough to fix it. It’s wireless, probably just needs fresh batteries.
Piss off! You don’t know me!
Not support, just have, no one cares around here, other than USC/UCLA
I know they do the schedule months ahead of time, but what kind of shitshow is the Redskins-Giants gonna be?? Fuckin-a.
Wait until Sunday night with the Packers at Steelers. I am sure this sounded great back in May, but now it will be a horror show for Packers fans.
https://media.giphy.com/media/5nFShZWwq3fdm/giphy.gif
🙂
And Mike McCarthy is going to offer Com Capers an extension after the game.
Dom Capers, fucking auto-correct.
Well, I’m a Giants fan, so I’m watching it anyway.
We watched for a while but just bailed to South Park.
The Vikes/Lions game, on the other hand, was very entertaining.
Glutted on turkey and a bottle of gewurztraminer. I’m thankful for all of you out there who continue to tow the libertarian lion.
Is that lion blue?
How are you awake?!
Sorry Gilmore, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article186039993.html
he is going back to the miami in the ski
you’ll notice i’ve been wearing a black armband in mourning
Sorry for your loss?
wherever there is a pompadour, needing to be refreshed with hairspray, he will be there. like the Obi Wan of blue-eyed soul.
STEVE SMITH NOT BLACK BEAR
http://www.pennlive.com/life/2017/11/black_bear_attacked_pet_donkey.html
“A donkey in Susquehanna Township has something to be thankful for today: surviving a bear attack.
According to CBS 21, a black bear climbed over a fence into the backyard, where it attacked a miniature donkey owned by Kevin and Cindy Armour-Helm on Nov. 22.
The donkey, named Stella, is kept as a pet by the Armour-Helm family. The 250 pound animal was attacked and pinned to the ground by the bear, but managed to survive. The bear left after the owners shouted and made noise.”
STEVE SMITH LEAVE WHEN FINISHED
*prolonged applause*
That’s not far from where I grew up. My parents have a black bear wander through the neighborhood every year or so.
THAT NOT BLACK BEAR… TELL PEOPLE TO GO OUTSIDE AND INVESTIGATE!
STEVE SMITH LOVE WOODLAND SEARCHES. SEARCHERS IN LONG STRAIGHT LINE MAKE RAPE VERY EFFICIENT.
HIKERS NO INVESTIGATE, STEVE SMITH INVESTIGATE THEM. WITH PENIS.
Why does sloopy hate Michigan?
Well Winston, how do you feel about your mom?
He gave a little bit of a clue… O-H
Now, fill in the rest.
Oh My?
Sloopy really hates George Takei?
… you know, he just might!
You win this round, time traveler!
I-O!!!!!
Fuck ❌ichigan.
Because Michigan is a cesspool.
Wait wut? People depend on Obamacare but eliminating the MANDATE to buy it will kill it?
Yes, the cost of premiums will go up because people aren’t forced to buy it – true. The problem is, some people already pay the penal-tax instead of buying insurance. Now they won’t get penalized. How exactly does that comport with the assertion that people depend on it? Tis a strange gift to be able to speak out of both sides of one’s mouth like that.
Hm…no word on all of those losses they suffered earlier in the year.
Totally accurate summary of reality.
I’m usually surprised at the comments in papers like that. I’d expect the average Baltimore Sun reader to be a raving lefty, albeit with less of the faux intellectualism seen in the NYT’s comment section. Same with the LA Times. Yet, there is very often a group of sane individuals calling bullshit on the narrative.
I just ask the tax cut fighters how taking money from people’s checks helps them.
At the heart of the matter is that they think people, particularly poor people cannot spend their own money as well as the government and they are usually willing to admit it.
Simple. It’s confiscated from you, and you are allowed the privilege of having some of it back at a trickle rate if you are ruined or disabled… the latter only after an extensive appeal process.
It’s not accurate to equate business tax cuts and ACA-mandate repeal. Anyone who doesn’t have “free” insurance via employer, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. pays. Your reality matches someone who was unaware of Grover Norquist until earlier today.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, TURKEY-NECKS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWTHJ6LGa4U
It’s about a family reunion and not Thanksgiving, but it’s the most libertarian song I know of that doesn’t include weed, Mexicans, or ass sex.
That might be the most American thing I’ve ever heard.
McMurtry (he’s the son of Larry, of Lonesome Dove fame) is a great songwriter. Several of his tunes have been popularized (more or less) by Robert Earl Keen and Ray Wylie Hubbard. He suffers from some proggy instincts (“We Can’t Make it Here Anymore” doesn’t look at the root causes of why), but he can tap into the Deplorable mindset very well.
Sorry, got to throw this one out again. A bit annoyed they didn’t play this at the last show.
“Roscoe tried to miss ‘im, but didn’t quite.”
Love that bit!
Yellow Friday is a lot different than Black Friday. They just go to work and save money.
Go back to stormfront, straffin. You’re drunk.
My plans for tomorrow is to go to a brewery and get chicken and waffles, and a case of rare beers.
Yeah, well they didn’t go to work yesterday.
/still unhappy Starbucks was closed up when I turned up thursday morning.
Also, even more impressed than before that you manage to post here 9 hours off of Glib time. I couldn’t do it very well at all.
True. Labor day. Spent it looking at an Italian renaissance art exhibit with the in laws. Odd working hours allow me to fuck around here.
You can keep your ‘Respect for the Aged’ days and all that nonsense.
+1 silver week ‘why are all the shops closed?’
At least we don’t have this.
I’d take black nationalist vans over that any day of the week.
Happy Thanksgiving Glibs!
Back home here in ‘Murica for the big T Day. Unfortunately the orphans took advantage of the absence and did not prepare a feast for our arrival. Ate greasy airport pizza. Actually had T dinner twice. Last night, also Thursday, had curry rice.
Thankful for each and every one of you swinging dicks here, along with my family, a good life, and a good dog, even if the culture shock is a bit strong at the moment.
Also grateful for indoor humidity controlled air conditioning in public spaces not set for hades furnace temperature.
Where were you? India? Laos? Detroit?
St. Louis?
Japan. Just about everywhere is an indoor sauna and everyone else is dressed for Alaska. Meanwhile I’m sweating through a cotton shirt like Alec Guinness in the Bridge over the River Kwai. Just not used to it that sub tropical climate.
That’s what I thought. Tejicano from TOS and I have gotten together a couple times. Give a shout out next time.
I’ll have to do it one of these times. Was mostly in Osaka and Fukuoka this time. Goes by so fast. I think I’ve got about a 6 week window in the winter where the weather is bearable for me.
Huh. I was wondering why my internet and cable were fucked up this morning. Cable company blames union. Union says nuh-uh. I don’t know which group of conniving assholes to believe.
Losing internet would suck. The cable? Not so much.
I need my background noise.
When I need that I just remove the duct tape.
I have no idea what that means.
IT WAS RUSSIAN BOTS!
Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s “last Jew” “experiences anti-Semitism on a regular basis”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/islamic-republic-of-pakistans-last-jew-experiences-anti-semitism-on-a-regular-basis
***
Fishel Benkhald tells DW he has faced immense social discrimination in Pakistan following his registration of Jewish faith, but he will continue to raise voice for the rights of religious minorities in the country.
Dubbed “Pakistan’s last Jew,” Fishel Benkhald, a resident of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, was originally registered as a Muslim and was named Faisal Khalid. After several months of bureaucratic struggle and paperwork, he was finally recognized by the Islamic country’s authorities as a Jew in March this year.
Benkhald: ‘It is my religious right to visit the holy sites in Israel.’
Benkhald claims he was born to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother. The South Asian country’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) usually does not entertain requests for changing religion on the basis of mother’s faith. But the unprecedented decision by authorities to change his religion on the national identity card made the 29-year-old ecstatic. But since then he has been facing hostility in Pakistan, Benkhald told DW.
“When my landlord learnt about my Jewish identity, he asked me to vacate the apartment where I had been living for months,” Benkhald said. “Obviously, he did not tell me why he took that decision, but I could sense it was because of my new religious status,” he added.
Benkhald lives in Karachi’s middle-class neighborhood, Korangi, and works in the mineral ore supply business.
“I rented another apartment in the same area because my children’s school was in the vicinity. But I had to vacate that place as well, as the new landlord also learnt about my Jewish identity,” Benkhald said.
***
Mr Benkhald, good luck with all that!
You gotta admit, he has chutzpah!
San Francisco mayor accepts ‘comfort women’ statue; Osaka to end sister-city ties
It’s Charrottes viru all over again.
Nietzsche, paraphrased: Memory says “I did that”. Pride says “I did not do that.” Eventually, memory gets tired.
Come on Osaka, that’s not how you do petty. Instead you create ‘the Rape of Nanking didn’t happen, and even if it did they would have deserved it’ public park.
The theme at the Hiroshima memorial is “Never Again”. Clearly, they crafted an ambiguous theme in order to include themselves in the victim group. It really is disgusting. Then you have Germany, which is continuously self flagellating as the leftists use WW2 guilt to implement their agenda. Whaddayagunnado?
The growing popularity of the AfD seems to indicate that some Germans, at least, have had enough of that. Part of their plank is basically “not be embarrassed to be German” anymore.
There’s a Anne Frank and the Chesnut Tree English reader that I saw in a bookstore. Come to think of it, I think it was in an Osaka bookstore.
It ended with Pearl Harbor, buddy!
Shouldn’t this statue be somewhere else?
At the risk of the family friendly rating….some Rodney Carrington for you
Great comedic timing with those guys. Also, he looks a lot like Billy Baldwin.
Thanksgiving feast went off well, photo quality is poor due to lighting.
No need to cook for a week.
That quiche YESsss!!! Did you do the charcuterie yourself?
Looks like a splendid meal. Cheers!
*raises tumbler of Bulliet and branch water*
The charcuterie is nothing of my own other than I purchased quality stinky cheeses, pâté, liver mousse, smoked salmon, and dilly beans. Only thing i made was some tasty dy-no-mite apple onion jam.
Cheers!
Saw some discussion of the Firefox update recently. It’s actually the first upgrade I’ve appreciated in a while myself. The browser is lightening quick compared to before for me. I just don’t get who thought it was a good idea to shuffle around certain things. Like, why would I want to have to click two more times to get to my history? Why would I want the refresh button moved? It’s little things like that which baffle me. It’s like Microsoft trying to make Windows more like tablets with a bunch of pointless waste of time apps and removing the start button. Like, really? You thought making it more difficult to access basic things on my computer like my shitty smart phone was a good idea?
Funny, my Chrome is constantly hiccuping at work so I decided to try Firefox for the first time in oh ten years or so. Had no idea it was this big reboot. It’s… OK. Not great. It’s improved over the last time I used it but still feels old and clunky in some areas. My big gripe was how clunky it was to access my bookmarks.
I eventually gave up because I found out the HyR plugin doesn’t work any more.
This WFT-Giants game is shit. Like a literal pile of shit.
It’s nice to rule the NFC East again. Magic number already down to 2!
I decided to watch for SnG. I don’t watch football.
Now I know why.
This shit is boring.
NFC East Lombardi count:
Cowboys: 5
Giants: 4
Sorry Ass Skins: 3
Eagles: big fat goose egg
Thanksgiving politics update:
Trump plays too much golf. Also he apparently has a foundation of some sort which seems kind of shady. The horror.
Meanwhile my 7yo son is drawing stick-figure pictures of George Washington shooting British people with arrows.
Your son deserves a hug.
My mom started going off about politics before dinner. I put my headphones on until she stopped.
And my 8yo must be getting some programming somewhere, because I’m having to teach her that everything just can’t be free, and why.
But maybe that’s just her being a petulant 8yo. Fucking a, why didn’t anyone tell me that girls start acting like teenagers this early?
My brother was playing cod downstairs, and when I walked he he said he thought sales tax was too high.
Cheers!
Meanwhile my 7yo son is drawing stick-figure pictures of George Washington shooting British people with arrows.
This is a horribly disgusting expression of violence against all Commonwealth peoples. Teach your son not to hate.
It’s fine, British people are the white people of Commonwealth peoples.
We ate at my aunt’s house. She’s one of the few relatives I can tolerate. She’s also pretty liberal and last year she added “No Trump Talk” to her invite.
This year she has moved on. She doesn’t like him, but she also realizes that he is just a regular douche-nozzle of a politician.
Too bad more of the Left can’t seem to move on.
a history lesson from Jacobin
Why They Hate Us
The US dropped napalm on civilians and leveled entire cities during the Korean War. That’s why North Korea is so hostile to America.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/korean-war-united-states-nuclear-weapons
Huh. We bombed the shit out of Germany, Japan, and Vietnam, and killed tens of thousands of Chinese, yet we have good relations with those countries now.
Let’s read on. I’m sure the author will touch on this obvious counter.
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The war upped the ante on airborne devastation, outdoing the already considerable obliteration Allied bombs had visited upon the civilians of the Axis powers during World War II. The world wouldn’t see anything like it again until Vietnam.
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And there it is. Never to me mentioned again.
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The numbers speak for themselves. The 635,000 tons of bombs dropped on Korea over three years exceeded the tonnage of explosives during the entire Pacific theater in World War II. By the end of hostilities, anywhere between two and three million Koreans were dead, missing, or wounded; around 12 to 15 percent of the North’s population had been slain. To put that into perspective, the Soviet Union lost roughly 13 to 14 percent of its pre-war population during World War II; Poland, which suffered the largest casualties, lost around 18 percent.
In other words, US-led forces just about did to North Korea what war and the Holocaust had done to Poland.
The Korean War proved a fertile testing ground for a variety of sadistic new weaponry, including cluster bombs and nerve gas. There’s even evidence that the US military attempted to use biological warfare.
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Yeah, evidence from communist propaganda.
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Eyewitness accounts testify to the desolation the bombing created. By spring 1951, General Emmett “Rosie” O’Donnell, chief of bomber command, told senators that “almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess.
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Holy shit, that’s a real guy?!
Shorter Jacobin- it’s way better for people in North Korea to suffer 70 years of famine and tyranny than to try to defeat communism by force.
About 1 million North Koreans were killed in the war. That’s about the same as the number who were killed by the famine in 1992.
wiki sez
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The great famine is known in North Korea by the officially mandated phrase konanŭi haenggun (The Arduous March). It was a central event in the country’s history, and it forced the regime and its people to change in fundamental and unanticipated ways.[5]
Only about 20% of North Korea’s mountainous terrain is arable land. Much of the land is only frost-free for six months, allowing only one crop per year. The country has never been self-sufficient in food, and many experts considered it unrealistic to try to be.[12]
In the late 1980s the Soviet Union was embarking on political and economic reform. It began demanding payment from North Korea for past and current aid – amounts North Korea could not repay. On 26 December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, ending all aid and trade concessions, such as cheap oil.[7] Without Soviet aid, the flow of imports to the North Korean agricultural sector ended, and the government proved too inflexible to respond.[13] In 1991, energy imports fell by 75%.[14] The economy went into a downward spiral, with imports and exports falling in tandem. Flooded coal mines required electricity to operate pumps, and the shortage of coal worsened the shortage of electricity. Agriculture relied on electrically powered irrigation systems and artificial fertilizers and pesticides, and it was hard hit by the economic collapse.[15][16]
Most North Koreans had experienced nutritional deprivation long before the mid-1990s. The country had once been fed with a centrally planned economic system that overproduced food, had long ago reached the limits of its productive capacity, and could not respond effectively to exogenous shocks.
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Central planning doesn’t work? Well knock me over with a feather.
The crisis was resolved in the typical communist fashion:
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Without the help from these countries, North Korea was unable to respond adequately to the coming famine. For a time, China filled the gap left by the Soviet Union’s collapse and propped up North Korea’s food supply with significant aid.[20] By 1993, China was supplying North Korea with 77 percent of its fuel imports and 68 percent of its food imports. Thus, North Korea replaced its dependence on the Soviet Union with dependence on China – with predictably dire consequences. In 1993, China faced its own grain shortfalls and need for hard currency, and it sharply cut aid to North Korea.
In 1997, So Kwan-hui, the North Korean Minister of Agriculture, was accused of spying for the United States government and sabotaging North Korean agriculture on purpose, thus leading to the famine.[21] As a result, he was executed by firing squad publicly by the North Korean government.[22]
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Everything would have been fine if we had just allowed the South to be conquered. Like Vietnam!
It’s hilarious they’re butt hurt about it. Hey morons- you started the war, remember?
CCTV is running a docudrama about the Korean War featuring those patriotic heroes Mao and Stalin standing up against the Yankees imperialists. I doubt it’s a coincidence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/politics/flynn-mueller-russia-trump.html
While making sure to point out that he once sat next to Putin, NYT’s fails to mention that the only thing approaching criminal activity from Flynn was related to Turkey – not Russia. There is nothing illegal about talking to the Russian ambassador about policy. Trump has screwed up in his handling of the media only when he’s inexplicably caved to their pressure. The Flynn situation was just stupid and helped fuel the entire Russia narrative. It paved the way for what Sessions did and Mueller.
Like, in what world does any of this even make sense?
Sally Yates – that’s someone who was totally looking out for the Trump administration. And lying to Mike Pence is considered some serious blackmail material now? Trump probably lies to Pence on a daily basis.
Trump administration sought to pursue it’s own foreign policy with regards to Russia. Film at 11! I mean, Trump only campaigned on disagreeing with Obama on everything.
Yeah, the deep state was just so concerned. So they decided to torpedo part of the Trump administration by festering divisiveness between the VP and Flynn.
Just learned that when Hitler when on his public health campaign, they used Zyklon A on the factories as a pesticide. Later we get Zyklon B and we know what that was used for. Wonder what Zyklon C will be used for.
It’s a dessert topping *and* a floor wax!
Smoking cessation aid?
Base substance for the TruCoat on late-80s Oldsmobiles, most notably on the 1987 Cutlass Ciera.
The “C” stands for Corinthian leather?
You know who else used Zyklo… wait, nevermind.
Jonathan Haidt on University and the danger of orthodoxy. Obviously, the reason he founded the Heterodox academy. He nails it here. I wish the left would listen to this guy because the result, if they don’t, is going to be horrific.