From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Since none of us are thankful for our current president (and rightly so), please enjoy this C&J gift to you: a few minutes with a president we are thankful for…
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Happy Gobble Gobble, everyone. A few more goodies, including a Molly Ivins Thanksgiving bon mot, below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Note: As for the rest of the C&J posting week, nothing formal tomorrow although we may post a "Who won the week" poll in the diaries. Back Monday. Have a great holiday and may your end of the wishbone be the long one.
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til Christmas: 32
Days 'til the National Menorah lighting in D.C.: 19
Date of Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation: 10/3/1863
Cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people, down 75 cents from last year: $49.12
Average number of calories consumed per person during a Thanksgiving feast, according to the Calorie Control Council: 4,500
Percent of Parade readers who believe calories don't exist on Thanksgiving: 69%
Number of NFL games today: 3
Population of Turkey, Texas (hometown of Bob Wills): 396
Number of Americans who intend to eat human brains for Thanksgiving dinner, up from 2,065 last year and spreading rapidly from northwest to southeast---stay tuned to your short-wave radios for updates and lock your doors: 3,229
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Since the political world ranges from poor to icky these days, you may think we are gratitudinally challenged this Thanksgiving. But a mere soupcon of sunny optimism goes a long way toward getting us to dwell on how lucky we are. We are abundantly blessed with lemons. Let us make lemonade. […]
I am grateful for the Rev. Pat Robertson, who was upset by the school board election in Dover, Pa., where the creationist-supporting candidates lost.
Quoth he: "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God -- you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because He might not be there." On the other hand, the same is true of FEMA.
If that's the voice of Christian love, mercy, compassion and forgiveness, I'm a monkey's uncle. I am grateful Pat Robertson does not speak for me or the Lord. […]
So let's all loosen our belts and get right down to the all-American tradition of overeating on Thanksgiving. It's still a great country, even if it is a little strange. I am grateful for all my fellow citizens---how would we know it was America if we didn't hear regularly from the nincompoop faction? Happy turkey to you all.
---Thanksgiving 2005
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Puppy Pic of the Day: The classic
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Things For Which I Am Thankful: 2017 Edition
That the presidency of Barack Obama really happened
That Robert Mueller has already started dropping anvils on Obama’s successor
That Trump’s inauguration was so pitifully small (and rainy), thus delivering his first huge embarrassment before he was even done taking the oath
Democratic unity in the House and Senate
The #5 thing on internet lists that will SHOCK you!
Elizabeth Warren Democrats
Our troops over here and over there
All the indigenous people of North America
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The federal judges who have stomped on most of Trump’s evil schemes
The 2017 Democratic wave election winners at the state and local level---too many to list!
Protesters in pussyhats
Rep Frederica Wilson (D-FL), for protecting and defending slain Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow Myeshia Johnson from smears and insults by Trump and his chief of staff John Kelly
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): the biggest congressional thorn in the administration’s side re: collusion with Russia
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), for being an ace troller of Lord Dampnut on twitter
Maine Senator Angus King (I), a consistent voice of reason and sanity in the upper chamber
The Congressional Black, Hispanic and Progressive Caucuses
Notorious RBG (Stay healthy! You, too, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor.)
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The women (and men) coming forward to talk about their experiences of sexual assault, and the reporters exposing their rich-and-powerful abusers---including the president---by name
The backlash from the judicial branch and even hard-core conservatives of the ban-by-tweet of transgender servicemembers
That Jeff Sessions isn’t going to win his war on marijuana or pro-immigrant cities
Campaign volunteers and polling place workers
The first responders and relief organizers who went above and beyond in the wake of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and wildfires
San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, chef José Andrés, and Lin-Manuel-Miranda
Employers who givetheir employees Thanksgiving off
Employees who don’t get the day off so they can keep vital services running while the rest of us do
Gun-safety advocates
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Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and SNL for leading the renaissance in late-night political humor
The Washington Post, for stepping up the quality and quantity of its investigative reporting
Ta-Nehisi Coates,Malcolm Nance, Joy Reid, Bishop William Barber, Joan Walsh, Charles Pierce, John Nichols, Howard Dean, E.J. Dionne, Eugene Robinson, David K. Johnston
Naomi Klein, Marcy Wheeler, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, David Fahrenthold, Kurt Eichenwald, David Corn, Lawrence O’Donnell
Atrios, Digby, Charles M. Blow, Americablog, John Cole, Joe Jervis, Michelangelo Signorile, Dan Savage, Leonard Pitts, Stephanie Miller, Lizz Winstead
Think Progress, Media Matters, The Hispanic Federation, The Southern Poverty Law Center, PFAW, PFLAG, 350.org, Indivisible, Black Lives Matter, Run For Something, Planned Parenthood, NAACP, IAVA, ACLU and the many other advocacy organizations that are preventing the worst of Trump’s abuses, often in coordination with each other.
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Barack and Michelle Obama
Joe and Jill Biden
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My partner, Michael, for growing old with me
The doctors, nurses, oncologists and support staff who gutted me like a fish last March, removed my cancer, sewed me back up, and saw to my complete recovery
OBAMACARE!!!
All of my bosses (if you’re reading this, you’re one of them) at Daily Kos
The front-pagers and diarists here, for explaining stuff I don't know boo about
The rest of the progressive blogosphere, for having the wisdom to follow all the orders issued by “Keyboard Kingpin” Markos
Netroots Nation and its organizers
Sara R and winglion's quilts
Dirty Fucking Hippies
M'doggie. M'pootie. M’porch roof squirrels
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This shiny object! No, wait...that shiny object over there! No no no...that other shiny object! And that one! And that one! And---ooh ooh---that one!
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Wineries
Distilleries
Breweries
The GREAT STATE OF MAINE
Clam chowder
Taco Tuesdays
Excedrin Migraine
Blueberries
Candy corn
Snow
Great movie scores
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Evolution
Electric cars
High-speed rail
NASA
NET NEUTRALITY!!!
Unions
Diversity
The Resistance
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Peace. (Yeah, it's a word. Really. I looked it up.)
And, as ever, that magic moment every day at 6am when the Bacardi 151 crosses the blood-brain barrier.
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How'bout you?
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