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Omelet wrote:

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Billy wrote:

I hope that you all, even in the shadow of evil, have a happy
Thanksgiving. As long as you are on the right side of the grass, you
have something to be happy about.

You sound depressed.

HUGS!!!

Hugs always welcome;-) Morning paper full of advertising inserts. Some
stores are opening at mid-night and the local Wally Worlds will open at
5 AM to kick-off the budget bustin', season of consumption.

Not to worry about me, the most dangerous thing around me today will be
the stuffing, mash potatoes, and gravy.



My condolences to native Americans. We really made a genocidal mess of
things.

Such is life.
If they had had the brains to unite early on instead of indulging in
tribal warfare, we'd all be speaking Native American now.

I'd enjoy a discussion 'round a fireplace, with some single malt, that
went into European diseases and technology, circa 1500 AD. The Iroquois,
at least, seemed to have a socially more advance culture than the
Europeans of their epoch. If you get a chance "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
by Jared M. Diamond, is a real page turner on the subject.

The Sunni's and Shiites are not going to learn from history either.
But then, when the British and the French divided up the Ottoman Empire,
they made sure that each new state would be a house dividedagainst it's
self. If they somehow managed to united, then we would send in a Kermit
Roosevelt.


Thought for the day. If uncontrolled immigration got us to where we are
today, where might it lead us tomorrow?

Oh hush. ;-)
I've been trying to make myself learn Tex-mex for years!

Tex-mex? You mean like "felixnavidad" (my cat likes to sail)?

Berlitz sux.


Still eating lemon cucumbers and Stupice tomatoes from the garden and
Blackwater isn't patrolling the streets, yet.

We'll be feasting tomorrow. My Brother in law was too stubborn to ask me
how to quick thaw a turkey and screwed it up. It spoiled and the
replacement bird is still frozen. g

Ah, the joys of family life;-)

Sh** happens, but he'll never make THAT mistake again! ;-D

I'm having some of the Orange Cranberry relish I made on a Hamburger
patty instead, as soon as I digest these bacon/egg/cheese breakfast
tacos I bought down the street from the only Taqueria in town that was
open...

I also took advantage of this glorious cold front and did some more
digging work on the garden bed out in the front yard. I finally got up
that bucket of Concrete I had buried for the flagpole that I put up in
2001...

The concrete in the top of the bucket still has the etching "09/11/2001"
in it.

sigh

Sunny and chilly here in northern California as well.



Giving thanks. A la table. Zum Tisch.

I'm just giving thanks for a decent career that provides a warm roof
over my head and clean running water.

Considering that at least a third of the world lives on less than $2/day
(the reasons for which can be discussed over the above single malt), I'd
say you are an unqualified success:-)

Me, I'm giving thanks for a full belly and four days off-work to play it
off.

One can always buy another turkey for $.67 per lb.!

Unless you are living on minimum wage and had too many kids. :-(
I'll do my charity work after this weekend...

Good on you (as St. Molly used to say):-)

I think Doofy meant to say "the wrong end of the grass" and not, as I
said, "the right side of the grass", but that dicotyledon stuff can be
very confusing. He must have a ferocious appetite by now;-)

All the best to you and yours.
--

Billy

Bush & Cheney, Behind Bars