After eating turkey and leftovers for every meal since Thursday, I am so excited to eat tacos tonight that I am salivating.
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After eating turkey and leftovers for every meal since Thursday, I am so excited to eat tacos tonight that I am salivating.
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cathyx
I bet you’re glad Thanksgiving is once a year.
Brachiator
Turkey tacos?
Raven
I froze up a bunch of containers of turkey gumbo!
Eric S.
Thanksgiving Tip: Go to your in-laws in-laws for dinner. You don’t end up eating turkey for a week.
Jenny
I love Obama, but watching this picture of him hanging out with the 1% is disturbing.
http://tinyurl.com/7snkrcr
Cris (without an H)
It takes a week of turkey before tacos make you salivate?
Villago Delenda Est
Look, count your blessings.
You’re not eating fruitcake for a week, solid…
srv
I’m thinking pizza, the taqueria is just too far to walk.
And I have seen the future: Popeye’s Fried Turkey. You could have Martha running your kitchen, and she can’t touch it. Just order it next year.
Cris (without an H)
@Jenny: Well played.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Eric S.: So, you’re saying Cole should get married so he doesn’t have to eat turkey for a week each year?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Eric S.: So, you’re saying Cole should get married so he doesn’t have to eat turkey for a week each year?
Linnaeus
Hm. That reminds me that it’s Taco Tuesday at the Tin Hat in Ballard.
Jenny
Sometimes Obama just gets lost in translation.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09AI0rPdwU8qM/610x.jpg
Comrade Mary
BEAVER HUNT!
Oh, wait …
schrodinger's cat
I thought Tunch and the doggies would have helped you finish the turkey earlier. Photograph of the Tunchster would be greatly appreciated.
Comrade Mary
@Jenny: I can’t look at Bill Murray the same way since his turn in Zombieland (which is a really, really good movie, BTW).
RossinDetroit
Other option: vegetarianism. Although I still have a third of a pumpkin cake to make my way through. The first third was pretty tasty, but…
lamh35
Is there another debate between now and the Iowa caucuses?
Former GOP Rep. Says Gingrich Is ‘An Evil Person’ |
mclaren
Until you find out they’re turkey tacos.
Walker
Tonight was also our first turkey-free meal. My wife made kaszanka. Pork blood sausage, Cracow-style; yum.
Yevgraf
Turkey tacos. With cranberry and stuffing pico.
PurpleGirl
@Brachiator: Turkey tacos… what, you think you’re funny; being a wise guy… Cole should smack you up side your head.
Linkmeister
Last night was our first non-bird meal since T-Day. Homemade cheeseburgers, home baked fries, Mexicorn.
cathyx
@RossinDetroit: I read that the first time as ‘I still have a third pumpkin cake to make my way through’.
Maude
@schrodinger’s cat:
I think Tunch no longer fits into a photo frame. You’d have to have one big wide angle lens to take his picture.
trollhattan
Spicy salary increases for several U.C. executives. Conspicuously absent is Davis Chancellor Katehi.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/11/university-of-california-regents-ok-raises-for-several-executives.html
Meanwhile, Washington State Patrol ditches capsaicin for good ol’ electricity.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016881758_legislature29m.html
schrodinger's cat
@Maude: Are you calling Tunch fat? Blasphemy! He is not fat, he is floofy.
cathyx
@schrodinger’s cat: I thought he was muscular.
Sal
PINK TACO!!!
YEAH BABY!!
(wink wink)
carpeduum
You should try some crow and humble pie as well.
schrodinger's cat
@cathyx: And big boned too.
Litlebritdifrnt
@cathyx:
I thought it was water retention.
Jenny
DNC released an ad today calling Mittens “A Dishonest Fraud”. Ouch!
http://youtu.be/46pdPt_xrSw
Have no doubt, David Axelrod is gonna bomb who ever is the nominee back to the stone age.
schrodinger's cat
@Litlebritdifrnt: But he is a boy kitteh, not can has PMS.
cathyx
@schrodinger’s cat: @Litlebritdifrnt: And a thyroid condition.
schrodinger's cat
@cathyx: I think its his color, adds 10 pounds on the camera, black would be more slimming, or if he had the same color head to tail. So John could either paint his torso orange or his tail white, or all of Tunch in black.
Amanda in the South Bay
I see in the local news that Facebook is moving from Palo Alto out to Menlo Park closer to the Bay. What this means is that they are moving to someplace that is totally inaccessible via public transit. I know where I live in Sunnyvale there’s a ton of empty office buildings along the VTA light rail.I’m sure they’ll have employee shuttles to/from Caltrain, but still, I wish companies would be more progressive in this regard.
cathyx
@schrodinger’s cat: @Litlebritdifrnt: He’s probably the one who ate the rest of the leftovers.
Steeplejack
Had pizza last night. As a Thanksgiving guest, rather than host, I had fewer leftovers to go through.
Today in the grocery I saw a lonely jar of Crosse & Blackwell mincemeat, which I think am going to use to try to duplicate my mother’s mincemeat tarts. I grilled her on her technique over Thanksgiving and think I now have enough information to move forward.
Svensker
@Raven:
Turkey gumbo? Now that is a good idea! I usually make a turkey meatball soup with jalapenos and stuff, but you can’t get ground turkey in this part of Canukistan. But I got a freezer full o’ okra and a big tub of turkey broth…. Yes!
Veritas
The Great Global Warming Fizzle
…
BTW, gotta love how this article was written on a day when the south gets hammered by a NOVEMBER snow storm!
RealityCheck
Litlebritdifrnt
BTW for anyone battling the lunatic birfers anywhere in the nation, please refer them to this
http://www.scribd.com/doc/74176180/Qualifications-for-President-and-the-%E2%80%9CNatural-Born%E2%80%9D-Citizenship-Eligibility-Requirement
It says what we sane people knew it would say, but it does it brilliantly and takes on the birfers bullshit talking points one by one by a rather brilliant lawyer from the Congress Research Service. I would be interested to find out which Congresscritter requested the study (or staffer) but the bottom line is birfers heads are going to be asploading all over birfistan when they get a look at it.
*snork*
Litlebritdifrnt
@Steeplejack: I was lucky enough to score a six pack of Walkers Mince Pies at World Market last week. I cannot wait to have a couple with my Bird’s Instant Custard that Mum just brought over. I also got an individual portion of Christmas Pudding, I am saving that for Christmas Day.
Citizen_X
@Veritas: You were concern-trolling all over the Sully thread about “Why does anybody give a shit?” about Sully’s Bell Curve pseudoscience obsession. Your anti-AGW pseudoscience obsession, as well as the pseudoscience obsessions of the creationists, and of the anti-vaxxers, is why we give a shit. It’s not just the Klansmen hyping The Bell Curve.
Cat Lady
Today is the 10th anniversary of George Harrison’s death. I can’t believe it’s been that long, and it’s one of those famous people deaths that really really got to me. I miss him. He was always my favorite Beatle from day one of my little girl consciousness of who they were. He had that dark brooding spiritual thing that just does it for me.
Beware of Darkness
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
Quicksand
@Amanda in the South Bay:
Yeah, the transit options aren’t good right now. But perhaps with a vibrant, growing company in that space, something like this might get a little more attention:
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=222095
Keith G
For some reason, my local grocer had a few legs of lamb that had to be sold by today. One just came out of the oven.
trollhattan
@Cat Lady:
Hope you caught the four-hour Scorsese Harrison film on HBO. Loads of footage I’d never seen before.
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/george-harrison-living-in-the-material-world/index.html
4jkb4ia
I have to admit that John Cole actually knew something, especially when the favorability/unfavorability gap went down the most in WV. All I would say is that those voters are not just watching the debates. They have been exposed to the other candidates more and have had a steady diet of Rush and Company telling them that Romney is unacceptable.
And if Cain drops out of the race in the next week, I will happily also admit that he was a joke. Maybe not in the sense that John meant it at first though because, um, we know much more about his personal life now.
Ostensible Topic: I have a great surplus of leftover chicken in the fridge but that is because I bought too much. I am not having it for dinner.
trollhattan
@Citizen_X:
Not to mention trolling November snow (zut alors!) in at least two earlier threads. Rove must have issued the talking points and upped pay to a dime/post.
Cat Lady
@trollhattan:
I watched it rapt. What an interesting life and person. Olivia Harrison’s description of the moment of his death gave me full body goosebumps and gives me great comfort, weirdly. I have the DVD of the Albert Hall memorial tribute, and his son Dhani could be his clone. That was a wonderful film by Scorsese, and what he got people to reveal was awesome. Ringo’s pretty great.
Roger Moore
@RossinDetroit:
This. Even though I’m an unrepentant meat eater, I like my sister’s vegetarian Thanksgiving more than any turkey containing version. If there’s a turkey, you wind up filling up on it and not having enough of the side dishes and dessert. Skipping the turkey leaves space to have all the different side dishes and still have space for half a dozen kinds of dessert. Score one for the vegetarians.
ThresherK
@Maude: Isn’t that what satellite photography is for?
Citizen_X
Here is a good article by Alex Wukman at Free Press Houston about the poisonous effects of our media’s Cult of Objectivity. It was occasioned by reports of how “local media” are still alive and kicking. He’s got a unique perspective on that, as he used to report on “an extremely conservative part of rural East Texas, ” where, he says,
He points out that part of this narrow-mindedness results from “objective” news editors killing stories about, say, gay teens, that are not “reflective of the community.” But as a result, communities miss a lot of stuff that’s critical to everybody:
He says that editors are loathe to put events in context, partly because they’re trying to relentlessly narrowcast to their audience. But a lack of context can leave you blind. (“Greek debt? Why do I care?”)
trollhattan
@Cat Lady:
Completely agree. I too have the “Concert for George” vid, which I think is a wonderful celebration of his life, from Monte Python to the amazing performance by Norah Jones’ much less well known sister.
Roger Moore
@4jkb4ia:
From that article:
You want to know the reason every leading candidate not named Mitt Romney has faded after a few weeks at the top of the GOP polls? It’s for exactly the same reason Romney hasn’t surged into the lead: because the more GOP primary voters across the country have been exposed to them, the less they’ve liked them. The only candidate who has a consistently fired up base is Ron Paul, and his base is small enough that he’s not going to win.
Veritas
@Citizen_X:
It doesn’t matter. There won’t be any new Kyoto. Carbon will continue to be burned in ever increasing quantities. Your little Climate Religion will shrink into irrelevance, so suck it.
Veritas
@Citizen_X:
It doesn’t matter. There won’t be any new Kyoto. Carbon will continue to be burned in ever increasing quantities. Your little Climate Religion will shrink into irrelevance, so suck it.
RealityCheck
Cat Lady
@trollhattan:
Anoushka Shankar. He’s got some seriously good genes.
Citizen_X
@Veritas:
Because there’s an infinite supply of fossil fuels, and the Earth’s atmosphere has an infinite ability to absorb carbon without affecting climate? Never mind science, that doesn’t even pass basic logic.
Veritas
@Citizen_X:
Tar sands, baby, Tar sands. BTW, the US also has a CENTURIES long supply of coal, as does China. That’s right–COAL, black, sooty, carbon-y COAL.
RealityCheck
4jkb4ia
@Roger Moore:
Actually for Newt that is not true. His favorability was in the subbasement earlier in the year. We’ll see what the primary voters think of him as the frontrunner once they are given a few more weeks to mull it over.
I guess I should also mention that Nate tweeted that Huntsman actually got 11% in one poll of NH and that could be very dangerous for Romney even if it doesn’t mean that Huntsman can win.
smintheus
If definitive proof was needed that a majority of Senators are beyond any redemption. I guess the Constitution is now being treated as a guideline or wish list.
Will Reks
Any of you rss feed users know if there’s a direct rss feed for John Chait’s posts? http://nymag.com/author/jonathan%20chait
I’d not subscribe to the Daily Intel feed if I don’t have to.
I was having the same problem with Matt Yglesias’s posts over at Slate until they just fixed it.
Will Reks
That should be Jon Chait, of course.
jeffreyw
Still eating turkey.
Citizen_X
We HAD a 2 – 5 century supply of coal, way back in 1975 (when the Senate commissioned a survey of coal supplies). Since then, coal use has continued to continually rise, doubling every 25 years or so. So, after a couple of doubling cycles, those “centuries” are reduced to mere decades.
Your glee at this situation is perverse. This is not a game.
Veritas
@Citizen_X:
It’s not a game it’s a stupid, hairshirt religion. Not even Canada or Europe is playing along anymore. Face it, it’s over for your cult.
RealityCheck
4jkb4ia
Also, what have we had? We had the real possibility that Bachmann could win Iowa, but we didn’t have that real possibility in some of the other early states. Bachmann flamed out. The national Romney alternatives were Perry and Cain and each of them shot themselves in the foot. Newt has played this game long enough that if he shoots himself in the foot, the voters may have seen something like it before. But as I said in another comment, the media could get working on what Newt did when he was out of power and that could still hurt him.
Citizen_X
@Veritas: You have not responded to any of the issues I mentioned at all. Instead, you continue in your puerile taunts, proving that this is just some juvenile game to you. I won’t waste my time any further.
burnspbesq
RIP, Paul Motian, one of the great drummers in the history of jazz, who died last week at age 80.
burnspbesq
@Veritas:
Unintentionally ironic handle? You wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up and kissed you on the mouth.
Lojasmo
@Veritas:
Holy shit. I thought verities was spoofing RC. So verities is a sock with a hole. No wonder the foot smelled so bad.
PurpleGirl
@Cat Lady: I heard her live as a special guest with a classical chamber group I like. She is very good.
Jenny
McConnell caves!
Agrees to extend payroll tax cut.
Gravenstone
@burnspbesq: Now be fair, the troll is kind enough to share his better known handle as his “tagline”. RC was never worth engaging under that name, so this iteration is also worth nothing more than mockery.
And pie … sweet, sweet pie!
Joseph Nobles
You may not be hungry for turkey, but how about horse?
A controversy is gathering steam right now because the Agricultural Appropriations bill this year restored funding for inspectors of horse slaughter houses. This funding was eliminated back in 2006 with annual legislative language, but that language didn’t make it back into the bill this year. This was an effective ban on horse slaughter houses, because absent the inspectors, the slaughter couldn’t occur. So instead of bundling up your horse and shipping it to the nearest American slaughter house, you had to go to the trouble of shipping it to the nearest Mexican or Canadian slaughter house.
However, the ag bill sans “ban on horse slaughter house inspector funding” became part of a conference report that also included language for preventing a partial government shutdown on Friday. So the whole thing was must-pass, Obama signed it, and you know what that means:
Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter For Human Consumption
Thanksgiving was actually on November 24, but that’s a minor detail when OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT.
The thing is, the people against horse slaughter have some really good points. And the main Congress critter in the forefront of this issue is Jack Kingston of Georgia, and Georgia is one of the states cited as getting ready to have a horse slaughter facility open in the first link I posted. Kingston was also instrumental in getting the language dropped in the bill. I would be in favor of a permanent ban on horse slaughter, but there remains the real problem of humane disposal of dead and dying animals. It’s a thorny problem, I think the animal activists have the better side of the argument, but this irresponsible politicizing of the subject doesn’t do the subject any real good.
shano
Joseph Nobles: I am a life long horseperson. I worked in the horse industry for 22 years. I agree with having horse slaughterhouses. It is even more inhumane to ship horses for slaughter to Mexico and Canada. it is terribly inhumane. I would rather these horses be killed locally under the same standards we use to slaughter cattle.
If you do not know anything about animal husbandry, sure, banning the slaughter of horses seems to make sense. but it does not. these are domesticated animals and man will always be responsible for their care.
Right now we have 40,000 + ‘wild’ horses in feedlots just wasting away under minimal care. The damage they do to the environment in the SW is horrendous. These herds need to be managed. We now pay a hell of a lot of money to shoot wild horses with slow release birth control in order to slow down the rate of population growth.
The average life span of a truly ‘wild’ horse is 6 years, they die terrible deaths from parasites, various species of worms damage their internal organs and can even invade their brain. Even wild herds should have access to worm medication to have a chance of a good life.
If we continue to allow ‘backyard’ breeders of horses- these horses who are raised on less than 5 acres of land, never develop correctly. They have terrible physical problems and the vast majority end up at slaughter. Backyard breeding should be banned.
Until this is done, especially now, when people are dumping horses on state and federal land because they can no longer afford to feed them- we will continue to have too many horses and not enough homes. The fate of these horses is horrible, starvation, dying of thirst and death.
It would be much better to slaughter these horses and feed people. i went to France and horsemeat is in every market. Of course, I could never eat horse meat, but it is more humane to have a good local facility under inspection than shipping them (in horrible conditions) thousands of miles to worse facilities.
CarolDuhart2
@Jenny: Amazing, isn’t it? I’ve never recalled Democrats being so proactive before. Hitting them before there’s a nominee? Isn’t that Republican? Being strategic enough to try to get the ideal nominee for our side? I’m impressed.
I always knew Obama’s folks knew what they were doing, and this may prove it. Obama isn’t even out there yet, and they are already working the refs, the voters. By the time the Republicans find a not-Romney, or Romney limps over the finish line, the Republican nomination will look like those prizes you win as sort of a farewell gift (“Let him win-he’s retiring anyway”)
HeartlandLiberal
Best leftovers breakfast?
My wife’s homemade dressing, made with southern style unsweetened white corn meal cornbread baked in an iron skillet, smothered in gravy, heated, with two over easy fried eggs on the side.
My aging arteries tremble as they see it coming, but I figure a breakfast like that a couple of times a year is not going to do them in.
Sheer gustatory Heaven.
ksmiami
Last night baked wall-eye with rice pilaf and tonight spicy Thai food. I am soooo done with Thanksgiving food