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Thanksgiving Midday Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  November 22, 201811:56 am| 106 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Domestic Politics, Open Threads

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Here’s someone I’m extremely thankful for: Badger.

Isn’t he a handsome boy? Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 22, 2018 at 11:58 am

    Happy Thanksgiving to Balloon Juicers and their furry family members!

  2. 2.

    feebog

    November 22, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    My new boy Baloo is sitting on the porch outside my office surveying the backyard and keeping us all safe from squirrels. Good doggie.

  3. 3.

    Citizen Alan

    November 22, 2018 at 12:02 pm

    Badger’s a lot taller than I’d thought. Usually, you do an overhead shot of him and he looks adorably squat.

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    November 22, 2018 at 12:04 pm

    Badger is growing so fast. I am doing most of my baking over because certain members of the household ate the pie and half a loaf of pumpkin bread before I went to bed. Also, after years of going to a dear friend’s house for Thanksgiving, people are coming to mine as well, so my usual lazy day will not happen.

    I am thankful for the jackaltariat. You guys keep me sane in insane times.

  5. 5.

    Humdog

    November 22, 2018 at 12:08 pm

    Betty, whadayagot against tails on your doggos?

  6. 6.

    MobiusKlein

    November 22, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    My cats escaped the house in dark of night somehow, and woke me up at 6am clawing on the window screens to be let in.

    Now they are lap cats preventing t.giving preparations. Naughty!

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    November 22, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    The little white booties. Badger is so cute.

    Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  8. 8.

    zhena gogolia

    November 22, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    How he’s grown! I wish I could give him snorgles!

  9. 9.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 12:19 pm

    Badger has such long legs! He is a handsome boy. He looks like he’s saying, “Yeah. Who’s gonna make me?” Heh. He must be a handful.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 12:19 pm

    I’m hoping Badger doesn’t always look so worried. Maybe it’s all the strangers filling up his house?

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 12:21 pm

    @debbie: He just had to move, too. That’s stressful for anyone!

  12. 12.

    Sister Golden Bear

    November 22, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Reposting from the dead thread downstairs…

    Happy Thanksgiving my fellow jackals!

    I’m thankful that we finally got rain yesterday in NorCal that dropped the air quality index from the 160s (more than 3x the limit for “healthy”) down to around 10. Unfortunately, I’ve still got a sore throat and a tight chest. Hoping it’s just an after effect of the smoke and that I’ve not got a cold.

    It’s the first Thanksgiving without Mom, but I’m doing surprisingly well. Partly because it’s the first time in years that I haven’t had to travel to SoCal for the holidays — something I’ve dreamed about for years. Because I was the spinster daughter, I always had to go to Mom’s, so this is probably the first time my adult life — at age 54 — that I’ve been able to celebrate Thanksgiving (and Christmas) on my own terms.

    Getting together with friends for Femmesgiving — we’re gonna do high femme today and get all dressed up. Thankfully, my friends invited me before my Fox-loving uncle did, so I could truthfully tell him I already had plans.

  13. 13.

    tobie

    November 22, 2018 at 12:23 pm

    Wow! Handsome Badger know’s he’s the Boss.

  14. 14.

    satby

    November 22, 2018 at 12:24 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving to all!
    The outside cats have gotten their warmed cat food, the birds suet and extra sunflower seeds, the herd inside is snoozing after the second outing of the morning, and my turkey is still frozen (not really a surprise) so I’m thinking tacos for dinner today. Which I love ? as much as I love all youse guyz.

  15. 15.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    November 22, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    Badger always looks like he has a ‘tude. I love him. @Humdog: They outlawed tail docking in the UK years ago. You can tell the age of a dog now by whether or not they have a tail. My Mum’s rescue JRT has a docked tail so she is very old. However, with regard to Boxers their tails are absolutely lethal, they can clear a table with one swipe! I believe that you can still get a Boxer et. al. with a docked tail but you have to import them from the EU. They also outlawed ear clipping, and cat declawing. Good things I think.

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    November 22, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    @Humdog: Badger has all the tail he was born with; it’s just sort of…bunny-like. Someone cut Daisy’s tail off before we got her. I would never remove a dog’s tail nor trim the ears.

  17. 17.

    Aleta

    November 22, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    He has a beautiful shape.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 22, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    What a dork!

    Happy thanksgiving, everyone!

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    November 22, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Our late Patsy Marie was a boxer with a tail, and it was deadly, like rebar wrapped in velvet. I still miss getting whacked in the shins with it though.

  20. 20.

    chris

    November 22, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    Such a handsome fellow! Right now I envy y’all down there in Florida. Just in from a short walk with the dogs in an inch of new snow and windy 17F weather. I don’t usually air out the longjohns until the end of November but they’re out now.

    Happy Thanksgiving from the great white north

  21. 21.

    Nelle

    November 22, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    I’m mostly a lurker in the comment section but I want to thank all of youse guys for keeping me informed and entertained, especially through the last year and a half of chronic pain (now improving thanks to hip replacement). I’m thankful to you and for you. A little river of sanity running through the inter-tubes.

  22. 22.

    Manyakitty

    November 22, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving! Badger is such a sweet, handsome boy!!!

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    And now a Thanksgiving message from the President of the United States…

    Trump: “Steam is very reliable. Electromagnetic – unfortunately you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly…”

    Navy Officer: “Yes sir. You sort of have to be Albert Einstein to run the nuclear power plant that we have here as well, but we’re doing that very well.” pic.twitter.com/uJkNgxzF2B

    — Mick Krever (@mickbk) November 22, 2018

  24. 24.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:42 pm

    @Mary G:

    Also, after years of going to a dear friend’s house for Thanksgiving, people are coming to mine as well

    What did you do w/the crazy RWNJ uncle? Chastised by recent events?

  25. 25.

    WereBear

    November 22, 2018 at 12:42 pm

    He’s doing the teen-dog leg thing. Next, the filling-out.

    Our four rescue cats are enjoying the lazy day, and we will set out treats before we gather with friends at a buffet next town over. It’s a resort hotel, so they stay open always, anyway. No guilt.

    Nice and sunny and 5. No wind. Don’t even want to wear my parka!

  26. 26.

    Ben Cisco

    November 22, 2018 at 12:44 pm

    Repost from Down Below:

    Happy Thanksgiving Jackals! I’m home with my mom and niece, gathering with most of the rest of the family later.

    Grateful to be here, and grateful for all of you.

    Enjoy the day!

  27. 27.

    satby

    November 22, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    @efgoldman: Good to see you efg! Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family!
    I miss your fuckems.

  28. 28.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    @satby:

    I miss your fuckems.

    Scattered hither and yon. Too much low-hanging fruit.

  29. 29.

    The Dangerman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:50 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Steam is very reliable. Electromagnetic – unfortunately you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly..

    I thought this was a sick attempt at humor. I only listened to that much of the quote and turned it off.

    Ivanks, Daddy’s sundowning again.

  30. 30.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    November 22, 2018 at 12:50 pm

    @Betty Cracker: My Boxer cross Skeeter had a tail and as you said he would smack your shins with it. I lost at least half a dozen tea mugs to it as well.

  31. 31.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:51 pm

    This game was going to be bad enough with a starting QB

  32. 32.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I lost at least half a dozen tea mugs to it as well.

    That’s like leaving them where the toddler can reach. Ooh pretty

  33. 33.

    Adam L Silverman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    @The Dangerman: You need to watch it all the way through. The Navy officer corrects him, which then leads the President to switch positions and agree with the correction.

    Here’s the actual Thanksgiving message. It is, perhaps, even worse than his conversation about steam.

    pic.twitter.com/y4chCfEDke

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2018

  34. 34.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 1:02 pm

    @efgoldman: Speaking of kids, how are your grandkids?

  35. 35.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    You need to watch it all the way through.

    Nope. Not gonna ruin my Thanksgiving by watching or listening to him. Having to see his ugly face twice in this thread is two times too many for me. Makes my stomach turn. I literally put my hand over the screen when I see him and race to mute. He makes me physically ill.

  36. 36.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    @Yarrow:

    how are your grandkids?

    Robust.
    They have a new place, perfect in every way, still in Arlington

  37. 37.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Not gonna ruin my Thanksgiving by watching or listening to him

    Doesn’t a negative level of ignorance amuse you?
    Sun goes up sun goes down, nobody (least of all, orange fart cloud)) knows why

  38. 38.

    The Dangerman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    You need to watch it all the way through.

    I’d rather (hmmm, no reason to enumerate the list of things I’d rather do; suffice, the list is lonnnnnng). I so look forward to the day Mueller brings the hammer down.

    That’s my happy thanksgiving thought, Juicers; Muellermas is coming.

  39. 39.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 1:10 pm

    @efgoldman: That’s great. Do you get to see them at all?

    @efgoldman: Not today. He physically makes me sick and I do not want that on a day of thanks.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    November 22, 2018 at 1:11 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Come sit beside me.

    Happy Thanksgiving to all Jackals! Love you all and you’re what I’m going to be thankful for when asked to name things I’m thankful for.

    And Badger is adorbs.?

  41. 41.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Do you get to see them at all?

    xmas first time.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    November 22, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Badger is too cute for words??

  43. 43.

    cain

    November 22, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving! Our family fight this year is between my mother and grandmother. The gist is that my grandmother is very religious and my mom is not and despite that my mom tries to help but my grandmother doesn’t understand that and is frustrated that the household is not more religious. She is also very angry about the drinking that happens and sees it as a example of low morals. On top of that she praises her daughter-in-law, who had kicked her out of the house and has no desire to take care of her after my uncle died. Which of course, pisses off my mother. Right now, my grandmother lives with my mom who is 70, and dad who is 80 for 6 months, and then stays with my dad’s brother and his wife who is already taking care of my 95 year old grandmother.. so they get to deal with two old birds who have all kinds of ideas, opinions and demands. They are damn saints. (my parents are first cousins, and so my grandmother is my other grandmothers sister-in-law)

    ETA: politically, we are all Trump haters, and we generally fight amongst ourselves over stupid shit like why I hate Young Turks vs other stuff. Kind of hte same kind of fights we have on here.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    November 22, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    @Yarrow:
    Come sit by me

  45. 45.

    Mike in NC

    November 22, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    @Yarrow: I’m with you about that. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. We are hosting 14 neighbors today and none are cultists.

  46. 46.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 22, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    @efgoldman: reminded me of futurama:

    NIXON’S HEAD: Hello Morbo, how’s the family?
    MORBO, grotesque alien: Belligerent and numerous!

  47. 47.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    @The Dangerman: No, he’s talked about this before. The Navy’s putting in electro-magnetic catapults in aircraft carriers replacing the steam ones. They’ve encountered some problems(it’s a new system, there’s always problems) and Trump wants to go back to steam catapults.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2018 at 1:20 pm

    No matter what else happens today I’m thankful our AQI has plunged to 20 since rain and a wind shift has moved out the Camp Fire smoke. It hit 400 a couple times during the last nearly two weeks and seldom dropped below 200. Ghoulishly unhealthy.

    Still feel dreadful for 14,000 families now homeless and the families of the dead and missing. So glad the president* has taken time to extol the Eastern cold snap. Sure fixed that climate thing, didn’t we?

  49. 49.

    BroD

    November 22, 2018 at 1:20 pm

    I was wondering why it felt so cold out so I checked a weather site and discovered that it IS cold out. God, I hate cold weather!

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    Launching coal-fired fighter jets, no doubt.

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:23 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Trump wants to go back to steam catapults.

    Or maybe rubber bands, wound real tight.
    Like he knows the difference.

  52. 52.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    Somebody else must be awake

  53. 53.

    Yarrow

    November 22, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    @efgoldman: Awake but busy! Glad you’re getting to see the kidlets at Christmas. Happy Thanksgiving!

  54. 54.

    Betty Cracker

    November 22, 2018 at 1:33 pm

    @cain: My maternal grandma and great-grandma were always catatonic with disgust at all the drinking at family occasions. They were Baptists and fanatics, the both of them, but it didn’t take in subsequent generations.

  55. 55.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 1:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I was so hoping those quotes were snark. There is no bottom to the depths of his idiocy.

  56. 56.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    @efgoldman:

    So happy to see your nym here. I have missed your trenchantness.

  57. 57.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    @debbie:

    There is no bottom to the depths of his idiocy.

    Fucking amazing, isn’t it.
    Bet he doesn’t know the WH street address

  58. 58.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    @efgoldman: The rubber bands worked for his little airplanes(went with his tiny hands) as a kid, should work for a F-18.

    @trollhattan: Of course, nothing better than coal.

  59. 59.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    @debbie:

    I have missed your trenchantness.

    Left my trenching tool inthe trunk

  60. 60.

    Beautifulplumage

    November 22, 2018 at 1:46 pm

    Thanks to all the folks who keep this place running! BJ has been my news filter for the past 3 years and, like others have written, it helps keep me sane. The love for animals, writing, growing things, and making things, plus the snark, makes for a perfect mix. Wishing a pleasant Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

  61. 61.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    @Beautifulplumage:

    Thanks to all the folks who keep this place running!

    Goddamned good thing the blogfather’s asleep

  62. 62.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    50 years ago, today, The Beatles released their new album “The Beatles”(aka “The White Album” since the cover was all white). I’m listening to the 50 anniversary deluxe remix.

  63. 63.

    Doug R

    November 22, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    So is the Navy going from a cable style launch to LIMs?
    The really fast launching coasters use a cable powered by multiple hydraulic motors.
    LIMs are simpler but they don’t seem to be as powerful, maybe there’s some problems as you ramp up the magnetic fields.

  64. 64.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    My local NPR station had an hour show celebrating the remix. It sounds great.

  65. 65.

    Elizabelle

    November 22, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    @efgoldman: Happy Turkey Day.

    Is your new grandson born? If so, how old? All the best. Great to see you here.

  66. 66.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 1:59 pm

    @Doug R:

    The really fast launching coasters use a cable powered by multiple hydraulic motors.

    And mango malignant knows and can explain it.

  67. 67.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    @debbie: I got it 2 weeks ago, it’s pretty good, you hear things you never heard before. Listening to “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”, it’s good except for Yoko.

  68. 68.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Is your new grandson born

    We did this dance before. He’s a month old

  69. 69.

    Aleta

    November 22, 2018 at 2:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: OMG.
    “…because steam is very reliable.”

    “Sir, Mr Prez. Sir, we do pay a heavy cost for transiting with steam around the ship. I would go with the EM.”

    “Good. OK. I like to hear that. I’m actually happy about that answer.
    Because–at least–uh heheh.”

  70. 70.

    Amir Khalid

    November 22, 2018 at 2:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    The words in that message are perfunctory and impersonal. Trump, having not bothered to learn them, is obviously reading them off a prompting device. He is squinting at it instead of looking at the camera, which as an experienced TV performer he should know to do. Better no Thanksgiving message at all, I think, than one so poorly prepared and presented.

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    November 22, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    @efgoldman: Excellent.

  72. 72.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Better no Thanksgiving message at all

    Truer words….

  73. 73.

    Doug R

    November 22, 2018 at 2:09 pm

    @Aleta: It is easier to move electricity around than steam.

  74. 74.

    efgoldman

    November 22, 2018 at 2:11 pm

    @Doug R:

    It is easier to move electricity around than steam.

    Which tuegid turkey knows and understands, right?

  75. 75.

    Miss Bianca

    November 22, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Ha ha, that sounds like a stone gas, as the kids used to say maybe, oh, forty years ago? Happy TD, SIster!

  76. 76.

    Miss Bianca

    November 22, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Wait a minute…this is REAL??

  77. 77.

    Steve in the ATL

    November 22, 2018 at 2:19 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    it’s good except for Yoko

    Which is true of most things she was involved in, no?

  78. 78.

    Yutsano

    November 22, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    @efgoldman: Someone is, but someone doesn’t want to be.

    HAPPY TURKEY DAY FOLKS!!!

    Gonna drift over to the ranch here soon. Just enjoying the peace of the apartment before I have to deal with three shrieking nephews.

  79. 79.

    waratah

    November 22, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I rarely watch him but I watched both for you. I am so glad we have some Einstein’s, in our military and knew the right way to answer. I just wish they could figure a way to remove him his Vice President and cabinet
    Right now!

  80. 80.

    zhena gogolia

    November 22, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    You know, I actually went through a period where I enjoyed her contributions to the Double Fantasy album. I have no idea what I was thinking.

  81. 81.

    Miss Bianca

    November 22, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Y’know what, enough with the Yoko bashing, all y’all. It’s lazy, misogynistic BS. It amazes me how people can idolize John Lennon and so easily dismiss the work of a woman artist that he obviously respected. Whether or not her art is to our taste, it behooves us to remember that contrary to the usual lazy misogynistic BS myth-making, it was John’s idea to work with her, not the other way round.

  82. 82.

    otmar

    November 22, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    As this is an open thread, a small thing which shows some of the differences I see between the Austrian and the US justice system.

    Some time ago, a child was killed as its pram was sucked from the platform into a passing train, as the mother let go to grab her second child. Pure tragedy.

    Now the court verdict is in:

    * no blame towards the train driver, he passed the station according to his rules
    * the mother was ruled to have acted negligently (by not engaging the brakes of the pram), causing the death. But not criminal negligence.

    Sentencing: as “simple negligence”, a diversion is possible, i.e. no real conviction, only one year probation.

    The prosecutor said: “„weil angenommen werden kann, dass es nicht der Verurteilung der Kindesmutter bedarf, um sie oder Dritte von einem vergleichbaren Versehen abzuhalten“.

    That translates to “one can assume that a conviction is not necessary to deter her, or others, from committing a similar infraction”.

    This is quite a different approach to what I’ve seen from US prosecutors.

  83. 83.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yeah, her vocal contributions … leave something to be desired. A great human being though.

  84. 84.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 2:34 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Who would have prompted to promote steam for the military? I can’t imagine anyone in the WH, not even Stephen Miller. Perhaps a coal lobbyist has a home at Maralago.

  85. 85.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    @Doug R:
    Dad’s WWII CV stayed in service for decades and was refitted several times. During that period, this happened.

    At 06:11 on 26 May 1954, while cruising off Narragansett Bay, the fluid in one of her catapults leaked out and was detonated by the flames of a jet, causing the forward part of the flight deck to explode. A series of secondary explosions occurred, killing 103 crewmen (predominantly senior NCO’s) and injuring 201 others.[1] Bennington proceeded under her own power to Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to land her injured. This tragedy caused the Navy to switch from hydraulic catapults to steam catapults for launching aircraft. A monument to the sailors who died in this tragic event was erected near the southwest corner of Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island.

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    @otmar:

    This is quite a different approach to what I’ve seen from US prosecutors.

    “Was the mother armed?”
    “What race is the mom and does her last name sound Mexican?”
    “Where is the baby daddy?”

  87. 87.

    debbie

    November 22, 2018 at 2:39 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    It’s not lazy or misogynist. Her voice and musical vocabulary were at odds with Beatles music. It would be like listening to Jeanette McDonald belt out a child’s lullaby. It just doesn’t work.

  88. 88.

    cain

    November 22, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    @cain: My maternal grandma and great-grandma were always catatonic with disgust at all the drinking at family occasions. They were Baptists and fanatics, the both of them, but it didn’t take in subsequent generations.

    Yeah, my grandmother always has a scowl on her face and watches like a hawk. My parents and I wait till she is upstairs before taking out the bottle of wine. Its kind of funny watching my 80 and 70 year old parents acting like teenagers with the liquor cabinet. My mom usually drinks from a mug or something that hides it. Hilarious!

  89. 89.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    @debbie:
    Who can say, but it’s not a stretch that this guy himself hatched the idea. I’ll bet little Donny had the bitchin’est train set in Queens.

  90. 90.

    Just One More Canuck

    November 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: listening to that (well, not the remix – don’t have it yet), then The Last Waltz

  91. 91.

    Luthe

    November 22, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    I am thankful I will be in Paris in two weeks. Complete with 19th century opera glasses with which to watch the ballet at the Opera Garnier.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    November 22, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    @otmar:

    This is quite a different approach to what I’ve seen from US prosecutors.

    US prosecutors only show that kind of compassion when a child is accidentally killed with a gun that someone left laying around. ?

    Happy Thanksgiving, jackals!

  93. 93.

    Gelfling 545

    November 22, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Will not watch or listen to THAT PERSON. Is the message about how we should be thankful for/to him?

  94. 94.

    Steve in the ATL

    November 22, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    @Miss Bianca: I don’t care what John thought of her music; I think it’s fucking horrible. Not saying she’s a bad person, but definitely one of the worst singers ever.

  95. 95.

    Gelfling 545

    November 22, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    @Luthe: Oh, how glorious! When we were there everything seemed to be at Opéra Bastille and sold out! ?

  96. 96.

    Ruckus

    November 22, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    @The Dangerman:
    Rather have another colonoscopy. If only the prep would do the same for all of us, clean out everything.
    And seeing him is worse than listening.

  97. 97.

    JPL

    November 22, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I just started watching the videos of his phone call, and let me say he has no idea what he is talking about. It’s not just about steam, it’s about trade, it’s about everything.

  98. 98.

    sukabi

    November 22, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    Badger’s legs are a size too long, must be in his gangly teenage years.?

  99. 99.

    HinTN

    November 22, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    @Mary G:

    Late to the party but

    jackaltariat

    wins the day for me.

    Happy Thanksgiving, jackaltariat.

  100. 100.

    HinTN

    November 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Not just misogyny, it’s a cultural thing, too. Our scale is comfortable to our ear, the oriental scale not so much.

  101. 101.

    Steeplejack

    November 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Badger is a handsome boy! And he seems to be coming into his own. In a lot of the earlier pictures he’s looking over his shoulder with a look like “What did I do now?” In this one he’s all “I got this.”

  102. 102.

    sukabi

    November 22, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: oh ferfucks sake…saw an article where retired general slapping back at him for spilling military secrets… Seems he’s going all in on being an idiotic moronitude.

  103. 103.

    HinTN

    November 22, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    moronitude

    ? Definitely a close second!

  104. 104.

    geg6

    November 22, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    This. Thank you. I hate how people dismiss her as some sort of groupie. She is an artist, whose work her husband appreciated and respected. The least we can do is extend her the same respect even if we don’t appreciate her vision. John did and he would not have been the solo artist he was without her.

  105. 105.

    J R in WV

    November 22, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    @debbie:

    Who would have prompted to promote steam for the military?

    I have to point out that the steam in this long and odd story is generated by nuclear reactors, not by coal or fuel oil boilers…

    Part of why new Aircraft Carriers cost many billions of dollars.

  106. 106.

    karen marie

    November 23, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I don’t think tail docking is in the same class as ear docking and declawing. Docking is done when puppies are 24 to 36 hours old, the bone in the tail is very soft – like cartilage – and it is done at the same time as dew claw removal, all with little clippers – snip, snip, snip, snip, snip. The dew claw removal is much more painful than the docking, because there are four of them and, to my untrained eye, seemed much stiffer than the tail bone. I went with my neighbor to his vet when he had the litter done that my second Cocker came from. The ear thing is very painful, done when the puppies are old enough to feel it, and it lasts for weeks, if not longer. Declawing is indeed horrific. But tail docking? It’s not even close to as painful as you might think it is.

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