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Late Night Open Thread: Thanksgiving Travel, Always A Hassle

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Nicole Hollander’s Sylvia cartoon strip had a running gag about hapless individuals bargaining with the Devil for a less embarrassing form of death. Trading ‘Spent the afternoon at a casino, before running my Bentley over a barrier at the border and shutting down the NY/Canada border’ would definitely be an upgrade from ‘Tried to outrun a DUI stop at the border after having a KISS concert cancelled from under us’. Still highly undignified, for both the unfortunate individuals and the right-winger who seized upon the incident as ANOTHER TERROR ATTACK WHY DOES BIDEN DO NOTHING?!?…

Per CNN:

There is no indication of terrorism after an explosion killed two people in a car that crashed at the US-Canada Rainbow Bridge border crossing on Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

All four bridges between Canada and the United States near Niagara Falls were closed immediately after the incident, according to the governor. The Peace, Whirlpool and Lewiston-Queenston bridges reopened later Wednesday, while the Rainbow Bridge remained closed, she said…

Here’s what we know:

High-speed vehicle: Investigators believe a man was traveling with his wife in a 2022 Bentley at a high rate of speed when the vehicle hit a curb, then a guardrail that sent the vehicle airborne into the secondary screening area of Rainbow Bridge, law enforcement sources told CNN. The man had plans to attend a KISS concert in Canada but when that was canceled, the man went to a casino in the US instead, investigators believe. The crash occurred sometime after the couple left the casino, law enforcement sources said. Footage on social media and from surveillance cameras shows the remains strewn about with thick smoke and fire billowing. A border patrol employee in a booth also suffered minor injuries, Hochul said…

Travel headaches: The explosion on the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday led to closures and delays on a busy travel day. International flights in and out of Buffalo Niagara International Airport were briefly halted while other travelers there were warned they could expect additional screening…

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  1. 1.

    piratedan

    I’m positive that Ms. Lake will offer a humble apology for jumping to an erroneous conclusion.  You know the kind of thing that people who aren’t complete narcissists do when they make a mistake.

  7. 7.

    montanareddog

    What is the app the Kari Lake posted on? Truth Social? Not that it matters, but if  I had an account, I would have replied “I see what jew did there”.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    In non rich terrorist news (via reddit)

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Illinois jury ruled this week that several major egg producers conspired to limit the U.S.’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case stemming from a federal lawsuit originally filed 12 years ago.
    ….
    The suppliers include the family company of an Indiana egg farmer running for the U.S. Senate in the state.

    Pope invited trans women over for a pasta & meatballs dinner

    A former sex worker sat next to the Pontiff making small talk as they had tiramisu for dessert.

  13. 13.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    Pope invited trans women over for a pasta & meatballs dinner

    A former sex worker sat next to the Pontiff making small talk as they had tiramisu for dessert.

    A genuine WWJD moment* from Fadda Frankie there.

     

    * Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know there’s zero textual evidence to support the myth that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute and that she was almost certainly a wealthy woman who may or may not have been Yeshua’s wife/Priestess of the Cult of Ashtereth, but I’m talking about cultural common-knowledge here, so bite me one and all.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    Eep. Fished the dusty bottle of Drambuie from the back of the liquor cabinet for use in Turkey Day prep. Holiday cooking pretty much the only time during the year I make use of it

    Went to open it and the cork totally disintegrated.

    By sheer chance there was a 16 oz. glass jar with a screw-on lid drying on the counter, which had held horseradish, all cleaned and washed while I dithered about whether to toss it or keep it around. Remainder of Drambuie filled 14 oz. of that.

    Kitchen kismet.

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    @Tony Jay: I’ve got no use for the Catholic (or any other) Church but occasionally find myself inside that organization’s buildings when someone in my husband’s family marries or dies. I used to find the framed photos therein of Ratzinger’s glowering visage discouraging. Now I find Frankie’s smiling image reassuring. It’s all about the vibe. ;-)

  16. 16.

    Gvg

    Hmm, treat the trans people as normal. What an idea. Probably a good move, but obviously I don’t know much about a huge ancient organization with a lot of different populations very invested in what it does and says. And I am an introvert.

  17. 17.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Baud:

    I still blame Biden.

    Well, if it wasn’t for Biden personally setting the price of T-giving turkeys at $90, these people wouldn’t have been trying to smuggle them across the border.

    /snark

    BTW, do the regulars on BJ ever sleep? LOL!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  19. 19.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishments☘🌈 Koch

    55 million Americans are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday this month…

    to be the busiest for air travel in nearly two decades as travel continues to rebound after the pandemic.

    But, but ….. the price of Doritos are up!

  20. 20.

    Baud

    We’re so spoiled.

     

    Turkey’s central bank hikes interest rate by 500 basis points to 40%, well above expectations

    The move was seen as a continuation of the bank’s attempt to combat high inflation and a weak lira, the Turkish currency. Inflation in the country came in at a whopping 61% in October

  22. 22.

    lowtechcyclist

    Mornin’, y’all, and happy Thanksgiving!

    Got my coffee, the cats are fed, got the pies in the oven, unloaded the dishwasher from when I ran it last night, and everyone else is still asleep. When my wife wakes up, coffee and a clean kitchen, and the aroma of fresh-baked pumpkin pies, will be waiting.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    It’s 50 degrees F here right now, which is usually cold enough to keep Floridians indoors. But a while ago, just after I posted the comment above and while it was still mostly dark, a boat came roaring upriver and slammed into something, maybe a channel marker or floating tree limb.

    The boat had standard navigation lights plus a spotlight on the front. It circled around erratically at idle speed after the collision, and for a moment I thought I’d have to try to effect a rescue with my little Jon boat. (Bill had to work super early, so it’s just me home.)

    But then it continued upriver. I guess the circling was the skipper trying to figure out what they hit, not a pilotless boat. Whew!

  24. 24.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishments☘🌈 Koch

    @Nukular Biskits: A 20 pound, premium Butterball turkey at my local Target sells for $24.33.

    The price is so low, they’re flying out the store.

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @Betty Cracker:

    Encapsulates everything vile about the global Right, doesn’t it, that they call themselves Christians and yet venerate the paedo-protecting Grand Inquisitor with the face of a Hellboy villain while snarling at the genuine, empathetic pastor who is trying to make their Church more ‘Christlike’?

    Granted, the whole Church is a load of turbo-charged fusion theology anyway, but it’s like they go out of their way to be as far removed as possible from what their Bearded Sky Fairy is supposed to have told them was important.

    Shorter – Wankers.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    Insomnia has its upside. Threw together and baked the sweet potato casserole starting at midnight. Instead of a single large container, divided it into portions in separate rectangular glass storage containers with sealable airtight lids (a Prime Days in October find at a price too attractive to pass up). Can freeze any extras.

  31. 31.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishments☘🌈 Koch

    The man had plans to attend a KISS concert

    Yet another rock and rollers who couldnt drive 55.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishments☘🌈 Koch

    Could have been worse. Could have been Nickelback.
    //

  36. 36.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tony Jay: I know there’s zero textual evidence to support the myth that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute and that she was almost certainly a wealthy woman who may or may not have been Yeshua’s wife/Priestess of the Cult of Ashtereth…

    Way the nuns explained it to me, back in the early 1970s, was that Mary from Magdala was a sophisticated ‘entertainer’ who’d spent her time in the local equivalent of Las Vegas (Magdala being the resort town where all the rich Roman lords went on vacation).  Mary had seen the Biblical equivalent of Sigfried & Roy, she’d been backstage at Roman David Copperfield’s shows — no way she’d be impressed by some two-bit yokel magician from Bethlehem!  So if *she* thought Yeshua was The Real Deal, that was a public argument in favor of his actual magic-working divinity.

    (Also, it is known that all the *best* divinities are hot dudes who draw the chicks.  Did I mention this was an all-girls parochial school?… )

  38. 38.

    geg6

    My heart is breaking.  Daryl Hall is suing John Oates.  No word on why but Hall has a restraining order on Oates.  This is terrible.

  41. 41.

    Geminid

    I was checking out Navy Times and I found an article about miltary outreach efforts at last week’s Anime NYC convention:

       While the Army kept its booth low key, the Marines-in typical fashion- rolled out a ‘Battle Dome’ and challenged passersby to test their mettle on a pullup bar.

    The reporter noted that US military services are struggling now to reach recruitment goals, and that explained why two of the nation’s oldest institutions represented themselves at a pop culture gathering. They hope that the prospect of service overseas will appeal to younger peoples’ sense of adventure

    One Reddit commenter thought the Marines were overthinking their presentation to fans of Anime:

       Bruh just put up a big ass sign, ‘Will pay you to live in Japan,’ and send their asses off to Oki.

    “Oki” would be Okinawa, the southern Japanese island that hosts a large and crowded Marine base.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    When autocorrect goes very, very wrong

    When Kari Lake not only sucks a rotting horse’s ass, but shoves her head into its rotting ass!

  46. 46.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Geminid: I was visiting my favourite small town in Japan, Onomichi one year when they were holding their Minato Matsuri (Port Festival). The Japan Coast Guard had some ships tied up on the town piers and they were taking the opportunity to do some low-key recruiting. They had a mascot figure dressed as a Coast Guard officer, very “furry”.

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