A little holiday travelin’ music, to say thanks
It’s getting time to slide into the Thanksgiving holiday, so I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to all those partake in our sometimes vigorous discussions here, as well as to those who merely lurk in the shadows, agog and perhaps a little intimidated at the extreme erudition and beautifully crafted prose displayed by our regulars.
Or something like that.
Anyway, in the immortal words of Sam and Dave, “I thank you,” and have a great holiday. Catch you on the flip side.
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Dusty
November 25th, 2010
1:01 pm
Well, this is a most pleasant day. Everybody posting nice messages and music. I just saw a football payer singing the Star Spangled Banner with the crowd. You just can’t beat that star spangled feeling..
We here at our “mansion” are celebrating tomorrow with thanks and birthdays. Today is still special. My sour cream pound cake did not burn. My banana bread is rising. A pan of biscuits is awaiting a red hot oven. The sun is coming from behind the clouds.
Keep up the happiness. I think we all love it.
nerds ain't working. In the USA at least
November 25th, 2010
1:02 pm
Soothsayer
November 25th, 2010
10:39 am
The social net has become a bit more frayed. Soon extended unemployment benefits will cease and 2 million Americans will have to dip into their savings, if they have any. This is an outgrowth of the effects of free trade, globalization, offshoring and outsourcing. We have lost 8.5 million jobs over the last ten years to this destructive process. We have seen more than 42,000 manufacturing plants leave the country as well.
There are now more than 17 million Americans unemployed and the U6 official government unemployment figures 17%. If you remove the bogus birth/death ratio, the real figure is 22-5/8%. Over that ten-year period we have lost about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs or about 1/3rd of that labor force. As recent as 1985, 25% of output was in manufacturing, now it is close to 11%. America’s physical infrastructure is in a shambles, so that transnational conglomerates can bring us cheap goods to suppress inflation and bring these companies mega-profits, which they keep stored offshore to bypass taxation. They presently have $1.7 trillion in such profits.
Remember those less fortunate who are suffering.
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That is so true.
Also everyone please remember the corporate victims of outsourcing/offshoring.
The many people in the call centers, IT staffs, etc. and the other members of the middleclass that have worked for years for the corporations loyally only to see their jobs disappear. AND remember all those companies that have engaged in these processes this holiday season and BUY AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS.
USinUK
November 25th, 2010
1:04 pm
jonix – is it warm in here? all I can say is “good gravy!”
Normal – “What kind of dressing do you prefer. Cornbread?” darlin, you can take the girl out of Georgia, but you can’t take Georgia out of the girl … Cornbread. if the question is dressing, the answer is always cornbread.
and I like your new tradition – what a wonderful way to keep servicemen and -women and others who can’t be with their families in your thoughts and prayers.
USinUK
November 25th, 2010
1:05 pm
“My sour cream pound cake did not burn. My banana bread is rising. A pan of biscuits is awaiting a red hot oven”
yum. yum. and YUM.
USinUK
November 25th, 2010
1:08 pm
and one last Thanksgiving classic before I go-go …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST01bZJPuE0
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 25th, 2010
1:35 pm
nerds
I’ve been around a long time. That’s why nothing much surprises me. No matter how bad some politician screws up, I’ve seen it before.
Normal
November 25th, 2010
1:38 pm
The Turkey Drop!!! GAWD, I’d forgotten all about it!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 25th, 2010
1:48 pm
That WKRP episode was hilarious but in actuality, wild turkeys can fly, quite well.
Rightwing Troll
November 25th, 2010
1:51 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Plenty to be thankful for as always… Sometimes I lose sight of that simple fact, but I always come back around. This year I’m thankful for many things, not the least of which I’ll have another little one to be thankful for at the end of feburary… (baby girl…), that brings the count to 5, a basketball team.
Fred
November 25th, 2010
1:54 pm
Well my procrastination yesterday cost me dearly. I started to make the vegetable broth I needed for my brine at around midnight. I turned it on high and fell asleep waiting for it to come to a boil……….. and woke up at 4 am to a WONDERFUL smell, the charred remains of the veggies after all the water boiled out lol. Then when I pulled the turkey out I found that it had no innards. I always use the liver and gizzards in my gravy. Not today I’m not lol. At least the neck was there to make the broth to make the gravy. Dang turkey still needs to soak for 2 more hours………. So instead of Thanksgiving lunch (or late lunch) we are having supper lol.
This brined turkey crap BETTER be good after all this mess lol. Well the up side is that now honey will have a chance to be rested after her 13 mile turkey trot this morning to make an apple pie……….
Fred
November 25th, 2010
1:57 pm
We had a wild turkey cruising through our cul-de-sac a couple of weeks ago HD. I started to try to noose it for today but my 8 year old daughter wouldn’t let me. I wonder where it came from? I mean we live ITP and there ain’t exactly open fields or woods anywhere around………….
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 25th, 2010
2:30 pm
Fred
Wild turkeys move around a lot, so it could have come from just about anywhere, and they love acorns. They are extremely fast, with great eyesight and about a 270 degree field of vision. They are difficult to kill, even with a shotgun. If you ever noose one, be sure somebody gets it on video. You’ll be a Youtube sensation.
nerds ain't working. In the USA at least
November 25th, 2010
2:38 pm
I always find Wild Turkey ITP at Green’s LOL
Fred
November 25th, 2010
2:45 pm
He weren’t too skittish HD. He would let us get surprisingly close to him. I’m thinking someone had been feeding him. In the woods you can’t hardly get anywhere near a turkey but he came walking up the middle of the street towards us like he owned the joint…………..
@Nerds: LOL that’s my favorite kind of Turkey…….. the liquid kind………
nerds ain't working. In the USA at least
November 25th, 2010
2:54 pm
Were you brining your Turkey or marinating it and yourself? Happy T-day all.
Bruno
November 25th, 2010
3:04 pm
Too bad I missed the music throwdown last night. HD came up with some good ones. “Celebrate Me Home” and “Sea of Joy” stand out. I heard this Joe Walsh song on the radio yesterday and it brought back memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99sBCTN-0ww
Bruno
November 25th, 2010
3:10 pm
Everyone roll up a fattie for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_KBe8z0h0&feature=related
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 25th, 2010
3:12 pm
Interesting happenings in S.Korea. The defense minister resigned per requested. US asked China to tell N. Korea to ‘lighen up Frances’. I wonder if this will impact any offshoring done there. Probably not as the workers there are considered expendable just like us. SIGH
Bruno
November 25th, 2010
3:15 pm
Actually meant to play this one, but it’s all good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPgZ782KWtg&feature=related
The guitar break in the middle is mind-blowing ^^^^^
Bruno
November 25th, 2010
3:25 pm
One more by Joe, then heading up to Atlanta for T-Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivv1JW8-Ww&feature=related
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 25th, 2010
4:13 pm
Fred@1:57 pm
We had a wild turkey cruising through our cul-de-sac a couple of weeks ago HD. I started to try to noose it for today but my 8 year old daughter wouldn’t let me. I wonder where it came from? I mean we live ITP and there ain’t exactly open fields or woods anywhere around………….
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Don’t let Matti know. She says she can shoot a turkey’s nuts off and not mess up the meat (or did she mean a republicans lol). That is a woman after my own heart.
Normal
November 25th, 2010
7:09 pm
Hey y’all,
The dinner is over and blessedly, so is the clean up. I had told USinUK yesterday morning that we would have four generations together, but as I stood at the head of the table, we actually had five generations at the table. 1. My Mom, 2. My wife and me, 3. my daughter and her husband, 4. my grand kids, 5. my two great grand kids. Ain’t life grand?
Oh yes, and we are all or will be born again liberals…
Have a great evening and from my heart, may all the good spirits smile down on you.
josef nix
November 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
Just got back from a great feast with the in-law outlaw Indians…got a big ole platter of scrumptious leftovers…all the kids and the grandkids were there…perfect weather for sitting on the deck, sipping wine, watching the little ones rolling about in the raked leaves with the dogs, football shouts from the den, musicians playing…fun watching the new members of the family trying to figure out what they had gotten into…juicy gossip…a lot to be thankful for,,,
Paulo977
November 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
Josef
@8:06pm
Life indeed is good . Returned from daughter’s after trying to keep up with 7yr old grand baby’s energy playing a ball game with me! It was wonderful to sit around and just exchange info about families.
“life is its own magic”
Shunryu Suzuki
Happy Life!
Del
November 25th, 2010
10:21 pm
It sounds as though everyone had a great day. We returned awhile ago from a great get together and for a change I didn’t have to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Us guy’s watched football and drank a little too much beer and bourbon ( mine as always was on the rocks). Just finished my holiday cigar and off to zulu land in awhile. Once again Happy Thanksgiving, remember those less fortunate and those who serve our wonderful country as I know y’all do.
stands for decibels
November 26th, 2010
7:02 am
Happy Black Friday, all.
It sounds as though everyone had a great day.
Aye, Del. Five over for T-day dinner at our place. More dishes than I necessarily recall at the moment.
Extremely thankful for so much that is still so right about life in these days, for all the complaining and criticism I may offer when vexed by current events.
Southern Comfort
November 26th, 2010
7:59 am
Morning all. Hope your Thanksgiving was a good day. Enjoy Black Friday and all the shopping that comes with it.
ROOOOLLLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!!
See y’all later.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 26th, 2010
8:09 am
OMG – it’s Black Friday. I was hoping to sleep through it. Need more home made Baileys w/coffee (lots of it lol) and back to bed till TOMORROW. AAARRRGGGGG
capitalism and war
November 26th, 2010
8:27 am
At best, it would have been a far, far better Thanksgiving had I not prepared the driest turkey that I had ever overdone. At worst, A stick-to-the-throat course of cous-cous and polenta stuffing cursed our Horn of Plenty. I think that I shall never see a blander pie than my apple-cranberry. Of course, I know now what came first: the egg nog and rum. My guests rummed and rummed until not a creature was stiriing, not even their spouses. And as I pondered weak and weary, the beds they’d need this midnight so dreary, a craven thought came to me from over the river and through the woods: shall I volunteer to host the feast ever again?
Nevermore.
stands for decibels
November 26th, 2010
9:06 am
Enjoy Black Friday and all the shopping that comes with it.
Here is how I am enjoying Black Friday.
I am taking my 10-year-old and her friend to go rip-sticking at a local park.
If “rip-stick” is an unfamiliar term, see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_board
I am thankful for public parks. I think it is fair to say that if it weren’t for liberals like Frederick Law Olmstead, such things would not be available to us.
(And life would suck mightily, as it did in the Middle Ages, by all accounts.)
Southern Comfort
November 26th, 2010
9:12 am
I am thankful for public parks. I think it is fair to say that if it weren’t for liberals like Frederick Law Olmstead, such things would not be available to us.
Those friggin’ Liberals… Always spending money on useful crap that conservatives use too!!! That ride looks wicked too. If I tried that, I could see a need for healthcare reform since I’d have a few broken bones, sprains, and/or contusions.
Have fun dB!!
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 26th, 2010
9:37 am
I grew up in Mayretta within walking distance of a public park, way back when kids could go unescorted by an armed guard.
It was a great place for the parents to send their kids when we became annoying, I just couldn’t understand why they always gave me a sleeping bag LOL
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 26th, 2010
10:12 am
I have a streak of over 50 years, of never going near a store on “Black Friday”. I see no need to break it today.
Nostradamus
November 28th, 2010
5:18 pm
Sorry for off topic, but 2012 is close, is this really matter?