25 thoughts on “Happy Thanksgiving”

  2. new lyrics:
    Over the tee and sliced thru the woods,
    to rake in the dough we go.
    Force One knows the way to carry the fey
    for this white and grifting rogue.

     

    huffpost:

     

    With his Thanksgiving vacation, President Donald Trump’s golf hobby has now cost Americans an estimated $115 million in travel and security expenses ― the equivalent of 287 years of the presidential salary he frequently boasts about not taking.
    Of that amount, many hundreds of thousands ― perhaps millions ― of dollars have gone into his own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
    The exact amount cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
    In response to a HuffPost query on Wednesday asking if she knew how many administration officials other than herself are staying at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, during his Thanksgiving stay, and how much it is all costing, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham responded with a one-word answer: “No.”
    [… examples…]
    “It’s becoming abundantly clear that Donald Trump uses his presidency as a way to put money into his pocket,” said Jordan Libowitz of the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “The issue isn’t that he likes golf. The issue is that he has spent a huge amount of his presidency making promotional appearances at his struggling golf courses, and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill.”

    […more examples…]

    Trump’s current trip to Palm Beach is the 25th of his presidency. Wednesday was his 58th day golfing at his course in West Palm Beach. He has golfed 77 days at his Bedminster, New Jersey, course; 77 days at his Northern Virginia course; four times at his Jupiter, Florida, course; three times in Doonbeg; twice in Turnberry; and once each at his courses in Los Angeles and Doral, Florida. Since taking office, he has golfed only twice on a course he does not own, both times in Japan at the invitation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during official visits.

  4. Thank you Craig and all the Trail hands for another year of good thoughts, music and a place away from the other places.
    Today is one of those holidays where I go only to be with family which I only see once a year.

  5. Happy Thanksgiving all!  Eat lots…  and enjoy whatever your traditions or observances are.  I know I have a lot to be thankful for…  including all of you!

  9. Louisville courier journal:

    Hold your reindeer: The Kentucky Democratic Party has waged a Christmas wrapping paper war with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

    For a donation of $30 to the commonwealth’s blue party, you can have a roll of red “Moscow Mitch” wrapping paper. The product features yellow images of the Kentucky Republican wearing a Cossack hat with the “hammer and sickle” symbol on top of the words, “Just Say Nyet to Moscow Mitch,” referring to the nickname McConnell received over the summer.

    This merchandise is a response to McConnell’s reelection campaign deciding to sell McConnell Christmas wrapping paper, which features the Kentucky senator’s face with a Santa hat and a green bow tie.

    “Anything @Team_Mitch can do, we can do better,” the Kentucky Democratic Party wrote in a tweet. “The only gift wrap you need is the one that sends a clear message: Say Nyet to #MoscowMitch.”

    This isn’t the first time the Kentucky Democratic Party has sold “Moscow Mitch” paraphernalia. In August, the party announced that it would launch a webstore for products that have the nickname to dig at the Senate majority leader.

    Current products in the store include T-shirts, mugs and stickers. The party will also be selling “Moscow Mitch” ornaments for the holiday season.

     

  12. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
    We are in the woods and very happy — it has rained and we can light our wood stove.
    We are a group of never Trumpers and everyone is registered to vote!

    Thanks to everyone here for lively discussion through out the year.

    Especially thanks to Pat for keeping us going while Craig was on family leave.

  13. Breakfast out w/friends at 400 restaurant. Perfect hollandaise sauce. 
     
    Surprised that the racist russian rapist didn’t pardon several other turkeys.
     
    Feast w/more friends @ 5. Expecting she-doc to be there. I love her but she’s a poor deluded ripper. I hope he-doc can keep her from killing me.

  14. Dear Mother, don’t stab father with the bread knife;
    Remember ’twas a gift when you were wed.
    But if you must stab father with the bread knife,
    Be sure to use another for the bread. – Rbt. Service

  19. I don’t want a pickle, but I don’t want to ride on no motorsickle neither. I got enough damn fool things I have to do already widdout dat.

  20. What????
    Sturge are you trying to say that Alice’s Restaurant isn’t the greatest song ever?
    Oh I like the second line of that motorcycle song better. (better being relative)
    “I don’t want to die, I just want to ride my motor cyyyyy kle ” 
    LOL, some days on some songs I think you had to be there taking a hit as the joint passed by.
    Jack

  21. Well, We put the tree up, did the traditional thanksgiving midday engorging, whisked LP to the Pittsburgh airport and am back in East Bumfuck lying on the couch and cruzin through the evening doing nuthin much else. Tomorrow, Jack’s breakfast choice then out to take advantage of a sale on a couple utility cabinets I’ve had my eyes on. Life is good. 

    Thanks.

  22. 3 by Stephen Wright
    8. “I’ve been getting into astronomy so I installed a skylight. The people who live above me are furious.”
    9. “Why is it a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Somebody’s making a penny.”

     

    10. “I broke a mirror in my house and I’m supposed to get seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.”

  23. Upcoming Event Commemorating the Beginning of Time as We Poor Moderns ACTUALLY Experience It
    The first adoption of a standard time was on December 1, 1847, in Great Britain by railway companies using GMT kept by portable chronometers. The first of these companies to adopt standard time was the Great Western Railway (GWR) in November 1840. This quickly became known as Railway Time. About August 23, 1852, time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Even though 98% of Great Britain’s public clocks were using GMT by 1855, it was not made Britain’s legal time until August 2, 1880. Some British clocks from this period have two minute hands—one for the local time, one for GMT.  – Wikipedia

  24. A happy 172d birthday to our infernal enemy Time, and I don’t mean that harmless little magazine.

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