“There is a big difference between feeling thankful & giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will.” -Joni Eareckson Tada
E COLI OUTBREAK: CDC is advising that U.S. consumers not eat any romaine lettuce, and retailers and restaurants not serve or sell any, until we learn more about the outbreak. This investigation is ongoing and the advice will be updated as more information is available.
BECAUSE SCIENCE: According to Leftists, genitals and chromosomes do not determine a person’s gender. Also, a living, growing, but as-yet-unborn human being is not a baby and climate change is both man-made and a global threat.
MEDIA HACKS: Reporters forced a judge to force the White House to put decades old custom into the form of written rules. And now they’re mad about it.
These rules basically say that the presider chooses who asks a question, the questioner may ask one follow up question, after which the questioner is expected to sit down and shut up.
It’s like kindergarten. I made a sign to post on the wall of the White House press room. Sarah Sanders can be in charge of giving gold stars to reporters who do the best job following them at each presser.
Dan Bongino tweeted to the whiners, “Dear Media Hacks, Please stop humiliating yourselves by pretending you care about politicized ‘justice.’ You’ve disgraced the profession by largely ignoring the police-state tactics used by the Obama administration while kissing the asses of the people involved. We’re over you.”
Greg Gutfeld tweeted, “due process for some guy up for a job? not so much. due process for us, the media: the most important thing on earth.”
- https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/11/21/ouch-dan-bongino-lowers-the-boom-on-media-hacks-and-their-selective-outrage/
- https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/11/21/look-out-nbc-news-correspondents-concern-about-whs-new-rules-for-reporters-gets-buried-by-reality-checks/
PRO-LIFE KENYA: Kenyan medical authorities have banned Marie Stopes, the international abortion provider, from offering any kind of abortion services.
DEMOCRAT WHORES: Rep. Marcia Fudge and Rep. Brian Higgins signed the “no to Pelosi” letter. Now they say they’ll support her. I wonder what that cost Nancy? Or maybe I should wonder what signing the letter in the first place will cost Fudge and Higgins down the road.
WTH: A federal judge has thrown out the case described in the video. In his ruling, he declared that a federal law banning Female Genital Mutilation is unconstitutional.
According to him, the commerce clause bars the federal government from banning the barbaric practice of slicing and dicing a born girl’s clitoris so that she can never enjoy sex. Because there is nothing commercial or economic about FGM. Therfore, the authority to criminalize the practice belongs only to the individual states.
Yet, at the time when almost every state banned abortion, SCOTUS ruled in Roe v. Wade that slicing and dicing unborn baby girls (and boys) to DEATH, is “constitutional” because of some alleged “right to privacy” that isn’t even in the Constitution.
OUR SICK SOCIETY: Most parents would assume that refusing to look at a naked child of the opposite sex goes without saying for any teacher, but a school district in Florida has opted to punish a male physical education teacher for attempting to avoid that situation.
WHEN LEFTISTS DON’T AGREE:Eastern Michigan University’s Women’s Resource Center (WRC) has decided to stop hosting the vulgar play, The Vagina Monologues, because it excludes men and also “women who don’t have vaginas.” Since copyright laws won’t allow them to change the dialogue, the school has chosen to get rid of it.
MOCK-WORTHY: I saw somebody saying that we shouldn’t mock A O-C, because the Left mocked Trump, point being that it can be dangerous to underestimate your political opponents. Yeah, EXCEPT, Trump was a 70 something billionaire; A O-C was a 20 something bar tender. Also, they mocked Trump for stupid things, like how he used “big league” and they thought he was saying “bigly.” A O-C says things that are actually stupid. They’d be stupid for any high school graduate. They’d be stupid for any college graduate. And they’re scary stupid for an incoming member of the House of Representatives.
40th ANNIVERSARY: Sunday was the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, an event that caused the deaths of about 900 people (about a third of them children) who were killed at the group’s compound in Guyana. One of the many misconceptions about the Jonestown tragedy was that for most of its victims it represented an act of suicide. For some it did, but for many it did not. The children, of course, were not acting for themselves and were incapable of giving consent (some were infants and toddlers). And although the adults had all signed onto the Jim Jones enterprise of their own free will, many (perhaps even most?) had essentially been kept prisoner there against their will, long after the nature of the movement had changed.
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Happy Thanksgiving, PoliGardeners.
The Lives Far Away Son & DiL are hosting Tday for DiL’s family, but we aren’t up to the 5-hour round trip drive in 1 day. Not that far. Not for a crowd of mostly strangers. We will see our grandson again soon enough elsewise.
Daughter and Lives Nearby Son had work scheduled, so no family feast for us.
And, Mom is not hosting family dinner. This will be her ninety-eighth Thanksgiving, the vast majority of which she hosted big family dinners. She’s frankly glad not to be dealing with the fuss and mess and crowd (and family squabbles and…) this year.
Except…
Milady and I are going to drive down to Mom’s place and bring a simplified Thanksgiving picnic. Like, maybe, turkey sandwiches. And cranberry sauce. Some sweet potatoes. Little personal pumpkin pies. All ready-to-eat, right?
We test-ran this Tuesday, brought her take-out food for lunch, dined on paper plates, everything easily cleaned up, to show her we won’t be making any fuss or mess. So, we arranged to do similarly today.
Did not tell her Daughter and in-town Son actually are off work and might be coming by anyway. And we’ll also invite Nephew who lives down there, to at least come by and have a personal-size pumpkin pie.
Yeah, not gonna let Mom get away with not having family for Thanksgiving!!
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What a lovely idea! My folks passed years ago and Dearest’s mom earlier this month, so the only “big family” Thanksgiving was moved to after the funeral when everyone was there anyway. I got left-over pumpkin eggnog pie made by Mama Buzz. SO delicious!
The Hyphens of Maryland and Texas came up for the funeral, so I got lots of Grammy time then. Marine 2 is still too fragile for travel. I hope we can meet next summer when he’s bigger (and more fun LOL).
Dearest and I had gourmet carry-out Wednesday evening, spread our Hyphen’s Favorite Holiday Treat (Wegman’s Fruit Tort) out to last three days, and had an actually FUN day of rearranging our stuff to make the house more grandkid friendly on Thursday. I’ve been planning this big change for about a year, but it took a lot of me-organizing-stuff time before it was ready for Dearest-with-tools time.
He was a champ, cheerfully moving this and that wherever I pointed. I am still confuzzled about why the pictures look crooked to me when he put a LEVEL on them! Best I can come up with is that the house is crooked. Or maybe it’s me who is crooked. I HATE crooked pictures, so I use sticky velcro dots on the bottom corners to lock them into place. I’ve tweaked all the newly moved ones twice each. Maybe I can learn to ignore them now. 🙂
I’m really pleased with where we got things. Next step for me is to rehome our 90 gallon fish tank with cabinet which dominates the living room. For Dearest it’s to CAD the new DIY entertainment center we brainstormed for “a few minutes” that turned into two and a half hours. LOL The whole bottom shelf is going to be grandkid toys. Grammy is really looking forward to shopping for more toys as soon as there’s space to shelf them!
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