The Evening Blues - 11-24-16

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 2:17pm

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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Thanksgiving

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features some Thanksgiving music. Enjoy!

^{Sam and Dave - I thank you}

I'd like to express my gratitude for all of the folks that read and participate here at the Evening Blues.

I hope that you all have the happiest of Thanksgivings!

No News or Opinions

A Little Night Music

Cab Calloway - Everybody Eats When They Come To My House

Guy Davis - Thanksgiving Day

Bessie Smith - My Kitchen Man

Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'

John Fahey - Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry

Keep on Eating - Memphis Minnie

Kinks - Maximum Consumption

NRBQ - R C Cola and a Moon Pie

Eddie Condon - Home Cooking

The Ross Sisters - Solid Potato Salad

Ernie Andrews - Pork Chops and Mustard Greens

Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five - Beans and Cornbread

The JB's - Pass The Peas

Bill Thomas & The Fendells - Southern Fried Chicken

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Home Cookin'

Nervis Brothers - Got My Red Beans Cookin'

Fats Domino - Jambalaya

Doug MacLeod - Grease In My Gravy

Hubert Sumlin - Feed Me

Tony Joe White - 300 Pounds of Hongry

Thelonious Monk - Stuffy Turkey

Duke Ellington - Jumpin Punkins

Diana Krall - Peel Me a Grape

Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots - He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts

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Submitted by duckpin on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 2:52pm

Hello! Stuffy Turkey by Thelonious Monk is his take on Coleman

Hawkins composition Stuffy.

Hoagy Carmichael wrote a song called Thanksgiving but it's not really about the holiday.

Robyn Hitchcock wrote and recorded Eaten By Her Own Dinner

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 6:58pm

evening duckpin...

thanks for the info. it's surprising how few songs there are about thanksgiving.

i hope that you're having a great thanksgiving.

Submitted by elenacarlena on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 3:00pm

Happy Thanksgiving, All! Everyone please note

that Purina is giving money away! Post on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter, include @Purina and #dogthanking through November 27, and they will donate $1 for each unique post to fund pet research. See https://www.purina.com/meet-purina/the-national-dog-show-everything-you-... for details. Let's cost them $50,000!!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:00pm

evening ec...

happy thanksgiving!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:46pm

Hey, EC! Thanks for sharing the info/good news--will do. EOM

Mollie

“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit and therefore– to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by mimi on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 3:09pm

Happy Thanksgiving, I miss a turkey here ...

with lots of gravy, cranberries, red cabbage and sweet potatoes. I am homesick to America, can you believe it? And I thought I am homesick for Germany. Now I am just sick, because I don't know anymore, what's going on with me.

Heh, I read that Romney is considered to become Sec. of State. Well, I say, I rather have Romney being next Sec. of State than one of the other guys discussed. Just saying...

Thanks to all of you who keep the site running. Bon Appetit. Enjoy the trimmings to the turkey. mmmm, I like the stuffing, corn bread mixed with shrimps, herbs, apples etc.

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Submitted by riverlover on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:40pm

Corn bread stuffing with shrimp!

Now that sounds right tasty, too! Eschewed stuffing because of the liquid gravy enhancement. Sure to jump-start another gall bladder attack over another weekend. Come back, mimi!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:07pm

evening mimi...

heh, there's a song that i can't find on youtube that was done by an old-timey band, the red clay ramblers, called "cabin home."

the introduction to it goes something like this - this is a song about home. there are two places you can be in old-timey music, home and away from home. and, if you're home, you want to be away from home, and, if you're away from home, you want to be home. so this is cabin home, or maybe, cabin away from home.

i hope that you are having a wonderful time with the company you're keeping today.

Submitted by mimi on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 4:25am

thx., Joe, if you ever find the song somewhere

let me know. I think it hits the truth. Takes a lifetime to believe it.

And by now I think you and yours might be tightly asleep with a full belly and looking forward to "Black Friday" (well, no, not really, right?). Imagine the Germans copied that day as well. We have a Black Friday and Blue Nights and TV shows that are like American shows... well, such is life.

I read a Stratfor article today (at least half of it). What do you think of it?
A simple tool for understanding the Trump presidency They say somewhere in there that a generational shift is about every 20 years. That means I am almost two generations behind to "get" the situation in which peole are at in Germany. It's hard to understand that others get old too and change, not only oneself. And that the new generations have no clue how oneself thinks and vice versa.

Have a good one. Life goes on....

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 11:48am

hi mimi...

black friday around my house is "buy nothing day," and if there is a protest at the local walmart (as there have been a couple times in recent years) a day to walk over and show support for the strikers. heh, it's the closest i ever get to a walmart.

regarding the generational shift every 20 years, at least on of america's founding fathers was aware of it and proposed the rewriting of the constitution every 19 years.

The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof.--I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

the ramifications of his thoughts on generational succession were quite far ranging:

The interest of the national debt of France being in fact but a two thousandth part of it's rent roll, the paiment of it is practicable enough: and so becomes a question merely of honor, or of expediency. But with respect to future debts, would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare, in the constitution they are forming, that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself, can validly contract more debt than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19. years? And that all future contracts will be deemed void as to what shall remain unpaid at the end of 19. years from their date? This would put the lenders, and the borrowers also, on their guard. By reducing too the faculty of borrowing within it's natural limits, it would bridle the spirit of war, to which too free a course has been procured by the inattention of money-lenders to this law of nature, that succeeding generations are not responsible for the preceding.

On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be indeed if every form of government were so perfectly contrived that the will of the majority could always be obtained fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves. Their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils. Bribery corrupts them. Personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents: and other impediments arise so as to prove to every practical man that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal.

Submitted by mimi on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 12:16pm

Hi, Joe, considering your Black Friday attitudes I didn't expect

any different from you.

And that Thomas Jefferson letter to James Madison is a joy to read, even funny in its math and precision... thank you for pointing me to it. I think it's very reasonable...

I am grabbing books here in Germany. Ha. At least something positive.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 8:29am

Here in the Philadelphia area, my host/friend and I were invited

to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with an elderly couple, their three grown sons plus one son’s wife, a middle-school exchange student from South Korea, and (hovering in the background) their two black-and-white cats.

I was very lucky this year to be able to return to America for Thanksgiving. It’s the bit of Americana I miss the most. Of course, having grown up in the 1950s, in connection with Thanksgiving I have that Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post cover illustration permanently burned into cerebral ROM.

It’s now Advent and a new church year is starting with all the usual hymns (“Veni Emmanuel” etc.). In a couple of weeks, the Christmas season will find me back in Germany.

Submitted by mimi on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 12:04pm

and I thought I look for you in Dresden ... :-)

heh, everyone goes in different directions than intended. I hope you enjoyed your stay with your friend for Thanksgiving and I am glad you had a good experience. I am here near Hamburg in a little city known to be the "Speckguertel" of Hamburg.

When I thought about what to say if an American asks me what is the difference between Germany and the US, I came up with "In America you would be happy to find something working well and efficiently for all the people (bureaucratic stuff, infrastructure etc), in Germany you would sometimes be happy to find something not working that well. But that's may be the current environment I am in. Swiss clock precision. And one can't tolerate a loose screw in those watches. But everyone is used to precision and not only the trains are on time. Dare you not be fast. Unless they recognize you as a foreign refugee/asylum seeker, where I find most very willing to explain stuff to them and trying to be helpful. Walkability is amazing here. Bycycling common. And of course they have their own pathes, traffic lights and are regulated in how they pedal along. You get a ticket here if you try to stop your car to let someone out of your car, when you drive a little up into the byciclle path and open your car's door. Well, you get into the way of a cyclist potentially, and that's verboten. Public transportation is everywhere. You can take dogs, bikes and wheelchairs on to busses. It's nice.

Nevertheless everybody seems to think to need a car. The little city feels like rush hour times in the US, crowded car congestions, searching for parking spaces challenges your patience, espcially if you could do the trip by foot instead of using the car. And that in a little town. I passed through Berlin with my cousin who picked me up and thought the city is too large, I really don't want to go back in. It has nothing to do with the Berlin I remembered from the late 1960ies.

I drove from Berlin to Hamburg the first day and was really amazed about all the wind towers parks along the highway, numbering in the hundreds of wind turbines each. In between large solar panel areas. A lot for the little distance between Berlin and Hamburg. But of course the humans are similar in their reactions everywhere. The wind turbines are too noisy and mess up the "view" on to the landscape. Whatever. Oh well. poor eyes they hurt looking at wind towers. That's why they position them along the highways.

Would be nice if Germany could donate half of their precision technologies and love for things working well to the US and the US could donate to the Germany half of their wilderness areas, creativity in the arts and generous open mindedness, if you forget about politics....

Well I just had a tiny peak into my old home country. It's so cold, wet and dark around here.

Have a continued wonderful time in your home country.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 5:40pm

Friend from Dresden got fined 60 euros in Hamburg because

he had the wrong kind of ticket. Even though he had paid more than the right kind of ticket would have cost.

It seems he isn’t the only one that has found Hamburg’s transit pricing impossibly complicated for tourists.

https://pop64.com/unentschieden/hamburg-bekloppte-tarif-perle/

Aber ich verstehe nicht, wie man so einen komplexe Scheiß bauen kann. Kein Tourist versteht das, keine Oma, kein Gelegenheitsfahrer. Völliger Mist. Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn das alles komplett in den Müll fliegt und Eins zu Eins aus Berlin übernommen wird. Zwei Zonen. Fertig. Kein Zuschlag für unfreundliche und langsame pseudo Erste Klasse Busse, keine Zahlgrenzen, alles weg, weg damit. Braucht kein Mensch.
Danke.

Ich brauch jetzt einen Schnaps, ich habe eindeutig zu viel in den Tarifen gelesen, das schlägt auf’s Gemüt.

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 11/26/2016 - 4:06am

Ha, absolutely right ...

I stood like an idiot in front of the maps of the Hamburg local transportation system trying to figure out which ticket to buy for what. And I understand German, imagine the folks who come in with little German language skills. Crazy.

I bought now a monthly ticket for everything. I have no car here which I could use and would also be lost in the maze of streets. And then I have nothing to do here. So I don't need the ticket.

Today I watched TV for the first time a little bit. I am so apalled about the many issues discussed here that are the same as in the US. It's all too much for me to absorb and all I want is getting away from everything. I just don't know why I am here. It was not planned that way.

So, what happens to Cuba, now that Castro is dead? The world has become so difficult to understand, I am about to give up.

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Submitted by WindDancer13 on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 3:30pm

Save this for tomorrow...

when the tryptophan wears off. It will be much better than shopping.

Howard Zinn:

And, you know, was it good that we — to be independent of England? Yes, it’s always good to be independent. But at what cost? And how real is the independence? And is it possible that we would have won independence without a war?

Hey, how about Canada? Canada is independent of England. They don’t have a bad society, Canada. There are some very attractive things about Canada. They’re independent of England. They did not fight a bloody war. It took longer. You know, sometimes it takes longer if you don’t want to kill. Violence is fast. War is fast. And that’s attractive — right? — when you do something fast. And if you don’t want killing, you may have to take more time in order to achieve your objective. And actually, when you achieve your objective, it might be achieved in a better way and with better results, and with a Canadian health system instead of American health system. [emphasis added]

For the transcript and video Howard Zinn: "Holy Wars."

And, you know, it took a hundred — and, you know, the Congress passed those amendments. Why? Not because Lincoln or Congress itself initiated them. They passed those amendments because a great movement against slavery had grown up in the country from the 1830s to the 1860s, powerful anti-slavery movement which pushed Congress into the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements. And that’s what happened with the relationship between anti-slavery movement and the passage of those amendments.

And, of course, then those amendments, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, had no meaning for the next hundred years. The blacks were not allowed to vote in the South. Blacks did not get an equal protection of the laws. Every president of the United States for a hundred years, every president, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, every president violated his oath of office. Every president, because the oath of office says you will see to it that the laws are faithfully executed. And every president did not enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, collaborated with Southern racism and segregation and lynching and all that happened. [emphasis added]

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:11pm

evening winddancer...

the tryptophan is hitting me hard about now, but i read through the text and it's spot on. thanks!

i hope that you're having a great thanksgiving and will fully enjoy buy nothing day tomorrow.

Submitted by lotlizard on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 8:39am

Tryptophan trivia: it’s one of three aromatic amino acids

“Aromatic” meaning it has some carbon atoms arranged in rings, with “pi-bonds.”

Tryptophan contains an indole group, which is also a component of certain notoriously psychoactive compounds.

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/7971/what-chemical-propert...

Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 11:53am

pie bonds?

now that seems worthy of further study!

Submitted by OLinda on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:00pm

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Quiet here, but a nice day. On the cool side outside, but not so cool I can't have the windows open. Joe, let me give that gratitude back to you, too. Very thankful for you, the The Evening Blues, and all the Bluesters.

Thank you for today's tunes. Have a banana, Hannah. Ha.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:15pm

evening olinda...

it's quiet here now, too. we had dinner with the kids and the granddogs and had a wonderful time. it's not too cold here now, in the upper 40's and the predicted rain has held off so far.

thanks for dropping by.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:26pm

Good evening bluesters!

Hub has duck on the smoker and I am not sure if I and it will get along. But at least it is a change from turkey which is not my favorite thing anyway. Everything else on the menu is going to be good. It is just the two of us this year and that is good.

I need to spend more time here and less on the more contentious threads here. I hope everyone is having a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:16pm

evening gg...

i hope that the duck turned out well and you guys had a great thanksgiving!

Submitted by OLinda on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:27pm

Solid Potato Salad

Hahaha. OMG. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Where do you find these things, joe. So this is what they put on TV in the olden days. I clicked over to YouTube to see what show it was on but it doesn't say. More than 3 million views.

Submitted by karl pearson on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:39pm

Happy Thanksgiving!

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:18pm

evening karl...

happy thanksgiving to you as well!

that's a great tune, thanks!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:48pm

Backatcha, Joe! Allow me to express my deep gratitude

for both your hard work, and the excellent compilation of 'News & Blues' that you produce for us, evening after evening.

Gotta run 'the B' out before it's pitch dark, but will drop back by to share a couple of observations about Medicare Supplements. Warning--the info may be 'old hat' for folks already enrolled; but, it was new to us.

Happy Thanksgiving, Bluesters!

[shannonj5, Photo Bucket]

Later.

Mollie

The SOSD Fantastic Four

Available For Adoption, Save Our Street Dogs, SOSD

Taro
Taro, SOSD

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:20pm

evening mollie...

happy thanksgiving to you and yours! give my regards and a couple of holiday scritches to "the b."

Submitted by smiley7 on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:49pm

Mollie...

"Sit, Lie Back" looks into my heart each day!

For you, dear friend:

Submitted by smiley7 on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 8:15pm

Mollie...

"Sit, Lie Back" looks into my heart each day!

For you my dear friend:

Submitted by on the cusp on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 4:56pm

I am going on Medicare in 4 months.

I would love your input, Mollie.
Many thanks for all you do, Joe.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:25pm

evening otc...

i'll be joining medicare in several years, which given the complexity of the paperwork that i used to have to handle for my mother, i am not looking forward to very much.

like you, i'm looking forward to any information that i can glean from the experience of others.

i hope that you are having a great thanksgiving!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:38pm

Hey, OTC! After we finish the process of enrolling,

I'm planning on outlining a few of our 'misadventures,' for lack of a better word; but, I thought that this evening, I'd mention the most important policy difference that we've found, thus far.

That is, that some insurers do not allow Medicare Supplement beneficiaries to move from plan to plan--including downward in coverage--without going through the process of medical underwriting (and passing). This includes some of the leaders in the industry, like Mutual Of Omaha.

For us, considering the ongoing Medicare reforms--which Ryan/Republicans and corporatist Dems will probably achieve, on steroids, during a Trump Administration--it is a deal killer, if the ability to move downward is denied, or there is no guaranteed issue when doing so.

Also, there was an excellent insurer (A++ ratings with 2 or 3 ratings agencies) that we were seriously considering--until I hit upon a link in a customer review website, which linked to a WSJ piece from about 2006, IIRC.

Anyhoo, some fraternal organizations offer pretty decent Medigap Insurance products, and may be highly rated for financial stability--but, they are exempt from some insurance regulations.

For instance, a couple of these organizations have denied policyholders the ability to seek legal redress in a court of law--making binding arbitration the only legal recourse, if differences should arise. And, the change was retroactive, and included the current (as well as future) policyholders.

Oh, we are asking for written evidence of this policy, from the insurers who do say that they allow this. Supposedly, we have two such policy statements on the way to us. We'll see.

If all goes well, we'll have our decision made shortly. If anyone has any advice, I'm 'all ears.'

We also just finished enrolling both of us in Mr M's employer-sponsored insurance for next year--gotta CYA, until Medicare is processed for one of us. Then, the other will face this decision, in the Spring. Or not. It's very tempting to simply remain in employer-sponsored insurance for another year.

Also, we asked about premiums increases when dealing with dual residency. This is important if it applies (at least, from state to state), because we're finding that (1) some insurers (few) don't change their premium rates at all, (2) some add a 'surcharge' if you move out of the state of issue (as a primary residence), (3) and, other insurers simply adjust the premium according to their geographic/locale Rate Table if/when there is a switch in primary and secondary residence of record.

Please, let us know if you hear anything, good or bad, that we might want to consider when making our final decision.

Have a nice Thanksgiving weekend!

Edit: I stand corrected by Mr M--AA+ changed to A++ (Superior).

Mollie

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 5:48pm

Happy Turkey Day

And again thanks for the EBs each week night. My favorite part of c99.
I hope everyone had a nice day how ever you spent it.
I went to dinner with my very special aunt and uncle and had a delicious meal and great conversation.
It's the first holiday season without my mom and they are the most difficult to get through. But I'm thankful for the memories of her when she was able to come to dinner last year.
gulfgal I had duck for thanksgiving one year and I helped hunt it. While we were looking for one I asked myself what the hell was I doing? I'm an animal lover so I went back to the truck and waited.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:33pm

evening snoopy...

i'm glad to hear that you had a great thanksgiving with your family and to hear that you were cheered by the happy memories of your mom.

have a great evening!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:55pm

SD, our best to you. Last year was

the first time we celebrated the Holidays without my older Brother, so I very much know how you feel.

Hope you and your furbabies have a nice holiday weekend!

Mollie

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 10:03pm

Thanks joe, and Mollie for your kind words

Mollie, I too lost a brother and the first time our family got together I kept waiting to hear his voice and see him come up the stairs.
As I said I'm happy I have the memory of mom from last year because I knew it would be her last one. She left us two months later, but I accepted her death better than I thought I would because she was getting worse each day.
The week before she died she told her husband that she didn't think she would be around next week to go where he wanted to go, but smiled when she said that.
Wednesday is her birthday, then we have Christmas and the one year anniversary to get through.
The dawgs of course got some of my doggie bag tonight and will have more tomorrow.
Hope you, your family and Mr. B have a nice holiday weekend too.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by featheredsprite on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 6:01pm

Happy Holiday, everyone!

It's quiet and peaceful at my house today. People were hissing and snarling earlier in the week but now they've decided to kiss and make up. I'm going to enjoy the good humor while it lasts.

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Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:35pm

evening featheredsprite...

glad to hear that you had a happy and peaceful thanksgiving day.

have a great evening!

Submitted by smiley7 on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:19pm

Good man, good evening with feathers flying

in celebration of thanksgiving. Thank you Joe!

left some favorite tunes in an essay for you good people, enjoy.

Whatever, good day and many thanks for carrying on!

Love, s7

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:37pm

evening smiley...

it's great to see you here. i hope that all is well and your thanksgiving is the best ever!

i'll check out your tunes in a few, thanks!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 7:40pm

Seconded--great to see you, Smiley! Hope you're doing well. EOM

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by DonMidwest on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 8:36pm

Jill Stein push for recount: 3 diaries up on DK right now

I went to all three and made the point that the dems don't fight (Cenk Uygur says this over and over)

This will be the third time the election is stolen.

Exclusive: Jill Stein just called… Green Party filing for recount in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania

You can go to his web site and get a trailer for his new movie, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

Greg Palast web page

Here is another article from 2 guys here in Columbus OH who have written 6 books on elections. They were banned from TOP/DK several years ago. If the dems actually took actions on election integrity, they would have won. Thom Hartmann the other day said the Hillary's campaign didn't have issues that people knew. They went all out for how bad Trump was. In some states Hillary campaign spent 5x as much as Trump on TV. The old formula didn't work.

How the GOP Flipped and Stripped Yet Another American Election

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 2:49pm

ANY Dem candidate but Shills would have won

The Dem party could have pulled well-known Dem names out of a hat and had a better chance, but oh no it was Her Turn and We Must Have Her no matter who we have to screw over to get Her.

Funny funny funny how in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and earlier in 2016 we were told that exit polls were "meaningless", "inaccurate", "irrelevant", etc. etc. etc. - but now that Shills is NOT President-Elect, suddenly they point directly to hanky-panky.

Yarite. Couldn't be that people lied in droves coming out of the voting booths, same as they lied to pollsters during the run-up. Once a climate of fear and mistrust is injected into the process, everything is out the window.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by irishking on Sat, 11/26/2016 - 6:03am

And here we are.

Once a climate of fear and mistrust is injected into the process, everything is out the window.

Submitted by Crider on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 8:41pm

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Wishing all families a happy and joyous Thanksgiving!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0D-MQ21GE]

Submitted by psychodrew on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 10:31pm

Happy Thanksgiving!

Trying to stay awake through the end of football game. My dog is snoring under the couch (I'm staying at my parent's house).

I volunteered to help the Green Party with the recount here in PA. I'm not donating because I can't give money to anything that could benefit Hillary Clinton.

Two weeks until the end of classes.
Nineteen days until my last final exam.
Thirty-eight days until my winter conference in Florida.

Submitted by MarilynW on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 12:11am

Hi Drew, hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving

Great to see you here.

Marilyn (aka Agathena on DKos)

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To thine own self be true.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 11:59am

hi drew...

good to see you, i hope that your thanksgiving was great.

i'm too conflicted to put much effort into the recount - i don't want either of them to win. my ears perked up when i saw that there was a movement among electors to settle on a compromise candidate. i suppose that it has a vanishingly slim chance of happening, but like a lottery ticket, there is some infinitesimal grounds for hope.