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  1. I always loved that picture…

    one because my family had their own version of such, but not as perfect

    two because the ease with which grandma could delicately hold a 30 pound turkey
    that bird on the plate is the size of wild turkey, and is huge…

    three, its before feminism decided to destroy all that in favor of ou-topos, the place that cannot be..

    In 1516 Sir Thomas More wrote the first ‘Utopia’. He coined the word ‘utopia’ from the Greek ou-topos meaning ‘no place’ or ‘nowhere’. But this was a pun – the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means a good place. So at the very heart of the word is a vital question: can a perfect world ever be realised?

    By trying to have what they can’t, they lost what they had, they cant get back, and have yet to lose much more…

    I wish everyone a wonderful day…
    sadly, for me everyone is gone
    and those that remain, are like seeds in the wind
    after all, we are now modern, and need not family

    All the best!!!

  2. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! 😀

    [ Neo: Please don’t forget to eat my piece of pecan pie. :))))) ]

  3. Jean:

    And we are thankful for you!

    I made a pecan pie with Nebraska pecans. Delicious!

    Dave

  4. Flew in to Chicago ahead of the storm front to have the holiday with family. Lots of grandchildren around. Not mine. Mine are in California but my sister’s are here. Best wishes for a traditional holiday absent all the crazy stuff. Reading Kurt Schlicter’s new novel, “Collapse.”

  5. Thanksgiving is one of the many, many things remarkable about America: non-sectarian, apolitical, impersonal, and universally applicable. Though it does imply the existence of a God to whom we should give thanks. As I do.

    Jean and Dave: I’m a Type I diabetic who once had a thin sliver of pecan pie at a duck camp. It drove my blood sugar up to 500. I look at y’all with some envy. Enjoy!

    Norman Rockwell used to be sneered at by les artistes. Now his paintings command very high prices, deservedly.

  6. And thank you for your wonderful blog.

    My #1 thing to be grateful for today: in one month, we are escaping California and will be living in another state. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, etc. that this buyer avoids the problems of the first one. First house buyer was an illegal alien, which wasn’t discovered until after the loan was approved and went to underwriting.

    While I’m happy to be escaping, there’s a feeling of remorse, too, since there is so much here to enjoy. I’m just sad that those in power feel compelled to make it as miserable as possible for the middle class. As someone has said (and it’s true), California is a great place to live if you’re a billionaire. Not so great if you’re a millionaire. (Or in our case, sub-millionaires) We can not get out of here fast enough.

  7. Happy Thanksgiving to all from Slovakia, where I just finished a great piece of made from scratch pumpkin pie.
    Butter squash – better than jack-o-lantern pumpkin for the pie.

    I and the family also prefer duck to turkey.

    I’m thankful for my wife, and great life in Slovakia; but do hang out here with Neo.
    (I think I’ll always think of you as Neo, unless you choose to try to be famous.)

  8. Neo & Everyone!

    Happy Thanksgiving. We had an early dinner with the kids and grandchildren. This year I’m thankful that I can enjoy them all so much.

    Cheers from Chicagoland!

  9. I, for one, am thankful for you and your blog, Neo. I do not comment that often but I read it daily.

  10. Jamie Lee Curtis’ Thanksgiving Message: Vote for Women to Transform Our ‘Misogynist Society’

    “Unfortunately, right now, we live in a misogynist society and a lot of men hate women,” Jamie Lee Curtis said. “They just do. I think that seeing a strong woman articulate her points, argue for her position, and even get angry about the disparities she faces — whatever they are — will cause some men to have a problem, even if women won’t.”
    [snip]
    “I understand that there are people who disagree with trying to achieve gender parity; I know that they believe that voters should just pick a candidate based on their qualifications,” the actress said.
    [snip]
    The anti-Trump Hollywood star came under fire recently for a now-deleted tweet in which she defended Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he was killed by U.S. forces.

  11. My #1 thing to be grateful for today: in one month, we are escaping California and will be living in another state
    We escaped three years ago in January. We got back to see children and grandchildren. I spent 60 years and my wife is third generation. What a shame.

    Los Angeles in the 1950s was paradise.

  12. By the way, Jamie Lee Curtis is an interesting one to bloviate about “Misogyny.” She is an XY testosterone insensitivity syndrome case.

  13. @Mike K:By the way, Jamie Lee Curtis is an interesting one to bloviate about “Misogyny.” She is an XY testosterone insensitivity syndrome case.

    No hard evidence has ever been presented for that assertion, by anyone who would actually be in a position to know. Such a a condition exists, but whether or not Jamie Lee Curtis has it is known only to her and her physicians, none of whom have ever spoken on the issue.

    Everyone I know who heard this heard it from a professor in a biology class. Just like every high school had a “frozen hotdog girl”, mine certainly did.

  14. “Unfortunately, right now, we live in a misogynist society and a lot of men hate women,” Jamie Lee Curtis said.

    Sorry your dad mistreated you and a mess of others. Not anyone’s doing but his, Lady Haden-Guest.

  15. Actually, Jamie Lee, a great number of women hate men. Feminism! Lesbos!

    Females are now in the majority. At birth, males outnumber females slightly but have a greater early infant mortality, so females are born with advantage. And of course women outlive men by an average now of five years (81 vs 76). That shows up in voting!

    A majority of new American MDs are females. The costs of educating them are the same as if they were male, but they are less productive with all their peri-menstrual disorders, and the “normal” ones, who marry and have children, usually work part-time. The net effect is that we get less doc for the same price.

    Jamie Lee can go to hell.

  16. @Art Deco:No, just soft evidence.

    Very soft, since she (to my mind) has a Rachel Maddow look going on lately; lots of women look that way nowadays, and very few have been diagnosed with the condition referenced by Mike K.

  17. Thanksgiving’s Well-Intentioned War on Women

    Blair-Valero was rescued from her holiday prison by circumstance.

    After she got divorced, she decided she didn’t need to play hostess any longer — and she also made some friends in the restaurant industry. “Now, most holiday meals are prepared by my male friends who are chefs,” she observes. “I just arrive and nap on Thanksgiving!” She and her mom still can’t believe how much more enjoyable the holiday is now.

    So what about the millions of women who may not have male foodie friends? Are more drastic measures called for? Perhaps a Lysistrata-style boycott in which American women hang up their aprons and refuse to put out on Turkey Day, or maybe some online activism around a hashtag like #ThanksMisgivings?

    Thanksgiving has been the site of protest before, from the “National Day of Mourning” once held by Native Americans in Massachusetts to the longtime avoidance of the holiday table by LGBT Americans.

    Such an assault on the gender inequalities perpetuated by Thanksgiving seems unlikely, though, given how popular the holiday is with most Americans, including women.
    https://www.ozy.com/opinion/thanksgivings-well-intentioned-war-on-women/66140/

  18. Mike K. “Los Angeles in the 1950s was paradise.”

    Agree completely, except for the smog. 🙂

  19. From Bitch Media
    On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup
    Celebrating Indigenous History

    While Trump golfed, Barack Obama was volunteering at a food bank for Thanksgiving. [Newsweek]

    [Trump was in Afghanistan… not golfing… he fed the troops.. unlike Obama he didn’t pre-announce it to gain things the way Obama did – Trump kept it secret]

    From Feminist Frequency
    Pass the Turkey, Spread the Feminism
    7 Ways to Talk to Your Racist Uncle This Thanksgiving

    [of course… one wonders who the real assholes are… ]

    We’re here to help with a quick video offering up seven simple but effective pointers that can help you navigate the stormy seas of racist uncles, homophobic grandmas and other potential sources of turkey day trouble. (Table-flipping not required but highly recommended.)

    and Auto Straddle
    This Thanksgiving, Be The Raging Feminist Killjoy Your Family Fears with FASHION

    Helloooooo white people! Oh wow did our white friends and family fuck some shit up this year or WHAT. If you’re one of the thousands of queers heading home next week for a holiday that’s guaranteed to be jam packed with [racist] Trump-supporting motherfuckers, you’ve probably got a lot on your mind.

    What kind of unbearable hell will I be walking into?
    Is my one cool/normal aunt coming?
    How will I survive endless hours of what is sure to be the most obnoxious, racist, xenophobic, misguided, misogynistic, patriarchal victory lap this country has ever known??

    I’ll tell you how: you’re gonna fuck some shit up yourself!
    [snip]
    You’re going to study your facts and read up on the art of rhetorical persuasion, practice your to-the-point responses, learn those breathing exercises, steel your fucking gaze, and let no racist/xenophobic/misogynistic/otherwise bullshit remark go unanswered
    [snip]
    …………excusing yourself when your brother-in-law starts talking about “black-on-black crime” because what’s the point of trying to correct them or change their minds?
    [snip]
    I enjoy digging into difficult discussions with people who I know are willing to listen and learn. I’ll gladly rake an acquaintance or total stranger over the coals.

    (the rest leads to a whole bunch of merchandise you can buy, and guess who earns money?)

    Hairy Legs Hannah’s Feminist Quarter-Hour

    you think YOUR family is bad at least they FORCE you to sit down with them for thanksgiving mine didnt even invite me i had to spend it saving turkeys from genocide which NO ONE is paying attention to the aspects of this holiday that are MISOGINISTIC HOMOPHOBIC FATPHOBIC ANTIANIMAL ELITIST

    no wondering why…

  20. Opinion: Feminism has destroyed college dating for women
    [something to take your mind of their destroying holidays, destroying lives in general, and more]

    “Once you put on the ‘violet tinted glasses’ (or had your ‘feminist awakening’) there is no going back. You will not be able to enjoy popular culture, politics, sex, motherhood, relationships or just about any other human, social or cyber interaction without dissecting the gender inequalities or other oppressive intersections such as homophobia, transphobia or racism.”

    While awakening these ideas in people across the globe is important, for women in college who identify as feminists, these ideas have made dating that much harder.

    Lisa Anderson, an associate professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at ASU, said, “(Feminism) makes (college women) a little more aware of the things in the past they might’ve just passed off as ‘Oh that’s just guys’ and ‘Oh boys will be boys.’ And they become a little bit more critical of things and think well boys just don’t have to just be boys. Boys can be better than that and just be able hold them to a higher standard.”

    Which is why it was a woman who jumped in and wrestled the knife away from the man on London Bridge…

    and of course if you search for woman dies saving man.. you get googles interpretation of what you really want:

    Homeless Man Dies While Saving a Woman Being Held at Gunpoint
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pic5zJCQ2g
    A homeless man is being hailed a hero after giving his life to save a woman who was being held hostage. In astonishing footage of the incident, 61-year-old Francisco Erasmo Rodrigues de Lima can be seen rushing towards a man holding a gun to a womans head..
    [he tackles the guy, and the woman runs away… thanks!]
    nothing lost…

    Wichita man dies trying to save woman from drowning in Missouri’s Elk River
    The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a woman was swept underwater at the dam. They say 26-year-old Jacob Farley dived into the water to try and save her.

    When the Noel Fire Department arrived on scene, they were able to rescue the woman with a throw rope but the man drowned.

    nothing lost…

    Man dies trying to save girl who was swept into Lake Michigan at 31st Street Beach

    nothing lost…

    HOLIDAY TRAGEDY First pic of Brit woman, 33, who drowned in sea off Portugal and partner, 34, who died trying to save her

    nothing lost…

    finally i found one!!!
    Harford woman seeking redemption dies trying to save a man in floodwaters

    The same big-hearted impulse led to the 34-year-old’s death when she pleaded with her boyfriend to pull his truck over in a storm last Friday evening so they could try to rescue a stranded driver amid fast-rising floodwaters on a Churchville road.
    “We have to do something,” Kyle Bowman recalled Lehew urging him

    Bowman said he backed his truck into the water, taking care not to go too deep, and tied a rope to the bumper, the water up to his hips. The rope wasn’t long enough to reach the stranded driver and before Bowman could get back to his truck, the rushing water knocked him and Lehew off their feet, slamming them against a guardrail. Bowman said he worked his way over to Lehew, who was clutching desperately to a telephone pole.

    “I was trying, but I couldn’t pull her up,” Bowman, 31, of Churchville told The Baltimore Sun. “She couldn’t hold on. The water washed her away.

    “I knew she was gone. I thought I was going to go, too. One slip and I was going to go, too.”
    [snip]
    To Bowman, Lehew died a heroine on the road to redemption. But she had not fully conquered her demons — she’d lost custody of her children and sobriety from alcohol was an ongoing battle for her, Bowman said.

    Online court records show Lehew faced multiple legal troubles. She faced upcoming hearings on probation violations for a 2017 misdemeanor trespassing conviction and a 2017 misdemeanor child neglect conviction for which she was sentenced to four and a half years in jail with all but nine months suspended. She pleaded guilty in May 2015 to driving under the influence of alcohol.

    She talked her boyfriend into it, and was killed as HE tried to do something…
    so i guess the person writing the article agrees the men are nothing..

    Man dies after trying to rescue girlfriend whose kayak capsized in Ohio River

    nothing lost…

    its just how it is now… men have always been the disposable sex…
    and thanksgiving, and a society that appreciates things, died with them

    Get ready for mas! they hate that too..
    [and no, i dont care that some women are not like that (they are the exception that proves the rule), its an irrelevant point given the dominant position and the inability of any opposition without being a Nazi women hating, etc. remember what was on the gates of the prison that the women of Germany helped create (the good women who outnumbered them, did not matter): Jedem Das Seine!]

    Despite being hated, and disparaged, and all that, the men still rescue the women…

    except in feminist sweden, and norway
    where 1200 were raped and molested
    and the ladies gave the people doing it flowers

  21. For the Thanksgiving after 9/11, the company I worked for then put up a bulletin board where people could post things they were thankful for, favorite holiday recipes, etc. I asked my brother (who is more tech savvy than me) that he should do some kind of photoshopped spoof of the famous Norman Rockwell “Freedom from Want” painting. I thought it would be funny if Osama bin Laden were seen among the celebrants at the table; but he improved upon my idea by having Osama’s severed head on the platter, with the caption, “Happy Thanksgiving, America!” Oddly enough, some of the squares in the office found the spoof offensive and tore it down almost immediately.

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