Maggie's Farm

Tame vs. Domesticated:  How did a dog get on my bed?

Not tame:  Officials Move Closer To Delisting Yellowstone Grizzlies

Iceland does not want tourists

SNL Fake Ad Offers Liberals Their Very Own ‘Bubble’ to Live In

UK Researchers: Tax Food to Reduce Climate Change

Largest oil discovery in US history

The musky smell of Elon Musk

What Is With This Infrastructure Fetish?

What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out

I'd consider the unintended consequences

Thanks to pension funds, Los Angeles is close to becoming a microcosm of Greece

Thanks to Wikileaks we know at least 65 MSM Reporters Were Meeting with and/or Coordinating Offline with Top Hillary Advisors

America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton:

  We mortals are not worthy of Hillary. "Hillary didn't fail us, we failed her," asserted a writer for the Guardian. The press, and by extension the rest of us, "crucified her," claimed someone at Bustle. We always do that to messiahs, assholes that we are.

President Obama Blames the Internet for the Rise of Trump – Technology Needs “More Control”

Sheesh. "Obama and Angela Merkel Blame Internet and Social Media for Disrupting Globalism." I guess our moral and intellectual superiors don't like us having too much information.

The Age of the Honey Badger Dawns

Donations to Clinton Foundation fell by 37 percent

Big surprise. They have nothing to sell.

AAUP: Trump 'greatest threat to academic freedom' since McCarthy

Maher: Trump is Stalin

Outrage as reporter is sacked for praising Donald Trump and criticising Obama

Ingraham Decimates Juan Williams on Trump 'Team of Radicals' Charge

The “American Conservative Movement” Has Ended. the American Right Goes On.

Sign Language Interpreter Licenses and Wisconsin's Other Costly, Pointless Permission Slips

BLACK POLICE OFFICERS MORE LIKELY THAN WHITE OFFICERS TO SHOOT BLACKS

Stemming the Rot in American Manufacturing May Defeat Even Trump

Colorado Voters Send Message: Universal Healthcare Too Expensive

According to the school district, the girl violated the county’s weapon
policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach.

Everyone needs to stop talking about ‘white people’ - How the elitist fear of the underclass was given a PC makeover.

Calling everybody you don't like bad names loses its effect

Pat Caddell: CNN ‘Smearing’ Trump Supporters — ‘They Just Call Everybody a Racist’

Town and Country becomes Town v. Country

Hinderaker:  I  could go on for a long time; this AP story is a target-rich environment.

Whoopi Said Trump Nominee Wants to Bring Back Slavery

Post-Election, Why Don't We All Just Skip Thanksgiving This Year?

Via Insty:

Both Brexit and Trump were manifestations of cascading failures of the governing elites of the Western world, who pushed too hard for universalistic values and grew fundamentally disconnected from their populations. Saving liberalism will require elite introspection and a deeper understanding of our current crisis of governance. Self-satisfied assurances that anti-establishment voters are clueless—that they didn’t understand the significance of their vote and will now change their minds, or that they could be educated if social media sites simply promoted the right news outlets—are borderline suicidal.

THE FORGOTTEN MAN: No Longer Forgotten?

That Time Steve Bannon Tried to Arrange a Trump Visit to the Golan Heights

To All the Peter Pan Republicans: Trump Bests Captain Crook Clinton - The businessman succeeds where the GOP has failed

 Trump succeeded in doing something Republican strategists and campaign geniuses have failed to do since 1932: smack down an ideologically hostile press.

The Economist is worried:  The new nationalism - With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism

Isn't the job description to attend to America's needs?

Donna Brazile Calls For Senate To Reject Sessions’ Confirmation As AG

Why the Dems Are Hysterical About Jeff Sessions, and Why They Don’t Mean It:

So the Democrats have pulled out their old reliable, the race card. Which causes me to wonder: has the race card ever actually worked? The Democrats obviously think that false accusations of racism are political dynamite, but if that were true, why don’t they win more elections?

It's just an all-purpose smear, same as "He's a poopy-face."

NYT:  The End of Identity Liberalism

The Clintons burrowed into the brain stem of the Democratic party, like one of those ear-tunneling scorpion things in Star Trek II.

Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them.

Democrats suddenly thinking that states' rights might be good

Finally

Jihadi Invaders in Germany

UK Passes the Most Extreme Surveillance Law in the History of Western Democracy

What's the excuse for that?

Tony Blair is back?

The exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history and how a Pop Culture Detective tracks them down.

Luke 23:33-43

23:33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothing.

23:35 And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!"

23:36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

23:37 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

23:38 There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews."

23:39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!"

23:40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

23:41 And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."

23:42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

23:43 He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

Delicious stuff, especially with chicken and other fowl. Right now is the only time of year to buy cranberries in volume.

I freeze them in the bags because I am fond of them, but chutney is one tasty way to put them up.  There are many recipes online. Here's one:  Putting Up-Cranberry Chutney

For Thanksgiving,  we make the one on the Ocean Spray bag, and also this one: Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish

Image stolen from Am. Digest

Review of  ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’

Weakening polar vortex may yield longer, harsher winters in North America

District Court Judge Discovers Constitutional Right to Publicly Financed Sex Change Operations

Really? For cosmetic surgery?

Privileged college kids don't understand real social injustice

Harvard Law commemorates one-year anniversary of (likely hoax) ‘black tape’ incident

Race hoaxes are what keep the race baiters in business

NYC scores big by hanging on to charter-school visionary Eva Moskowitz

What American law professors forgot and what Trump knew

TV reporter fired after writing Facebook post praising Trump

Hillary "Attack Dog" David Brock Plotting With Soros, Steyer, Sussman To "Kick Trump's Ass"

Regardless of what he does, I assume. There will be no honeymoon this time.

Pitt students offered extra credit to attend anti-Trump march

Students Target Columbia Wrestlers Over Leaked Chat Room Messages

Memo To Millennials: That Awful Feeling You've Got Is Called Losing

How Affirmative Action Really Works

The truth of the matter is that the Obama administration saw the high-water mark of progressivism.

Is it any wonder, then, that the pragmatic and commonsense Americans, along with those whose consciences and religious freedoms were constantly violated, revolted at last? Is it any wonder that when an elite few invent a world without any relationship to reality, the rest of unconverted society refuses to accommodate itself to their confabulist insanities? Is it any wonder that honest Americans saw, as did the late theologian John Webster, that “The lie can be kept intact only if anything which threatens to expose it is destroyed?” Is it any wonder that the mere mortals among us have seen that the progressive gods are mad, and that their insistence that we retrofit our existence and all of society to accommodate their insane demands was a potentially fatal assault on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Think federal policy matters? Here’s why conservatives have a once-in-a-lifetime legislative opportunity at the state level

Shoes.com Bans Ivanka Trump Products Because of Politics – THEN BRAGS ABOUT IT ONLINE

Thanksgivingmanship: Your Guide to Surviving the SJW Imbeciles Who Have Spent a Week Reading Vox Articles About How to Survive You

The Term "Fake News" Joins "Hate Speech" As A New Tool for Ideological Speech Suppresion

Liberals who claim history’s on their side got a cold wake-up call

Steve Bannon Vows ‘Economic Nationalist Movement’ from White House — ‘As Exciting as the 1930s, Greater than the
Reagan Revolution’

Hmmm. How?

Does America have too much trade protectionism?

" I’m trying to imagine a similar story in, say, 2008: high school students and their teacher enact the assassination of Barack Obama."

Z-man:

Calling modern Progressives “the Left” turns history on its head. Progressives are the champions of privilege and advocate what amounts to the return of active and passive citizenship. They and their attendants will be the active citizens while the rest of us, including whoever happens to wander in from who knows where, will be the passive citizens. The only difference is the 18th century aristocrats were honest about what they wanted. The modern aristocrat prefers to lie about his intentions.

I will assemble my Granada pics soon, I hope. It was a good hike down the mountain on which Alhambra sits, then back up another big hill while getting lost in the maze of the old Moslem quarter (got together with a lost German couple and a lost sweet Turkish gal to form a search team) to reach this evening view of the Alhambra from the mirador.

FTC tightens up on Homeopathic products

Homeopathy is big business

Guy who beat Vegas and Wall St.

New technology aims to make photovoltaic cells 70% more efficient

Help for the Shy Guy: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Your Shyness

How to Pull Off Vegan Thanksgiving

Well, the sides and the desserts are the best part anyway. But no gravy?

Titanpointe - The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight

White police officers don't unfairly target black suspects, study says

‘Feminist’ Snow-Plowing System Brings Stockholm to a Standstill

College Faculties Are Mostly Leftist and Becoming More So

University of Colorado Professors Take Anti-American Revisionist History Into Overdrive

On the UW–Madison campus last night, student activists obstructe  the speech — by conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro —
"Dismantling Safe Spaces: Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings."

Bill De Blasio calls for more 'disruption' to protest Donald Trump

Can't imagine a conservative mayor talking like that

ESPN’s Public Editor Agrees With Viewers That Network ‘Has Moved Leftward’

Why are they doing politics?

USA Today editors call for an end to “sanctuary cities”

News flash to protesters: Obama has deported 2.5 million illegals

Mexico lists plans to 'protect Mexican community' in U.S.

California Teachers Offered "Anti-Hate, Trump Teaching Plan" To "Empower Students"

Students and faculty and George Mason: get a grip.

Good election summaries at Betsy

President Trump is Going to Hit Some Very Nasty Greenies Where it Really Hurts

Harry Reid: I Wondered After the Election ‘Is the World Gonna Be Destroyed?’

Howard Dean Compares Trump Election to Kent State Shootings, Selma AL’s ‘Bloody Sunday’

Democrats know why they lost, but won’t fix their problems

Can America Survive the Mass Panic of the Adult Babies?

The Left’s descent into childishness and irrationality following Trump’s election is as frightening as it is amusing.

One of the biggest themes to emerge so far from the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a widening rural vs. urban divide.

So what?

How Trump’s Plan to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens Would Work

Krauthammer’s Take: Press Itching to Attack Trump and ‘Can’t Take a Month or Two Off’

Always collecting Repub scalps

"Racist," Sexist", etc. You Are Still Crying Wolf  (h/t Am. Digest)

Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. He made gains among Asians. The only major racial group where he didn’t get a gain of greater than 5% was white people. I want to repeat that: the group where Trump’s message resonated least over what we would predict from a generic Republican was the white population.

The Steve Bannon Bogeyman

There are some people in this world, let’s just call them Social Justice Warriors, who see a racist under every bed

No they don't. False accusations are just an Alinsky tactic

David Axelrod tweets defense of Trump

The Bottomless Ignorance of Donald Trump - His poor grasp of policy makes past leaders look brilliant by comparison.

The coming Trump administration’s yuuuge transformational opportunity

Obama sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day

Wilbur Ross: Need to Change 'Culture of All of the Government Departments'

Good luck with that

French PM: "Europe Is In Danger Of Falling Apart"

Britain’s new surveillance law will have privacy advocates wincing

Orwell as how-to manual

Foreign tour: Obama’s Never-Ending Lecture Tour

Latest Atomic Energy Report on Iranian Compliance With Nuclear Deal ‘Borders on Deception by Omission’

The Continuing Decline of America's Military

We have one just like this. When I was 10 I had to stand up to use the clutch. This one only needs a little work:

I have liked kippers since I was a kid. Kippers and scrambled eggs for breakfast. I also love pickled herring with that cream sauce. I raised my kids on that. Canned salmon is disgusting. Canned salted anchovies? Well, there are good ones and terrible ones. The worst ones are used by pizza joints. Always wonder why they call canned Tuna "Tuna fish"?  Is there some other kind of tuna that is not a fish?

Via Am. Digest, an Ode to Canned Fish

China's Xi urges cooperation among nations in governance of global internet

"Governance"?

Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

Nimrud: Photos show IS destruction of ancient Iraqi city

The USGS Just Found 20 Billion Barrels of Oil

The Transgender Tragedy

Will the Surge of Support for Free Speech on Campus Do Any Good?

Slate: GOP stole the Supreme Court and ‘we need to go lower’

It’s Time to Stop Spending Taxpayer Dollars on Elon Musk and Cronyism

How to Make Drug Prices Fair to U.S. Consumers

Oregon Official Who Shut Down Sweet Cakes Loses Election Bid to a Republican

Trump’s campaign kills the ‘money buys elections’ cliche.

Research Guru saw Trump phenomenon coming before anyone else

She tries to measure the deep currents

The Exhausted Epithets of the Left - They didn’t work against Trump and won’t work against his aides.

  The Left’s trivialization of the charge of racism only made it easier for Trump to win. Previous GOP candidates lived in dread fear of the media’s PC mau-mauing. Trump didn’t and ended up getting a higher percentage of the Black and Hispanic vote than Romney. While Hillary wrote off half the country as a basket of deplorables, Trump turned up in inner cities. Obama and other Hillary surrogates mocked him for his “Make America Great Again” slogan, but next to the “God damn America”-style multiculturalism of the Left, Trump’s simple nationalism looked less scary than sane.

Federal Judge Proclaims a Stable Climate to Be a Fundamental Constitutional Right

Sheesh

Four things you can do to stop Donald Trump from making climate change worse

The left is a regular riot

Press dig in for long battle against Trump

Trump Goes Out to Dinner, Press Has Hissy Fit

Boston Globe: I don’t want Trump to succeed. I want him to fail spectacularly.

Why No One Pays Any Attention To The New York Times Any More

Guardian: Don't call Clinton a weak candidate: it took decades of scheming to beat her

What the elites still don’t get about American politics

Vox:  Trump’s coalition won the demographic battle. It’ll still lose the war.

Hillary Clinton Was The Lady Ghostbusters Of Presidential Candidates - It turns out that people liked the original, male version of the Clinton candidacy a lot more than the expensive reboot.

Sultan:  Let's All Go To the Arafat Museum

I Watched Donald Trump Blow A Hole Through The European Elite’s Minds - Looking
out on a valley in the Schwarzwald surrounded by posh European men with
pants tight enough to ensure they could never procreate, my mind
embraced Donald Trump.

Re-posted from past Thanksgiving seasons -

We did one turkey in the oven, stuffed with cornbread stuffing, and the other one on the grill with occasional doses of soaked apple wood chunks from my neighbor's tree, and with white wine in the steam water. Both birds were brined 24 hrs before cooking, and each around 18 lbs. but I feel that's a waste of time.

We had plenty of family and friends to eat it all up.

I think people preferred the grilled (no stuffing in the grilled bird).  It was my first time trying grilled turkey. Beginner's luck: It came out perfectly: moist, with a pleasant hint of smokiness. It took around 3 1/2 hrs to cook. Keeping the temp at near 325 involved carefully titrating the number of briquettes and fruitwood chunks to keep the heat low, but to not let the fire go out. Basted it with veg. oil and honey. Just for fun, I use my heavy-duty poultry injector to squirt sherry or cider into the meat. Why not? I don't buy butterball turkeys.

Nice grill, eh? This cast-iron thing weights 500 lbs. I had to assemble the darn thing off a truck, and got most of it right. Except for the wheels, which fell off. Now it takes a few pall-bearers to move it.

This is halfway:

And done:

The puppy seemed equally happy with scraps from the grilled and from the oven-roasted turkey.