Maggie's Farm

We used some of those plastic Cajun Classic meat injectors (image on right) to inject our birds (ducks, turkeys, pheasants, etc): Deep Fry Turkey Day with Red-neck Yankees, aka Les Tres Riche Heures du Bird Dog.

Those plastic injectors are worthless crap. The herbs and spices jam up the injector holes, and the whole thing falls apart after a few birds.

We then made do with a large-apertured medical syringe which one of our medical friends had (which I hope was clean), but this is really the cooking tool that is needed: the stainless steel Bayou Classic with one needle for herb mixtures and another for marinade (photo below).

Many folks like to inject a turkey with sherry or cider.

I bought a couple of those for my cooking buddies. (Update: I did, and got one for myself too. Would be scary to see a nurse approaching you with one of these.)

This year, I am going to inject those big SOBs with a warmed mix of sherry, butter, honey, and herbs under the skin and deep into the meat. That can not be bad. The Indians did it that way, didn't they? Of course they did - when they weren't busy scalping, raping, and torturing their neighboring tribes.

Mike Rowe on politics

New York Times Flooded With Complaints About Election Coverage

In Insty's words, "Democratic operatives with bylines"

The New York Times, other outlets crying 'wolf' over Trump

Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’

Rightly so

Bloomington, Indiana Renames Columbus Day and Good Friday

"Insensitive"?  To whom?

ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS: CIVIL RIGHTS HERO

Stop Calling Crony Corporatism "Public Private Partnerships"

Health Coverage The Same As Ten Years Ago

The Hypocrisy of the Anti-War Left

DHS may leave known smuggling route into U.S. unprotected - Agent told 'by end of month we're not covering it anymore'

The Truth About Black Lives Matter - The movement paints a false and disturbing portrait of America in order to justify its even more disturbing aims

Donald Trump’s presidency will be a besieged presidency

Obama’s transition from ‘man of the people’ to ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’

A Horatio Alger story

“Hamilton” star tweeted about blacks and drunk women on St. Patrick’s Day

College kids are proving Trump’s point

Kissinger: Trump has no baggage

The Joy of Quiet, Busy, Out-of-the-Spotlight Trump

He is meeting with tons of people, all sorts

Washington Post: If Democrats Don’t Oppose Trump, Their Abdicating Democracy Or Something

Europe: Let's End Free Speech! Are European Countries Now Police States?

They have a tendency for that

The Return of European Anti-Americanism

12 members of nuclear negotiating team arrested by Iran for espionage

Trump could gut the Iran deal—but it was vulnerable all along

We always have this on our Thanksgiving menu, but there's no reason to limit it to Thanksgiving. Comfort food.

Here's a good easy recipe.

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.