Thanksgiving Dinner with WWW was magnificent. I have never had an organically raised bird before, but I recognized the taste as the same as the wild turkey I shot in Colorado about forty year ago. We also had stuffing gravy, and dinner rolls. WWW made cream puffs for dessert. That was TC heaven! Purrrr!! After carving all the meat we could get, we boiled the bones, and cleaned off the rest of the meat to make soup later. We also fed dinner to the desk clerk here at the building. I’ve had a very busy morning.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:47 (average 4:52). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Religious Agony:
It was their turn this week. It isn’t really agony anymore. At this point, each loss increases the value of our draft choices, while I wonder who the head coach and three new QBs will be next year.
Short Takes:
From Reuters: U.S. media company Meredith Corp said on Sunday it will buy Time Inc, the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines, in a $1.84 billion all-cash deal backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
The deal is a coup for Meredith, which held unsuccessful talks to buy Time earlier this year and in 2013.
I predict that Times People of the year will be goose-stepping Republican Koch suckers. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Alex M. Azar II, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has expressed concern about the soaring cost of prescription drugs for many consumers. This week, Mr. Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive, is expected to face tough questions at a Senate confirmation hearing over why his own company raised prices.
Democratic senators say that, as a top manager at Eli Lilly and Company, he was responsible for steep increases on insulin and other drugs. How he would now tackle that problem as secretary, along with the future of the Affordable Care Act, promises to dominate the hearings.
Republican greed mongers in the Senate will confirm Azar, knowing that he will cause many Americans to die and not caring. RESIST!!
From Alternet: As Congressional Republicans return from the Thanksgiving break, they face a crammed agenda and the daunting task of passing an already wildly unpopular tax plan by the end of the year.
According to Politico, many are worried that the White House has already doomed the tax overhaul with a tone-deaf rollout that featured multimillionaires Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn as spokesmen.
The GOP hopes to convince voters that their tax plan isn’t a giant handout to millionaires and billionaires — which it is — and that it will lower the tax burden of middle class families — which it will not.
From Alternet’s keys to God’s eyes! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:31 I don’t remember my geraniums drooping over like that. Of course I didn’t have them in a pot either, but in the ground.
Reuters – Well, that should put an end to the “person of the year” being the person who has most influenced world history for good or evil. It will become the laudatory meaninglessness that the Orange Idiot thinks it already is.
NYT – There is a story about insulin on Daily Kos today HERE. It’s by VetWife, who is pretty dependable, especially to rant about the things that need ranting about.
AlterNet – Yeah. Even the pennies-on-the-dollar cuts which will affect a very few familes who could use them will expire, whereas the deep cuts to the rich are permanent.
Cartoon – Please don’t chew on the bones, kitteh. They could splinter and choke you.
Reuters: Used to be a good magazine, that I enjoyed reading. Ironically, I just cancelled my subscription 2 days ago to the Time. (good timing, lol). I don’t subscribe to the others, and if I wanted to read them, I’d go to the library and read them for free anyways.
NYT: There are a couple in my family who are diabetic, and this is very concerning to me. The Repugs will get him (Azar) in there to goose step alongside with the others they’ve confirmed.
AN: o.m.g. RESIST!!!
Cartoon: Hungry kitty!
I’m so glad that you had a great Thanksgiving, and feast. You and WWW deserve that! and much more! Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Reuters: This is sad. When i was in college, some of us used to laugh at “Time Mag.” as a virtual equivalent to the Nat’l Enquirer, now it will probably be in a race with it for the lowest seat in the cess pool. Imagine the vast amount of propaganda-made-to-look-like- news “people” and S.I can slip to the sheeple!
NYT: Just another day in the life of tDump!
Alternet: Any senators who vote for this thing ought to be strongly fought at their next election round! Hoping Politico has it right!
TC, your Turkey Day sounds like it was just the thing for you. How are you feeling?
Pooped, thank you!
Reuters: If you can’t get Time to name you their Man of the Year despite your temper tantrums, you have your rich patrons buy up the whole magazine so they get to determine the next one. Wouldn’t it be a laugh if by then the only one that truly deserved the title is Mueller?
NYT: This charade is getting old, isn’t it? Drumpf nominates one of his buddies to lead a Department, usually the most unfit loyalist, and those candidates start to throw some public concerns regarding that department about as if they were their own before appearing before in Senate confirmation hearing. The candidates lie their ass off on all those issues that make them unfit for the job during the hearing and gets the seal of approval despite everyone being onto them. The new Head of Department then forgets all about the lies and promises and does their worst which is exactly why Drumpf appointed them. So of course Azar is very concerned with drug prices he helped raise himself, will promise to try and make them go down, and then will looks away as soon as he’s confirmed. Next one, please…
Alternet: All has been said on the proposed Tax Reform. Let’s hope not all Republicans will cave in and send this bill back.
Cartoon: From your description of your feast I would have thought there were no leftovers other than a pan of soup, TomCat.
All poor and middle classes get of that knife is the screw driver.
The poor only get the tiny scissors, but the lettering is too small to read.
I saw that, but even that is more than what the poor get. They lose money.
What does anyone think that cat in the cartoon is nibbling on?
Doesn’t look like turkey to me. I thought it might be a salmon, but looking at the fat marbling I think it looks like a chunk of ham.
It could be ham, certainly. It could even be a pastry unevenly dusted with flour. It also could be a skinned and fried chunk of turkey. Yes, I know that’s sacrilege, but there are people who are doing it.
Puzzle — 4:16 I hate geraniums! They look sprite, at least the red ones do, but they make me sneeze like crazy if I am within a metre. My mother used to have potted geraniums in the dining room window when I was a child. Eating in the dining room was not an option, even for my own birthday party.
Reuters — Koch . . . Just in Time? . . . Out of Time!!!
NY Times — “Alex M. Azar II, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has expressed concern about the soaring cost of prescription drugs for many consumers.” — I wonder what he did to contain the price of prescription drugs while a pharmaceutical executive?
Of the current system under Obamacare, he said it is “circling the drain.” How is it that some drug prices are for the most part, cheaper in Canada?
AlterNet — Follow the money . . . it will go to the people who don’t need it and don’t deserve it!
Cartoon — Are you trying to suggest that is leftover turkey from yesterday? Think again . . . that looks to be pork. The bone is too big for turkey, not to mention other discrepancies.
Thanks all. Hugs!
The cartoon is a generic leftovers graphic several years old. There are definitely leftovers up the ying-yang. It was an 8 1/2 lb. bird fully cooked.