Special Thanksgiving Edition

What happens when Irish people taste an American Thanksgiving dinner for the first time?

Ten reasons to be thankful for president trump.

And be thankful for private property.

Thanksgiving for dummies, or rather college professors.

Here's a more thorough explanation of the interplay between the Europeans and the native Americans.

WKRP's episode of the Turkey Drop was the best Thanksgiving episode of all time. Watch the episode on YouTube here. Turn up your sound.

And concluding, don't miss Power Lines roundup of Thanksgiving Day Memes, including this gem:

Climate Change

Why everything you hear about climate change is wrong.

Attorney General Barr gave a terrific speech about the damage to the nation by the resistance.  It got great reviews from reasonable analysts. The Left is of course over-reacting.

More on the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella. It's like the Cheers bar, everybody knows his name.

When the villain is Obama and not Trump, suddenly the news isn't worth reporting.

If you have decent speed on the Internet, here are some very nice B&W photos of the hearings.

Sycophants who flatter child climate oracles deserve ridicule.

This ring galaxy is 600 million light years away. In the picture are more galaxies even much more distant. Kind of makes the universe seem really big.

Soldiers have been in the news lately. The most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war had almost as many article 15's and medals.

King Sobieski defeated the Muslims on the outskirts of Vienna, preventing them from taking over Europe in 1683. His statue is too controversial to be placed in Vienna.

A new Clint Eastwood movie is coming out. "Richard Jewell" paints the press as incompetent.

There are so many Muslim immigrants in Sweden that it's turning into a war zone. Of course the media doesn't even mention the demographics of the folk causing the problems.

Vaping isn't a good thing, but it's safer than smoking. The scary news you've seen lately has been the result of black market marijuana infused products, not commercial ones. Of course the media has failed to take recognition of that subtle detail. Trump was right to not ban vaping products.

The media is ignoring Hunter Biden's latest baby from an unwed mother, unlike the reaction to Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Joe Biden didn't appreciate getting a question from a reporter about it. Hunter has yet another kid from his late brother's widow.

Here's a review of a book detailing the deep state plot against the President

The Whistleblower and the Lt Colonel

Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower and LTC Alan Vindman is the guy who was so concerned about the phone call that he told Eric about it.  Here's the real mystery of those two. On the same subject, here's ten reasons the hearing is really a coup.

Clint Eastwood has a new movie out: Richard Jewell, about the guy who found a bomb in Atlanta during the Olympics. The FBI decided he was the bomber and leaked the information to the press. He was innocent of course. The movie is based on this article in Vanity Fair.

Remember Harry Potter's invisibility cloak? Somebody made one.

It seems like a daily occurrence that California Governor Gavin Newsom does something stupid, though it may be more often than daily. Here's an example: California owns over 50,000 cars; Newsome has decreed that the state can only buy electric cars.

Jessica Meir is on the space station. She has a twitter page which is kind of interesting. The space station looks kind of junky in some photos.

Three Indiana judges were suspended after a brawl that left two of them wounded.

People in Zimbabwe are complaining that those Chinese manufactured condoms are too small.

These people had half their brains removed and they are still getting along fine. Of course they vote Democrat.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claims to be a Christian, so we should vote for him even though he's gay. A close look at his theology makes one suspect.

How the Japanese bombed Michigan in WW2.

Why Trump held up the money to the Ukraine.

Much has been made about Trump firing some ambassadors. Obama fired every ambassador that had been appointed by Bush.

We have talked before about the SPLC. They have declared Franklin Graham as a leader of a hate group.

The Democrats and the media have been trying to spin the connection between old Biden and young Biden as much ado about nothing. Old Biden has a record of asking the government to do what young Biden's firm wanted.

Here's a guy who moved from LA to a small town in Idaho. He experienced culture shock.

Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, delivered the annual Global Warming Policy Forum lecture in London on October 9. The title of his lecture was “Daring to Doubt.” He began with some general observations on our peculiar age.

A fascinating article on the K-T boundary

This article tells the story of how different scientific disciplines led to the understanding of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

This art critic says it's time for the Louvre to take down the Mona Lisa

Stilton Jarlsburg's commentary on guns in Mexico. If you link to his home page, you can see more from him.

A very nice picture of a Saturn rocket.

A project by Oregon State has rounded up signatures from 11,000 scientists warning us about the dangers of global warming.  One writer looked at the list, which includes all kinds of scientists, and found only 240 (2%) individuals with professions that can be construed as bona fide meteorologists, climatologists, or atmospheric scientists. Since there are 10,000 such scientists in the US, that seems like a minority. The list is currently unavailable while they purge it of names like Micky Mouse and Albus Dumbledore from Hogwarts. If you have the time, watch this analysis.

Here's more on the whistle blower who sparked the latest impeachment inquiry. He's a Democrat operative.

And you thought the Chevrotain was extinct. Scientists managed to get a photo on one in the wilds of Viet Nam.

Here's a cool photo of Mercury flying by in front of the Sun. If you want to see a closeup, go here.

An interesting article about the laws against eating on the subway platform.

Some cities are banning natural gas. I sure enjoyed having it while the electricity was off.

Universites are really going down hill.  Stanford students were triggered by having a conservative speaker. And The Daily Northwestern apologized for covering a Jeff Sessions event.

Three Marxists decided to share an apartment in the spirit of Marxism. They found out it doesn't work.

An honest leftist admits the truth about all those benefits. Higher taxes on the poor and middle class.

A compelling article about the 737 Max and the way pilots fly these days, by William Languische, son of the writer of the famous flying book "Stick and Rudder". The problem is that pilots don't really fly much, the computers do it and when something goes wrong the pilots don't know what to do.

A thorough article about the truth about the homeless in San Francisco. Hint: it's not the cost of housing. California's Proposition 47 has created a whole new problem with theft.

The Army is developing a new type of helmet--lighter and more protection.

The Babylon Bee is becoming the paper of record instead of a satire.  Consider this article on Baghdadi. There's a really funny aspect to this satire: the very last suggested headline was the one actually used by the Washington Post until the outcry forced them to change it.

The real reason the legacy media is freaking out over the Baghdadi mission.

The coming vindication of Donald Trump may lead to a restoration of the Consitution.

You will recall that in the movie Jurassic Park, they took blood from a mosquito trapped in amber to clone dinosaurs. Here's a collection of creatures trapped in amber.

More from the Bee: Texas is luring jobs from California with promises of electricity.

The UK has halted fracking. Boris Johnson’s government, which is preparing for a general election, said the ban would be in place until there was “compelling new evidence” that it could be carried out safely. There is plenty of evidence that fracking can be carried out safely, though there are many misguided activists who disagree. Elizabeth Warren plans to ban Fracking when she is elected president, surely attractive to her base of supporters. The US has become an exporter of petroleum since fracking took off; 90% of our oil comes from fracking and natural gas has become so cheap that companies have stopped drilling for it.

Natasha Lipman "My husband squeezed my hand to say he wanted to live, then I found a way to save him". A great first person article about phages.

California has much, much bigger problems than wildfires.

The House of Representatives acknowledged the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Not Trump would win in a landslide

Consider if Trump ran without being Trump.  With his record, he would win in a historic landslide.

Is this the whistleblower? Like in the sitcom "Cheers", this article says everybody knows his name.

Here's a moth pretending to be two flies sitting on bird poop. Scroll down for caterpillar disguised as bird poop.

I thought this cooking tip from the New York Times was worth sharing: the secret ingredient that makes meat better every time.

States are cutting university budgets. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks.

FLASHBACK: Biden Lied for Years About the Driver Involved in His Wife & Daughter's Death.

New York state is having a natural gas shortage. Cuomo's answer? Pump imaginary gas.

Replica cars have difficulty meeting vehicle standards, so congress passed a law to allow them to be made. Of course the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is ignoring the law. I will never forgive them for making the Army chop up all those M151A1 jeeps that we had when I was in the National Guard. They were wonderful off-road vehicles.

The Babylon Bee features a new smart doorbell that will argue with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon missionaries for you.

Here's a useful product for when you anticipate a hurricane or power shutoff, a bathtub water storage container.

This writer doesn't think that Trump sold out the Kurds for pulling out of Syria.

So liberal enclaves are banning plastic straws to save the oceans. The great majority of plastic debris comes from rivers in China.

When Hillary was a young lawyer working on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, she came up with four tests that should be applied first. Here's the list, and the current situation meets none of the criteria.

Obama made a rule requiring doctors to perform transgender surgery. A court struck them down.

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham hit back at CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Sunday after Cooper ran a segment mocking her late last week.

Some global warming protestors decided to take their protest to an In-N-Out Burger. Some of the staff tossed them out.

Some parents stood up to the failing education establishment and the kids benefited.

Surely you have heard that the Polar Bears are dying out because of global warming. An expert on Polar Bears said no, there are more than ever. Of course she lost her job.

Anyone with an IQ higher than a rutabaga knows that Hunter Biden's job on the board at the Ukrainian gas company was a farce designed buy influence, but I hadn't realized that Biden didn't even go to the board meetings.

This article is a review of a video arguing for intelligent design. The Cambrian explosion is pretty difficult to explain with evolutionary theory.

As you may recall, the 6-mile wide Chicxulub asteroid collision wiped out the dinosaurs and most of the rest of the land creatures on earth about 66 million years ago. But what about the fishes? Shouldn't they be fine down in the cool ocean? Well, it turns out the asteroid also created an acid rain that wiped out most of the marine life at the same time. The article is worth linking to just to see the illustration in the NY Times of the crater.

And here's a follow-up article about the remarkably quick rise of the mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

How important is impeachment to voters in Iowa?  It turns out it's only important to 7% of them.

It seems that anybody who can is moving out of San Francisco because it costs too much to have a life.

The top James Bond films rated from worst to best.

If you are dying to know more details from Ronan Farrow's new book: "Catch and Kill", click this review.

The Aye-Aye in Madagascar has a pseudo-thumb to help him grip things. The rest of his hand is kind of interesting also.

An interesting photo of the Milky Way and other objects reflected in a rain-covered salt flat. Be sure and click on the photo to expand it.

In the latest Democrat debate, Biden bragged about defeating eminently qualified Robert Bork as a Supreme Court justice. This article has some excellent history for younger readers, espeically as the beginnings of the discourse we have in politics today.

Rolling Stone produces a list of the 100 best singers of all time. This author takes exception. You can read the list for yourself here.  As usual, Iowa Pundit had the best take on it:



The loudest bird in the world is the white bellbird. Listen here.

By the time you read this, it's probably too late to win Pete Buttigieg's contest for a free trip to San Francisco (the gay mecca) to see Hamilton with Pete's husband.

Frustrated with your Internet service? Fast affordable Internet is coming in 2020.

Probably you'll want to read this taste test of six vegetable-based hamburgers from the NY Times.