Reaching a State of Readiness After Thanksgiving

The Jewish Approach to Thanksgiving Leftovers

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! How many times did you hear, before Thanksgiving, "Are you ready for Thanksgiving"? Do you expect to hear in the upcoming weeks anything like, "Are you ready for Christmas"?

Who knows? Some things in life are predictable and other thngs are unpredictable.

It was just the two of us this year for Thanksgiving, and we tried to prepare for leftovers (especially after losing one of our refrigerators) by stretching the traditional Thanksgiving treats over several meals. But we still have leftovers. One faux pas so far: yesterday was "cook the turkey breast day", and I didn't realize that there was a gravy base packet inside the breast. I guess that makes up for the giblets and neck usually packaged with a whole turkey. But I had never seen one before. The gravy base packet got baked, too.

The plastic packet did not melt. I gamely tried to rescue the contents but some of the thickener had transformed into something resembling masses of amphibian eggs, and would not thin out. Oh, well. I added a can of chicken gravy and served it anyway.

I can't imagine anything like this occurring in, say, France.

Do people fry turkey breasts whole like they do whole turkeys? Frying one of these gravy packets could be a disaster. When I put the leftovers away, I added drippings from baking the turkey breast to the meat to keep it fresh-tasting, but the rescued gravy has been kept separate, perhaps for use with a future batch of aromatic dressing.

But on to some real content:

The Jewish people have become masters of transforming remnants into renewal

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Chetek)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects. Dull ones? Feeling lucky?
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 29 November 2025

Top Story

• Don't worry about AI taking your job. I don't worry about AI taking your job, so why should you, asks billionaire CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia who got rich pushing AI. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  To be fair, he made the right call, making Nvidia the most valuable company in the world, and that is his job. However, he is pushing his staff to use more AI precisely because if it works he won't need them.
  
  I don't believe it will work, but he has to claim to believe it, because that is also his job. So one way or the other, he is lying.
  
  
  
• Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says quantum computing will pop the AI bubble. (WCCFTech)
  
  This would spell serious trouble for Nvidia, because if quantum computing is effective, it would erase 90% of their market overnight.
  
  Huang thinks that will take twenty years.
  
  Gelsinger believes it may take as little as two.
  
  

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Deep In The Heart Of The ONT

Happy Friday everyone! Here's a fun fact I learned this week: Google search AI was programmed by dogs.

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Christmas Seals Cafe

Dusk at Bolton, Lancashire
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Saving a deer trapped in an acquaduct.

Sea otter is anxious about his diagnosis.

Lynx senses that the icy stream is cracking, so he takes the Pouncing Bridge over it.

By special request of garrett: eye contact with a bear on all fours. Also requested by garrett: blood worms.

Bear picking off salmon as they climb a waterfall. People will risk anything to get some cloaca.

Baby tiger sucks on a pacifier.

Little seal climbs aboard a boat to escape killer whales.

Outstanding work little feller, take the rest of the week off.

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Abusive Cat Open Thread

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What They Took From Us Open Thread

There's a fun but bittersweet meme called "What They Took From Us." The idea is that you show something nice that we used to have, which has now disappeared.

I first saw the meme about Pizza Hut's old distinctively-roofed buildings versus the Ikea Construction Company boxes they have now.

So they idea is that you offer an overwrought lament that you've lost a major part of your cultural patrimony, but then you just link some trivial mass-market nostalgia-bait.

So here's a What They Took From Us: Insanely hot girls on TV who are on TV just because they're insanely hot and people like looking at insanely hot girls.

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1970s Tank Simulator Open Thread

Computers weren't so advanced in the 1970s, so to train tank drivers, they created a miniature battlefield and had the trainees "drive the tank" through the miniature field, viewing it through a small camera that moved across the diorama.

Kind of neater than computer stuff, really.

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Trump Declares All Biden Autopen Documents Null and Void

I don't know how the courts will handle this.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, as he often does. The Friday afternoon post stated, "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States." It is unclear how significantly this could impact governmental programs and policies, but certainly it will shake up the federal government.

Next, Trump went so far as to say that Joe Biden was so totally incompetent mentally and physically that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the autopen scandal and would be lying if he said he did.

The president insisted, "The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

I suspect they will claim that any document with the claimed signature of the president is presumptively real and therefore lawful, and that any undoing of that presumption must be on a case-by-case basis and by clear and convincing proof.

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Walking Your Wombats Open Thread

A couple of Ozzie lasses walk their wombats, if you know what I mean.

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Christmas is Coming Open Thread

A walking tour of a Christmas village in Colmar, France.

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Sea World Open Thread

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THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots (11/28/2025)

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Before I haul out the holly and start setting up for Christmas today, I’ll take advantage of the opportunity to clear the spindle of a few items that didn’t warrant an entire post unto themselves.

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Principled Free Traders Hit Hardest

There is emerging bad news for all the America-last “free traders” who celebrated the loss of American jobs during the era of unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism. Specifically, President Trump’s effort to re-shore American manufacturing is reducing the trade deficit and creating new manufacturing jobs here at home.

This is just one of many stories about manufacturing jobs being reshored to the US:

“GE Appliances bolsters ties with US suppliers as it moves production from China” [AP – 11/21/2025]

This article documents how GE is moving production of washers and dryers from China to Kentucky, creating 800 jobs in Louisville alone, while directly investing $490 million into the US economy with the plant’s construction and tooling. In addition, GE has announced contracts worth more than $150 million to US businesses who will be suppliers to the Kentucky operations.

Donald Trump’s policy of repatriating jobs is having its desired impact. Wealth retained in this country, which then circulates through the American economy, propels Gross Domestic Product (GDP) upward. It’s already starting to happen.

“US trade deficit narrows sharply in August in boost to third-quarter GDP” [MSN – 11/20/2025]

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in August as businesses imported fewer goods against the backdrop of higher tariffs, a trend that if sustained could be a potential tailwind for economic growth in the third quarter.

The monthly trade deficit decreased by an impressive 24% in August, injecting about $20 billion into the US economy that otherwise would have been sent overseas.

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What if ICE had Door Dash do Its Work for Them?

Last Friday I wrote about the black market of illegal, foreign labor that constitutes much of the actual workforce delivering meals for companies such as Door Dash and Uber Eats.

A few days later, Turning Point’s Savannah Hernandez offered up a humorous idea to make ICE’s job easier. Rather than chasing down people who are in the country illegally, ICE can just order Door Dash or Uber Eats and have them show up at ICE’s front door.

All ICE has to do to get illegals out of NYC is order Uber eats and DoorDash all day.

Guaranteed 100% success rate that their delivery person will be an illegal using someone’s stolen social security number.

Basically ordering illegals straight to their door. The perfect plan.

— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) November 23, 2025

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Sustainable, Organic Schadenfreude

Because I have always understood what a fraud the entire green energy scam is, I have never been at risk of getting suckered into any “renewable energy” investments. I also know that the “winners” in this sector have been those scamming the government for grant money, and those scamming credulous investors out of their savings. Celebrities have been especially good marks for those promoting the climate scam, because celebrities are not only wealthy, but they are often naïve and gullible.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Patient
Felix Vallotton

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The Morning Report — 11/28/25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving Day. So today is Black Friday, the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season but also given the news of the day, things certainly look black from my perspective.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that . . . “I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said:

It is now all too painfully obvious, at least to me, that Army Specialist Beckstrom died in the line of duty, in defense of our nation. Or at least what vestiges of it remain after decades of destruction, division and dissolution that have, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, rotted away at its vitals. To say that we are in a state of civil war in my view is incorrect, but we are for sure in a state of siege by an axis of evil representing ideologies and people that are simultaneously foreign and domestic, and who share a rabid fever dream of obtaining absolute power with zero compunction and now a desire to employ the most violent means at their disposal.

In terms of enemies and ideologies foreign, President Trump made this announcement:

President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
. . . He will additionally “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization,” he wrote in the long post.. . “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” the post said. Trump’s comments came following a deadly ambush on two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, which investigators say was carried out by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Lakanwal, 29, entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal as part of the “Operation Allies Welcome” program.

Well, Amen to all of that. What the President did not say, and for obvious reasons cannot say is that one of the two major things that are non-compatible with Western Civilization is ISLAM. It is and has been for 1,500 years a tyrannical totalitarian death cult Hell bent of the conquest and subjugation of the entire human race by every means necessary. Islam is like a virus. First mass migration to non-muslim countries, especially those in the west where freedoms and civil rights and a notion of multicultural puarlaism allows them to over time corrupt and co-opt those societies without fear of backlash. All one has to do is look at England and France for starters and what each hs done to itself since the end ofWorld War 2 and the dissolution of their respective colonial empires that together encompassed a huge segment of Islamic majority nations. And Islam is now on the verge of completely subsuming their host countries into the Muslim "Ummah" or community.

On a positive note, it is certainly a good thing that the President along with Governor Abbott of Texas have moved to make the Muslim Brotherhood a designated terrorist organization. But again, the MB as well as Al Qaeda, ISIS and all the rest as horrid and dangerous as they are, are not the threat. They are merely the symptoms of the real threat and disease which is Islam itself. Those organizations and all the rest exist to spread Islam by force of arms and terrorism.

Why the Muslim Brotherhood is a Threat to America It gave birth to Hamas, Al-Qaeda and ISIS. 

As I stated at the outset vis a vis an axis of enemies foreign and domestic, I give you the latter as accurately recognized and identified by an elected official on our side of he aisle.

Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.”

Good on Rep Buddy Carter for telling it like it is. The Democrat/Left have been the enemy inside the gate for over 200 years.

And they too have embraced a foreign anti Western ideology that was imported into this nation almost a center ago, namely socialism. Its adherents and high priests who preach it have done so from the pulpit of the American classroom and lecture hall. Unless and until that is stopped, we are doomed.

Surprise surprise: The younger generations have now glommed onto Socialism, of all things, as something that will be their savior. Will Donald Trump's ascendancy lead us to a rekindling of America as founded, or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell, because if the trends are correct will the rise of Mamdani and his ilk be a one-off or as I fear our future.

Having sown mutiny in the ranks, it is ominous that we hear talk like this, since electoral politics being what it is and the Democrat proclivity to steal them on top of the vicissitudes of the electorate to change for the hell of it, this is kind of ominous when, and not if, there is a Democrat or Democrat Socialist SOCIALITE who takes the White House

The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape —
“The View” co-host Joy Behar invoked the Nazi Nuremberg trials on Tuesday in her warning to service members who may be following “illegal orders” from the Trump administration.
While discussing the Pentagon’s investigation into the members of Congress featured in the video, Behar recommended the audience watch a recently released film called “Nuremberg,” a movie based on the Allied trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. . .

. . . JEn Piss-Hockey Psaki and MSNOW amplify the ‘Dems will prosecute anyone taking part in the Mark Kelly investigation’ intimidation campaign:
Psaki: “What do you think the consequences should be for people who are abiding by following these steps from the Commander In Chief?”
Kirschner: “They’re following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. And if you’re committing offenses and your defense is going to be ‘I was just following orders’ — You know, that didn’t work out so well at Nuremberg.”

When they gain power again, The Left is going to come after all of us with a vengeance. Mark my words.

I'll leave it at that. Have a great weekend.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many,” Trump wrote late Thursday night.
  President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
  
• It’s no joke.
  This Man’s Name is Adolf Hitler – And He’s Running for Re-Election

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Daily Tech News 28 November 2025

Top Story

• OpenAI has described its forthcoming AI device. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)
  
  Not announced. Not previewed. Described:

  When people see it, they say, "that's it?... It's so simple."

  Not so much of a description as a fart.
  
  It's expected to be a phone, but without a screen, making it useless to everyone who already has a phone, which is... Everyone.
  
  Also, don't look at the picture.
  
  
  
• Why can't ChatGPT tell the time? (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Because it doesn't know anything.
  
  
  

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 27, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Hope your Thanksgiving day was great! Anything exciting happen in your world today?

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Thanksgiving Night Cafe

The hammer-headed fruitbat, known by some
(mostly me) as "the Turkey of the Night"

These are big boys.

Real big boys.

Just a gal riding her horse like she's late to Pellanor Fields.

CAUTION! SEXUAL CONTENT WARNING! A male hedgehog tries to stick it to a female hedgehog, and that's not easy, on account of all the sticky bits. She's not making it easy for him. Her quills are all up. I know how that story goes.

A warm welcome from a cute cat.

A lynx's cub is caught in a trap, so she asks a human to help. Good thing she didn't ask the trapper.

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The Great Thanksgiving Turkey Drop Open Thread

Finally got my turkey out of the oven. It's setting now.

i know most of you ate already. How was it?

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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Open Thread

I don't know if this video will work for you. It's only a matter of time before it's taken down due to copyright.

First, a little ambiance for you when you're cooking or eating:

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