Happy Thanksgiving

November 23, 2006

Like most blogs, The Carpetbagger Report will be honoring Thanksgiving today, and posting will be somewhere between minimal and nonexistent. (I’ll be around, and might add an item if something earth shattering happens, otherwise, not so much.)

Tomorrow should be pretty slow, but I might have a few posts. As for the weekend, Morbo will have some words of wisdom for your reading pleasure on Saturday, and there will be a Sunday Discussion Group.

Not incidentally, in light of the holiday, I thought I’d also take a moment to extend my sincere thanks to all of you who read the site. I appreciate your interest, support, and encouragement, and I’m grateful that so many of you are willing to peruse my daily tirades.

Feel free to treat this as an open thread. I’ve added excerpts from a good “what progressive have to be thankful for” list, put together by the fine folks at the Center for American Progress, below the jump.

Here’s portions of CAP’s list:

We’re thankful for our country’s troops.

We’re thankful America dumped the 109th Congress.

We’re thankful Rick Santorum will have more free time to find the WMD.

We’re thankful we don’t have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense we had.

We’re thankful for “red state values,” like protecting reproductive rights, supporting stem cell research, and rejecting discrimination.

We’re thankful Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who calls climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” will no longer chair the Senate environmental committee.

We’re thankful that Matt Drudge does not rule our world.

We’re thankful Al Gore helped the country face the inconvenient truth.

We’re thankful minimum wage ballot initiatives passed in six states.

We’re thankful the Dixie Chicks aren’t ready to make nice.

We’re thankful Ted Haggard bought the meth but never used it.

We’re thankful for “the Google” and “the email” (and the “series of tubes” that make them possible) — but not iPods, which are endangering our nation.

We’re thankful Maf54 isn’t online right now.

We’re thankful Keith Olbermann’s ratings are up and Bill O’Reilly’s ratings are down.

We’re thankful President Bush’s secret plan for Iraq is safe with Conrad Burns.

We’re thankful we won’t spend Thanksgiving turkey hunting with Dick Cheney.

We’re thankful the “Decider” only gets to make the decision 789 more days.

See you tomorrow.

I think I speak for many when I say we’re thankful for The Carpetbagger Report. Your insightful comments and ability to highlight the critical issues of the day are an invaluable public service, as well as extremely interesting and a great resource. Keep up the good work!!!

  • What Drew said.

    I’m thankful for CB and all the folks who post here, it’s always a good place to get a new set of things to consider.

    This blog rocks, because you can get caught up on the latest stuff going on, with just the right amount of snark and without most of the noise which seems to be endemic at a lot of the other blogs.

  • Best Thanksgiving wishes to CB and to all readers and commentators. I appreciate your efforts and insight I find here every day. My only comment today is a, er, longevity joke:

    A 90-year old man walks into a bar and spots an attractive woman sitting on a bar stool. He totters over on his walker and takes a seat next to her. Leaning over with a wicked leer, he asks, “Do I come here often?”

  • Well, CB, I thank you for your helping to maintain my sanity.

    And in no particular order: Curmudgeon, Dale, Dan, Edo, Kevo, Libra, MNP, Ohioan, RacerX, Rege, Steve, TAIO, and everybody else who makes this fun and interesting.

    L

  • We’re all thankful for the CB Report, which highlights and criticizes the many outrageous decisions by our current president. We can give some Thanksgiving thanks for the fact that the mid-term elections show that many American voters are beginning to realize what a horrendous mistakes they made in voting for George Bush in 2000 and 2004

    Homer Hewitt
    http://www.altara.blogspot.com

  • Safe journeys to all who are traveling, and thanks to all the regulars and occassionals. (Anyone else notice how the family table-talk has changed since the last couple of Thanksgivings?)

  • Thank you CB for hosting our family.
    May we all help the great turkey in the Whitehouse get thoroughly cooked.

  • I’m thankful that I’m not, like the American troops in Iraq, in the position of being expected to do something really stupid that I shouldn’t be doing, by persons who really should know that they shouldn’t expect me to do that, but who won’t reverse their course because they don’t want to look stupid and experience hurt pride.

  • I am thankful for finally having a strong woman in charge of cleaning up the House.

    I am particularly thankful that we have a national holiday to celebrate obesity.

  • The crazier things get, the more appreciative I become of those people, places and activities that still make sense and which help to remind me to keep things simple while staying curious and engaged in what makes this world tick.

    TCR is a worthy creation on all fronts.

    Thanks.

  • CB, Thanks informing us and entertaining us and giving us a forum to express ourselves.

    Lance not to start a Thanksgiving squabble but that is a particular order: alphabetic.

  • I’m thankful that we don’t live in a country where from now on, all liberal law professors, liberal politicians, and other pominent liberals have to expect their college-age daughters are going to be sent guys who have gone to seduction seminars, who are asshole conservatives pretending to be liberals, who have been training to be just what the woman is looking for in a man since the man has been watching the woman under surveillance and briefed by psychologists and women, a whole little committee.

    I’m thankful that if liberals knew about something like this they would so something to stop it and keep it on the down-low so that they could ruin the Reublicans’ plans in the best possible way and not get destroyed by the Republicans in the process.

    I’m thankful that good liberals wouldn’t sit on their hands and let other people be harmed without trying to do something just because they didn’t feel like doing anything.

  • Thanks Steve for the past 18 months since I discovered your fine site,and for the encouragement you gave us with That’s Another Fine Mess. Hope all’s well with you and stays that way.

    And I am thankful we don’t have a Republican House and Senate to kick around anymore, that the right wing is in disarray, and that there are only 25 months and 27days left to put up with Moron Boy And The Idiots (good name for a Republican rock ‘n’ roll band,eh?).

  • I’m thankful that conservatives haven’t decided that since conservatives believe that liberals’ opinions on how to protect the people of the country are worse than the conservatives’ opinions, therefore liberals have to be considered a threat to the country.

  • Back on ya CB. I’m thankful for your blog and its commenters for entertainment, infotainment, snarkotainment and wisdomtainment.

    I’m Thankful that this is the first Thanksgiving not under total Republican control for a long time. And dinner with the inlaws is going to have some crow for them to eat on the menu. And thanks to all the back-and-forthers here for giving me so many sharp talking points so I can stick it to the inlaws in between football plays and belching.

    Lance add your name to that list of yours and thanks.

    And I’m thankful for new usual suspects such as:
    Madison Guy http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/
    Linkmeister http://www.linkmeister.com/blog/
    Kit Stolz http://www.achangeinthewind.com/
    Spiiderweb http://spiiderweb.blogspot.com/
    Iowa Victory Garden http://www.urban-oasis.blogspot.com/

  • Not a day goes by that I don’t check in with you CB. I always save your blog for last to retain my sanity. Thanks CB!

  • Thanksgiving gift. Here’s a snip of Javascript code I copied and modified that will show a random clickable website name on your blog. Let me know if you want info on expanding the arrays and/or changing to random quotations instead.

    //store the quotations in arrays
    quotes = new Array(4);
    quotes[1] = ‘Vermont‘;
    quotes[2] = ‘Unholy Moses‘;
    quotes[3] = ‘Tom Cleaver‘;//calculate a random index
    index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
    //display the quotation
    document.write(“\n”);
    document.write(quotes[index]);
    //done

  • I’m thankful that that blasted “pendulum” at last seems to be responding to the laws of physics (if not facts). I wish CB, his personal family, and his (and so my) blog family a safe, happy, and bountiful Thanksgiving. My dearest wish is that one year from now our brave men and women now serving in Iraq will be celebrating and giving thanks at home with their families – without the spectre of another deployment at the table with them. And I hope the Iraqi people also will be enjoying brighter days. Sad to say, it won’t take much to make that possible.

    Thanks for you, everyone!

    Warm regards, TuiMel

  • Although I am thankful for the Carpetbagger Report each and every day, today is a good day to say it: Thanks, CB! Also,thanks to the many insightful and intelligent people that share their comments.

  • Thanks much to you, CB for this excellent forum. I second the remarks of TuiMel (#27) and wish all peace in the days ahead.

  • Thanks to YOU, CB! I read your website daily, and it provides a welcome dose of reality in my otherwise hectic and insane days.

    Today, my partner and I will sit down to a real traditional Norman Rockwell feast. We’ll give thanks for the troops abroad, thanks that the Dems have taken back the Congress, thanks for the blessings of living a free country (despite the best efforts of the theocracy), and thanks for being able to live as a non-traditional family (two middle aged men, a dog, and a bunch of goldfish) whose family values are real.

    And, as an aside, we’ll take snide pleasure in wondering what Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Katherine Harris, Jack Abramoff, and Tom Delay have to be thankful for this year.

    Peace, love, and joy to all.

    Steve Crutchfield aka Eeyore

  • Overall I’ve had a lot more peace of mind since the November 7th elections and that’s something to really be thankful for. But I don’t think it would have happened without a lot of really dedicated people out here in the tubes caring enough to speak out day-after-day.

    Something else I’m grateful for is the dedication of Ms. Carpetbagger. Websites take a lot of work, especially one that has to be maintained daily.

    So here’s to Mr. & Ms. Carpetbagger.

  • Happy Thanksgiving to all!! I’m thankful for this blog whose participants helped put our beloved nation’s restoration of true democracy in place as a result of 2006’s elections.

    May this nation and all the world’s citizens see brighter, peaceful, and more productive days and years ahead instead of nonending and more destructive preemptive wars.

  • To give this day a “faith-spin,” it should be important for those of faith to remember that “God” gave humanity a great gift. That gift was “free will.” Those on the Right will always consider that gift to be both a blessing and a curse, because it gives people the right to say “no.” So, I’m thankful that people have the gift to:

    Refute the “I’m-the-Decider”-isms that emanate from Pennsylvania Avenue.

    Tell Mike DeWine and Rick Santorum that they’re both incompetent—and fired.

    Understand that “fair and balanced” doesn’t always mean fair and balanced.

    Walk away from the MSM and listen to reality.

    The list goes on—and on, of course, but there’s a pumpkin pie in the kitchen, and I’d swear it was calling my name. So have a good Thanksgiving, CB; tell the Mrs. my family says “Hi,” and a good Thanksgiving to everyone else as well.

  • Thanks, CB and all, for being my teachers’ lounge in the elementary school that is the rest of the world

  • I’m not good at being thankful for, but here’s my thanks to:

    Ms and Mr CB (in Poland, women come first ), for creating and maintaining this blog; for the past 6 months, you’ve helped me keep my anger focused and my sanity intact (yeah, well.. That’s as sane as I’ve ever been)

    All the commenters (too many to enumerate — add at least 10 more to Lance’s list @6, starting with himself) for being thoughtful, inquisitive, informative, amusing and literate (in no particular order of importance, but all those features, on top of Mr CB’s writing, are what makes this blog better than any other). Also thanks for being inventive with the English language; it’s a great education for me.

    My son, for steering me to this blog (he knew a good thing when he saw it; I guess I must have done *something* right) all those years ago.

    TAIO and Dale, for teaching me not to drink while reading their messages (it’s too expensive, keyboard-wise. Monitor, OTOH, only profits from being sprayed and wiped off regularly).

    Burro, @18, for recommending the comments to the Novak’s article. I check with TPM daily but it wouldn’t have occured to me to read *Novak*, much less look for comments. Makes one wonder where the 51% who voted for Bush are… Still learning to read and write? Anyway, it was more fun than watching the turkey-part (breast; there’s only 2 of us at home, and I don’t even like turkey) roast. I couldn’t resist and added to the load, too 🙂

    Thanks, one and all!

    Steve, @34, who’s thankful that people had the wisdom to:
    Tell Mike DeWine and Rick Santorum that they’re both incompetent—and fired. Check out the results of yesterday’s SUSA; they have rated all of the 109’s Senators. The net results — default setting — are the best.
    http://tinyurl.com/yyqptm

    PS May I ask… Is “report” in “The Carpetbagger Report” pronounced in the English manner, or a la Colbehr?

  • I’m thankful that liberals are smart enough that they know enough to be spontaneous and solve their own problems instead of waiting for other people to tell them what to do.

    I’m also thankful that liberals are not so dumb that they’d do things to help people destroy them, like making it seem that other liberals are doing things that really piss people off, giving a running commentary on all kinds of things Republicans would find helpful to them right where Republicans could hear, etc.

  • What Drew said to start the day. I am most thankful I found this wonderful community that Steve & the Mrs. do such a wonderful job of stitching together.

    At my daughter’s request, we started the meal with everyone sharing what they are thankful for. After most of us said the safe, usual stuff, I am thankful my mother-in-law said “. . . and I’m thankful for the results of the November elections!”

  • Happy Thanksgiving CB, Mrs. CB and everyone who makes this little online community a bit like “home.” I am very thankful for many things, but one of those things is having places such as this to visit, particularly over the past few years.

  • Yeah! What they said!

    Also, thanks to CB & denizens for providing a safe/sane haven during the 2006 elections. (Not that I was at all nervous or anything!) And extra special Maryland thanks that Bob “It’s not a Hairpiece” Erlich & Michael “Puppy Love” Steele are both scanning the want ads.

    Remember, tomorrow marks the official start of the War on Christmas!

    Snarkily yours,

    tAiO

  • Here’s a belated Happy Thanksgiving to anyone coming across this (Pottersville was hiatus all day, too).

    But guess what? Paul Krugman’s back from vacation and asks some good questions about the last election, such as, Would FL-13 be a national story if the balance of Congress was on the line?

  • One of the things I’m grateful for is being able to come to this blog for thoughtful and insightful commentary day in and day out. You’re doing a helluva job, Carpetbagger. Keep it up. I’ll keep reading.

    Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.

  • p.s. I’m also grateful CB stopped the dreaded flashing advert of confusion.
    p.p.s. Anyone who would like to earn my eternal thanks can come wash the McKinley of dirty cookware in my kitchen!

    [Crickets chirp]

    Don’t all raise your hands at once.

    [Coyotes howl]

    Hello?

    #*$@!! cut n’ runners….

  • Hope this doesn’t post twice – forgot to type Orange!

    Thank you CB and all the CB Bloggers – I can always come here and get my thought for the day. Thanksgiving!

  • Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Carpetbagger for continuing to set the standard for the best in the blogosphere.

    And thanks to all the commenters for adding that little something extra to this great blog.

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