Happy Thanksgiving

November 22, 2007

Just a quick housekeeping note for readers checking in today. I’ll probably have a few posts today, but the posting schedule won’t be nearly as aggressive as usual. Tomorrow will likely be similar. As for the weekend, Morbo will have some words of wisdom for your reading pleasure on Saturday, and I’ll be around a bit, too.

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.

Well, CB, keep having good tirades and we’ll keep coming. 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, too.

  • Just want to wish all of my American neighbours a happy Thanksgiving. Let’s hope that this time next year you’ll be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

  • CB, I am thankful every day for your website — keep up the good work. I am also thankful for the many thoughtful and intelligent posters that compliment and expand upon your posts… especially Anne (that well water must have special IQ enhancers…). Happy Thanksgiving all!

    Now, off to cook my N’awlins Turducken…

  • CB, I am thankful every day for your website — keep up the good work. I am also thankful for the many thoughtful and intelligent posters that complement and expand upon your posts… especially Anne (that well water must have special IQ enhancers…). Happy Thanksgiving all!

    Now, off to cook my N’awlins Turducken…

  • Enjoy the day!

    This year, we have ‘christened” our turkey with the moniker “Mr. President.” We shall cook this poultry-esque C-in-C, give him a place of honor at out table—as is befitting any head-of-state—and then devour him with wreckless abandon, consigning his well-picked bones to the garbage can….

  • If I can’t have my nightly dose of Jon Stewart, I know that I have Carpetbagger to fill that need for intellectual stimulation.

    Thanks, Steve, for all that you give us. My world, at least, is better because of your “tirades”.

    And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of the other CB readers and supporters.

    Michael W

  • Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May peace, happiness and joy reign at your dinner tables and may all your Republican in-laws admit “you were right about that Bush guy!”

  • A Happy Thanksgiving from Santa Fe. I joined the “community” here last spring after Steve Gilliard’s column ended. This Steve has marvelous posts and the responses are great.

    ” Let’s hope that this time next year you’ll be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.”
    I hope Liam’s observation above comes true.

  • Happy Thanksgiving from the chilly Northwest. I am very thankful for the internet and the opportunity to engage in free speech. Without it I would be limited to corporate media and would have a very skewed idea about what was going on in the world. Your many hours of scouring through the news and making sense of it is a boon to those of us that care about what is going on in this country. Thanks.

  • Amid our rants, raves, grumbling and grousing, it’s essential to remember that we do have much to be thankful for. To all who are traveling, best wishes for a safe and pleasant journey. To CB and the Ms., and those who comment here, a sincere thank you. When it seems like the world is going nuts, it’s great to be able to come here and find there are a few rational folks left.

  • Happy Thanksgiving from Houston.
    Thanks to Al Gore for “inventing the internet” so we can view the Carpetbagger Report!
    Thanks to Our Dear Leader and his hacks for giving us so much to view on the Carpetbagger Report.
    Thanks to Steve for is diligence and good humor.
    Now for some turkey…

  • Taking a brief break in the Thanksgiving prep (11 coming for dinner, and 2 more joing us for dessert) to peek in and wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving.

    Steve, thank you so much for this wonderful site – it’s my first stop every day; I always know that the latest news and controversy will be here, along with really good discussion. The news is so often enough to make me want to throw things, and without this place, for discussion and occasional ranting, I would also be insane…

    I’m also very thankful for the commenting community here; it’s one of the few places where people with different points of view can engage in discussion without being stomped on (there is the occasional just-here-to-make-trouble type, but even then, the tolerance level is pretty high), which I firmly believe is the healthiest way to do this blogging thing. No minds are changed when we’re in our own bubble.

    We have so much to be thankful for, not least is the little kernel of hope that may just be starting to grow a bit, finally.

    Have a great day, everybody – !

  • My favorite sight and the first one I read. Especially grateful to have found it. Thank you all for the comments that make my day.

    Special thanks to you Steve for your dedication to this endeavor. I am amazed on a daily basis that you can post such great pieces all day, one after another nearly as fast as I can read them (comments too). You’ve inspired many brilliant people to be a part of this Carpetbagging community as witnessed by the responses to your articles. I learn so much and it inspires me to stay involved. I truly am thankful you are in the world.

    Happy Thanksgiving all and keep coming back.

  • TCR is the gravy on my mashed potatoes Mr. CB.

    A Fallish, Thanksgivingish, Pumpkinish sort of receipe for the holidays:

    PUMPKIN SPICE BREAD

    • 2 CUPS CANNED PUMPKIN
    • 3 CUPS SUGAR
    • 1 CUP WATER
    • ½ CUP BUTTER
    • ½ CUP SHORTENING
    • 4 EGGS
    • 3 1/3 CUPS ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
    • 2 teaspoons BAKING SODA
    • 2 teaspoons CINNAMON
    • 1 teaspoon SALT
    • 1 teaspoon BAKING POWDER
    • ½ teaspoon NUTMEG
    • ¾ teaspoon GROUND CLOVES
    • TURBINADO SUGAR to sprinkle evenly but lightly on tops of loaves before baking. Regular sugar won’t make the same crunch.

    1. Heat oven to 350F.
    2. Cream sugar and shortenings and add eggs.
    3. Add pumpkin and water and mix thoroughly.
    4. Blend dry ingredients and add to creamed ingredients mixing until smooth.
    5. Pour mixture into greased, medium sized bread pans.
    6. Sprinkle tops of unbaked loaves with Turbinado Sugar
    7. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the baked loaf comes out clean.

    Happy Thanksgiving.

  • I think that recipe makes a couple of 8.5″ X 5″ loaves. Don’t fill all the way to the edge. If there’s a little extra make a small loaf or a couple of “muffins”. Just don’t bake those as long.

  • A very happy Thanksgiving to the denizens of the CB Report from (today anyway) sunny Seattle. As I give thanks for the many blessing I enjoy (this community being one), I hope for brighter days ahead. I hope that a year from today we all will be toasting the return of sanity to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My dearest wish is that we all will be savoring the notion of “saluting” Dubya with a hearty “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!” when he finally puts Washington DC in his rearview mirror and this particular long national nightmare ends.

    Warm regards to all.

  • Burro-thanks for the recipe…I am one of those who will eat anything made with pumpkin and start jonesing in January when the store stock of canned pumpkin is low. And I am grateful that I can have pumpkin anytime of year!
    Actually, no matter how bad it is right now in the US- I am grateful I wasn’t born in Iraq.

  • Keep up the great work. This EASILY the best political blog around. It’s my first stop everyday, and read every post. I even print up a good portion of the posts, as most are just bursting with common sense and insightfulness.

    I know blogs like DailyKoz, and TalkingPointsMemo probably have more name recognition and used to be my first two stops each day, but for my money this is by far the most enjoyable of the bunch and has become my go to site every day.

    Thanks for the amazing job you do. It is very appreciated.

  • It’s a good recipe Misha2. I owned a bakery for awhile and though this recipe started out as a seasonal item, I got so many requests after the holidays that it became a year round best seller. Not enough to float a bakery on but it manned the pumps for awhile. Don’t underbake. It’s already very moist and the center will be gooey if not fully baked. Actually better to let this one go a little over if you’re in doubt. The top may get a little crispy but that has it’s own rewards.

  • Happy Holiday (take that, Billo!), CB and all the regular ‘baggers’ round here. I don’t comment much, or often, but this is my first stop every day for the incisive ‘tirades’ of our esteemed blogmeister, who I consider “the hardest working man in the blogosphere!”

    I’m thankful for the consistently amazing quality of the writing, analysis and commentary (minus the trolls, mind you … though JRS jr frequently gives me the guffaws) I see here every day and can’t thank you folks enough for keeping me informed, thinking and sane. And since others are singling out superb commenters, I’d also like to thank Anne, Anney, TAiO, Zeitgeist, Tom Cleaver, Burro and Beep52 and so many others for their contributions. And JKap, though I sometimes (ok, often) disagree with you, I’m glad you’re here! Best mix up with brains in the blogosphere in my book always!

    Counting down the days with the rest of you … let’s hope for the best in the next year!

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