THANKSGIVING: Thoughts from a displaced Brit.

UH OH: “The impression left by the Climategate emails is that the global warming game has been rigged from the start.”

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I thought turkeys could fly.

UH OH: If Dubai World has debt problems, then who’s safe?

A “RATHER BLEAK FORECAST” from the Fed.

ALTHOUSE & MEADE give thanks for everything.

SHOCKER: Howard Dean on ObamaCare.

A BLACK FRIDAY IPHONE APP from the folks at Popular Science.

THEY’VE BEEN SERVING WITH DISTINCTION SINCE RIGHT AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, but can we count on the Retail Support Brigade to save America one more time? I’m not sure. With doubts about where the national leadership is taking them and whether it values their sacrifice, and whether it will support them in the crunch, it’s hard for me to recommend re-enlistment at this point. On the other hand, I’ll be spending about the same as last year, but, as usual, mostly online.

DEEP RETROFITS to improve housing efficiency.

MAYOR BLOOMBERG ENSURES THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE DON’T GET FAT:

When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they’re told “thank you.” Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said.

“It’s always hard for us to do,” Basile said. “We know we have to do it.” . . .

Lines at soup kitchens are up by 21 percent this year, according to a NYC Coalition Against Hunger report released yesterday. The city’s law banishing trans fat took effect in July 2008 and touched everyone with Health Department food licenses — including emergency food providers.

Good grief.

GUERRILLA MECHANICS: Some gonzo auto repair tips.

LOOKING AHEAD to Black Friday. “The real test, though, will not be when the Black Friday numbers come out in a few days. Rather, it will be whether retailers can sustain a decent sales level without phenomenal discounts.” I was at the mall yesterday, and the crowds were fairly thin. I have no intention of being there tomorrow. I’ll be doing my shopping online. Interesting discussion in the comments regarding the future of retail.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s flashing lots of new deals on and off in advance of Black Friday.

WHICH IS BAD NEWS: John Bolton Was Right.

GEORGE MONBIOT ON CLIMATEGATE: Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away. “I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. . . . The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people’s denial. Pretending that this isn’t a real crisis isn’t going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We’ll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again.”

A CLEARANCE ON Acer 11.6″ Netbooks. Pretty much as big as you can be and still be a netbook, and Microsoft won’t be licensing XP for anything over 10″ in the future, I gather. So if you want a big netbook, here’s your chance!

UPDATE: Reader Kevin Murphy corrects me — I guess it was too much turkey-anticipation on my part:

Those Amazon entires are actually NOTEbooks, as they have Core processors and, ugh, Vista. Perhaps you mean these Acer NETbooks, which are a pretty good deal with the Atom, XP and 6 cell batteries:

I stand corrected.

THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS from Ken Anderson.

WHAT TAX PROFS are thankful for.

THIS MAKES ME FEEL GREAT ABOUT THE WAR ON TERROR: “A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. . . . While the White House offered no official explanation, it appears to be the first time in modern history that anyone has crashed a White House state dinner. The uninvited guests were in the same room as President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, although it is unknown whether they met the Obamas and the guest of honor.”

Good thing they weren’t terrorists or something. This isn’t a huge shock to me, though. I visited the White House back in the ’90s and they took my Tennessee driver’s license as ID. Back then, when it expired, you got a renewal sticker that went on the back. The security guy looked at the front of my license, which showed an expiration date a year in the past, but never looked at the back. Not long after I noticed that when I bought beer at a Weigel’s convenience store, the guy immediately looked at the back. . . . One hopes the White House security will get an upgrade.

Related thoughts from Roger Simon: Crashergate: What if my Facebook friends all came for Thanksgiving?

ALLIED AERIAL PHOTOS from World War II.

TURKEYS of the year.

ONE YEAR since Mumbai.

HEH: Biden Pardons Single Yam in Vice-Presidential Ritual.

THANKSGIVING DINNER aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota in 1907.

J.D. JOHANNES: Thanksgiving In Tikrit.