ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Woke Attack On Pete Buttigieg. If you just treat “woke” as a synonym for “idiotic,” you won’t go far wrong.

BE THE AMERICA HONG KONG THINKS YOU ARE!   Thousands in Hong Kong Stage ‘Thanksgiving’ Rally After Trump Signs Rights Bill.

THE CDC SUCKS, BASICALLY: Study Finds Nearly All Minnesota Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Used Illegal THC Products Containing Suspect Additive. “Although the CDC is now emphasizing the potential hazards of vitamin E acetate, it continues to warn the public about e-cigarettes that don’t contain it.”

They jumped on this to unleash an across-the-board anti-vaping campaign as if it was all a setup or something.

NASTY SCOLDS SCOLD, NASTILY: 10 Things Climate Alarmists Don’t Want You to Be Thankful For.

Hint: it’s most everything.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

We have come here tonight to add our celebration to those which are going forward all over the world, wherever allied troops are fighting in bivouacs and dugouts, on battlefields, on the high seas, and the highest air. Always this annual festival has been dear to the hearts of the American people. Always there has been that desire for thanksgiving, and never, I think, has there been more justification, more compulsive need than now.

It is your Day of Thanksgiving, and when we feel the truth of the facts which are before us, that in three or four years the peaceful, peace-loving people of the United States, with all the variety and freedom of their life in such contrast to the iron discipline which has governed many other communities – when we see that in three or four years the United Sates has in sober fact become the greatest military, naval, and air power in the world – that, I say to you in this time of war, is itself a subject for profound thanksgiving.

We are moving forward in this struggle which spreads over all the lands and all the oceans; we are moving forward surely steadily, irresistibly, and perhaps with God’s aid, swiftly towards victorious peace.

There again is a fitting reason for thanksgiving, but I have spoken of American thanksgiving. Tonight here, representatives of vaster audiences and greater forces moving outside this hall, it is British and American thanksgiving that we may celebrate today. And why is that? It is because under the compulsion of mysterious and all-powerful destiny we are together.

We are joined together, shedding our blood side by side, struggling for the same ideals, and joined together until the triumph of the great causes which we serve has been made manifest.

—Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall, November 23, 1944.

(Via Ben Domenech.)

SURPRISING THE TROOPS: Trump In Afghanistan For Surprise Thanksgiving Visit.

BAD NEWS FOR CHAUFFEURS: 2020 Audi S8 Is Not Meant for Chauffeurs.

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CAN WE TRADE THEM FOR THE OBERLIN STUDENT BODY? Hong Kong protesters throw red, white and blue bash to celebrate US support.

CNBC TODAY: Economy growing better than economists had expected just a few weeks ago. “Economists are boosting their fourth quarter growth forecasts after the trade deficit narrowed and business investment showed a surprise pickup in October.”

Flashback: Paul Krugman on Election Night: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Russian cows get virtual reality goggles.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Trump makes surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan. I’m surprised he didn’t re-enact the famous Bush “plastic turkey” pic just to troll the press.

WE KNEW ABOUT THOSE WHEN I LIVED IN DC: Yesterday’s Washington D.C. Air Alert Revealed a Secret Missile Battery.

OUT ON A LIMB: WKRP in Cincinnati’s ‘Turkeys Away’ Is Still the Best Thanksgiving Episode Ever.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Physicists say industrial bread dough kneaders need a redesign.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Understanding the Roots of the War on History.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Ultrasound treatment might relieve Parkinson’s tremors.

APOCALYPSE NOW: In defense of Black Friday brawling.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Government workers more likely to support socialism, repealing Second Amendment: Poll.

3,000 HOURS IN AN A-10 WARTHOG: I’ll quote the photo caption whole hog, so to speak.

Lt. Col. Bartley Ward, a 107th Fighter Squadron pilot, flies an A-10 Thunderbolt II during a training mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Nov. 7, 2019. During the mission, Ward surpassed his 3,000th flight hour in the A-10.

American ground pounders give thanks every day for the A-10 and pilots like LTC Ward.

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IF YOU NEED SOMETHING TO READ FOR THANKSGIVING, TRY BLAKE SMITH’S:  An American Thanksgiving.

It is Thanksgiving Day, 1865, and Margaret Browne isn’t feeling very thankful. The war is over, and her grown-up sons have returned from the fighting, but her beloved husband remains absent, last seen a captive in a notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The Browne family muddles through their uncertain path, lost without their leader, but when everything begins to go wrong all at once, Margaret must hold together the farm and her family, and turn a disaster into a true day of thanks-giving.