Well, today is my birthday - and in some parellel universe where I did not abandon my quest for world domination today would be a world wide holiday followed by a week long celebration, so your parallel selves are welcome.

Loojy!! Happy Birthday and many happy returns!

Amy & Gregg, I hope you enjoy Paris! Have a great holiday.

Happy Turkey Day to the rest of you! I'm in the middle of making our dinner - turkey, taters, stuffing, asparagus with Hollendaise sauce, cranberry sauce, the works, oh and sweet potato and apple cassarole, with cherry crisp and apple and pumpkin pies for dessert. Go me. Once this is all done, I'm having a nap!

Oh yeah, and wine. Lotsa wine.

If you are thankful today, put your hands up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONthWvb8fs8

Happy Birthday!! Happy Thanksgiving!! And Amy, have a great time in Paris!

Thanksgiving, Smanksgiving. I want to hear about Amy and Gregg's airport experience. I pity any TSA groper who got Amy.

1. Enjoy your trip.

2. So you're saying both of you were neither groped nor irradiated? Is this because it was a direct international flight? (And also, wouldn't that be an insane exclusion?)

3. It's a matter of time until the TSA starts attracting sexual predators as did the Catholic church... And probably a shorter matter of time. Becoming a priest requires years of study, socialization, and bookstudy. TSA fondlers are summoned by pizza boxes/

Here's a random picture of a creature in torment. People are cruel.

Awwww-RIGHT! Now we're talkin'!

And Skippy the Airline Pilot is totally cool with this. I can hear him now:

Well, sure, there are few bugs in the system... But if she's truly got nothing to hide....

And meanwhile....

A lovely snippet from the same page as the pizza box story Crid linked:

Thursday, November 25, 2010; 6:44 AM

"WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin is drawing criticism from around the world after declaring that the United States has to stand with "our North Korean allies..."

Also, happy birthday lujlp!

As I understand it -- most airports had them turned off or in very limited use on Wednesday. No one had to opt out.

Apparently they did it so the protest(s) wouldn't have legs.

> Sarah Palin is drawing criticism

Well, she'll bounce back... Just like the former editor of the Harvard Law Review did when claimed to have visited all 57 states.

> limited use on Wednesday. No one had to
> opt out. Apparently they did it so
> the protest(s) wouldn't have legs.

Wow! Isn't that fascinating?

So, like, maybe, they're planning on applying these investigations with discretion...

Profiling, they call that.

What would happen to most dark-skinned males named Hussein?

TSA Gangstaz

Happy Birthday, Lujlp!

For Thanksgiving we made what we usually make: Reservations. We had a lovely time.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Sarah Palin made several references to the North Koreans as the bad guys in this same interview. This one slip of the tongue is only important if you don’t like her or are not paying attention.

Via A&LD, "neck like a waist."

"And Skippy the Airline Pilot is totally cool with this."

That's because the TSA is about to exempt flight crews. Two lessons here: (1) Divide and conquer. (2) Union brethren get taken care of.

Oops, meant to include the link in that last:

http://blogs.star-telegram.com/sky_talk/2010/11/flight-attendants-get-their-wish-tsa-lets-them-bypass-body-scanners.html

FYI, if you go back to the backscatter post of a couple of days ago, you'll see that Skipper didn't know about the flight attendants being exempt until I mentioned it.

I've been waiting impatiently for you guys to jump all over him for it. C'mon, please? It would make my Thanksgiving weekend.

Gail, done! Although that thread's well down in the stack now.

This will probably be lost cause its so far down.

I was watching the CBS Sunday Morning when they showed a Ben Stein clip, for all intents, saying that forgetting $75,000 in income was forgivable.

If you forget $75K -- you need a clue. Forgetting $75K in inventory at Wal-Mart is different than $75K in income when you are making $250K as a senator.

Jim, I just know that if I forget $1 of income, it's a crime as far as the IRS is concerned, and it doesn't matter how much money I make. As Reynolds keeps saying, laws are for the little people.