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Let’s see if I have this straight. President Obama offers his Thanksgiving address and in it neglects to thank god. This leads to a cacophony of screeches from right wing conservative pundits who are apparently pretty sure that this omission means that Obama plans to lead us down a godless path to defeat, destruction and total world domination by (pick one) Muslims or communists.  Wow.

My first thought was to invite these pundits to move to Iran or some other theocracy where god is always mentioned as the only justification needed for any and all decrees, from which movies can

Between the amount of snow that’s already fallen and the temperatures barely breaking into the double digits so early in the season, this is the year you had better really want to be in Alaska if you’re here. Because if you’re only here to follow a spouse or a job, you are one unhappy camper right now. In fact, I’d be willing to be that the grizzly still wandering Hillside and haunting the ski trails there simply wants to find a way to a nicer climate rather than try to hibernate in this weather.

Is it wrong that I still feel as though half a turkey is stuck in my esophagus?

She taught me about guilt with her mother’s milk. And so now when I get up a little later than usual and find my Stellar Jays sitting in the snow covered trees around my porch waiting for their obviously late breakfast, I feel guilty. I pull boots on over my jammies and trudge onto the snow covered porch to put their peanuts out while shivering in my half-awake state. Only Jewish and Italian mothers are capable of instilling that much guilt into you before you can even walk.

President Obama was apparently excoriated by some right wing pundits for not mentioning god in his Thanksgiving day address. Seriously, would all those insulted that god isn’t mentioned in every address made by any American politician living today please move to Iran or some other theocracy. They obviously don’t want to be living in a democracy.

So the story goes that someone posing as a doctor was doing plastic surgery on women than included injecting cement into their buttocks. Well, that would explain that Kardarshian lady’s ass, now wouldn’t it?

As you prepare for your holiday meal with friends and family, the idea that there are people in this town going to sleep hungry is probably not one you want to ponder. It’s understandable. Thanksgiving is a day for football, turkey, pies, family and general groaning at how tight your pants have suddenly gotten. It is also, apparently, the only day in the year when you can put canned onion pieces on top of canned string beans that have been mixed with canned mushroom soup and praise the results.

The reality in Anchorage is there are people of every size,

Tomorrow is my favorite holiday in the whole year. We get to eat ourselves into a coma and don’t have to buy anyone presents or sing any stupid songs.

Just remember, there are people out there who won’t be having a table groaning full of food with which to stuff themselves, and many of those people will be children. So if you haven’t already done so. donate to a food bank or soup kitchen that helps to feed those going to bed hungry at night in a country still pretty much full of plenty.

Here’s what I don’t understand. No matter where he stands in the latest polls, the news media refer to him as the frontrunner.  How does that work? And at what point does he pack up and go home, realizing that his party is willing to tolerate any buffoon on the planet who will run instead of nominating him?