Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We started the day with our annual Turley Turkey Bowl, which has been running for over 50 years. We then returned to prepare our big family feast. We are serving traditional fare, including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, Waldorf salad, pumpkin pies, and all the rest.
Our Turkey Bowl always features the Bears against the Commanders. I, of course, proudly coached the Bears. The game ended with a loss to Washington 21-14. There were the usual accusations toward the Bears’ coach of rigging the game in favor of Chicago. The Bears’ final touchdown was also challenged because several witnesses said the appointed ref moved the end zone marker to declare a touchdown.
Once again, my past requests for a flyover from the Pentagon have gone unanswered.
This is a full neighborhood event with many who have attended since they were small kids.
The Turkey Bowl is now an occasion for these kids to see each other on break from their various jobs and schools. Having watched them grow up, it is an amazing moment to see them all together. We finished off the game with a potluck table of hot chocolate, donuts, homemade scones, and other delights.
Tonight, we are having our usual two turkeys. One in the oven and the other in the Green Egg for smoking. I made my usual apple and cornbread stuffing. We have three homemade pies, our favorite spinach dish, Waldorf Salad, our cranberry dish, and other favorites.
For most of us, Thanksgiving remains a day of family and friendship—a needed pause from the divisions and strife we experience daily. That is why it is my favorite holiday. Thanksgiving is about maintaining the connections that have shaped our lives and perhaps making some new friends.
I am also thankful for our extended family on this blog, which has continued to grow at a steady pace. Many of our readers are in countries that do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but we are indeed thankful that you continue to join us and share your views on the blog.
My family wishes you and your family a wonderful holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
When you were busy bragging about your abundant food, visitors, etc., did you give any thought to the hundreds of thousands of Africans who have already died because Trump and Musk cut off USAID and left food that we taxpayers paid for rotting in warehouses? Excerpted from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, dated 11/20/25:
“USAID Shutdown Has Led to Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths”:
“The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.
Gawande—a surgeon, author, and distinguished professor in residence at Ariadne Labs, which he co-founded—served in the Biden administration as the assistant administrator for global health at USAID. He wrote a Nov. 5 article in the New Yorker about the devastating impact of the loss of USAID funds around the world. He was also featured in an accompanying short documentary called “Rovina’s Choice,” which he co-executive produced, that told the story of how one mother living in a Kenyan refugee camp tried to save her severely malnourished daughter after U.S. support dried up.
In the article, Gawande cited an analysis in The Lancet that estimated that USAID assistance—aimed at combatting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and polio, reducing maternal and child deaths, and fighting malnutrition—had saved 92 million lives over two decades.
The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses—and because deaths are scattered.”
Did you give any thought to your role you’ve chosen to carry the MAGA message and supporting Trump, MAGA and Republicans? BTW: Bill Gates offered to buy the food and pay to distribute it–we taxpayers are paying $10,000 per day for storage, and Trump said “NO”. The peanut paste, which is a vitamin and protein reinforced food that is given in pouches, uses US Georgia state peanuts and is prepared and packaged right here in the US. Because of Trump, that business has dried up. So, chow down Turley and enjoy your food and football.
As with every bullschiff post you dump here to smear him with, you fail to provide ANY links that prove your point. You are human debris.
“[D]id you give any thought to the hundreds of thousands” of *Americans* who are suffering because their money has been confiscated to pay for your international welfare schemes?
Just catching up on my emails from yesterday’s moving feast. I hope that each of you had a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.
Looks marvelous! Bless you and yours
I hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
You consider these clowns your extended family?
WOW. I feel sorry for you. So much hate. You must be a dem/lib
“Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.”
And to you and yours.
Sounds like you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! God bless!
Happy Thanksgiving, Professor to you and your family!
So glad to see that Luna had a friend at the Turkey Bowl, too!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving! 😊😊
Jonathan, of the bounty we have to celebrate this Thanksgiving, your contribution to legal scholarship and this platform deserves thanks. If you were not here, we’d have to invent you. God Bless.
Totally agree! Happy THANKSGIVING to Prof. Turley and all his family!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Moved to Penang, Malaysia in 2001 to start a factory. Instructed the agent helping me to find a place to live that I wanted an oven, not the usual kitchen appliance in Malaysia.
Noticed in about October, that my nearest grocery store stocked all of the necessary ingredients for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Found a California white wine at another store. Invited my local friends who had never experienced the usual repast. Baked the day before a pumpkin cheesecake from a recipe my mother passed to me.
The dining table in my home was small, but had nine people crowded around it. Everyone was enjoying the dinner and wine. I was anticipating a couple hours of cleaning up before sleeping.
After dessert was done, my friends commenced cleaning everything. Didn’t ask permission. Just invaded the kitchen and found sponges, cloths, soap, and scrubbing pads. They firmly directed me to leave cleaning to them. I could only watch in amazement as my new friends gave me an impromptu lesson in the famed Malaysian friendliness and hospitality.
Nice to hear.
While Estovir and George Washington have a valid point and appropriately describe the origins of this holiday and to whom we owe the Thanks we celebrate today, I respectfully disagree with his/her view that our nation has collapsed and that our host somehow “reflects” the reasons therefor.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to Estovir.
I guess that is your personal view, considering you live in a cellar bunker and do in fact realize the end is near., but deny it. That called a delusion.
More typical lib hate. Even on a day like this.
What a wasted life you must have.