Happy Thanksgiving!

There’s an old story about a fellow who went to a small town in Missouri with the thought of possibly moving his family there. “What kind of people live around here?” he asked the attendant at the local filling station.

“Well,” the attendant replied as he checked the oil, “what kind of people live back where you’re from?”

The visitor took a swallow of his cherry soda and replied, “They’re ornery, mean, and racist.”

The attendant looked up and answered, “Mister, you’ll find them about like that around here, too.”
A few weeks later, another gentleman stopped by the gas station on a muggy July afternoon with the same question. “Excuse me,” he said as he mopped off his brow. “I’m thinking of moving to your town with my family. What kind of people live around these parts?”

Again the attendant asked, “Well, what kind of people live back where you’re from?”

The stranger thought for a moment and replied, “I find them to be kind, decent, and tolerant folks.”
The gas station attendant looked up and said, “Mister, you’ll find them about like that around here, too.”

Black Friday

From one holiday...

U.S. President George W. Bush talks to troops from Camp David, Maryland on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2007. Bush phoned members of the Armed Forces, who are stationed overseas, to wish them a happy Thanksgiving. (UNITED STATES)
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National Thanksgiving Turkey, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, November 20, 2007.
REUTERS/Jason Reed

President Bush and children pet "May", the Thanksgiving Turkey, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, November 20, 2007.

REUTERS/Jason Reed

President Bush and Pastor Mike Hennigan gather packets of macaroni and cheese for those in need, during his visit to the Central Virginia Foodbank, in Richmond, Virginia, November 19, 2007. Bush travelled to Virginia for events prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Reuters/Jason Reed

U.S. air force personnel at Manas air base near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan celebrate Thanksgiving November 22, 2007.

REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov

A U.S. soldier takes food during a Thanksgiving meal at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul, November 22, 2007.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Host Kirk Douglas (R) waves next to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa before they serve a Thanksgiving meal outside the Los Angeles Mission in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles, California November 21, 2007.
REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Two young girls ride on their father's rolling suitcase as they make their way to a flight at Newark's Liberty Intertnational Airport in Newark, New Jersey, November 21, 2007.
REUTERS/Mike Segar

Staff Sgt. Raymond Golden of Charleston, S.C. and headed to Afghanistan sits near a Christmas tree above the atrium at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, one day before the Thanksgiving holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, November 21, 2007.
REUTERS/Tami Chappell

...To the next....

Customers congregate before dawn Friday for the doors to open at Target in Texarkana, Texas. Store management say they saw over 500 customers in the first hour the store opened and a 37-inch High Definition TV for $549 was a huge seller for those who were patiently waiting.
Evan Lewis - AP

Customers pour into Circuit City as the store opens at 5 a.m. on Black Friday in Oakley, Calif. The first customers had been in line for nearly 12 hours.
Carrie Cochran - AP

A man dressed as Santa Claus (C) waves to the crowd as he rides aboard his float through Time's Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, November 22, 2007.
REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid

U.S. air force personnel at Manas air base near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan celebrate Thanksgiving, November 22, 2007.
REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov

Hillary Cardinell, 3, chats with a man dressed as Santa Claus inside the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver, Colo. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the first big shopping day of the holiday season.
Matthew Staver - Bloomberg News

Happy Thanksgiving to My Amen Chorus and Curse You Choir

First off: Happy Thanksgiving to those who serve in our military, and to their families. God bless you all, and thank you for the service and sacrifice on behalf of all of us!!!

U.S. soldiers in Kosovo attend Thanksgiving lunch at the U.S. military base Bondsteel, which is 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Pristina, the capital of the breakaway Serbian province.
Hazir Reka - Reuters

A schoolboy waves at a U.S. army soldier who is on a foot patrol in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood.

Hadi Mizban - AP

And now for some humor:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nothing quite like getting together with Democrat family members around the dinner table and listening to their gobbledegook