Thursday, November 24, 2016

Best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving Day



Update: Good advice for those who are forced to keep company with lefty relatives - "How to Talk to Your Pansy Marxist Nephew at Thanksgiving".

Update II: Kurt Schlichter:
Thanksgiving is a magical time when families gather together in a traditional celebration featuring gratitude, joyous fellowship, and the cruel mockery of insufferable millennial relatives. We are also seeing the rise of a new Thanksgiving tradition: tiresome, geek-scribbled columns about how to talk to your obnoxious conservative uncle at the dinner table that pop up every year on essential millennial websites like Vox, Salon, and Perpetual Barista.

But how about some guidance for those of us who eagerly embrace our inner obnoxious conservative uncle? Well, here are some helpful hints for when that smug tool spawned by your sister and her twitchy second husband opens up his piehole for something other than inserting pie.
Read the whole thing.

10 comments:

Deborah said...

Happy Thanksgiving all around! We have so much to be grateful for! On my list is Paco, the HQ, and all my friends who congregate here.

Deborah said...

Paco, how is Mrs. Paco?

Mike_W said...

Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks :)

bruce said...

Plenty to be thankful for this year, thank God.

Paco said...

Frankly, Mrs. Paco had a couple of close calls. She began getting very dizzy at home, so I took her to see her doctor. He talked to her for a few minutes and immediately had me take her to the emergency room. His preliminary diagnosis (which turned out to be correct) was that she was suffering from adrenal suppression, probably brought on by extended use of prednisone (for the treatment of her asthma), and exacerbated by the trauma of surgery. She was very close to slipping into shock. At the hospital, they ran a bunch of tests (she had a bad reaction to the dye in the CT scan, incidentally) and ultimately confirmed her GP's diagnosis, so they started her on hydrocortisone, which cleared up the dizziness in less than a day. Wanting, no doubt, to get her full money's worth, however, Mrs. Paco went on to experience several instances of tachycardia. So, off the the cardiology ward she went, and was found to have some short circuits in her heart. She underwent a heart ablation this past Monday, which involves inserting catheters into the heart and zapping scar tissue or other anomalous tissue that interferes with the correct flow of electrical impulses. Now she's home again and doing pretty well, barking orders from the quarterdeck as Paco (able seaman, second class) sets this place to rights.

Deborah said...

Oh my gosh! Well, there sure is a lot to be thankful for at your house.

Richard had an ablation in 2014. Then he had to wear a defibulator vest for awhile. Finally they surgically implanted it in his chest. Is that on the horizon?

As long as she is barking, Paco. Hey, why are you still second class? One would have thought you'd be Chief by now. Perhaps after this you'll get a "battlefield", er, meritorious promotion.

Paco said...

Why still second class? Probably something to do with having to use a little vacuum cleaner to clean the dust off the big vacuum cleaner.

bruce said...

Wow. Prayers for Mrs Paco to stay strong.

RebeccaH said...

Thanks for the good wishes, Mike W.

I'm so happy and thankful to hear that Mrs. Paco is back on the road to recovery. Mr. H had an ablation a couple of years ago. It seems to be a pretty routine thing.

Gregoryno6 said...

Very good news on Mrs Paco. She seems to be a hospital in herself at the moment with emergencies in every ward. I hope her situation is calmer by Christmas.