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This afternoon, flanked by the First Daughters, President Obama performed one the silliest yet most-loved American traditions, the pardoning of the national turkey. “Abe is now a free bird. He is TOTUS – the turkey of the United States.” Another turkey named Honest, the potential chopping block stand-in for the talkable TOFUS, was also pardoned. The pardoning of the Thanksgiving …

The Washington Post reports: President Obama said Wednesday morning there is “no specific and credible intelligence” suggesting Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq plan to strike the U.S. over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, just minutes after concluding a meeting with his national security team in the Situation Room. Obama’s comments, which were delivered shortly after noon in the Roosevelt Room …

The Hill reports: Among the many duties of the president, the pardoning of a turkey on Thanksgiving stands as perhaps the most important. It is for that reason that conservative online publication IJ.com invited a few Republican presidential candidates to practice their turkey-pardoning skills, thereby making the case to the American people that they are truly Oval Office material. Retired …

“We won’t have a faggot in our house.” Those are the words M heard after his mother died of cancer. He was 16. His mom had loved and accepted him. But not his aunt and uncle. They took in his little brother, but left M to fend for himself in the streets. M lived in a town in Florida that …

Frog eye salad. Dirt pudding. Pretzel salad. Never heard of ’em. Embiggen or go here for details.

Today we get yet another Taylor Swift parody, this time with a Thanksgiving theme. Featuring Mean Girls star Daniel Franzese with a cameo from Russell Tovey of HBO’s Looking.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

The deaths are from previous Black Fridays. So far. Details.

“Thanksgiving offers each of us the chance to count our many blessings — the freedoms we enjoy, the time we spend with loved ones, the brave men and women who defend our Nation at home and abroad. This tradition reminds us that no matter what our background or beliefs, no matter who we are or who we love, at our …

Wingnuts yesterday took to Twitter and Macy’s Facebook page to scream with outraaaaaage because the Thanksgiving parade featured a performance by the cast of Kinky Boots.

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“Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit. And President Obama laughs. Haha, so funny! As Ingrid Newkirk from PETA points out, turkey ‘meat’ is one of “our nation’s top killers”, causing heart-attacks …

So is anybody working today?

The White House has launched a website that actually works. Click over and select which turkey you’d like to have pardoned. Both will be pardoned, but if you check around in Teabagistan today they don’t seem to notice that detail and therefore the turkey contest is EXACTLY LIKE OBAMACARE DEATH PANELS. Praise Jesus, y’all.

Airlines are facing thousands of canceled flights for tomorrow and Wednesday as a developing nor’easter is forecast to bring high winds, rain, and snow to much of the east coast. American Airlines and its affiliates alone have already canceled over 950 flights, mostly out of the Dallas/Fort Worth hub. The National Weather Service has issued an advisory: The bad weather …

Tell us about your Thanksgiving.

New York-based electronics and appliances retailer P.C. Richard & Son says that any store that opens on Thanksgiving is in “total disrespect of family values in the United States of America.” The chain was founded a century ago by a Dutch immigrant and has 66 outlets in the tri-state area and Pennsylvania. Lots of wingnut key words in that ad.

 Grubstreet reports: As you’ve no doubt seen, this year, the first full day of Hanukkah is Thursday, November 28, which just so happens to also be Thanksgiving. And so, to celebrate this year’s hybrid holiday, Zucker Bakery in the East Village has released pumpkin-flavored doughnuts stuffed with turkey and your choice of cranberry sauce or gravy. (Gravy!) They’ll also offer …