Wither Wednesday Wassail, or it's all fun and games until the bureaucrats show up

Picked up the turkey from the butcher this morning, along with 7 lbs of necks and wings to make stock. I'll start that tonight and the house will smell like Thanksgiving. Yee-hah!

Yet it wouldn't be the holiday season without at least one story featuring Scrooge McBureaucrat and Government Gone Wild. A Cape Cod fisherman snared an 881 lb tuna yesterday, only to have it snatched away by armed agents of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Paperwork violations, they said.

A pox on their houses, may their bureaucratic Thanksgiving turkeys be burned to a crisp, and I hope Santa puts coal in their stockings. Our government is out of control, and the Pilgrims wouldn't hesitate to flee modern-day Massachusetts for a land where Liberty remains paramount. Is there such a land here on God's green earth? I don't know of one, do you?

This just in: those canned green beans can kill you.

And whatever you do, don't deep-fry that turkey! The Department of Homeland Security (yup, when they're not busy catching terrorists, they're looking out for your safety!) issued a warning about the dangers of overfilling the deep fryer.

At a bureaucrat's Thanksgiving table there's peril in every bite!

Let's not forget to give thanks for more of that Smart Diplomacy that Barry keeps telling us about. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country will target U.S. ballistic missile sites if America goes through with plans to ramp up pressure on Iran. Hey Hillary, where's that reset button?

The Watchweir howls mournfully: Anne McCaffrey went between for the last time. R.I.P.

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