Have a Happy Thanksgiving! Make sure the turkey is the only thing that gets stuffed!

Here are some turkey facts to impress people as you sit around the table today:

• In 2007, the average American ate 17.5 pounds of turkey.
  97% or Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving.
• In 2007, 271,685,000 turkeys were produced in the United States.
• The average weight of a turkey purchased at Thanksgiving is 15 pounds.
• The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog.
• A 15 pound turkey usually has about 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.

As if American’s weren’t obese enough… we’ve got National Doughnut Day!

National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year. The holiday celebrates the doughnut, an edible, ring-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened.

National Doughnut Day started in 1938 as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. [Wikipedia]

Looking for a free doughnut to commence the occasion? Krispy Kreme is offering a free one today. To find one in your area go here. And here’s their list of doughnuts here.

So what is your favorite type of donut?

Mine? A Krispy Kreme chocolate custard filled.

HAPPY DOUGHNUT (or DONUT) DAY!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 

Want something free? Like Chili’s restaurants? Feeling like you need to drink something green today?

Chili’s is offering one (1) free green beer with coupon. It’s pretty sweet.
So, enjoy the day and go here for the coupon.  

Well, it’s groundhog day and the nations two major groundhogs seem to have differentiating views.

Punxsutawney Phil the famous one from Pennsylvania saw his shadow and predicts 6 more weeks of winter.

Gen. Beauregard Lee his lesser known counterpart from Lilburn, Ga didn’t see his shadow and says spring is on it’s way.

So here’s my question, who are you pulling for: Phil or Gen. Lee?

Me? I’m going with the General, he obviously outranks Phil and I’m all for spring ASAP!

Ahhh, the Chri$tma$ $ea$on is in full swing and I’m so, so excited - because it’s all about Jesus, right?!?

I know we [Christians] are supposed to be mad because everyone is calling it the politically correct “Holiday Season,” but Jesus hasn’t been a part of Christmas in this country for a long, long time. Let’s embrace the trend and not call it Christmas. I vote that we rename it MEmas. That’s way more appropriate anyway. Did Jesus come to this earth for tree shaped cookies and Santa? We’ve lost the point.

With this dosage of holiday cheer, I bring you a new word that applies to this season (from Daniel Schultz).

Faithiness - (n) 1. Act or quality of valuing appearance of faith more than actual faith.

2. Massive oversimplification of religious belief, theology, etc., in order to create bland, inoffensive or superficial faith.

[definition slightly edited]