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There's a better way to cook a turkey. Wrap it up tightly in heavy-duty aluminum foil and roast it at 450F.

It cooks a lot faster. You can cook a 25-pounder in just over 4 hours (or a more reasonable 10- to 12-pounder in about 3), which means you don't have to get up at zero-dark-hundred to put the thing in the oven =yawn= (I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust myself in the kitchen at 5 or 6 am!) and/or stuff it the night before (which is a humongous no-no unless you really want to risk a family-wide salmonella attack).

It doesn't dry out as much either.

Of course, like any other way to cook the bird, it tastes better with a fresh one than a frozen one. Even the frozen ones come out pretty good though - but who wants to put up with a big old frozen bird floating in the bath tub for most of the previous day?

In recent years I've only had to cook for 3 people, so I get a fresh turkey breast. It takes about 2 hours to cook.

Oh, and we always have the feast at regular dinner time - it's far less rushed. I've never figured out what's up with the 2 in the afternoon thing.

Last but certainly not least: don't forget a nice bottle (or 2, or 3, or...) of wine............

I just checked the YouTube link for the Maher video. CNN yanked it. It's still up at Alternet:

Top Gay Republican outed on Larry King, and....

About those voting machines:

My precinct used something I've never seen before. They gave you a paper "black in the circles" ballot, and when you handed it in, they fed it into a scanner that read and stored the ballots. (The thing looked a little like an armor-plated medium-sized laser printer.) That way they got an instant count and a paper backup.

If the machine found something weird about the ballot, it spit it right back out, the ballot was destroyed, and the voter was given a chance to do it again. I saw it in action when the little old lady ahead of me accidentally marked two choices on one item. Bless her heart, she ended up doing it 3 times before the machine would accept it. But by gum, when she finally got it right, she knew her vote was counted!

The other great feature of these machines is that if you don't enter a choice on one or more items, they'll prompt you as to whether you really intend to submit your ballot like that. If the voter says yes, the operator hits a button and the machine accepts the ballot. If no, it spits it back out again and the voter has a chance to recheck their vote.

It looks like a terrific system!

---LOL--- Wisht I'd'a thunk o' that.

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