Welcome back to another installment of the Watercooler, RedState’s daily Open Thread! Today, we’ve got another dive down the Weird Well of WTF.

Weird News

• Is there such a thing as Too Much Beef? Western Australia steer too beefy for the slaughterhouse.
• Cop saves chicken from roasting in a fire… gets roasted by colleagues.
• “Money laundering” gets taken literally in the Netherlands.
• All kinds of weird things to name new critters after… a beetle named after a ballplayer? Beats a dino named after Harry Potter’s school, I guess…
• 85mph speeding stop by NC State Trooper turns into… Special Delivery?

Weird News is compiled with assistance from Northwest news aggregator Orbusmax.com.

This Week In History

• Sunday, 11/25: Last Redcoats leave NY, 1783; Battle of Missionary Ridge, 1863; war warning sent to US commanders in Pacific, 1941
• Monday, 11/26: Meade begins fruitless Mine Run campaign, 1863; FDR signs bill establishing fourth-Thursday Thanksgiving, 1941
• Tuesday, 11/27: Confederate terrorist John Hunt Morgan escapes prison, 1863; Washita River Massacre, 1868; Commie spy Alger Hiss released, 1954
• Wednesday, 11/28: Magellan reaches Pacific, 1520; Duryea’s Motor Wagon wins America’s first auto race, 1895; first Grand Ole Opry broadcast, 1925
• Thursday, 11/29: Patriot attack on Ft. Cumberland turned back, 1776; Whitman Massacre, 1847; Byrd flies over South Pole, 1929
• Friday, 11/30: Preliminary articles for Peace of Paris signed, 1782; Battle of Franklin, 1864; Tanaka’s destroyers defeat Wright’s cruiser ambush at Tassafaronga, 1942
• Saturday, 12/1: House tasked with deciding Presidential election, 1824; Ford introduces moving assembly line, 1913; Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat, 1955

Today’s Birthdays: Lincoln Memorial designer Henry Bacon, 1866; author Rita Mae Brown, 1944; filmmaker Joe Dante, 1946.

Holidays Around the World: Albania celebrates Albanian Flag Day. It’s Independence Day for Mauritania and Panama and Republic Day for Chad and Burundi. Sri Lanka celebrates Heroes’ Day, and Japan observes Hoonko.

In Memoriam: Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Greg Richards, Lakewood (WA) P.D., murdered Nov. 29, 2009 by a piece of human vermin paroled by Tax Hike Mike. Rest in peace, old friends, knowing that you are not forgotten. #NeverForgiveNeverForget

This Week In History is compiled with assistance from History.com and Wikipedia. Something interesting not listed here? Please share in the Comments section–this is an Audience Participation Encouraged featurette.

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Quote of the Day

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.–Charles Dickens

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