Turkeys pardoned by Bush may not last long.
By on Nov 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Turkeys pardoned by Bush may not last long.
“The birds, bred for their meaty breasts, quickly grow too heavy to move themselves around, and usually die before the next Thanksgiving. Last year’s winner and its understudy, also pardoned by Bush, were no exception. Billed as the ‘Happiest Turkey on Earth’ at last year’s Disneyland Thanksgiving Day Parade, where it was honorary grand marshal, both ‘Marshmallow’ and its sidekick ‘Yam’ already have passed away, of natural causes, according to a spokeswoman for Disneyland.”
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i dont care about turkey
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:12 pmi dont like turkey
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:13 pmI tought you were talking about Rummy when I read the headline, but realized that was not not case when I read “meaty breasts”. All the meaty part of Rummy is his head.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:17 pmThis is Bush’s fault? How? And How about the one’s pardoned by president’s past?
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:27 pmBoycott Butterball.
http://www.goveg.com/feat/butterball/butterball.asp
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pmI LOVE TURKEY !!!
turkey ham is good, and turkey sausage, and turkey meatballs and even turkey burgers.
in europe they dont eat it as much.
they eat the pig more often
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pmit is a shame that they didn’t have time to join the james dobson ‘turn turkeys into long-living chickens‘ intervention program…
it is a seven year program that involves intense study of the bible, watching chicken porn, and attaching electrodes to the turkey’s genitals whilst viewing ‘a charlie brown thanksgiving’ and the friends episodes about thanksgiving.
the turkey, eventually, believes he or she is actually a chicken, with much smaller breasts and a cleaner more biblical outlook on life…
god bless america and pass the gravy!!!
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:35 pm#6 – TURKEY,
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:15 pmActually you can find Turkey in the markets in Europe. In Germany it is called Puten. The average bird weighs about 6 pounds. The chickens there would make Cornish game hens the equivalent of Godzilla. Small fridges and daily shopping explain the difference.
Impeachment: The only way the war will end.
By the time I finish writing this piece, the bodies of dozens of Iraqis are likely to be found, murdered and dumped, or perhaps simply shredded by yet another suicide bomber. By the time the first comments are posted and we begin arguing among ourselves, another American will probably have died; several will certainly have been injured, maybe horribly. Millions of dollars will be thrown away, money that we don’t actual possess but have borrowed from China. Here at home, citizens will grow more divided, anger will build, and pain will spread. 24 hours from now, the measure of suffering in the world will have increased perceptibly, and one man can be held rightfully responsible for that: President George W Bush.
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:21 pmThis is absolutely priceless: The Biggest TURKEY in this country pardoning a real turkey…..this is the best photo op Dubya has had to date! Two turkeys talking. Maybe that’s he can get to communicate with him in his special “lingo”….gobble…gobble….gobble…
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:54 pmHappy Thanksgiving to all….now let’s get back to “impeachment” proceedings!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:54 pmyes, James, it would appear that the international war crimes tribunal is gathering steam to try Rumsfeld on war crimes with Germany taking the lead….then it will follow: Wolfowitz, Cheney, and then Bush himself. They’re all culpable and will receive what they justly deserve.
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:56 pmveritas,
a crucial step along the way to their incarceration and their death sentence is having john conyers follow up on something he and fifty other represnetatives did in 2005. this is a copy of the conyers et al. letter.
here is a bit of the letter sent to him this week; feel free to send him and the others a note, if you would like…
Can you please update the status of this letter, and will you comment on the feasibility of your Judiciary Committee establishing a Select Subcommittee to investigate this matter.
//apologies if this ends up to be a duplicate post…//
November 23rd, 2006 at 6:18 pmTurkeys, along with any other animals bred to be slaughtered for the meat industry, are pumped full of hormones, antibiotics, and other fun chemicals that get passed onto you and your children.
Chickens that usually take about 4 months to grow are full grown in a few weeks thanks to hormones.
Cows that usually take 9 months take only about 2 months or less thanks to hormones.
Imagine being full grown at the age of four.
November 23rd, 2006 at 6:36 pmre#7
LOL!
November 23rd, 2006 at 6:54 pmI saw a video of the turkey-in-chief expressing his Thanksgiving blessings.
November 23rd, 2006 at 7:26 pmI wanted to throw up.
We have hungry people in America, poor people, unemployed people, families just struggling to survive, people still unable to go home to Louisiana, people mourning their dead soldiers in Iraq, people dealing with their wounded veterans from Iraq and Bush is out there being thankful for his “freedom” and the economy.
This man is a moron, whose antipathy is astonishing. Like so many of the evangelical preachers, he is a fraud, counterfeit and an embarrassment.
the turkey, eventually, believes he or she is actually a chicken, with much smaller breasts and a cleaner more biblical outlook on life…
god bless america and pass the gravy!!!
Comment by oral roberts
Holy crap, j, that’s a good one.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:20 pmRepublicans, the other white meat. Too bad the other Turkey-Bush couldn’t pass away.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:56 pmJust another short sighted failure of this administration….
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:05 pmLibby might think twice about asking Bush for a pardon now as death isn’t far behind. Libby might want to use the Ken Lay plan and fake his death go to the island and have all charges dropped. Wait a few years come back and say you can’t remember anything about the past. There by keeping all the stolen money and laughing all the way. Ex Enron losers should keep and eye on where Mrs. Lay travels you know she will be visiting her husand on the island just to let him know the trick worked.
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:09 pmLibby might not want that pardon from Bush as death isn’t far behind. Maybe he should use the Ken Lay plan fake his death and go to the island get his case dismissed. Now it worked for Kenny boy. The ex Enron losers should keep an eye on Mrs. Lay as she will be visiting her husand on the island to let him know the trick worded and yes and count the money they stole.
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 pm#3 Jackie
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 pmLOL
At one time, reading that I might have said you had watched too much TV, but not any more. There is nothing I put past the crooks in charge today – from Kenny-boy Lay to Dubya, from tricky Dick to Rummy-dum. There is nothing too low for them, or too rotten, or too diabolical.
I hope the FBI is watching Mrs. Lay.
Back in the days when companies would offer perks to all employees regardless of their rank, my dad worked for Bendix. Each Thanksgiving, the firm would give each employee a 21 pound Beltsville turkey. Dad’s secretary was a widow with a son and a daughter. He made arrangements so she would get two 12-14 pound Beltsville turkeys which she naturally forwarded to her adult children and their families who lived in different and far-away states. She visited each set in alternate years. She left dad a 21 pound Beltsville turkey in her will. He cried he never realized what it really meant to her until that happened.
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:24 pmWhat a sweet story, Walt.
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:27 pmNice way to end Thanksgiving Day.
16 Denis: In reference to all the crap they put in commercial food. At work, I am in the habit of looking up the chemicals we use, in case they are hazardous. Depending on the data sheet, I will: take no precautions, wear rubber gloves or refuse to use it. I also caution my coworkers to use the correct precautions. Including warning women of childbearing age that they should not use certain chemicals. So one day I stumbled across the solvent toluene. The data sheet said that it was largely harmless, but it could cause brain damage in people, and birth defects if handled by pregnant women. Here is the stunning part though: it said toluene is used in industrial food stuffs! What in the hell would we need toluene in animal food for!? Really, if anyone knows let me know. It is driving me nuts.
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm#27 – Bowdler,
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:03 pmToluene is a CH3 radical. It is usually immediately absorbed in the nervous tissue of an animal and broken down. Why anyone would try to feed it to animals eludes me. It usually leads to the paralysis of the voluntary muscles.
I thought they let Cheney bite the head off of this years turkey… …wasn’t that his consolation prize for losing Rumsfeld?
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 pmThanks Walt. I got the reference that toluene is used in industrial food stuffs from wikipedia. They said it almost in passing with no further mention. Exley doesn’t like wikipedia which is all I need to trust it. Seriously, I read an article in the NYT on how they vet the articles, and it seems fairly rigorous. I like their breadth of information and have rarely stumped them.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:36 amLet’s hope the same thing happens to Halliburton executives both past and present.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:38 am#27:
Toluene is also found in drinking water, all of our food and water is poisoned.
Prescription drugs have multiple side effects that you take more medication for.
Who knows, maybe they’re making a profit off of us getting cancer, or maybe they just want us dead before we can collect our social security money.
Either way, I don’t know who they are.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:28 amBUSH Heres your doing
France Authorizes Troops To Fire At Israeli Jets Over South Lebanon
French soldiers serving with the United Nations force in south Lebanon, who feel threatened by Israel Air Force (IAF) overflights, are permitted to shoot at Israeli aircraft, the Jerusalem Post daily reported Thursday, quoting “a high-ranking French military officer.”
Lebanon crisis reflects fading U.S. clout
November 24th, 2006 at 5:12 amOne possible use of the toluene comes to mind: if farm animals ingest toluene and their voluntary muscles become useless, then they can only be feed by force and have a meat almost free of nerves, and they will grow faster.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:57 am#33 If Israelis have already fired at disarmed UN forces, no wonder the french instruct their soldiers in this way. It’s very licit to fire in self defense.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:59 amMaybe being pardoned by bush is “the kiss of death”.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:56 pmThe Thanksgiving Turkeys used to go to Frying Pan Park in Northern Virginia to live their very short lives out in peace and quiet. Then George decided to send them instead to Disney land for commercial exploitation and noise and stress before they their death. The poor turkeys were going to die soon of obesity and bad hearts and leg problems, but I think Disneyland made things worse.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:57 pm