Sarah Palin and the Great Turkey Massacre

[dustinzgirl]

The majority of the western world relies on a very unnatural hierarchy to get its food.

Am I the only person left in America that's ever seen this IRL?

Doesn't bother me a bit. This is the natural order of our world. What we buy at the store is not natural.

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by Lobolover

When reading the title,I imagined this would be about a statement concerning the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire during the reing of Abdullhamid II.

That would be Türkiye, Lob.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by dustinzgirl

The majority of the western world relies on a very unnatural hierarchy to get its food.

Am I the only person left in America that's ever seen this IRL?

Doesn't bother me a bit. This is the natural order of our world. What we buy at the store is not natural.

I partly agree, except that it seemed to take a extraordinary long time to kill the Turkey. At Bernard Mathews in the UK they are hung up, electrically stunned and beheaded in a matter of seconds; and then defeathered and processed immediately; all completely automated, humane and hygienic.

The other thing that struck me was does every Starbucks in Alaska sells Turkey's as fresh as that?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by dustinzgirl

Doesn't bother me a bit. This is the natural order of our world. What we buy at the store is not natural.

I don't think anyone is complaining about the natural order of the world, dusty. It's just that she put herself into a position to look like such an idiot. I particularly like the part where she burbles on about how brutal the campaign was while scenes of slaughter play out behind her.

I foresee tee-shirts and posters.

[Ursa major]

May I suggest words to go with the picture on the T-shirt and posters:

"Wattle she do next?"

[Teresa Edgerton]

Ouch.

The turkey pardoning ceremony is something they occasionally do at the White House (not anymore, I'm guessing). This was, it seems, Sarah's attempt to look presidential. Apparently, she didn't get the memo about not holding these cute little photo ops at an actual abattoir.

[dustinzgirl]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

I don't think anyone is complaining about the natural order of the world, dusty. It's just that she put herself into a position to look like such an idiot. I particularly like the part where she burbles on about how brutal the campaign was while scenes of slaughter play out behind her.

I foresee tee-shirts and posters.

She looks like an idiot for misrepresenting her gender and religion. I just don't see the big deal in this, but I could be pretty desensitized.

Neat little story, where my dad used to live we had problems with wild turkeys harassing the chickens and little kids. So we used to sit on the roof and shoot the turkeys and then eat them. Wild turkeys are mean and will chase small children and bite them.

[mosaix]

Just what was that machine doing to those turkeys that took so long?

[TK-421]

Kind of breaks every rule in the personal judgement book for politicians.

I like the fact that she is there wearing a Burberry scarf and holding a Starbucks cup and says that doing "this", I imagine she meant the visit to the turkey farm, as "fun".

[Wybren]

WOW that is just wow, and that was shown on the telly like that? for the kids to watch? man..

[afroelf]

Come on guys - she is obviously following the slow food dictates of buying local and reducing the air miles that her food travels.
She probably also has a mean recipe for turkey fricasse - it goes real well with the moose burgers and the baby battered seal. After which no doubt she and her husband get up to some hankey panky on the bearskin rug trimmed with wolf tails.
You lot are just too critical!

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by afroelf

...and the baby battered seal.

What's wrong with using a baseball bat, may I ask?

[Clansman]

This woman can't surprise me anymore with her total stupidity. She is my candidate for the GOP in 2012. Oh, yessiree!

[jojajihisc]

At least the turkeys got to enjoy some "levity" on their day of reckoning. What a grisly scene that was.