On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:26 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

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>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/dining/22turkey.html
>
>November 22, 2007
>
>In Some Households, Every Day Is Turkey Day
>
>By KIM SEVERSON
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>"It is one thing for the president of the United States to pardon a pair of
>turkeys every year and then send them off to live out their days in Florida.
>It's quite another to save a turkey from the Thanksgiving table by inviting
>it to live with you.
>
>Two weeks ago, Karen Oeh and her husband, Mike Balistreri, who live not far
>from Santa Cruz, Calif., adopted two turkeys that had been rescued after an
>airline shipping misfortune in Las Vegas.
>
>"I am like a new parent," said Ms. Oeh, 39. "I instantly, totally fell in
>love, and now I just want to stay home with them."
>
dear god. still i suppose turkeys are better than children - at least
when you get tired of the little shit-factories, with turkeys you can
kill and eat them.
>
>The custom of presenting turkeys to the White House is 60 years old,
>developed as a promotional tool by poultry producers including the National
>Turkey Federation during the Truman administration. But the formal pardoning
>program began with the first President Bush in 1989.
>
yeah, daddy bush pardoned him some turkeys all right. i can't wait to
see what idiot son pulls when he skulks out of the white house in '09.
>
>A month ago, a turkey of hers named Mr. Bill died for reasons even a
>necropsy hasn't been able to parse out. So Ms. Shroeder held a little
>funeral. She displayed his photograph, and someone read a couple of poems.
>
i think i might have paid to see that.

your pal,
blake