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More reasons why Americans should not be allowed to lead the free world

I really should be writing a paper right now, but this was just too much to endure stoically, with the moral relativism that usually governs all Canadian interactions with the Other.

Apparently, on the eve of their Thansgiving, the President of the United States PARDONS A TURKEY, allowing it to live out its days in something called Frying Pan Park.  This involves some kind of ceremony on the White House lawn, where the man who can incite nuclear winter and destroy the planet tries to prove what a softie he really is at heart by allowing one turkey in the whole country to live out its days in some kind of turkey old folks' home.

The only good thing about this as far as I can see, is that a few years ago, Bush got pecked in the giblets by an unappreciative fowl.

"The turkey pardoning tradition dates back to Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Two turkeys are selected by the National Turkey Federation, with one acting as a backup.

The turkey deemed to be the "best behaved" participates in the pardoning ceremony."

Sigh.

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Zhengshu

Someone should raid Frying Pan Park and kill all of the pardoned turkeys.

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Posted by: Zhengshu | November 30, 2004 at 10:34

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