I do not have time to troubleshoot people's code. (Hopefully I will again in the future).
I do not have much time to answer questions (but if it is a quick answer, that only takes me a few minutes, I will try to answer).
I really recommend the following site, for myspace customizing questions: Official Myspace Customizing Forum
That is the most reliable source, and the people I know who enjoy helping, and are quite good at it, tend to hang out there.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I would be more impressed with the whole Turkey Pardon thing if the President had ToFu for Thanksgiving


(Photo does not necessarily show the same turkey which was Pardoned).



posted by uāˆƒāˆƒl!āˆƒ at Wednesday, November 22, 2006

5 Comments:

Blogger Lew Waters said...

I've always looked upon the Turkey Pardon as sort of hokey. But, it's a long tradition and several President's have done it, then sit down to a large Turkey Dinner.

Some say it started with Harry Truman and others say it goes back to Abraham Lincoln. So, who really knows?

24/11/06 21:18  
Blogger coboble said...

Below taken from the National Turkey Federation (at least I think that is who this is from).

Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation (NTF) has presented the President of the United States with a live turkey and two dressed turkeys in celebration of Thanksgiving. The annual presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey to the President has become a traditional holiday ritual in the nation's capital, signaling the unofficial beginning of the holiday season and providing the President an opportunity to reflect publicly on the meaning of the Thanksgiving season. After the ceremony, the live bird retires to a historical farm to live out the rest of its years.

I also read that Lincoln did the pardon first, but then the next turkey pardon (by a president) was Truman. In Lincoln's case, his son had become attached.

PETA complains that the pardoned Turkey is not treated well enough.

I consider the whole vegetarian thing every so often, and have tried it a few times.
I now only try to buy my animal products from animals which are treated well up to the time of their death, and hopefully slaughtered as painlessly as reasonable.
But I don't really know, I just guess.
I accept that some level of destruction is necessary for survival.

25/11/06 18:19  
Blogger Lew Waters said...

Vegetarians that eat only vegetables and enjoy it, I have no problem with, it's their choice. It is the ones that demand that I eat what they say that irritate me.

I chuckle everytime I hear one say something like "heart attacks are God's revenge for eating his animals." Too bad they don't read the Bible before quoting from it.

Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.(KJV)

Of course, there were restrictions placed with it, not eating the blood or raw, but I also believe ancient Israelites were commanded on how to slaughter the animal properly to prevent cruelty and sanitary handling as well.

I once ran across a discussion with a militant PETA person wherein they were being told they were causing cuelty to vegetables as they too were a living thing with blood (sap) running through them. It was sort of funny, but made a point too.

25/11/06 22:49  
Blogger coboble said...

I had an interesting conversation with someone from one of these groups once.
I asked him about grains, and he said that was even worse because I was eating their babies.
However, when I asked what I should eat if I was to avoid causing suffering to any living thing, he replied "We don't have the answers, just the problem".

The group used an acronym similar to PETA but it wasn't PETA, and I can not remember it or find it.
I think the guy I spoke with was serious.

I just found out the brand of Milk I have been buying has a problem with how they treat their cows (along with the milk not being necessarily Organic as the packaging claims it is).

25/11/06 23:55  
Blogger crallspace said...

There was a techno track about Bush called "Big fake turkey." IT sucked ass, but the message was all there.

It's a shame seeing him hold that up. He should be eating dirt.

30/11/06 10:36  

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