In a shocking historical moment, one of the two Thanksgiving turkeys pardoned by President George W. Bush has turned in his resignation, preferring to die rather than be pardoned by someone who refused to pardon human beings in Texas. The turkey, “Biscuits,” was promptly drafted and is being shipped to Iraq.
The other turkey, “Gravy,” pledged eternal fealty to Bush and is considered front runner to the first available seat on the Supreme Court.
We’ll be stuffing more into this story as it develops.
PAD
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Jerome said And Novafan, it was pretty clear that this thread was meant in fun. You don’t have to treat everything with the same amount of seriousness.
Ok, hands up for all the Republicans who thought this thread wasn’t another thinly veiled attack on Bush?
*hands down*
Novafan: Maybe I didn’t respond because I didn’t see any lies they presented.
Luigi Novi: I pointed them out in detail, and the evidence of it was quite copious.
Novafan: We could go back and forth for years on he said/she said if you want to.
Luigi Novi: You
Reading this, I’m suddenly reminded of the time that Jed Bartlet pardoned one turkey and then (because CJ fell in love with it, I think) went way out of his way to save the other. I distinctly remember it because he said he couldn’t pardon the other turkey (I don’t know why, but he couldn’t) but “What I AM going to do is draft this turkey into the military so it now works for us.”
What I remember thinking at the time is “What the hëll happened to the presidency that Jed now can’t pardon extra turkeys but he CAN draft turkeys into the military without congressional approval?”
I’m weird, I know.
This thread couldn’t be more quintessentially Thanksgiving if it tried…turkey, food jokes and plenty of arguing and mutual antagonism. It’s almost like being home again.
More potatoes, anyone?
Notice that nobody responded over Kerry’s lack of showing his “plan” in his return to the Senate the other day that I mentioned earlier.
And what plan did Reagan present before coming into office? Bush Sr? Clinton? Bush Jr?
Everybody claims to have a “plan”, but nobody gives details until they are in office. Anything you do present will be picked apart and blasted for being pathetic and/or damaging to America.
Which is what happened throughout this election.
All candidates give their ideas in broad strokes. Part of that is due to what I mentioned above, and part of it is because you’re trying to reach the broadest audience possible. You can’t please everybody, so most candidates know not to try.
Now, do you want to back peddle some more?
Also, it’s no business of ours to tell Mr. David how he manages his deadlines. He meets thems to the best of my knowledge, but even that’s irrelavent to the fact that his is HIS website and he can put anything he dámņ well pleases up here. But of course, I deduce that your “deadline” comment is really no more than a crass attempt to tell him to stop posting comments that dont fit your political views on his own site. That’s sort of like being invited to a friends house for dinner and then complaining to them about the food that they choose to serve. No, on second thougth, it’s a lot like that.
If you don’t like what he wrote, attack his arguments. Oh, wait. It was mostly just a humorous little bit so there’s really not much to attack. All the real political arguments have been posted by other people, not him. So you attack him instead. Humph!
Calm down, take a deep breath, I was just getting in some harmless ribbing. PAD mentioned he had a busy schedule that’s what I was refering to. Jeeze, yeah I’m soo upset he made political comments. Loose one election and you guys get all cranky. Are you also saying I have to mindlessly agree with PAD on everything to post here?? Talk about a zombie.
I, personally, hereby shroud the entity known as novacain. It no longer exists in my world.
Alan said I, personally, hereby shroud the entity known as novacain. It no longer exists in my world.
Maybe it’s because you spelled it wrong. It’s novocaine, not novacain.
Sheesh.
Luigi, you win, if for no other reason than the fact that you can type a lot more than I can in one setting. ;0)
I’m not saying I agree with you, just that I give up. Take your victory lap.
“This thread couldn’t be more quintessentially Thanksgiving if it tried…turkey, food jokes and plenty of arguing and mutual antagonism. It’s almost like being home again.”
“More potatoes, anyone?”
If PAD loosens his belt buckle and requests that one of the kids pull his finger, I’m leaving.
Speaking of treasured traditions…anyone else from the New York area and old enough to remember that, for reasons I can’t fathom, Thanksgiving was always the day that one of the local New York channels would show KING KONG, SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG? I never understood why but it didn’t matter, since I love all 3 and MJY still makes me weep at the end.
Novafan: Luigi, you win, if for no other reason than the fact that you can type a lot more than I can in one setting.
Luigi Novi: You don’t have to type more than the other guy to have a discussion with him. Just respond to his material. If information exists that can place the evidence I provided of SBVT’s lies in a different light, all you have to do is either present it, or at the very least, point to it via links.
Novafan: I’m not saying I agree with you, just that I give up.
Luigi Novi: Way to straddle the fence, Nova. Fail to refute someone’s argument, but never actually admit it.
But have a Happy Thanksgiving. 🙂
Bill Mulligan: “anyone else from the New York area and old enough to remember that, for reasons I can’t fathom, Thanksgiving was always the day that one of the local New York channels would show KING KONG, SON OF KONG and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG?”
I think I came in after the Kong movies era, but I do remember (before my family moved to Georgia) how WWOR would run a marathon of the old George Reeves ‘Superman’ shows all Thanksgiving Day, and WPIX would run ‘March of the Wooden Soldiers’ Christmas morning. Of course, this was years before UPN and WB bought those once-independent stations up… but I still miss having those shows on in the background while the family ran around doing holiday stuff.
Also oddly enough, while we’re on the subject of old New York area TV-dom, I had the opportunity through my job to meet and regularly work with the guy who used to do voice over work for WPIX (and, for a while, worked as a higher-up in programming at WWOR). Hëll of a guy who I learned a lot from.
Okay, now I’ve got to go call and e-mail old friends from the NY stomping grounds… the nostalgia is overwhelming. Thanks for the memories, Bill.
“Why on Earth are liberals worried about a draft? They’ll just rip up their cards anyways, go to anti-war rallies, and spit on the troops coming home that protect their way of life.”
While the remainder of the draft will be made up of non-voters and nominal Republicans who fell for the ‘repeat it enough and it’ll be true’ tactic, while Bush’s elite and monied ‘base’ will be safe and warm at home, due to exceptions to the draft (i.e. true history).
Revanche said (i.e. true history).
Liberal thinking causes serious belly laugh. Bwa Ha Ha.
So we have a turkey either fighting or being eaten (yum, yum) in Iraq, a conservative loyalist in line for the Suptreme Court and 120+ death row inmates who have gone on to the just rewards.
What’s a conservative have to complain about?