THIS IS IMPORTANT! -Do we know ___ the Turkeyguy's name yet???

[underpants]

[C_U_L8R]

1. Joe the Turkey Guy?

[underpants]

7. He doesn't look like a "Joe" to me

I could very well be wrong

he strikes me as more of a Chris or a Steve :shrug:

[TahitiNut]

17. Tom

It can't be anything else. Tom.

:rofl:

[Lint Head]

20. Joe the Turkey Guy and Sara the Turkey

:dem:

[Warpy]

22. He does look like he wishes he

could stuff her head down that funnel next.

[Pennie109]

2. Joe the plumber turned turkey guy.....

Oh, no. Joe the plumber didn't have a mustache and he's busy making a record or is it writing a book? Whatever!

[populistdriven]

8. lol swamp rat could have some fun with this...

[SpiralHawk]

19. There once was a pretend plumber named Joe

Who had a skanky career as a republicon media ho.
He said with a Homelander's Smirk,
While pontificating like a Freeper Jerk,
"Gimee more mindf*uck republicon kool-aid, Mo."

[Wickerman]

3. Joe the Turkey killer is what we call him 'round my house n/t

[populistdriven]

4. proud to be the first recc!

[underpants]

5. ..

I call you Bushmeat the Recommender

[grantcart]

6. Her chief of staff -- just out for some fun

[Mari333]

9. Not yet, but he should still be Vice President in 2012. Hes obviously qualified. n/t

[Mira]

56. Good thinking ! That is pretty much the learning curve they are on.

[lame54]

10. Look for him soon on Teen Beat magazine

[barbtries]

11. what i wonder

is how palin has spun this to blame the people who were taking the footage as she stood there utterly oblivious yacking away. she's so fucking infatuated with her own celebrity and thinks she's so fucking important, and that damn media keeps making her look like a fool. what i cannot even imagine is her saying, oh shit, i really made myself look like a fool there you betcha. that is one of the funniest and most revealing videos i've seen this year. oblivious, absolutely oblivious. jeez

[underpants]

Fox New reports that Palin reportedly was aware of what was going on 15 feet from her

:eyes:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4511875&mesg_id=4511875

[hlthe2b]

12. Joe, the bloody turkey slaughterer?

or just Joe, the Bloody for short.....;)

[tanyev]

13. He looks like Willie Loomis from the 1991 Dark Shadows tv series.

[alfredo]

14. I love it. He's knee deep in blood. What he's doing it cutting off

their heads, holding them and letting them bleed out and stop thrashing. If he was just breaking their necks like they said on TV, there wouldn't be a need for a catch basin.

[nc4bo]

51. Head is still intact but he is pulling the neck to keep the blood flow

rolling.

Blow up of video showing turkey's beak in the open position with what looks to be a slit neck:

[alfredo]

53. Ok, I see it now. In our small poultry business, we severed the head

completely.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Todd Palin. I think the hat and safety goggles might be what's confusing you.

Todd the Turkey Snuffer with stylish cap & goggles:



Todd Unplugged:



Glad I could be of service.

:patriot:

:rofl:

[rhiannon55]

16. Joe the Destroyer

of My Appetite for Turkey. I think I'll have tofu turkey this year...:yoiks:

[bertman]

24. Did you think they plucked themselves, gutted themselves, then committed suicide??

[rhiannon55]

58. Well, no. No I didn't think that.

Grew up on a farm. Was making a joke...jeez.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. I heard he moonlights as a chicken choker.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Joe the Butcher?

??

[Are_grits_groceries]

23. Gotta be a relative of Ed Gein!

You betcha!

[Mabus]

25. Gaear

[Canuckistanian]

27. "we go to pancakes house"

"I need unguent....."

[Mabus]

36. "we'll get pancakes and then we'll get laid. Alright?"

;)

[Bluebear]

55. "Pancakes? We just had pancakes! I need a shot and a beer, ya know?"

[Unbowed]

26. The guy's just doing his job. They aren't called slaughterhouses for nothing.

Granted, it's a creepy job, but it's not this guy's fault Americans eat Turkeys. I'd be more interested in an investigation into the procedures they employ at this farm than knowing one worker's name. I thought they were supposed to stun the birds before killing them, but I'm not sure if this is a law or not. It should be. People make fun of animal activists but this is the kind of practice they work to prevent.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Conditions at this turkey farm are excellent.

This is not a turkey factory. http://www.alaskatripled.com/

[lapfog_1]

34. They are in the poultry business?

Really?

From their FAQ page...


FAQ#8 BOILER GROWERS


Now, I've never heard of a "boiler" chicken. Must be a new category.

[Posteritatis]

35. That's a very old category, actually (nt)

[lapfog_1]

37. But if you click on the link

it links to a page on "Broiler" chickens. Which is a very standard category.

It's just funny to me that someone in the business would make this sort of mistake.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Could be a typo?

They're farmers, not web designers. Geez, give the guy a break.

[lapfog_1]

41. Sure, it's a typo. But it is a very strange typo for someone who is

in the business of raising "broiler" chickens. Their web design person could have easily made the mistake, but the farmer, hopefully looking over the website every once in a while, should have spotted this one right away, being that they are in the business of raising and selling "Broilers".

This is like me putting on my web page that I write Eunuchs device drivers.

[Blue_In_AK]

43. Matanuska Valley farmers are not Silicon Valley computer geeks

Give me a break.

[lapfog_1]

46. Did they finish High School?

What does being a computer geek have to do with knowing the difference between "boiler" and "broiler"? That's THEIR profession, what they choose to do in life. I'd like to think they have some competence in the subject plus at least enough education to know how to spell simple words.

Anyway, just drop it already.

[Blue_In_AK]

49. Okey-doke.

You started it. Neener-neener.

:pals:

[Blue_In_AK]

38. I don't know about their FAQ page,

I just know that their turkeys have a reputation for deliciousness, and, as I said, they're hormone and antibiotic free, so "boiler," "stewing chicken," whatever, I really don't care. Sarah was an idiot but it's not the farmer's fault.

[lapfog_1]

40. Hint... they dropped an "r". Which is odd if they are in the business. -n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

42. Hint, "typo"

As I said, they're farmers, not web designers. If I had a dime for every typo or editing mistake I've seen on a web page, I'd be a wealthy woman. Give the farmer a break -- he's only doing his job. Sarah, on the other hand...

For the record, first turkey pardon in the history of Alaska governors. If Sarah was going for a photo op, it was HER responsibility to make sure the backdrop was appropriate, not the turkey slayer who was doing what he should be doing the week before Thanksgiving.

[lapfog_1]

44. Yes, it's a typo.

It's just a very odd one. I'm pretty sure that the chicken farmer knows what a "broiler" chicken is... and I hope they look at their own website occasionally. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Especially to someone that knows the business. Makes them look careless or ignorant or both.

As for Sarah, it doesn't surprise me in the least that this was the "first" turkey pardon in the state. She is now a camera whore and will take any opportunity to appear on our TeeVees. In a few weeks she will be obviously desperate to be interviewed by someone, anyone.

That she is so lacking in "stagecraft" to allow that as the backdrop sums up her whole persona, doesn't it?

[Blue_In_AK]

45. She's a real "piece of work," as they say...

We're doing our best up here to draw attention to her weaknesses so that her national ambitions are thwarted. I understand from various sources that there are even more scandals bubbling just beneath the surface, and the Alaskans for Truth, who organized the anti-Palin demonstrations here in the fall, are planning some new actions. She has to be stopped.

[lapfog_1]

47. That's up to you folks.

I don't think she will be re-entering national politics again. Hope you can get rid of her from your state government scene as well.

Good luck. Looks like an uphill fight still.

[lamp_shade]

28. I hear he's been offered a recording contract... oh... and a book deal. n/t

[rhett o rick]

29. I think it was a subtle warning to scare the LDS church from opposing her in 2012. nm

[OffWithTheirHeads]

30. So when does this guy get an interview w/ Catie?

I can't wait. Or how about an appearance on Letterman?

[jimshoes]

31. Vlad the Turkey Guy

:silly:

[Blue_In_AK]

32. Don't pick on the turkey guy, he's just doing his job.

Thanksgiving is coming soon, in case you missed it, and these guys sell GREAT turkeys, no hormones, no antibiotics. They apparently didn't even know that Sarah was stopping by until the night before, and I'm sure they didn't think she'd be hanging around after the "pardon." I say leave turkey guy alone.

http://www.alaskatripled.com/

From the Daily News...

Anthony Schmidt, owner of Triple D Farm & Hatchery, where this all took place, said Friday that animal rights activists from around the nation had been calling all day to "say how horrible it was they were killing that turkey and people could see it."

"And I guess, to some degree I understand that. If I had my choice it wouldn't have been aired, that part of it. But, on the other hand, that's just life," he said. "Americans are going to consume 46 million turkeys at Thanksgiving. I'm only doing six or seven hundred. Give somebody else a hard time."

Schmidt said he was busy during the governor's visit and didn't realize turkeys were being killed right behind the governor, or he would have stopped it. He said the publicity is increasing turkey orders but he doesn't like the fallout.

"They're sliming the governor and I think it's wrong, totally, wrong," Schmidt said. "I mean, come on guys, get a life."

[Buns_of_Fire]

48. Leave the Turkey Guy alone, you bastids!

(After all, he's just doing what turkey guys do this time of year. Wait until Easter when the rabbit guys force-feed tons of chocolate to cute little bunnies and force them to poop those little eggs!;-))

[opihimoimoi]

50. LOL...."Leave him ALONE.... ............................"

Bastids Indeeds....

[Ikonoklast]

52. I'm mesmerized by the dead furry animal perched on Palin's head

Can't quite place what specie it is.

She must miss her $10,000 a day professional stylist. They used a better grade of critter to fill out her thinning hair when she was campaigning to be Queen Of The World.

[fla nocount]

54. Maine Coon Cat. Shot from from a helicopter. n/t

[DesertRat]

57. Is Palin wearing a wig?

:shrug: