THIS PARTICULAR STUPID THANKSGIVING TRADITION PREDATES THE “OPEN ON THANKSGIVING” IDIOCY

11/26/13

We are all aware of the stupid tradition of the President of the United State’s “pardoning” a turkey around Thanksgiving Day.   John Kennedy started this nonsense (as he did so much other nonsense…like Vietnam and the Great Society) back when he was darkening the White House door with his other shenanigans.  The first Bush continued the bi-partisan bout of brainlessness by making the exoneration an official presidential pardon.

A couple questions…

First, just how much time does the president, whomever he may be, have on his hands?

Second, I just learned today, in Michael Sneed’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times, that this year’s turkeys destined for pardon were trucked to Washington D.C. from a farm in Minnesota.  Who pays for this idiotic nonsense?   Please don’t tell me the taxpayers do!

People will argue “What can it cost to truck in a few turkeys?”   The first answer is “Plenty” by normal people terms.  The second answer is that, even if, in government terms, the cost of trucking the turkeys is peanuts, what’s wrong with small cuts in government spending?   Small cuts add up.  And eschewing small cuts because they are small leads to big spending.  

Blessed Thanksgiving, everybody.  And note that it’s not “Turkey Day”; it’s THANKSgiving, a day designated by President Lincoln for thanking God for the gifts He has bestowed on us.   Let’s remember that and enjoy the holiday before the almighty dollar society in which we live completely destroys this holiday...as it has done with the Holiday Formerly Known As Christmas.