That turkey video was not something I wanted to see just before Thanksgiving. Why is it that you can eat a food, in this case turkey, for years with no qualms at all until you see the process of it going from bird to dinner? My granny used to wring the necks of chickens so she could cook the chicken for supper; I didn't eat those nights either.

So now, I need to figure out just what I'm going to serve for Thanksgiving – maybe we'll be vegetarians this year; I don't want turkey now; several of the family does not want chicken or fish; and well one of my daughters is still traumatized from when she was 5 years old and we butchered a cow for meat for the freezer – trouble was my daughter thought he was a pet. She even named him – Rodney. When the meat came back from the butchers in those nice little white packages I made hamburgers for dinner. They were delicious. However, in the middle of dinner my daughter innocently looks up and says something about she hadn't seen Rodney in a few days and where was he......her older brother delightfully told her she was eating him. He got her hamburger in his face, she screamed, and the door to her room didn't quit vibrating for a good solid 4 hours. She shares my low opinion of brothers to this day.

If you get a picture of Madeline Albright jumping out of a cake you seriously have to share. It would be a great Beat 360 picture. Just think of all the captions you would get – very few of which could probably be posted.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

AWW...come on Jack, you know that was just par for the course for Sarah! She is used to blood letting and wants to get the rest of us ready for it! Shoot...we ought to be used to it by now! I mean just look at how much we've been bleed by congress so far! I'm just sayin...

I hope someone got Joe a clue for his birthday! You know that UMM..the teeth are too white and fake along with his hair which makes him look like an old man going through a mid-life crisis! Man...if he is going through one I can't wait to see the motorcade he'll be driving around in! HMM...maybe a new convertible will be in order!

Don't be too hard on Sammy Jack! Atleast she hasn't packed her bags and moved in with Anderson yet! Or was she the one that already tried that!? HMMM..LOL

Cindy...Ga.

Good morning, Jack. So nice to read your blogs to get the pleasantries of the day. I come back to our blogs thoughout to reread to be cheered up.

Does Sammy have any friends? She sounds incorigible if she is out there robbing.

Lastly, what is the process that you go through to write these blogs?

Hi Jack,
Thanks for making me laugh out loud.
That Sarah video was something else. Goes to show you how oblivious she is about everything around her, except the spotlight of course. Keep your dog close and for mercy's sake don't take it to Alaska should you ever have to visit. As for the economy, the Bushes have shut off the lights at the White House and are pretending not to be home.

And the Turkey dude was a funny lookin' fella, yah. I ♥ "Fargo".
Well, Sarah Palin lost her chance to go to Senate, she was hoping to be the Senator With a Whip, so slaughtering something on camera was the next best thing, I suppose or a warning, someone might be sleepun with the fishes and giblets. Oh you betcha, yah.
My 401K was a 65K and some Arby's coupons.

Happy Friggin' Friday.
Oh and tonight at 5:55pm EST, I heard on local news if you look at the Western sky, you will be able to see the Space Station and maybe a $100K Toolbelt.
XXO ♥
p.s. Gobble Gobble...Gob....RIP Turkey.

Hi Jack,
Yup, the turkey video was a little over the top for me. Makes me want to serve " Tofurky" this year. I wonder what she will do when she sees that turkey float at the Macy's parade this year! Watch for helicopters above the parade.
Have a great weekend, and Sammy can begin a business sending "Don't worry, the economy is not really in the doghouse" gift baskets.

Jack: I am a little disappointed you didn't work in the "pregnant man" this week into your posts. What a concept?

I tried to listen with open ears and eyes. Yikes, listening to Larry King chatting it up with the man about his anatomy was something else. There are certain words Larry should just be banned saying on TV without proper viewer warning. IE: Don't be having a late night snack. I about choked on a chocolate chip cookie when he was using slang words to discuss the "bits and pieces" of the body. Simply amazing!

Geez Jack,
That video with Sarah Paalin smiling and that turkey murderer covered in blood behind her smile was more like halloween scary than a blessed Thanksgiving.
It appears she is wanting the spotlight even if it has to do with blood and guts. That's just "fun" she said! Yikes! I ran screaming out of the living room.
I'm having an "Oops, there went my 401k this year" party this week~end. Hey you might as well drink yourself into oblivion with your friends. Misery loves company! The topic of discussion tonight is: How to grow your own garden. Ya'll come!
I would personally feel good about Hillary taking the Secretary of State job. Or, should I say Hillary and Bill?
Sammy needs to calm down. Give him his wine bag Jack! Tell him we may all be eating dog food before this is over!
One thing for sure I won't eat turkey after that video last night.
Have a happy Thanksgiving to you and Sammy and everyone in 360 land!
Pass the tofurkey please!
Love, Hugs, and Tail Wags!

(Great blog Jack!)

Thanks for making some of the more disturbing news completely hilarious! As far as I'm concerned I've had enough of that moose gutting, turkey-death giggler. Although the idiocy of the entire scene does deserve news coverage....magnifying the fact that America made the right choice. This women is one news story short of the caption that we would logically read for a 44 year old in black boots and a whip.

LOL at Bill's Shanghai Hooters receipts ! Better a turkey murderer than a baby murderer, as most of Obama's supporters are. But no more politics for now- Happy Thanksgiving

thanks for the mornin' gufaw. That was a bit rough to watch, even the gentleman performing the grisly task appeared uncomfortable. but not Sarah. picture perfect, drink in hand.. Her show must go on!

Hi Jack, Funny post today! But, come on, that video was awesome! RIP Turkey – then roast him, good eatin'. It's reality. It's funny that she wasn't paying attention to what was going on behind her.
Fargo was a good movie. Now that the cold weather has settled in, I'll have to get some good ones to watch. Actually, I just bought Smokey and the Bandit on DVD. It's one of my all time favorites! Jackie Gleason is soooo funny. You might have been too young when this movie came out (or not born yet) to appreciate it. Oh well. Hey, have a great weekend. Thanks for the laughs!

Xtina~I am an Obama supporter and I don't believe in murdering babies.
I am Catholic but I believe we all have to make our own choices with God and the government can't do that for us.
So anywho, gobble, gobble, Happy Thanksgiving to you!
XO

Jack, I’ll start by saying thanks – as always – for the chuckles – you always liven up my lunch hour.

Leave the turkey death dude alone – everyone knows turkeys are not born with that little pop thing that tells you when they're done it gets there somehow, so deal with it. Now, Mrs. Palin was wrong for having that has her backdrop, but so was the person filming her. I mean come on you had to have seen that through your camera lens.

Poster Renee – that he/she/it thing is just bizarre and best left alone. Giving it publicity is only encouraging it to go forward with the weirdness. You're either a man or a woman – you can't be both at the same time. I have no issue with her being born a woman and wanting to become a man – fine go ahead, do it. But you just can not be both – that's just not right. Get a surrogate. Calling it a pregnant man – that's just false and misleading. I'm disgusted by the whole business.

Jack – if Sammy moves on to liquor stores – have her send me some good stuff – I'll need it to deal with all the loom and doom and pregnant things!

One last word on the person that commented that Obama was a "baby killer"....I suspect that he is talking about Obama's advocacy for "choice"....that comment was totally out of line, incorrect, disrespectful and no surprise...interestingly, it seems the religious right just can't keep religion out of politics or their noses out of other people's business.

Well, Jack, when you go to Whole Foods to shop for Anderson's turkey, beware! They may be plotting revenge. Yikes!

Sarah's blood splattered clothes... oh man, and blowing Rudolph's head off? Seriously....side grabbing funny.

And yes, I feel certain that it does cost extra for a "Sarah slaughtered" bird. I mean, look at what she is supposedly getting for her "book". Wow, that will be a must read. *ahem*

On the good news front, should Nancy Pelosi keep her top level "fawning" up, maybe Sarah will mistake her for wildlife and um, well do the same thing you credited her for doing to Rudolph. Heh!

Another classic Jack! You amaze me. Love ya man. Happy Weekend. )if Anderson allows that sort of thing).

That picture of Palin just is not right and its not even because a turkey is being prepared to be served for someone's dinner! When I help out with butchering chickens I am wearing old rags and my hair is thrown under a baseball cap. I can just picture my brother-in-law yelling "Are you going to help or not, if not get lost!" As he throws one at me and says, "this one's ready for plucking". So if she's going to stand there, she would look more real if she got her hands a little dirty!

Happy Friday Jack,
What a nightmare! I thought it will happen once in blue moon, but it happen again Jack, I am sorry for that. I thought Mrs Palin became history, woow she wants to energize the base with all means; and Madeleine Albright did it again, hard luck this time, no one like Hillary and Pelosi, except Margaret Thatcher. Jack, it is winter outside, nothing wrong with drinking hot chocolate, I know it is rich of calories, but it will energize you and keep you warm; don’t blame Sammy, it was not her fault, Jack, who let the dog out?
Stay warm and have a lovely weekend

Like anyone cares about the world through her lenses anymore. I believe we always cared more about her fashionable frames anyway.

lol. Funny article. I needed the laugh. As for Palin it is her typical airhead stance and why do we have to keep looking and hearing her blather of which she generally knows nothing about? It did make for a good joke. I rest my case! The woman is clueless!

What? The turkey I get from the deli comes from a real live turkey? Who knew???
Shame on the producer, cameraman, etc.
Leave her alone. She's just a person who wants to do her job and raise her kids and everybody just loves to hate her.
The mean comments reveal a lot about the people posting them.

Sarah Palin is always surrounded by a bloody carcass. What is her obsession with red blood on the white snow. Creepy and weird.

"If You Want Blood, You Got It!....I want you to bleed for me!" (AC/DC)
She should get a copy of this one, it fits her.

@Annie Kate – Your story about your daughter had me in hysterics. Although it is more sad than funny, I thank you for sharing. I shared it with my folks and they loved it; especially my Dad who lived on a farm when he was little and could totally appreciate it. Poor little girl! I feel certain that she will never eat another hamburger. And my father does not eat chicken. You can imagine why. Ah, well....

My cousin worked on a a farm for many a summer during school and he and his friends fed a cow hamburger once- yes....cannibalism. Boys can be so dumb!

Hi Jack, happy Friday and thanks for your post. I'm actually going to Canada on Thanksgiving, so I'm not even sure if I'm having turkey that day. I agree with Erica when she said "Tofurkey" last night. I might just try it. We'll see. Have a great weekend,

Lilibeth
Edmonds, Washington

Sarah Palin is a complete train wreck. I wonder if her husband the Alaskan Dude is afraid of her. Somebody needs to tell her she's a total ditz. I just hope she doesn't have a cooking show where she kills a moose.....

As always Jack funny, entertaining, and enlightening. The comments brought my spirits up well that was until I read the one calling some of Obama's supporters baby killers and then once again I was slapped in the face with the reality of how many ignorant and judgemental people there are in this world. Anywho so did anyone in Palin's office who accompianed her for the pardoning of the turkey even think about the set up when she was being interviewed, did they not have any control over the situation, they could have said hey could you refrain from bleeding out the turkeys while were on camera. What made the situation funny was the guy who just kept looking back at the camera as if he was unsure if he should continue or wait. Anyways I wonder if Madeline Albright is spry enough to jump out of a cake, tell Sammy to be careful with robbing the convience stores, those three times your out laws can be troublesome even when it comes to petty theft.

Hey Jack,

Glad I missed the video. No one listens to me either. Two months ago I was pointing out the similarities between Sarah Palin and Marge Gunderson, the pregnant cop from "Fargo" who was brilliantly played by Francis McDormand

Francis is married to one of the directors, Joel Coen. ("Fargo" Fan Alert: The Coen Brothers just finished filming another Minnesota comedy entitled "A Serious Man".)

These guys grew up in MInnesota, they know their woodchippers...

So Jack, where was your buddy Anderson today? I was out shooting some golf balls on the Torrey Pines driving range and the ladies from the March For The Ta-Ta's passed by, all decked up in their pink t-shirts (Breast Cancer 3-Day). I didn't see NeNe there, but there was definitely a lot of Ta-Tas. And here I thought he was into the charity work...

Jenny I completely agree with you. this is just another example of the liberal media attacking Sarah Palin, a very good and decent person.

Wow! When we serve turkey this year, I'm sure I'll remember how the turkey got to my kitchen table thanks to Sarah!

"Kay Sarah Sarah... whatever will be, will be... the future's now ours to see (Thanksgiving Turkey), kay Sarah Sarah.

I know a lot of people who go turkey, duck, and deer hunting for the holidays. And there's not a thing wrong with it. In fact, I've eaten many great deer roasts and duck gumbos on holidays in my time. And let's not forget deer sausage or turducken (turkey, duck, and chicken rolled into one). You know, bashing Sarah Palin is so juvenile. Really. You people need to get lives. The election is over. Your moron won. And we get to deal with the mess for the rest of our lives.

And Xtina, I agree completely with you. Better to kill poultry than babies. Murdering an unborn life is never a choice no matter how politically correct they try to make it sound or rationalize it out to make themselves feel better.

For those who keep comparing turkey slaughter to "baby killings", would you prefer lots of women go to butcher shops to have illegal abortions? Because that's what they were doing before it was legalized and made more safe for women; and you can believe that if abortion were made illegal, the butcher shops would reopen.

Just because it could be made illegal some day wouldn't stop the desperation of a troubled woman. And who are you to pass judgement? We should look for other ways to resolve the problem (unwanted pregnancies) so that even if the option of abortion is available, girls and women may not get into this predicament, or perhaps they will think of other options they have (adoption, or faith, and more faith that they can survive with a child).

Perhaps it's not government that you should point fingers at but churches, parents, our culture; and television, movies, radio, magazines that sell sex, sex, sex all over the place. Point fingers at yourself. What have you done to try to get some of the sex off of the airways. Shame on all of us for putting up with it! Look where freedom of expression has gotten us!

Don't blame government for saving lives of women who could otherwise be butchered! It wlll continue to happen. Let's find the real problems leading up to abortion and try to resolve them. And it doesn't start with you calling people "baby killers".

Well I guess Palin could have shot the Turkey from a helicopter. No I didnt watch. I dont need to be grossed out during dinner. Im still backing Sammy. She's no turkey.

lovely jack. perfection.

i have never seen a turkey killed like that, and i kinda wish i still hadn't. lol

i agree with hunting and living off the land to a degree, but with all those woodchippers, isnt that more of a mass consumption kinda thing? yeah, ill be skipping the turkey...and turducken this year. lol

although, i highly recommend the turducken if you are ever here in the south. hmmm, do they have those up north? lol

eve, agreed. kudos.

You sound like you have some mental health problems that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin. Don't people in politics become convenient scapegoats?

I almost feel sorry for Sarah Palin. She does not have too much luck lately. Now she made history by becoming "the woman that ruined the Thansgiving turkey tradition" for ever ! From now on, I will not be able to eat turkey again. Thank you Sarah, this time you really excelled yourself. By the way, among the turkey population, Sarah Palin is #1 "most wanted".lol.

Will somebody please pass the message on to Anderson Cooper - who reported last night that Sarah Palin was denying any responsibility for the gruesome scene of Turkey Massacre behind her when she was delivering yet another garbled interview - that there is documentation in that very video that she DID know what was going on?

For Anderson Cooper and anyone else who's interested in the documentation, there's a fine summary of events on Mudflats ( URL http://mudflats.wordpress.com/ ) with some great detail of who was there and what was said and done.

You folks at CNN know that Sarah Palin is using the very "mainstream media" she's blaming for all her faux pas, don't you? The stupid Turkey Massacre interview gave birth to a subsequent televised statement from Palin, and when she commits another Stupid ex-VP-candidate trick on TV, she'll get another subsequent televised statement, all free publicity, good or bad. And so on, and so on.

And she'll still blame all of you in "the media" for the bad publicity.

Last night on your show, with a warning from yourself about the gruesome look at a turkey being slaughtered while an interview with Sara Palin was taking place in Alaska, I was shocked and confused to have to see how a turkey was being slaughtered by what looked to be a slow torturous process for the turkey to endure. The equipment that the man was stuffing the live turkey in, looked to be some sort of a grinder machine? My question is what exactly is the contraption used to slaughter that turkey? Is it legal in Alaska to allow turkeys to be slaughtered in a slow barbaric torturous method? Please advise.

Thank you for your information and for airing this particular piece- I hope it will bring a realization to your viewers that animals can feel pain and that they should not be mistreated and exploited for the sake of a dinner or in this case a Thanksgiving dinner. Not much to give thanks to when you see the cruelty turkeys are subject to.

Very truly yours,

Maria Meringolo