Posted on 11/22/2014 10:22:14 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Seattle is a strange city. There’s a giant troll under one of the city’s main bridges, a giant statue of Vladimir Lenin on a random street corner and an annual Spam carving contest to take in. The neighborhood with the Lenin statue, Fremont, encourages visitors to set their watches 5 minutes ahead, because Fremont is the self-proclaimed center of the universe.
Everyone calls the cool new mass transit project the SLUT — the South Lake Union Trolley — without batting an eye. Seahawks fans celebrating the city’s first Super Bowl championship in February waited patiently for street lights to change so they wouldn’t jaywalk.
In short, all the stereotypes of politically correct, coffee-slurping, nature-loving, Birkenstock-wearing hippie-dom come to life in a single city are true. (This author happens to be a native, so he can say such things.)
So, perhaps in keeping with the city’s strange reputation, Mayor Ed Murray took a decidedly vegan spin on the Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning a turkey: He pardoned a Tofurky.
Actually, Murray pardoned two of them. One, Braeburn, got the official pardon. The other, Honeycrisp, is described in a press release from the mayor’s office as an “understudy,” perhaps because one of the Tofurkeys, which come in a box and to be perfectly clear have never been nor ever will be alive, might have been camera-shy.
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Pardoning a turkey is stupid enough. This, of course, if off the chart.
How in hell did Seattle get this way? When I was growing up it was just the place where airplanes were made.
Would that have been a union operation?
It’s because every turkey in Seattle has to be paid $15 an hour now.
How did it get that way?
Microsoft & Californians.
When Microsoft got big in the 80’s and early 90’s, they imported a bunch of people from more liberal areas of the country...and the world. They infected the area...and ‘infected’ is just the right word.
The Californians came seeking to escape what they’re state was becoming...then turned it into what they were running from in the first place, minus Hispanics and the good weather.
I am so glad that some good people killed these animals and butchered them so we could consume their meat.
BTW, the gravy, made from their drippings and fat, was fantastic!
Nevada was also quite conservative, or at least libertarian. Then Nevada decided to try and expand their economy beyond gambling with low business taxes and regulations. The Californians started moving in and Harry Reid is the ultimate result.
Similar for Colorado.
Before I die they'll be pardoning Tofurkeys in North Dakota because all the wealth from fracking will bring in the freaks.
They have a great sense of humor in Seattle, which this is obviously an example of.
I thought this was funny. They’re poking fun at themselves.
“....from more liberal areas of the country...and the world. They infected the area...and ‘infected’ is just the right word.”
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Are you describing Austin, TX?
I'm waiting for their first Muslim mayor, who would say "Our tradition has been to pardon the turkey. I choose to break with tradition. DIE fowl infidel!", and cut off the turkey's head on live TV.
From what I've heard from my Texan friends...I could very well be. But I meant Seattle.
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