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1 posted on 12/23/2024 11:30:58 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey named our national bird. 😆


2 posted on 12/23/2024 11:34:15 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

From the Franklin Institute on the sadly erroneous story that Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey as most suitable to be our national symbol.

“The story about Benjamin Franklin wanting the National Bird to be a turkey is just a myth. This false story began due to a letter Franklin wrote to his daughter criticizing the original eagle design for the Great Seal, saying that it looked more like a turkey. In the letter, Franklin wrote that the “Bald Eagle...is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly…[he] is too lazy to fish for himself.”

About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is “a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.” So, although Benjamin Franklin defended the honor of the turkey against the bald eagle, he did not propose it become one of America’s most important symbols.”


4 posted on 12/23/2024 11:35:06 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Red Badger

A bucket of KFC?


5 posted on 12/23/2024 11:35:20 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

I could see biden refusing to sign it out of spite.

But then Trump would do it and get all the credit.

So, I’m guessing biden will after all.


6 posted on 12/23/2024 11:37:17 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Red Badger

Song for this....

Surfin’ Bird....The Bird is the Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeIX0kaMao


7 posted on 12/23/2024 11:38:05 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Red Badger

It should be the big silver bird that takes old Joe to Gitmo.


9 posted on 12/23/2024 11:42:34 AM PST by Greg123456
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We are falling behind in the eagle symbol race! Russia has a two-headed eagle as its national symbol.

Therefore we need a three-headed eagle as our national symbol.


10 posted on 12/23/2024 11:49:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Red Badger

Is it going to fly up our nose?


12 posted on 12/23/2024 11:54:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Before I bet Biden before he leaves office will make the buzzard the Official National Bird so something can finish off the rest of the meat off our bones.


13 posted on 12/23/2024 12:01:54 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

Celine Dion was already taken by Canada as state bird.


14 posted on 12/23/2024 12:04:31 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

it should be the vulture to represent the district of criminal’s crimes against american citizens...


15 posted on 12/23/2024 12:16:17 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Red Badger

What about the tufted titmouse? Or the Willow tit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVz3gIciv8


17 posted on 12/23/2024 12:23:13 PM PST by rey
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To: Red Badger

Wild Turkey in a hip flask?


20 posted on 12/23/2024 12:29:21 PM PST by Gman
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Phinneous; monkeyshine
Excellent!

I spy with my eagle eye, something hovering:

12/16/2024-4:35pm 12/16/2024-4:35pm -- House -- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Following after the § 305. National tree ...

§ 306. National bird

“The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is the national bird.”.

Genesis 1

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [ורוח אלהים v'ruach Elohim, 6 + 300 = 306) moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

JERUSALEM:

ירושלים

וש

= 6 + 300 = 306

***

The recovery of the bald eagle is one of the most well-known conservation success stories of all time. We continue to work with our partners in state and federal agencies, tribes, nongovernment organizations and private landowners to ensure that our nation’s symbol flourishes.

Even though bald eagles were delisted from the Endangered Species Act in August 2007, because their populations recovered sufficiently, bald eagles are still protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Both laws prohibit killing, selling, or otherwise harming eagles, their nests or eggs.

https://www.fws.gov/species/bald-eagle-haliaeetus-leucocephalus


21 posted on 12/23/2024 12:32:20 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Red Badger
"Official National Bird"

Official Notorious Bird (after a touch-up of tar and feathers).


25 posted on 12/23/2024 2:06:42 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

Good. I’ve grown tired of our national bird for the last 4 years, Biden’s middle finger.


27 posted on 12/23/2024 3:59:43 PM PST by hflynn
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