PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on November 23, 2016, 07:12:50 PM
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Back at ya Jim. Enjoy your holiday :D
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Turkeys CAN Fly...
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Turkeys CAN Fly...
Well some turkeys can't and some can. In the first video we see what happens for those that can't (no doubt couldn't pass their medicals.) In the second video we see that some turkeys can indeed fly (healthy living, proper flight training.) For the first time we bought a never frozen locally grown Heritage Turkey from a nearby farm this year - we will find out tomorrow how they taste. Definitely more expensive than the mass-produced kind.
Wikipedia entry on heritage turkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_turkey)
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Turkeys CAN Fly...
Oh they fly really well, the wild ones at least. I was riding my bicycle and came upon a turkey in the road, rather than slowly walk away as most do, this one decided to fly away from me. I was riding along about 20 mph and followed it for over a mile until it finally landed high on a tree. It was pretty cool.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Yes, wild Turkeys can fly, not extremely well, but enough to get away. They are also pretty smart, and have very good eyesight. The farm raised, genetically engineered Turkeys, of course can not fly.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Yes, wild Turkeys can fly, not extremely well, but enough to get away. They are also pretty smart, and have very good eyesight. The farm raised, genetically engineered Turkeys, of course can not fly.
Design flaw or "feature"?
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It always strikes me that Thanksgiving is 'the' quintessential and uniquely American Holiday - it speaks to the best in our founding that near the end of the Revolutionary War and as they continued to struggle to establish the foundation of our Nation, men of faith and great vision set aside a day to give thanks to God for the wonder that has been, is, and hopefully will long remain the beautiful American experiment.
I am also reminded that our ability to enjoy this holiday is solely due to the men and women in uniform who protect and serve us in the Armed Forces and as Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders, many of whom cannot be with their friends and family today. On behalf of my family and a grateful nation I thank all who have or continue to serve.
Thanksgiving is not about turkey and pumpkin pie, or Black Friday shopping deals, or football games - it is about celebrating the 'many signal favors' that God has bestowed on us as a Nation, as a People, and as individuals. It is for giving Him thanks for all the blessings we enjoy, and sharing those blessings with our friends, family and the less fortunate in the best way that each of us is called to do.
I want to wish all of my friends and family a very Happy Thanksgiving and I want to thank God for the uncounted blessings that my family and I enjoy.
Our first President, George Washington, gave the first Presidential Proclamation of Thanksgiving in 1789, shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War as a fledgling United States of America was still finding it's sea legs as a free and independent peer on the world stage. Here are his words which ring as true today as when first set to paper almost 230 years ago:
"Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789." - George Washington
'Gimp
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Design flaw or "feature"?
Feature. Engineering for a big, heavy hunk of breast meat makes it impossible to get airborne. This occurred to me whilst wrestling with a big ol' turkey just now. It's in the oven.
Wishing all a wonderful day. Grateful for you all and so much more ... I agree with the sentiments on this thread and thank Jim for the side-splitting reminder of that WKRP episode!
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The farm raised, genetically engineered Turkeys, of course can not fly.
But they are self-basting and delicious!
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This occurred to me whilst wrestling with a big ol' turkey just now.
It helps to kill it first!
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Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, November 27, 2003
Giving thanks for the ‘invisible hand’
Isn’t there something wondrous — something almost inexplicable — in the way your Thanksgiving weekend is made possible by the skill and labor of vast numbers of total strangers?
To bring that turkey to the dining room table required the efforts of thousands of people — the poultry farmers who raised the birds, of course, but also the feed distributors who supplied their nourishment and the truckers who brought it to the farm, not to mention the architect who designed the hatchery, the workmen who built it, and the technicians who keep it running. The bird had to be slaughtered and defeathered and inspected and transported and unloaded and wrapped and priced and displayed. The people who accomplished those tasks were supported in turn by armies of other people accomplishing other tasks — from refining the gasoline that fueled the trucks to manufacturing the plastic in which the meat was packaged.
The activities of countless far-flung men and women over the course of many months had to be intricately choreographed and precisely timed, so that when you showed up to buy a fresh Thanksgiving turkey, there would be one — or more likely, a few dozen — waiting. The level of coordination that was required to pull it off is mind-boggling. But what is even more mind-boggling is this: No one coordinated it.
No turkey czar sat in a command post somewhere, consulting a master plan and issuing orders. No one forced people to cooperate for your benefit. And yet they did cooperate. When you arrived at the supermarket, your turkey was there. You didn’t have to do anything but show up to buy it. If that isn’t a miracle, what should we call it?
Adam Smith called it “the invisible hand” — the mysterious power that leads innumerable people, each working for his own gain, to promote ends that benefit many. Out of the seeming chaos of millions of uncoordinated private transactions emerges the spontaneous order of the market. Free human beings freely interact, and the result is an array of goods and services more immense than the human mind can comprehend. No dictator, no bureaucracy, no supercomputer plans it in advance. Indeed, the more an economy is planned, the more it is plagued by shortages, dislocation, and failure.
It is commonplace to speak of seeing God’s signature in the intricacy of a spider’s web or the animation of a beehive. But they pale in comparison to the kaleidoscopic energy and productivity of the free market. If it is a blessing from Heaven when seeds are transformed into grain, how much more of a blessing is it when our private, voluntary exchanges are transformed – without our ever intending it – into prosperity, innovation, and growth?