I am saying that Kingsolver discusses her family raising turkeys from chick to adult for food, and the killing of the turkeys. She advocates free range feeding, and maybe these are free range birds. The Triple-D Farm & Hatchery web page says:

From live baby chicks to Thanksgiving turkeys, we are your best source for naturally fed and free-roaming poultry products here in state.

She encourages supporting local farmers, and this is a local farm. In some sense, she discusses pardoning of a turkey, but she does it in a Darwinian way.

If you are objecting to the raising and killing of turkey for food, then I hope you’re consistent in your morality, that’s all I’m saying. It isn’t bad when Palin supports it and good when Kingsolver supports it. It is what it is. Kingsolver isn’t really happy about the killing of the birds, but she accepts it as part of a sustainable lifestyle. Kingsolver prefers the word harvesting, by the way.

The original question was whether Joe Traitor Droopy-Dog War-Monger Deceitful-Liar Bush-kissing Fuckhead should keep his seniority (as a Democrat) and his gavel in light of HIS choice during the election to support McCain, Coleman and Collins, to lie about Obama on the campaign trail, and to perform inadequetly as chair over the last four years.

Imagine of the thrust of the objection to Joe’s chaiormanship of Homeland was Joe’s performance over the last four and not vengeance. Where would we be now?

Reid met with him and said, we’re not happy, there has to be a consequence, we’re taking away homeland and giving you a subcommittee gavel. Joe countered with an implied threat, do that and I may need to make a choice.

Then Joe went to work calling in chits and reframing the story in the press, as a question of whether the Dems were going to throw him out of the party. How unreasonable and punitive. It worked.

By allowing it to be framed as a vindictive move, we lost.

you can tell because the market ticker had the dow jones in positive territory…

At my house we call that ruffage.
meow.

mary matlin explaining the same thinga s we speak on fox….no shit. but what she describes is the shadow grazer.