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ShahryarHedayat

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with National Turkey Federation Chairman Jihad Douglas.

Jihad!?:confused:
 

TerraN_EmpirE

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Of course if one really wanted to the details of this are a veritable field day of humorus in Jokes/ Coincidental namings in relation to current events
First yes Dr. Douglas's name Jihad then there is that He represents Turkeys, One of the Turkeys is named Abe The Same Anglicized spelling as the name of the Prime Minister of Japan.
The Other Turkey is named "Honest" which is really Ironic as The Tradition is something of a lie. The Two Pardoned Turkeys are of the modern Domestic type, bred to be Obese by Pheasant standards and has such rather then a quick relatively painless death the two are now likely to suffer a long series of debilitating illness until there death sometime in the early spring.

Farther more Although we associate Turkey with Thanksgiving meals by tradition In Truth there is no evedence of Turkey being served at the true first thanksgiving rather more likely would have been venison as it's known that the local native american tribes ( Squanto, Patuxet, and Wampanoag) who participated killed a number of dear for the 3 day harvest celebration ( yup 3 Days of Thanksgiving. Also not on the table would have been Potato's and Pumpkin pie ( I know Heart breaking). It was also a One time event Until George Washington tried to resurrect it.
The Current Thanksgiving celebration roots to the female American Author/poet Sarah Josepha Buell. Who also wrote recipes that we ( americans) tend to associate with Thanksgiving Including Stuffing, Cranberry Sauce, Turkey, Potatoes and Pumpkin pie.

 

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Airplane passenger 'takes picture of UFO that was giving off bright lights and orbs' on ground near top-secret Area 51 military base
An airline passenger claims to have captured images of a UFO giving off 'bright lights and orbs' on the ground near the top-secret Area 51 military base.

The witness was on an American Airlines flight from San Jose, California to Houston, Texas, when he took a series of pictures of a giant metallic disc in the Nevada desert.

He said the plane was flying near Luning and Gabbs on October 30 when he noticed 'blinding bright light' in the desert below.


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The unnamed man reported his sighting to the Mutual UFO Network which investigates UFO sightings in the US

He told the organisation: ‘I was on an American Airlines flight from San Jose, Ca to Houston, TX on October 30, 2015 when I noticed a blinding bright light in the desert near Luning and Gabbs, NV.

‘I saw a large silver disc that appeared to be in the middle of the desert. This disc was shooting orb like lights into the air.

'The disc itself had multiple lights that were blinding to the eyes. I pulled out my phone and took pictures until my phone died.

‘No other passengers seem to notice the disc or comment on it. Upon my return home; I asked multiple Air Force employees if they have ever seen anything like this and all replied never. Initially I thought it was a satellite but now leave it up to your interpretation. What the hell did I witness?’

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He said neither the captain nor fellow passengers said anything and the plane carried on until the disc was out of sight.

The United States government only acknowledged the existence of the off-limits military base in the southern Nevada desert for the first time in 2013.

Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily is quoted by the
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as saying: 'This disc formation on the ground does have the appearance of a landed UFO on the ground.

'Gabby is about 140 miles south west of Area 51. The person caught a cloaked (hidden) UFO in the area. The metallic of the UFO is partly exposed and I'm sure it wasn't for long.

'This UFO is partly cloaked to look like the surrounding area. Some cloaks make UFOs appear as clouds, others invisible, this one...is trying to blend in with the surroundings.'

The Mutual UFO Network has reportedly classified the sighting as 'unresolved'.

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Back to bottling my Grenache
It looks like a solar-thermal power plant, mirrors sending the sun's rays to a liquid salt cooled receiver at the top of a tower, of which I understand a large one has been put in operation in California. :)
 

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An article from the New York Slime on the trial of a so-called "rights advocate." Since it's from the Slime, my instinct is to discount most of it and disbelieve the rest, because there's no evidence that rag is any more fair and balanced outside the US as in.

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BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.

Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.

Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong — was surprised when the judge in the Tianhe District People’s Court in Guangzhou revealed a new charge against the defendant: “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

Mr. Yang, who stood trial almost a year ago, was convicted Friday on that new charge and the original one, and he was sentenced to a total of six years, two more than expected.
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“This verdict is persecution. It violates rule of law,” Mr. Yang told the court on Friday, according to Zhang Lei, one of his two lawyers.
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Guo Feixiong’s Statement
Read here what he wrote in anticipation of his sentencing.

“The guards held him like he was an animal, not a peaceful, rational man, and the court wouldn’t let him make a longer statement,” Mr. Zhang said by telephone from Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. “They dragged him out of the court.”

The judge told Mr. Yang’s lawyers of the new charge only that morning, and they had no chance to discuss the change with their client before the hearing, they said.

“I’ve done many cases like this, but this was something I never expected,” Mr. Zhang said. “I mean, adding the charge without any new trial or hearing or anything.”

The sentencing of Mr. Yang came one day after a court in Beijing released from prison a 71-year-old journalist, Gao Yu, who had been convicted of leaking state secrets, saying that she was too ill to remain incarcerated. Earlier that day, another court reduced Ms. Gao’s seven-year sentence by two years.

But Chinese lawyers who specialize in human rights cases, as well as international rights groups, said the verdict against Mr. Yang on Friday showed that Ms. Gao’s case did not augur an overall easing of President Xi Jinping’s intense campaign against dissent, and that Chinese courts remained pliant instruments of that campaign.

“Even if there’s no hope from appealing, he will appeal,” Mr. Yang’s wife, Zhang Qing, who lives in Midland, Tex., said by telephone. She said her sister-in-law had described the courtroom uproar to her. “We must expose every detail of this absurd verdict.”

Two other men who were associated with Mr. Yang, Sun Desheng and Liu Yuandong, were also sentenced to prison on Friday, given terms of two and a half years and three years, respectively.

The ruling was the latest dramatic episode in the unusual career of Mr. Yang, who was a publishing agent and writer before finding a new calling as a charismatic leader of protest causes in Guangdong.

He was arrested in 2006 and later convicted on a charge of illegal business activities related to his publishing work, an allegation that he and his supporters called a pretext to silence him. But he resumed his activism soon after his release from prison in 2011.

Mr. Yang was convicted Friday for his role in two peaceful protests in 2013.

His lawyers said that they asked the judge on Friday to give them time to prepare a defense against the new charge, but that the request was rejected.

“The judge bluntly interrupted us and finally forced us to stop speaking,” said Mr. Zhang, the lawyer.

Chinese law allows judges to add new charges to convictions at their own discretion. But the lawyers said that the power was rarely used.

Asked by telephone on Friday about the addition of the new charge, an official at the court in Guangzhou who deals with news media inquiries said, “I don’t know, and even if I did, I couldn’t tell you.”
 
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