November 22, 2006
FROM THE THANKSGIVING ARCHIVES: EVEN ROBIN HOOD'S GOT TO EAT (via Bart):
Where did turkeys go? (JOEL THURTELL, January 5, 2005, Detroit FREE PRESS)
The director of a Detroit food bank wants to know what happened to 60 turkeys -- 720 pounds of frozen birds -- that his charity gave to members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers' local staff two days before Thanksgiving to give to needy people.Conyers' Detroit office promised an accounting of any turkey distribution by Dec. 27, but the Gleaners Community Food Bank had received no paperwork as of Tuesday, said the charity's director, Agostinho Fernandes.
Fernandes said he became suspicious that the turkeys didn't get to poor people after hearing from a friend that a federal court worker had said he was offered free turkeys from a member of Conyers' staff.
Could be worse--Barbara Boxer would have ordered her staff to drop them out of helicopters to distribute them. Which, come to think of it, might be a good idea in Andaman, Tribe shoots arrows at aid flight (Jonathan Charles, BBC News)
An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows.There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands.
But the authorities say the attack is a sign that they have survived.
(originally posted: 1/05/05)
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 22, 2006 11:30 PMWord is that Conyers will lead the charge in the House to dispute the election and that Boxer might sign on for the Senate. Unbelievable.
Posted by: AWW at January 5, 2005 1:00 PMGiven that the tribemen had presumably been living there for thousands of years, is it all that surprising that they survived what must be an unusual but not unprecedented natural disaster?
Posted by: Mike Earl at January 5, 2005 1:03 PMConyer's argument would probably be that the media is focusing on this turkey incident on racial grounds, instead of looking into the real scandal of that fake turkey Bush had in the photo op over in Iraq a year ago (yes, I know it's a real bird, but if Conyers said it was fake, it would once again be repreated in the media without any acknowlegement of the facts to the contrary).
Posted by: John at January 5, 2005 1:15 PMBarbara Boxer would have ordered her staff to drop them out of helicopters . . .
Was Barbara Boxer a writer for WKRP in Cincinnati before she got into politics?
Posted by: Mike Morley at January 5, 2005 2:40 PMThis is an interesting site regarding these people. After entering the site scroll down and you should spot video clips of the Andamanese.
Posted by: h-man at January 5, 2005 4:02 PM