Wedding Turkey (and a Bonus Parakeet)

Posted May 17, 2008, 10:10 p.m.

Melissa and I were at a wedding today in Rustburg, Virginia, and, for some reason, there was a big old turkey walking around. I don’t think the turkey had anything to do with the wedding specifically—I think it was just there—but I thought it was pretty random and worth documenting. Read on to see some more pictures of the turkey, plus a bonus picture of my parents’ parakeet Tarzan.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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As life must be nourished, defended, and preserved; so freedom must be repurchased in each generation.

Fulton Sheen

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

Paul the Apostle

Once you’ve dissected a joke, you’re about where you are when you’ve dissected a frog. It’s dead.

Isaac Asimov

Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Benedict XVI

[The provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

Hugo Black

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John the Apostle

A great empire contains the amities and animosities of a world within itself.

Unknown

I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.

Donald Trump

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The common good, therefore, is the end of civil government, and common consent, the foundation on which it is established.

Unknown

There’s an old saying in Tennessee . . . I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee . . . that says, fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me . . . you can’t get fooled again.

George W. Bush

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

For generations, it was a paradox that the Chinese and the Indians prospered almost everywhere around the world, except in China and India.

Thomas Sowell

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

Jordan Peterson

That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Thomas Sowell

The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left.

Mattias Desmet

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

Thomas Friedman

And I feel one thing I want to share with you all, the greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child.

Teresa of Calcutta

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