Homeland Security Issues Turkey Fryer Warning

Repeat: Oil and water do not mix. Repeat. I hear that some people put turkey's in that were less than dry. Very dangerous. Cast aside your Common Sense and use GOOD SENSE instead.

The most dangerous deep fat fryers, are the ones in public office and corporate control.

They are fat, and frying the rest of us.

Shouldn't we heed the danger and unplug them?

Advice from turkeys about turkeys -- Washington in a nutshell.

I liked the above comment about oil and water not mixing. In that vein, I thought I'd make a list of some other things that don't mix:

1. "homeland security" and Constitutional rights.

2. conservative big government beuracracies and "small government"

3. the "patriot act" and American values (YES, I know it's a rewording of "1", but I thought it was such a HUGE thing that it was worth mentioning twice)

4. SERIOUS threats and the things we are told to fear for political reasons

5. the stated goals of "homeland security" and the ACTUAL security of American citizens (i.e. we're creating more terrorists than we're stopping, but hey! who's counting?)

6. a logical / RATIONAL approach to protecting our citizens vs. the kinds of political opportunism conservatives (including Obama) have used against us for over a decade.

7. see "1" and "3", yet again. You'll be quizzed on it the next time you attempt to board a plane to visit your family for the holidays (especially if you ever attended an OWS protest).

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On a side note, I think a discussion of geese would be more appropriate, as in: "If you care about the U.S. Constitution - thanks to DHS, YOUR GOOSE IS COOKED!"

HAPPY SECURITY DAY!!!!

Unfortunately, this might make us giggle but the reality is this- under the guise of protecting us from "bioterrorism" via our food supply, the DHS is putting the pressure on small livestock and produce farmers in the way of huge fees and expenses to insure the American food supply is not tampered with by those who mean to do us harm.
As a small livestock farmer myself, I have many friends who produce incredibly wonderful, healthful foods and dairy products who are being hounded by state and local authorities due to the concerns I mention above. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be the DHS and their lobbying pals from Monsanto.
Happy Thanksgiving! Be sure to check your turkey, gravy, 'taters, rolls, and pies very, very closely...

I am so happy that they have taken this step as they attempt to protect republicans and other rednecks from incinerating their homes and themselves with turkey fryers.

Maybe they can one day share such wisdom with the Navy, encouraging them to have armed deck watches when they stop in terrorists nations like Yemen--just like the deck watches they have in Norfolk and other US ports. Might prevent another Cole attack.

Homeland security is a national anti-terrorist group. Am I the only one that feels very uncomfortable with them giving advice to Citizens over cooking? Sorry but im just so sick of the Government using fake scare tactics to create more Goverment agencies just to get in our brains and our beds, next thing they will be making laws and we will be criminals for yet another thing this government has no business in telling us what to do over.

Why would anyone want to deep fry a turkey? Breaded fish fillets, crayfish, shrimp or something similar you can understand, but something as thick as a turkey???

I appreciate the sincerity of the video, but is it really necessary to spend Homeland Security taxpayer dollars to remind people that oil on flame might pose a fire hazard?

Wait. Many Americans think Rick Perry is an intellectual giant. They don't care that Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan comes from the computer game Sim City. They think Michele Bachmann's rapture-ready mentality is good for the country. They celebrate the pepper spraying of students and the elderly who attempt to exercise their First Amendment rights. They think it's fine to carry concealed weapons into bars and other public places. They maintain that human-caused climate change is a hoax and that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. They consistently vote against their own economic interests. And they believe a handful of cells and multi-billion-dollar corporations should have the same rights as humans.

Never mind.

Hope they venture into auto safety too. The tailgaters and resulting wrecks are at epidemic level--and beyond stupid when you think about the basic physics involved.

As an absolutely average Celtic white guy exMarine raised in what was (or still is?) the most racist city in America (which means in the World) Chicago, Illinois, I have discovered that a rather small reading of History and a small amount of thought leads inexorably to the question: What is the essential difference between celebrating Thanksgiving and celebrating Kristallnacht, except for the relative triviality of Kristallnacht in comparison? Learning and thinking can be such a biatch. It's no wonder that so few Americans do it. Happy Engorgement!

Homeland Security was started by a real turkey (G.W.Bush) so they know their turkeys well!

I wonder if they have any info on terrorist turkeys?

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So I guess the turkey lobby has spread some of their funds around Homeland Security and Homeland Security decided to show how "Thsnkful" they are?

This is really all Obama's fault. His administration has caught and or killed
so many of the scary terrorists that the DHS is runnning low on high profile threats, and like any government agency, it needs to continually demonstrate it's value. thus, instead of warning us about terrorist turkeys, the new boogieman, one we can all relate to is cajun fried turkeys. .

now that's a government that's too big! couldn't this turkey have gone to feed some poor homeless person instead of being sacrificed to this insipid video?

Wow, 11 negative votes for pointing out that this video was not made using taxpayer dollars. There are many real reasons to criticize the Department of Homeland Security but putting wasting money by taking a couple of seconds to tweet a link is not one of them. This just makes the readership look ridiculous.

I don't understand why turkeys aren't cut into pieces (wings, drumsticks, etc.)before breading and frying the way chicken is. Just because we roast turkeys whole, doesn't mean we have to fry them that way, does it?

DHS did not produce this video - anyone notice the big letters "UL" in the lower right hand corner? That's Underwriters Laboratories, a private, non-profit that certifies all sorts of electrical products (that's where I'm most familiar with them), and obviously they're interested in turkey fryers as well. So if you found this being promoted at DHS, figure it probably took them less time to post it than it took you to view and comment - not exactly a huge drain on the Treasury. Pay attention people, and untwist your knickers.

Fricking morons-but not as foolish as those who give up liberty in return for the imagined safety brought by an oppressive and civil rights crushing DHS.

I bet that was a Sharia turkey they discovered lurking around the World Trade Center. Good Job, DHS! Keep it up!