Idiomatic Expression

The best summary of the George W Bush’s 2004 State of the Union Address is found here. My biggest problem with the speach was his plan to cut this year’s record deficit (of $200,000,000,000 - $300,000,000,000) in half within the next five years. In five years I would be much happier if we were able to eliminate the deficit entirely, or at least get it down below $1,000,000,000!

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All of these conflicting articles make it very difficult to determine where your average Hot Dog actually comes from. There is only one place to find the REAL answer to this burning question… THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL . I only use all caps because THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL insists on doing the same in all of their press releases. THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL took a brief moment from its usual important work of distributing Certificates of Bravery to injured Italian Sausages and updating the Hot Dog Month Planning Guide to bring you the How Hot Dogs are Made: The Real Story. Strangely, THE NATIONAL HOT DOG & SAUSAGE COUNCIL say that the true story is that hot dogs are made of “specially selected meat trimmings of beef and/or pork — just like the meat you buy in your grocer’s case –” (I am not sure what the — is supposed to represent) there isn’t one mention of lips, a$$holes, or of Advanced Meat Recovery! Perhaps the — signifies that everything between the marks is a lie, because I haven’t seen any lips or a$$holes in my grocer’s case. Come to think of it I don’t know that my grocery has a case, or what he has a case of, if he were to have a case that is.

Anyways, –it just goes to show that the Hot Dog is one of nature’s greatest mysteries or one of the seven wonders of the meat world,– or maybe just a mostly inedible pseudo-food.

Wow, apparently hot dogs don’t come from JUST lips and a$$holes as originally reported, but also from pulverized cow carcass! That is what I get for listening to the raccoons from that yet to be named movie.

When life give you lemons, make lemonade.

When life give you roaches, don’t make roach-aid…. hold roach races!

I have been working in Camp Hill, PA for the last couple of weeks, and have been driving past Three Mile Island twice a day most of the time. I had always though that there had been a huge disaster at Three Mile Island and perhaps hundreds of people had died or gotten horribly ill. This article disputes those assumptions and quotes quite a bit of science to back up his assertions. It is an interesting read if you (like me) are to young to remember much of what went on in 1979.

Hotdogs are actually made from lips, a$$holes, lungs, intestines, and brains! Who knew those racoons from that movie were right?

Bonus points for anyone that can name the movie!

Another year older, another year bolder, another year closer to death.

Resolutions:
Hang the pictures that have been in boxes for a year.
Do a better job of exercising regularly.
Finish recovering from Hurricane Isabel.
Do a better job of corresponding with my friends.
Find a job that doesn’t involve being away from my family and friends.
Leave the country for at least a week.
Write more, read more, and laugh more.

That should cover a productive 2004.