Let’s ramble!
First, my monthly bacon report. You didn’t think I forgot how interested you are, did you?
This one is Nodine’s Apple Smoked Bacon out of Goshen, Connecticut. After being rotated in a tumbler for hours, after brining and curing, ‘The bacon is then sent over to the smokehouse, where it spends the better part of a day at the bacon spa luxuriating in smoke generated by burning dried apple pomace that comes from a local cider mill.
‘The result is a bacon with a texture like Chinese silk and a smoky flavor that will have you hand-delivering bacon to your friends across the country.?
Maybe you will, not me. I’ve had it 10 days and I’m still trying to imagine a ‘bacon spa.?
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Following George Bush’s reelection much of the credit for his victory was given to the morality issue, his being perceived as greater than John Kerry’s.
My editorial and personal friend Dick Milliman writes ‘The principles of morality — treating people equally, opportunity for all, fairness, justice, freedom, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, respect the elderly, and other social issues — generally are commonly embraced.?
Commonly embraced, yes! And thank goodness it’s practiced by the vast majority. But, when you see what tv shows climb the charts, the riotous outbreak at the Pistons-Pacers basketball game, road rage, sniper shootings, arsons, etc . . . oh, excuse me, didn’t my parents say the same sort of thing in relation to their times?
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It’s nice to know our electors in Washington are doing all they can to our country’s deficit.
Yeah, right!
They’ve okay’d nearly $800,000 for developing salmon-fortified baby food and to support the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, $443,000 and $350,000 respectfully.
There’s $50,000 to control Missouri’s wild hog problem. $1 million for the Industrial Fertilizer Development in Alabama, $1 million for the Norwegian American Foundation in Seattle and $335,000 to protect North Dakotas sunflowers from blackbirds.
Michigan’s two Democrat senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow ‘won? $4 million for an environmentally friendly public transportation system in Traverse City. That’s certainly something the clean-aired north needs and those down south could do without.
Here are a couple real necessary uses for our taxpayer dollars. $1 million for Florida’s Palm Coast trail and $1.2 million for Cape Cods bike trail repair.
What the heck are they thinking?
Oregon State University is getting $6.2 million of wood utilization research and $688,000 for barley gene-mapping.
Montana gets $1.5 million for a ‘fuels-in-schools? project.
I can see these deficit curtailing reps at Christmas parties in D.C. bragging about how they cut back their request for animal waste study money in Kentucky from $6 million to $2.3 million to save the country from going much further in debt.
Here’s an idea. Let’s have these reps go to Kentucky, buy them a manure spreader and let them spread the waste instead of wasting the taxpayers? money.