CHUCK DIETRICK'S POLI-NOMICS: Recent Comments

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Chuck Dietrick — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:39:17 GMT

Let me remind you that I was never convicted of that crime.

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Angie — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:54:57 GMT

Still laughing a week later! While I do agree with you about the government staying out of our personal lives, I recall a time when someone I know almost had to take their child to the emergency room to remove a pea from her nose. The parent apparently thought it would be funny to pretend the pea was coming out of the child's nose and was certainly not expecting the child to panic and suck the pea right on up her nostril! Maybe we need to put peas on a string also!

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Chuck Dietrick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:20:29 GMT

Very good; I love the hot dog on a string concept. As soon as I read it, toxic shock immediately came to mind. Apparently, great minds think alike.

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

steve — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:13:49 GMT

Hilarious,laughed so hard I choked on my Life Saver. Oscar Mayer may have to develop a hot dog with a retrieval string attached and provide an FDA approved instructional video.Curse the nanny state we live in. Forget the hot dog on a string Idea It would probably have to come with a Toxic Shock Syndrome warning label.

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Joanne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:48:51 GMT

I am still laughing--seriously--as I write this reply to HOT DOGS. You 're sarcasm is hilarious!!

As I look back over the last 22 years of feeding seven grandchildren (eight including Heather), and count the hundreds of hot dogs and grapes I have cut up, I wonder how I ever managed to not asphyxiate anyone without my friendly government watchdog helping me with warning labels. Just lucky, I guess.

Anyhow, I really enjoyed this one.

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Chuck Dietrick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:35:35 GMT

Thanks; glad you liked it. Doubly glad you commented!

Comment on Hot Dogs...and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Heather — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:25:48 GMT

Hilarious post. It's sure to be only a short time before a resourceful trial lawyer sinks his teeth into the lethal sausage industry for knowingly manufacturing deadly hotdog shapes.

Comment on The Politics of Economics

Chuck Dietrick — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:37:03 GMT

If only you were Treasury Secretary or Chairman of the Fed!

You know how they say history repeats itself? Well, not with the Dems in charge and when the history has to do with failsafe methods for fixing the economy.

Comment on The Politics of Economics

Steve — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:59:51 GMT

Chuck,loved the Laurel and Hardy reference. It takes us back to an era where history can validate your point. Consider the depression of 1920.Unemployment at 12% and GNP in double digit decline. Harding's actions to cut the federal budget by nearly half, slash taxes for all income groups, reduce national debt by one third while keeping the federal reserve on the sidelines,is in my opinion the intelligent intervention. Free markets were able to correct, by 1923 unemployment was at 2.4% and the economy was in full robust recovery. Compare this to the depression of 1929.In which the government employed Public works spending, massive deficit spending and inflationary monetary policy as the tools to recovery. All that only propelled the U.S. into the great depression lasting an entire decade.

Comment on The Politics of Economics

Chuck Dietrick — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:25:03 GMT

Hey, if you're talkin' about a Pittsburgh Pirates season, it could be an eternity!