I began my epic fast food journey when I saw the sign on a Wendy’s restaurant: “Get the new Baconator here!” Naturally, my curiosity got the better of me and I eagerly made my way in through the doors and went to the back of the line of people. As it got closer to my turn to order, I began to have second thoughts. “What if it isn’t as good as the ads say it is?”, “What if I can’t eat it all and I end up wasting food and my money?” It’s my turn now. I go up to the register and order a Medium #4 (Baconator Meal) with Dr. Pepper. After about 3 minutes of waiting for a new batch of fries to be cooked, I finally get my meal and make my way back to my table.

I sat down at my table and laid my food out in front of me. Then I slowly unwrapped the mysterious silver packaging, hoping to find a burger that resembled the picture on the menu. To my surprise, it was everything I had hoped for and more. It was the Baconator. I took my first bite and took off on an adventure of epic proportions. First, came the 6 strips of hickory smoked bacon, shortly followed by the 2 quarter pound beef patties, cheese, mayonnaise and ketchup. Each delicious bite brought me deeper into a state of complete satisfaction as I slowly, but deliberately, chewed and swallowed.

I don’t know if they put something in their burgers that makes you crave them, but ever since that day, I can’t get the image of that Baconator out of my mind. Every other day or so, I get a longing to go to the Wendy’s that sits about 4 minutes from where I live and enjoy another one of these delicious creations. This coupled with the fact that Wendy’s is open until about 1am every day, makes it almost irresistible to deny. For those of you who have not yet introduced all the flavor and perfection that is the Baconator to your taste buds, I highly recommend that you take the next 15 minutes or so and go to your local Wendy’s to pick one up.

Baconator FTW!

This is a pretty amazing spectacle of marketing.  The Dr. Pepper company has promised that if the new Guns ‘N Roses albums is released on the expected November 23rd, 2008, Dr. Pepper will give every person in the united states a free 20oz Dr. Pepper!  Talk about amazing!  So, all that waiting for the new GNR album will finally pay off with this new deal from the Dr.

How it will work:  So on the day of November 23rd, 2008, you just have to go to www.drpepper.com sometime between 12:01am and 11:59pm to get a coupon mailed to you for your free Dr. Pepper.  I am looking forward to the new album, and this just makes me that much more excited about the day.

So this November 23rd, experience all 23 flavors of Dr. Pepper while rocking out to the long-awaited, 17 years-in-the-making album that should be a huge success with old fans and new groupies alike.  See you all then!

It’s almost that time of the year when we go to the polls to cast our vote for our favorite candidate to become the next leader of this country.  I know many of you are wondering who you should vote for an I’m here to help you get all the facts.  Let’s start with a thrilling speech by our current president, George W. Bush.

Thanks George.  Bush has been in office for the past 8 years, but now his term is up and it is time to elect a new president.  There are many choices out there, but I’m going to focus on the two main parties: Democrats and Republicans.

Barack Obama (D)

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961 and is now 47 years old.

John McCain (R)

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was born on August 29th, 1936 on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone where his father, a Navy officer was stationed.  McCain is now 72 years old and would be the oldest president, were he to be inaugurated.

Now, on to the issues:

Abortion:

McCain: Believes that abortion is wrong unless the pregnancy is a result of the woman being raped, because of incest, or if the woman’s life is in danger.

Obama: Believes that not only should women have the right to decide when, and how many kids they can have, but also that there should be less restrictions on the options available to them to exercise that right.

Medical Marijuana:

McCain: Does not support the use or legalization of medicinal marijuana on the grounds that he believes it to be a “gateway drug” and claims it leads to other, more harmful drugs.

Obama: Says he is open to the use of medicinal marijuana if it allows for the relief of pain.  He deems it no different than the use of morphine or other sedatives in the sense that it offers relief to patients with Glaucoma or other such health issues.  He also would like the difference between punishments for crack and powder-based cocaine should be done away with and both harboring the same punishment.

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