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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/25806/
- Published: 2012-10-17T06:26:01.000Z
- Updated: 2012-10-17T06:26:01.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Bullets-225x300.jpg "Bullets")

Bullets

One-sixth of the nation is officially pro-Obama: [Record High Enrollment for Food Stamps: 46,681,833 Million](http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/record-high-enrollment-food-stamps-46681833-million%5F654653.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). \* \* \* \* \* \* \* But if you think a Romney presidency will change the program, you're sorely mistaken. After eight years of Bush, people were still using their bridge cards to buy fountain Mountain Dews and ice cream. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* You don't think government programs kill society? Try this anecdote: My church has a food pantry. When it appeals for donations, my first instinct is, "Why? The poor people have food stamps, welfare, WIC, and other governmental aids." Although I donate something to the pantry, I have to fight back that (common sense) instinct, and I know I'm not alone. When government steps in, volunteer effort steps out . . . and society weakens a little further. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* I guess I've been asleep at the Catholic TV switch. The Brooklyn Diocese has its own TV station. [It live streams here](http://netny.net/watch-now/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I'm a pretty big fan of EWTN. I'm going to bookmark this EWTN knock-off. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* I'm determined to grow two things in particular next year: pumpkins and bell peppers. I'm putting peppers in my self-watering containers (peppers supposedly thrive in slw's), and I'm putting pumpkins in my Eden garden (and have already started the grow heaps for them: small piles of compost and soil, where I will plant the pumpkins next year). Good thing, too, because [this article says pumpkins have become shockingly popular](http://observer.com/2012/10/pumpkin-is-the-new-bacon/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). \* \* \* \* \* \* \* [From *National Review Online*](http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/330365/much-ado-about-honey-boo-boo-betsy-woodruff?ref=thedailyeudemon.com): "One little factoid should confirm for everyone that the West has fallen, and fallen hard – the fact that *Here Comes Honey Boo Boo*, a TLC reality show about the life and times of a seven-year-old beauty-pageant contestant, reportedly had more viewers than the Republican National Convention." I only half agree. It's scary that *Honey Boo Boo* is so popular, but the declining popularity of political propaganda? That's a good thing.