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Show WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008 Injury cramps style WEI known to man. Try writing a letter, or buttering a getting out of a the process toast! simple of Heck, piece of getting undressed, taking a shower, and then getting dressed again took me I just under two hours the first time idea have Do it. any to you attempted do how long it took me to type this single colone key at a time? Let s umn r just say it was a good holiday for the past three weeks. And I get so sick and tired of explaining to EVERYONE probably 50 times a day what happened. I almost want to duct tape a piece of paper to my shoulder and then just point to it when someone asks about my injury. I have gotten so bored stotelling people, I've started to make up ries as to what happened. For example, for half of you reading this column, I realthe ski ly didn't have a seizure and fall off lift, I just had a nasty spill. An even more embarrassing part about the fall that I took is that it wasn't even on trick-lacesome incredible, hill. It diamond jump on a black was a simple fall on the regular beginners slopes. I tried spicing up the story to one of my friends, telling her I was try360 off a dragon ing to land a back-flitail rail, and I misjudged my landing and did the damage. She started laughing in my face and said: Quit lying. You probably just fell over on the bunny hill. OT BY BROCK BYBEE Dixie Sun Staff Writer An extremely fast run with a just barely waxed F Lay-Z-Bo- snow- board, combined with hitting a lip in the snow at a wrong angle, and there I lay in pam on the slopes of Brighton Ski Resort staring at the stars, I was going to do about what wondering my freshly dislocated shoulder hanging off my body. The good news was that I didnt dislocate my shoulder. Well, I wouldnt say good news actually. After overwhelming mounds of paperwork that I couldnt fill long visit to out anyway and a three-hou- r I that I sepatold was Salt Lake, a clinic in rated my shoulder instead and disrupted my acromioclavicular joint. Try saying that word three times fast. This is one of the most pathetic-lookininjuries that I have ever been involved in. I am quite the uncoordinated individual in the first place. But I do look like even more of an absolute loser with this awkward-looking sling taped to my body. I look like Im giving myself half a hug with my arm stapled to my stomach. Now there are some benefits to having an injury like this. One of the major things is the massive amounts of attention and sympathy that everyone, and I mean everyone, conglomerates upon you. (Guys, this is a good way to get some love from the ladies if you're going through a dry spell.) But after all the colossal attention goes away after about a week and you get sick and tired of telling the story of how it happened over and over and over again, the REAL disadvantages to having an injury like this emerge, and you begin to realize why being a cripple is one of the lamest things to be for Halloween. Having only one arm to use is one of the most processes ever Tn but time-kille- g mind-bogglin- cries and' Vk persi does such peat" mucl cult look beca alwa He optic find canr rests to McD er Le althc asei Yeah... so.... Well, theres three-on-thre- uct k easy w infor Prisl also e - one-arme- d you. NAU rumor fuels suspicion BY RILEY BLAKE Sun Staff Writer Dixie On March 23, 2005, g Poor planning to blame and the size of families today is smaller than it was in the 60s! Is there some unknown reason why we need bigger bedrooms? Also, lets not forget the fact that more and more children are wearing those nifty $200 designer jeans; no wonder parents cant afford a house payment! Whatever happened to wearing your older siblings The average household today has over $10,000 in credit card debt. That works out to be about $175 of interest per month! That brings me to another tip. Credit cards and the companies that peddle them are not your friends! With credit card interest rates hovering at around 21 percent, thats a lot of interest stacked on top of an already large payment. Add that to a $500 SUV payment, plus a $600 a month gasoline bill, and youre looking at quite a bit of money just to break even for the month before buying groceries. Have no fear though; another credit card compafeet, BY BRETT PRUITT Dixie Sun Staff Writer As Im sure we all know by now, the housing market hasnt been too hot lately. Foreclosures are at an e high. California had five of the top 10 cities with the highest foreclosure rate in 2007. Las Vegas was No. 5 on the top 10 list. And now the presidential candidates are stumbling over each other in an attempt to say how they will save the economy from a recession believed to be linked to the lending binge a few years back. I understand how in our new world, where most people suffer from permanent victim syndrome, that most of the blame is getting shoved onto the laps of the lending companies. Not that the lending companies should escape all the blame for the current market situation. But when are we going to ask borrowers about accepting their share of the blame? If anyone who borrowed money to buy a home had a gun pointed at his or her head when he or she signed the contract, then Ill let him or her off the hook. As for the rest of the borrowers, 'Ive got a little tip: Dont buy stuff you cant afford! Consumers in America have become delusional. In our distorted mentality of instant gratification, easy come easy go, and I want what I want right now without having to work for it, consumers in this country have become a bunch of juvenile, irresponsible ignoramuses. Ive got another tip: If your monthly income is equal to or less than your expected mortgage payment then you cant afford it!! Quite frankly, I dont understand how we got to this point. In the 1960s the average size of a new home was less than 1,200 square feet. Today, the average size of a new home is more than 1,800 square all-tim- hand-me-down- sub-prim- e f V. ny is waiting in the wings to finance your toilet paper and milk for a measly 21.9 percent interest. Heres an idea. Sit down and figure out a budget that allows you to pay your bills and save a little money as well. Then learn how to say no when you want things you dont need that exceed your budget. Pay off your credit cards and put them in the shredder. Instead of spending $5,000 on Christmas, how about spending a modest amount of money on presents and spending time with your family to remember what the celebration is all about to begin with? When you do have to borrow money, figure out how much money you can afford to borrow, and stay within that limit. If you exceed your monetary means you are not a victim. Youre a poor planner. And poor planning on your part should not require a government bailout on the taxpayers part. Nhnrl 7i d 077.70 if') ivjvjsuslnal2s.ccm riw dstins site izzt fer Izeal adventures. Cindies from Richfield to Kj svlte looking for you to share Fun . Friendship. zrznee r i os 5Mcs Sc Relationships Events Calendar Chat Make friends Winks Hot lists Match Maker Forums MORE The first GOO who sign up (X post a photo will receive a , 3 month h Platinum Membership -- FREEm m m Thcres someone for everybody ... Sim up today W7vwsusingcs.ccm Find a date Tonight A Partner of.. B ST NOW. CO M President George W. Bush, Mexicos President Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin signed an agreement that would end North America as we know it. The agreement, known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, was signed in Waco, Texas, to increase trade and productivity. This agreement would also enhance the security of North America and position Nortl America to face and meet future challenges, according to the June 2005 article "2005 report to leaders" on www.spp.gov. The report went on to outline some of the key goals of the SPP: "To make North America prosperous for the future, we need to improve the efficiency of the movement of people, goods and services crossing our borders. We must remove barriers to trade, investment, research, and we must protect our environment and promote the health and safety of our people." This report doesn't mention anything about the security of the borders surrounding the United States or anything about the security of the United States. Secretly, President Bush BY CRAIG BLAKE Sun Opinion Editor Dixie Hoverers 1 always try to figure out what must be going through these peoples minds, Hmm... maybe Ill just stand here, uncomfortably close to this man. either that or, Hmm... I may attack this man. And that is why I will never trust your kind. It is Sink Litterers - Have you considered the garbage can? However, I understand the thrill of soaking a bunch of paper towels and leaving them to clog the sink may be hard to overcome. People Who Hate Harry Potter - The of these peoples inner-childhoo- d n ruined. -- jCocatlif- www.humanevents.com. "President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed," Corsi wrote. I had the opportunity to interview Corsi in April about Iran and the North American Union, and he seemed like a straight shooter to me. I appreciate the research 2007 he's done on this issue. On the other side, there are those who contend there is no North American union, and no secret plan to build a major highway through the United States. Philip Dine, a writer for the St. conLouis Post-Dispatc- tended that the North American Union is a complete myth, according to the May 19, 2007, article "Urban legend of North American Union feeds on fears" on www.seattle-times.nwsource.co- with many modern rumors, fears of a North American Union began with a few grains of truth and leapt to an unsubstantiated conclusion," Dine wrote. Dine's arguments are logical, but the SPP "As reports still exist, and President Bush isn't securing our borders. Illegal immigration is still a hot topic for debate, and the borders have not yet been secured. Something must be an underlying cause to this lack of security. Not only have our borders not been secured, Mexican trucking companies have been allowed to come up from Mexico, causing some to wonder if these trucks will meet the safety requirements on American roads. As our nation faces a war on terror, our president has discussed security in major speeches at length, but nothing really has changed. The nation, if it is to survive, must be protected, and it must be secured. Instead, we are being dragged into this union, and our leaders are not even aware of it, or choose to do nothing about it. DIXIE SUN Casie McNaughton, has been Cologne Dousers - Oh... yes... I can definitely smell you. 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