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We can’t just leave it up to the politicians

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You know what, Michelle Obama? Why don’t you take your child nutrition pabulum and shove it up your ass (which, by the way clearly shows you and ‘healthy eating’ aren’t exactly on speaking terms)?

I am perfectly capable of looking after myself as well as my family. I don’t need you or your thunder-thighs telling me how to feed my kids. And I definitely don’t need you or your husband extracting my hard earned money out at gunpoint to ensure some other fat slob doesn’t send little Johnny to school expecting him to eat Twinkies out of the vending machines.

Politicians (and even more importantly the spouses of politicians) are in no way qualified to determine the appropriate nutrition requirements for an individual child. Overarching rules regarding some statistical average make for a good starting point for individual families to base their needs off of, but they make for tyrannical federal guidelines.

This is standard fare. Call it ‘for the children’, extract even more taxes, and do nothing to combat the latest perceived problem that’s ‘plaguing our nation’.

posted @ 12/14/2010 10:22:07 AM

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Comments

doubletrouble says:

on 12/14/2010 10:40:45 AM

Mark Levin went off on this last night too.
You both are correct.

Unix-Jedi says:

on 12/14/2010 11:01:46 AM

But, Robb, it's for the chhhhhhiiiiiilllllllrrrrrrrruuuuuuunnnnnnn!!!!

Robb Allen says:

on 12/14/2010 11:03:11 AM

What isn't for the children these days?

Unix-Jedi says:

on 12/14/2010 12:33:35 PM

Childhood.

John A says:

on 12/14/2010 1:09:01 PM

Does anyone else remember Little Rascals / Our Gang films? With the possible exception of Alfalfa, every one of them would today be considered overweight.

Using BMI, Marilyn Monroe was underweight and "Majic" Johnson was overweight.

BMI was not meant to be used as a standard for individuals to obtain, just an "average" of existing measures. Using BMI, apply it to the Auschwitz prisoners circa 1945 - BMI would say that most were fine, and should not attempt to either gain or lose weight - most fit the average for their peers.

Those campaigning against soda... They say one a day (not sugar-free) will add as much as 10lbs/year to an individual's weight. Carefully not mentioned is that this is true only if it is added to what is needed to maintain weight, or that a daily extra serving of peas or carrots will do the same.

Breda says:

on 12/14/2010 1:20:55 PM

Don't talk about Michelle Obama's ass - that's racist.

Robb Allen says:

on 12/14/2010 1:35:40 PM

I mean, I've seen asses on Mandrillus sphinxes that didn't stick out as bad as hers.

Oh, wait... that's probably racist.

I wonder how you can talk about evolution in the classroom without being RACIST!!!!!! ?

mike w. says:

on 12/14/2010 4:24:58 PM

"Don't talk about Michelle Obama's ass - that's racist."

Nah, it's not racist, it's just gross.

Maybe Michelle should focus on getting her own ass in shape and oh, getting her husband to put down the cancer sticks before she starts butting into the lives of the rest of us.

Get your own house in order, bitch.

aczarnowski says:

on 12/14/2010 5:26:53 PM

From her inflection it sounds like a really dumb statement to me. As in "government has healthy eating responsibilities too because kids get half their calories in school. We can't leave it to parents because they're not here in the schools." Nannyism probably helped blind her to how stupid her actual words were but, if I'm correct, I agree.

I assume they're talking about school lunch programs. Now, yes, schools and lunch programs themselves are up for .gov intervention debate. I don't like the current setup either. But they're here today and kids are minors. The school is the guardian and food is part of guardianship. So yeah, healthy options would be a good thing!

But 54 billion? With a B!?! WTF?

aczarnowski says:

on 12/14/2010 5:33:55 PM

Before the flame throwers spool up just let me clarify that I am in no way supporting the elitism inherent in the Obama administration or the first lady as mother of the nation implicit in this food crusade. Just that schools should have some accountability for the options available since they are gate keepers.

Coke and Pepsi machines do not a lunch program make is all I'm saying.

ubu52 says:

on 12/26/2010 4:18:59 AM

Ahhh, you can tell this blog has young readers because they don't remember when the Reagan administration declared that ketchup was a vegetable when it came to school lunches. Prior to that, vegetables really were actual vegetables.

I think schools need to offer some better options and I'm glad that someone is finally taking this on.

Unix-Jedi says:

on 12/26/2010 10:44:44 AM

Yeah, I don't remember that actually happening.

I remember a lot of shrieking about it. I remember there being a lot of shouting - but like most of the things in your word, UBU, it was fevered imagination more than reality.

Prior to that, vegetables really were actual vegetables.

Not really, if you knew anything about tarriffs, you'd know otherwise.

Speaking of fevered imagination...

I think schools need to offer some better options and I'm glad that someone is finally taking this on.

It's not about school lunches. But let's not get in the way of what you THINK is happening.

ubu52 says:

on 12/26/2010 2:25:07 PM

I guess some people have faulty memories:

The ketchup as a vegetable controversy refers to a proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Drug Administration directive, early in the administration of Ronald Reagan, that would have reclassified ketchup and pickle relish from condiments to vegetables, allowing public schools to cut out a serving of cooked or fresh vegetable from hot lunch program child-nutrition requirements. The White House Office of Management and Budget estimated a potential US $1 billion annual savings in the cost of subsidized meals for low-income students.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

It didn't happen because people shrieked and shouted about it. It had nothing to do with "imagination."

Unix-Jedi says:

on 12/26/2010 2:41:59 PM

Ubu said:
when the Reagan administration declared that ketchup was a vegetable when it came to school lunches.

I said:
I don't remember that actually happening.

I remember a lot of shrieking about it. I remember there being a lot of shouting - but like most of the things in your word, UBU, it was fevered imagination more than reality.

You then quoted Wikipedia, in support of what I said, claiming I had a faulty memory, and agreed that it hadn't come to fruition:
It didn't happen because

Right. It didn't happen. As I remembered, and you didn't. You remembered the [incorrect] sound bite, and sneeringly dismissed the actual history.

Which, really, was my point.

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