Dec 14 2010
The Obama Arrogance
Well, we finally get an openly arrogant, elitist liberal in the White House. Someone who is certain she is superior to all the sad common folk. Someone who has open and unabashed disdain for all us lesser beings:
Speaking at Monday’s signing ceremony for the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act”– a law that will subsidize and regulate what children eat before school, at lunch, after school, and during summer vacations in federally funded school-based feeding programs — First Lady Michelle Obama said of deciding what American children should eat: “We can’t just leave it up to the parents.”
The law gives the federal government for the first time the authority to regulate the food sold at local schools, including in vending machines.
The federal government does NOT need to be determining what our kids can eat. This is one step from telling us all what to eat, when to sleep, what to speak, who to have relationships with ….
It is clear now why ol’ Michelle was for the first time proud of her country when she and her husband were elected to lead this nation in a media manipulated election process. She finally was going to be able to show us all how superior she is, and that made her proud. Wait until she feels the rejection. That will be quite a historic accomplishment too. Telling us how to feed our kids? Is she crazy?
This episode more like a bad episode of Atlanta House wives. The Obama’s are such a prime example of liberal arrogance they will be the rallying call for dismantling our bullying, busy-body and incompetent federal bureaucracy. Their overreach will be the catalyst that gets us back to MINIMAL government, where the individual, family and community decide what is best, and only use the federal bureaucracy to provide for the national defense and equal protection across state lines.
The best act a GOP led DC could do is address the mess that is the Commerce Clause. In this day and age, the government has gone from ensuring equal and free commerce to enslaving our commerce and our people. If the left is going to be radical, then radical responses may be required to stop and role back the left’s penchant for dictating to others how the people should live in their warped images. I think Stalin is a bit envious at the moment. Time to put severe limits on the government’s role regarding interstate commerce.
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When a civilization is going well, a TV, in every home, a car in the garage, food on the table, or a government that can supply 3 meals a day for free, what are the governors to do? Well they make rules on how you can use each of the things that make your life easier. What TV programs you can watch (FCC). What fuels you can use to heat your house (EPA). How many times, the cost, and the program you will now need to be healthy. Now that we have everybody going to school, what food your children will eat. THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP!
Think of it as an opportunity, both to stick a finger in the eye of thew nanny state and to teach your children about the economics of black markets.
Fill the little darling’s back-pack with forbidden snacks, which they can sell to their classmates at a staggering mark-up. Just make sure they sell them OFF of school grounds.
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We MUST leave it up to the parents. Freedom means the choice to make even bad decisions. One doesn’t get to force their neighbor to make the same lifestyle choices that one makes themselves. No matter how “sorry” you feel for them or how much you believe they are making a mistake, you don’t get to “correct” them. Sometimes one must have a “darned shame” bucket to throw things like that into.
That is, I believe, the root of many of the “progressives'” problem. They can’t stand to see someone making the “wrong” choices. Government isn’t here to protect us from ourselves. Government CAN educate, can offer incentives, can provide help, but they can’t force a parent to raise their kids a certain way.
We absolutely *must* use these victories to clean house at all levels and eject these bureaucratic busy-bodies from their offices.
Put this on the list of bills that need to be repealed. They just don’t know when to stop, do they?
I think this blog and you commentators have gone off your meds…
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Aj… Please tell me you know the meaning of an “ad hominem argument” …
The “person” is not necessarily irrelevant to the argument… but … in this case… the relentless pounding on the First Lady is ugly…
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btw…I’ll put up Alaska’s fatties up against any state…Just take in the huuuuge regular portions at Sol’s any am bkfst of the year… heh…
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I think it is admirable for the First Lady to wage a war on bad nutrition… and obesity … don’t see much minus here…I read over the bill a little bit… Don’t see the “nanny state” you’all are so afraid of…Seems to be a good effort to get kids to eat healthy food as well as helping some of the poorer kids get some good nutrition…
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As for the comment about the military & national security…Fairly creative argument… But has a grain of logic to it …
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May told me a little bit about the lunches in Bangkok (private) schools when she was a kid…Her family was poor at the time but tuition was not expensive… Lunch part of the deal…You had to finish…or…stay at the table while the other kids played…Lady put vegetables she didn’t like so she put them in her pocket & dumped later… haha…But very healthy food… rice..some curry soup… stir fried cabbage with dinky meat… veg fruit veg fruit…
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So what’s wrong with that … ?
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You all would rather have donuts…soft drinks…candy bars…as “choices”?
Well… the rich kids at May’s school got 10baht/day & could “choose” to go to the school store and buy sodas and candy… May only got
2 baht/day so she had to save up …
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I don’t disagree that many people (and kids) will make unhealthy choices… It just seems a good matter of public policy to put the “healthy stuff” in front of people… Let them go for the candy bars & Pepsi on their own…
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So… Gl to those nasty Capitalistic entrepreneurs selling Milky Ways on the underground black market too…
btw… Still standing by for the critics of Toes192 observations on the Alaska Senatorial election to comment again…
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From… http://www.adn.com/2010/11/16/1558054/time-for-miller-and-posse-to-pack.html#ixzz15Ytb8MmM
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So, just to be sure Miller and his campaign personnel have this straight
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aliens did not come down and magically change all the votes that had really been cast for him…
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And black op helicopters from the U.N. didn’t secretly drop ineligible voters into voting booths to vote for Lisa….
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And no one hired villagers across the state to forge handwritten votes for his opponent….
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Joe Miller lost because when voters had a chance to really get to know him, they decided to elect someone else. It’s that simple.
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So get over it. And for goodness sake, get a clean batch of Kool-Aid.
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May & I voted for Mr. Miller… (twice) … He just lost… that’s all…
Now he’s acting like a fool with his continuing lawsuits… IMO… Alaskans will never forgive this behavior… He will never be elected to anything here in the future…
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On a personal note… I feel sad for Mr. Miller… He thought he was going to be a United States Senator after winning the primary… I opine he “might?” have had a chance in (4) years vs our other (Dem) Senator but not now…
Toes wrote: “I think this blog and you commentators have gone off your meds…
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Aj… Please tell me you know the meaning of an “ad hominem argument” …”
I think your first line is a perfect illustration of such.
glass houses, stones, and all that.
“in this case… the relentless pounding on the First Lady is ugly…”
This isn’t a “ruthless pounding”. Her statements have been patronizing and condescending. She is acting as if she is some sort of royalty. She has not been elected to any office. Nobody asked for her council on any matter of importance yet she lectures the people as if she is their superior. She isn’t. She isn’t anybody, in fact. What she needs to do is shut up and listen, not talk down to the people from her ivory tower.
crosspatch, what about Hillary when she was First Lady?
hey, Toes is the one who said “… the First Lady is Ugly.”
(c’mon, I been taking lessons from the AP, they do that kind of thing all the time!)
“what about Hillary when she was First Lady?”
Same thing. Hillary Care flopped, for example. But she did apparently manage to make copies of the private personnel files of nearly all Republican white house workers from the previous administrations!
Jim Demint is going to demand that the 1900 page pork appropriations bill dumped on the country yesterday be read in its entirety on the Senate floor before a vote. (a Senator has the right to do that)
That alone won’t stop it, but it will slow it down somewhat, since Reid is trying to get the pork through without any debate at all. The worry is that a couple of old gop senators on their way out, like Voinovich, might help the Dems pass this since there are some personal perks and payoffs they have slipped into it for themselves and frankly, like the Dems, they just don’t give a damn anymore. For them, it’s all about looting the cookie jar and getting out of town while the gettin’s good.
In a lot of ways, that’s what our government has turned into. That’s why Congress only has 13% approval this morning, the worst numbers *ever*.
This omnibus budget bill is a giant middle finger from this departing Congress aimed at the American People.
Jim Demint and Tom Coburn are two of the only men in the Senate willing to stand up and scream “THIS IS WRONG!!!”
Whew… Read more carefully, folks…
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Crosspatch… “Relentless” … not “Ruthless”
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And just in case someone does not get WWS’s point… he contends that the AP takes snippets of quotes out of context to completely distort their meaning when he says…
“…the AP does that all the time”
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btw… The… http://senateconservatives.com/ … chaired by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina)… has been helping Mr. Miller … Such a waste of money… As a responsible conservative & Alaskan … I continue to be embarrassed by Mr. Miller’s lawsuit…
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http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/miller-loses-again/ (a fair write-up)
hehe – glad at least you caught that!
this omnibus monstrosity moving through the Senate is a true catastrophe – and more and more it is looking like the famous “moderate” republicans in the Senate are concerned with nothing more than keeping the pork flowing along, and are lining up to vote for it.
We’ll see – any Republican who votes for the omnibus spending bill *absolutely* needs to be primaried in 2012, no matter who it is.
This is the kind of scum that needs to be scrubbed out of Washington forever.
It isn’t even a “relentless” pounding, Toes. SHE is the one that opened her mouth with that patronizing drivel. Why blame us for stuff that SHE said? Of course we are going to react to stuff like that. When you tell people that they can’t not be left responsible for their own children and bureaucrats will now make the decisions for you, that is absolutely beyond the pale.
If she wouldn’t keep opening her mouth and trying to inject herself into our personal lives and into our homes and families, maybe she would get “pounded”.
She wasn’t elected to any office. She has no authority over anyone. She is entitled to her opinions but when she appears to speak for the government becoming even more controlling and intrusive in our family life, frankly she has asked to be “pounded”.
Just who the hell does she think she is?
“maybe she would get ‘pounded'”
Of course, I meant *wouldn’t*
Anyone remember how the Nazi’s imposed a similar diet to their children in Germany?