Earlier this year, the USDA made an attempt to bolster the nutrition guidelines for the federal school lunch program. Under the new guidelines, for instance, school lunches would be limited to one cup of starchy vegetables a week and the ability of schools to count tomato sauce on pizza towards their fruit and vegetables requirement would be scaled back. But House Republicans, in a new spending plan unveiled yesterday, have done away with those changes:Yeah, it looks like we got another “big gumint” plot on our hands to encourage our kids to live healthier lifestyles – what do you expect from our Kenyan Muslim Socialist pre-zee-dint?
The spending bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The department’s proposed guidelines would have attempted to prevent that.
The changes had been requested by food companies that produce frozen pizzas, the salt industry and potato growers. Some conservatives in Congress have called the push for healthier foods an overreach, saying the government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat.
And speaking of Number 44, I give you the following (here)…
This year, the Federal Government released updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, providing a science based roadmap for individuals to make healthy choices, and emphasizing the importance of good nutrition and an active lifestyle. We adapted the food pyramid to a new design MyPlate to encourage balanced meals. And our Healthy People 2020 initiative incorporates childhood obesity prevention in its goals for increasing the health of all Americans.Not surprising I guess that President Obama is getting pushback here from the acolytes of The Sainted Ronnie R, who once proclaimed ketchup as a vegetable (here).
Across our country, parents are working hard every day to make sure their kids are healthy, and my Administration is committed to supporting families in their efforts. During National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, we recognize the outstanding work our businesses, communities, and families are doing to help us meet our responsibilities to our children. I urge all Americans to help us meet our goal of solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.
“Ho, ho, ho” indeed.
And you may be shocked to realize that he’s telling us about more countries threatening war against the U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!!! (no, I don’t like Iran either and they very definitely remain a threat, but as far as I’m concerned, Former President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History tied Obama’s hands when dealing with that gang of thugs by waging his war of choice in Iraq)…
The ultimate nightmare resulting from the naïve stupidity behind any policy allowing Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons may manifest itself in an alliance between Iran and its religious kindred state Syria…Ummm…as noted here, Iran is predominantly Shiite, and as noted here, Syria is predominantly Sunni (talking about Muslims, of course).
Just sayin’ (talk about "naive stupidity")…
In (the case of former Dem Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd), he is the largest single recipient of money from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Barack Obama was No. 2. The fact is that to have Dodd preside over writing this bill, I think, is absolutely disgusting. I am appalled that Harry Reid appointed him to sit in there. But it is the nature of politics up there right now. And I think it’s very, very bad for the country.And do you remember when it came out that Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich scored a nice little 300 grand for shilling about “the benefits of the Freddie Mac business model”?
Well, it turns out that that $300,000 was really about $1.6 million (here).
And according to this poll, he’s leading the field of GOP presidential candidates.
Once more, too funny.
Update 11/17/11: And I guess one of the perils of being the front runner is that people pay more attention to you and find out stuff like this.
Update 11/20/11: So much fun watching Baby Newton Leroy fade out here (though the life forms in that audience would do us a favor if they slithered back under their respective rocks too).
Well, to a point – we are talking about Mikey The Beloved, remember…
Back in 2009, President Obama ordered a U.S. troop surge of 30,000 to Afghanistan after the war’s top commander at that time, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, suggested options ranging from 40,000 to 60,000 additional fighters.You want to talk “mission failure,” Mikey? Read this, telling us, among other things, that Number 43 “short-change(d) Afghanistan” because of his debacle in Iraq, and I don’t recall hearing a peep of protest from our wet noodle PA-08 rep at the time (of course, Mikey, and all the other Congressional Repugs, take their marching orders from these cretins in a related vein).
“Ultimately, the president made a decision,” Fitzpatrick said. “Unfortunately, the troop levels the generals were provided were approximately half of their request, risking mission failure.”
Also, on the subject of Mesopotamia, I give you the following from five years ago…
Once again, Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick has displayed a stunning lack of backbone in his recent decision to waffle on his support of George W. Bush’s war. Since before even being elected to Congress, Fitzpatrick’s toed (sic) the Republican Party line on the war, kowtowed to his Washington, D.C.-based masters and supported this war that has needlessly claimed thousands of American lives.It’s also interesting to me that Mikey The Beloved is so keen to speak up with an opinion on President Obama’s management of the Afghan and Iraq wars, when the cat got his proverbial tongue apparently on the question of Rummy as Bushco’s defense secretary here.
Now the Congressman wants us to believe that he thinks the President has made crucial mistakes and that a new strategy is needed? Where was Fitzpatrick while these mistakes were being made? He was dutifully hailing the president as bold and principled and turning a blind eye to the growing disaster which is his and Bush’s war.
Fitzpatrick has exposed his main weakness for the voters of Bucks County to see. He is not a leader; he lacks conviction and he is stereotypical of what is wrong in politics. Now that a majority of the American people have found the nerve to speak out against his war, our congressman has decided that it is in his political favor to take a new stance. Amazingly, Fitzpatrick still has no new ideas on how to end American embroilment in Iraq; he pays lip service to the voters while remaining content to watch American lives thrown away, like so much garbage.
And on the subject of looking after our veterans (as I noted previously), let it be known that Mikey voted against a combat pay raise here and voted against a bill guaranteeing pay to our military in the event of a government shut down here (and I’ll keep pointing that out for as long as I have to until Mikey admits that he was wrong).
Visiting our troops was a good thing, Mikey. Now, get the hell back here and help pass the Obama jobs bill so we don’t have any more “mission failure” on the economy.
Update 11/17/11: And I don't know if Mikey voted for this mess or not, but he probably did since he was a co-sponsor.
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