Democrat mayor says healthy food is “the new patriotism”.
One nation, under arugula:
As part of the effort to make the August 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats’ guidelines for food catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food.
No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything.
In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”
“It’s the new patriotism,” says Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the driving force behind the greening of the Democratic convention.
So it’s not merely a ban on fried food–it’s affirmative action for food! As I said yesterday, they’re patriotic, it’s just…a different kind of patriotism.
Not surprisingly, Mayor Hickenlooper’s already been causing trouble for the Dems with his foolish pronouncement that every bit of merchandise at the Denver convention must be organic and union-made.
The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.
Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That just doesn’t exist.”
Ditto for the baseball caps. “We have a union cap or an organic cap,” Mr. DeMasse says. “But we don’t have a union-organic offering.”
Much of the hand-wringing can be blamed on Denver’s Democratic mayor, John Hickenlooper, who challenged his party and his city to “make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet.”
As I’m fond of saying, those of a libertarian bent should listen up: social conservatives might be nosing around in your bedroom and your basement where you’ve got the grow-lights and the Pink Floyd posters, but the totalitarian green left is sticking its nose in every dad-gum room in your house. They regulate the permissible flow of water in your toilet. They regulate the air freshener you can spray after you use it. They mandate a mercury-filled ugly light bulb in every socket. They’re all over your car and your gun cabinet and your garbage can and now your kitchen. They’re in your radio, dumping the Fairness Doctrine all over what you’re permitted to hear. And now we see they care about the stuff in your refrigerator and they care how you cook it.
They have an opinion on everything (which is fine, I’ve been accused of that myself) and they’re willing to back up every last one of them with the force of the state. It’s to save the planet, you understand, so it’s okay.
Guess what, comrades…you can have my fried okra when you pull it from my cold, dead, greasy fingers.
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I wouldn’t talk, sausage…
I’ve seen some pretty obese Brits when I was in England…
Strangest thing, I lived in England 1988 – 1995 and noted many fat people there too. Course that’s understandable for all the delicious food…
I could be wrong but I thought sausage was making a joke.
But then, I also used to live in Denver & thought it was a great place. Of course that was when Hickenpooper was still running his restaurant & micro brewery. So who elected him anyway?!?!? Just because a guy can make beer doesn’t necessarily make him a good mayor. Sheesh.
behiker: the air here these days is wonderful compared to when I was a kid. The brown cloud was something back then. It’s actually an effect of the geography and climate. Denver sits in a bowl where pollutants gather unless there’s a good wind. We also experience frequent temperature inversions in the winter where cold air on top of warm air holds the pollutants close to the ground. And in summer, we usually have several wildfires burning that cause smoke to drift over the Metro area.
There’s not much we can do about it. Fortunately, it’s frequently windy.
DesertLover: Have you ever eaten in France? I just got back 2 days ago and believe me, the food is nowhere NEAR healthy. We lived on chocolate croissants, cheese-stuffed puff pastry, fresh French bread, Brie, beef, lamb, and chicken cooked with French butter (much fatter than American butter) noodles and potatoes, also with butter. And chocolate, lots of chocolate. And wine. And dessert. About the only healthy thing we ate was the few greens that came with the cheese-stuffed puff pastry. We never had a bad meal. It’s a good thing we walked about 20 miles a day!
Only lefty Americans are weird about their food.
As a last note, I’m so glad I live in the suburbs and don’t pay taxes to Denver to support their green crap. I get to watch from the stands and laugh. And I can’t wait to see the garbage problem after the 50,000 hippies get done with protesting. I’m sure that’s really ‘green’ too.
With a name like Hickenlooper, you know he’s a whackjob!
Common Sense
Yes I have … on more than one occassion unfortunately … and thought the French reputation for food was way overblown …
…
that was part of my point … worthless excuse for food but accepted by those eating it …
Well actually, over the past 40 years I’ve lived in 7 different countries around the globe for periods of a year or more, and traveled through/to 35 others.
NOTHING COMPARES TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!…. NOWHERE, NO PLACE, NO CULTURE, NO FOOD, NOTHING AS GOOD AS GOOD OLD, RED, WHITE AND BLUE, CHRISTIAN AMERICA!!!
I’d be interested in how much “green” food actually gets eaten and how much ends up in the dumpsters (or will they be composting it?) I bet local restaurants will see an increase in sales of plenty of “non-green” entrees. Pizza deliveries will probably zoom up too.
AMEN!!!
Leftists have wet dreams about telling Americans what they can and can’t eat based on their smug sense of superiority. Chicago banned foie gras because of the animal rights people. Nanny Bloomberg in New York banned trans fats. Other Marxists want to regulate fast food joints and keep them from opening or force them to prominently post nutritional information. They don’t want to do this however to the chi-chi poo-poo trendy restaurants where you can get meals that make Big Macs look like Weight Watchers. All of the while, the Obamessiah (”The Fittest Man In America!!”) and his Hollywood supporters puff on cancer sticks. Better to go quickly from a heart attack than to suffer a long miserable death from lung cancer or emphysema.
I’d also like to note the appropriateness of a certain troll naming himself after a meat product made of animal a-holes.
Will there be paparazzi catching pictures of Dem’s nibbling on their eco-nut food during the convention and then eating their greasy and yummy pizza in their hotel rooms later that evening? Sounds like something TMZ will be all over! Scoop at 11.
I concur with many here, the USA is best. Of course what do I know, I’ve only been to Austria, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Norway… Oh and was off the coast of Northern Africa….. keep your world order.
Oh, and btw, sausage…
When I was in Britain, I ate in an “Italian” restaurant that served FRENCH FRIES with pasta!
Mother of God! And you criticize our eating habits???
The only kind of salad you can get was iceberg lettuce with mayonnaise! UGH!
I would love to see this food thing become a major plank in the Dem. platform. Go ahead, try to ban french fries, I dare them…
Well they better serve a lot of fiber to go with this cuisine otherwise its going to be a mess what with one piece of toilet paper per delegate being issued as they walk in the door. If you go to Denver make sure you bring lots of aromatic foods that make a finger lickin good cracklin sound while cooking. Miss your mommy real bad now that you have finally left home, can’t wipe your own nose, want to be treated like a delinquent school kid? Join the democrats.
Its a half black market AJ, you’re safe.
How is Obie Wan gonna represent us black people without any fried food at the convention? Maybe Ralph Nader is right – he is trying to act white.
It’s not about what we eat. It’s about anyone telling me what to eat–
And telling me I can’t smoke, and telling me I can’t drive without my seatbelt, and telling me I can’t carry my perfectly legal gun into the doctor’s office…
And another thing–I’m white, Christian, and have travelled the world as well. You know what? I’ve never told any folks in other countries what to do. I’ve never told any other adult person in the USA what to do.
To quote Auntie Em in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ “I’ve been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now — well, being a Christian woman, I can’t say it!”
Let me start off with a large shrimp cocktail and a fried blooming onion with a loaf of sourdough bread and garlic butter.I’ll have the house salad,heavy on the bluecheese.Next I’ll have the pork rib sampler,mixed,dry rubbed and sauced.Bring me a well marbled 20 oz ribeye,medium with a loaded baked potato,heavy butter and sour cream with an order of fried zuccinni.For dessert bring a slice of Black Forest cheese cake and an order of the bananna pudding,heavy whipped cream.Oh,and a diet coke.
#94:
Or grilled. Such as hotdogs, brats, kielbasa, italian sausage, etc.
LOL Docflash, go ahead and go all out. Get a Large diet coke.
Whoever coined the phrase the Looney Left could not have been more on target. I guess there is nothing else for these idjits to work on.
They are SOOOOOOOO out of touch.
30 pcs, re: “How is Obie Wan gonna represent…” (sorry bout my editing) well thanks for going there, but pls remember like any other social ill, this hits women & minorities hardest
The Dems need a shrink.
fried shrip.
Shrimp
laughing at the grow lights in the basement remark.
I’d never vote for Hickenloooper. He’s loopy.
Problem is wighttrasch (grin) those two things often impact other peoples lives… be it at the aftermath of a car accident or having to breath in cig smoke in public…
Even if someone keels over and dies from too much fatty food, some poor sod at the funeral home will break their backs from lifting such a bloated obese corpse….
DL,
If you’ve never eaten here you have missed out. Plan to drop about $150 for two people.
Enjoy
I’m all for a healthy America especially post 9-11 but there is mental as well as physical health. I happen to think a greasy cheeseburger with fried onions once in awhile is good for mental health even if its not so great physically. To sums up the crats, they want physical heath and to do it they destroy their mental health. What they end up as is a miserable person walking around hoping an islamist will put them out of their personal hell, a hell they created and then inflicted upon themselves.
anybody feel like setting up a booth with some aromafied fried foods with a giant fan just far enough away to drive the Dems nutso in Denver? prolly make some serious cash too.
I hope those creepy, effeminate Dems enjoys their granila and humus wraps.
granila, granola what’s the difference.
Azygos
Never been there … doubt I will … since my hobby is gourmet cooking I feel I can usually fix the same meals at home for much less … of course the problem is my other hobby which is eating my own cooking …
… besides … I have a daughter that is a graduate of Scottsdale Culinary Institue that can contribute in the kitchen as well … 
blue food? what, slurpies?
purple? huh?
after they eat they’re going to need a giant hickenlooper super dooper pooper scooper.
Color coded foods I mean really, what is the next step? Processed wafers, soylent something or other? I think Charlton Heston had the right idea in the wrong order, first we have the soylent green period which precedes the omega man age that eventually morphs into the planet of the apes. And that’s how it happens.
Food fascism, thy name is Hickenlooper.
(Or, is that Lickenpooper?)
May-by if they were so anxious in approving NAFTA we still would still have some industry here and they could find some of the organtic union made products, but they outsourced everything to Mexico, China, India and elsewhere I guess the U.S. doesn’t manufacturer anything anymore. Great thinking guys.
People, we’re all forgetting the real reason. Denver needs to hoard oils, greases, and other lubricants for what will happen in August when the leftists come home to roost (and squat).
To summarize, the acronym BOHICA. And again, and again, and again.
OT where is a drone when you need one?
GOSH YE ALL…
Thanks for my LOL….I needed it
What’s wrong with fried shrip? It is really good with arugula. (0:
As far as I’m concerned, they can go on a starvation diet to show their “patriotism”. But, it would be better if they just passed around cans of Ensure or Replete. That way they aren’t eating anything, which could be harmful, which, depending on the liberal or group you’re talking to, at the moment, could be any or all food. I suggest Glucerna for the diabetics there. Besides, trash pick-up and food delivery would be easy.
OT – That reminds me, can we someday convince the left that spraying African huts with ddt might save several million children a year? Not massive amounts, nor all the time, but saving a few million kids – oh never mind – organic baseball caps, that’s important.
I have no choice in my diet. So right now I envy those who do.
With that being said, this is the reason why I am a conservative — I like having a choice in anything I do.
As my late father-in-law would always say after surviving his triple bypass surgery and trying to follow doctor’s orders about eating healthier (which he rarely did) “if it taste good spit it out because it’s not good for you.” He lasted another 20 years living on the good tasting stuff and working hard before finally being called home to heaven. Sounds like that will be the philosophy in Denver this year. No wonder liberals are such unhappy people because they don’t know how to enjoy good food only eating terrible tasting healthy foods.
@#$%& Hicken-loopy
Yeah Boomer, I was thinking the same thing about why the libs are miserable if this is the diet they adhere to it all makes sense. Of course, now I’m craving some yummy pizza like I used to get at Aurrelio’s (sp?) growing up in NW Indiana or at Geno’s East when we’d go into Chitown because ‘rents were craving some yummy pizza.
I suppose some of these “last remaining” white Christian conservatives get a little scared when they encounter different religions, accents…etc may I suggest they grab a passport and travel the world – get out of ones own little backwater and explore the rich variety of culture and life outside of white, Christian America?
Let’s talk about that, shall we?
Speaking for myself, I haven’t travelled much – time, affordability and obligations have kept me from doing so…maybe one day…
But EQ and I are no slouches when it comes to experiencing true diversity, especially the culinary sort. Growing up, my mother might serve up bulgulgi (Korean barbecued beef), Hoppin’ John Jambalaya, tabouli and hummus tahini, and sauerbraten in the course of one month. I know which Chinese restaurants in my area serve authentic dishes along with the usual Cantonese-American stuff. Indian and Japanese cuisines are personal favorites, and I’m itching to try the Ethiopian places which have recently opened up. So, we’re Christian, conservative, pudgy, and open to new culinary experiences.
And while I haven’t traveled much, I’ll bet you that you name me any country or region of the world, and I can tell you a little something about it.
Finally, when it comes to world religions, I probably know more than you do…
After running all over town today looking for some obscure “Liquid Fence” deer repellent – stopped off late afternoon for a burger with fries. It’s been 2 months since I had one – oh, mercy. Pelosi, eat your heart out.
Azygos #129 – fabulous menu. Beats my cheeseburger all to heck! Course, after the salad course I’m usually asking for the rest to be boxed for take home.
What is it with you liberals? You always put asinine qualifiers on the line when conservatives are involved.
Yet you constantly fail to acknowledge that “white, Christian” America is also a culture – and a damn fine one. Why is that?
My point was not that everyone who eats fried food is white and Christian – but that it’s a sin (or a crime) to say anything about any group but whites, conservatives, Christians, and fat people.
And we love diversity. In our parish, we have families of different ethnicities – black, Asian, Indian – and that’s the same throughout the world.
As Prince Consort said, we’re no slouches when it comes to ethnic cuisine and I can vouch for the fact he’s extremely knowledgeable in not only different cultures, but world religious as well.
And if I ever get wealthy, I have a short list of international cities I want to visit.
I’m just growing arugula… *whistling*
That should read “world religions…
When liberals discuss global warming or the merits of eating “anything not fried” as being patriotic, it assumes a level of religious zealousness. Can conservatives assume it is a new religion emerging, I’m thinking that’s probably true. As in any established religion, usually the converts hold to following the dogma much more closely than those born to the faith.
I’m still wondering why Madame Obama needs a personal workout trainer to trim those thunderous thighs if she’s eating arugula?
My grandfather has been eating like that for 87 years.
Newsflash to sausage and everyone else: You don’t know JACK about what’s “best” for other people. Eat your arugula and leave everyone else the hell alone to make their own choices.
Believe me when I say insurance companies will pay top dollar to a politician who’d enforce a healthy eating life style.
In fact, insurance companies would just love to reel through your grocery shopping receipts and rate your insurance premium accordingly.
You demonstrate some real ignorance of America, sausage.
First off, do you know how big America is? Why shouldn’t I travel within my own land first before any other country? For instance, the state of Kansas has more square miles (82,282) than Britain alone (80,823). Hell, Texas is bigger than France. And Alaska is a whopping 656,425 square miles. And there’s plenty of diversity everywhere: geologically and culturally. Texans are markedly different from Alaskans. A Yankee from Vermont would be quite different than his cousin from New Mexico. And the food would be very different too, as others have already noted above.
Your euroenvy is showing. Go and sneer elsewhere, troll.
HeatherRadish, re; “My grandfather has been eating like that for 87 years.”
Funny thing bout the lefties… they scream “evolution” & then deny that you have good genes… well, how is that your grandfather lived this long with out the help of a nanny state?? Could it be God’s will???
Oh my! what’s a lib to do???
Hey democrats! Don’t question my fried food loving, no rabbit food patriotism…
GoldwaterKnight#156 – they’d be so bored looking through my garbage. Only canned goods I buy are tomato products, everything else is fresh or frozen, including meat. My carbon footprint is on the lean side.
Insurance companies had best hope the American public continues eating just as they are….with socialized medicine breathing down their necks & controlled by D.C. – will there be a need for them? More layed off Americans on the welfare rolls.
Its been voted Best of Phoenix I think for the last 4 years.
Sausage, what exactly is spotted dick, and is it healthy?
Liberals have to eat rabbit food…because THEY DON”T WORK for a living. Try swinging a spike maul all day between two pieces of rail in 90 degree heat after eating a friggin’ salad and see how much weight you burn. I have fed many a steel-driving man bisquits and gravy, fried eggs, sausage, whole milk 5 days a week…no heart attacks on the job.
I propose all the liberals in America move to Canada – where they can have their political correctness, human rights commissions, Nanny-stateism and arugula.
Send the Canadians who are sick of the Nanny state and liberalism to America. Then check back in 20 years and see which nation is flourishing…
That’s because you are Catholic…and we all know Catholic churches often feature a very diverse congregation. Mine does.
Sadly, that cannot be said for many of the protestant churches who for some reason, still prefer to segregate themselves… (and it’s both black and white that do this)
Rome is beautiful. Visit England and the effects of the reformation – quite interesting believe me.
I remember watching a documentary about an American family packing their suitcases with American food when they came to visit England… they thought we eat squirrels.
Amusingly enough when I moved to the south the first dish I was offered involved some sort of squirrel gravy.
If you don’t know the answer to that, perhaps it’s best you don’t travel outside of your comfort zone.
A splendid idea. Worst food in Europe on the whole. We mock the French but Paris and French food are both fabulous. The Swiss – as in most things – are neutral. With France and Italy as neighbors, they manage rather English-like food…
And for really foreign, New York City and San Francisco have fabulous food and interesting tribal customs. And OK, sausage is right, London is great.
But if you haven’t seen this country coast to coast, you’ve missed a fabulous experience too.
fabulous – my new overworked word…
Guys, guys, wait a minute. Think about it. The good mayor might actually be on to something. When the Dems take over and enact their socialized healthcare, the only way the the country will be able to survive is if no one ever gets sick!
Strawman. Traveling inside my own country does not preclude being outside the “comfort zone”. Indeed, you have failed to address any of the points presented to you except with charges of some form of bigotry or provincialism.
You, sausage, with your silly name, are an arrogant, pompous ass.
You are the poster boy for all that Americans detest in Europeans:
Yellow bellied, scornful, envious, guttersniping, dishonest.
Your country is being overrun with Muslims who want to kill you. Your own government threatens to prosecute its people for flying the English flag.
It’s no great wonder you hate Americans who love their own land. You are not allowed to love your own. And because you have abandoned your Christian roots, you are consumed by envy, hatred and malicious lies.
You are simply a grotesque caricature of an Englishman, as Gollum is to a hobbit.
This may backfire on the Dems. Much of Southern culture is based on food anf telling people what they can cannot eat may not sit well with some. This could add to their bitterness as they cling to God and their guns
When the Dems like Al Gore stop dropping dead of heart disease and obesity, then they can complain about the food one eats…anybody notice how much weight Dick Morris is gaining? I’m cretain he is munching his Arrugula!
The Libs just want mess up minds and get control over us..tell ‘em to MUNCH OFF
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU PUT ON YOUR JOHNSONVILLE BRATWURSTS ON THE BARBY TO SAVE YOUR FAMILY FROM ‘FLAVOR AMNESIA’ ON THE FOURTH OF JULY!
-THE 1ST COMMANDMENT OF HIS MOST ESTEEMED WONDER, LOVE2RUMBA
Love2Rumba has spoken…ungowa!
I’d prefer the Dems not eat ANYTHING for about 10-14 days. It would be healthy for the rest of us, and the patriotism of the country would certainly rise exponentially.
Sausage, EQ lives in LA. In LA they don’t call their counties counties like the other 49 states do, they’re called parishes. It comes down from their French foundings.
Now, don’t you feel smart? You need to stay here in the US and learn something about your own country because obviously you don’t know it all you arugula eating jerk.
Well, I think this notion will try to take root by seeping into primary schools first under the brainwashing banner of “Green Eating” is healthy for everyone too, since NOT being green makes you a heartless selfish dirty person (O yea, tykes are coming home from school with bilge like that), so I wouldn’t dismiss this so readily. In some ways it’s already happening.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
James, you’re right on this one. My daughter gets sent home the menu every other week and it always says something about saving the planet so they will serve-whatever. I had my son’s birthday party at Chuck E Cheese about 5 weeks ago and the little 6 y/o next door asked the lady who was serving if the cheese was “organic”. I’m not dismissing what they’re doing but at the same time I like my garbage food as much as the next person. I always thought libs were all about “choice” but it would appear they are only willing to have choice on one thing only.
terrig … the only “choice” with libs is if you choose their way … otherwise you are condemned and vilified …
I have been reading the comments here to see why Dad enjoys this board so much.
This place is absolutly amazing!
I just returned from my shift at the hospital, and after I sleep I’ll update Dad’s blog with his condition. In short, though, he is still comatose.
What caused me to break my silence was this discussion on food.
In Dad’s last blood panel, (according to Step-Mom), Dad’s bad cholestrol was so low it was flagged. When I met his internist, I asked if the stroke was from poor eating habits. The Dr was emphatic that it wasn’t. Bleeding strokes aren’t that way, it was his blood pressure. She made a point of being envious of Dad’s lipids. She’s rail-thin, work-outholic, healthy-ing fanatic and here is a man who (really and literally) eats 1lb of bacon and 6eggs each and every morning for breakfast, along with butter, sausage, (if its been cooked for someone, this is in addition to the eggs and bacon…), pushing 90, who’s weight never varies winter or summer by more than 5lb, confined to a wheelchair for goodness-sakes! (he does have diabetes, and has for the last 25ys, but the dr.s have told Step-Mom that it doesn’t show in Grumpa’s yet…).
Proof that the real villian isn’t what you eat, but your genes.
Most liberals I’ve are against gene replacement therapy. (We might accidently create a superbug, dontchano[sic], though killing “defective” children upto 2ys. old is ok ah-la Singer at Princeton) No wonder libs are unhappy, look at what a sorry excuse for Humanity they are!
Sorry about the spouting, its been difficult week…
I just had to say, though.
sorry, kinda tired.
That should read:
…doesn’t show in Grumpa’s eyes yet…
First our light bulbs, now our food? Hmm, I’m with Dennis Leary on this one.
I may not be the first one to point this out, but doesn’t Mayor Hickenlooper own several restaurants in Denver? Perhaps his encouragement of the conventioneers to go green has an ulterior motive. He just wants to drive up his own carryout business.
I smell a conspiracy.
CRADLE TO GRAVE!!! That’s how your NANNY STATE wants to take over your life. I’m all for it!!! Just look at what a success LBJs GREAT SOCIETY is!?!?!?
“….at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”
Do the colors remind you of this flag? A secret code by the mayor?
That seems typical for a convention this one.
oops should read: like this one
Those people making fun of the Denver mayor’s surname should cool it. They are giving us a bad name, so to speak. I had a few people try to modify my name in the past so they could mock me. It’s the act of a jerk. Specifically, one of our finest senators was Iowa’s Bourke Hickenlooper, a solid conservative. I hope that the Denver mayor isn’t too close a relative of the late senator. But it’s John Hickenlooper’s asinine beliefs and actions that discredit him, not his name.
Funny,
how I get roundly criticised, whenever I tell people, I vote a straight Republlican ticket,
isn’t it.
This is actually an interesting dilema the dems have worked themselves into. Did they end up forgoing fanny packs all together? Because if they didn’t, they’re choosing which is more important. If they buy unionized, than obviously it’s not that important for things to be organic. And if they bought organic over union-made, then they’ve acknowledged that things not made by unions are worthy. I bet a whole lot of people lost a lot of sleep deciding this one.
In my lily-white upscale Obama-luvin’ suburb there’s a low-fat restaurant.
It is failing, big time.
As for “organic”: no one has ever been able to establish with any kind of actuarial certainty that organic food makes you live longer. Even “consumer Reports” pooh-poohed that idea, years ago.
Instead you’ll get arguments about “better taste” (de gustibus non est disputandum) and more vitamins (not estalbished).
So how’s that again about liberals being more attuned to the findings of science than conservatives? I’d like to hear a lib explain the science behind astrology, aromatherapy, homeopathy (!!!!), and auras.
Actually eating organic just makes them feel all virtuous — which is what liberalism is all about, anyway.
Finally, the sodden mess that is “British cuisine” should give the effete and snobby “sausage” pause.
It’s only the influx of Asians that has made anything in the UK worthy of slipping down my gullet.
martin.musculus.(jr.)@8:39AM – So very sorry to hear of your dad’s illness. Please let him know Michelle Malkin’s army will be keeping him in their thoughts and prayers..
My mother in law is 88 and has been so traumatized by doctor’s and their warnings she’s fearful of eating anything… other than, cereals and things that convert to sugar. She won’t listen to anyone but them. She’s becoming more and more fuzzy & I think it’s a lack of proper balance in her diet.
“Hickenlooper”? You can’t make that name up! LOL
I don’t have any objection to buying American or even buying union; I frequently do both. But it seems silly to mandate all-union, all-organic, all-the-time as a knee jerk reaction to having the Dem Convention in your backyard. Next time, do your homework, Mayor Hoockenlipper, er, Hippenlooker, oh, forget it!