Introducing the Royal Captain of Calorie Consumption
Crikey. I was kidding yesterday when I joked about a food intake czar in the wake of Obama’s “Special Master of Compensation” appointment.
Now, it has come to pass. Introducing the Royal Captain of Calorie Consumption, via Politico:
President Barack Obama eats his vegetables and exercises every day — and he really wants you to do the same.
From the White House garden to his picks for top health jobs, Obama is telling America’s McDonald’s-loving, couch-dwelling, doctor-phobic populace that things are about to change.
Don’t be fooled by the presidential burger runs. Obama and Congress are moving across several fronts to give government a central role in making America healthier — raising expectations among public health experts of a new era of activism unlike any before.
Any health care reform plan that Obama signs is almost certain to call for nutrition counseling, obesity screenings and wellness programs at workplaces and community centers. He wants more time in the school day for physical fitness, more nutritious school lunches and more bike paths, walking paths and grocery stores in underserved areas.
The president is filling top posts at Health and Human Services with officials who, in their previous jobs, outlawed trans fats, banned public smoking or required restaurants to provide a calorie count with that slice of banana cream pie.
Even Congress is getting into the act, giving serious consideration to taxing sugary drinks and alcohol to help pay for the overhaul.
Dijon mustard will be mandatory.
Afterwards: Meditation.
Obama is great. Obama is good.
Let us thank him for our food…
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Um…because George Bush’s lifestyle was his choice. Bush made no one go for daily jogs or eat certain foods or any of the crap Obama’s proposing.
So next question.
vinny said:
That is a classic lolol
Only lgm could look at a massive, permanent intrusion by the federal government into our personal, private lives and see this as a good thing.
lgm’s identity is tied into being a progressive hipster – he’d sell his mother if it helped his image. Aaahh void and perpetually immature. It’s all about being and looking “cool.”
That and all those women in Afghanistan who are no longer under the thumb of the Taliban, and the jobs people still had, and the people in LA who weren’t killed by an airliner….but yeah, riding a bike is #1.
I don’t want to move into any d*** light, and I have a .357 Magnum that says I don’t have to.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force. Yes, I will have another helping of beef stroganoff, thank you. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!
ECS
Exactly!! State’s rights and state’s sovereignty come first. Big government is so out of control, they think they have the say over every aspect of our lives…and screw what the individual states say. This shi# has to stop!! I am starting to think that some states leaving the Union is a smart idea to pursue.
And especially a real American President (capitalized only because of referral to the office, not to the individual under discussion).
“Where’s your cake, dear?”
Poor Vernon Dent: “I’m wearing it!”
As I’ve posted in the past, The Beatles ~40 years ago were prescient in “Taxman” (excerpts):
…
(if you drive a car) – I’ll tax the street;
(if you try to sit) – I’ll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold) – I’ll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk) – I’ll tax your feet.
…
Now my advice for those who die, (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (taxman)
‘Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
And you’re working for no one but me.
Oh, man.
It is beyond impossible to be polite with this fool.
IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S GODDAMNED BUSINESS to force me to eat and live in a style which the arrogant government has decided is the healthy way to eat and live – whether the government is correct in that assessment or not.
Got it, dangerous lemming?
Except, of course, for abortion or how many people I choose to sleep with (no matter what disease(s) or health issues I may contract from that behavior).
There are limits to the government’s power, after all.
Careful, Bear.
The elitist, arrogant trolls might start mocking, ridiculing, and dismissing you.
Glad to see you, EQ.
I just got back from a loooong meeting, and was getting caught up, when I
started to wonder where everybody else went!
I take some pride in NOT being an alarmist.
I generally snort at conspiracy theory…from any quarter.
But I have had a growing realization, which I admit to resisting, that THE ONE truly is taking on dictatorial power, and that is his intent.
That may seem like a “duh” moment, but I would like to have been shown wrong.
Every day shows that conclusion is correct.
Now, I have to decide how to deal with that reality, as do each of us who come to that conclusion.
Correct.
And, we have to be attuned to what is going on, and not be lulled by the somewhat gradual, salami-slice nature of what is, for all intents and purposes, the culmination of the socialists’ decades- and decades-long coup attempt.
I completely agree. Someone as narcissistic as Obama will not give up such power easily. And it’s clear he’s redefining the role of government to do whatever he wants it to do.
I am of the mind that if, in 2010 or 2012 the Republicans win – be it Congress or the White House – there will be some sort of “crisis” and Obama will effectively, permanently, delay the installation of the new Congress or the new president until that “crisis” is over.
One thing that Patton understood, and I think is behind the actions of BIG BRO in this fateful juncture, if you have the momentum of battle, you press forward and never let resistance solidify.
They are rolling America as we knew it up like an old carpet, and we have seen no effective resistance at all.
Rags, Granite, English, I can only say this:
+100
On June 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pm, Ragspierre said:
I take some pride in NOT being an alarmist.
I generally snort at conspiracy theory…from any quarter.
But I have had a growing realization, which I admit to resisting, that THE ONE truly is taking on dictatorial power, and that is his intent.
That may seem like a “duh” moment, but I would like to have been shown wrong.
Every day shows that conclusion is correct.
Now, I have to decide how to deal with that reality, as do each of us who come to that conclusion.
Exactly.
You mean the Royal Captain of Corruption?
That fits Obama perfectly!
The Tea Parties are a start.
Not quite “effective resistance” yet,
but at least they are indications of resistance.
Pill, are you going to a TEA Party on the 4th?
I need some people to help distribute STARVE THE BEAST and REFUSE TO BE EATEN stuff.
Contact me at starvethebeast1@gmail.com, please.
Because, for all the outrageous things, we haven’t quite reached the tipping point yet.
But there’s a reason sales of guns and ammo went through the roof at the end of 08 and through the beginning of this year. Resistance will come because Obama keeps pushing us to that tipping point.
Obama may have been a Muslim until the age of seven, attending the mosque in Indonesia with his step-father, and learning the basic Arabic greetings and the muezzin’s call to prayer, which he can repeat in perfect Arabic, but I believe he is an atheist. Most Marxists are.
Sure, he identifies somewhat with the Musselmen, but I doubt he is one anymore.
My own read is that he is a true apostle of Alinsky, which means he has no real affinity for any religion but will feign one any time it can be useful to consolidate power.
Power is the alpha and omega for THE ONE.
The problem is that, it does not matter what we think.
What matters it what the Umma, and the Sharia-loving, murderous, barbaric loonies that make up an unknown percentage of it, and the most influential and dangerous part of it, think.
And I didn’t think eating at McDonald’s could be more tasty than it already was. I’m actually glad I got my lunch there today.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Tonight we’re having marinated sirloin steaks. Wonder how long it’ll be before that’s illegal…
Press conference
Obama: “We have now a food czar, in order to force people to eat more fruits, vegetables and less red meat and fats. No questions, please. The secret service is just back from my McDonald’s run.”
well…studies are being done to measure the methane gas produced by cows. In an attempt to lower these gas levels, the lefties (in all their omnipotent wisdom) are going to change their diet and if that doesn’t work, it will be illegal to be a cow.
Damn good thing I’m a bull…!!!
Poor Rosie O’Donnell, declared illegal.
My mind went to Cindy Sheehan…
I actually had a hard time choosing between Rosie and Joy(less) Behar. But, Rosie won… by a ton.
THis poor little fellow is so full of himself it reeks.
I wanna be the Fish Czar! The Sturgeon General! I’ll work my bass off to make your life less crappie!
Dexter – that was funny!
I’m sorry, but isn’t this friggin’ America?! If I thought there was a market for it, shouldn’t I be able to open a smoker-friendly restaurant called “Trans-Fats R’ Us” and serve sugar-coated deep-fried sticks of butter?
This Nanny-state is going to kill us saving us from ourselves!
Serve adult beverages, with a well-stocked humidore, and I’m all over it…!!!
Rags,
I’ve taken the liberty of forwarding you email addy to the organizer of the Tea Party in the Wausau Wis. area. Very classy lady. Meg Ellefson is her name and she organized the Tax Day Tea Party here in town on her own. She wasn’t expecting more than 150 or so people and on tax day, estimates were closer to 1500 people. I hope you hear from her. And thank you for all you are doing to support the Tea Parties.
Yeah, like I’m going to pay any attention to what a fat-assed tub of goo like Barney Frank says about improving one’s nutritional intake. Ditto Ted (D-Chivas Regal) Kennedy.
What kind of wine goes with lard?
Oh, of course, a gRiesling.
So the left wants Christian conservatives to stay out of their bedrooms but I guess it’s OK for the Marxist Obama Administration to be in our kitchens, right?
I can’t believe he’s only been president for 6 months, how much of America can he destroy in 4 years?
As for food, I already make my own junk food because it’s too expensive. And my gormet dark chocolate candy bars are far better than what you can get in the store. And we don’t go out, even for fast food, because we can’t afford it. Pasta and potatoes are our mainstays.
Thank you SO much! I will look forward to hearing from your friend. Please pass the word to anyone else you would care to.
I would have picked a nice Burgundy. Something STOUT.
Several dark beers also come to mind…
it must be getting close to dinner-time…
Go for it! What could happen? You either flounder, or you can make a lot of clams squid pro quo. But finish school first. Just for the halibut, did you run this by the alewife?
Oh, man, the puns.
I think I’m getting a haddock….
Cheddar truly knows no shame…
I am convinced he did all that on porpoise, and with bass motives.
quit being so koy..and whale your at it, crab me a beer.
koy-ve…!!!
I don’t give a carp what you say, the posters on Michelle Malkin are way more fun than the aholeholes at those liberal sites.Wahoo.
I can’t take any more! Will you guys please squid it??
.
Is it time to start calling this nazi a nazi yet?
I’m proposing the phrase new-nazi as distinct from neo-nazi, which inconveniently was taken by the old fashioned nazis.
So it’s new-nazi. The new improved smiley face nazi. The Jew hatred is downplayed, and of course non-whites are OK. But as for freedom? Zeig Heil!
Das Uberbama Furer.
Well, there certainly is something fishy about this entire administration.
Obama’s passing off a forged document, (which has a lot in common with “Haye I.B Ahphorgerie“), certainly was a whale of a fish story.
And both the Associated Press and politically-connected-to-Obama Annenberg Political “Fact Check” lied on porpoise.
Then, members of Congress were afraid to question his credentials (could they not have at least requested Obama go through e-Verify?) because they were afraid of being fish-slapped.
It’s more shocking than an electric eel.
The scales of justice are no longer balanced.
This slimy Creature From the Black Lagoon is now Commander-in-Chief.
Obama may have surfed in Hawaii, and eaten expensive steak in the White House, but this Surf & Turf is costing us more than we can afford.
Fish and Democratic Socialists start to stink after three days.
Bike paths huh? About 10 years ago, one of our main roads was widened and improved and a bike lane installed. I travel this road just about every day, and I have never seen even one bike in the bike lane. Phooey on Bama. If he quits smoking I might consider losing weight. Until then, MYOB.
Oh, yeah, plain French’s yellow mustard has zero fat and zero carbs and tastes great on hot dogs.
Yeah, well that’s because Obama wasn’t president and couldn’t force people to use them. When cars are scarce, or not available at all, those bike paths will be crowded.
I would suggest an interesting little Pinot Greasio
As they say: “The fish rots from the head.”
Barack H Obama: “I Like Pie”
Oh, and all I can say about this is BIRDS OF A FEATHER:
No wonder Obama’s all buddy-buddy with Chavez.
As Justin Wilson would say, “What kind you got?”