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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Hah! Not for us peasants. Only generic brands for us.
“Drop and give me 20, you little pee-on taxpayer, you!!!”
While I am personally against smoking, actually would like better nutritional information available at eateries, and would like to see youngsters more involved in sports, I have a problem with government mandates, czars, official quotas and the such. When past administrations encouraged healthier lifestyles, they did it with a fun and “for you” approach. Under the Great and Omnipotent O, this is sure to come across as Obama’s Step #2456 towards a Brave New World, Huxley-style.
I like the Newspeak: “underserved area” instead of “MS-13 free-fire zone.”
Michelle, you’re turning into a prophet! Scary!
Just BIG BRO at work…move along…
Let them eat arugula.
Well never before in America. It has been seen before in totalitarian dictatorships world wide. The Nazi youth is simply one example.
He sure is diggin’ this ‘he da massa’ business…
beat me to it…
Then, please, do not make a kidding comment about him apointing a czar of silly walks!!
Obama is great. Obama is good.
Let us thank him for our food…
Buy his brands
We are fed
Thank the Bailout
Our daily bread
I can bang together a still in no time…
And you can buy really good root-beer base on ebay…
Moonshine soda-pop could be the coming thing….
Uh,ah,uh,When is our healthy Dear Leader going to quit smoking? How does his smoling benefit Michelle’s children?
On June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Craig said:
That will be the official daily mantra as our prescribed meditation under ObamaCare.
On June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Craig said:
That will be the official daily mantra as our prescribed meditation under ObamaCare.
He’ll quit smoking on the same day he starts driving himself around in one of those eco-clown-cars.
Americans are coming to understand…little by little.
There has to be a Constitutional renaissance.
I don’t see anything wrong with his “wish list”. Sounds like a good idea for longevity and quality of life. However, to mandate those things is unconstitutional. Oh, wait…he is shredding that document, so we are screwed. You vill be healthy or else!
http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm
People are catching on.
“How can you have pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”
“Brave New World,” here we come -
Hey, Scrappy…
and everyone…
I am trying very hard to have STARVE THE BEAST and I REFUSE TO BE EATEN bumper-stickers ready by July 4th.
If anyone would be interested in helping distribute them to TEA Parties, contact me at
starvethebeast1@gmail.com
Yeah…there’s nothing at all fascistic about all this.
Get ready for compulsory exercise every morning while singing hymns to Dear Leader.
Can I please have a real president? Please?
Just take the picture of mo in that outfit, per Drudge, everytime you plan to eat. That is gonna make you lose your appetite and lose weight.
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I was reminded today that the ONE has only been in office for 6mos. It already feels more like 6 years.Every day we get more regulations and mandates.
Why do I see future propaganda films, and I assume they are coming, of those mass excercise groups coming to a stadium near you as well as those happy, smiling youth faces as they throw a ball back and forth.
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Aw! I know! Isn’t that nasty?!!!
I would be happy to help…but the tea party on the fourth is out. My husband’s class reunion out of town is that weekend! Dang it all anyway! I really wanted to go to the next one and my husband has actually agreed to go also. I will have to wait until the next one. However, I would be interested in purchasing some of them for myself and some family members. Let me know where I can do that! Great idea!
The jobs meme “created or saved” has gone out as a missile of “wisdom” and morphed into a torpedo into the stern of the Good Ship Soetoro.
People aren’t buying it. And Barry Soetoro said it himself that the “measure of success” is the people themselves, where the bailout/stimulus is or is not working.
Uh make that “not working” Barry. Now, if you will excuse me, I am whoopin up a big-assed Philly Cheesesteak for mid-morning snack. Protein-carbohydrates- AND fats…. we need them all lest our brains turn into mush like yours.
The “health” blitzkrieg is nothing more than a federally subsidized jobs program for Democrats. Like all other entitlement programs and special projects. Sooooieeeeee.
Now you’ve done it. Don’t even mention sex czar.
Next – Obama will present to congress a bill by which we will be charged a fee for every pound over our “ideal” weight. A dollar a pound. Don’t laugh…
I battled an eating disorder for over twenty years. Now that I’m finally starting to enjoy eating and have gotten my working out down to reasonable levels the last thing I need is calorie listings on menus.
I know Eli’s Cheesecake isn’t good for me.
I still athletic. Let me eat my dessert.
FYI:
I want Big Brother to stay out of ALL areas of my life-not just ones that might trigger my eating disorder.
I’m generally a healthy person, watch what I eat and what I weigh, but after reading this, I have an urge for cheesecake binge to end all binges. I hate this government bullsh*t control of everything.
A hearty FU! too all these control freaks.
Wait, don’t all you older folk (who will be encouraged to take yourself out soon to make way for productive people soon), remember Japanese business models?
People meditated and did yoga before work. There were some other things they did…need to Google them. Maybe that is Obambi’s plan for increasing production and decreasing unemployment? Yeah, that and killing off the AARP people….oops, I mean getting the AARP people to “move toward the light”…
So… is America waking up yet? Or are the majority of us still in a collective obamania-induced coma?
Not laughing here; only I think that once we have ObamaCare(TM), if you’re overweight then it’s either a longer wait-list or an outright denial of care that awaits you. This will be especially true if your malady in any way can be traced to being overweight (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, etc.).
The only time when a self-destructive “lifestyle choice” will be a plus in obtaining ObamaCare will be if you’re a homosexual and need “AIDS cocktail” drugs. Then you’ll go to the head of the line.
Otherwise, rationalizing the delay/denial of healthcare will be the sole occasion for which liberals will advocate personal responsibility and acceptance of consequences for poor decisions.
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Soon you will not be able to afford sugar (if it is not made illegal), and cheesecake? OOOHHH, not allowed – too much fat.
Wait til cream cheese is made illegal. Watch all the idiot Jews who voted for Obamessiah squeal…
Yes I am a JEW. No, I was not stupid enough to vote for the Marxist Kenyan Usurper. Yes, I still believe Palin would have been an intelligent influence on McCain. For those people who rabidly HATE Palin, I say, look at the economy of Alaska. We could have been moving toward THAT as a COUNTRY.
*sigh*
Maybe in 2012. If we still have a Constitution and/or Election.
One day a chocolate ration was issued. There had been no such issue for weeks or months past. He remembered quite clearly that precious little morsel of chocolate. It was a two-ounce slab (they still talked about ounces in those days) between the three of them. It was obvious that it ought to be divided into three equal parts.
Nineteen Eighty-four
That portion of the American people who WANT an effective Constitution will increase.
If amnesty gets pushed through (and I think it will), the Constitution will be rendered null and void. Conservatism and freedom will be squashed out by marxism and socialism. Elections will be about as fair here as they are in Venezuela.
The King decrees it.
It’s all about where your priorities lie.
If you’re a liberal and your daughter is working as a nude pole dancer in a biker gang bar, your concern is that she’s being paid at least the minimum wage.
And if the bikers are pouring chocolate syrup all over her and licking it off, your concern is whether it’s fat-free syrup.
Consider this: Many poor people eat at these fast food places, simply because the food is cheap. Many of these people are on welfare. Thus we taxpayers fund all the treatment (through Medicaid and Medicare)for the health problems those people develop, which in part is obesity due to a diet of fast junk food.
Of course Im not for huge government regualtions, but I have no problem telling people living off the public dime to practice healthier habits including eating.
“underserved area”: areas in cities surrounding the streets Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Blvds
Living in the PSRK said:
After yesterdays edict from the SCOTUS throwing out 200 odd years of contract law, this only tells me our constitution is nothing more than paper with words on it any more.
Don’t forget anyone seeking an abortion, I’m sure they’ll be well taken care of.
The article mentions that Obama exercises every day. Bush exercised every day, and it was reported as evidence of what a dumb freak he was. But not only is daily exercise now reported as being cool, we’re expected to think that it’s cool for Obama to use the force of law to impose his notions of exercise, diet, and so much more, on everybody.
This is true. No child under a day old, nor any senior over the age of 90, will be safe from the culture-of-death people.
Don’t tell a woman she can’t have a baby partially out of her genitals killed, that is government instrusion.
But everything else is fair game, I guess.
In the old days (before food stamps) the government ran Commodity Food Stores. No food stamps, no junk foods, just the basics.
“The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers several programs that distribute commodity foods, which are foods that the federal government has the legal authority to purchase and distribute in order to support farm prices. The first commodity distribution program began during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when it was known as the Needy Family Program. This was the main form of food assistance for low-income people in the United States until the Food Stamp Program was expanded in the early 1970s. The Needy Family Program distributed surplus agricultural commodities such as cheese, butter, and other items directly to low-income people. Today, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, administers the nation’s commodity food distribution programs. The programs continue to improve the nutrition status of low-income people, while providing a means for using surplus agricultural commodities from U.S. farm programs.”
Time to return to the old days.
Once they get us all in a socialized healthcare database and can see with one click of the mouse how much we weigh, we are finished. They will not allow certain tests or treatments for anyone who is over a certain weight. Yes, it can happen! Personally, I have been on a weight loss program since last August and have lost 60 pounds. I feel great and have found the effort worthwhile. I would recommend that everyone who is obese lose the weight for their own quality of life. But if they get sick, they should be given every test and care that anyone else gets. These are human beings we are talking about here, not statistics in a computer. I have battled overweight all my life and still don’t have it conquered. It is possible that the weight will come back. I don’t think my husband, children and grandchildren would appreciate my being allowed to die because I weigh too much. And NO ONE can be FORCED to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way. You have to be at a certain place in your life and have a motivation (other than fear) to do it.
I want a Snagglepuss Czar. A little cartoon guy even.
I’m sure that the government won’t do away with meat altogether.
Otherwise, they would lose the lucrative methane tax on hoofed farm animals as part of the cap-and-trade.
“You put ‘em on crackers. They give you an appetite like a horse.” “Oh, ANIMAL crackers.”
- Moe and Curly (CRASH GOES THE HASH, 1944)
Telling them and forcing them are two different things. You simply cannot force people to eat a certain way. There are too many other ways to cut healthcare costs! For instance…don’t allow frivolous lawsuits, rein in the ambulance-chasing lawyers (like sleazy John Edwards), thus lowering the cost of malpractice insurance. Eliminate the rampant corruption and overbilling that is going on out there!! And, most importantly, get rid of the illegal aliens who are completely bankrupting our healthcare system! People who are legitimately on welfare should be able to maintain some dignity!
Ooh! Ooh! I wanna be that! Huh,can I? Please! Please! Please! (raising hand in the air, begging for permission)
I am waiting for a
Kamakiri Czar so he/she can regulate its biosphere.
“I’ll bet he eats soup wid’ a knife.”
- Moe Howard (WHAT’S THE MATADOR?, 1942)
“Somebody give me a pie!”
- Mary Ainslee (IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE, 1941)
I like pie.
Yes, every town in America will require it’s citizens to don gov’t-issued gray workout suits and gather in the town square of other suitable place for morning exercises, hear the gov’t approved news and follow that with a session of praise and song exalting …The One.
Coming in 2011.
The “Smart Grid” is actually the A/C czar, the when you do your laundry czar, the when you charge your “Le Car” czar, the cap-n-trade CO2 personal footprint tax czar, and so on.
A czar by any other name is still a czar. In the Smart Grid case, it is innumerable czars.
“We baked you a birthday cake! If you get a tummy-ache, and you moan and groan and woe, don’t forget we told you so!”
- Moe, Larry, and Curly (ACHE IN EVERY STAKE, AN, 1941)
“Here, eat your spinach!” “I don’t like spinach!” “Well, you’re gonna eat it whether you like it or not!”
- Moe & Curly (ALL THE WORLD’S A STOOGE, 1941)
When everything is controlled, everyone becomes a criminal; leading to everyone being subject to incarceration, and also all laws being diminished. I’m scaring myself. Must stop typing..
“I can afford to lose a few pounds… I’m too pleasingly plump as it is.”
- Curly (FLAT FOOT STOOGES, 1938)
“Don’t ya know it’s bad etiquette to reach in front of a person when said person is trying to snag a morsel of food?”
- Moe (VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY, 1938)
“How’s yours taste?” “Like a mattress.” “Want mine?” “I’m stuffed now!”
- Moe & Curly (UNCIVIL WARRIORS, 1935)
Sorry, but the qualification to be an Obama Czar is that you have to have absolutely no experience whatsoever.
more like this….
http://www.mikechurch.com/joomla/images/stories/obama/obama_peeing_sm.jpg
I’m overqualified! Just ask my wife!
So about the only thing Obama doesn’t want to regulate is whether or not I sleep around or kill my unborn children.
Otherwise, what I
* Drive
* Eat
* Pay in taxes
* Receive in pay
* Need for medical care
* Set my thermostat to
* Live in
* Think
* Believe religiously
* Wipe my rear with
are all fair game and totally his business.
Got it.
This guy is a dictator. Pure and simple.
the prophet is obama…MM is the psychic…
How is this a bad thing? The fact that George Bush had a healthy life style was one of the only good things about his administration.
… and note how those who want to boost even more taxes think of themselves as “progessive”
Once again (remember tobacco), the proposed taxes hit low-income Americans the hardest.
Up next, the Supreme Grand Pooh-bah of Gallons per Flush. You think commodes are inefficient now? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!
These are issues for local school boards, not the CENTRAL STATE.
These are issues for local government, NOT THE CENTRAL STATE.
These are issues for the market. NOT THE CENTRAL STATE.
All of this fluff will fall away once the real shooting starts between all of Islam and Israel in the Middle East.
Soetoro’s policies are leading us down the path to total war.
And many of us will starve.
Does anyone else believe he is a Follower of Islam yet?
Barney Frank would make an appropriate food intake czar. Come to think of it, he could also be the sex czar.
Barney Frank: special master of food and sex! lgm can work under him.
B&H Obama Praise Song for the Masses:
Sun, sun, if there’s sun, it’s the morning. Sun, sun, if there’s sun, the birds fly.
Our Dear Leader’s picture is the sun, to whom I am grateful. I can’t live without him. I am thankful to him.
Praise be Obama.
The hotel bed scene from Borat’s cultural teachings comes to mind: “Eat my….”
I will be all day trying to rid myself of THAT visual…
LGM: Wasn’t over-reaching federal control and invasion of privacy one of your complants about bush????
lgm said:
Sing this LGM, sing it load so all the world can hear:
Socialist cause he defends
With iron will and courage.
He raises national honour
Far and wide throughout the world.
He is the champion of justice,
Standing for independence.
Long live, long live, our dear leader, BHO
Pretty soon the national anthem will be:
“Baramica is the best,
our pubic hair is highest quality,
our abortions are the greatest,
all the other countries are run by little girls,…”
My 20+ son voted for Obama and yes, like many others, he is sorry he did.
Yeah, Obama want everyone to be healthy. Unless you’re an unwanted unborn child…. then he wants to have you torn apart with sharp metal instruments while your young brain tries desperately to comprehend what is happening to you…and tossed in the trash.
How health conscious of him.
aahhh, yeah…me. I always did.
Can’t I just eat my waffle?