The Great Brownie Grab of 2010 (and Beyond)
**Written by Doug Powers
And then the Health Police™ came for the cupcakes:
A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.
Republicans, notably Sarah Palin, and public school organizations decry the bill as an unnecessary intrusion on a common practice often used to raise money.
“This could be a real train wreck for school districts,” Lucy Gettman of the National School Boards Association said Friday, a day after the House cleared the bill. “The federal government should not be in the business of regulating this kind of activity at the local level.”
You know it’s bad when even the Associated Press is starting to sound like Charlton Heston with an oven mitt: Don’t Touch My Brownies!
Naturally, where there’s a call for more regulation, there will be the inevitable call for more regulators. This law will no doubt “save or create” countless “Brownie Law Compliance Officer” union jobs.
And here’s your Sunday head-scratcher:
The language is broad enough that a president’s administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., this week that he does not intend to do that.
If they don’t intend do it, why put the language in there?
What they’re really well on the road to banning is parents and parental authority — “junk food” is just the chosen path to do so.
The bake sale regulators, led by Michelle Obama, tell us, in part, that obesity is a threat to the US economy (if FLOTUS wants to see a threat to the US economy, all she needs to do is convene a meeting of leading Democrats and her husband’s economic advisers).
The reasoning of course is alleged concern for the future of our children. Last month, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin drew attention to how obesity is a threat to the future work force:
Childhood obesity is more than a public health issue, says U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. It’s endangering the country’s future work force.
[...]
“If kids are having high blood pressure or heart disease when they’re 19 or 20 years old, you’re not going to have a work force out there,” Benjamin said. “All the studies that show kids perform better when they exercise … That’s the work force you want.”
Don’t worry though, kids, because if you can’t exercise and keep fit, there’s always the “Surgeon General” career option:
What’s next for schools? Lindsay Lohan in charge of the DARE program?
(h/t Doug Ross)
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Yeah, right. Just give us power that we don’t need, because, you know, we won’t use it. You can trust us.
I say the over under on some rectum using this power to ban a bake sale is 24 months. And I’m taking under.
If you home school, you can feed your kids what you want to! bho, mo, and team have their slimy fingers in every aspect of our lives and I have a feeling it will be getting worse in the next two years!
L
The fat calling the kettle black.
I am so happy that our wonderful president and michelle are busy guarding our children’s diets. Meanwhile, back at the border. . .
The real issue is that the bill would provide lunch AND dinner for kids. IOW they are taking over the raising of your children. Obama Youth League, anyone?
Only for now Letget.
Date line Germany.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2010/12/german_christia.html
And therefore it follows at once that bake sales are also a “national security” issue. Liberals never, ever have any interest in “national security” unless it is one more excuse to extend government power. Remember when “Global Warming” was a “national security” issue? Over at NRO recently, I read that AIDS in Africa is a “national security” issue. Everything is a national security issue — except national security.
Well, how about having Tofu Sales at schools to raise funds? How much would that bring in??!?
Uh, wait:
Well, then, alfalfa sprouts would rake in the $’s! No, wait:
I am just going to go on eating home-baked oatmeal cookies and fudge… I don’t think I will get salmonella poisoning, and I hope my memory holds up!
You pathetic liberals. You just allowed the Federal Governemtn to control BAKE SALES! You freaking idiots!
When bake sales are outlawed, only outlaws will have bake sales.
Let’s hire a pedophile to make sure our schools are safe. No, wait….
Uplander#6,
Somehow it would not surprise me one bit for the teachers unions to demand that bho put up a bill that would make it a crime to home school here in American sometime in the future. I don’t think the r’s would vote for the bill, but who knows about them sometimes?
L
Brownie Bootleggers unite!
Under, Novaculus.
New Castle councilman calls cops on boys’ cupcake sale
There is not enough collective intelligence for these people to micro-manage our lives. They drove the economy off a cliff with their policies and can barely keep track of their own lives but need to direct the rest of our lives. How do they intend to enforce all these regulations? They seem to want open rebellion so they can establish marshal law. Enough of these people!
Does Michelle Obama have even a clue about what bake sales are for? They are certainly not seminars for lecturing “dumb people” about what they should be eating. They are fund raising events. Just try raising money selling even the best lima bean pie in the world.
Next: “Nobody Loses!” Super Bowl.
Why doesn’t bho and mo get TSA scanners installed at every school. What better way to know exactly what body types the kids have, with the added bonus of checking for weapons and twinkie smuggling.
The deal is simple, no one can earn money doing anything, it’s all got to come because of moochelle and dumbo goodness.
Who ARE the freaking idiots who vote for these things?! Oh yeah, Dems and RINOs…
Choice pictures Doug.
Here’s a photo of MichellO’s war on lung cancer.
I care more about illegal power grabs than about brownie grabs.
Speaking of regulations, consider this…
There are regulations concerning the seal that should be on any COLB that was actually issued by the State of Hawaii:
And speaking of kids being given bad examples, consider this…
At long last, a copy of the Hawaii Department of Health seal has been disclosed by the department directly. And this seal is consistent with the description of the seal in the Title 11-1 Administrative rules.
But guess what? The “seal” on the “COLB” that was produced at and by the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago does NOT match the seal that was released directly from Hawaii, and the “Obama COLB seal” is NOT consistent with the description of the seal in the Title 11-1 Administrative rules.
This is a whole lot more important than a bake sale.
The pResident is a fraud and usurper.
Wolfensohn – is that a German name?
Anyway I like the kids already. Age 13, now young men, have a good idea and initiative, go to work, and some dumba$$ tries to shut them down. They will not grow up to be libs.
Meanwhile, 26 year-old children – yet to show signs of adulthood – whine for free health insurance…
BTW, for those of you who have already concluded that the Wikileaks revelations have been all bad to the US worthy of summary execution, read this.
I am reserving judgment on this. Seems to me like these leaks are the deadliest for those advocating world government. I sure see a lot of evidence that governments acting to frustrate their own national interests in contrast to the BS they feed citizens. It’s all Kabuki theater on a global scale.
Go through that list and tell me how revealing those things are bad for us and the world. We are already being led over the cliff, how can knowing the truth make it worse?
I remember being able to walk into the World Trade lobby and elevators to any floor as free as walking into your home. Turning our cities into armed camps only makes the terrorists win. There are way cheaper and effective ways to hit them here at home as well as overseas. We must render this country poisonous to terrorists, and one thing we could do immediately is to seriously muster grass-roots involvement beyond mere block-watching by implementing a form of bounty informant reward system with any established tips and leads of terrorist activity granting rewards of a million dollars per conviction/head. This would immediately by a hundred-fold place close local and neighborhood scrutiny of railraod tracks, highways, terminals and other infrastructure facilties. Another step is to deputize the small army of retired and ex public and private law enforcement agents in this country with stipends to ferret out terrorists through our cities and sewers if need be with ample rewards toward conviction or removing the threat. There are other measures that can repell the threat without turning ourselves into a police state or going bankrupt on the way. k2@ ret%h#tmq
Last post posting error. Apologies.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
NO.
We have been losing our freedoms little by little over the years like rainfall cutting a ditch in soft soil.
It has been just recent where that rainfall has turned into a torrent, and the ditch is looking like the Grand Canyon.
If you looked at many of these regulatory moves these commie b@st@rds have been slamming us with, it becomes clear that none of them have to do with what they are written for other than raw power and control.
Regulate what’s sold at garage sales. Regulate trans fat. Regulate bake sales. Regulate sugar in foods. Regulate salt.
They could regulate every waking moment of your life and it would never be enough for these control freaks.
Meanwhile back at the economy….
Meanwhile back at the tax cuts….
Meanwhile back at the
war on terroristsman-caused-contingency-concern (or whatever stupid label they have given it)….*Like the old saying goes, my advice to those wishing to pass this law as proposed by FLOTUS, “eat sh** and die!”.
…or has been mentioned, the border, which HAS HAD a much harder and faster impact on the work force than eating muffins.
All you have to remember is that liberalism is a disease. Someday people will get fed up with these sicko’s and put them away, until then we will just have to suffer the fools.
I demand a signing statement. Obama promised signing statements when bills contain provisions that are unconstitutional.
The problem is NOT too much fattening food. Children used to eat food fried in hog lard, etc. early in the last century and the average weight for a soldier in WW2 was 140 lbs.
The problem is too many video games and not enough playing basketball, riding bicycles, etc.
tre – You got that right. It is so simple.
Then: Playing outside all day, pick-up baseball games, come home for a quick dinner, then play outside more until bedtime.
Now: pretty much video games all the time.
Not to mention the fact that all that running around like maniacs playing ball, building tree houses, riding bikes, etc. lets boys work off all that natural energy. No need for ritalin and all that crap.
The key to weight-loss is NOT exercise or what you eat. It is how MUCH you eat.
Here at my kids’ schools in Gilbert, AZ, we’re already not allowed to bring in homemade treats. If it’s their birthday, and they want to treat their friends at school, you’d better be willing to shell out some money to bring in store bought treats. You know, the ones with all the preservatives and other gunk in the frosting and cake mixes.
Childhood obesity is more than a public health issue, says U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, licking barbecue sauce from her fingers.
How nice that this bullcr@p is coming out right before Christmas…when I’m busy baking 5 out of the 7 days of the week. Sending homemade cookies to soldiers overseas, how dare I? Next thing you know, I’ll be charged with sedition…
Those people need a hobby-one that does NOT involve us.
Remember the old leftist line that went like this: “It will be a great day when the schools have all the money they need and the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale to purchase a bomber?”
Well, leftists, if bake sales are forbidden, maybe all the school money should go to the Pentagon? And you know what? I think that’s kind of cool.
Worthless jobs for worthless Democrats.
There’s also all that homework that’s piled on the kids these days. They have sometimes 2-3 hours of homework. What do they do in school all day?
John, you’re my hero!! Love the laughs.
And there’s the problem right there. Where was the legislative power supposed to be lodged again? (flips through pages) Ah, yes, there it is: says here, “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.”
Not just a good idea, it’s the law.
Oh, that quote was from AP article Doug linked to, by the way.
When my son is allowed to play video games, he is not allowed to sit. He must stand (preferrably on the small exercise trampoline).
He bounces like a pogo stick while playing Super Mario Galaxy.
(BTW, Samba De Amigo is an excellent aerobic workout.)
FIFY
Another anticonstitutional power grab.
Just because someone thinks there ought to be a law doesn’t mean there really ought to be a law.
This is one of those cases.
Mr. Bumble: the law is a ass—a idiot.
So that means this bumper sticker no longer has relevance?
I’ll bet the teachers and their unions fight tooth and nail to keep bake sales. If for no other reason that to continue to sell the above-mentioned bumper sticker. “We’re the poor little schools that only get 50% of the state budget!”
Sorry, beenthere. You beat me to it!
I haven’t read all the comments, so apologies if I’m duplicating.
I’m in my mid 50′s (age not waist size), and when I was in grade school, we had bake sales all the time, and we were all fit and trim. The difference? recess and PE in every grade. And no lawsuits every time one of us fell off the monkey bars.
When my kids were in school, recess was cut back, PE was once a week, and in JR/SR high, golf was a PE elective.
How about we have bake sales during recess? Then the kids can exercise off the brownie.
This is what we get when we let the federal government control local issues.
I agree with Sen McCaskill on ones issue, time to break out the pitchforks (if not the guillotines).
Get rid of the Department of Education. The DOE was Jimmy Carter’s payoff to the teacher’s unions back then. Now in his second term, we’re reaping the (ahem!) “benefits” of that decision.
Being thin does not make one healthy, and being heavy does not make one unhealthy.
Being a nosy fascist does put one in danger of an ass-kicking though.
This reminds me–who in here coined ‘Shaka Toots’?
AlohaGuy?
I remember the seatbelt laws.
“It will NEVER be a primary, only a secondary…” I don’t care about the arguments for seatbelts. Or airbags! (another Big Brother-ism infiltration).
I wear seatbelts, but I considered not wearing them when it became forced. My wife is 4’10″, petite of build, and an airbag statistically will cause her serious injury. More than a 5mph bump.
“One-size-fits-all”-erism. You must file-down the exceptional or build-up the deficient to make a perfect flat grey plane. Everyone exactly the same, excluding the elite-class. They have to kneecap everyone else, they are so pathetic that that is the only way they can standout at anything.
They want the power to “suggest” to get people used to them having authority in an area. Any area. Look at their history of creeping control, and you will see it.
This is more of the same. I have taken the position that no matter how “reasonable” their arguments seem, if it isn’t Constitutionally mandated, I fight against it: On Principle.
If they wanted to pass a bill legislating that “Humans Breath Oxygen”, I’d fight it! If it isn’t in The Constitution, let them hold a CCC or suggest the change! If their idea actually has merit, people will change w/o them pointing guns at the Citizenry.
DC is infested with Cockroachs. It will take maybe 10 2-yr treatments to fix this… I hope we have time.
What’s next, Girl Scout cookies?
So does abortion but that doesnt seem to bother democrats.