Showing posts with label Our Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Food. Show all posts
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Dang, Michelle, it was a joke!!!!!
I've caused some laughter in the OA when I've used my fear of Michelle Obama and Meme Roth grabbing my French fries in a metaphorical reference to this Administration's proclivity for usurping our Constitutional rights. Well, yesterday Twilight Zone moved into Nightmarish Reality. Michelle Obama appeared with Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, to announce that french fries will no longer be listed on the children's menus...no pictures of french fries either. And, I don't know if this is true or not, but there was even some discussion about a minor not being able to order french fries without parental permission. Are we going to start carding for fries like we do for alcohol? Don't laugh. It's not just this one thing about french fries...LA has at least tried, I don't know if they passed the regulation or not, to ban fast food places from entire communities...these were usually minority communities which have been given the designation of "food deserts." New York City liked LA's ordinance so well, they asked for the whole program so that they could copy it. There's ordinances being instituted against fast food restaurants being located within 500 ft. of schools. McDonald's has been forced to get rid of Ronald McDonald. There was some program where Michelle and her food police put cameras in schools to record the kids' trays with their food selections and then record the trays again when the kids were through eating.
And this is not just Olive Garden and Red Lobster. Darden Restaurants, Inc., is the parent company of many chains in addition to Olive Garden and Red Lobster. A while back, Michelle was appearing with Walmart and Walgreen executives who were announcing that they would be making our food choices "healthier."
I've also run across info that this may be a payback to the Obama Administration for granting waivers from ObummerCare to companies with payrolls that include a lot of part-time, low-pay employees; i.e. fast food restraurants. And all the while Miss Michelle BusyBody is working hard to control your food choices, there are pictures and stories all over the net about what the Obamas are eating...carrot sticks no where in sight.
Wake up, America. They're not only grabbing your french fries. They're grabbing private property rights, land, eliminating jobs through governmental agencies like EPA, DOT, DOJ, Fishing and Wildlife, DHS, lowering your standard of living and destroying your savings and the economy through the Federal Reserve...
I ran across this comment under an article discussing Michelle's ordering a 1700 calorie meal which, to me, kinda summarizes a lot of America's current reaction:
Posted by Br. France Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:50pm PDT
She probably took in a total of 300 or 400 calories. Most of those from the diet Coke.
Duuuuhhhhh!!!!!!!
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Labor Department Seeks New Rules To Restrict Use of Young Farm Workers
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| U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis |
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Fred Lucas
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking to update child labor laws to put more restrictions on farm workers under the age of 18 from working with manure, pesticides, driving tractors and engaging in certain other agricultural activities.
Department officials made the announcement on Wednesday during a conference call with reporters.
Public comment for the regulations is open until Nov. 1 of this year. The rules have not been updated since 1970, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said during the call. The current rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act already prohibit young workers from certain tasks.
“Children employed in agriculture are some of the most vulnerable workers in America,” Solis said. “Ensuring their welfare is a priity of the department, and this proposal is another element of our comprehensive approach.”
Exemptions would be made under the proposed rules for children who work on farms owned by their parents.
The strengthened child labor rules, which would be enforced by the department’s Wage and Hour Division, would bar agricultural work with pesticide handling, timber operations, manure pits and storage bins. Farm workers under the age of 16 would not be allowed to participate in working on tobacco. This would include cultivation, harvesting and curing tobacco.
The rules are also designed to stop anyone below the age of 18 from being employed in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials. Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, and grain silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.
Further, farm workers under the age of 16 would be banned from using all power-driven equipment, including tractors, with an exemption for student learners.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/labor-department-seeks-new-rules-restric
Hilda Solis...colorful character with "close ties to NCLR" ...and MEChA, I bet. 2011 Honoree for Excellence in Government Service at the MALDEF Gala Awards. Just type her name in your search bar. Betcha before long, you'll be livid.
"Although some of La Raza’s government funding was earmarked by congress, virtually all of it was doled out by the Obama administration. Sixty percent of La Raza's take came from the Department of Labor—run by Hilda Solis. They lobbied hard for her appointment and honored her with an award. She paid them back—with millions of our tax dollars." ~ Tom Tancredo http://townhall.com/columnists/tomtancredo/2011/07/29/por_la_raza,_nada/page/full/
Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs
14 Jul 2010 1:32 PM
When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn't know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat's milk, she raises cattle, pigs, and chickens, and makes the meat available via a CSA.)
But her 12-year-old daughter, Jasmine, wasn't the least bit tongue-tied. "She started back-talking to them," recalls Palmer. "She said, 'If you take my computer again, I can't do my homework.' This would be the third computer we will have lost. I still haven't gotten the computers back that they took in the previous two raids."
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This is a long article, but it lists several more raids in various parts of the country and documents the amount of force being used. ~Faye
Read the rest of the article here.
When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn't know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat's milk, she raises cattle, pigs, and chickens, and makes the meat available via a CSA.)
But her 12-year-old daughter, Jasmine, wasn't the least bit tongue-tied. "She started back-talking to them," recalls Palmer. "She said, 'If you take my computer again, I can't do my homework.' This would be the third computer we will have lost. I still haven't gotten the computers back that they took in the previous two raids."
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This is a long article, but it lists several more raids in various parts of the country and documents the amount of force being used. ~Faye
Read the rest of the article here.
Food Safety Bill: Unconstitutional
Ok. If this was noted as being unconstitutional before last Christmas, what's going on?
FDA Raids Kansas Winery - for Elderberry Juice • KSN News • June 3rd, 2011
I just remembered something...back when we were getting all the bad stuff from China, wasn't the FDA's excuse was that they had had their budget reduced and they did not have the personnel to sufficiently inspect the Chinese products? Hmmmm. ~Faye
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Rawsome Foods
This is a prime example of what I have been talking about with government controle at all levels.
Written by a well armed potential suspect...well hell (Ring) Huggins, be honest...you are general and originator of the Terlingua Liberation Front.
Hail Obama!
Cowing the Population
By Doug Hornig
The noose around Washington, D.C.'s neck continues to tighten, with no clear way to remove it. Behind the scenes, there is undoubtedly a rising sense of panic. That's bad. The last thing you want is panicky people operating the far-reaching power levers of the state.
But if push does come to shove, history teaches us, the government will not hesitate to clamp down on its subjects by whatever means necessary to preserve itself. And the best way to mute resistance is to prepare citizens ahead of time for escalating levels of police control. An enhanced law enforcement presence must be accepted as the new normal. But rest assured, it's "for our own good."
That disclaimer has been used to hoodwink decent folk forever. But the truth is, what's really up is the application of the time-tested political axiom that the more fearful people are, the easier they are to control. We've seen this principle at work for years. Politicians continually pass more intrusive laws; and police take increasing liberties with our rights, content that the courts will back them up... which they have done, as spineless judges hand them larger and larger cartes blanche to act however they please. The first ten amendments to the Constitution have been largely gutted. The things the Founders cared most passionately about have been tossed into the dustbin.
We're told: that our homes are no longer safe from no-knock entries, and warrants be damned (precisely the abuse that most riled the revolutionary colonists); that we should rat out our neighbors at the first sign that something is "amiss," just as in any communist state you care to mention; and that it should be regarded as okay that warrants of all kinds are commonly served by gangs of helmeted thugs, covered with body armor and toting a dizzying array of lethal weapons.
Readers of a certain age will remember when the police were called peace officers, as their job was primarily to maintain the peace. Who's heard that quaint term lately? No, now they are law enforcement officers, and they are at war with a widening swath of the citizenry. And the targets of overwhelming force are not just murderers and rapists and armed robbers. SWAT teams are routinely dispatched to deal with bickering spouses, zoned-out pot smokers, parking ticket violators, and those delinquent in loan payments.
Make no mistake about it: Authorities around the country have gotten the message from Washington that a complaisant populace is required. And they're dutifully applying the heat. It may seem odd that they're going after ever less-violent people, but it makes perfect sense. It's in the government's interest to suggest that all of us are potential suspects.
Take, for instance, the case of Rawesome Foods in California, a private buying club dedicated to bringing the most wholesome, natural food products to its members. Does that sound like a criminal conspiracy? It did to local and federal officials, who staged a joint SWAT-style raid on the club last week. Without a warrant, officers entered the storefront, seized cash, destroyed inventory, and jailed the club's founder.
But if those in power are really serious about creating a docile population, there is absolutely no better way to go about it than criminalizing children. Yes, children.
No, I'm not talking about SWAT raids here. But in a way, this is even more insidious, because the effort is directed at teaching kids at an early age that Big Brother is always watching and that you'd better be sure you obey the letter of every law (as if anyone could possibly know what they all are) or you're in for trouble with the Man.
This has been - and I swear I am not making this up - the summer of the lemonade-stand bust. Yep, children's lemonade stands have been closed down in states all over the country, including California, Oregon, and Texas - and even, astonishingly, in such bedrock, sensible-values American heartland states as Wisconsin and Iowa.
The latest of these important police actions came in small-town Georgia, where the local cops advised the kids in question that they had to cease and desist from selling their lemonade until they forked over $50 a day for a business license. Watch this news report only if you have a strong stomach and your outrage button is not easily pushed.
That video is instructive in oh so many wonderful ways.
First, take a good look at the head cop as she explains their actions. "The law is the law" is about as close as you can get to "I was only following orders." Squint your eyes a little. She'd look perfect decked out in SS lightning bolts, wouldn't she?
Next, consider the little girl who says, "... but we had to listen to the cops." She's learned her lesson.
Then there's mom. We're sure that if she were one of our readers that stand would've been up and running the next day, and every day until the police were forced to take those kids to court over this. But not here. This mom is backing away from the issue, saying, "I'm trying to teach my kids good, and I don't think it'll teach 'em good if I keep on an' on with this." Right, the lesson wasn't only for the children.
Finally, in addition to instilling fear of authority in our most impressionable citizens, there's an added kicker to this incident. What better way to kill the entrepreneurial spirit in its cradle and set us up for the day when we all work for the state?
Question: What's the point when we finally announce that we're not going to take it any more? If that point isn't when they go after our kids, then there isn't one.
Written by a well armed potential suspect...well hell (Ring) Huggins, be honest...you are general and originator of the Terlingua Liberation Front.
Hail Obama!
Cowing the Population
By Doug Hornig
The noose around Washington, D.C.'s neck continues to tighten, with no clear way to remove it. Behind the scenes, there is undoubtedly a rising sense of panic. That's bad. The last thing you want is panicky people operating the far-reaching power levers of the state.
But if push does come to shove, history teaches us, the government will not hesitate to clamp down on its subjects by whatever means necessary to preserve itself. And the best way to mute resistance is to prepare citizens ahead of time for escalating levels of police control. An enhanced law enforcement presence must be accepted as the new normal. But rest assured, it's "for our own good."
That disclaimer has been used to hoodwink decent folk forever. But the truth is, what's really up is the application of the time-tested political axiom that the more fearful people are, the easier they are to control. We've seen this principle at work for years. Politicians continually pass more intrusive laws; and police take increasing liberties with our rights, content that the courts will back them up... which they have done, as spineless judges hand them larger and larger cartes blanche to act however they please. The first ten amendments to the Constitution have been largely gutted. The things the Founders cared most passionately about have been tossed into the dustbin.
We're told: that our homes are no longer safe from no-knock entries, and warrants be damned (precisely the abuse that most riled the revolutionary colonists); that we should rat out our neighbors at the first sign that something is "amiss," just as in any communist state you care to mention; and that it should be regarded as okay that warrants of all kinds are commonly served by gangs of helmeted thugs, covered with body armor and toting a dizzying array of lethal weapons.
Readers of a certain age will remember when the police were called peace officers, as their job was primarily to maintain the peace. Who's heard that quaint term lately? No, now they are law enforcement officers, and they are at war with a widening swath of the citizenry. And the targets of overwhelming force are not just murderers and rapists and armed robbers. SWAT teams are routinely dispatched to deal with bickering spouses, zoned-out pot smokers, parking ticket violators, and those delinquent in loan payments.
Make no mistake about it: Authorities around the country have gotten the message from Washington that a complaisant populace is required. And they're dutifully applying the heat. It may seem odd that they're going after ever less-violent people, but it makes perfect sense. It's in the government's interest to suggest that all of us are potential suspects.
Take, for instance, the case of Rawesome Foods in California, a private buying club dedicated to bringing the most wholesome, natural food products to its members. Does that sound like a criminal conspiracy? It did to local and federal officials, who staged a joint SWAT-style raid on the club last week. Without a warrant, officers entered the storefront, seized cash, destroyed inventory, and jailed the club's founder.
But if those in power are really serious about creating a docile population, there is absolutely no better way to go about it than criminalizing children. Yes, children.
No, I'm not talking about SWAT raids here. But in a way, this is even more insidious, because the effort is directed at teaching kids at an early age that Big Brother is always watching and that you'd better be sure you obey the letter of every law (as if anyone could possibly know what they all are) or you're in for trouble with the Man.
This has been - and I swear I am not making this up - the summer of the lemonade-stand bust. Yep, children's lemonade stands have been closed down in states all over the country, including California, Oregon, and Texas - and even, astonishingly, in such bedrock, sensible-values American heartland states as Wisconsin and Iowa.
The latest of these important police actions came in small-town Georgia, where the local cops advised the kids in question that they had to cease and desist from selling their lemonade until they forked over $50 a day for a business license. Watch this news report only if you have a strong stomach and your outrage button is not easily pushed.
That video is instructive in oh so many wonderful ways.
First, take a good look at the head cop as she explains their actions. "The law is the law" is about as close as you can get to "I was only following orders." Squint your eyes a little. She'd look perfect decked out in SS lightning bolts, wouldn't she?
Next, consider the little girl who says, "... but we had to listen to the cops." She's learned her lesson.
Then there's mom. We're sure that if she were one of our readers that stand would've been up and running the next day, and every day until the police were forced to take those kids to court over this. But not here. This mom is backing away from the issue, saying, "I'm trying to teach my kids good, and I don't think it'll teach 'em good if I keep on an' on with this." Right, the lesson wasn't only for the children.
Finally, in addition to instilling fear of authority in our most impressionable citizens, there's an added kicker to this incident. What better way to kill the entrepreneurial spirit in its cradle and set us up for the day when we all work for the state?
Question: What's the point when we finally announce that we're not going to take it any more? If that point isn't when they go after our kids, then there isn't one.
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