Posted on 11/20/2013 6:08:13 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The school lunch drama continues, this time in Manitoba, Canada.
Close on the heels of a federally sponsored preschool in Virginia disallowing homemade lunches without a doctor’s note, a mom in Manitoba was given this note and a $10 fine when her children’s preschool felt that the lunch she sent from home required “supplemental” Ritz Crackers.
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These Canadian education bureaucrats should feel hoarably sorey about what they’re doing.
But they won’t.
Canadian Nanny State PING, eh?
What is funniest about this story is that the mother involved was ON THE BOARD THAT VOTED FOR THIS!!!
Talk about “Hoist upon one’s own petard”!
I just took a “Wellness Assessment” prepared by an affiliate of the Insurance company, providing coverage for employees of our corporation.
Aside from the looney tunes attempt to psychoanalyze me, via multiple choice questions, it also looks at dietary and health history data to make a broad assessment.
Two major annoyances:
1 - They want to know how many days per week do I have 5 or more servings of fresh fruits and vegetable????
NONE!!! I’m allergic to MOST fresh fruits and vegetables!!
But, there is no provision to convey that little detail, or how I compensate for that restriction.
2 - Regarding my bout with Cancer, they want to know if it’s still “being managed”?
There is no way to convey that was 7 years ago and I’m in full remission.
Yet, they feel free to score me and then share a bunch of motherly basics from your 8th grade health book.
It takes 10 years of full remission before you're considered cured, so you can answer "Yes" to that one.
Sorta like the Obamacare supporters down here who are being kicked off of their health insurance plans. :-)
Thanks for the ping!
Seems to me this is the perfect thread to post one's favorite picture of a delicious pot roast with carrots, onions and maybe gravy (potatos optional - prefer mashed with aforementioned gravy)...
And BTW, why does the bread for the lunch sandwich not count as "grain"?? Perhaps it was made with eeevil "Wonder Bread White"? But what's flour made out of? SHEESH...
1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.
[French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum, from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind; see pezd- in Indo-European roots.]
Word History: The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one’s own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare’s Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one’s own bomb, be undone by one’s own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
All my docs have said 5 years.
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