We MUST ban these assault potato guns...FOR THE CHILDREN!
Posted on 06/16/2014 10:02:09 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Washington’s potato saga continues.
While the House considers a bill to include the potato in the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) food nutrition program, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is echoing First Lady Michelle Obama’s claims that including the potato is an assault on science.
“Republicans are even going after the nutrition for pregnant women and children, the WIC program. Mandating the WIC program include more white potatoes. You know, were talking about fruits, vegetables, whole grains and the rest, and they have an amendment that says more white potatoes than nutritionists recommend,” Pelosi said during her Thursday press conference.
“These assaults on essential nutritional standards are really hard to explain to anybody but we do know they reject science, they ignore clear cut facts and evidence, betray the best interest of America’s families while protecting special interest.”
“We have to do what’s right for our children and our families,” Pelosi said.
Last month, Michelle Obama was defending our families from potatoes with a commentary in the New York Times saying that adding the potato to the WIC program would “override science.”
As CNSNews.com previously noted, the Potato Council says that the First Lady's science is based on old data - not the latest government reports:
"Opponents of adding fresh potatoes to the WIC package are picking and choosing the science. Instead of relying on a 2005 report that looks at data from the mid-1990s, we argue that important federal nutrition programs should be based on the latest available science - in this case, USDA's own 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans."
"We appreciate the House and Senate members and staff who reviewed the science and the history of the WIC fruit and vegetable voucher program, and support a path forward that will allow WIC participants access to fresh potatoes."
This issue is expected to come up again in the House next Tuesday. You could call the looming debate, 'Return of the Spudeye'.
It takes someone as open-minded as Nancy Pelosi to turn:
“more white potatoes than nutritionists recommend”
in to
“going after the nutrition for pregnant women and children” and “assaults on essential nutritional standards”
Thanks for the ping!
I hope for her sake that she is dead by 2025. She’ll be about 140 years old by then, won’t she?
Oops! Sorry.
I thought you were talking about Pelosi.
I should have read the entire thread...
In California a spud gun is an illegal weapon, bummer because my kids and I had a hell of a lot of fun with them.
We MUST ban these assault potato guns...FOR THE CHILDREN!
Because only White potatoes are racist, so it is irrelevant to mention potatoes of color! I think moochelles biggest issue, her being a salt sucker from Memory Alpha, is the potatoes ability to neutralize salt thereby jeopardizing her future.
My favorites are those Redskin Pontiac potatoes. OMG, a Redskin potato named after an Indian chief.
fresh potatoes help stretch many a budget and food servings for a family in stews and soups. not that mooch ever ever had to worry about that
when is EBT gonna stop taking processed foods?
Whole societies subsisted on potatoes.
Well, let’s hope the killer potato eat’s her up.
They are a great source of potassium. These rats better stay out of my kitchen!
I would have been disappointed if fellow FReepers had not already posted a potato gun by post #28.
This is quite an exemplar!
That’s a nice one.
LOL on Nancy.
An Italian woman. With the best healthcare money can buy.
Destined to probably live to 95-100.
She’ll still be in Congress when MooseChelle becomes POTUS.
On a different note, I often shop at a grocery store with a "diverse demographic profile" and I have to observe that none of these welfare mommas and illegal aliens know how to cook. If it isn't preprocessed from the freezer case they aren't buying it.
I guess none them had to survive on beans and cornbread during the depression and the size of their butts proves it.
She better be careful where she treads. Hasn’t she ever heard of the “Attack of the Killer Tomato”? Well there is the “Attack of the Killer Potato”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7fr9bLJTQ
Dems sicken me.
So don’t eat potatoes. Don’t smoke. Don’t drink soda. Don’t use salt. Screw all of San Francisco. Dress your demon spawn in a dress and call him Sue so he can get his butt kicked when he goes to the LADIES restroom.
Just don’t tell me what to do. I want no part of your psychotic, freak world.
They don’t like potatoes because they’re white, well grounded, profitable and there are lots and lots of them. Many more than potatoes of color.
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