"Sarky , what do you get when you cross an onion with a donkey?"
Posted on 11/16/2010 9:40:42 AM PST by Nachum
Why were you looking to the right of the picture when there is great viewing to the left!
Truly, an excellent point, sir. It’s like the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
I don’t have a problem with this because, at least from my experience with school lunches, something should be done. I’d prefer it be done on a local level than a federal one, but something should be done. When I was in school in ancient times, we had balanced, nutritious lunches that tasted good too. In my son’s public school, their idea of an entree is nachos, and their idea of nachos is corn chips with melted cheese drizzled on them. No meat, no tomatoes, nothing else; just that. This year, they’ve gone the more-nutritional route, and they wind up with stuff that isn’t necesarily palatable to kids. My son reported a “disgusting piece of chicken with some kind of sauce on it” that, he says, nobody ate. It all went into the garbage. So much for the public schools’ concern that “this is the only meal a lot of kids get.” Of course kids always have the option of bringing something from home, which my son does most of the time. But if they’re going to provide lunch at school, what is keeping them from doing it right? They did it right in the ‘60’s in my school district. What is stopping them now?
“First lady to discuss obesity”
Her’s?
"Sarky , what do you get when you cross an onion with a donkey?"
Yeah, well I do. I don't want the federal government unionizing the school lunchrooms at taxpayer expense.
I didn’t address her wanting to unionize school lunchrooms at taxpayer expense because I didn’t see that in the article, and I looked twice.
Why not look at the legislation they are pushing?
Apparently you missed this piece by Michelle Malkin.
here is a link...
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/16/dems-hey-lets-raid-the-food-stamp-program-again-for-big-labor/
Let me know if- I mean, when you read it.
Wealthy enclaves in New Jersey have been in the forefront of healthy school food initiatives.
The costs have been obscenely expensive, the results have been poor, and the local produce farmers who signed up for the pilot projects are being trated like slave labor.
There has been no longitudinal studies published yet in NJ, so I have no idea if the programs work
ALso like to point out that the Newark New Jersey Public SChool system is a recipient of Aboott Decision wealth redistribution scheme imposed by the New Jersey Supreme Court and the school district has lost hundreds of millions of dollars through Court decision based frauds and scamas and mismangement.
THe Healthy foods initiative that is running inside the Newark SChool System is NOT being paid for by Newark residents and businesses, it is almost fully subsidized by the rest of New Jersey’s taxpayers while the SUpreme Court has forced the State to remove all school funding to many middle and upper class towns. And many of those middle class towns have the same school lunch food vendors as Newark had BEFORE the healthy foods initiative. BUt because these towns are paying upwards of 30% of their property taxes to subisdize Newark, the kids in those towns are still eating the same junk that the kids in Newark no longer have to suffer.
Gov Christie has vowed to put an end to this.
Michelle Obama is nuts to come into NJ and think she’s going to get good publicity out of this, she just stepped into the Abbott Decision controversy, one of the few reasons that could turn NJ into a Republican state at state level politics.
However, there is a problem here:
Add the fact that 15%+ of the school age population of Newark is illegal, legal or children of illegal aliens.
Top federal prosecutor in NJ: Being undocumented not a crime
AP, April 28, 2008
DOVER, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor told a Latino group it’s a civil offense — not a crime — for immigrants to live in the country without proper documentation, a comment that a spokesman later said was aimed at a narrowly worded question.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, widely considered to be a leading GOP contender for governor next year, spoke Sunday in response to a question on illegal immigration at an open forum that grew heated. He said living in the U.S. without immigration paperwork is “an administrative matter” that federal immigration officials are supposed to address through deportation.
“Don’t let people make you believe that that’s a crime that the U.S. attorney’s office should be doing something about,” Christie was quoted as saying in The Star-Ledger of Newark for Monday editions. “It is not.”
SO Christie pretends to be tough on fiscal issues while allowing an invading immigrant horde to take over the state and drain the gov budgets through the social safety net system while Michelle Obama sweeps into town promising better quality bread for the migrants children, and I guess that leaves Barack Obama as the circus of hope and change.
Oh wow, the surgeon general’s uniform shirt is unbuttoned on the shoulder!
I didn’t see that before. Thanks for the information.
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