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Eat Your Mealworms, Hillary!
Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2015 | Katie Kieffer

Posted on 05/11/2015 4:53:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

Like Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton eats expensive steak—while expecting poor Americans to munch on mealworms.
I recently sat down with my Grandma Lee to ask her about growing up during the Great Depression. You see, as a Millennial, I empathize with my generation’s historic struggle to find jobs. I thought my grandmother—a former Democrat—would have some advice for my generation. 55 percent of Millennials intend to vote Democratic in 2016 and the largest subset of those voters (47 percent) lean toward Hillary Clinton, according to the latest Harvard research. This is because Millennials do not yet realize the connection between Clinton’s policies and their joblessness.

Grandma Lee told me how her mother Lizzy (my Great Grandmother) raised seven children alone on a South Dakota farm without any government assistance. Her husband died shortly after the seventh child was born during a sinus operation. Without a man by her side to help run the farm, Great Grandma Lizzy was forced to rely on herself and God.

Roadside bandits waited until she and her children left for Sunday Mass and then killed her dog and pilfered her gas supply; hail and freezing temperatures devastated her crops; and even many in-laws refused to lend a helping hand.

Meanwhile, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the country—living the life of a celebrity. Roosevelt hosted a controversial radio show purporting to proffer hope and unity to Americans struggling through the Great Depression and WWII. Roosevelt raked in $3,000 in ad revenue per show. According to American RadioWorks this was “more than $50,000 in today’s [2014] dollars when adjusted for inflation. That was more than the average American worker made all year.”

So, one day, Great Grandma Lizzy was listening to Roosevelt’s radio show. Grandma Lee was about 14 years old and distinctly recalls her mother’s reaction when the First Lady asked Americans over the airwaves to help the country save on coffee supplies (which were already rationed) by using their coffee grounds twice. Great Grandma Lizzy retorted, “She can use her coffee grounds twice but I won’t—and I’m sure she won’t.”

“Mother was a strict Democrat until she died. She wasn’t saying that because she was trying to run down the Democrats. She was broad-minded. In those days, the Democrats were more conservative than today’s Republicans. Coffee was the only thing Mother spent money on for herself. She didn’t allow herself any special treats because she was trying to raise seven children,” recalls my Grandma Lee.

So what does this story have to do with presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton? Well, Mrs. Clinton has a cozy relationship with former secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. On his website, Annan proudly shares an article describing how “His friend Bill Clinton” went to bat for him when he felt attacked by the media for his oversight of the Oil For Food Programme (OIP).

Bill Clinton introduced OIP when he was President of the U.S. and while Annan helmed the U.N. The program’s stated goal was to provide humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians. However, under Annan’s leadership, both the UN and the OIP were embroiled in successive scandals. A 2005 Volker Commission report found that the food "was unfit for human consumption.” Meanwhile, U.N. peacekeepers were discovered to be raping and forcing girls into prostitution.

Never one to let a man who abuses women derail her ascent to political power, Hillary has stood by both her husband and Annan. She’s been outspoken about her admiration for Annan, who she says “tirelessly” works to promote global peace.

Last fall, Bill and Hillary Clinton posed for the cameras while frying steaks at a Democratic fundraiser. This seemed a bit odd given that PETA has named Bill “Person of the Year” for his vegan diet which he has confessed to cheating on—eating fish, omelets and even “bites” of turkey, ham and steak. PETA does not seem concerned that Clinton’s definition of “bite” could mean a mounded plateful—given his penchant for redefining English words such as “is.”

Last week, the Clinton’s friend Annan announced that humans should start eating more insects as a way to reduce global warming. Annan claims “insects have a very good conversion rate to meat.”

According to a UN report, the protein content of “mealworms” is particularly “comparable” to that of fish and meat. I did the math, and Annan’s claim is true—but very impractical in the real world, especially for poor people who don’t have the luxury of hiring a personal insect chef.

One mealworm weighs approximately 130 mg. This means you’d have to eat 873 mealworms to get the equivalent protein of a quarter-pounder. Consuming 873 mealworms in one sitting is unrealistic given that Purdue University professor and insect expert Tom Turpin told the New York Times that the best way to scoff the sordid insects is “with one hand over [your] eyes.” On top of their stomach-churning appearance, mealworms make for high maintenance cooking. Humans could go extinct if we expect a poor family of four to fry 3,492 mealworms, three times a day.

When Hillary wants to befriend Midwestern farmers, she fries steak. In truth, she and her husband are best buds with a crony environmentalist who wants us to eat more insects. Kofi Annan, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton rake in awards like the Nobel Peace Prize while pushing so-called universal healthcare and meat-free diets that kill jobs and raise the cost of living for the poor.

If Great Grandma Lizzy were alive today, she’d say: “Eat your mealworms, Hillary!


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1 posted on 05/11/2015 4:53:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Mealy worms for cheap.........

2 posted on 05/11/2015 4:59:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Kaslin

Kofi Annan had a son in nigeria. Kofi hired the firm Cotecna inspections, a global inspection agency with HQ in Switzerland and offices everywhere including Nigeria.

Kofi Annan’s son in Nigerias was employed by Cotecna.

http://www.cotecna.com/

They are all crooks


3 posted on 05/11/2015 5:04:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert
Last fall, Bill and Hillary Clinton posed for the cameras while frying steaks at a Democratic fundraiser. This seemed a bit odd given that PETA has named Bill “Person of the Year” for his vegan diet which he has confessed to cheating on—eating fish, omelets and even “bites” of turkey, ham and steak. PETA does not seem concerned that Clinton’s definition of “bite” could mean a mounded plateful—given his penchant for redefining English words such as “is.”

Clintons: "Do as I say not as I do."

These self righteous Democrats get on my nerves. $500,000 speaking fees, Charitable foundations that manage on a good day to process 10% of their gross income to actual charitable works, it is a disgrace and these people should go to jail.

But this is the new America where there is one law for the Rich and well connected and another law for we the unwashed peasants .

4 posted on 05/11/2015 5:19:41 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Kaslin
Her husband died shortly after the seventh child was born during a sinus operation

Heck of a time to give birth.

5 posted on 05/11/2015 5:21:46 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

‘Snot funny.


6 posted on 05/11/2015 5:32:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

The writer should go back to school and take a grammar class. I guess her intent can be determined, but it is almost impossible to read.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 5:35:14 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Did she say her generation is akin to the generation of the Depression??? More like she’s akin to my generation who had trouble finding jobs in the early 70s. The Depression was much worse than any of this - as bad as it is.


8 posted on 05/11/2015 6:04:04 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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I am not disagreeing with you, but if the government was not keeping most of the support “under the radar” to protect people’s feelings, the bread lines would be huge.

A lot of this is “perception”, which is being managed pretty well.


9 posted on 05/11/2015 6:08:25 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Oh, blah, blah,


10 posted on 05/11/2015 6:14:05 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

One thing about the Depression. There was so much beef, pork, milk available that you could eat steak three times a day.
Just not enough people had money to buy it.

So, what did the Government do? They bought up whole herds of beef, pork and dairy. Slaughtered the animals and buried them, then dumped the milk, to get the prices up for people who still had no money to buy them at the higher rate.

Ten years later, the same government officials were now begging the ranchers to increase production of beef and pork to support the war effort. You still can’t make a cow have more than one calf a year!


11 posted on 05/11/2015 6:19:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Some times you need more than six shots. Much more.)
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To: Kaslin

Your Great grandmother Lizzy was typical of the tough breed of South Dakotans who endured the Great Depression and reminds me of my grandparents and parents who also endured hard times in the 1930s. My mother talked aboendure 120 degree temperatures, dust storms and grasshoppers eating everything in her family’s meager garden. My father remembered dust storms so intense the street lights came on at noon.


12 posted on 05/11/2015 6:40:49 AM PDT by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: miss marmelstein
The Depression was much worse than any of this - as bad as it is.

I completely agree with your take. I do not see Millennials struggling or suffering... they all still have their cell phones, internet, lattes, and free trade, GMO-free, organic starfruit from Whole Foods every week. They still are on mommy's health insurance... they are still living at home.

Anyways... Hillary can still consume feces and expire in a conflagration as far as I am concerned.

13 posted on 05/11/2015 6:43:59 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: bert
55 percent of Millennials intend to vote Democratic in 2016...

Millennials... heads full of mush. Time spent at government indoctrination centers has had an effect. And it's not good. Here's whole generation who think nobama is swell. Sorry, I can't get my head around that.

14 posted on 05/11/2015 6:51:11 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: upchuck

55% of millennials are as stupid as the clothes they wear...


15 posted on 05/11/2015 8:55:59 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Kaslin

Really-—there are two huge syntax errors in the first paragraph.

Are there no editors any more?


16 posted on 05/11/2015 9:38:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Would you kindly explain what they are?


17 posted on 05/11/2015 9:56:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Not that she cares, but Hillary! is likely to get a lot of people who take this advice killed:

Eating mealworms, insect larvae seen as an alternative to beef and pork, may pose a risk to people allergic to shellfish

18 posted on 05/11/2015 11:04:01 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Vermont Lt

If you wanted to be charitable, you could say the child born during the sinus operation was intentional humor.


19 posted on 05/11/2015 12:52:59 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: The Great RJ
and grasshoppers eating everything in her family’s meager garden.

Described quite well in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "On the Banks of Plum Creek." The whole season's wheat crop gone in a day.

20 posted on 05/11/2015 12:58:56 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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