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Time to eat our peas! = Let them eat cake!
News | 12 July 2011 | Mene

Posted on 07/12/2011 5:15:06 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

We've been eating our peas for 40+ years now. So many of us have been slaving at our jobs, mistreated by leftists who hate us, paying taxes and continuing to endure corruption from the President, members of Congress (BOTH parties), Federal officials across all agencies, State officials across all agencies and local officials. In the meantime, we drive by house after house occupied by those who are provided food, clothing, transportation, education and healthcare at our expense and fill their shopping carts with all of the fine foods we long to eat checking out in front of us at the grocery store. We see many of those same individuals working for cash on the side to hide income giving them the good life while those of us who try to do what is right suffer horribly.

And then Obama says it's time to eat our peas? It might have been more truthful for him to have said, "Let them eat cake!"

Words do not exist in any language to describe our rage except the script of those enslaved in history who managed to pen their thoughts on paper before being eliminated. We are living in evil times is the understatement of the year. The cycle of history continues.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: cake; peas
This president and this government are beyond understanding. We just had our "Let them eat cake!" moment in our history.
1 posted on 07/12/2011 5:15:08 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

No politician of any party can make a statement like that without being completely and appallingly detached from the American people and the issues.


2 posted on 07/12/2011 5:27:54 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
When I was a kid, we grew peas in our garden.
But weirdly enough, I always liked the ones in TV dinners better. They were really "green" looking. Probably full of chemicals. This was in the late '50s - mid '60s.

I liked 'em.
3 posted on 07/12/2011 5:28:58 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

A good bumper sticker for 2012:

Dear Leader’s answer to the overburdened taxpayer: Let Them Eat Peas!


4 posted on 07/12/2011 5:31:49 AM PDT by IWONDR
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It would seem that we now need a Pea Party. Let’s dump peas into the Potomac.


5 posted on 07/12/2011 5:33:51 AM PDT by all the best
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Obama is so arrogant!
6 posted on 07/12/2011 5:35:39 AM PDT by Cricket24 (Proud to be a CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!!!!!!!)
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To: all the best

Tine for nobama to resign, more likely.

Remember, Citizen...

nobama hates you, hates your family, hates Free America, hates Americans, hates the Constitution and hates the Bill of Rights. nobama is a hate crime foisted upon America. nobama is the Destroyer.

Everything nobama does is intentional.

God help us all.


7 posted on 07/12/2011 5:37:19 AM PDT by hal ogen ( of Rights.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

First, I like peas. Second, peas are more of a starch than anything else, so it really makes no sense to try to make kids eat peas. If you want to make them eat a green vegetable, it should be something more nutritious and less starchy, like green beans or broccoli. Third, FUBO.


8 posted on 07/12/2011 5:51:12 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Tainan
I've been eating these peas forever.

Not the big green frozen kind you mention. Never liked those. I like these mushy ones, more of an olive green, sort of taste like asparagus.

9 posted on 07/12/2011 5:53:22 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Huck

Our dragons love the big green frozen peas. I tried to grow peas in the garden this year, but the cats dug them up. Also the carrots. Maybe next year ...


10 posted on 07/12/2011 6:01:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!" ~ John Adams)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

He needs to eat his words.


11 posted on 07/12/2011 6:04:46 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: Darteaus94025

“...He needs to eat his words....”

Don’t worry. He will. November 2012.


12 posted on 07/12/2011 6:21:56 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Peas?
I hate, despise, loath, have aversion to, detest, am repulsed by, have revulsion to, spite, abhor, recoil from, curse, shun and spit upon peas.

According to this very scientific poll - :>) - 60% of people Hate Peas:
http://amplicate.com/hate/peas

Barry - eat your own peas, bite it.


13 posted on 07/12/2011 6:27:32 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Agenda21: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
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To: Tainan

As I was reading your post, the taste of those peas, the ones in the foil TV dinner hit me, I could, for a brief instant remember their taste, and yes, they were great.

I also, for some strange reason, liked the sliced carrots in those foil TV dinners, but I abhor eating carrots now.

TV dinners were very exciting to us as a kid, perhaps that was the appeal, they were a treat, or so it seemed as a kid, we had them very infrequently, but when we did, it was like a mini-holiday dinner for my siblings and I.

Now, they are just gross.


14 posted on 07/12/2011 6:43:15 AM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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To: Tainan

Mmmm..TV dinners. Didn’t you love the Salisbury Steak with the mashed potatoes, gravy and peas. There was always a little dessert of some type - cherry cobbler or such. Loved those and also loved the frozen chicken pot pies.

Wouldn’t touch the stuff now.


15 posted on 07/12/2011 7:05:43 AM PDT by randita
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Just eating your peas Michelle?
First Lady spotted consuming ‘1,700
calorie’ Shake Shack meal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013707/Michelle-Obama-spotted-consuming-1-700-calorie-Shake-Shack-meal.html


16 posted on 07/12/2011 7:09:06 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

In honor of the Black Eyed Peas taking an indefinite break..thank goodness...and Obama’s Let them Eat Peas moment..I give you

Shut Up by the Black Eyed Peas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMtlZjXpU


17 posted on 07/12/2011 7:13:14 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: esoxmagnum; randita
Looks like I was not alone in my appreciation of the TV Dinner treat. Yes, it was a special thing back then. Sounds kind of funny to say it, but thats what it was.
Mother made much better fried chicken - but the midget drumsticks from dwarf chickens under the foil was fascinating. Peel back the foil on the, what I learned to be, institutional mashed potatoes, which never seemed to get cooked all the way, then watch the steam come out from the peas & carrots, add some butter and it was a fun meal.
Pot pies...loved them also. Especially the 'burned crust' on the edges....lol!

Man...I don;t think I've had a TV Dinner in 40 yrs....now freezer boxes of fried chicken...thats another convenient late meal story...:)
18 posted on 07/12/2011 7:38:40 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: Tainan

lol, yes, the tiny drumsticks! and the potatoes always had a cold center with boilin hot butter substance on the top!

Oh, and the cranberry compode (or whatever it was) would always have a few stray peas in it when you peeled back the foil!

The chicken was horribly soggy, but was such a treat for some unknown reason. And yes, my mom could fix much better, but I think it was the novelty of it at the time. We were dirt poor, but for some reason, that shiny tray made me and my siblings feel like we were living large!

Also, after being washed out, it was not uncommon for us boys to make robot masks out of the foil tray and run around the yard with our home made lazer beam guns (usually just tinker toys or erector set creations).

The last good frozen pot pie I had was years ago, it was a Mrs’s something. It had such large chunks of white meat in it, and it was big enough for the wife and I (this was 15 years ago I bet). Well, a couple of years ago, we saw what we thought was the same brand, it looked the same, it was a “Mrs’s” something or another, so we got a few. They were horrible. There was very little meat, the crust was nasty, and then we looked at the box and they were owned by some big company (guessing Kraft or something). Not sure if they were bought out, or we just got a brand we though was the same, but we don’t do the frozen ones after that.


19 posted on 07/12/2011 11:22:17 AM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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