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Egg Panels: The nanny-state social-engineering project that is the White House Easter Egg Roll
Slate ^ | Monday, April 5, 2010 | Christopher Beam

Posted on 04/05/2010 3:25:53 PM PDT by presidio9

The first thing you notice are the lines. A line to get your ID bracelet. A line to pass through the metal detector. A line to enter the South Lawn. A line for the bathroom. Even a line to escape.

The White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday was a revealing look at the Obama administration's love of social engineering—and a chilling glimpse of what fate may befall the American people if they fail to rise up against it. The theme of the celebration was, predictably, fitness—an agenda couched in the friendly-seeming slogan, "Ready, Set, Go!" Kids were encouraged to participate in a variety of sports, including football, basketball, and hula-hoops. The purported reason was to get them in good physical shape. The real reason: to wear down their resistance, through physical exhaustion, to indoctrination.

That indoctrination began before visitors even reached the entrance. While standing in line, attendees were forced to listen to a musical group called DJ Willy Wow! and Little Beat the No. 1 Chinchilla. Their message seemed harmless at first: "There's a party going on/ on the White House lawn." But soon they were endorsing political apathy, as the duo encouraged children to "Put your hands in the air/ and wave them like you just don't care."

Once inside, families were presented with a variety of social control experiments. Foremost was the egg roll itself. Children lined up and, on "go," proceeded to push their respective hard-boiled eggs across a small lawn. Not only does the practice of rolling eggs have no utility in the real world—a metaphor for the administration's useless "job creation"—children were also encouraged to cheat. One parent literally held her daughter's arms like a marionette and scooped the egg forward across the finish line.

Kids were also

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: badhumor; satire

1 posted on 04/05/2010 3:25:53 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Slate goes out of its way to mock the tea party.


2 posted on 04/05/2010 3:30:38 PM PDT by caper gal 1 (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Vote Conservative.)
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To: caper gal 1

I’m assuming you saw the stories from last week about Barry voiding the invitations to Catholic school children this year.


3 posted on 04/05/2010 3:39:37 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

Barack Hussein Obama practices bowing, preparing for his next encounter with the Saudi King, the Keeper of the Holy Places.

4 posted on 04/05/2010 4:05:29 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Kids were also subjected to the gospel of local, organic food. Whole Foods passed out bags of fresh fruit, presumably to teach kids that they can expect free handouts in life. Across the way, kids learned to “Eggspress” themselves by creating plastic medallions with their names on them—a glorification of the empty consumerism of hip-hop culture. Local restaurants set up “demo stations” to show families how to make healthy snacks. However, they were not allowed to serve the food. “We can’t give free samples or the Secret Service will tackle us,” said a man at the serving station for Moto, a high-end Chicago restaurant. “They’re not too fun.”

Fun was apparently detained at the White House gate. At the Easter egg hunt, kids searched through hay for hard-boiled eggs, rather than eggs filled with candy, i.e., the kind of eggs a child would actually want to hunt for. At the egg-dyeing station, kids used child-safe egg tongs rather than the usual octagonal wire. It might poke an eye out! I hoped at the very least to crack open my egg and have a taste. Not so fast. “Enjoy the beauty of your decorated eggs but please do not eat them,” said a sign. “They are not edible.”

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5 posted on 04/05/2010 4:33:43 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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Not one reference to the meaning of Easter! this is an example of government indoctrination superseding parents’
responsibilities.
6 posted on 04/05/2010 4:41:23 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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Parents have a CHOICE where they allow their kids to go.

Obama HAPPILY proclaimed, we are NO LONGER a Christian nation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D0A0DVUCaI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4X9Be-wwA


7 posted on 04/05/2010 4:45:52 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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