Posted on 07/16/2010 7:06:59 AM PDT by kcvl
You've seen the reports about Van Jones, President Obama's onetime "green jobs czar," and Cass Sunstein, his equally volatile "regulatory czar," and Fox News show host Glenn Beck has put together a list of dozens of such appointees.
Now here's the newest White House promotion: "Health food czar" Sam Kass.
"In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obamas' personal Chicago cook as 'Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives,'" reports the Washington government watchdog Judicial Watch.
"It's no joke, even though it sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chef's rapid ascension ... has been kept under the radar for the last month," Judicial Watch said.
According to an earlier CNSNews.com report, Michelle Obama confirmed – in talking about her White House campaign against obesity – that the condition "impacts national security" because it is a "disqualifier for military service."
Judicial Watch said the situation is so dire, President Obama has been convinced to spend $400 million a year on "healthy foods" in low-income neighborhoods as well as revise – at a cost of $10 billion – a federal plan to provide food to poor children in school.
Such an assembly of programs "no doubt requires a trusted senior policy adviser – like Kass – who is an expert in healthy cuisine," Judicial Watch said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Jes likes all her sistas, dat free food, once on da lips, forever on da hips.
Exactly what the Emperor of Rome did when things were going bad for him. He gave the people of Rome bread to keep them happy. Rome still fell, not because of food but because of a lack of leadership. Seems like we never learn from history.
Exactly. No doubt that reparations are under way.
How about a “Thin your butt” campaign?
Can’t believe I said that!
Well, that could be an improvement over the many horses' asses we have in the Senate.
Clop once for "yes", Senator, and you can go back to the trough.
Melody Barnes, Director of the President’s Domestic Policy Council.
MS. BARNES: — “wonderful, healthy foods, but there are food deserts in rural areas, as well. What we want to do, and what the President included in his budget is an initiative to lev—use public funds to leverage even larger private dollars to put the grocery stores in communities where they don’t exist and also some really creative and innovative ways—for example, “MOBILE GROCERY STORES” - where you’re moving those into communities where there’s not a lot of population density — but you want to make sure that people have access to those fresh fruits and vegetables.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2553049/posts?page=33#33
If they want people to eat more healthy foods, they could start by ending junk food bought using food stamps & welfare benefits. US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service online research tool called the Food Environment Atlas. http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/foodenv5.aspx Meanwhile - Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades (Feds want to enroll 16 million more people) http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396100/posts
Maybe there aren't any grocery stores in those communities because of ROBBERY & ASSAULT?! So now the GOVERNMENT is going to FORCE someone to open one? Screw the FREE MARKET! /s
The good news is that, under Obama, America seems headed for a resurgence of the old “health food standby,” cigarettes and donuts.
Really? Which one? The U.S. Military or the Øbammy civilian force?
At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.
“A recent study put the health care cost of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion a year,” Mrs. Obama said. “This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.”
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Michelle Obama plays the “national security” card
By Michelle Malkin • February 10, 2010 11:13 AM
Liberals are funny.
Everything is a “national security” issue to them…except, well, national security.
Global warming is a national security issue.
Health care reform is a national security issue.
And now, First Lady Michelle Obama is pushing her anti-obesity platform as a national security issue. Via CNSNews (hat tip: Doug Powers):
WND previously has reported on the health-care rationing czar, Don Berwick, and Internet czar Susan P. Crawford.
Also, homosexual activist Kevin Jennings was named Obama’s “safe schools” czar.
WND was the news agency that broke the first major story on Obama’s “green” jobs czar Jones.
Also, WND exposed Sunstein, Obama’s “regulatory czar,” as an advocate of a “Fairness Doctrine” for the Internet.
Science czar John Holdren also was exposed and the subject was highlighted in WND’s Top 10 stories of 2009.
The Obama appointeese also were featured in a Whistleblower magazine edition called “SHADOW GOVERNMENT.”
The magazine issue introduced people “like Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner nominee Chai Feldblum, who endorses polygamy, and AIDS czar Jeffrey S. Crowley – both openly homosexual.”
“Then there’s Patrick Gaspard, officially the ‘director of the office of political affairs,’ but whom critics call ‘ACORN’s man in the White House.’
And defense policy adviser Rosa Brooks, a George-Soros-trained ideologue and anti-military radical who urged the prosecution of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for ‘war crimes,’” the report said.
“And FCC diversity czar Mark Lloyd, who believes the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ – unanimously repealed by the FCC in 1987 – was never repealed, wants to destroy conservative talk radio, and described Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez’s rise to power in Venezuela as ‘an incredible revolution.’”
According to Beck’s compilation, the list of czars includes:
Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan czar
Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS czar
Ed Montgomery, auto recovery czar
Alan Bersin, border czar
David J. Hayes, California water czar
Ron Bloom, car czar
Dennis Ross, central region czar
Todd Stern, climate czar
Lynn Rosenthal, domestic violence czar
Gil Kerlikowske, drug czar
Paul Volcker, economic czar
Carol Browner, energy and environment czar
Joshua DuBois, faith-based czar
Jeffrey Zients, government performance czar
Cameron Davis, Great Lakes czar
Van Jones, green jobs czar
Daniel Fried, Guantanamo closure czar
Nancy-Ann DeParle, health czar
Vivek Kundra, information czar
Dennis Blair, intelligence czar
George Mitchell, Mideast peace czar
Kenneth R. Feinberg, pay czar
Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar
John Holdren, science czar
Earl Devaney, stimulus accountability czar
J. Scott Gration, Sudan czar
Herb Allison, TARP czar
Aneesh Chopra, technology czar
John Brennan, terrorism czar
Adolfa Carrion Jr., urban affairs czar
Ashton Carter, weapons czar
Gary Samore, WMD policy czar
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