Posted on 04/19/2002 8:20:43 AM PDT by Starmaker
Remember, anytime you hear somebody use the phrase "public health," rest assured the trial lawyers and politicians are right around the corner. When the county I live in voted to sue gun manufacturers, for example, they cited "public health."
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Ronald Mcdonald always gave me the creeps.
He was never as creepy as that “Burger King” pedophile they trotted out in the seventies. That guy was scary.
And the scariest of all is eating at KFC where they have pictures of The Colonel on the utensils! I don’t like eating food with the creepy image of some dead southern plantation owner on my fork.
(((shudder))) Square dancing is good, as long as the class is co-ed!
Nope. I remain consistantly conservative with my position on abolishing the Department of Education, getting fedgov fingers out of our schools, and returning control to the state or, preferably, local communities. I simply do not go along with the simple-minded extremism of abolishing public schools altogether. That's asinine.
I once received a figure of the Burger King in said restaurant's equivalent of a Happy Meal. Camp mustache, sunburnt face, definately a perv of some sort.
Too big, I'm afraid.
Of course you side with the statists. Totalitarians, like clowns, are more frightening than funny.
IMHO, libertarian philosophy has eroded traditional conservative values.
97.7% statists, 0.3% Libertarian.
Make that 99.7% statists, 0.3% Libertarians.
Thank you Russell Kirk.
Hmmmm... So now I'm a totalitarian statist because I think meals for schoolchildren should be nutritious rather than commercialized junk-food?
Well, I'd suppose you'd also disagree with my radical opinion that swimming should be a high-school graduation requirement (with exemptions for those who have misfortunate physical limitations).
One of the hallmarks of socialism is that it seeks to regulate every facet of life (for the "common good," of course)" so no surprise here.
Although I think that fast food has contributed greatly to increasing American obesity, a more important culprit may be the low fat craze, which causes people to consume large quantities of starch, which converts into sugar, then fat.
Hey, I thought it was a brilliant move.
Yes, those evil libertarians are just plain evil for trying to put the reponsibility for people not becoming dumbed down back on the people themselves instead of on the government.
The menu changes in response to market pressures. They have to provide what the customer wants just to preserve their market share, but the customer doesn't usually say what he wants, he just buys when he is offered what he wants. The worst business practice is to put a kid on the register who doesn't know the new menu and who thinks the customer is retarded for asking for one of the new items.
Yep. If you want your kid to pig-out on Big Macs and jelly beans, stuff 'em in a brown bag in the morning. The school should have more nutritious meals available if you want your kid to go through the cafeteria line.
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