Hot Dogs And French Fries And Cakes (Oh, My!)

Consumer Freedom.com ^ | May 1, 2003 | Unattributed

[Still Thinking]

Not content with attempting to ban soda, bake sales, and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches in schools, the food police now want your children to think there's no such thing as hot dogs or candy.

California's textbook review process routinely eliminates reference to foods considered unwholesome -- French fries, sodas, cakes, and even ketchup and butter. Some of the outrageous changes made to textbooks and tests include:

A piece on George Washington Carver, the inventor of peanut butter, was nixed because it might offend children who are allergic to peanuts.

A picture of a birthday party was purged because it included an "unhealthy" birthday cake.

The story "A Perfect Day for Ice Cream" was renamed "A Perfect Day." Also cleansed from the tale were the chili burgers and pizza.

Diane Ravitch, who was an Assistant Secretary of Education under President George H.W. Bush, details the "intricate set of rules" governing educational materials in her new book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Overzealous busybodies, writes Ravitch, believe that if they "can stop people from ever seeing offensive words and ideas, they can prevent them from having the thought or committing the act that the words imply."

[Still Thinking]

Nanny state liberals with too much time on the hands.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

dogs fries cakes

[Still Thinking]

Oops. Sorry about that!

[Lee Heggy]

These people make 'nanny state liberals' look good.

'Idiots' and 'morons' can't really help their condition so I wouldn't wish to further tarnish their image either by calling these people those names.

Even jackasses don't deserve to be lumped in with them either.

[Sloth]

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of human thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that will ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten." -- Orwell, 1984

[boycottliberalhollywood.com]

That figures! I have no doubt that amongst the bozos who are petitioning various California (and national) government agencies on this, there are the same folks who wave those "Legalize Hemp", "Legalize Medical Pot", etc. petitions in your face at the supermarket.

"Peanut butter? Bad! Bacon? Death! Cigarettes? Big Right Wing Tobacco Corporation! Evil! But hey dude, pass the bong, okay? And uh, you gonna eat that last brownie?"

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