Posted on 02/12/2012 5:14:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
First lady Michelle Obama Saturday visited the Florida megachurch where one of President Obama's spiritual advisers is the pastor. She encouraged faith-based groups to join her campaign against obesity, saying "your bodies are temples given to you by God." "Sometimes folks won't do it if it wasn't said right here," she said, speaking to about 3,000 people from more than 120 congregations and organizations, representing over 15 faiths and denominations, at Northland, A Church Distributed in central Florida.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, a spiritual adviser to President Barack Obama and who serves as senior pastor of the Northland church, introduced Mrs. Obama as a "talented, caring, a very physically fit first lady" who is most proud of being "Malia and Sasha's mom." She was in Orlando on the last day of her three-day tour to mark the second anniversary of her "Let's Move!" initiative to fight childhood obesity.
"You serve as a beacon for those who are lost, a refuge for those who've been forgotten," she told religious individuals and groups. "And our faith communities don't tend only to folks' spiritual health but to their emotional and their physical health as well," she said. "Think for a moment about the scripture that tells us that your bodies are temples given to you by God. That is a core teaching of so many of our faiths – a teaching that calls us to honor and nourish the bodies we've been blessed with, and to help others do the same."
She said one-third of children in America are overweight or obese and therefore at risk for serious conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease "that undermine their health, that diminish their prospects, and they cost our economy billions of dollars each year."
While Michelle Obama might like to keep her campaign separate from politics, her tour, which comes months before the presidential election, boosts the president's image. Reporters asked her about her husband's re-election bid while she was touring in Dallas on Friday, to which she replied, "I want him to be my president for another four years." She added that her approach to campaigning is, "This is the time that I have to give to the campaign and whatever you do with that time is up to you, but when it's over, don't even look at me... No calls. No anything."
While Obama's talk at the church on Saturday drew a lot of cheering and laughter, her arrival at the church campus was marked by anti-abortion protests. Activists held up placards declaring abortion as murder, but didn't mention her husband's administration by name.
The first lady praised Pastor Hunter's megachurch, which has a congregation of 15,000. It's no accident, she said, that the Northland church hosts classes to "help folks lead healthier lives."
"It's no accident that, long before we ever started 'Let's Move,' so many congregations were already sponsoring health ministries and fitness classes, hosting food pantries and summer nutrition programs for our kids."
Obama also mentioned the National Council of Churches, which she said had joined with Ample Harvest, an organization that helps gardeners donate fresh produce to 4,700 of their local food pantries. "The National Baptist Convention is aiming to have health ambassadors at all of their nearly 10,000 churches by September," she added. "And some of their churches have already created "no fry" zones in their congregations."
She said all faith communities were promoting a healthy lifestyle. "Muslim community leaders are hosting sports tournaments to encourage young people to get active," she said. "The Jewish Community Centers Association is working with JCCs around the country to grow gardens, and to get fresh food into underserved areas, and they're [creating] early child wellness programs."
She told the crowd that members of Let's Move Faith and Communities, which was created to partner with faith-based groups, had sponsored more than 1,000 summer nutrition sites providing millions of healthy meals for children in need. "So just imagine what we could achieve if every single organization and every single congregation in America got involved in this way… Imagine how many children we could feed… Imagine how many lives would be transformed."
The first lady recalled the days when she was growing up, saying, "You might not even understand how life was back then. Most of us led reasonably healthy lives. We walked to and from school every day – rain or shine." But the times have changed. "How many of us find ourselves looking forward to that fried chicken and mac and cheese, pound cake, after church on Sunday?" she asked. "Some people come to church just for the fried chicken."
She also underlined the need to revive the tradition of cooking and eating in the kitchen. "We still do that at the White House. It's a little, bitty kitchen – big, old house, everybody sitting in the kitchen. No matter where – you're sitting in the kitchen. I'm not cooking, but … but we still like the kitchen. Dirtying every pot, cooking everyone's favorite dishes, talking, laughing, sharing stories late into the night. That's family."
Obama said the government doesn't have all the answers. "There's no one-size-fits-all program or policy that will solve this problem. Every family and every community is different. Each of us needs to make the changes that fit with our budgets, our beliefs, and our tastes."
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Moochelle, "The Food Nazi"??? Saaaaay it isn't sooooo!!! /s
Her agents are now in preschools and kindergartens examining the preschool students' lunch boxes for "compliance" with her dictates. Read on:
February 14, 2012
Federal Agents Inspect Your Child's Lunch
RUSH: This is from Raeford, North Carolina. Carolina Journal. I'm gonna read it to you exactly as it printed out here:
"A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice did not meet US Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day."
RUSH: There are federal agents inspecting lunch boxes? ......at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford, North Carolina, every student had their lunch box inspected. And I think every student failed in having a nutritious lunch by the agent in charge, which is probably an SEIU union cafeteria worker. ...I've not heard of agents declaring that what's in them is not nutritious enough and throwing them out and substituting three chicken nuggets.
"The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs -- including in-home day care centers -- to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home. When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones. The girl’s mother --- who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation -- said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a 'healthy lunch' would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.
'I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for her from home,' the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative... The girl’s grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread and is not big on vegetables. 'What got me so mad is, number one, don’t tell my kid I’m not packing her lunch box properly,' the girl’s mother [said]. 'I pack her lunch box according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn’t really care for vegetables."
RUSH: Do you believe this? I do! ..... I wonder: How many people, how many parents are acquiescing to this? "When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste. 'She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,' her mother said. 'You're telling a 4-year-old. "Oh. your lunch isn’t right," and she’s thinking there’s something wrong with her food.'" What is wrong with a turkey sandwich and a banana?
RUSH: Lucas in Boone, North Carolina. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Greetings from the People's Republic of North Carolina. ... About eight months ago my wife and I decided to enroll our son in daycare here in North Carolina, and I got this huge packet of sheets that I had to fill out, and they, you know, field trip permission slip, take your photo permission slip, and one of them was, "By signing this you agree that you'll meet the state's requirements for a preschool lunch," even though I'm packing it. And it says I have to have six ounces of milk or a milk substitute, four ounces of meat or a meat substitute, three ounces of grain, three ounces of vegetable, three ounces of fruit, and goes on and on and on. And I did not sign it and I fought about it with them and they pointed me to the state official that I could talk to, and they told me that, "If your son doesn't like milk just pack it anyway and we'll dump it out for you and then you can pack something else." And I said, "Do you know how much a gallon of milk costs?" And they said, "Well, that's the rules and you have to follow 'em if you want to be in daycare." So now I've got the government telling me that I'm not smart enough to feed my own child.
RUSH: Yep. North Carolina, same state as the kindergarten requirements I just described.
CALLER: It's unbelievable.
RUSH: "The food Nazis -- and, by the way ...this is all coming from Michelle Obama. There are agents in preschools, kindergartens in North Carolina examining the preschool students' lunch boxes. State agents!
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April 27, 2011
Who is "Serious" and Who Isn't?
RUSH: "...What did Obama tell the GOP when they first met him early in his term. [2009] They had the Republican and Democrat leadership up to the White House within the first couple of weeks. He said, "Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh if you want to get anything done. That's not how things get done here. You don't listen to Rush Limbaugh." So one of his first messages was to attack a pop icon like Rush Limbaugh. Obama is a pop icon! He's looked at as a pop icon even by his supporters. ..."
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January 20, 2012
The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good
Joel Hunter: "We’ve developed a consumerist, self-centered culture. ... we fear that ‘they’re going to take away what I have.’ Or ‘Government programs are going to take away my hard-earned dollars.’ There are remnants of that now, in right-wing talk radio– Limbaugh, Hannity....just awful."
"Here’s what I think the enemy is: the luxury of being simplistic, of not understanding how complex problems are and how much cooperation is required to solve them. Evangelicals went through a period where we formed homogeneous affinity groups. You cloister together and think everybody else is the enemy. One reason I’m thrilled with Obama’s presidency is that he likes a broad spectrum of perspectives. Out of those he will glean a practical solution good for everyone. He’s got the intellectual capacity to handle the job. I’ve been in conversations with organizations our government can’t even talk to - like Hezbollah. The enemy is never as scary or threatening up close."
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. --Churchill
I just wanted to say a few more things about Murray's Coming Apart, ..... It's a very important book, not one to race through and toss aside.
One of Murray's most important takeaways is that for some fifty years our elites have been preaching a doctrine which legitimizes dysfunctional values and behavior, but which they themselves would never practice, except perhaps at the margins. In other words, they toy with certain degenerate behaviors and attitudes as a means of gaining "authenticity," but you generally don't see liberal politicians, CEOs, lawyers, and educators with barbed wire tattoos around their necks and six baby mamas.
Insofar as culture is concerned, when the elites sneeze, the lower classes catch pneumonia, the reason being that the poorer one is, the less margin for error there is in one's behavior; or, to put it the other way around, the more likely it is that one will receive negative feedback, i.e., punishment. The wealthy and powerful such as Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, or ___ Kennedy, can get away with years of dysfunctional behavior, where you or I would have long ago hit the wall financially, vocationally, legally, or medically.
Murray makes it clear with abundant statistical evidence that successful elites, to the extent that they are successful, do not practice what they preach or preach what they practice. If anything, they are more narrowly bourgeois and predictable than the conservatives of my acquaintance, but for some reason like to pretend that they are "liberated," or "free-thinkers," or "avant-garde."
Apparently there is some sort of guilt over being a successful conformist, so they must rebel in symbolic ways -- a discrete tattoo here, the trace of a pierced ear there, the proudly ignorant contempt for traditional religion, which is to say, religion. These are all status markers of the new elite, like an invisible code they all share.
Murray reminds us that another important part of the liberal elite code is nonjudgmentalism. We all know this is an empty pose, since ....."
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North Carolina in Uproar Over Pre-School Lunch Inspection by Federal Agent
February 16, 2012
It’s not being reported, but the state of North Carolina is in an uproar over this...
.......Now, here’s the latest from the Carolina Journal: “The national uproar over a 4-year-old’s recent encounter with a preschool lunch monitor at a Hoke County elementary school has prompted two members of the [North Carolina] congressional delegation to fire off a letter expressing ‘strong concern’ to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
“’This unfortunate and absolutely unnecessary event exemplifies the very definition of “government overreach” and further perpetuates a growing reason of why the American people continue to hold less and less faith in our government,’ writes U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell, D-8th District, in the letter co-signed by Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd District. Kissell represents the district in which the incident took place. The incident, in which the child’s lunch was deemed by someone at the school as failing to meet federal nutrition guidelines [established by Michelle Obama], was reported in a Feb. 14 story by Carolina Journal associate editor Sara Burrows. It quickly garnered major coverage on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, cable news channels,” Drudge, and so forth.
“No state or school official has identified the person who intervened during the child’s lunch period to tell her she was eating a sub-standard lunch...”
And you have to understand, don’t doubt me on this, the message that was delivered from this agent to the little girl is: “Your mom doesn’t know what’s best for you; we do. You can’t trust your mom. Your mom is not making you a healthy lunch.” That’s the message. That’s the purpose of this. This is not about nutrition. This is not about making sure this four-year-old eats right.
This is about control. Like everything Obama’s doing, like everything the liberals are about, this is about control. This is about taking control of every citizen at a public institution run by the government, i.e., this school. So this little girl has this well-intentioned government official tell her that the lunch her mommy gave her is not good. It’s not healthy. This little girl went home. From what I understand, this little girl went home and asked her mother why she doesn’t care about her. I’m paraphrasing. The little girl went home and said something to her mother like, “The people at school told me that you weren’t giving me good lunch,” or something like that. This is how easy it is.
This is how easy it is. This is why, in North Carolina, people have lost their cookies. People are roiled, precisely because of this. This whole state is up in arms over this. You’re just not seeing it. It took the TV station in Raleigh two days to report on this, and when they reported it it’s still from the sympathetic standpoint of the government. But there are families — moms and dads, grandmothers and grandfathers — all over the state of North Carolina saying, “Why the hell is there a federal agent in the school investigating the lunch box in the first place for?” But the real point of this is not to make sure the girl gets the chicken nuggets.
By the way, chicken nuggets versus a banana and turkey-and-cheese sandwich? Who’s giving who a questionably nutritious food item here? But it’s not about that. It’s about control. It’s no different than back in the intense days of abortion when men were portrayed as predators. The whole point was to get little girls thinking their daddies were gonna hurt them, their daddies were dangerous, their daddies were somebody they had to be protected from. Same things here. Don’t doubt me on this. .... This is who they are.
Call ‘em statists, call ‘em neostatists, call ‘em dictators, call ‘em whatever. People who know better than you. Don’t doubt me. You know that this happening throughout our culture now. Government knows better than you. Government knows better than you what’s good for you. They don’t think that you have what it takes to make the right decisions anyway. That’s why they want as many people dependent as possible: To control ‘em! So they create doubt and distrust in this little girl’s mind about her mommy.
Now, it says here, “No state or school official has identified the person who intervened,” but we may know, because there’s another story about this.
It is from the CBS TV affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky, WKYT. Headline: “Frankfort School Cafeteria Gets Visit from USDA Official.” And the name of this official is Audrey Rowe. Audrey Rowe is visiting schools all over the nation. “’Everything we can do to make food taste good,’ Rowe told students at Elkhorn Middle School in Frankfort on Wednesday. The USDA official from Washington, DC got a first-hand look… and taste of school lunches in Kentucky. ‘I think we can make it to where one day you’ll say “that lady was here and I like this food now.” That’s what I’m working on,’ she said.”
So in this case a woman named Audrey Rowe goes to a middle school, and what she wants the students to think is that because the federal government was there, the food is good now.
The food, the lunches provided by the parents is not good, not healthy, doesn’t meet federal guidelines. But this federal agent roars into town, takes a look at the school, the cafeteria, what the students are eating, and says to the students, “I think we can make it to where one day you’ll say ‘that lady was here and I like this food now.’ That’s what I’m working on.” Could it be that this was the woman that was in North Carolina on Wednesday? I have no idea. The story says it was a state agent, and this woman is a state agent.
If it’s not the same woman, it’s the same mentality.
A Google search reveals that Audrey Rowe has been very busy inspecting many school cafeterias around the country for many months now. When did it become the federal government’s job to make sure school lunches taste good? Not that we really believe making food taste good is her ultimate role here. Once again, this is about control. This is about creating the impression in the minds of these kids that the federal government was here, and because of that, the mistakes your parents make or the mistakes everybody else in the cafeteria makes, we’re gonna fix it. Your food’s gonna taste good. You’re gonna have the right food. We love you. We are taking care of you. We know better for you than your families do. We know better for you than the principal does. We know better than your teachers do. We, the federal government, and we are from Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, and we are who will make your life better.
“Taylor Boggs ate lunch with Rowe, who’s worked directly with President Obama on school lunch legislation,” this woman has. Well that would make her Michelle Obama’s enforcer.
She’s the deputy administrator of the USDA’s food and nutrition service. As a black woman from Chicago, she went to Harvard, she’s a natural fit for the job. “Usually for students, if they don’t have a good lunch, sometime around mid-afternoon, they get sluggish, start having issues,” said Audrey Rowe. “Rowe says the bottom line is that school lunches today are going to be a lot different next year,” once Michelle really gets her hands on the levers of power. “8th graders say their meals are pretty good, but some days… ‘It’s really greasy…and not fresh.’”
These government chicken nuggets can be greasy, can’t they? “Rowe says some districts have brought in chefs in to make changes.” Yeah, these are SEIU chefs, by the way. These are SEIU cafeteria workers. These are Obama union thugs being brought in here.
“Elkhorn Middle School was given the thumbs up for already serving fat free milk and whole grain buns. ‘I’m really pleased with what I see here in Kentucky. Other school districts are not as far along,’ Rowe said. Rowe says the new laws will not just change what is served in cafeterias, but what is allowed in vending machines and other areas of the school.”
Now, remember, this has all been tried in California.
They tried the healthful stuff in California and there was a black market created in Doritos and Lay’s Potato Chips and everything else that you could no longer get in the vending machines and they finally had to give up and put the garbage food back in. They were about to have riots. The kids did not want to eat chickpeas, garbanzo beans, and tofu.
So I don’t know if this was the same woman. Probably not. But the mind-set is the same. You got federal agents in schools and what they’re doing is telling the kids their parents can’t be trusted. Not that their parents mean them harm. Their parents just aren’t competent. They’re just not as good at this as we are. Trust us.
....Anyway, this is the kind of thing that when it happens and people hear about it, they get up in arms. Nobody who voted for Obama intended for this, I guarantee you. Very few.
The vast majority of the literal mind-numbed robots that voted for him did not think this is what was going to happen.
I want to read you a passage from Obama’s second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope. I’ve read this to you before. This is from page 36. This is Obama writing in his second autobiography. Quote, “We all agree that there must be limits to the state’s power to control our behavior, even if it’s for our own good. Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.”
Well, I guess that doesn’t mean much. “Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government —” wait a minute. That doesn’t mean he’s not gonna do it. He just says you wouldn’t be comfortable with it.
So Obama wrote that back in 2006, and it doesn’t mean he’s not going to monitor what we eat. It just means he knows we’re not gonna like it. Plain as day. “Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.” But because of the rising rates of obesity and because of how much of our medical spending is being spent on that stuff, we’re gonna have to monitor what people eat. He doesn’t say it, but the implication is clear.
I want to wrap up this North Carolina thing and move on. It’s big, and I could spend another hour on this with perspective, but there are other things I must get to today.... What’s happening now is the CYA. Everybody at the Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina, this preschool, is trying now to shift the blame elsewhere or to say that this story is not what it’s being reported to be.
There aren’t jackbooted thugs in here! The story going out now is that it was just a misunderstanding, that the four-year-old little girl was never made to eat the chicken nuggets, that she was just a little confused and a little stupid.
In fact, the Raleigh television station’s online story on this features a headline which (if you read it the right way, if you know where their starting point is on this), you could say, you can assume that they’re basically agreeing here with the little girl basically being a little confused, maybe a little stupid. It’s just all a misunderstanding!
But put yourself in the situation that this four-year-old little girl’s in. Now, you’re four years old. Everything can scare you. Here comes an adult telling you that your lunch isn’t good. “Your lunch isn’t good! Your mommy didn’t make the right kind of lunch. Here’s what you need to be eating!” and they plop some chicken nuggets in front of her.
A four-year-old kid is not gonna have any concept of her rights. She’s not gonna sit there and be able to argue with this big adult who is automatically conferred with authority just by being there. You’d be scared to death to not do what the adult says!
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is stonewalling. Nobody will identify who this “agent” was. This agent is unnamed, unidentified, and nobody will claim, “Yeah, he was one of ours! Yeah, she was one of ours.” The feds, the state, nobody will claim ‘em. There’s one report that it was a grad student or something from the University of North Carolina. But nobody knows.
So everybody, says, “Oh, you won’t tell us who it was? Hmm. I wonder what you’re trying to hide?” The local congressman is asking to speak with the school administration. The school administration is refusing to talk to the local representative, won’t return the phone calls.
So, at any rate, I’m telling you one more time what this is all about. This is not accidental. This is not good intentions. This is not a bunch of adults from the federal government or Michelle (My Belle) Obama’s department, whatever, thinking they’re really gonna improve nutrition for kids. That’s not what this is about. That’s the vehicle. What this is about is control.
What this is about — honestly, folks — is separating young kids from their homes and their families by causing or creating doubt and distrust from the child to the parents. You’re a four-year-old little girl, an adult comes and tells you what’s in your lunch box is not good for you, “Well, who put it there? Your mommy did! That lunch isn’t healthy.” In fact, this little girl did go home and tell her mother or ask her mother why she didn’t make a good lunch. I’m paraphrasing, but something like that. It’s very easy for the government to pull this stuff off. It starts this early. You create distrust between the child and the family and total trust between the child and government.
How’s this kid gonna vote if they get away with this? If they keep treating this kid and others throughout the educational experience, how’s this kid gonna end up voting? How’s this kid gonna live? What is this kid gonna end up believing? “If it wasn’t for the government, I might-a been poisoned! If it wasn’t for the government, I might have starved to death! I might-a gotten a disease because my mommy didn’t know how to fix a good lunch.”
Don’t smirk, folks! .... Have the courage to admit you know that I am right about this! This is exactly how it’s done. Human history is replete with stories like this, tactics like this. ~ Rush Limbaugh (comments excerpted) from HERE:
Related Links (the articles listed below are “hot” at above link):
Rush Limbaugh: Federal Agents Inspect Your Child’s Lunch - 02.14.12
Carolina Journal: Chicken Nugget Furor Prompts Bipartisan Congressional Letter to Federal Cabinet Leader
Carolina Journal: Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets”
Newsbusters: ABC, NBC Skip Food Police Confiscating Preschooler’s Dangerous Potato Chips
WKYT: Frankfort School Cafeteria Gets Visit from USDA Official
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Carolina Journal News Reports
Who Is the Mystery Food Monitor?
By Rick Henderson
Feb. 17th, 2012
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8777
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In the initial story published Feb. 14, CJ Associate Editor Sara Burrows reported that a preschooler at West Hoke was notified by someone at the school that the lunch she brought from home a turkey sandwich with cheese on white whole wheat bread, a banana, a bag of chips, and a container of apple juice did not meet USDA guidelines for nutritious meals. ....the government officials involved have provided sketchy and sometimes conflicting details.
For instance:
• DHHS says the person monitoring the lunches was not employed by the agency. In a statement (PDF), the agency said it is not department “policy to inspect, go through or question any child about food items brought from home. The facts we have gathered confirm that no DHHS employee or contractor did this.”
• Hoke County assistant superintendent Bob Barnes told the Fayetteville Observer that the person conducting the inspection was a DHHS employee.
• USDA spokesman Bruce Alexander said the person monitoring the lunches was a “North Carolina education staff member” [sic] reviewing the facility.
• Another report said, “The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program gives schools a grade based on standards that include USDA meal guidelines enforced by the N.C. Division of Early Childhood Development.”
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Some FReeper comments:
“And this school, we’re told, lost points this year because too many children were bringing their lunches from home and they did not meet, according to this inspector, the USDA guidelines.”
From the above article, it looks like a school gets demerits in some kind of “point” system if kids bring “unhealthy” lunch bags to school. It further looks like these verboten infractions can lead to reductions in federal aid to the schools. If this is so, we’re in a world of bizaare fascist micro-management and control.
“The facts we have gathered confirm that no DHHS employee or contractor did this.”
There’s a difference between a consultant and a contractor. DHHS did not say that no consultant did this. So, it sounds to me as if the problem individual would be associated with FPG Child Development Institute.
Makes one wonder what those points represent in dollars.
Probably a lot. I suspect that the school receives money from the state for each school lunch provided. Every bag lunch, is money lost. This would be like the FTE (Full Time Equavalent) which determines how much money the school gets from the state, except for food not seats in chairs.
”... USDA spokesman Bruce Alexander said the person monitoring the lunches was a “North Carolina education staff member” [sic] reviewing the facility.”
Well, does he or she have a name?”...
Nobody seems to know “who” the perp was eh? OK, call the local cops AND the sheriff’s department and report an unidentified person was apparently tampering with the child’s lunch brought from home, point out the inability of the authorities to identify the perp which leads to the possibility that there was an intruder on school property masquerading as a federal or state employee. Review security camera footage, nobody is going to tell me that school did not have some sort of surveillance at the entry and exit points, eliminate the kids that appear in that day’s coverage, and start going down the list of adults that show up.
“There is not the slightest chance that they do not know ALL THE IDENTITIES of the people involved.” Couldn’t agree more. An adult, or adults, who interacted with a four year old child at a pre-school day care center? Of course they know.
All of us who have worked in either government or large businesses know the “CODE.” It pertains to your mandatory actions upon ANY incident or investigation. When something happens like this, don’t volunteer any information. Don’t speak until spoken to. If possible, leave the room to evade questioning. And...the most important rule is that if you disclose anything, your job or future will be in jeopardy if you violate any of these rules. While the “worker bees” are actively securing these rules, management is busy “getting their stories straight” in order to make anyone on a lower rung of the ladder to be absolute liars and fools if they squeal and the investigation starts to climb the chain of command. ~ DH 28
When the unknown government agency is identified, we have to find out how many “agents” are employed and are snooping into lunch bags across the fruited plain. It’s obvious this particular mystery spy is only one of many. I want to know how many people are holding these federal jobs, what the job descriptions are, and what the salaries and benefits are. Also if local people or college students are hired or contracted with for the snooping in local schools......or if they are DC employees flying around the country at taxpayers’ expense.
There’s much more to this than a lunch bag, a banana and two slices of white whole wheat bread.
I’m wondering if these “agents” are not a new layer of bureaucratic hiring......i.e. Michelle’s storm troopers recently hired who are fanning out to make her food crusade look good and, by extension, further her husband’s re-election campaign.
I don’t think I’m too far off the beam with my speculative assumptions....something bigger than one “agent” in one school is going on and being hidden very purposefully and slickly. But the truth will out very shortly and we’ll see how widespread this lunch bag “agent” practice is. Michelle has now assumed the reins of substantial power in her “healthy eating” crusade. She’s obviously enjoying the thrill of control. It appears we’re now finding out how she’s wielding it with the help of an army of toadying bureaucratic minions and flying monkeys who are at her personal disposal. From the above article, it looks like a school gets demerits in some kind of “point” system if kids bring “unhealthy” lunch bags to school. It further looks like these verboten infractions can lead to reductions in federal aid to the schools. If this is so, we’re in a world of bizaare fascist micro-management and control. Michelle’s new role as Lunch Bag Czar is designed to further her husband’s fascist reign. It’s not as ridiculous and harmless as it may appear to many.....even though it evidently seems to be a beneficial initiative by the uneducated lumpen masses and the compliant state-controlled media.
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Ummm, yest they did, out of context as it was.
And Jesus replied to them with Scripture. And why shouldn't He have? After all, He authored Scripture.
Pa-RAISE Richard Simmons!
Belated Nanny State PING!
Thanks for the ping!
It is time to fight obesity from the churches. There are a lor of bloated Government Departments which could be put on a diet, and a lot of ‘fatcats’ who could get thinner as well.
The STATIST uses religious groups and people of faith when it suits their purpose of central planning.
But no action is truly genuine unless it is done VOLUNTARILY. That includes losing weight, quitting smoking or finding God.
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