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Obama To Set Up a White House Farmer's Market
Mother Nature Network ^ | August 21, 2009 | Bryan Nelson

Posted on 08/22/2009 12:49:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: Vendome

“”But, boy don’t they just love to talk?””

He sounds like a school kid when he talks. It truly is pathetic. There ought to be a law against the stupid ideas he comes up with.


41 posted on 08/22/2009 1:29:10 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Gabz; gardengirl; girlangler; SunkenCiv; HungarianGypsy; billhilly; Alkhin
Shop at Whole Foods intead, support John Mackey!
42 posted on 08/22/2009 1:29:46 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or the other." George Bush)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Typical - from the top down mentality - from we the Elites to you peons.

Just get to heck out of our way.

we go ‘em beat by a mile in my home town. For years, our middle school kids run a produce business - from growing in outside gardens to a greenhouse.
They follow through the whole process from planting to harvesting, to marketing/selling, to seed gathering,packaging and sell those to.

They learn, in the process, how to run a small business.

Heck of lot better than just the school be given produce from the outside...

Ah, but that will never do. We don't want kids learning how to be self-sufficient, how to run a small business, etc...
Hard to keep folk like that dependent on the gov’t, bowls in hand: “Please, Mac Daddy, can I have some more?”

43 posted on 08/22/2009 1:33:12 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Doesn’t he have other things to do, such as governing, and heading up our armed forces? I’m just sayin’....


44 posted on 08/22/2009 1:35:50 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Where's the birth certificate?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

You betcha! In fact, that WAS on my things-to-do list today, but I never did leave the house, LOL!

I will support him. I promise. :)


45 posted on 08/22/2009 1:38:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Won’t Obummer’s own “food safety” law make his “farmers market” a federal violation?

(Note, I always feel violated by the feds every April; violating the public is what the feds do best.)


46 posted on 08/22/2009 1:38:57 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: Snoopers-868th

The Obama’s Potemkin garden....Who knows how much produce they are actually eating from it since the soil has a high lead content due to sewage sludge used as fertilizer during the Clinton years. The sewage sludge was probably used to curry favor with eco-wackos because using this sludge is considered recycling. Your turds get recycled


47 posted on 08/22/2009 1:39:39 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: TNdandelion; Diana in Wisconsin
The more money the parents have, the easier it will be to make those healthy food choices!

I totally disagree with you. Healthy food is actually cheaper than unhealthy food --- IF, and that's a big if, one knows how to cook, or is willing to do so.

Therein lies the problem.

People getting food stamps generally have more "money" available for food than the average person. What is unfortunate is that far too many of those people never learned how to food shop or to cook and their kids tend to be the unhealthiest, or at least their diet is.

I have long said that people receiving food stamps should be required to take at least a rudimentary cooking class nd a basic one on budgeting.

But what do I know? I'm only someone who shops sales, cooks from scratch, and unfortunately is currently receiving foodstamps.

48 posted on 08/22/2009 1:40:13 PM PDT by Gabz
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We can do better than a 3rd world IQ.

49 posted on 08/22/2009 1:40:15 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: maine-iac7
“Please, Mac Daddy, can I have some more?”
50 posted on 08/22/2009 1:40:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Actually, that’s changed a little. We now have until AUGUST each year to feel violated because most of us have to work through August to meet our various tax obligations.

(Now, don’t go out behind the barn and shoot yourself or anything, LOL!)


51 posted on 08/22/2009 1:43:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: TNdandelion

The more money the parents have, the easier it will be to make those healthy food choices!
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
And YET ANOTHER vote for the $50.00 per hour minimum wage.
s/s/s/s/


52 posted on 08/22/2009 1:43:24 PM PDT by xrmusn (VOTE THE INCUMBENTS OUT)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The White House has become “toxic green” or is that “soylent green”? Its a toss up.

Wasn’t ‘chelle servin’ up some mercury laced lettuce to the chilens?


53 posted on 08/22/2009 1:43:47 PM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: SolidWood
With a little luck, and some PhotoShop expertise, they should easily be able to produce some produce with O's image miraculously appearing on it.

Obama arugula -- selling for billions on E-Bay and eradicating the deficit!

Yes we can!

54 posted on 08/22/2009 1:45:20 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: SolidWood
And how do farmers grow so many fruits and vegetables during the fall, winter and early spring? We in Ohio would like to know so we can get a jump on things instead of waiting for summer’s bounty.

Not that I don't think that The One's whole idea isn't an obamination = but you CAN grow vegetables year 'round.

GOOGLE or AMAZON for Eliot Coleman - he's quite famous for growing fresh vegetable year 'round, in northern Maine.

I took a trip across the way to his "Four Seasons Farm" last week to get veggies to replace the ones that got drowned out twice in my garden - terrible rains every freaking day for 3 months.

In the meantime, we need to alert Rush, Beck, Hannity et al about missy michelle's White House lawn 'organic garden' - the one with veggies full of lead from the former spreading of sludge. That fact should have easily available to her - but these elites don't bother doing research on anything. After all, they're born already knowing it all, doncha know.

It's another - and hilarious - example of The One's goof ups...and people pay more attention to something that is so laughable - and equate it quickly to other things they propose...this is too good to let go to waste.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/?icid=main|main|dl3|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinance.com%2F2009%2F07%2F30%2Fmichelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar%2F

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55 posted on 08/22/2009 1:50:47 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: SolidWood

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/?icid=main|main|dl3|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinance.com%2F2009%2F07%2F30%2Fmichelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar%2F


56 posted on 08/22/2009 1:51:06 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: SolidWood
"Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge"

Actually, everything these two America hating elitists do is polluted with sludge...

57 posted on 08/22/2009 1:53:38 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

But, but I thought they found lead in the garden?????


58 posted on 08/22/2009 1:55:24 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: TNdandelion; Gabz

“The more money the parents have, the easier it will be to make those healthy food choices!”

I’ll pile-on, too, LOL!

I totally understand your POV; there are poor people who make healthy choices, and wealthy people who let their kids eat crap all day long. And there are people who don’t know chit from Shine-ola too, LOL! And we WOULD be further ahead if Government would get out of our way!

A number of years back, I fed two adult men, one adult woman (me), and THREE teen boys for $150.00 a month without missing a beat.

It takes planning and cooking at home and packing lunches, and growing your own food and shopping sales and eating day-old bread, but it IS do-able on nearly any income level.

I totally adore my MIL. She is the QUEEN of frugal (and worth a few million at this point in her life) and she fed and clothed twelve kids on a farmer’s income.

But, again, you’re right. Inner-city folk are helpless in many ways; and I believe that’s by design thanks to our wonderful, generous, creating dependents-for-life Government. Grrrrrr!


59 posted on 08/22/2009 1:55:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Lmo56

Having a garage sale would be classy and sooooo compassionate.


60 posted on 08/22/2009 1:56:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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