The Governments newest fronteir... your childs lunchbox.

[Caje]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14...est=latestnews

Seriously? I would of gone ape-shit on someone if I was that parent. I couldn't imagine what they would think if I packed a lunch for a kid.

[Mark E. Hurling]

I heard about this yesterday. There's some serious breach of an expectation of privacy when your child is expected to present their lunch for inspection. There is nothing to do with safety or weapons that metal detectors or frisks that are done at some high schools with a history of problems. The fact that this was an elementary school only makes this more absurd. But it's a natural extension of the First Lady getting up off her big ass and telling us to move ours more because she thinks its good for us. That and her throwing her daughters under the fat bus year before last.

[william jackson]

I am more pissed off than I should be about this. I cannot believe the kind of shit people think we should protect ourselves from. At risk of derailment, I had a conversation with ~10 people that all thought that smoking should be banned, in the house and car you own, just because you have a child. These same people are probably the same ones that think a lunch box inspector is a productive use of state resources and a necessary distraction for the students, school system, and parents.

[Patrick]

The lunch in question: a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips.

While it could be better, it is certainly not a bad lunch. And stacked up against chicken nuggets?

[Mark E. Hurling]

At risk of derailment, I had a conversation with ~10 people that all thought that smoking should be banned, in the house and car you own, just because you have a child. These same people are probably the same ones that think a lunch box inspector is a productive use of state resources and a necessary distraction for the students, school system, and parents.

It's not far off from that here in the People's Rainbow Republick of Kalifornia. Not permitted in parks or beaches. My employer compels employees to leave the property to smoke for the last two years.

[t0rment]

I'm a big, flaming liberal, but this is unbelievable. I would be livid.

[Simma Park]

But it's a natural extension of the First Lady getting up off her big ass and telling us to move ours more because she thinks its good for us. That and her throwing her daughters under the fat bus year before last.

Nonsense. You think it’s a bad thing that the first lady promotes fresh foods and exercise to children? Or that she takes responsibility for her daughters’ weights and frankly discusses her responsibilities for their health? She didn’t call her daughters fat pigs or imply that they were at fault. She merely identified an incipient problem and talked about her responsibility as a parent to address it.

Sometimes, you will take any excuse, no matter how flimsy, to take a partisan shot.

Here’s the non-Murdoch version of the story:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10731857/

Confusion over a state assessment of a government-funded pre-kindergarten program caused the child to believe she had to go through the cafeteria line and get the chicken nuggets lunch provided by the school, said Bob Barnes, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in Hoke County.

The assessment requires the school to review children's lunches for nutrition, Barnes said. If a homemade lunch is determined to be missing one of the food groups required by United States Department of Agriculture regulations, the school is supposed to offer it to the student for free.

"What is supposed to happen is the teacher is supposed to go over and get the missing item, which I'm assuming was milk in this case, and offer it to the child," Barnes said. "The child can take it or not take it."

So a regulation that is in place to try to help children who have idiotic or negligent parents--not by penalizing anyone but by trying to make up the missing nutrients--becomes a statement about intrusive government and how the First Lady is oppressing the American family... when this is actually more about incompetent bureaucrats, which is a problem that has pretty much existed since human beings started forming governments.

But no, it’s more convenient when it’s about how the FLOTUS has a “big” bossy ass. Uh huh. Nice.

[DrRuffleburg]

What exactly is the USDA good for?

[poppunk]

What exactly is the USDA good for?

Food safety.

[Simma Park]

And there is nothing wrong with the FLOTUS’ ass:



It’s not a barbell lift, and if I were training her, I’d have her pay more attention to ROM, but how is it not awesome that the First Lady is the kind of gal who drops and does pushups on national TV?