Something HUGE happened Tuesday…

No, not the shift in power in the House or the Republican gains in the Senate, this wasn’t done be the voters. No, the big story is…

…San Francisco banned the Happy Meal.

The new law takes effect on December 1 and bans the practice of giving away toys with kids meals unless the meal tastes like cardboard and is something no kid wants to eat has under 600 calories,  and includes fruits and veggies. Oh, and no excessive fat or sugar in the drink.

So, brussel sprouts, spinach leaves, a soy burger and water? Mmmmmm! Come on, kids, let’s go to McAwful’s!

The “do-gooders” on the S.F. Board of Supervisors know what’s best for you and your children. Just ask them.

“Our children are sick. Rates of obesity in San Francisco are disturbingly high, especially among children of color,” said San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the measure.

Ronald McDonald, you are a red haired clown monster. You’re killing our children and you seem to take great pleasure in harming our “children of color.” How do you sleep at night, sir?

“This is a challenge to the restaurant industry to think about children’s health first and join the wide range of local restaurants that have already made this commitment,” Mar said.

This is exactly the type of government overreaching that was rejected on Tuesday. It’s the parents’ job to decide what to feed their children, not the government’s. Leave. Us. Alone.

This is right in line with the nagging nanny Michele Obama telling us what to eat right before she runs out for a burger and fries.

The idea that McDonald’s and other fast food joints are out to kill your kid and only the government can stop them has been around for over a decade.

Professor Kelly Brownell from the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders says that obesity is to blame for 300,000 deaths a year (compared to tobacco’s 450,000) and years ago he told the AP, “A militant attitude is warranted here. We’re infuriated at tobacco companies for enticing kids to smoke, so we don’t want Joe Camel on billboards. Is it any different to have Ronald McDonald asking kids to eat foods that are bad for them?”

He’s absolutely right. McDonald’s lures children to eat their death burger with slick prizes, toys and movie promotions. They call it a Happy Meal; a better name would be The Last Supper.  Sure the kids love drinking their shakes and eating their burgers and fries, but every shake is clogging an artery and each fry is just one more nail in the coffin.

The parents and children can’t eat these foods in moderation, they have no choice but to eat at McDonald’s every day for every meal because it just tastes so good they’ve become addicted. The government must step in and SAVE THE CHILDREN!

McDonalds’ already offers apple slices instead of fries and low fat milk or bottled water instead of soda. The rest should be up to the customer – not the government.

Hey, there is some good news. Voters in the blue purple state of Washington said “no” to a soda and candy tax, “no” to a state income tax and “yes” to making it harder to raise state taxes.

Another victory for the T.E.A. party – T.hat’s E.nough A.lready!

The media wants to know why tea partiers seem so angry. Here’s a clue: It’s the spending, stupid! And it’s HOW the money is being spent.

Let’s go to New Jersey .(Yes, we have to. It’s nicer than what you’ve seen on TV. Really.) While tolls were going up, the NJ Turnpike Authority was throwing money around like Nancy Pelosi at a botox party.

Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses. In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included…

…a new report by the Department of Energy has found serious problems in stimulus-funded weatherization work — problems so severe that they have resulted in homes that are not only not more energy efficient but are actually dangerous for people to live in. (emphasis mine)

41.8 million Americans are now on food stamps. The details don’t look good for our country.

Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.4 percent from June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for 20 straight months.

An average of 43.3 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.

You might think this is bad news. But, according to House Majority Leader (until 11/2) Nancy Pelosi, this is good news – no, it’s GREAT news! We have found the way to get out of our economic malaise.

At a press conference in her home town of San Francisco, Pelosi explained that the program’s multiplier effect –the amount of money generated in the local economy as the result of the subsidy– far exceeds the nearly $60 billion spent this year by the federal government and is a sure-fire way to stimulate the economy. For every dollar a person receives in food stamps, Pelosi said that $1.79 is put back into the economy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture cites an even higher figure of $1.84.

“It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance. The biggest bang for the buck,” she said.

New Obama/Pelosi plan for our economy: Put EVERYONE on food stamps and unemployment and watch the multiplier effect turn this thing around.

Let’s have the government spend $2 trillion on food stamps and we’ll get back $3.68 trillion. We’ll all be rich. Why haven’t we been doing this all along?

Oh, yeah, that’s right. It’s IDIOTIC! Is Pelosi really so ignorant that she doesn’t understand that every dollar the government spends is either taken from someone else or borrowed from someone else? It’s money that can’t be used to invest, save and create/grow businesses and new jobs. The very jobs that will help people lead productive lives and get off food stamps, welfare and unemployment insurance. THAT’S the biggest bang for our buck. It’s not about the ludicrous charge of class warfare, it’s about wanting all Americans to be able to earn a living.

To be fair, Pelosi is right that this type of “government” money is spent right away. Her fellow Californians are handling these stressful times by cashing their welfare checks for a little R&R.

More than $69 million in California welfare money, meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children, has been spent or withdrawn outside the state in recent years, including millions in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands in Hawaii and thousands on cruise ships sailing from Miami.

This sounds crazy at first, but think about it. If one of these people hits double zero on the roulette wheel at the Mirage, we’ll have an even bigger “multiplier” effect.

Foodstamps for prosperity! Welfare for jackpots!

Hey, who are you to deny these people a weekend in Maui or a cruise out of Miami? I bet you’re the kind of person who thinks you have a right to tell people on welfare and food stamps how they can spend your money. Who do you think you are, Mayor Bloomberg?

New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson…

Recipients can essentially buy any food for the household, although there are some limits on hot or prepared foods.

Food stamps also cannot be used to buy alcohol, cigarettes or items such as pet food, vitamins or household goods.

I can’t believe we would deny welfare recipients the right to buy Fluffy his dog food. Isn’t it bad enough the family is down on its luck, now we’re going to kill their dog, too? I think allowing food stamps to pay for dog food would have a great “mutliplier effect.”

Quick, get Nancy Pelosi on the phone!

We are a selfish nation and treating our neighbor to the south horribly. It’s our fault that border violence is up.

From Fox News:

A coalition of Mexican mayors has asked the United States to stop deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. to Mexican border cities, saying the deportations are contributing to Mexican border violence.

Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes blamed U.S. deportation policy for contributing to his city’s violence, saying that of the 80,000 people deported to Juarez in the past three years, 28,000 had U.S. criminal records — including 7,000 convicted rapists and 2,000 convicted murderers.

Wait a second. This can’t be true. Everyone knows that all the illegal aliens in America are law abiding people (except for that coming into the country illegally part) who just want to do the jobs Americans won’t do. Hey, don’t we have American rapists and murderers to do these “jobs”? Maybe these guys will do it for less.

More from the article:

Reyes and the other Mexican mayors said that when the U.S. deports criminals back to Mexico, it should fly them to their hometowns, not just bus them to the border.

I agree, and we should send them first class! Haven’t they suffered enough already through their incarceration and deportation from America without being forced to ride coach? In fact, let’s go one step further and fly them to the city of their choice to find new victims a fresh start.

Sure we give Mexico money every year for the drug wars, their military, medicine, farm aid, border security, and direct monetary payments to their government, but we aren’t doing enough to fly their violent criminals home.

This is rich. These Mexican criminals came to America illegally. They committed violent crimes. They were convicted and served their sentences in American prisons at U.S. taxpayer expense. They were bussed to Mexico and given to Mexican immigration officials and representatives of the Mexican attorney general. The Mexican government could have returned these people to their hometowns. Yet, the Mexican border mayors say it’s ourfault that many of them committed new crimes in their towns and they expect the American taxpayer to pick up the tab for plane rides all over their country.

Sure. We’ll get right on that.

Uh, oh. It looks like we have agreed to this nonsense in at least one city:

“Earlier this year, ICE suspended the removal of Mexican nationals with criminal records to Ciudad Juarez,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said. “…In addition to dedicating unprecedented manpower, technology and infrastructure resources to the border, ICE has also collaborated with Mexico to adapt its removal procedures in response to safety considerations.”

How many times have you heard from our politicians and media what a “great partner” Mexico is in fighting border crime? Yet, they won’t even take responsibility for transporting their own violent criminals away from the border? Nice.

I don’t know why presidents agree to interviews with Rolling Stone. The mag is biased against presidents and you never come off well. Remember how it treated Bush?

Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He’d Give -W. comes clean – on his dad, Condi’s farts and the time Dick waterboarded the house boy

That is some high class comedy. No wonder Rolling Stone does so well in the “teenage boys who can burp the A-B-Cs demo.”

Then there was the cover photo showing Bush as a dunce. Ha! I get it! Bush is dumb. Hilarious. Never heard that one.

With that history, Obama had to be ready for a grilling. Here are some of the bare knuckles, no holds barred questions The One had to face:

When you came into office, you felt you would be able to work with the other side. When did you realize that the Republicans had abandoned any real effort to work with you and create bipartisan policy?

How do you feel about the fact that day after day, there’s this really destructive attack on whatever you propose? Does that bother you? Has it shocked you?

What do you think of Fox News? Do you think it’s a good institution for America and for democracy?

What music have you been listening to lately? What have you discovered, what speaks to you these days?

You had Bob Dylan here. How did that go?

Did you cry? (After Obama told a story of Paul McCartney singing Michelle to Michelle Obama.)

When you wake up in the morning, how does it feel to be soooooo AWESOME! (Okay, I made that one up.)

Unless you have something better to do, like stick needles in your eyes, go ahead and read the whole interview. What I found interesting was how much Obama still doesn’t understand what’s going on with the electorate. He’s sticking with the idea that none of the voter anger is his fault. He keeps repeating the same old things hoping people will finally agree with him:

• The Republicans won’t work with me. (Thank God.)
• They drove us into the economic ditch. (If so, Obama’s still digging it.)
• They only want tax breaks for the rich, without paying for them. (The GOP wants all the tax breaks to continue. Why do we have to “pay for” letting people keep more of the money they earned? By the way, Obama keeps saying we can’t afford all the tax cuts to remain because the ones for “the rich” cost $700 billion and we can’t afford it. Hold on. The only Bush tax cuts Obama wants to leave in place “cost” us $3 trillion, but we can’t “afford” to allow small businesses and individuals to keep $700 billion they will earn over the next ten years?)
• Everything is the Republican’s fault…and Bush’s.

This might work with diehard Democrats, but the Independents Obama needs in the midterms (and for him to have a second term) aren’t buying it anymore. They know the Democrats have had super majorities in both houses and the Republicans couldn’t do much to stop Obama without the help of some Democrats. A majority of the Independents don’t like the way Obama is trying to transform the country and they applaud the Republicans for trying to stop it. They are against bigger government, more spending and higher taxes and hope the Republicans have learned their lesson and will govern that way if they get back in power.

Not only does he not understand that most of us actually like America and don’t want it transformed into France, (although that would make it easier for him to surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan) he’s doubling down on still more government, less freedom, and higher taxes that will make economic recovery even more difficult. From the Rolling Stone article:

Q: Do you see a point at which you’re going to throw the whole weight of the presidency behind this, (“climate change” and energy policy – cap and trade) like you did on health care or financial reform?

Yes. Not only can I foresee it, but I am committed to making sure that we get an energy policy that makes sense for the country and that helps us grow at the same time as it deals with climate change in a serious way. I am just as committed to getting immigration reform done.

I’ve been here two years, guys. And one of the things that I just try to remember is that if we have accomplished 70 percent of what we committed to in the campaign, historic legislation, and we’ve got 30 percent of it undone — well, that’s what the next two years is for, or maybe the next six.

So while the majority of Americans are against the “transformative” Obamacare, the bailouts, the GM takeover, and the runaway spending, The One is planning to ram Cap and Tax and Amnesty down our throats for his encore.

Gee, I can’t figure out why his approval ratings keep going down.

We’ve reached a new low. A high school disciplined students for wearing American flag t-shirts to school because they did so on Cinco de Mayo. As some of the students of Mexican descent explained – “That’s ‘our’ day.”

“We knew it was Cinco de Mayo. But we just came to show our flag,” said student Dominic Maciel. “We didn’t mean anything by it. We didn’t want to start anything. Nothing like that.”

We obviously aren’t teaching our kids well. They should know that the American flag is offensive in America! I blame the parents.

Student Anthony Caravalho was also sent home for not turning his shirt inside out. “They said we had to wear our t-shirts inside out and then we could go back to class and we said no,” said Caravalho. “It would be disrespectful to the flag by hiding it.”

It’s our flag that’s disrespectful. They could have avoided trouble and been hailed as tolerant if they’d burned the American flag t-shirts.

Some Mexican-American students KTVU spoke with said they thought wearing red, white and blue on Cinco de Mayo was disrespectful. “It’s just kinda disrespectful that they would do that on this day,” said student Victoria Wright. “I mean, we don’t go around on 4th of July wearing red white and green and saying ‘Viva Mexico,’ because that’s disrespectful.”

Sure they live in America, they’re getting a free education at taxpayers expense, and they have tremendous opportunities here they wouldn’t have in Mexico, but they want to celebrate the country their parents couldn’t wait to get out of. That makes perfect sense. Huh?

I am a first generation American. My mother came over from England after WWII. My grandfather died flying for the RAF. But I don’t see England as my country. I’m an American and proud of it. I like England and I respect my ancestry, but I LOVE America and never find flying her flag disrespectful. The vast majority of legal immigrants feel as I do. I don’t understand the ones who don’t.

Dominic Maciel said his father is of Mexican descent. “I have no problem with them wearing their Mexican stuff, their Mexican flags,” said Maciel. “I just thought I’d show my pride. American pride.”

Way to go, Dominic. I’m not easily shocked by how far we’ve gone in the PC game. But this one got me today.

President Obama gave a commencement speech at the University of Michigan over the weekend and instead of encouraging and challenging the graduates to be the next Bill Gates or Carly Fiorina, he gave a self serving, political speech chastising Americans who disagree with his ideas and policies that are leading us to even bigger government. The recent Pew poll that showed 4 out of 5 Americans don’t trust the federal government didn’t cool his rhetoric a bit. From the transcript:

But what troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad…

Straw man alert! The One loves to do this. Set up an argument no one makes and then knock it down. No one in this debate is saying ALL government is bad. We are calling for the government to actually live up to the limits set for it by our constitution. The problem is Barry thinks the more government, the better.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. We, the people–[Applause.] We, the people, hold in our hands the power to choose our leaders and change our laws, and shape our own destiny.

See, you’re so dumb that you don’t understand your anger at government is really self hate. Oy.

Does he really not understand this? We know the government is supposed to be us, that’s why we’re so upset. We see our government as not representing us anymore. We are frustrated because we feel we’re losing the power to shape our destiny. (Funny how when Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink we’re screaming about our horrible government under Bush, they weren’t confused about the government being them.)

The truth is, the debate we’ve had for decades now between more government and less government, it doesn’t really fit the times in which we live. We know that too much government can stifle competition and deprive us of choice and burden us with debt. But we’ve also clearly seen the dangers of too little government–like when a lack of accountability on Wall Street nearly leads to the collapse of our entire economy.

But let’s not talk about government’s role in creating the atmosphere that helped create the crisis. It had nothing to do with the Fed’s easy money policy or the Community Reinvestment Act forcing loans to people who couldn’t afford them or Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

Then Obama went into full hypocrite mode:

But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down. [Applause.] You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it. You can question somebody’s views and their judgment without questioning their motives or their patriotism. [Applause.] Throwing around phrases like “socialists” and “Soviet-style takeover” and “fascist” and “right-wing nut”–[laughter]–that may grab headlines, but it also has the effect of comparing our government, our political opponents, to authoritarian, even murderous regimes.

This from the man who personally attacked Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell during his presidential radio address, and insulted all Arizona police by stating they might racially profile American Hispanics and harass them. This from the man whose Sen. Majority Leader, Harry Reid, recently called the Republican senators “anti-American.” This from the man whose fellow senator from Illinois compared our military, and their treatment of prisoners in Gitmo to the Nazi’s, Pol Pot and Soviet style gulags. Pot, meet kettle. Whoops, I’m sure that’s a “racist” analogy now.

It coarsens our culture, and at its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response…

Dissent is no longer the “highest form of patriotism” now that Obama is president. Now it leads to domestic terrorism. So, saying “Bush lied, people died,” that he “betrayed this country” and “played on our fears” is fine. Creating a movie that shows the assassination of President Bush is art, but complaining that Obama is leading us to socialism will create the next Timothy McVeigh. Got it.

The community organizer is trying to paint anyone who questions his policies as an extremist. He’s in tune with the MSNBC crowd who claim the only reason you could oppose him is if you are dumb, crazy or racist. But it won’t work this time. Americans know when it’s time to pull out the hip waders – and you need to every time this guy gives a speech. He is what he’s warning about. He is extreme. He seems obsessed with race. He personally attacks his opponents in very un-presidential ways.

The game Obama’s playing won’t work this time. Too many Americans know he’s lying, because they are the ones he’s lying about.

Don’t miss Obama’s lies about the anti-illegal alien bill in AZ and how Big Sis Napolitano is upset you don’t think the border’s secure.