No Runny Eggs

Here are some of the key ingredients for this entry:

cheese·burg·er  (chzbûrgr)

n. A hamburger topped with melted cheese.

The above is the Frenchie burger from the NY restaurant, DBGB.

obesity   (-bs-t)

n. The condition of being obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat.

gar·den  (gärdn)  n. A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.

The above garden is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. 

hyp·o·crite  (hp-krt)

n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.

hyp·o·crite  (hp-krt)

n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.America, you don’t eat right.

Barack and Michelle Obama, the two leaders of the federal government’s food police, have lectured us to death.

We will show you how to eat properly.

We will tell you what to eat.

We will tell you what not to eat.

Restaurant owners, we will tell you what to serve.

Restaurant owners, we will tell you what not to serve.

We will set the rules and you will follow them or government bureaucrats will make you suffer.

The complete and utter condescension has been sickening.

The Obama’s have become the quintessential spokespeople for the phrase, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

Last year, the New York Times reminded us, “As President Obama ran for office, whenever questions of his ordinary-man credentials arose, his aides were quick to say that he loves a good burger. As he worked to win over male voters, a stop at a beer joint would suddenly be on his itinerary. But when the cameras weren’t rolling, he was just as likely to have a healthy plate of sea bass and steamed vegetables as a burger and fries.”

The newspaper noted Obama’s cholesterol had jumped 42 points since 2007. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told White House reporters, ”You guys think he eats carrots and celery. There’s more cheeseburgers, fries and pie than you previously knew.”

How could this be? After all, the First Lady took on America’s girth as her persoanl crusade, going so far as to plant a veggie garden to promote all heathy items green and orange.

The British press asked the obvous question: What would Michelle say? (We also learn the Obamessiah isn’t exactly a terrific tipper).

So, Barack isn’t following his wife’s advice. One could argue the president is allowed because Mrs. Obama doesn’t practice what she preaches.

On March 11, 2009, the website Listicles.com suggested five foods Michelle Obama should banish for American diets. Sure enough, burgers made the list, and that would seem to follow the First Lady’s emphasis on vegetables rather than meat.  A month later, the Associated Press shockingly reported that, for shame, Michelle sneaks out for burgers.It gets better.

Last August, Mrs. Obama visted the Good Stuff Eatery in Washington D.C. with daughters Malia and Sasha where they dined on cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes. The New York Post reported, “Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevemt pictures from being taken. Nope. Can’t have photos floating around of the queen of carrots and peas chomping down on a juicy, fat-laden burger. 

This past October, while campaigning for Russ Feingold, Mrs.Obama stopped at Miss Katies Diner in Milwaukee and ordered a cheeseburger. Apparently forgetting she was in America’s Dairyland, she eschewed a milkshake.

Washington’s radical attempt to reform America’s diet isn’t working. A recent Gallup poll shows that we are not stupid. Most of us understand the value of healthy eating and can easily find affordable fresh produce.

NEWS FLASH to the food police: We just don’t want to eat it. We eat what we want to eat because we live in what is still a free country. What a concept!

No one is suggesting that the Obama’s should never indulge in a greasy burger. However, if they’re not going to lead by example, they need to tone down their pontificating and over-regulation.

But they won’t.

A new book contains an anecdote about the all-knowing Calorie Counter-in-Chief counseling an overweight staffer that he will eat a salad and like it.  

hy·poc·ri·sy (h-pkr-s)

n.
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.

It’s run amok at the White House.

WOW!

There couldn’t possibly be more, Kev, could there?

It couldn’t possibly get any better, could it?

It could and it does.

(Cross posted at FranklinNOW.com.)

Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).

Fall reckoning

“Before the vote on Nov. 2, humorist P.J. O’Rourke quipped that it wasn’t an election, it was a restraining order. For Democrats in Wisconsin it was an apocalypse. They lost the governorship; a Senate seat; two congressional seats; both houses of the state Legislature, and, just to run up the score, the office of state treasurer to a guy who ran on a platform of abolishing the job.”

Girls just wanna have guns

“I have a dream! 

A dream where instead of reading about a cute college coed left dead and naked out in a vacant lot or bloated and floating in a river, the story reads: ‘dead jackass found double-tapped and dead on the curb as his soul wings its way to Hades—all because he messed with the wrong mama’.”

Naked Truth

“According to the  Transportation Security Administration, Americans have no problem with the new airport screening procedures. So they should stop complaining.

That self-contradictory reassurance, which would be unnecessary if it were true, seemed slightly more plausible after chaos failed to ensue from protests by Thanksgiving travelers who refused to walk through the TSA’s full-body scanners last week. But there are reasons to question the TSA’s portrait of placid passengers happily baring all for the sake of homeland security.”

What is not being discussed in the groping debate

“It doesn’t seem to me that wanting to get from point A to Point B by flying the friendly skies provides probable cause to justify doing a virtual strip search of a person…or doing a combat pat down of what we USED to call suspects when justifying the search…

All because Mohamed Atta and a group of America hating murderers decided to destroy this nation and everything she stands for by flying planes into buildings? (Maybe they succeeded in doing far more than they believed possible that day given what we’ve surrendered as a result?).

So…Here’s the 800lb TSA Agent in the room everyone is missing.”

Why this fear of a civility pledge?

“It’s only 32 words. Yet, only two sitting members of Congress or governors have signed the civility pledge. So what was it about civility that all the other 537 elected officials couldn’t agree to? Read it and decide for yourself.”

Joe Scarborough tells GOP to confront Palin

“Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private. Enough. It’s time for the GOP to man up.”
KF NOTE: I found Scarborough’s views too harsh and off-base, but the article is still interesting.

Is NPR for sale?  

“It seems George Soros, sugar daddy of 1,001 leftish crusaders, personal hobbyhorses, and even some good causes, has just given NPR $1.8 million to hire a hundred new reporters.

Some commentators on the state of the American media, formerly the American press, are shocked, shocked! Others aren’t. Inquiring minds want to know if this is a scandal, just philanthropy, a menacing portent for the independence of American journalism, or all of the above.”

The care and feeding of progressives

“I’ve had to ask readers of my blog to register in order to post comments.  There are three reasons why: 

1. Trolls 
2. Trolls 
3. Trolls

When I started my little blog, it didn’t occur to me that trolls would come out in droves.  Why would leftists expend their energies on me? And why would they subject themselves to scrutiny by a licensed psychotherapist?

But apparently, numerous trolls have been drawn to me, like venomous bees to honey. These trolls use the same weaponry of other extreme progressives: shame and degradation. They try to use ridicule as sort of stun gun, immobilizing the other.”