The Obamas Police Food and Football (Updated)
While one Obama says we can’t leave the eating habits of kids up to their own parents, another Obama congratulates a football team for hiring a quarterback with a criminal past. What to make of all this, and the uproar that has followed both?
Food and football are private affairs, and they’re as often as not connected to each other. We pig out when we watch football. They’re both a matter of individual taste. But thanks to Congressional hearings on steroid use among athletes, ObamaCare’s overreach into our health care, the FDA, the state near monopoly on primary education, and so forth and so on, both have become increasingly public issues, and more and more subject to government intervention and meddling.
It’s telling in some ways that President Obama even called up Philadelphia Eagles’ owner Jeff Lurie in the first place. They were mainly discussing the use of alternative energy at the Eagles’ home stadium, not Michael Vick’s second chance. Why should a president give a fig about what sort of energy gets used at a sports stadium? Because he’s a global warming zealot, and he actually thinks that his election will be marked as the time when the earth began to heal, because of his enlightened energy policies. How the Eagles power their lights and heat their hot dogs is all part of the system in which this president, more than most, feels drawn to intervene.
That President Obama weighed in on Vick’s second chance with the Eagles makes us squirm for several reasons. One, Vick’s appalling crimes put him outside the norm for sports criminals. Most sports criminals hurt themselves, and it usually costs them their careers. We are accustomed to sports figures using drugs, abusing spouses, gambling and assorted other sordid activities. We’re not accustomed to sports heroes torturing and murdering animals for fun and profit, but that’s what Michael Vick confessed to doing, and for which he served time. I’m fine with Vick getting his second chance even on the NFL team I loathe the most, but no one should be under any illusions about why the Eagles picked him up. Other teams, including the Falcons who arguably lost out the most when he went to prison, passed on Vick because they didn’t want their brands associated with him. Quarterbacks are the faces of NFL franchises. Before going to prison, Vick was a star among stars for his speed and elusiveness. He was the most electrifying player on the field.
Vick the dog torturer makes for a disturbing front man, regardless of how incredible his play is going forward. The Eagles picked him up mostly because they could. They rolled the dice. Vick 2.0 unexpectedly turned out to be better after his stint in prison than he was before. He seems to be making better decisions, and if anything his passing arm is much stronger than before. He’s turning out to be a brilliant quarterback. Lucky for the Eagles, then. But his second chance wasn’t done out of altruism. The Eagles want to win, and Vick is helping them do that. Both are making millions on the deal, which is fine.
Obama did not call up the owners of, say, the Texas Rangers to congratulate them for giving Josh Hamilton a second chance. Ham
ilton led that team to its first World Series appearance in its history. But Hamilton made some bad choices in life, and had his early MLB career derailed by drug and alcohol addiction. The Rangers took a chance on him and it paid off: He was brilliant at the plate in the 2010 American League playoffs, to the point that the New York Yankees wouldn’t even pitch to him in the ALCS. Where was President Obama’s call to Nolan Ryan, congratulating him for giving Hamilton a second chance?
So, if Vick was white, mexican, oriental…would the “I won” have said anything??? Nope.
OOHHHHH that pooooor Mr. Vick….what horror has been wrought on him by his own asshole actions of hurting and mutilating another living animal. ” He’s lost so much money in all this!!” the horror..well, okay the guy from the NAACP brought that $$$$ up, and was laughed at.
Yep, I’m right. It’s pathetic that our morals and ethics are so low that we would even let him out on a field to be honored by adults and children after his actions. This is merely a small sample of where the US is in what is right and wrong with Obama at the helm. If Vick was a construction worker, or a ditch digger, he’d now be homeless and begging for a job that no one would give him..but he plays ball…soo we have to honor him.NOT
The Eagles are pathetic moral losers.
Don’t even try to hand me the crap that every one deserves a second chance…Vick systematically set out to hurt something, not an accident..it was all premeditated horror on a living thing that could not defend itself.
Time for Obama to name Vick as the new ‘safe and secure animals’ czar.
Well, with a tax offender running Treasury, why not?
You forgot the nambla guy as the safe school czar.
Obama & company have a looong string of criminals on their list of appointees and their “shadow government.” These people are beyond the pale!
like that one? and he gets paid for being the czar..
I’m surprised he hasn’t been named honorary ambassador for the ASPCA.
Strange times we live in.
When is someone going to tell either of these ignorant juveniles to get bent?
There is more to the school food story than you mention, Bryan. In your article you describe school food programs as one meal a day for nine months per year. But several school districts are already open for breakfast, for free to the students who “qualify” for free lunch. And now there is a serious push for including dinner as well. This is no longer about nutrition or obesity, but simple handout dependency, a further use of tax dollars to subsidize poverty and irresponsible behavior on the part of parents. Remember, every time the “children” are trotted out to be protected, there is a taxpayer-funded program coming along right behind that will take as its mandate the continual growth of entitlement and expansion of the eligible class. And the Obamas are the perfect couple to impose this on America.
We watched a program this summer that included school breakfast programs. Granted there are kids that need the breakfast…but not the sugar cereal, the pancakes and syrup the sugar bs.
BUT!! give them fruit and it goes in the trash.. there is something seriously wrong with what happens in “our homes” that our children look only to junk foods. It’s not the schools, it’s the parents and how they are bringing up the little sugar monsters. Heal they self physician.
Both stories are all about blackness. Vick is black, therefore Obama feels compelled to reach out to the brotha and all the other brothas in jail for…gee, I don’t know…resisting white oppression?! The school lunch programs that Michelle champions, especially as they expand into breakfast and dinner, are the most direct way to shovel revenue from white taxpayers into young black mouths. But let’s not tell the crude truth about the professional blacks who now aggressively target whitey cause IT’S PAY BACK TIME! Oh no, that would be racisss.
Take a look at who Michael Vick really is:
http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2010/12/our-president-honors-michael-vick.html
There are some truly evil people around and Vick is one of them.
Obama has made a serious mistake, a serious error of judgement.
AND…be warned!
According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against people and four times more likely to commit property crimes than are individuals without a history of animal abuse.
The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Interpersonal Violence
http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/abuse_connection.php#ixzz19TtKAEDC
“the quarterback’s skin color is more important to the president than the crimes he committed.”
Do ya think? We have an American hating, black racist, with a political tin ear in the White House.
Yo ‘Bama he all dat! Sheeeet.
I think the author hit on a key point, that Obama may not understand that Lurie hired Vick because he is a businessman who is trying to make a profit. We can agreee or disagree on whether that was a good decision by Lurie, but we understand the basic dynamics of how economics work and how profits are made and lost.
Does the President understand that?
Just another ill-considered shoot-from-the-hip remark by a racist, divisive Prez who doesn’t get main stream Americans and who should never speak off the teleprompter, alleged eloquence be damned. I’m sure he thought it was a safe remark in our idiotic climate of embracing sinners who admit their sins, no matter how horrendous, as long as they sit on the correct side of the political aisle. Oops Obama. Another off-the-cuff remark gone awry, much like “the police acted stupidly” remark.
The solution, of course, is that he needs to talk more.
Whether and what kind of second chances Michael Vick deserves, or not, is a complicated topic with a lot of aspects to it.
Little lenin making a big deal about it isn’t complicated at all. It is a 100% clear signal to his 98% constituency that there are no crimes they can commit that will move little lenin off his punish and make em pay strategy toward white people.
Unless and until he gets the total power he craves, in which case they will be thrown under the bus along with everybody else.
Egad! I can’t stand these people! They are EVERYWHERE, sticking their fingers and noses into EVERYTHING!! Someone make them GO AWAY!!!
I’m with you.
I literally run to the radio or tv to turn these !@#$%*)! off…lets HOPE I don’t break my leg tripping over the cat to CHANGE the channel.
let them eat dogs
It was fun watching the crippled up, homeless, hapless, second and third string Vikings hand Vick his lunch last night.
LOL LOL LOL….all the accolades then he loses the game! Poetic justice!
time to boycott everything Vikings, Michael Vick and especially all things “TheWon”
this story makes me physically ill
sorry, I meant boycott WHATEVER d&&mn team this a&&hole was re-hired to
uggggh
Since when is the government supposed to be involved in the general welfare?
Of course, parents should be allowed to malnourish their children.
And provide them with alcohol and tobacco as well, should they so choose.
We have to accept diversity in our society.
Lost in the argument over Vick’s race and character (or lack thereof) is that he was originally picked up from the NFL scrap heap to back up another black quarterback, Donovan McNabb. Ironically, McNabb was tossed under the bus in Philadelphia and looks to have the same fate in Washington as well.
I doubt Obama is going to congratulate Dan Snyder, the owner of his ‘hometown’ Redskins, for giving McNabb a second chance at resurrecting his career with that multi-million dollar contract Donovan signed just before being demoted to third-string.
Has anyone done a survey of Obesity “victims”. It might find that the oriental race has highest number per 1000 citizens, or might not. However it could help to know where to station the abuse disablers.
The horror and utter destruction of health by S510. Every human being should have the basic human right to healthy, nutritious food.
The government is rabidly opposed to strong, healthy Americans. The government has been making raids on small organic farms and farms that produce wonderful organic, raw, health-giving dairy foods.
http://www.naturalnews.com
Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations
Under full Codex “harmonization,” America will be left with a dead food supply and the health food stores will be virtually stripped bare of dietary supplements. Selling vitamin D at a reasonable dose such as 4,000 IU per capsule will be criminalized and products will be seized and destroyed by FDA agents who recruit local law enforcement to bring in the firepower.
All this will ensure a diseased, nutritionally-deficient U.S. population. This actually seems to be the goal the FDA has been trying to achieve all along because the more diseased the population, the more money gets collected by Big Pharma for “treating” sick people with medication and chemotherapy.
The bill does absolutely nothing to limit the use of chemical pesticides on imported food According to the FDA’s stance on all this, foods laced with DDT and other pesticides are perfectly “safe” for human consumption, but foods teeming with probiotics — such as raw milk — are deadly and dangerous!
The Food Safety Modernization Act is the destroyer of local organic farming. It will gut small farms and local farms, greatly increasing the price of local organic food while decreasing America’s food security. Farmers’ Markets will be targeted by FDA agents who raid the operations of local farmers and imprison them for not having the right paperwork. Families will be destroyed.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030863_food_safety_bill_Codex_Alimentarius.html
US leaders seek to destroy not only the health of Americans, but they seek to also destroy the health of other nations’ peoples.
http://www.naturalnews.com
Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs
Stapleton: “Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits.” These are the words of the U.S. ambassador to France.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030828_GMOs_Wikileaks.html
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? US leaders don’t believe in freedom; especially when it comes to healthy, nutritious food. A mom and her frightened young children were held for several hours at GUNPOINT.
http://www.mercola.com
Farmers and Private Food Coops Persecuted
Dr. Mercola | August 05 2010
The idea of armed federal agents storming through small farms and barns, making off with milk cartons and computers, would be quite laughable — if it weren’t a reality. Victims of recent government raids, as Grist reported, include:
* Rawesome Foods: A private food club run by raw-food advocate Aajonus Vonderplanitz in California. Agents took thousands of dollars worth of raw honey and raw dairy products, and shut the group down for not having a public health permit (even though they’re a private food club). The FBI and FDA were also on the scene.
* Traditional Foods Warehouse: A food club in Minnesota that offers locally produced foods. Agents raided the club and shut it down.
* A private residence: Agents searched a home and took computers because a family allowed a raw dairy farmer to park in their driveway while distributing raw milk to residents who had ordered it.
* The dairy farm and farm store of Vernon Hershberger: Three raids in a three-month period!
* The farm of Sharon Palmer: Agents raided her farm three times in 18 months over issues with her labeling of goat cheese. A computer and milk used to feed chickens and pigs were confiscated.
* Manna Storehouse: An Ohio food club that has been raided over licensing issues. According to Grist, “Armed law enforcement officers actually held a mother and eight young children being home-schooled at gunpoint for several hours while they searched the home and food storage areas.”
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/05/raids-are-increasing-on-farms-and-private-foodsupply-clubs.aspx
“We can’t just leave [child nutrition] up to the parents.”
My immediate reaction upon hearing this was: Who the HELL do you think you are?! The gall of this woman never ceases to amaze me.
I’m a single mom whose son was on the free/reduced school lunch program. By the time he reached high school, there was already a salad bar available. However, he said almost nobody used it because the vegetables were often “gross.” (Wilted, warm, soggy, etc.)
When I myself was in elementary school (we’re going back to the early 1960s now) the principal was appalled at the waste with school lunches and had a table set up at the front of the cafeteria. If you didn’t eat your fruit (apple, orange, whatever) you put it on a tray. The same for your milk. That way, if someone else wanted an extra milk or piece of fruit, they were encourage to come up and take one from the table. Less food was wasted, and fewer kids went back to class hungry. (Amazingly, this was at a public school in New York State. But then, it was a very conservative town, so…)
@Linda, gubmit take over of food…
hmmm… I’m sure I’ve read about this tactic in manifesto somewhere or other… You’re surprised why?
“welcome to the party pal”