Screwy Puppy

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Public watching the Government Food

Do you remember the girl who had her bag lunch taken away and was given a school lunch instead? It was because the government felt her parents did not give her a nutritious enough lunch. They also sent her home with the lunch her parents packed and a bill for the school lunch.

So how good is the school lunch? A Scottish school girl has a blog that rates her school lunches; it is called "Never Seconds." Her blog shows a picture of the meal and she rates the taste, portion size, and number of hairs found in the food.

The first reviewed lunches were embarrassingly bad and her blog has received a lot of attention. Since then the school lunches have been improving.

It would be great to see some American students doing this to see if the government lunch is adequate or not. After all, they are telling us what to eat and banning stuff we like!

Never Seconds

Monday, May 21, 2012

Cleverbot, what do you think about Obama?

It is what it isn't & isn't what it is

A woman sued General Mills over the fact that fruit rollups claim to be made with fruit. General Mills won the case. It seems that if the natural flavoring used is derived from the claimed fruit then it is okay to say it is made with that fruit, even though it does not contain fruit, just flavor.

Makes me think of "Certs made with Retsyn."

I found just the opposite problem in a story at MoonBattery. Brussels bureaucrats told a wine maker the could not call an alcoholic beverage made with grapes from outside of the European Union wine. See the video for this opposing insanity:

Friday, May 18, 2012

Obama and a Horse

Obama Pulls a Palin

Remember how a nut job shot Giffords and several other people in Arizona? Remember how the press tried to blame Palin for the shooting because she used "target symbols" on maps and Giffords district had a target on it?

What if you posted a family photo and put "bull's eyes" on kill shot locations on everyone, even the family dog? Well, Obama's site does just that.

Below is that very image. They want you to put this image on your site since it has an "embed" link associated with it.

Just in case they fix this faux pas, I have a screen capture of the "bull's eyes" below.

You Might be a Kenyan

You might be a Kenyan if ...

...your literary bio says you were born in Kenya.
...your dad was Kenyan.
...your brother lives in a hut in Kenya.
...you want to change America.
...your birth certificate is several pieces cobbled together.
...you attract flies.

Just a spot of fun. You got any? Comment below.

Fat Heads Support Fat Tax

I was going to go ahead and rant on this, but I don't really need to.

A story out of Indianapolis cites a study that says a "fat tax" could help curb obesity. Who did the study nor the name of the study is cited, just "a study." Now that's good journalism!

The story uses alcohol and tobacco taxes as a reason to tax fatty foods. The other taxes reduced use of those sin products which theoretically means it could work for fatty foods. A 20% tax is recommended in the article. Not kidding. 20%!

So why am I not going to rant? Go read the article and the comments. You can see all the ranting that needs to be done is in the comments. I don't how the journalist found someone to support this tax, but the readers are pissed!