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When I first saw the headline Fox accuses ‘The Muppets’ of brainwashing kids against the rich, I thought is was some kind of joke or a play on words, like Fox News was reviewing the movie or something. I get to the article and my jaw drops to the freakin’ floor! These people honestly believe that the Obama administration and liberals are using The Muppets to brainwash kids against the rich. Has Fox News suddenly fallen into an alternate universe? What the hell are you people thinking?
Fox News “anchors” are complaining about using the name Tex Richman as the villain in the movie. What do they suggest, using Homeless George Poorman as the villian? Yes, I can really see that selling as a greedy person who is trying to destroy the Muppets theater. So Poorman wants to tear down the building to expand the alley for him to sleep in? (I know, bad homeless person joke.)
Then the rant about Captain Planet being against the rich and industry. I seem to remember it was often RESPONSIBLE companies and the SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS rich people that were working with Captain Planet against the villains. (And did you notice that the villains in Captain Planet were representations of the Seven Deadly Sins and not any social class or group?)
I guess Fox “News” can go all the way back to the early radio, single reel movies, and dime novels and accuse the Obama administration of trying to brainwash kids in the past as well.
I am at a loss for words, Fox News has gone so far out there that they have lost all touch with reality.
Yes, it seems the GOP has so little to do that they want to call pizza a vegetable. Yes, you read correctly, a vegetable. See the article here Congress: Schools Can Count Pizza as a Vegetable – Q13 Fox News.
Pizza is not a veggie, it is a dish, a pie, or a meal.
Even though the GOP is saying that tomato paste and not pizza (thought the GOP seems to think the sauce on a pizza is the only place tomato paste is used) is a veggie, tomato past IS NOT A VEGETABLE. It is MADE from vegetables (namely tomatoes), but it contains high amounts of sodium and sugar. The point is that is should not count to replace the veggies that should be in the meal.
All the Agriculture Department wanted to do was say that you had to add veggies on the side if you had pizza.
What makes it so bad is that the food companies, salt manufacturers, and potato growers (the Ag Dept wants to limit french fries too) are the ones pushing for GOP to make the Ag Dept back down. Yes, big business is trying to write more legislation at our and our children’s expense.
I love this part, “some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat”. (Source referenced – Tomato sauce on pizza is a vegetable, says Congress; GOP says healthier school lunches are too expensive – NewYorkDailyNews.com)The Fed is not telling them what to eat, the Fed is telling schools that are getting federally subsidized meals to serve healthy meals. The kids can bring their own lunches or just not eat the food, the kids have the choice.
Yes, I can hear you now. Poor kids don’t have a choice. You people saying that are the same trying to take their free lunches, which these kids need and need healthy ones at that, away.
If you want federal money, you have to take federal regulations… even if it means that your kid will have to eat healthy food.
I remember taking my lunch to school for years because not only did the food suck, but is was so unhealthy and fat laden that is would make you physically ill… and I would eat anything back then.
I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.
Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.
We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A
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