Posts filed under 'Fast food decisions'
There’s some wisdom (and yes, some bad language) in this commentary delivered by Bill Maher last night:
Stop believing you can solve your problems by electing a superhero… Here in California, we experimented with making an action hero our leader. He was going to build roads and schools, cut taxes and balance the budget. How? Simple because he was a hulking man monster who could bend lampposts… Is it Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fault that California now has a worse credit rating than Louisiana, a state that’s half underwater and half in the bag? Not really. This is a man who came to America with nothing but a jar of protient powder and a nice jar of 36D’s and became a Hollywood action star despite never learning how to speak English.
No one can govern this state because it’s illegal to do it. We govern by ballot initiative and we only write two kinds of those: Spend money on things I like and don’t raise my taxes. We vote “yes” on gain, “no” on pain. This is why America’s founders wanted a representative democracy, because they knew if you gave the average guy a change, he’d vote for a fantasyland with no taxes, free beer and [rated R].
And California used to be like the rest of America, following the instructions in the constitution and everything. But then we chucked that and now our state is governed by special interest people standing in front of the supermarket with clipboards asking “will you sign this petition to make earthquakes illegal?” They’re really starting to bother me. And Proposition 14C which mandates 2 weeks paid leave for hangovers. And universal teeth whitening paid for by farts. So California, which I’m sad to tell you is usually ahead of the rest of America, will probably go bankrupt. We’ll probably be closing the schools, but you’ll want to keep your kids at home anyway because we’ll also be closing the prisons and letting all the rapists out.
Truth is, Even a real superhero couldn’t get us out the mess we’re in now. Superman could stop bullets and crush coal to make diamonds between the cheeks of his ass, but he can’t help us. He works for a newspaper, he needs a job. Batman can’t help us because he can’t get parts for his big stupid American car. And Wonder Woman can’t help us because, well, we don’t allow gays in uniform.
May 23rd, 2009
Thomas Friedman, from yesterday’s New York Times:
“So many people were in on it: People who had no business buying a home, with nothing down and nothing to pay for two years; people who had no business pushing such mortgages, but made fortunes doing so; people who had no business bundling those loans into securities and selling them to third parties, as if they were AAA bonds, but made fortunes doing so; people who had no business rating those loans as AAA, but made a fortunes doing so; and people who had no business buying those bonds and putting them on their balance sheets so they could earn a little better yield, but made fortunes doing so.”
November 26th, 2008
Remarks as prepared by Lea Marshall for the “CC” middle school rezoning meeting. Delivered while munching on McDonald’s fries. Has there ever been such a selfless reason to eat french fries?
I drove through this fast food drive through on the way to this
meeting tonight. I drove through for several reasons but the main ones
were that I was hungry and it was convenient. I made a fast food
decision based on convenience and I feel that this rezoning of Raa is
also a fast food decision based on convenience.
It meets one need and one need alone, the need to have a neighborhood
school for Killearn. And you know what, my French fries met one need,
my hunger need, very nicely. But the empty calories and lack of
nutrition is really not doing me any favors in the long run.
A fast food or convenience based eating policy does not meet my future
needs of having a healthy body. Likewise, this school rezoning does
not meet future needs of a healthy school system and healthy community.
Fast food eating decisions lead to my doctor having to prescribe pills
to lower blood pressure and pills to lower cholesterol. Fast food
education decisions lead to prescribing magnet schools and taking
students from other areas to fill in gaps. Prescription drugs may have
some positive effects on a person’s health just as these prescribed
school initiatives may benefit a school, but there are always side
effects.
Wouldn’t it have been better to make the harder and wiser decisions
to begin with?
Look at me, i have made a lot of fast food decisions in my life. I am
an expert in convenience based eating decisions. I also realize that
there is a price to be paid for making fast food convenience based
decisions in my body. There is a price also in our school system, in
our community and in the legacy we leave behind to our children.
Consider the long term health of our city and work harder to make a
better choice. We may be “lovin it” now…but will we love what a
steady diet of convenience based decisions does to us in 5 years?
November 15th, 2007
