You can all stop holding your breath now. There will be another royal wedding. Our long national nightmare is over.
I was a little heavy on the rage last week. So I’ve decided to compensate by going light on everything this week. Who said I don’t know how to cut a deal?
A word on bi-partisanship. And by bi-partisanship I mean obstruction. If you truly needed further evidence that the current Republican party has every interest in politicking and no interest in governing, consider the following. For the past 18 months the administration has been working on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. This past Wednesday, Arizona (again?) Senator Jon Kyl, the lead Republican senator on the treaty negotiations announced he will not allow a vote on the treaty during the lame-duck session, or any time after that for that matter. His claim as to why? The President has put no focus on the modernization of the existing U.S. nuclear arsenal, as well the usual mumbo jumbo about the President disarming America and being unwilling to work with Republicans to find solutions. Reality, however, has a different take. While previous arms reduction treaties - all signed under Republican presidents, reduced deployed nuclear warheads from 12,000 to 2,000, this proposed treaty will reduce the total from 2,000 to 1,550. And at Kyl’s request, the administration committed $84 billion toward modernization over the next ten years. Hardly disarmament. As for the President being unwilling to work with Republicans, White House officials recounted no fewer than 29 meetings, phone calls, briefings and/or letters on the subject involving Jon Kyl or his staff, a number which neither Kyl nor his staff disputes. Yet, after all that, Kyl still refuses to allow a vote. Nothing obstructionist about that.
Finally, I know I’m a little late to this story, but San Francisco has decided to ban the Happy Meal. More specifically, they have banned fast food restaurants from bundling free toys with meals marketed to kids. I guess kids were getting fat from eating the plastic Buzz Lightyear action figure that came with their bacon double cheeseburger, large fries and large M&M McFlurry. This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard since Oklahoma voted to ban Sharia law in the midterm elections. (Seriously, was the implementation of Sharia law becoming a problem in Oklahoma?) Does removing the toy from the Happy Meal magically make the meal more nutritious? Is the toy some kind of superconducting child magnet that senses kids driving past the restaurant and rips the Happy Meal out through the drive-thru window and into their tubby little bellies? Perhaps I’m just too old to remember correctly, but when my mother wanted to keep me from eating junk food, she simply didn’t buy me junk food, plastic Taiwanese lead-painted toy be damned. I guess it’s too much to ask for parents to act like parents in San Francisco.
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