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I recall a study somewhere that cited "fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."

I'll try to find it and post it here.

Highlights of the above mentioned study:

Dean Wormer: Mr. Kroger: two C's, two D's and an F. That's a 1.2 grade average. Congratulations, Kroger. You're at the top of the Delta pledge class. Mr. Dorfman?
Flounder: Hello!
Dean Wormer: Zero point two... Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Bluto: Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fcking Peace Corps.

Bluto: My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Otter: Better listen to him, Flounder. He's pre-med.

We need to get the kids working back in the factories again. That would keep the weight off.

PRIVATIZE EDUCATION!


Your kid's mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Now imagine the waste that goes on with what the Federal Government has done with health care policy.

The larger something gets, the more it consumes, and the more it wastes. Big companies can never - and I do mean NEVER - run as lean as a mom-and-pop establishment, ever. It is the nature of bureaucracy. Which is why A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G the federal government does will be loaded with waste, fraud, and abuse regardless of how many reforms are made.

Furthermore - and this is just icing on the cake - those free school lunches for "poor children?" Well, a good chunk of people exploiting that are far from "poor." Even when I was a kid, my mother was outraged when they tried to get her to sign up for free school lunches for me, simply so that the school could get the handout.

That was decades ago, with virtually no reform. My assumption, based in past history, is that this situation has only gotten worse.

Not too long ago, my youngest kid started packing on the pounds. I found out that he was getting breakfast at school, and I ended that immediately. Heck, I went in there with a full head of steam and made sure they understood that my kid was to be nowhere near that food line, or taking anything from his friends. Strangely enough, his weight gain stopped abruptly.

The stuff they serve is crap. Consequently, you pay for it. And if you dare even mention about killing that program, you will be derided as wanting to starve poor children.

Simply ignore the fact that those children "going to bed hungry," are generally 20 - 40 lbs overweight...

I've been saying this for years. We can't expect the chinese to supply 100% of the world's child labor....

You should just home school your child instead of buying into the nanny state's public education system.

I provided an executive summary for pdx.

High school students boycott school cafeteria over new lunch restrictions
Published September 18, 2012

With new federal guidelines dictating what is served at school cafeterias during lunch time, school districts all over the country have reworked their menus to accommodate the new rules. The changes include serving more whole grains, daily doses of fruits and vegetables, less sugar and salt, and only low- or non-fat milk.

For the first time, school lunches must have age-aligned calorie maximums, capping the amount of calories high school students eat to around 850 calories. The new restrictions all come from the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and are funded by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – legislation promoted by Michelle Obama.

While the changes may seem like a step in a healthier direction, not all students are finding them so tasty. On Monday, about 70 percent of the 830 students at Mukwonago High School in Wisconsin who typically buy their lunch boycotted the school’s cafeteria, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported. The high schoolers were joined by middle schoolers in the district, reducing the number of lunches sold by half.

According to the Journal Sentinel, the Mukwonago School District is not alone, as many other schools nationwide are also reporting students frustrated with the new rules.

One such student from Mukwonago High, Nick Blohm, said the healthier food is not so much the problem as it is portion size. A 6-foot-3-inch, 210-pound linebacker, Blohm said he burns around 3,000 calories during three hours of football practice and weight training. He’s also the class president, and he’s taking various Advanced Placement classes. But the new caps, he said, are making it harder to perform both physically and academically.

"A lot of us are starting to get hungry even before the practice begins," Blohm told the Journal Sentinel. "Our metabolisms are all sped up."

Another issue for students at Mukwonago is the new pricing, the Journal Sentinel said. A 10-cent price increase was added to lunches by the USDA in order to make lunches closer to the $2.86 it typically reimburses for students who qualify for free lunches. That increased raised the new lunches from $2.40 to $2.50.

Not only are students upset with the new changes, but Mukwonago officials are on board as well. While students and staff members alike agree that childhood obesity is a major concern, many are saying the new lunch guidelines are too abrupt and don’t take students’ unique lifestyles into account.

"I could not be more passionate about this," Pam Harris, the Mukwonago district food service supervisor and a registered dietitian, told the Journal Sentinel. "I want to solve this problem. But limiting calories in school lunch is not going to help the overweight kid. What happens at home is a major piece of that puzzle."

Mukwonago had students fill out cards about what they did and didn’t like about the new lunch. According to the Journal Sentinel, Harris plans to send the cards to the USDA, along with parent letters, in hopes that representatives will allow their school district and others to integrate their new lunch plan over time



Film at 11....

I figured they all had their pockets stuffed full of cheese & sausage when they left home in the mornings..