"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."Monday, June 07, 2010
WOULD THE WHITE HOUSE OUST HELEN THOMAS IF SHE SAID, "BLACKS, GO BACK TO AFRICA"?
The White House's rebuke is too little too late.
Helen Thomas should have her White House Press Credentials removed. But, even more, Obama needs to be removed from office.
NYTIMES' FRONT PAGE : DEMOCRATS = COWARDS
- THAT WON'T GET THEM MANY VOTES THIS NOVMEBER!
- YEAH BABY!
IRAN JOINS IN FLOTILLA BRINKSMANSHIP
Sunday, June 06, 2010
FACT: IRAN - WITH THE HELP OF RUSSIA AND CHINA AND TURKEY AND OBAMA - IS SUCCESSFULLY STALLING EFFORTS TO REIGN IN THEIR NUKE PROGRAM
They've employed many means: IEDS and sectarian war in Iraq to pin us down, instructing their stooges in Hizballah and Hamas to start wars with Israel.
When it looked like they might be toppled Obama came to their rescue.
WHY?
He's on their side. The anti-Israel NPT agreement demanding Israel give up its nuclear deterrent is another example of Obama siding with Iran and Turkey.
The recent Brazil-Turkey effort and the anti-Israel NPT effort and the Gaza Flotilla efforts are all part of Global Jihad and Iran's effort to stall until they have enough uranium for 3 bombs: one to test and two more...
Israel has to strike BEFORE the test.
The closer we get to that time the more desperate will become Iran's efforts to prevent any sanctions.
Their offer to escort the next Gaza Flotilla is proof that they are MUCH closer than anyone has believed.
They may even have 3 already.
WHY?
Well, a military confrontation with Israel in the Mediterranean would provide Iran with an excuse to nuke Israel - even before testing.
Does Obama really think that he can appease Turkey and Iran by bashing Israel?
I donlt think he's that dumb - but he might be.
THIS ONLY MAKES THE JIHADISTS MORE BLOODTHIRSTY.
Does Obama think he should delay dealing with Iran in order to deal with Gaza?
Is he dumb enough to take the bait?
I don;t think so.
That's why I think Obama is part of it - as a dupe or a crypto-muslim. It's the Jihad-leftist alliance: they all think Israel is a colonial outpost that doesn't deserve to exist.
The leftists think global jihad will vanish if Israel vanishes.
The jihadists are exploiting this. Obama might be, too.
THE NEW BIG LIE: ISRAEL IS A BAD ALLY WHO HURTS US INTERESTS. THE BIG TRUTH: OBAMA IS HURTING WESTERN INTERESTS!
The Big Truth: Obama is hurting USA and Western interests!
Obama is siding with those who attack Israel and who seek to divide the West to conquer the West.
(And their division-seeding is working: Europe is becoming more openly antisemitic - and the Flotilla is the excuse. Even the Vatican is siding with the jihadists against Israel.)
Here is The Big New Lie:
NYTIMES:
Recent Israeli governments, particularly the one led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Cordesman argued, have ignored the national security concerns of its biggest benefactor, the United States, and instead have taken steps that damage American interests abroad.
The charge that Israel damages USA interests and the West is The New Big lie.
The only interests which Israel damages are the interests of appeasers and dupes and the jihado-leftist alliance.
The people who believe that Israel is the problem are either the Chamberlains of our century, or our Benedict Arnolds - and ALL are antisemites ---
YES: antisemites: by definition, if you criticize israel for doing things you allow gentiles to do then you are an antisemite. Egypt is part of the Gaza blockade, yet they get ZERO criticism, even though they too have a wall with Gaza. The Turks would not allow Kurdish terrorists to rearm. Russians fight Chechen terrorists more brutally than Israelis fight Hamas, yet they get very little criticism. The USA kills more civilians collaterally in Pakistan and Afghanistan than Israel does in Gaza or Lebanon. There's been a thousand times more killing in Africa and Sri Lanka and India, but they're not targeted for international criticism.
ONLY THE JEWS. That's antisemitism.
But it's more than antisemitism.
It's dangerous appeasement - at best:
Describing Israel as a problem to the USA and the west is like describing the Czechs as a problem for the West in 1939.
The problem then was Hitler, not the Czechs who ONLY wanted to keep the Sudetenland as part of Czechoslovakia.
The true problem now is global jihad and the axis of evil: Iran, Syrian, North Korea, Hamas, Hizballah - with direct aid from Russia and China, and indirect aid from the jihado-leftist alliance - of which the Obama administration is a part.
Here's why Obama can only be accurately described as part of the jihado-leftist alliance:
- Obama calls the successful Egypto-Israeli blockade of the jihadists "unsustainable" -
- and calls for a new weapons-interdiction process like the one in southern Lebanon based on UNSCR 1559
- but UNSCR 1559 has failed utterly to take arms away from Hizballah
- and has failed to prevent new and more weaponry from entering southern Lebanon and getting into the hands of Hizballah.
- As a result, Hizballah now has missiles from Iran - that they got via Syria.
- This is not in Western interests.
- Neither is having a Russo-Iranian port in Mediterranean.
- Neither is having a nuclear Iran.
Obama was NOT elected to follow these policies: when Obama ran for office he said he would give Iran until January.
It is now June, and Iran's nuke program has only steadily grown, as have Iran's air defenses - courtesy of Russia.
Yet instead of getting increasingly tough on Iran - and Hizballah and Hamas - Obama has gotten increasingly tough on Israel:
- Obama called the blockade "unsustainable" - (the fact that the 5 other ships in last week's Flotilla were taken peacefully, and that yesterday the Rachel Corrie was escorted to Ashdod peacefully proves Obama is wrong: that the blockade is sustainable)
- Obama called for Israel to give up its nuclear deterrence
- Obama has consistently treated Netanyahu shabbily and has made sure this has been seen around the world.
YES: Obama might as well be working for those who attacked us on 9/11.
Yes: actually, Obama's policies are threatening and damaging the USA and the West.
Repeat: actually, Obama's policies are threatening and damaging the USA and the West.
Repeat: actually, Obama's policies are threatening and damaging the USA and the West.
We can stop Obama and the jihado-leftist alliance this November: vote GOP.
JEWS WHO VOTE DEMOCRAT THIS NOVEMBER ARE JUDENRAT.
Remembering D-Day: June 6, 1944
Two of my cousins from Tennessee, neither of them having yet reached the age of twenty-one, were on the beach on D-Day. Both came home physically whole but never the same in their souls. What they had seen and experienced in that battle scarred them forever.
But I never saw nor met two others as patriotic as my two cousins. They remained staunch patriots for the rest of their lives....
Read the rest at Always On Watch.
SWEDEN'S RIGHT-WING PARTY IS SURGING BECAUSE SWEDES ARE FED UP WITH UNBRIDLED ISLAMIC IMMIGRATION/COLONIZATION
AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION, THE SWEDISH RIGHT-WING MAY VERY WELL BE THE KINGMAKERS. EXCERPTS:
From his party's office in the basement of a Stockholm parking garage, Jimmie Akesson is running for Parliament, preaching sharp cuts in immigration and calling Islam the greatest threat to Swedish society.I HOPE THEY DO VERY WELL AT THE POLLS. EITHER THE SWEDES FIGHT BACK NOW; OR THEY'LL BOW DOWN TO JIHAD LATER.That message until now has gained little traction in Sweden, but polls are predicting gains for Akesson's far-right Sweden Democrats that could give them a king-maker role in national elections this year if neither mainstream bloc wins an outright majority.
... Opinion polls show the Sweden Democrats could get 4 to 6 percent of votes in the September election, enough to win 15-20 seats in the 349-member Riksdag and potentially throw Swedish politics into disarray.
... In some cities immigrants are nearly 40 percent of the population, and in certain neighborhoods nearly 90 percent.... The Sweden Democrats say immigration has become an economic burden, draining the welfare system and channeling jobs to newcomers who work for lower wages.
Akesson says he fears Sweden is adapting to the Muslim minority instead of the other way around and has written of Islam's impact on Swedish society as ''our biggest foreign threat since World War II.''
He mentions cases of public schools that have stopped serving pork and no longer celebrate the end of the school year in church.
Akesson also points to attacks against artist Lars Vilks, who drew the prophet Muhammad with a dog's body. Last month furious protesters chanting ''God is Great'' in Arabic disrupted Vilks' guest lecture at Uppsala University and vandals tossed firebombs at his home.
AND LATER IS PROBABLY SOONER THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK!
UH-OH: ANOTHER SPIRALING UFO SEEN - THIS TIME IN OZ
Some Australians woke up this morning to discover a strange spiral light illuminating the Aussie skies.OZ 5 JUNE 2010 VIDEO:
Like the Norway spiral we saw a few weeks ago making headlines, this Australian sighting of spiral lights is starting to make waves, and springing up some conspiracy theories.
So it appears that a Falcon 9 rocket could be responsible for this.
Can the explanation of a rocket gone awry suffice the general public’s quest for answers?
I’ve read many people talking about aliens being the cause of this, or that some time/space portal is opening up. And they are generally scared.
I’ll tell you this much, I rather have the aliens opening up time portals and stuff than knowing that our government is firing off inadequate missiles.
THE NORWAY SPIRAL DECEMBER 2009:
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... A USA MISSILE LAUNCHED IN FLORIDA DID THIS IN AUSTRALIA!?!?!
HUH.
AND THEY SAY A RUSSIAN MISSILE LAUNCH CAUSED THE NORWEGIAN ONE.
HOW CONVENIENT.
HMMM...
Saturday, June 05, 2010
THE NYTIMES - LIKE OBAMA - IS BLAMING ISRAEL AND SIDING WITH THE TURKS AND JIHADISTS
The list of recent moves by the Netanyahu government that potentially threaten American interests has grown steadily, many foreign policy experts argue.
The violence that broke out when Israeli commandos stormed aboard a Gaza flotilla last week chilled American relations with a key Muslim ally, Turkey.
The Gaza fight also makes it more difficult for America to rally a coalition that includes Arab and Muslim states against Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
- (1) THEY SAY IT AS IF THE BLOCKADE WAS A LONE/ROGUE ISRAELI OPERATION - IT IS NOT: IT IS A JOINT OPERATION OF EGYPT AND ISRAEL, WITH ISRAEL RUNNING THE NAVAL PORTION.
- (2) THEY SAY IT AS IF ISRAEL PROVOKED THE FLOTILLA RAID AND VIOLENCE, BUT ISRAEL DID NOT PROVOKE THE VIOLENCE. ONLY THE IHHH/TURK SHIP WAS VIOLENT; THE OTHER 5 WERE ESCORTED TO ASHODOD WITHOUT VIOLENCE. AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE RACHEL CORRIE WAS ESCORTED TO ASHDOD WITHOUT VIOLENCE.
- (3) THEY SAY IT AS IF TURKEY WAS A RELIABLE ALLY - WHEN THE IRAQ WAR AND THEIR RECENT OVERTURE TO IRAN PROVE THEY ARE NOT
- (4) THEY SAY IT AS IF WHAT THE OBAMA LED MUSLIM/ARAB COALITION AGAINST IRAN WAS GONNA DO ANYTHING EFFECTIVE. ALL THEY'RE GONNA DO IS TRY TO PASS A UN RESOLUTION WHICH WON;LT BE EFFECTIVE BECAUSE RUSSIA AND CHINA AND TURKEY WILL OPPOSE ANY ONE WHICH MIGHT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE EFFECTIVE.
OBAMA MUST BE ANTI-SEMITIC AND JIHADO-PHILIC - NO SURPRISE HERE:
THIS MAKES OBAMA JUST LIKE:
- HIS DECADES OLD REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT
- AND HIS DECADES OLD NEIGHBOR AND OCCASSIONAL BABY-SITTER RASHID KHALID
- AND HIS DECADES OLD FRIEND AND CO-AUTHOR BILL AYERS!
THE IMAM BEHIND THE MOSQUE NEAR GROUND ZERO HAS CONNECTIONS WITH FLOTILLA FUNDING
The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week.Reuters has confirmed that the Free Gaza Movement, whose supporters include William Ayers, that it's biggest donation came from Perdana. I'd say there's a lot more reason now to protest this mosque atrocity that's being built. A man who would help fund barbarians like what Rauf did cannot and should not be viewed as legitimate.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website.
Perdana is the single biggest donor ($366,000) so far to the Free Gaza Movement, a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Monday.
THE NOVEMBER 2010 ELECTION: A BATTLE AS IMPORTANT AS THOSE FOUGHT AT TOURS-POITIERS, VIENNA AND LEPANTO
THE BATTLE VIENNA - 9/11/1532
THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO - 7 October 1571
THE BATTLE OF AMERICA - 11/2/2010:
- WE CAN DEFEAT THE LEFTIST JIHADIST AXIS BY VOTING GOP AND TAKING BACK CONGRESS.
OBAMA HAS ANNOUNCED THIS ON THE DAY THE IDF ESCORTED THE "RACHEL CORRIE" TO ASHDOD WITHOUT INCIDENT - PROVING THAT THE BLOCKADE (A JOINT ISRAELI-EGYPT EFFORT!) IS VERY SUSTAINABLE.President Obama refused to side with Israel after the attack and told Prime Minister Netanyahu to go back to Israel out of concern that the Israeli Prime Minister would use the White House as his backdrop while discussing the flotilla ambush.
Reuters reported:
The White House said on Friday Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip was unsustainable and urged a Gaza aid vessel sent by pro-Palestinian activists to divert to an Israeli port to reduce the risk of violence.
“We are working urgently with Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and other international partners to develop new procedures for delivering more goods and assistance to Gaza,” said Mike Hammer, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
“The current arrangements are unsustainable and must be changed. For now, we call on all parties to join us in encouraging responsible decisions by all sides to avoid any unnecessary confrontations,” Hammer said in a statement.
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT COMES ON THE HEALS OF:
- OBAMA DEPLAYING ANY ACTION AGAINST IRAN - AGAIN DAMMIT; HEPROMISED US A DEADLINE OF JANUARY WHEN HE RAN FUHCRYINOUTTEARS!).
- AND OBAMA SIGNING ONTO AN NPT AGREEMENT DEMANDING ISRAEL GIVCE UP ITS NUCLEAR DETERRENT.
OBAMA IS EITHER PART OF THE JIHADO-LEFTIST AXIS - ALONG WITH TURKEY, IRAN, BRAZIL AND RUSSIA - OR HE IS BEING INTIMIDATED BY TURKEY.
EITHER WAY, HIS CONTINUED PRESIDENCY IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE FREE WORLD.
- WE CAN BRIDLE HIS ANTI-WESTERN POLICIES BY TAKING BACK CONGRESS THIS NOVEMBER.
PROOF TURKEY IS PART OF THE AXIS OF EVIL: ERDOGAN WANTS TO VISIT GAZA, AND SEND THE TURKISH NAVY TO ACCOMPANY THE NEXT FLOTILLA
YnetThe newspaper said that “as part of the open conflict between Turkey and Israel following the massacre against the ‘freedom sail’ to Gaza and the protest sparked in the world, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is considering going to Gaza himself in order to break the blockade imposed on the Strip.”…
According to the report, Erdogan told the American administration he was planning to ask his navy to escort another aid flotilla,
IT'S NO ACCIDENT THIS COMES RIGHT AFTER TURKEY CAME TO IRAN'S RESCUE.TURKEY IS HELPING HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH AND IRAN.
BY HELPING IRAN, TURKEY IS UNDERMINING THE EU, NATO AND ISRAEL AND THE USA.
IT'S NO COINCIDENCE THAT ERDOGAN'S TURKEY DENIED THE USA USE OF TURKEY DURING THE IRAQ WEAR INVASION.
NOW, BY THREATENING TO SEND THE TURKISH NAVY TO ACCOMPANY THE NEXT FLOTILLA, ERDOGAN IS THREATENING ISRAEL WITH NOT ONLY A WAR WITH TURKEY, BUT ONE WITH NATO IF TURKISH NAVY ENGAGES THE IDF AND THEN INVOKES NATO'S ARTICLE 5.
(I BELIEVE THIS HAS BEEN TURKLEY'S AND IRAN'S STRATEGY FROM THE START AND HAVE POSTED THIS FOR WEEKS.)
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO CONCLUDE THAT TURKEY UNDER ERDOGAN IS PART OF THE JIHADIST AXIS; THEREFORE:
- TURKEY SHOULD BE EXPELLED FROM NATO AT ONCE.
- KEEPING THEM IN NATO MEANS OUR ENEMIES ARE PRIVY TO OUR DEFENSES.
- IT'S INSANE TO KEEP TURKEY IN NATO.
- AND DANGEROUS.
- IT MAKES US LESS SAFE.
GAZA AND ISRAEL: THE TRUTH IS THERE FOR ALL TO SEE - IF YOU OPEN YOUR EYES


LEFTISTS AND JIHADISTS SAY GAZA ISN'T FREE BECAUSE OF THE ISRAELI BLOCKADE.
BUT THE BLOCKADE IS A JOINT OPERATION OF EGYPT AND ISRAEL, AND IT ONLY KEEPS OUT WEAPONRY.
ALL FOOD AND HUMANITARIAN AID GETS INTO GAZA.


IF GAZANS AREN'T FREE IT'S BECAUSE THEY LIVE UNDER JIHADO-FASCISM.
THE BIGGEST INDUSTRY IN GAZA IS EXTORTION: THEY THREATEN GLOBAL VIOLENCE AND GENOCIDE AGAINST ISRAEL AND IN RETURN THEY GET BILLIONS IN AID.
THE JIHADO-LEFTIST AXIS HAS TRIED TO SNEAK WEAPONS INTO GAZA FOR THREE YEARS.
THE BLOCKADE STOPS THEM - AND THUS SAVES ISRAEL AND EGYPT FROM INCREASINGLY VIOLENT JIHADO-TERROR.
LAST WEEK'S ATTEMPT WITH 6 SHIPS INCLUDED ONE FILLED WITH MORE THAN JUST LEFTISTS AND DUPES; IT HAD MANY VIOLENT JIHADISTS, TOO - AND IT WAS SPONSORED BY THE AVOWEDLY ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY.
MORE TRUTH ABOUT THE AKP/IHH/HAMAS/AL QAEDA SHIP HERE.
YESTERDAY, ANOTHER JIHADO-LEFTIST SHIP ATTEMPTED TO BREAK THE BLOCKADE; THEY NAMED IT "THE RACHEL CORRIE" - AFTER A LEFTIST WHO SUPPORTED THE ARAB/ISLAMIC GENOCIDE AGAINST ISRAEL - RACHEL CORRIE.

THE LEFTIST-JIHADIST AXIS LIKES TO PROMOTE HER AS A MARTYR FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE. A SWEETIE AND A SAINT:
BUT THIS IS WHO SHE REALLY WAS:
THE REAL RACHEL CORRIE AND "THE RACHEL CORRIE" WERE NOT REALLY ABOUT JUSTICE OR FREEDOM OR PEACE.THEY WERE REALLY ALL ABOUT TRYING TO DESTROY ISRAEL.
WELL, THE RACHEL CORRIE SHIP WAS SEIZED WITHOUT VIOLENCE.
OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON AND ERDOGAN AND ALL THE SCUM IN THE JIHADO-LEFTIST AXIS ARE WONG: THE BLOCKADE WORKS.
ISRAEL WILL PREVAIL.
THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
THE JIHADO-LEFTIST AXIS WILL BE DEFEATED.
AND THAT INCLUDES OBAMA.
IMAGINE THERE'S NO LEFTISTS - IT ISN'T HARD TO DO...
ATHEISM:Imagine there's no HeavenTRANS-NATIONALISM:
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countriesMARXIST COMMUNISM AND POSTMODERNIST ANTI-CONSUMERISM:
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Imagine no possessionsIT MAKES ME REALIZE: Leftism and postmodernism are based on an appeal to IMAGINATION, not reason, not reality.
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
Imagination is what shapes their rhetoric. It's how they campaign and debate.
Obama and his campaign and rhetoric and governing style epitomize the left's appeal to imagination and not reason.
In all of human history, appeasement has never worked - neither has redistribution or a command economy - but that hasn't stopped leftists and Obama from IMAGINING it will work this time.
This is simply not rational. EINSTEIN (attributed):
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The utopian urge is an urge for an IMAGINARY world that's IMPOSSIBLE to actually create.
When leftists like Obama orate, they essentially make a direct appeal to the listeners IMAGINATION: "Imagine a world at peace, fed, healthy, with brotherhood for all. We are for that. Our policies will deliver that. Conservatives oppose that."
It's insane. Conservatives believe that humans and human society are IMPERFECTABLE. That we each deserve our God-given universal and unalienable rights. And that the best "most fairest" way of achieving that is democracy and the free market. In other words, democracy and the free market suck; they're just the best compared to everything else.
Leftists IMAGINE otherwise.
All leftists are DREAMERS who haven't awakened - who choose to remain in an adolescent dreamworld. A teen dreamworld in which the permissive nanny gives you an allowance and cleans up after you and nurses you no matter how you misbehave. And you don't have to ever grow up.
The leftist state - the nannystate - is a dream.
And when they get power THEIR dream becomes the world's NIGHTMARE.
HERE'S A NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION:
Imagine there's no leftism
It's easy if you try
No commies among us
Only truth and no BIG LIE
Imagine there's no Islam
It isn't hard to do
No hate for jihadis to kill or die for
And no terror too
Imagine no taxes
I wonder if you can
No need for government programs
And no 5 year plan.
You may say I'm a teabagger
Or a zionist racist corprate neocon bitch
I hope someday you'll grow up
And the world will be free and rich.
PROOF THAT OBAMA IS WRONG AND THE GAZA BLOCKADE IS SUSTAINABLE
- THIS CAN GO ON IN PERPETUITY - IF THE USA AND THE FREE WORLD DON'T ATTACK ISRAEL FOR DEFENDING ITSELF.
- IF YOU WANT ISRAEL TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO DEFEND ITSELF, THEN VOTE GOP THIS NOVEMBER.
MORE PROOF OBAMA'S PERSONALITY WAS FORMED IN A MADRASSA

OBAMA SPENT THE FORMATIVE YEARS IN INDONESIA LIVING AS A MUSLIM.
HIS STEP-FATHER, HOME, AND SCHOOLING: MUSLIM.
IT'S DEEP IN HIS HEART.
UPDATE: I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE:
Obama's signature definately shows he was Arabic taught.JEREMIAH WRIGHT DID NOT BAPTIZE OBAMA INTO A CHRISTIAN, BUT INTO AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
Not knowing the copybook form for Arabic I am somewhat at a disadvantage but again there is threading which slurs the forms.
Any threading is an indication of not wanting to be pinned down, to escape responsibility when things go wrong, to hide the personal self, and of course speed of thought and action.
He could be very creative in his dealings with others.
OBAMA'S LEFTISM AND HIS ISLAMOPHILIA MAKE HIM AN ENEMY OF THE FREE WORLD.
WE CAN BRIDLE HIM THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP.
TURKEY DECLARES ALLEGIANCE TO AXIS OF EVIL
ERDOGAN: HAMAS NOT A TERROR ORGANISATION.
UN/USA: HAMAS IS A TERROR ORGANISATION.
ERGO: TURKEY IS THE ENEMY.
FREE THE KURDS!
CHEFS TO REFORM SCHOOL LUNCHES
Are you kidding me? School lunches need chefs?From the Washington Post:
More than 500 chefs gathered at the White House today to join Michelle Obama's newest effort to fight childhood obesity, Chefs Move To Schools.Whatever happened to "Too many cooks spoil the broth"?
The chefs, including national stars such as Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio and Cat Cora, and an army of unknowns who work in restaurants, food banks and culinary schools, hailed from 37 states. Each has accepted a White House mission to adopt a school in his or her community and work with parents, teachers and cafeteria workers to educate children about food and nutrition. That might include developing healthful recipes for cafeterias, offering cooking lessons or helping a school to plant a garden.
"You are all at the heart of this initiative because if anyone understands nutrition and food, it's the folks sitting here in their whites today," Obama said, referring to the traditional chef uniform. "You know more about food than almost anyone – other than the grandmas – and you've got the visibility and the enthusiasm to match that knowledge."
[...]
"You'd never think of implementing a salad bar as guerrilla warfare. But that's what it is. Kid by kid. School by school," said [New York Public Schools Executive Chef Jorge] Collazo.
...Chefs said they were undeterred by the hard work ahead....
From another WaPo puff piece on the same topic:
..."What we are feeding our children is an outrage. We should be marching with picket signs and pitchforks in revolution," said Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve in Alexandria....What? They can't open a cookbook on their own? Sheesh!
[...]
In the months since [the January 2010] meeting, the chefs have taken the first steps to make real the lofty goals of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, which aims to end childhood obesity within a generation. [Chefs] Gray and Mendelsohn began teaching cooking classes to hundreds of students and parents...
From cradle to grave is upon us!
Continuing now with an excerpt from the WaPo article:
At the very least, the combination of chefs and reality-style makeovers is smart marketing by the White House. But if the nearly 1,000 chefs who have signed on to the program catch the same fever as their Washington counterparts, the hope is that the program could spark a real "Food Revolution," Jamie Oliver-style. A thousand forks of light, if you will."A thousand forks of light"? Consciously or unconsciously trying to make a connection to this 1988 speech given by George H.W. Bush, I guess.




