{"id":7614,"date":"2012-05-08T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2019-10-14T05:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:48:21","slug":"school-bake-sales-to-be-banned-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=7614","title":{"rendered":"School bake sales to be banned in Boston!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. I was busy yesterday so I couldn\u2019t put this up. It looks like the morons in the Great and General Court ((the Massachusetts Legislature<\/a>)) are about to outlaw the traditional school bake sale.<\/p>\n

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I heard about this yesterday when I was driving back from work on the Howie Carr show. Now the original Boston Herald story has been picked up by the Drudge Report<\/a>, so once again the rest of the nation can marvel at the absolute idiocy that is the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the highlights, (Or should that be lowlights?) from the article:<\/p>\n

Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Schools have been holding back sales for almost as long as there have been schools and cookies. It\u2019s a traditional and easy way to raise a few hundred dollars for school activities and doesn\u2019t hit up the poor downtrodden taxpayers. So why are these clowns doing this?<\/p>\n

The Departments of Public Health and Education contend clearing tables of even whole milk and white bread is necessary to combat an obesity epidemic affecting a third of the state\u2019s 1.5 million students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahh yes, the old \u201cWe know what\u2019s good for you so shut up and do as we order you serf!<\/p>\n

But parents argue crudites won\u2019t cut it when the bills come due on athletic equipment and band trips. \u201cIf you want to make a quick $250, you hold a bake sale,\u201d said Sandy Malec, vice president of the Horace Mann Elementary School PTO in Newtonville. Maura Dawley of Scituate said the candy bars her 15-year-old son brought to school to help pay for a youth group trip to Guatemala \u201csold like wildfire.\u201d She worries the ban \u201cwould seriously affect the bottom line of the PTOs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to raise money,\u201d Dawley said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be able to sell pizza. You\u2019re not going to get that selling apples and bananas. It\u2019s silly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, it\u2019s the Nanny State that scum sucking progressive liberals have been creating for decades. Of course, people aren\u2019t happy about this.<\/p>\n

Middleboro School Committeeman Brian Giovanoni, whose board will discuss the mandatory meal makeover Thursday night, said, \u201cMy concern is we\u2019re regulating what people can eat, and I have a problem with that. I respect the state for what they\u2019re trying to do, but I think they\u2019ve gone off the deep end. I don\u2019t want someone telling me how to do my job as a parent. … Is the commonwealth of Massachusetts saying our parents are bad parents?\u201d<\/p>\n

No, insists Dr. Lauren Smith, DPH\u2019s medical director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually that would be a great big YES there Dr. Busybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to get into anyone\u2019s lunch box,\u201d Smith told the Herald. \u201cWe know that schools need those clubs and resources. We want them to be sure and have them, but to do them a different way. We have some incredibly innovative, talented folks in schools who are already doing some impressive things, who serve as incontrovertible evidence that, yes, you can do this, and be successful at it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What an arrogant cow. I suspect she has never really involved herself in the schools, provided she has any children, or has them attend a public school. Nope, she is one of the over-educated elitists who love to lord it over people.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the problem of overweight children has reached \u201ccrisis\u201d proportions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, the economy has reached crises portions. Crime in Massachusetts has reached crises portions. Underworked and overpaid bureaucrats and politicians has reached crises portions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we didn\u2019t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,\u201d Fargo said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like hell she would.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut,\u201d she added, \u201cthis is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you Communists<\/em><\/span> Progressives<\/em><\/span> Socialists<\/em><\/span> Progressives<\/em><\/span> Democrats have, with your massive intrusion into people\u2019s lives, and especially their wallets and bank accounts, have all but assured the next generation of a short, brutal life as they attempt to clean up the mess you morons have created.<\/p>\n

While researching this posting, I found out that the totalitarian<\/em><\/span> senator from Lincoln, MA is not seeking reelection. Pity, since I was hoping her constituents would retire her due to ill health. They are sick of her.<\/p>\n

If this idiocy passes and Governor Urkle ((Steve Urkle<\/a>)) , ((Deval Patrick<\/a>)) signs this into law, Massachusetts will once again, (If it ever stopped), be the laughing stock of the United States. Makes me happy I only work there and not live in that hellhole of a state.<\/p>\n

Thatisall<\/p>\n

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Bake Sales Banned by Liberal Loons in Massachusettes who are …<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Baked goods are foods deemed to be unhealthy by the state-controlled Massachusetts \u2014 Now bake sales and soft drink sales will be banned at school activities, and sports games such as football games. As of Aug. 1 across the state.<\/div>\n
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… the state of Massachusetts has banned \u201dunhealthy foods sold during bake sales, classroom parties, in vending machines and during non-lunch hours\u201d beginning 30 minutes before school starts and extending to 30 minutes after school ends.<\/div>\n
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