@dfissell Don't forget dinner. I'm in high school now and it's a scam for the free lunches. The thing is if you're on a reduced lunch program you get a voucher from having to pay for any AP exams. So they literally ask kids in my school to sign up for free or reduced lunch even if they can easily pay for lunch so they can take these classes for free. Also if your parents divorced, but gets money from the divorce. You can apply under that parent living on the other even if you're doing fine.
congratulations, it's the nanny state you were warned about, pretty soon you will have to wear a helmet just to walk around because you MIGHT hurt your head or there will bathroom attendants to forceably wipe your ass because you might miss a spot.
@MrROTD Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
My highschool gave over 100 kids the norovirus with its terrible food. I guess some things are a constant. Grass is green, sky is blue, and cafeteria food sucks butt.
As for the Huffington post lawsuit, I think that the blogger in question deserves at least a tiny bit of compensation. Maybe eighty dollars, but a million? Hell no...
Though I haven't read the facts on this case yet so I could be dead wrong.
That's not irony, it's hypocrisy. People need to learn what irony actually is.
/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
This school food thing is all about health. Schools are public and therefore are trying to reduce future medical costs for these people. It's like the story in the UK where parents started passing burgers to the kids through the school fence. Raising your children obese is your choice but is it the kids choice. In my opinion it's a form of child abuse.
This banning of homemade lunches reminds me of Brave New World. It starts with the state becoming the guardian of children, then adults become the property of the state, and then we have The World State.
I went to a chicago public school as a kid...how nutritous is pizza that comes individually frozen packages, wrapped in plastic and then microwaved?...good job state...all the lunch ladies do is nuke that shit...if a parent were a vegan would they stick a funnel down the kids throat and pour milk into it?high school, you get pizza with fries, or a burger with fries, or the daily 'special line' that also comes with fries...all with chocolate milk or soda from the vending machine...i can do better
I know, and it's like, the schools feed kids such healthy meals don't they? This is about control, nothing more. They figure if everyone is paying into the same system, it will cuts their cost per meal, economies of scale, etc.
this dipshit doesnt understand that the onion IS a left wing entertainment organization. guess it doesnt surprise me that this conservative retard doesnt notice when they are laughing at him and his kind, not with them.
@Krauserowns Worthy of the comment being responded to. Short, succinct, and to the point.
If you want to be treated with respect, extend the same courtesy to others. Otherwise (in the language of the veritable Christopher Hitchens) you may feel free to go fuck off.
@DrCruel Is there anything to say? The Onion is always doing skits that make fun of the right wing. I don't think I've even seen one doing the same to the left, obama excluded.
@Krauserowns If you're thinking of a Left-wing partisan propaganda show masquerading as comedy, think The Daily Show. The Onion actually is what Jon Stewart only pretends to be - a merciless critic of American culture, with no sacred cows to avoid whatsoever.
But that wasn't my point. It was about how flippantly calling someone a "dipshit" or "conservative retard" because you don't agree with libertarian ideas is not a way to win friends. It's more likely to piss people off, and rightly so.
@Krauserowns ( ... incidentally, the Onion video I'm watching tight now is about two parents who are going to have their 13 year old daughter "terminated" because she's "brain dead". I challenge you to tell me what sort of Left wing advocacy this spot is supposed to support.
The writers of the Onion are deeply sincere, non-partisan psychopaths. I do so very much approve. )
In response to internships & low paying jobs & that. Milton Friedman made the same point in the 70's but he used the minimum wage & young blacks as his example. If you force companies to pay a minimum wage they are going to demand minimum standards from employees...HS diploma for example. Well, if you don't have one how do you get a low paying job for OJT to get a better job later with the experience you gained? Same thing as your point just a different example.
I agree with you about the budget cuts but 1. it's a start and 2. people want a balanced budget but they don't want taxes raised and they don't want services lost due to budget cuts. In that situation where it's almost impossible to make cuts..$50 Billion is a pretty decent victory. Cut education & People go nuts. Cut defense spending & people get mad. Welfare, scholarships, etc. People get mad because they don't want to lose anything. But they want a balanced budget. LOL No win scenario.
@vinnie1369 He might be in a rush due to the fact that youtube only allows for the upload of ten minute videos I believe unless you have a certain sponsership or something like that.
@badmotorv8 I teach ESL. Lately I have been teaching TOEFL and IELTS Test Preparation. I tell my students that the purpose of speaking is to convey an thought, idea, or opinion & if you don't make any sense because you spoke too quickly you wasted your time talking. (I understood him but the fact is you're not supposed to talk that quickly.) If anything learn to be more concise. I am from Jersey and we talk fast so what's that say about how fast he spoke?
@ArtVerdi1945 I'm only fifteen and I go to a vocational school so I do not know what TOEFL and IELTS is. I'm from Pennsylvania so I am close to New Jersey and I must say that the times I have visited the state, I have not noticed a great increase in how fast people talk. I would agree with you if the majority of people could not understand what he was talking about and had to watch it approximately three times, but from the few comments I read, the viewers understood.
@ArtVerdi1945 I'm curious, and I'm sure I'm misinterpreting you here. Are you claiming that his arguments aren't worthy of consideration because he talks too fast when he expresses them?
Re: School lunches, most people don't even know what freedom really is anymore. This is due to the failed public education system and popular culture, both of which have been hijacked by Marxists.
Children are property of their parents, read the constitution and numerous supreme court decissions. Why not try fighting the fights we should be fighting about government instead of joining with the coroporations and trying to protect your money, why don't you get more concerned with fighting for your rights? Grow some morals, little boy!
I went to a combination of good public school and good private school. I still learned more in my own time and with my own research than I ever learned in school.
LMAO big government leftists worried about lunches while the quality of public education sinks to new lows and cost more every year. Seriously if anyone buys into this cultural marxist crap being spewed everywhere you are either stupid or mentally ill. There is no other explanation. That lunch story makes me sick to my stomach. The funny part is of course it is being done in a big city where the average IQ ids about 80. Who will complain? Most big cities these days are a drain on the US.
The country that proposed the mother nature-human rights bullshit is BOLIVIA haha, nothing to worry about there, just a bunch of poor indians trying to make a name for themselves.
ay, 'HowTheWorldWorks , check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect. Watch your mouth, and raise up little bitch.
A Birth Certificate by its very definition constitutes property; not only in the legal sense, but in the real world financial sense; it does so by establishing an average tax liability drawn over the lifetime of the certificate as it relates to the Federal Government and the international monetary trade (the value of the dollar). Time to grow up.
I'd really be interested in where you got this notion that in communist countries, the government did all the rearing of the kids, including providing housing for them. And I don't just mean here and there for orphans, I mean for ALL the kids.
@Macaii In Bolshevik Russia, housing was allocated to everyone - not just children. The government not only controlled the rearing of children, but used them as informers to keep an eye on their parents. One of these children (Pavlik Morozov) even became a famous hero for informing on his father during the Stalinist era. This sort of thing was also ubiquitous in East Germany (see the Stasi).
None of this is any secret. I assume you've heard of the Komosol or Red Pioneers?
Since schools were transformed from education providers to indoctrination centers, it seems logical that they would try to take as much power and influence as possible from the parents. After all, kids who become accustomed that the state 'provides' for them, will grow up to be easily-subdued adults.
I think that the real answer lays in educating kids and parents about food. Yeah its a slow process, but anything worth doing is worth doing properly. you can't do either of these things really...either just let parents feed their kids crap or let the state take control. the answer lays in the middle, as with almost all social issues...
WOW. The irony of this school food thing is that I am currently SICK (trow up sick) from my school's food! This isn't a new thing either... and what will disgust you, is that my school, Humboldt State University, has one of the highest rated cafeterias in California! So.. what about other people, in whatever year of their schooling, would be forced to eat that crap..
the predictions are by 2025 - 2/3rds of Americans will be obese -
-- at some point someone has to step in to "save the children" from food abuse!
Since it's not in the national government's best interest to stop feeding our kids junk as it's derived from subsidized crops, it's going to be down to local government to start the change. -- can't happen soon enough as long as the schools are properly educated in good nutrition themselves....
1. The ONLY argument, weak as it is, I could see for a school to ban homemade lunches is around the increased occurance of peanut allergies which of course are deadly. That said, it still should be a legislative issue, developed in a well based fact and reasoned atmosphere (yeah, good luck with that one!)
So Rastus has a peanut butter san and Richie Rich has a filet migon..tough chit Chicago..and it's not your job or the Gubmint to stick your filthy nose in OUR business..Butt Out.
I agree about the lunch thing same with P.E it's not the schools job to make sure your kids not fat it's yours so P.E should be elective only so kids can use that time to actually learn in that time
And at my school we have something called emotional education were they teach use literally how to act and feel it's not ok on any level it should be banned all together because it's not what school is for
As a Democrat and a Chicagoan. I gotta say, I heard about the Public School lunch proclamation, and I gotta say, it's re-goddamn-diculous (pardon my language). Admittedly, as someone who lives on the South-side, I was basically forced to go to an all boys Catholic School and every time I tried to buy my lunch THERE, by the time I got to the front of the line, the lunch period was over. Who's to say that sure as hell won't happen with this policy.
The school lunch issue: It has nothing to do with nutrition or food allergies and more to do with money! Money Money Money!!! The school has an annual budget to keep in place and the food is SO BAD that the kids wont eat it, they wont BUY IT! So much like the health care bill that forces people to buy insurance they have devised a way to force their food down the kids throats LITERALLY. Yes, its about control but its all about the Benjamins!
Parents can't feed their own kids because the American Marxist School System under Russian Law created by one of the Founders of the United States known by Socialist Historians as Karl Marx want kids to grow tall and stronger as Richard Dawkins, But like any Socialistic Russian Law the Bill for the New School Order is paid by the Parents against their will, Gotta love the Marxist, they send you the Indoctrination Bill via Taxes, they are the Replacement of God in America, Darwin Bless The USA!
Be a critical thinker for once, Lee...it has nothing to do with nutrition. There's always ulterior motives, and as someone with the youtube name "HowTheWorldWorks", you of all people should know this. Schools profit off of school lunches, and most schools that I know of are federally reimbursed for free lunches given to students. It's just the school's way of making more money. That's neither left nor right specific; everyone wants more money. As such, don't try to blame the left. Good day
People are no longer willing, (or very few it seems), to stand up for their individual rights & that includes parents standing up for their children's individual rights. In our local paper there was a story about the school principal, (not the school board or a committee, etc.), requiring children to take a breathalyzer to attend the prom. I could not believe the attacks because I stood up for what I thought was individual rights. What the heck is that?
I've always said the food police aren't suggesting what you should do, eventually they wil step in and tell you what to eat and do. The whole premise is misguided, UNLESS you believe kids are the property of the state and we're all stupid children too dumb to know what's best for us.
Food allergies are on the rise and it's not uncommon for these allergies to result in potentially fatal situations. There have been several districts that have already banned food items such as PB&J sandwiches as a result. I'm sure that this is due to food allergy risks rather than some conspiracy control theory. If you want any data on this look into Trace Adkins as his daughter is such an individual.
I fail to see the relationship between food allergies and idiocy.However,would it not make more sense to ban high risk foods rather then banning children from bringing lunches to schools?It would be harder to accommodate children's eating requirements through the state then a child bringing their own lunches (various food intolerances,eating beliefs, food needs based on size/ athleticism).I am not American, but isn't it unconstitutional to force people to buy certain products?
I got a idea. How about if your kid is allergic to peanut butter, get your lazy self off the couch and teach them not to eat peanut butter. Its called common sense. If your kid isn't bright enough to learn not to eat what makes them sick, after adults have told them, well then maybe we should just let nature take its course.
@GuyofDoom My elementry school teachers figured this out. Those with allergies were given a special area of the room to sit in, (This was a large cafeteria even for a small school) and no one was allowed to bring their own food to that area.
What shoudl we do, ban PB&Js everywhere? Me walking down the street? BAM illegal. Where is this intrusive paternalism going to end?
@GuyofDoom Food allergies are not the result of PB&J sandwiches in schools. PB&J sandwiches in schools do not prevent food allergies. Lighning strikes can result in potentially fatal situations, therefore we should never let our children outside because of the potential for them to be kiiled in a lightning strike. Autoomobile accidents can be potetntially fatal on a higher percentage than either lightning strikes or food allergies, lets ban children from all automobiles.
@GuyofDoom - If anyone would know whether a kid is allergic to something, wouldn't it be his/her parents? Doesn't that argue in favor of homemade lunches? If the parents are unaware of their kid's allergies and he/she gets sick, that is unfortunate but it's not the school's fault. So they have no justification for stepping in, regardless of their motive.
@GuyofDoom It's not about food allergies. From the Chicago Tribune "'Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices. 'Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,' Carmona said. 'It's about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve'"
The entire school lunch thing is a racist liberal viewpoint that view the poor (esp. poor black people) as irresponsible animals. Poor people DO take care of their children. I heard the same stupid leftists statements in the 1970's from white liberal female teachers: "Oh dear, the children don't have enough to eat."
LIE! Their parents are taking care of them. The liberal just wants to feel good about themselves by "saving" someone.
Plus, I remember how terrible the school lunches were at some schools. To be honest, this wasn't the case at all the schools I attended (thank God!), but what if the kid doesn't care for the food at the school?
This is a good point about school lunches. Additionally, some kids have restricted diets due to religious concerns. So is the school goingo to have to make seperate lunches for those kids? Or are those kids going to have to bring their lunches with special permission and be the only ones to do so (thus making them stand out and possibly be subject to ridicule for being different)?
All corporate controlled media is awful, CNN, Huffing Post, Fox, MSNBC, all of them. The media's a business, their bottom line is money. They don't run with stories that will inform you of what's really going on and hurt their sponsors business interests, they run with stories that will get the most ratings and keep the status quo going.
Not to mention the fact that FIVE PEOPLE control nearly all the news you get in the country
I like Fox Business News, but even they do selective reporting... the rest of them are bullshit... especially NPR and PBS...
MSNBC = Bill Gates
In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds a lot of NPR programming... Let Bill Gates buy NPR and call it MSNPR, I'm sick of paying for it with taxes.
It's the redistribution of lunch. It's not fair for Johnny to have a pudding cup and Samantha to have a banana. If the school gives them all the same thing, then it's all equal.
However the Huffington Post became this "place to get noticed" because of the unpaid bloggers who help build the reputation. I agree that he doesn't have a case, but he does have a point.
The school has now backed away from this position after many parents threatened to pull their kids from the school. Does anybody in authority really think they can do something like this and NO ONE will protest?
I am so not putting my future kids in public school, they will either go to private school or be homeschooled, and if I am a parent it is my responsibility to have the kids fed and I will not expect the school to feed the kids, not to mention not all parents feed junk food to kids, some give their kids healthy lunches, heck a girl now 18 and her 19 yr old friend that moved into the house preferred healthy food and brought lunch to school from home.
I guess people need to wake up. More and more laws are being implemented to take away parental rights. You can discipline or feed them. They have to be separated for 8 hours a day. Fathers are getting the worst of it do to pro choice abortion laws and divorce.
I don't know about anywhere but the city I live in but here the schools ONLY have junk food for sale in the cafeteria. Now I live in Canada where that doesn't effect me but, if the school cafeterias in the US are like they are here... Then wth. They're saying that kids are only allowed to eat junk food for lunch.
I am not trying to start an argument, I would just like to say, although the government is imposing itself in places it doesn't belong, if kids end up trading food, a common lunchtime activity, couldn't they have possibly dangerous allergic reactions to the food they bartered for? Again I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it.
@johnboy9596 Bro, I am not trying to start an argument, I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it. I would just like to say, although the government is imposing itself in places it doesn't belong, if kids end up trading food, a common lunchtime activity, Again I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it. Couldn't they have possibly dangerous allergic reactions to the food they bartered for?
So are the lunches going to be provided free of charge, or are they going to still be paid for out of pocket by the parents? If the latter, that is basically government back extortion as many people tend to give kids home made lunches because they can't afford paying for meals.
secondly, I know I learned more self sufficiency making my own lunch for school, which makes me sad that we are discouraging taking responsibility for ourselves.
Well normally i agree with you, but I'm a little optimistic. More and more kids are becoming diabetic at earlier ages these days because parents are not taking responsibility for their kids eating habits. Schools have take responsibility away from parents before. lets not forget, that it wasn't too long ago, that teacher could disciple or spank kids and Kids were a lot better behaved back then. When teachers couldn't do that anymore children became more disrespectful. So, I'm a optimistic.
@TheDrunkenCabDriver Would you be willing to make it illegal for parents to tell their kids about arbitrary subjects? If your parents are idiots, that's life.
"Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country." What's next - banning all mouse traps and mouse poisons?
some time in a million years an alien race might arrive here and discover ruins of a once-great civilization and wonder why it no longer thrives.
I'd argue that the reason our once great civilization will no longer thrive is the combination of peak oil and fresh water depletion/contamination, which is pretty much exactly what those "stupid hippies" are advocating
@hellsyea22 As far as running out of oil, people will stop using oil when there is a resource that is more abundant and efficient, and less expensive. That's how the free market capitalism works.
As far as the fresh water, there are always engineers working on ways to make water cleaner. Sure, the rivers by big cities are not exactly the kind of thing I would ever drink from(especially near st patty's day) but many of the rivers on trails near where I live are as clean as they can naturally be.
Unfortunately, a cheaper, more abundant and more efficient resource than oil simply doesn't exist. And all alternative energy sources require huge amounts of oil to build, extract and transport the infrastructure.
Engineers may be able to clean water to a certain degree, but they can't create it. Fresh water reserves are exponentially declining and world population is exponentially increasing. It doesn't take a genius to realize that a major global crisis is coming.
@hellsyea22 Have you taken basic chemistry? With a small amount of energy, we can bond two hydrogen atoms to a hydrogen atom, plus get an explosion of energy, demonstrating 2H2+o2=2h2O. We could easily create fresh water.
As far as energy goes 31,000 calories are in a gallon of gasoline according to how stuff works , so if anne collins dot c0m is correct that is about as much energy as is in 4 cups of table sugar. Why not engineer cars to run on high-concentration sugar water?
HowTheWorldWorks is a cheating moron. It is well known that at least half of his subscribers are bots. He was completely exposed as a cheating moron years ago. He's not even remotely interesting on top of all that lol
@mmeasy123 I respect thunderf00t for his videos on science and religion, but he should have stayed out of the fight with HTWW. That's one battle he unfortunately wasn't too successful with. I'll just leave you with that.
@Gameboygenius Hahaha...your stupidest comment yet! Thunderf00t literally SLAYED this clown. How can you be serious and say that he wasn't successful? He 100% proved that HTWW is a cheating, greedy moron. On top of that HTWW isn't even interesting or insightful. Fuck you.
@mmeasy123 No, you see, he didn't prove any of that. What TF did was present the case that it *might* be that way because a bunch of new users were subscribed to both HTWW and other related channels. You know why they were? Because YT offers this panel that says "would you also like to subscribe to". You might've even seen it yourself when subscribing to a big channel. YT has also increased their bot protection lately. To thin that anyone would have anywhere near 16k bot subscribers is absurd.
@mmeasy123 Gee, now there's a surprise reply. A you tube troll calling someone some juvenile name. I can just imagine how successful you are in your career.
@menotyou48 Little Village Academy isn't the sole school for the entire city. It's one of many elementary schools in the system there. Again, the principal of the school admits this is her policy. Are you calling the principal a liar or just saying everything about this is an imaginary story? The Chicago Tribune made up an imaginary school, created a website for it, made an imaginary principal and then planted this story? the principal ADMITS this is her policy in her school.
@ButterflyDragon9 Just consider the plausibility of this policy. How would it be implemented?What happens to kids who violate the policy?What about repeat lunch bringers do they go to the kids house an empty his fridge?Do the kids have to walk through food detector?You realise this policy would be literally impossible to implement.What is much more likely than school officials confiscating food from hungry kids, a principal encouraging school lunches and a sensationalist media running wild.
this chicago school topic is so overblown as if the entire government is running this program.. just straight bias views on your part. this school is probably going to remove its "rule" eventually when people complain but you making it sound like every school in america is on this shit.. OH NO COMMUNISM ... are you shitting me?
@Bleuski False. Just the other day liberal legislation like this was forcing people to tear down their basketball hoops from their front lawns. They posed no health risk and did not impede traffic in any way. It was just a means by which liberal bureaucrats can assert their authority on the people.
@hellsyea22 Because conservatives don't make up legislation like this that seeks to meddle in people's lives and take away freedom with inconsequential things like a basketball hoop. And what conservative would ever advocate restricting the right of the parents to feed their children? It's a stupid ass law passed by liberals.
@hellsyea22 I beg to differ. There are 2 different mentalities that are dominant in this country which is responsible for the various legislative approaches in this nation. We have conservatism and liberalism predominantly. I know what is involved in each one, and no, I didn't say that because it's not conservative it must be "the other one". You did. Now, you do know that the moment you typed "moron" and "many many many" etc you immediately lost the argument, don't you? Maybe you don't.
@hellsyea22 I believe that it fits the liberal MO to micromanage people's lives through endless insignificant regulation. Conservatism, on the other hand, places great importance on personal freedom, individuality, and smaller government (including gov meddling like this in private lives of citizens). Law should be about maximizing the happiness for the greatest amount of people possible, while keeping everyone as safe as possible.
Saying liberals want to limit everyone's freedom with excessive regulations is every bit as ridiculous as saying conservatives want child labor and 90 hour work weeks.
It's nonsense to think that just because you believe in an ideology, it means that you also support every remotely possible negative aspect that appears when you take that ideology to absurd extremes.
Maybe politicians that call themselves liberal were responsible, but taking away basketball hoops and banning homemade lunches has NOTHING to do with liberalism and it's entirely disingenuous for you and Lee to label these ridiculous laws as liberal legislation.
@hellsyea22 Anytime there is micromanagement of people's lives, it can usually be traced to a liberal exercising authority for its own sake. It can be something completely irrelevant or seemingly innocent, like Michelle Obama's attempt to regulate what children eat, or it can be highly intrusive, like Obamacare. It's left wing ideology that wants to dictate how other people live. You want to help the poor? You turn to mandatory taxation to pay for welfare. Lib policy. Forced charity.
After researching this whole school lunch fiasco, it's because the principal cut a deal with Chartwells-Thompson, a private company that supplies school lunches all over the US. This would give them a complete monopoly over what the children eat at school, thereby increasing their profits.
That makes any argument that this decision was liberal absolutely ridiculous and pure misinformation. But that doesn't mean I'm going to say that all conservatives want to ban school lunches.
@hellsyea22 "It's nonsense to think that just because you believe in an ideology, it means that you also support every remotely possible negative aspect that appears when you take that ideology to absurd extremes."
@Darkrift777 Um, again, that story was considered outrageous by most people-liberal and conservative-because it's something that does NOT happen the vast majority of the time.
Taking extreme examples and using them to generalize about half the country is ludicrous.
@Bleuski No, sorry you are still mistaken. It is liberal legislation whether you want to admit it or not. Another good example is regulating what kind of lightbulbs we are going to be allowed to use. That is a left wing approach by environmental activists peddling a liberal agenda. It doesn't matter that it "does NOT happen the vast majority of the time." It is part of liberal ideology. It's that simple.
now they give the breakfast
dfissell 2 weeks ago
@dfissell Don't forget dinner. I'm in high school now and it's a scam for the free lunches. The thing is if you're on a reduced lunch program you get a voucher from having to pay for any AP exams. So they literally ask kids in my school to sign up for free or reduced lunch even if they can easily pay for lunch so they can take these classes for free. Also if your parents divorced, but gets money from the divorce. You can apply under that parent living on the other even if you're doing fine.
Charlesperalo 1 week ago
congratulations, it's the nanny state you were warned about, pretty soon you will have to wear a helmet just to walk around because you MIGHT hurt your head or there will bathroom attendants to forceably wipe your ass because you might miss a spot.
MrROTD 2 weeks ago
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@MrROTD Do you know that Christianity is correct? The world around us reveals that G-d DOES exist, and the historical evidence reveals that Jesus Christ really did come to this earth and there is overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ really did physically rise from the dead. Jesus is coming again and the signs of the end times that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass.
marionetemanJ 2 weeks ago
That is really messed up, why the hell cant they have home made lunch? w t f ?
MrROTD 2 weeks ago
Huffington post didn't offer anything more than an unpaid blog position so how was there any breach of an agreement?
MrROTD 2 weeks ago
I love "The Onion" comment,he's right,real news are starting to look like onion new reports more and more.
TheWarbirdPhoenix 2 weeks ago
My highschool gave over 100 kids the norovirus with its terrible food. I guess some things are a constant. Grass is green, sky is blue, and cafeteria food sucks butt.
As for the Huffington post lawsuit, I think that the blogger in question deserves at least a tiny bit of compensation. Maybe eighty dollars, but a million? Hell no...
Though I haven't read the facts on this case yet so I could be dead wrong.
zzman305 2 weeks ago
That's not irony, it's hypocrisy. People need to learn what irony actually is.
/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
This school food thing is all about health. Schools are public and therefore are trying to reduce future medical costs for these people. It's like the story in the UK where parents started passing burgers to the kids through the school fence. Raising your children obese is your choice but is it the kids choice. In my opinion it's a form of child abuse.
HobbsO 3 weeks ago
@HobbsO No, it's about money. School most likely has a deal with the food providers. Most school lunches are NOT healthy.
astrgd27 2 weeks ago
This banning of homemade lunches reminds me of Brave New World. It starts with the state becoming the guardian of children, then adults become the property of the state, and then we have The World State.
TheTubbtubb 3 weeks ago 2
@TheTubbtubb It's already here. If the republican party does not stand up for capitalism and commercial rights they we will all lose.
halloranedward 3 weeks ago
I went to a chicago public school as a kid...how nutritous is pizza that comes individually frozen packages, wrapped in plastic and then microwaved?...good job state...all the lunch ladies do is nuke that shit...if a parent were a vegan would they stick a funnel down the kids throat and pour milk into it?high school, you get pizza with fries, or a burger with fries, or the daily 'special line' that also comes with fries...all with chocolate milk or soda from the vending machine...i can do better
MrFoodismylife 3 weeks ago
I know, and it's like, the schools feed kids such healthy meals don't they? This is about control, nothing more. They figure if everyone is paying into the same system, it will cuts their cost per meal, economies of scale, etc.
thewag777 1 month ago
this dipshit doesnt understand that the onion IS a left wing entertainment organization. guess it doesnt surprise me that this conservative retard doesnt notice when they are laughing at him and his kind, not with them.
Krauserowns 1 month ago
@Krauserowns Thank you.
disturbedking8 1 month ago
@Krauserowns Or maybe you're just a deluded idiot. That's another very plausible scenario.
DrCruel 1 month ago
@DrCruel wow such a well developed and deeply thought out counter argument.
Krauserowns 1 month ago
@Krauserowns Worthy of the comment being responded to. Short, succinct, and to the point.
If you want to be treated with respect, extend the same courtesy to others. Otherwise (in the language of the veritable Christopher Hitchens) you may feel free to go fuck off.
DrCruel 1 month ago
@DrCruel Is there anything to say? The Onion is always doing skits that make fun of the right wing. I don't think I've even seen one doing the same to the left, obama excluded.
Krauserowns 1 month ago
@Krauserowns If you're thinking of a Left-wing partisan propaganda show masquerading as comedy, think The Daily Show. The Onion actually is what Jon Stewart only pretends to be - a merciless critic of American culture, with no sacred cows to avoid whatsoever.
But that wasn't my point. It was about how flippantly calling someone a "dipshit" or "conservative retard" because you don't agree with libertarian ideas is not a way to win friends. It's more likely to piss people off, and rightly so.
DrCruel 1 month ago
@Krauserowns ( ... incidentally, the Onion video I'm watching tight now is about two parents who are going to have their 13 year old daughter "terminated" because she's "brain dead". I challenge you to tell me what sort of Left wing advocacy this spot is supposed to support.
The writers of the Onion are deeply sincere, non-partisan psychopaths. I do so very much approve. )
DrCruel 1 month ago
Now kids have to buy a lunch from school and eat the GMO garbage.
whyyesyes 1 month ago
Is there a consevative equivalent to the Huffington Post?
SexDrugsFinance 1 month ago
Subbed.
MetalSights 1 month ago
So Chicago, in the state where Obama was elected Senator, is furthering more Communistic policies? IMAGINE THAT!!!!!!!!!!
vinnie1369 2 months ago
In response to internships & low paying jobs & that. Milton Friedman made the same point in the 70's but he used the minimum wage & young blacks as his example. If you force companies to pay a minimum wage they are going to demand minimum standards from employees...HS diploma for example. Well, if you don't have one how do you get a low paying job for OJT to get a better job later with the experience you gained? Same thing as your point just a different example.
vinnie1369 2 months ago
I agree with you about the budget cuts but 1. it's a start and 2. people want a balanced budget but they don't want taxes raised and they don't want services lost due to budget cuts. In that situation where it's almost impossible to make cuts..$50 Billion is a pretty decent victory. Cut education & People go nuts. Cut defense spending & people get mad. Welfare, scholarships, etc. People get mad because they don't want to lose anything. But they want a balanced budget. LOL No win scenario.
vinnie1369 2 months ago
DUDE! SLOW DOWN!!! Are you in a rush? Do you have a date waiting for you after this video? Jeez!
vinnie1369 2 months ago
@vinnie1369 He might be in a rush due to the fact that youtube only allows for the upload of ten minute videos I believe unless you have a certain sponsership or something like that.
badmotorv8 1 month ago
@badmotorv8 I teach ESL. Lately I have been teaching TOEFL and IELTS Test Preparation. I tell my students that the purpose of speaking is to convey an thought, idea, or opinion & if you don't make any sense because you spoke too quickly you wasted your time talking. (I understood him but the fact is you're not supposed to talk that quickly.) If anything learn to be more concise. I am from Jersey and we talk fast so what's that say about how fast he spoke?
ArtVerdi1945 1 month ago
@ArtVerdi1945 I'm only fifteen and I go to a vocational school so I do not know what TOEFL and IELTS is. I'm from Pennsylvania so I am close to New Jersey and I must say that the times I have visited the state, I have not noticed a great increase in how fast people talk. I would agree with you if the majority of people could not understand what he was talking about and had to watch it approximately three times, but from the few comments I read, the viewers understood.
badmotorv8 1 month ago
@ArtVerdi1945 I'm curious, and I'm sure I'm misinterpreting you here. Are you claiming that his arguments aren't worthy of consideration because he talks too fast when he expresses them?
DrCruel 1 month ago
@badmotorv8 In regards to the time limit....that's no longer the case.
vinnie1369 1 week ago
Re: School lunches, most people don't even know what freedom really is anymore. This is due to the failed public education system and popular culture, both of which have been hijacked by Marxists.
NoGuff 3 months ago
lol i see that you're a conservative...
this is pretty bad government policy lol..
MrBigEnchilada 5 months ago
Children are property of their parents, read the constitution and numerous supreme court decissions. Why not try fighting the fights we should be fighting about government instead of joining with the coroporations and trying to protect your money, why don't you get more concerned with fighting for your rights? Grow some morals, little boy!
thecoolauntmommie 6 months ago
I went to a combination of good public school and good private school. I still learned more in my own time and with my own research than I ever learned in school.
rockon6191 7 months ago
LMAO big government leftists worried about lunches while the quality of public education sinks to new lows and cost more every year. Seriously if anyone buys into this cultural marxist crap being spewed everywhere you are either stupid or mentally ill. There is no other explanation. That lunch story makes me sick to my stomach. The funny part is of course it is being done in a big city where the average IQ ids about 80. Who will complain? Most big cities these days are a drain on the US.
ConservativeLogic 8 months ago
School lunches are far worse than most home lunches. And kids choose. KIDS SHOULDN'T BE CHOOSING THEIR LUNCHES!
AshillaBeige 9 months ago
In other news the cost for a lunch in Chicago schools tripled...
DoubIeRose 9 months ago 2
I saw the title of this video and was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
ceasey0xoogurl 10 months ago
The country that proposed the mother nature-human rights bullshit is BOLIVIA haha, nothing to worry about there, just a bunch of poor indians trying to make a name for themselves.
holofiz 10 months ago
What kind of video camera did Lee say he used? I couldn't make out the name
grinc333 10 months ago
ay, 'HowTheWorldWorks , check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect. Watch your mouth, and raise up little bitch.
chewties949 10 months ago
A Birth Certificate by its very definition constitutes property; not only in the legal sense, but in the real world financial sense; it does so by establishing an average tax liability drawn over the lifetime of the certificate as it relates to the Federal Government and the international monetary trade (the value of the dollar). Time to grow up.
putittogether 10 months ago
I'd really be interested in where you got this notion that in communist countries, the government did all the rearing of the kids, including providing housing for them. And I don't just mean here and there for orphans, I mean for ALL the kids.
Seriously, where did you read this?
Macaii 10 months ago
@Macaii In Bolshevik Russia, housing was allocated to everyone - not just children. The government not only controlled the rearing of children, but used them as informers to keep an eye on their parents. One of these children (Pavlik Morozov) even became a famous hero for informing on his father during the Stalinist era. This sort of thing was also ubiquitous in East Germany (see the Stasi).
None of this is any secret. I assume you've heard of the Komosol or Red Pioneers?
DrCruel 10 months ago
Since schools were transformed from education providers to indoctrination centers, it seems logical that they would try to take as much power and influence as possible from the parents. After all, kids who become accustomed that the state 'provides' for them, will grow up to be easily-subdued adults.
ESatire 10 months ago
I think that the real answer lays in educating kids and parents about food. Yeah its a slow process, but anything worth doing is worth doing properly. you can't do either of these things really...either just let parents feed their kids crap or let the state take control. the answer lays in the middle, as with almost all social issues...
erynb 10 months ago
WOW. The irony of this school food thing is that I am currently SICK (trow up sick) from my school's food! This isn't a new thing either... and what will disgust you, is that my school, Humboldt State University, has one of the highest rated cafeterias in California! So.. what about other people, in whatever year of their schooling, would be forced to eat that crap..
evanvideo 10 months ago
You're never getting that debate with Annie are you?
GermanConquistador08 10 months ago
Goddamn Communists
Dodgeoffroadfreak 10 months ago
the predictions are by 2025 - 2/3rds of Americans will be obese -
-- at some point someone has to step in to "save the children" from food abuse!
Since it's not in the national government's best interest to stop feeding our kids junk as it's derived from subsidized crops, it's going to be down to local government to start the change. -- can't happen soon enough as long as the schools are properly educated in good nutrition themselves....
mixbay 10 months ago
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mixbay 10 months ago
1. The ONLY argument, weak as it is, I could see for a school to ban homemade lunches is around the increased occurance of peanut allergies which of course are deadly. That said, it still should be a legislative issue, developed in a well based fact and reasoned atmosphere (yeah, good luck with that one!)
peppilapiu 10 months ago
So Rastus has a peanut butter san and Richie Rich has a filet migon..tough chit Chicago..and it's not your job or the Gubmint to stick your filthy nose in OUR business..Butt Out.
rickinnev 10 months ago
I agree about the lunch thing same with P.E it's not the schools job to make sure your kids not fat it's yours so P.E should be elective only so kids can use that time to actually learn in that time
And at my school we have something called emotional education were they teach use literally how to act and feel it's not ok on any level it should be banned all together because it's not what school is for
9kingmax 10 months ago
What kind of Orwellian lunacy is this?
yermomsboxx 10 months ago
A perfect small-scale analogy for the government.
thenewamerican*com/culture/education/7137-chicago-school-bans-bag-lunches-forces-kids-to-eat-school-fare
CarlosMarti123 10 months ago
@USAGymnast not if the corporate funds from the companies that make the easy-make heart attacks aren't selling their food.
4lifejackhammer 10 months ago
Huffington Post in their own water.
Oh, the irony.
CarlosMarti123 10 months ago
As a Democrat and a Chicagoan. I gotta say, I heard about the Public School lunch proclamation, and I gotta say, it's re-goddamn-diculous (pardon my language). Admittedly, as someone who lives on the South-side, I was basically forced to go to an all boys Catholic School and every time I tried to buy my lunch THERE, by the time I got to the front of the line, the lunch period was over. Who's to say that sure as hell won't happen with this policy.
Please don't blame Democrats for this one.
ardman911 10 months ago
The school lunch issue: It has nothing to do with nutrition or food allergies and more to do with money! Money Money Money!!! The school has an annual budget to keep in place and the food is SO BAD that the kids wont eat it, they wont BUY IT! So much like the health care bill that forces people to buy insurance they have devised a way to force their food down the kids throats LITERALLY. Yes, its about control but its all about the Benjamins!
cjrush1009 10 months ago
Parents can't feed their own kids because the American Marxist School System under Russian Law created by one of the Founders of the United States known by Socialist Historians as Karl Marx want kids to grow tall and stronger as Richard Dawkins, But like any Socialistic Russian Law the Bill for the New School Order is paid by the Parents against their will, Gotta love the Marxist, they send you the Indoctrination Bill via Taxes, they are the Replacement of God in America, Darwin Bless The USA!
breedofdavid 10 months ago
Calm down just enough to speak with some deference, yo. Jeez.
corenothing 10 months ago
This is about some mobsters friend getting the contract to supply food.Most likely the Mobster will get a real goodon Radiative food from Japan.
amy2x 10 months ago
This first past the post system is a real pain in the ass
ismdism 10 months ago
The schools are feeding junk food by any measure. They are in fact forcing kids to eat crap.
sdfkjllshadflhadfshl 10 months ago 22
Mahr doesn't want a subsidy for an industry he works in, so I don't see any hypocrisy there.
DejectedPanda 10 months ago
I have some food allergies and you know what i do i do not eat that food.
wtf0804 10 months ago
Be a critical thinker for once, Lee...it has nothing to do with nutrition. There's always ulterior motives, and as someone with the youtube name "HowTheWorldWorks", you of all people should know this. Schools profit off of school lunches, and most schools that I know of are federally reimbursed for free lunches given to students. It's just the school's way of making more money. That's neither left nor right specific; everyone wants more money. As such, don't try to blame the left. Good day
NerdboiisAfroMan 10 months ago
We can't wait for liberals to wake up. Start electing libertarians on local levels. We can beat those bastards one street & town at a time.
saper321 10 months ago
People are no longer willing, (or very few it seems), to stand up for their individual rights & that includes parents standing up for their children's individual rights. In our local paper there was a story about the school principal, (not the school board or a committee, etc.), requiring children to take a breathalyzer to attend the prom. I could not believe the attacks because I stood up for what I thought was individual rights. What the heck is that?
meandale 10 months ago
I've always said the food police aren't suggesting what you should do, eventually they wil step in and tell you what to eat and do. The whole premise is misguided, UNLESS you believe kids are the property of the state and we're all stupid children too dumb to know what's best for us.
UTubekookdetector 10 months ago
How about a compromise Lee? Corporations can maintain human rights and we give human rights to our environment.
WINZ0W 10 months ago
I want to build a time machine and go back the 90s.
Xtragicfever 10 months ago
are the children also banned from buying their own food or making it?
paxxiwar 10 months ago
The school you describe is known as a boarding school. People pay a lot of money to not have to parent their kids.
zero1986t 10 months ago
Food allergies are on the rise and it's not uncommon for these allergies to result in potentially fatal situations. There have been several districts that have already banned food items such as PB&J sandwiches as a result. I'm sure that this is due to food allergy risks rather than some conspiracy control theory. If you want any data on this look into Trace Adkins as his daughter is such an individual.
GuyofDoom 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom Food allergies are on the rise because idiocy is on the rise.
HowTheWorldWorks 10 months ago 26
I fail to see the relationship between food allergies and idiocy.However,would it not make more sense to ban high risk foods rather then banning children from bringing lunches to schools?It would be harder to accommodate children's eating requirements through the state then a child bringing their own lunches (various food intolerances,eating beliefs, food needs based on size/ athleticism).I am not American, but isn't it unconstitutional to force people to buy certain products?
FTR01 10 months ago
@HowTheWorldWorks what a stupid response.
smpunditz 10 months ago
@HowTheWorldWorks If this nonsense keep up, parents will just exist to create children for the state to raise and nothing more.
SamusVSMC 10 months ago
I got a idea. How about if your kid is allergic to peanut butter, get your lazy self off the couch and teach them not to eat peanut butter. Its called common sense. If your kid isn't bright enough to learn not to eat what makes them sick, after adults have told them, well then maybe we should just let nature take its course.
PerryJ994 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom Eat right and food allergies will diminish.
hotfudgemoney 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom Most food allergies are either fake or can be treated.
Trannsam 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom My elementry school teachers figured this out. Those with allergies were given a special area of the room to sit in, (This was a large cafeteria even for a small school) and no one was allowed to bring their own food to that area.
What shoudl we do, ban PB&Js everywhere? Me walking down the street? BAM illegal. Where is this intrusive paternalism going to end?
SamusVSMC 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom Food allergies are not the result of PB&J sandwiches in schools. PB&J sandwiches in schools do not prevent food allergies. Lighning strikes can result in potentially fatal situations, therefore we should never let our children outside because of the potential for them to be kiiled in a lightning strike. Autoomobile accidents can be potetntially fatal on a higher percentage than either lightning strikes or food allergies, lets ban children from all automobiles.
Paulsur 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom - If anyone would know whether a kid is allergic to something, wouldn't it be his/her parents? Doesn't that argue in favor of homemade lunches? If the parents are unaware of their kid's allergies and he/she gets sick, that is unfortunate but it's not the school's fault. So they have no justification for stepping in, regardless of their motive.
nasaguy 10 months ago
@GuyofDoom It's not about food allergies. From the Chicago Tribune "'Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices. 'Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,' Carmona said. 'It's about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve'"
jbo5112 10 months ago
The entire school lunch thing is a racist liberal viewpoint that view the poor (esp. poor black people) as irresponsible animals. Poor people DO take care of their children. I heard the same stupid leftists statements in the 1970's from white liberal female teachers: "Oh dear, the children don't have enough to eat."
LIE! Their parents are taking care of them. The liberal just wants to feel good about themselves by "saving" someone.
zivjax 11 months ago
Plus, I remember how terrible the school lunches were at some schools. To be honest, this wasn't the case at all the schools I attended (thank God!), but what if the kid doesn't care for the food at the school?
jmelkis 11 months ago
This is a good point about school lunches. Additionally, some kids have restricted diets due to religious concerns. So is the school goingo to have to make seperate lunches for those kids? Or are those kids going to have to bring their lunches with special permission and be the only ones to do so (thus making them stand out and possibly be subject to ridicule for being different)?
jmelkis 11 months ago
Huffington Post sucks donkey assholes... Like NPR, it is an ideological straightjacket.
Chicago school solution...
Parents should call in a massive sick out for their kids and say the school food is making their children ill, threaten to sue for bad food...
SirWinstoneChurchill 11 months ago
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hellsyea22 11 months ago
@SirWinstoneChurchill
But Fox News is fair and balanced, right?
All corporate controlled media is awful, CNN, Huffing Post, Fox, MSNBC, all of them. The media's a business, their bottom line is money. They don't run with stories that will inform you of what's really going on and hurt their sponsors business interests, they run with stories that will get the most ratings and keep the status quo going.
Not to mention the fact that FIVE PEOPLE control nearly all the news you get in the country
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22
I like Fox Business News, but even they do selective reporting... the rest of them are bullshit... especially NPR and PBS...
MSNBC = Bill Gates
In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds a lot of NPR programming... Let Bill Gates buy NPR and call it MSNPR, I'm sick of paying for it with taxes.
SirWinstoneChurchill 10 months ago
@hellsyea22
You live in Canada... worry about your own bullshit over there...
SirWinstoneChurchill 10 months ago
It's the redistribution of lunch. It's not fair for Johnny to have a pudding cup and Samantha to have a banana. If the school gives them all the same thing, then it's all equal.
TMNTJSTR 11 months ago
@TMNTJSTR lol communisum in action
howler12311 11 months ago
However the Huffington Post became this "place to get noticed" because of the unpaid bloggers who help build the reputation. I agree that he doesn't have a case, but he does have a point.
kkehoe5 11 months ago
Eating properly is also a question of education
Adlershof 11 months ago
This is what happens when you empower people who think they are smarter than everyone in the room.
1Putt4eagle 11 months ago
The school has now backed away from this position after many parents threatened to pull their kids from the school. Does anybody in authority really think they can do something like this and NO ONE will protest?
RocktheStageNYC 11 months ago
Your anger in the school lunch segment is palpable.
sergeantcortez 11 months ago
I am so not putting my future kids in public school, they will either go to private school or be homeschooled, and if I am a parent it is my responsibility to have the kids fed and I will not expect the school to feed the kids, not to mention not all parents feed junk food to kids, some give their kids healthy lunches, heck a girl now 18 and her 19 yr old friend that moved into the house preferred healthy food and brought lunch to school from home.
RPM1978 11 months ago
I guess people need to wake up. More and more laws are being implemented to take away parental rights. You can discipline or feed them. They have to be separated for 8 hours a day. Fathers are getting the worst of it do to pro choice abortion laws and divorce.
ProphetGuardian 11 months ago
I don't know about anywhere but the city I live in but here the schools ONLY have junk food for sale in the cafeteria. Now I live in Canada where that doesn't effect me but, if the school cafeterias in the US are like they are here... Then wth. They're saying that kids are only allowed to eat junk food for lunch.
ShadeC4 11 months ago
I am not trying to start an argument, I would just like to say, although the government is imposing itself in places it doesn't belong, if kids end up trading food, a common lunchtime activity, couldn't they have possibly dangerous allergic reactions to the food they bartered for? Again I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it.
johnboy9596 11 months ago
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@johnboy9596 Bro, I am not trying to start an argument, I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it. I would just like to say, although the government is imposing itself in places it doesn't belong, if kids end up trading food, a common lunchtime activity, Again I am a libertarian, but it has a good aspect to it. Couldn't they have possibly dangerous allergic reactions to the food they bartered for?
mmeasy123 11 months ago
Why would I be driving while watching your video on YouTube, Lee? lol ;)
Love your stuff.
pieinurface11 11 months ago 2
So are the lunches going to be provided free of charge, or are they going to still be paid for out of pocket by the parents? If the latter, that is basically government back extortion as many people tend to give kids home made lunches because they can't afford paying for meals.
secondly, I know I learned more self sufficiency making my own lunch for school, which makes me sad that we are discouraging taking responsibility for ourselves.
Dakota2063 11 months ago
You Were Distracted your self from your subject.
VoiceOurNoise 11 months ago
Schools are not charming or productive, they are the exact opposite. That is why It's a waste of time to attempt to alter it to be a benefit.
Swampymcswamp 11 months ago
Well normally i agree with you, but I'm a little optimistic. More and more kids are becoming diabetic at earlier ages these days because parents are not taking responsibility for their kids eating habits. Schools have take responsibility away from parents before. lets not forget, that it wasn't too long ago, that teacher could disciple or spank kids and Kids were a lot better behaved back then. When teachers couldn't do that anymore children became more disrespectful. So, I'm a optimistic.
swordofsteel 11 months ago
@TheDrunkenCabDriver Would you be willing to make it illegal for parents to tell their kids about arbitrary subjects? If your parents are idiots, that's life.
Houshalter 11 months ago
The food in public school is SHIT! And everyone needs a different diet!!!
shethewriter 11 months ago
Dude, is that a Michigan helmet in the background? GO BUCKEYES. Regardless from the helmet, great episode.
LuckilyLevi 11 months ago
"Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country." What's next - banning all mouse traps and mouse poisons?
some time in a million years an alien race might arrive here and discover ruins of a once-great civilization and wonder why it no longer thrives.
stupid hippies!
handheldgamer144 11 months ago
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hellsyea22 11 months ago
@handheldgamer144
I'd argue that the reason our once great civilization will no longer thrive is the combination of peak oil and fresh water depletion/contamination, which is pretty much exactly what those "stupid hippies" are advocating
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 As far as running out of oil, people will stop using oil when there is a resource that is more abundant and efficient, and less expensive. That's how the free market capitalism works.
As far as the fresh water, there are always engineers working on ways to make water cleaner. Sure, the rivers by big cities are not exactly the kind of thing I would ever drink from(especially near st patty's day) but many of the rivers on trails near where I live are as clean as they can naturally be.
handheldgamer144 11 months ago
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hellsyea22 11 months ago
@handheldgamer144
Unfortunately, a cheaper, more abundant and more efficient resource than oil simply doesn't exist. And all alternative energy sources require huge amounts of oil to build, extract and transport the infrastructure.
Engineers may be able to clean water to a certain degree, but they can't create it. Fresh water reserves are exponentially declining and world population is exponentially increasing. It doesn't take a genius to realize that a major global crisis is coming.
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 Have you taken basic chemistry? With a small amount of energy, we can bond two hydrogen atoms to a hydrogen atom, plus get an explosion of energy, demonstrating 2H2+o2=2h2O. We could easily create fresh water.
As far as energy goes 31,000 calories are in a gallon of gasoline according to how stuff works , so if anne collins dot c0m is correct that is about as much energy as is in 4 cups of table sugar. Why not engineer cars to run on high-concentration sugar water?
handheldgamer144 10 months ago
Mother earth same rights as Humans? OH HOW BOUT WELFARE
"Mothe Earth your welfare chech is here" *litters ground with check*
No bringing lunch to school? Now kids are going to be hungry to pay attention in class.
rainick 11 months ago
@2bpilot I did that. Glad I did it, too.
tjttzcspplt 11 months ago
HowTheWorldWorks is a cheating moron. It is well known that at least half of his subscribers are bots. He was completely exposed as a cheating moron years ago. He's not even remotely interesting on top of all that lol
mmeasy123 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 All the 400 comments on this video were made by bots too, right?
Gameboygenius 11 months ago
@Gameboygenius A study would need to be done.
tjttzcspplt 11 months ago
@Gameboygenius I would call you a moron for such an obviously stupid comment....but you already know you are one....
mmeasy123 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 Ditto.
Gameboygenius 11 months ago
@Gameboygenius Thought you wouldn't have anything to say......pussy....
mmeasy123 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 I respect thunderf00t for his videos on science and religion, but he should have stayed out of the fight with HTWW. That's one battle he unfortunately wasn't too successful with. I'll just leave you with that.
Gameboygenius 11 months ago
@Gameboygenius Hahaha...your stupidest comment yet! Thunderf00t literally SLAYED this clown. How can you be serious and say that he wasn't successful? He 100% proved that HTWW is a cheating, greedy moron. On top of that HTWW isn't even interesting or insightful. Fuck you.
mmeasy123 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 No, you see, he didn't prove any of that. What TF did was present the case that it *might* be that way because a bunch of new users were subscribed to both HTWW and other related channels. You know why they were? Because YT offers this panel that says "would you also like to subscribe to". You might've even seen it yourself when subscribing to a big channel. YT has also increased their bot protection lately. To thin that anyone would have anywhere near 16k bot subscribers is absurd.
Gameboygenius 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 I don't have time for childish remarks.
tjttzcspplt 11 months ago
@mmeasy123 Gee, now there's a surprise reply. A you tube troll calling someone some juvenile name. I can just imagine how successful you are in your career.
tjttzcspplt 11 months ago
@tjttzcspplt Ask your father. He's the janitor in the building I own.
mmeasy123 10 months ago
Surely, by that logic anyone who writes a letter into a newspaper should also be paid. Madness.
arcanekrusader 11 months ago
I find it hard to feel sorry for The Huffington Post.
wiz9496 11 months ago
@menotyou48 Little Village Academy isn't the sole school for the entire city. It's one of many elementary schools in the system there. Again, the principal of the school admits this is her policy. Are you calling the principal a liar or just saying everything about this is an imaginary story? The Chicago Tribune made up an imaginary school, created a website for it, made an imaginary principal and then planted this story? the principal ADMITS this is her policy in her school.
ButterflyDragon9 11 months ago
@ButterflyDragon9 Just consider the plausibility of this policy. How would it be implemented?What happens to kids who violate the policy?What about repeat lunch bringers do they go to the kids house an empty his fridge?Do the kids have to walk through food detector?You realise this policy would be literally impossible to implement.What is much more likely than school officials confiscating food from hungry kids, a principal encouraging school lunches and a sensationalist media running wild.
menotyou48 10 months ago
communism the ideology that tells all others to fuck themselves ,and will tell you to fuck right off
supermorshu 11 months ago
this chicago school topic is so overblown as if the entire government is running this program.. just straight bias views on your part. this school is probably going to remove its "rule" eventually when people complain but you making it sound like every school in america is on this shit.. OH NO COMMUNISM ... are you shitting me?
xoadisonxo 11 months ago
@xoadisonxo This is typical of liberal policy throughout the nation.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777 It's only a story because it's an extreme and exceptional example, and yet people claim it's "typical."
Bleuski 11 months ago
@Bleuski False. Just the other day liberal legislation like this was forcing people to tear down their basketball hoops from their front lawns. They posed no health risk and did not impede traffic in any way. It was just a means by which liberal bureaucrats can assert their authority on the people.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
Why do you have to label it liberal legislation? Why can't it just be a stupid ass law?
Not everything has to be divided into liberal vs conservative
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 Because conservatives don't make up legislation like this that seeks to meddle in people's lives and take away freedom with inconsequential things like a basketball hoop. And what conservative would ever advocate restricting the right of the parents to feed their children? It's a stupid ass law passed by liberals.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
So if conservatives aren't for taking down basketball hoops and banning homemade school lunches, that MUST mean that liberals are 100% for it.
God you're a moron. There are many, many, many, many, many more belief systems than just liberalism and conservativism.
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 I beg to differ. There are 2 different mentalities that are dominant in this country which is responsible for the various legislative approaches in this nation. We have conservatism and liberalism predominantly. I know what is involved in each one, and no, I didn't say that because it's not conservative it must be "the other one". You did. Now, you do know that the moment you typed "moron" and "many many many" etc you immediately lost the argument, don't you? Maybe you don't.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
Well then what exactly makes you believe liberals want to take away children's basketball nets and force kids to eat shitty cafeteria food?
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 I believe that it fits the liberal MO to micromanage people's lives through endless insignificant regulation. Conservatism, on the other hand, places great importance on personal freedom, individuality, and smaller government (including gov meddling like this in private lives of citizens). Law should be about maximizing the happiness for the greatest amount of people possible, while keeping everyone as safe as possible.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
Saying liberals want to limit everyone's freedom with excessive regulations is every bit as ridiculous as saying conservatives want child labor and 90 hour work weeks.
It's nonsense to think that just because you believe in an ideology, it means that you also support every remotely possible negative aspect that appears when you take that ideology to absurd extremes.
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 Are you actually denying that liberals were responsible for this legislation and the basketball hoop legislation?
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
Maybe politicians that call themselves liberal were responsible, but taking away basketball hoops and banning homemade lunches has NOTHING to do with liberalism and it's entirely disingenuous for you and Lee to label these ridiculous laws as liberal legislation.
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 Anytime there is micromanagement of people's lives, it can usually be traced to a liberal exercising authority for its own sake. It can be something completely irrelevant or seemingly innocent, like Michelle Obama's attempt to regulate what children eat, or it can be highly intrusive, like Obamacare. It's left wing ideology that wants to dictate how other people live. You want to help the poor? You turn to mandatory taxation to pay for welfare. Lib policy. Forced charity.
Darkrift777 11 months ago
@Darkrift777
After researching this whole school lunch fiasco, it's because the principal cut a deal with Chartwells-Thompson, a private company that supplies school lunches all over the US. This would give them a complete monopoly over what the children eat at school, thereby increasing their profits.
That makes any argument that this decision was liberal absolutely ridiculous and pure misinformation. But that doesn't mean I'm going to say that all conservatives want to ban school lunches.
hellsyea22 11 months ago
@hellsyea22
You live in Canada?
Worry about your schools there, we take care of ours.
SirWinstoneChurchill 10 months ago
@hellsyea22 "It's nonsense to think that just because you believe in an ideology, it means that you also support every remotely possible negative aspect that appears when you take that ideology to absurd extremes."
This.
Bleuski 11 months ago
@hellsyea22
Not everything, but when you are in politics it only makes sense
rainick 11 months ago
@hellsyea22 Big government = leftist
Protege385 11 months ago
@Darkrift777 Um, again, that story was considered outrageous by most people-liberal and conservative-because it's something that does NOT happen the vast majority of the time.
Taking extreme examples and using them to generalize about half the country is ludicrous.
Bleuski 11 months ago
@Bleuski No, sorry you are still mistaken. It is liberal legislation whether you want to admit it or not. Another good example is regulating what kind of lightbulbs we are going to be allowed to use. That is a left wing approach by environmental activists peddling a liberal agenda. It doesn't matter that it "does NOT happen the vast majority of the time." It is part of liberal ideology. It's that simple.
Darkrift777 11 months ago