{"id":1345,"date":"2014-08-04T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:30:34","slug":"old-busted-dont-make-federal-case-new-hotness-make-federal-case-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/old-busted-dont-make-federal-case-new-hotness-make-federal-case-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and Busted: Don&#8217;t make a Federal Case Out Of It!    New Hotness: Make a Federal Case Out Of Everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/old-busted-dont-make-federal-case-new-hotness-make-federal-case-everything\/\" data-text=\"Old and Busted: Don&#038;%238217;t make a Federal Case Out Of It!%2520New Hotness: Make a Federal Case Out Of Everything!\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>We used to have a saying when we were kids and someone was getting mad over a small thing. \u00a0We would say sarcastically <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t make \u00a0a federal case out of it!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Now it&#8217;s popular to do just the opposite. \u00a0Let&#8217;s make a federal case out of everything! \u00a0The one important difference? \u00a0It&#8217;s the adults talking now.<\/p>\n<p>Case In Point: what kids eat in school. \u00a0For approximately as long as kids and schools have existed, the only issues with what kids ate at school were the speculative origins of the various mystery entrees in school lunches. \u00a0Now, since &#8220;The Children&#8221;\u00ae are either morbidly obese or malnourished depending on which particular do-gooder is speaking we now must have the Federal Nose stuck into everyone&#8217;s business. \u00a0And idiocy ensues.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Business Insider, we learn that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsmove.gov\/healthy-schools\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Initiative called &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221;<\/a> is unpopular with the kids it was designed to &#8220;help&#8221;. \u00a0Part of the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; initiative was a revamping of the school meal standards in the National School Lunch Program. \u00a0Yes, you heard me &#8211; the <em>National School Lunch Program<\/em>. \u00a0Of course these revisions were undertaken with the best of intentions. \u00a0And when you&#8217;re do-goodin&#8217;, intentions are all that matter. \u00a0The reason it is unpopular? \u00a0Because the &#8220;right portions&#8221; and &#8220;healthier food options&#8221; required by the initiative are apparently very small and\/or inedible and the kids are left hungry after lunch. \u00a0Kids being kids, they have taken to social media, namely Twitter and are tweeting pictures of their lunches along with sarcastic remarks &#8211; follow this link to see some of their tweets: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/students-tweeting-awful-photos-school-lunches-michelle-obama-healthier-meals-2014-4\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider &#8211; Students Are Tweeting Photos of Awful School Lunches&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now everyone knows that other than school cafeteria lunches, the only other time food and school intersect is at Bake Sale Time. \u00a0Bake Sales have long been a way for school groups to raise money for any number of causes, and it&#8217;s a treat for the kids, too. \u00a0And they still will be &#8211; albeit with appropriate supervision. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/schools-plan-to-lighten-up-on-bake-sales-1406923280?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories\" target=\"_blank\">Because starting this fall, we&#8217;ve made a Federal Case out of it. <\/a>\u00a0There is literally a Federal Law governing the fare offered at school bake sales: \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/PLAW-111publ296\/pdf\/PLAW-111publ296.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act<\/a>, one of the stated goals of which is to fight childhood obesity&#8230;apparently by by making kids hunger-free. \u00a0And the best way to make them hunger free is to only offer them foods they won&#8217;t eat. \u00a0Makes perfect sense *eyeroll*. \u00a0Read the details in this article at the Wall Street Journal:<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/schools-plan-to-lighten-up-on-bake-sales-1406923280?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;Put Down The Cupcake: \u00a0New Ban Hits School Bake Sales&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember that the people making these rules are only doing it for your own good. \u00a0You need their help because you aren&#8217;t smart enough to make good decisions. \u00a0And they care more than you. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=805\" target=\"_blank\">And they think they are better than you.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And when you finaly figure out there&#8217;s a boot on your throat, remember: it&#8217;s for your own good.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet We used to have a saying when we were kids and someone was getting mad over a small thing. \u00a0We would say sarcastically &#8220;Don&#8217;t make \u00a0a federal case out of it!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Now it&#8217;s popular to do just the opposite. \u00a0Let&#8217;s make a federal case out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life","category-oldandbusted-newhotness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}