BadWrongFood!
If you were one of the millions of Americans planning on spending part of your Fourth of July outside grilling burgers and dogs, maybe having some fried chicken, drinking beer or soda or sweet tea, and generally enjoying your weekend, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper just wants you to know that you’re doing it wrong.
And not just that you’re doing it wrong, but that you’re unpatriotic.
See, you have to eat just exactly what the progressives want you eat, wear what they want you to wear, buy what they want you to buy from progressive-approved stores, and think only what they want you to think. There is no other option to them. Progressives are not content with disapproval. They insist on forcing you, using the full power of government. Today, it’s a ridiculous food code at the Democratic convention. Tomorrow its…well, take it away see-dubya:
As I’m fond of saying, those of a libertarian bent should listen up: social conservatives might be nosing around in your bedroom and your basement where you’ve got the grow-lights and the Pink Floyd posters, but the totalitarian green left is sticking its nose in every dad-gum room in your house. They regulate the permissible flow of water in your toilet. They regulate the air freshener you can spray after you use it. They mandate a mercury-filled ugly light bulb in every socket. They’re all over your car and your gun cabinet and your garbage can and now your kitchen. They’re in your radio, dumping the Fairness Doctrine all over what you’re permitted to hear. And now we see they care about the stuff in your refrigerator and they care how you cook it.
They have an opinion on everything (which is fine, I’ve been accused of that myself) and they’re willing to back up every last one of them with the force of the state. It’s to save the planet, you understand, so it’s okay.
Happy…err…Independence Day, America.
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Last I checked, none of those foods are illegal. If fact, they sell all that stuff at the grocery store. And nobody is talking about banning them. Although our eating of meat really does cause other people to starve (something to consider). But thanks to conservatives, I can't buy marijuana at the grocery store, can I? In fact, I can't legally buy it anywhere, even if I need it for medical purposes (Hickenlooper is helping us on that issue, by the way). Hickenlooper has proposed food guidelines not for society, but for the Democratic Convention. The rest of you can still eat your horrid Chicken Fried Steak, and we'll still subsidize your heart disease. But it's kind of a shame because Hickenlooper won't be able to highlight Colorado's delicacy: Rocky Mountain Oysters. Trust me, they're way better than the normal ones. And Kosher, too! I will admit that I do like fried Okra. That's the kind of thing that happens when you live in Texas too long. But besides fried okra, pickled green beans and Texas BBQ are the only Southern foods I like. Give me some good Vietnamese food like steamed Morning Glory stems (they're good fried, too).
Smoking herb & eating testicles is okay, but you're going to diss the chicken fried steak??