Taking a cue from the Democrats, Steven Crowder sets out to teach young trick-or-treaters about the need to pay their fair share of taxes and hand over their candy to others. A hidden cam captures the horrified outrage of these kids, and Crowder confesses, “When the cameras weren’t rolling, one kid punched me in the balls.”
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Everything you need to know to get ahead in candy trading. Everything. H/T iOwntheWorld
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Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month Award for August goes to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the US Health and Human Services Department. Sebelius won because her department used Stimulus and Obamacare funds to back campaigns imposing local soda taxes and enacting tougher zoning rules for fast-food restaurants. Besides violating the job-creating intent of the Stimulus program, the department’s Office of Inspector General is now investigating whether these campaigns violated federal anti-lobbying provisions.
Reason TV also named two runners-up for the August Nanny of the Month Award:
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Channeling New York’s Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, has now called for imposing a national sales tax on sodas and 10-percent fruit drinks, supposedly as a means to force poor people to improve their dietary habits. How long before DeLauro wages war on Little Debbie Nutty Bars? Can she resist slapping a surcharge on Ruffles? Or breaking off a piece of every Kit Kat for the federal bureaucracy?
Back in 2009, Jackie and Dunlap from http://www.redstateupdate.com/ warned us to beware of what lie ahead as Washington stepped up its war on soda, booze, cigarettes, junk food and, yes, poor, underage Little Debbie.
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Does the federal government use proper science in setting nutritional standards and advocating healthy diets? How about influential organizations like the American Heart Association? Science writer Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It, says many nutritional falsehoods have been propagated over the years based on flimsy scientific data. Part of the problem, says Taubes, is that once the various institutions involved in public health have embraced a particular position, they’re loathe to ever admit they made a mistake. “Once you start giving advice, how do you pull back and say you were wrong?,” he asks. Watch his interview with Reason.TV’s Zach Weissmueller.
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Why do fast-food hamburgers always look bigger and juicier in the ads than in real life? Here’s the answer, offered by going behind-the-scenes at a McDonald’s photo shoot in Canada. H/T GeekPress
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After moves to outlaw super-sized sodas, wonder if the pizza will become the next target for the food police? Here’s a sneak peek into what it might be like to order a pizza in the future. H/T Moonbattery
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Bill Dyszel, master of parody and former New York City Opera librettist and composer, offers a medley of 10 patriotic junk food songs. Dyszel’s earlier gems include “Mercurial Redemption: An Eco-Maniacal Opera” and “The Blagojevich Polka.” H/T Legal Insurrection.
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Godzilla’s going to be pig-biting mad the next time he surfaces in Gotham City. Mayor Bloomberg, Reason’s “Nanny of the Month,” has just deep-sixed the sale of Supersize “sugary” drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and other public venues. Note to Godzilla: Drop New York from your itinerary, big guy, unless you’re packing your own mecha flask of saki.
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Straight-talking caveman stands up to North Carolina’s regulatory dinosaurs. With Raquel Welch, Rae Dawn Chong and Daryl Hannah nowhere in sight, this blogging neanderthal needs your help to protect his rights to free and unfettered paleo-speech.
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