November 21, 2011 05:00 AM
SNL's Seth Meyers Mocks Congress for Saying Pizza is a Vegetable
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Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers had a bit of fun this weekend by mocking the Republicans in Congress for wanting to classify pizza as a vegetable in an attempt to fight the Obama administration's attempt to make federally-subsidized school lunches more healthy -- House Republicans Say Pizza Is a Vegetable.
really encapsulates everything that is wrong in American politics. The President calls for common sense,tougher standards to protect the health of our children already facing a declining learning environment in schools, but caves to processed food lobbyists and sells them short. Granted, a 'Thug President would have probably been serving MGD and reinstalling cigarette machines on school grounds by now, but this is still an epic, shameful failure.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Why do I get the impression that sometimes Congress opposes the president just for the sake of opposing him, despite what is best for the country. Pizza sauce is NOT a vegetable. Ketchup is NOT a vegetable.
This same Congress that is pushing against healthier school lunches is going to spend millions on studies, trying to figure out why our children are obese.
The stupid, it hurts.
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
It's a fruit. Beside that, it's fucking stupid. A pizza is NOT a vegetable.
I'm drinking wine. It's a fruit man. That makes me fucking drunk! It's so fucking healthy! Fuck yeah! Weee
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Assclowns of the Week #89: Occupy the Catbird Seat/Thanksgiving edition is now up.
On the spit this week:
El Rushbo
UC Davis thugs
Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD
Newt Gingrich (twice)
NASCAR and much, much more!
(P.S. The Super Committee & Congress got a nod for this very same reason.)
JP
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Didn't Reagan's administration attempt to classify ketchup as a vegetable, so why is anyone surprised at this.
I remember that. I think I was freshman in high school when that came out of the Reagan administration. But I guess in this day and age when Pizza Hut is contracted to provide the pizzas for school lunches it doesn't come as a real surprise.
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that the R's will let die in the trashbin of history? I'm beginning to think not.
Damn.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
When I was in elementary school in the late 60s, there were only a handful of kids that were overweight. I was always thin, but I remember that heavy kids were bullied mercilessly.
And sadly, 'Thugs will argue that this is proof that Americans are "well-fed" and therefor not poor.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I never saw a
fatheavy kid until I was in grade three and my eyes bugged out of my head. Total shock.(She was great and we went right through high school together.)
far left loon >.<
Depression economy, homelessness, joblessness, major debt, ongoing wars, police brutality, etc., etc., etc., and Congress finds time to line the pockets of their corporate donors further.
PS hilarious (watching it again)
far left loon >.<
is my favorite vegetable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwt2RP45sLE
Corruption favors the wealthy.
or is political satire like the easiest fucking job on the planet right now?
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Well, that was about as funny as Amy Goodman. Not that I don't like Amy, but comedy.... No.
Reminds me why I don't watch snl much anymore.
... is that Kermit deserved a shout out in the headline!
Here's a blast from the past:
Reagan's FY1982 budget proposed $57 billion in spending cuts, with $27 billion of those cuts to entitlements. The budget was later modified and passed as the Gramm-Latta Budget which cut $1 billion from the school lunch program and tasked the USDA with coming up with a solution that maintained nutritional requirements for school lunches in spite of the lower funding.[1] On September 3, 1981, the Secretary of Agriculture proposed classifying ketchup and pickle relish as vegetables to save money on school lunch programs. (source: Wikipedia)
Same shit, different day.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
who, as a born again republican (ex DINO), co-authored another legislative A-bomb, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 2000.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
I don't believe Frank Zappa ever indicated that pizza would be called if one should "...fall off the train".
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