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The party of infantilization strikes again...

In a blow struck at parents everywhere in the city on the bay, San Francisco's Board of Interfering Busybody Nannies Supervisors has banned Happy Meals, which will probably result in an increase in instances of child abuse, for which the Nannies Supervisors can then take the kids away from parents to be raised... "properly" since we all know only the Village Idiots Elders are wise enough to be allowed to exercise any judgement.

So, they take away more opportunties to exercise judgement, and then wonder why people don't exercise better judgement...  dammit, I'm stuck in a vortex of swirling self-reinforcing redundancy.

Mind you, exposing your child to people prancing about with their junk out in the open, sticking their tongue down someone's throat in public at a Gay Pride event is okay, encouraged, and celebrated, but damn you, don't you get a Happy Meal for your kid, you stupid bint.  And since we know we can't trust you, we're going to make sure you can't even *find* one without driving out into the dark grey world of the Improperly Supervised!

Heh.  "Telephone for Robert Reich."

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so charge one penny less for the happy meals...

and tell the parents "for one penny more you can BUY the toy, but only with the purchase of a happy meal."

it's noo longer given away with the meal. the parent purchased it. problem solved.
 
Without a doubt, this kind of encroachment on personal liberty and parental rights MUST be nipped in the bud, or else the Nannies' power over us will simply grow as we continue to meekly and tacitly cede our freedoms to them.
 
I'm not sure you really understand where pressure for this move came from.  It was brought on by PARENTS complaining that it was unfair for McDonalds to give away the toys.  Because the PARENTS felt they were being made to be "bad guys" for not letting their precious snowflakes have a toy if they wanted a healthier meal for their tricycle engines.  So rather than just say "no" to little Timmy, they wanted the government to make McDonalds stop offering the toys.

Honest injun.
 
Heh.  That certainly spins it in a different direction... it just means it's worse, and the infantilization is *succeeding* beyond the Statists wildest dreams.

Gad.

 
Of course - that begs a different question, Mike.  How big/representative of the class of "parents" as a whole was the group petitioning the solons to relieve them of responsiblity for raising their children?
 
Reminds me of when I was a police dispatcher and was often told to send officers out to mediate disputes between parents and their children over TV programs and school attendance. I kid you not.
 
I was thinking more Erich Fromm. "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."

 
Greetings:

If I may add a bit of fuel to your fire of righteous indignation, adults should please feel free to google/bing "Up You Alley Fair" for a photographic record of public behavior that does not provoke action by the esteemed Board of Supervisors.  Additionally, the Mayor of San Francisco is now the Lieutenant  Governor-Elect of the State of California and the city's Attorney General is now the Attorney General-Elect of the same state.  Onward Progressive Soldiers, there are Cracker Jacks out there to be controlled. Rewarded behavior tends to be repeated; B.F. Skinner said that.
 
So, they take away more opportunties to exercise judgement, and then wonder why people don't exercise better judgement...

The fact that they are still sucking at the public trough is proof enough that the people lack any better judgement to exercise...

 
Hey, 11B40, does the Fair include scrotal inflation? The first time I saw that in one of those photo essays of San Fran escapades, I needed eye bleach. Apparently it is purposefully self-inflicted.

Sigh. What would Harry Callahan and Mike Stone say?

 
Oh, thanks, Casey.  I can't wait to see how far up in Google the Castle will end up for "scr0t@l infl@t10n."

 
so charge one penny less for the happy meals...

and tell the parents "for one penny more you can BUY the toy, but only with the purchase of a happy meal."

it's noo longer given away with the meal. the parent purchased it. problem solved.
 
ummm ok that was weird....

I hit "send" and went to bed..I wake up and it's posted twice?
 
Can we throw California out of the Union?  Seems like the best answer for the survival of the rest of us.
 
Folsom Street Fair is a good site for revolting images.  Zombietime has it. 
 
Uh-oh! Looks like Casey and I caused the co-processer to turn on the bit which causes the Armorer's mainbrain to power up, the one which runs the Battery Commander program.
 
P.s. (my last TMI SanFran comment went into moderation)
 
Heh.  Do I even want to look?
 
At my comment, maybe, which is now approved. At the things I mentioned, probably not. I have looked at some revolting things on the net which I wish I could un-see and un-remember. This is of course not possible.  I wised up before I looked at the one with the two girls, being sufficiently horrified by webcam pics of the faces of people who had looked at it.
 
This has been quite a stimulating discussion, even with some "great pearls of wisdom." Wisdom?!?! (Snicker, Snicker!)  It's such a good thing to see the Armorer just *CLAPPING* with joy, at this. ; - )
 
Yup, projection on the "authoritarian" thing. That was started by people like Leo Strauss and Franz Boas, IIRC.  Owhell, wouldn't be prudent to say more here on this subject. An Austrian guy with a bad moustache poisoned the well on this subject 70-odd years ago.
 
Now that I reflect, JTG, that's where I encountered scrotal infl....  Hm? What was that? Sounded like a Long Tom (excuse the pun) zeroing in.

Upon further consideration, let us mark this branch of the thread closed, shall we? Don't want the redlegs too upset. Lord knows how far the heavy artillery of Castle Argghhh!! can reach...
 

Never, ever, wonder why we left the Golden State.  Harry Callahan would be spitting up.  The Gipper is spinning in his grave. 

One good earthquake or Lex Luthor should do it.

As to Folsom Street and the fair, what do you expect from a state that named its most notorious prison 'Folsom?'

Even in the 80s, there were gay cops patrolling Polk (no pun intended) Street.  I don't know why they bothered...

 

 
Dang, Cricket, ain't you afeared of the Battery Commander? Artillery will splatter you from over the horizon, making no distinctions of age or sex.
 
Cricket fears no one less that the Lord, JTG.
 
I think Robin Williams had it right all those years ago:
"Earthquakes in California are God's way of saying, 'Get these condominiums off my back!''
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JTG: with respect to "2 Girls, 1 cup," I applaud  your restraint.

For the curious out there, You Have Been Warned. You do NOT want to watch that video!

The reaction vids, on the other hand, are hilarious.