Is Michelle really serious about child nutrition, or is the goal here just to screw over the middle class.

Posted by evlwhtguy 9 years, 2 months ago to Education
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The one thing everyone seems to be missing here is that this lunch, in all likelihood, was provided to the child free. Michelle needs to mind her own business, but there is a strong idea, amongst apparently everyone in the country, that somehow the child in question is owed a lunch that the child and the parent like. NEWSFLASH.....this is what happens when you rely on government to provide for you!

One other point...If the first lady is so excited about nutrition.....how about changes the SNAP program. With all the bar codes that are assigned to every item in the store, it would be very easy to put prepared foods, potato chips, snack foods and soda on the list of items that cannot e purchased with the EBT card. But nooooo!! The administration won’t do that , that would improve nutrition amongst those poor downtrodden "High risk groups" but it wouldn’t screw over the middle class in this country.


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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    simichrome has some coarse particles and many
    fine particles. . with a triangular piece of leather
    rubber-banded to the business end of an old K and E
    electric eraser (the tiny one which spins fast), I pass
    it over a patch of simichrome while it's spinning
    slowly. . then, I spin it fast and get rid of the coarse
    particles which it may have picked up,, barely
    touching it to a clean white piece of paper.

    then, with a magnifying glass which I use for
    soldering, I spin it up fast and polish the lens.
    you can watch the image of the tip touching the
    lens and move it around carefully. . inspect the
    surface frequently. . wipe it off with an alcohol
    pad. . look through it. . repeat the whole process
    'til you're done.

    plenty of thread; yes? -- j

    K and E::: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/K-E-Motoraser...
    and http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-1966-...

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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Simichrome is tons better than any other polishing compound I have used. Love the stuff - hard to find, sometimes.

    I would love to hear about your polishing trick, but this thread is getting too short to type in.

    Jan
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    WoW. . I learned about simichrome with the '71
    harley -- fine stuff! . then, Meguiar's to cover it. -- j

    p.s. I have a way to polish scratches out of plastic
    glasses or DVDs with simichrome, a flap of leather,
    and an electric eraser motor.

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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Nope. Lots of polishing. Once you get steel polished to a mirror surface, it actually resists rust pretty well. Then you keep an eye on it (for rust starting to form) and rub out any incipient spots with Simichrome; Simichrome on a fine steel wool pad if the rust is bad. You can use car wax to finish the shine.

    Jan
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    if the metal is steel, how do you keep it from rusting,
    polyurethane or something? -- j

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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    That looks good - am at work now, so I will have to watch it later. Thanks for the link

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    B52's are awesome. They should be legends in stories for generations to come. But the plane you were working on just liked the wind - it was 'wagging its tail' for you.

    For armor, the apprentice system still works. That suit was made from a photo I saw of a suit of Polish armor from about 1625. I never got above the apprentice level (though my drafting patterns from a pic was held to be a journeyman level). Master armorers are incredible.

    Jan
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey, Thanks!!! . and I followed the links to the photos
    of your armor work -- beautiful!!! . how do you learn
    to do that kind of metal work, trained by someone? -- j

    p.s. we had a good relationship with the aircrews;;;
    mutual respect and teamwork was tight. . and when
    the wind was blowing and the rain was freezing,
    I went up in the cherry-picker with the mechanics
    to change the hydraulic rudder actuator on the B52 tail --
    50 feet up -- when they [and I was also] were scared
    to do it. . but we did the work. . moving target, with
    that tail blowing in the wind!

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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    My father was career AF and used to say to me that the reason that the USAF was more egalitarian than the other branches of the military was because if a pilot was rude to his mechanic, the pilot fell 30,000 feet.

    Good for you for going for what you wanted instead of letting yourself get pushed onto a different path.

    Jan
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    maintenance boss with B-52s and KC-135s. . used
    the engineering degree to make sure that they were
    safe to fly. . and, yes, as an rotc cadet, I was praised
    as a steadier hand on the controls of a c-47 and a
    t-33 with usaf pilots in the other seat. . but I wanted
    to do engineering. -- j

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  • Posted by Sunjock13 9 years, 2 months ago
    Does the cause matter? The outcome is the same with INCREDIBLE overstepping of authority!!!
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah. Not a bento box, eh?

    But not objectively less aesthetic than if I took a pic of a sausage or hunk of chicken with a Fr bread roll thrown on top of it. I can't guess if someone actually tried to make the meal look bad or if this is just a case of 'normal world has no aesthetics'.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 2 months ago
    I know some young couples who don't want to have kids. They look around, see the challenges I've faced trying to raise my own and they say, "Forget it." I tell them, "I don't blame you."
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Brown bag? My mom often packed a salami on rye with yellow mustard. When I opened the greasy bag, the aroma of garlic filled the room. If you didn't like it, too bad, I did.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you're hungry enough, anything's a great meal. But if you have a choice (remember choice? It's what freedom is all about) you'll go for what you like. Some of it may even be nutritious.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I got a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as well as meat loaf and sandwich meats. Sure looked a lot better than this stuff. If this is what kids are exposed to as healthy, they will just go back to junk food (looks and tastes better) later
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