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		<title>Mobama&#8217;s Kids Meal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This, or something quite close to it, would be the end result of Michelle Obama's jihad against food, states' rights, and parents' rights:
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<img src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/happy_meal-michelle-obama.jpg" alt="Michelle Obama&#039;s Very Unhappy Meal" title="Michelle Obama&#039;s Very Unhappy Meal" width="450" height="446" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-36289" />
<strong class="highlight">FDC State Ration Approved Children's Maintenance Unit </strong></p>
And each meal comes with pocket copies of both her husband's autobiographies and instructions on how to turn in their parents for non-State approved snacking. :lol:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This, or something quite close to it, would be the end result of Michelle Obama&#8217;s jihad against food, states&#8217; rights, and parents&#8217; rights:</p>
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<img src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/happy_meal-michelle-obama.jpg" alt="Michelle Obama&#039;s Very Unhappy Meal" title="Michelle Obama&#039;s Very Unhappy Meal" width="450" height="446" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-36289" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">FDC State Ration Approved Children&#8217;s Maintenance Unit </strong></p>
<p>And each meal comes with pocket copies of <em>both</em> her husband&#8217;s autobiographies and instructions on how to turn in their parents for non-State approved snacking. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Cookie Monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="OBAMACORN - The ACORN Grows Into a Mighty Tree of Villiany and Anti-Americanism" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/obamacorn.jpg" alt="OBAMACORN - The ACORN Grows Into a Mighty Tree of Villiany and Anti-Americanism" width="150" />Just about everyone knows that President Obama was, back in the 1980's, one of the myrmidons of the criminal organization Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and that they in turn later used<em> any and all</em> methods at their disposal to ensure his installation as a US Senator and then President.

It should not be a shock to anyone that President Obama would continue to support ACORN.

However, serving chocolate ACORN cookies at the December7,2009, White House Christmas party might have been going a bit too far given the level of partisan controversy surrounding whether or not to protect America from ACORN by curtailing their use of American's tax dollars to further their evil pursuits.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="OBAMACORN - The ACORN Grows Into a Mighty Tree of Villiany and Anti-Americanism" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/obamacorn.jpg" alt="OBAMACORN - The ACORN Grows Into a Mighty Tree of Villiany and Anti-Americanism" width="150" />Just about everyone knows that President Obama was, back in the 1980&#8242;s, one of the myrmidons of the criminal organization, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and that they in turn later used<em> any and all</em> methods at their disposal to ensure his installation as a US Senator and then President.</p>
<p>It should not be a shock to anyone that President Obama would continue to support ACORN.</p>
<p>However, serving chocolate ACORN cookies at the December7, 2009, White House Christmas party might have been going a bit too far given the level of partisan controversy surrounding whether or not to protect America from ACORN by curtailing their use of American&#8217;s tax dollars to further their evil pursuits.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="FOX News - White House's Acorn Cookies Surprises Republican Lawmaker - Lawmaker sees 'stark symbolism' in White House's Christmas cookies shaped like nut sharing name with controversial community group" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/09/white-houses-acorn-cookies-surprises-republican-lawmaker/" target="_blank"><img class="center-image aligncenter" title="Obama's White House Serves chocalot ACORN cookies at Dec. 7th Christmas Party" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/acorn-cookie-whitehouse.jpg" alt="Obama's White House Serves chocalot ACORN cookies at Dec. 7th Christmas Party" width="397" height="224" /></a><br />
<strong class="highlight">Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Doesn&#8217;t Find ACORN Cookie Very Sweet</strong></p>
<p>Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who has been leading America&#8217;s defense against ACORN, was certainly less than totally pleased by being served a chocolate ACORN cookie and a White House function. The Congressman didn&#8217;t expect to &#8220;<a title="SIoux City Journal - King sees ACORN in acorn" href="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/app/blogs/politically_speaking/?p=1789" target="_blank">see such stark symbolism</a>&#8221; being shown at that sort of event.</p>
<h3>Whose Crumby Idea Was It?</h3>
<p> <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' />  The pun is <em>very</em> much intended. But with a bit more seriousness, who is to blame for the Cookie Monster? Who chose to either show solidarity with ACORN or didn&#8217;t recognize that a cookie in the shape of an acorn would taken as a sign of such solidarity? Is Obama to blame?</p>
<p>If one is to blame <em>President Barack Obama</em> for the ACORN cookie, one would have to believe that the President of the United States got personally involved in choosing the pastries and confections served at the 2009 White House Christmas party. Since President Obama is more than a little busy accepting <a title="Dallas Morning News - Obama defends war, promotes peace in Nobel Prize acceptance speech" href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-obamanobel_11int.ART.State.Edition2.4bcc8bb.html" target="_blank">farcical foreign awards</a> and maintaining his 2012 Presidential campaign, I find the idea that he personally chose or approved the party&#8217;s cookie selection doubtful in the <em>extreme</em>.</p>
<p>No; if one is looking to blame an Obama for the ACORN cookie, one must look not to the President but to the distaff, First Lady Michelle Obama.  Assuming the Michelle Obama is fulfilling the <a title="America.gov - The Role of the First Lady by Carl Sferrazza Anthony" href="http://www.america.gov/st/elections08-english/2008/September/20080926162204naneerg0.8945886.html" target="_blank">core duties</a> of the First Lady, she would have been the Obama would have been likely to have chosen or approved the oddly controversial cookie.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The position of the First Lady is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and receives no salary. Nonetheless, first ladies have held a highly visible position in US government. The role of the first lady has evolved over the centuries. She is, first and foremost, the hostess of the White House. She organizes and attends official ceremonies and functions of state either along with, or in place of, the President.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Wikipedia<br />
<a title="Wikipedia - First Lady of the United States - Role of the First Lady" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States#Role_of_the_First_Lady" target="_blank">Role of the First Lady</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Would the First Lady, Michelle Obama deliberately choose or approve of such a &#8220;stark symbolism&#8221; of continued support for her husband&#8217;s old cronies? It probable that she <em>would</em>. ACORN&#8217;s racial demographic and racist agenda match up closer to <em>Michelle</em> Obama&#8217;s public statements than they do Barack Obama&#8217;s. However, would isn&#8217;t <em>did</em> and I find it rather doubtful, with the size of the current <a title="Yahoo News - Separating fact from fiction regarding the size of Michelle Obama's staff" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl944" target="_blank">First Lady&#8217;s retinue</a>, that Michelle Obama got that personally involved in planning the function.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>Of course </em>then<em> we&#8217;d have to ask if there was a racist  message contained in the fact that it was a </em>chocolate<em> cookie. That sounds like a rough and largely pointless road to plow to me.</em></em></p>
<p>Most likely the ACORN cookie is actually just an acorn cookie and was chosen &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing among other shapes and types offered &#8211; by some White House baker who has as much political agenda and/or savvy as one might expect such a person to have, i.e.,  little to none.</p>
<h3>It&#8217;s A Fucking Cookie!</h3>
<p>Is it <em>plausible</em> that someone within President Obama&#8217;s administration used a chocolate cookie shaped like a stylized acorn as a &#8220;coded message&#8221; or &#8220;dog-whistle&#8221; for their continued support of the criminal organization, ACORN? Certainly it&#8217;s plausible; Obama himself, along with his Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs and his Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, Valerie Jarrett are all very well-schooled in such techniques and tactics.</p>
<p>Indeed, it&#8217;s possible that this was even more subtle than a case of &#8220;dog-whistle&#8221; politics. The chocolate ACORN cookie could have been an attempt at psychological engineering and manipulation by providing Senators and Congressmen a positive sensory experience involving the ACORN logo during the current controversy surrounding the group.</p>
<p>Both scenarios are respectively plausible and possible -<em> <em>but does anyone who is not oversensitized to the issue of ACORN really believe either of these ideas is what actually happened?</em></em></p>
<p>For Cernunnos&#8217; sake! We&#8217;ve created &#8220;<a title="ABC News -  Red, Lite and Blue: The Beers Obama, Gates, Crowley Will Drink at White House President Obama Hopes to Ease Tensions by Drinking Beer with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=8204574" target="_blank">Beergate</a>&#8221; and now we&#8217;ve found a &#8220;Cookie Monster.&#8221; Keep your hands off my baked goods, you damned, dirty politicians!.</p>

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