When people who see my devotion to my nieces and nephews (even the adopted ones), they ask if I want to have kid of my own. I always reply that I’d be a terrible father because I find it most difficult to say, “No,” to my niblings.
And saying, “No,” is an essential party of parenting.
Well, it seems that the Ado Annie of parenting is trying to use a California court so she doesn’t have to do that part of her job. Doug Powers inform us that a Ms. Monet Parham is all irate that McDonald’s lures unsuspecting children into their fat factories, er, restaurants with tantalizing toys: “According to Parham, the main reason her six-year-old daughter, Maya, asks to go to McDonald’s is to get toys based on Barbie, i-Carly, Shrek, or Strawberry Shortcake.”
So, she’s doing what most irate liberals do. She’s taking McDonald’s to court and demanding that they stop using “toys to market directly to young children.” This leads Powers to explain Ms. Parham’s duties to her:
The next time your kids ask to go to McDonalds, try saying this: “NO!” It’ll work wonders — or you can just sue McDonalds if it’s easier. That way you’ll get the added benefit of teaching your kids exactly how they too can grow up to be crappy parents.
I could rip it based on the fact that she’s a horrible parent who is having trouble saying no to her kids or she’s a horrible parent who isn’t making sure that the kids know why happy meals aren’t good for you or she’s a horrible parent for wanting to make quick cash on a lawsuit instead of working for it or she’s a horrible parent for showing kids that if something’s too difficult for you, you should sue somebody.
So do Rodgers and Hammerstein:
It’s the blame someone else crowd. I like the Happy Meals and the toys that come with it. On top of it, Ms. Parham could just by the toy, though it’s a whopping $1.50.
She’s giving a thumbs up to more government control over our lives. If they’ve got Class Warfare soldiers who will shoot up a school board meeting, how long before we have armed assaults against the top of the left’s Enemy List like McDonald’s, WalMart, CocaCola etc.?
At a Parochial school I went to in second grade, we had McDonald’s for lunch every Friday. I’m sure liberals would demand criminal proceedings for Mr. Oswalt.
I can’t stand these people.
If I was a member of the media….and I had one of these nutts in front of me this is how I’d handle the…..
“excuse me miss , where do YOU work? I want to come to your job and watch what you do. I want to JUDGE you and see what kind of energy you are wasting, time you are stealing from your boss. I also want to know where you live. I want to come to your home and JUDGE how you raise your kids or grand kids. See how much energy you waste at your home, see if you wear leather because you don’t CARE about killing innocent animals. I want to know how often you cut yourlawn if you have a lawn. To JUDGE how many carbons you are injecting into the air we breathe. Oh I also want to know what kind of car or SUV you drive and I want to know why you don’t walk everywhere you go. DO you FLY? These mister perfect liberals who can tell everyone else how to live. They are just toys people. Kids like them. God forbid someone like a kid is happy to sit and eat with their moms sometimes. Get a life, you misrable, good for nothing liberal socialist morons!!
BTW McDonald’s is the best thing to happen to parents in 50 years.
A quick, easy, inexpensive, fast meal while you are stressed and on the run. God forbid it’s popular. Guess the government should shut em down.
How can Parham possibly be expected to be a responsible parent when liberalism has infantilized her?
A country of children, its what the left wants.
The marketing that children are bombarded with on an increasing basis in this country is most certainly a problem, and while these kinds of lawsuits might not be the answer, it isn’t as if this is something that we should just ignore and let the market sort out.
Of course, you’re all so eager to start making assumptions that this woman is a bad parent that wants to blame other people for her problems and who is probably on welfare and on and on, but’s actually making a really good point. The woman probably does tell her kid no, she probably is making the responsible choices about her daughters’ nutrition. The issue is that McDonald’s and other advertisers are financing multi-billion dollar campaigns every year to turn kids into hysterical little consumers that give their parents hell. No matter how good a parent you are, your children can still be warped by the various conglomerates that are eager to drain your wallet and create addicts out of your children.
For all the complaints around here about the government getting involved in social engineering, you guys certainly seem dismissive of the blatant and obvious harm that corporate social engineering is doing to us. Again, I don’t necessarily think that this woman’s lawsuit should be successful and I would most likely defend McDonald’s right to make a buck. But we shouldn’t deny that these practices are exploitative of children and highly unethical. It also happens to be turning us into a nation of fat slobs, which has all kinds of corrosive consequences. To keep crowing about personal responsibility and pretending that we shouldn’t be doing something about these kinds of problems as a society is to exasperate the problem further. Michelle Obama can’t even talk about growing vegetables without you morons rolling your eyes and ranting about being condescended to. If most of us could practice rational personal responsibility most of the time, there wouldn’t even be an advertising industry.
But that’s conservatism in a nutshell – prescriping pulling up of one’s bootstraps in every scenario and insisting that any kind of gathered concesus or communal effort is suspicious and elitist. This gives you the illusion of freedom, but all you’re really doing is dividing us up so the oligarchs have an easier time picking us off.
Levi, you’re a helpless victocrat pussy who is so weak he is overpowered by McDonalds advertising. No, she doesn’t have a good point, she is a child herself, and you are a party of children.
Its a f**king HAMBURGER AD for crying out loud! Grow up and grow a pair! Government doesnt need to do squat. Be an adult, be a man and learn how to cope with an advertisement without daddy government telling you what to do.
No wonder the new Democrat foreign policy is learn how to duck and cover because you’re eventually going to get nuked and we’re certainly not going to do anything to stop it. A party of pussies who cant deal with Ronald McDonald by themselves certainly cant do anything to stop Iran and al Qaeda from getting nuclear weapons.
Thank God the adults are back in charge!
For all the complaints around here about the government getting involved in social engineering, you guys certainly seem dismissive of the blatant and obvious harm that corporate social engineering is doing to us.
Correction, Levi: doing to you.
We are intelligent, mature adults with reasoning capabilities, primarily because our parents cared enough to teach us the difference between right and wrong, wants and needs, and advertising and reality.
You, on the other hand, are a warped, shallow individual, completely convinced that you are smarter and better than everyone else, and repeatedly being shamed by your obvious and blatant bigotry, racism, hypocrisy, and lack of understanding of economics, politics, social science, disease, climate, human relationships, and now parenting.
It’s no surprise that you are completely dependent on the government and incapable of functioning without it. It’s no surprise that you are devoted to the party and ideology of the infantile, the Obama Party’s belief in nanny-statism and the “progressive” viewpoint that people are inherently stupid and need a fascist government to make sure they never see, do, or think anything that might be contrary to what “progressives” deem necessary.
The reason Michelle Obama is mocked is because she shrieks about how allowing children to eat burgers, fries, and ice cream is child abuse and a sign of an unfit parent while there are pictures galore of her and the Mocha Messiah allowing their spawn to do exactly that. She is a hypocrite and a liar, a typical example of how “progressives” demand that everyone else do what they will not.
This gives you the illusion of freedom, but all you’re really doing is dividing us up so the oligarchs have an easier time picking us off.
Projection.
We believe in judging people based on character.
You, Levi, believe that judges, teachers, elected officials, and the like should be chosen based on a) minority status and b) tight quotas to ensure the “correct” number of people are chosen.
You, Levi, are the one who calls for demonization and murder of the rich, just like your fellow “progressive” in Florida who tried to murder “rich” school board members.
I also submit that adults who cannot watch a hamburger ad without needing government to protect them from it, are too emotionally, intellectually, and developmentally retarded and immature to make much more consequential decisions like whether or not to get an abortion, and voting.
We must protect these sub-morons from themselves.
Especially if you move the goal posts to include the physically fit as “obese” just so you can demand more government control of our lives.
I don’t know why, but I dig infomercials. I also think that Billy Mayes was pretty awesome. I like watching HSN every now and then. However, I can count on one hand the number of “As Seen on TV” products I’ve ever bought and most of them weren’t as good as advertised. I can control myself because I consider how much I actually need the item and whether I have the money. If there’s something I really want, 9 times out of 10 it will be in Wal-Mart in a few weeks and I can save on shipping.
Oh and Ron Popeil Rules.
Let me see if I understand idiot progressive “logic.”
McDonald’s advertising encourages unhealthy behavior in children. So, parents should sue them and force them to take their advertising off the airwaves.
Highly sexualized images in media encourage unhealthy behavior in children. But if parents don’t like it, they should just turn off the TV and stop acting like a bunch of f–king puritans.
Have I stated the idiot progressive thesis correctly?
Yes you have.
Guys, remember, this nanny state is what Levi believe in. He believes he’s smarter than everyone (despite all the evidence to the contrary) and that give him (and the government) the right to drag us kicking and screaming into the future.
Besdies, look at the Ukranians under his idol Stalin. They were all skinny!
Why you’re being facetious here is beyond me – the problem isn’t adults resisting the ads, the problems is the effect that the ads have on kids, who are being exploited into believing they need and want products that they don’t understand are bad for them. The woman filing this lawsuit doesn’t take her kids to McDonald’s and is making the right choices about her kids’ nutrition – that isn’t the issue. The issue is that a fundamentally unhealthy product is being targeted to kids that don’t know any better.
I guess we can cross sociology off the list of things that the GayPatriots can discuss like adults.
“The woman filing this lawsuit doesn’t take her kids to McDonald’s and is making the right choices about her kids’ nutrition – that isn’t the issue.”
So in other words, our resident socialist applauds this woman fighting to take freedom and choice away from other adults because she knows better than they.
Now hush, Levi. Adults are talking.
Only dopey nutts on the left agree with this woman.
And these same dopey nutts can’t figure out how to cut govenment spending and wasteful spending of our precious tax monies.
When you consider how easily Evil and his fellow leftists were duped by the MSM into believing Obama was some kind of brilliant, transformative, Messianic political figure… you maybe can understand why they believe the media can brainwash kids into eating unhealthy food.
Can you imagine what her children will be like as teenagers? They’ll be beating her and stealing her money from her purse- all the while she wails, “Why?!, Why?!…”
Of course as a libertarian, I do not believe people should need a license to have kids.
This loony woman is almost enough to make me change my mind.
What exactly is this woman’s problem? Can she not at least try to control her own children? Does she suffer from the inability to say ‘no’ and must rely on the government to take care of her job as a mother?
When her little darling gets older will she keep her from watching R-rated movies by suing the studio that produces the films? And what would happen if the child develops an interest in videogames, will this woman sue Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to keep them from marketing unwholesome games at kids?
When I was a small child my parents had an innovative and, looking at the way things are now, radical strategy to keep me from eating at fast food places, they wouldn’t take me to them. Perhaps this woman should consider how she survived her own childhood and try to apply similar logic to the raising of her own children.
Levi’s next cause to cheer.