Of Happy Meals and Celeb Rehab- California's Priorities & Impaired Decision-Making

With problems such as an unsustainable debt, double-digit unemployment, a porous border against an almost lawless quasi narco-state and businesses leaving the state en masse apparently solved for good, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has shown bold and decisive leadership in taking the fight to kid's meals.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to approve an ordinance that would limit toy giveaways in fast food children's meals that have excessive calories, sodium and fat. It also requires servings of fruits or vegetables with each meal.

If it survives an expected veto from Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco would become the first major city in the country to pass such a law aimed at curbing childhood obesity. It would go into effect December 2011 if supervisors again approve it after Newsom's veto.

[snip]...Concepcion Dawes, a 20-year-old mother of a 2-year-old, said she supports the ordinance — anything to help lessen the food's appeal.

"Fast food is really fattening, and it's really addicting, and sometimes it's hard to tell a child no," she said.

Umm....OK then, Concepcion. Are you admitting that your parenting skills are so lackluster that you're relying on government intervention for when you find yourself unable to say 'no' to your children?

Oops...wait. I'm getting word now that California still has unsustainable debt, double-digit unemployment, a porous border and businesses leaving en masse.

But you know what California doesn't have?

Fat kids!

You see, thanks to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor's tactical materstroke, all unhealthy fast food in the City by the Bay will no longer utilize the adjective 'Happy' to describe their contents. Or come with a toy...or whatever.

So apparently the state still has unsustainable debt, double-digit unemployment, porous borders, businesses fleeing the state AND on top of everything else fat kids.

But those little porkers won't be getting any toys in their so-called 'Happy' Meal. Check and Mate, McDonald's corporation!

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To be brutally honest, after last Tuesday I think California (sometimes known as the Lindsay Lohan state) has for the most part shown it's incapable of any sort of serious introspection, voting for the costly and unsustainable status quo to the point where they're recycling 1970s politicians like Jerry Brown. And perhaps the sad part is that 'Gov. Moonbeam' is Pat Buchanan when compared to Lt. Governor-elect (and San Francisco Mayor) Gavin Newsom.

Perhaps California's purpose over the next few years is to become an object lesson on what happens when one allows prototypical tax and spend left coast liberals to hold the reigns of power pretty much unchecked (there are conservative outposts in San Diego, the Central Valley and in the northern, inland part of the state, but the've been effectively marginalized for the last decade or so).

I really have a hard time imagining the state legislature or any of the incoming Brown Administration people suddenly getting religion vis a vis the deficit. And the law targeting fast food kid's meals in Newsom's home city shows that it's already looking for some sort of diversion.

Even with all the creative talent that's in the entertainment industry out in Hollywood, it has become next to impossible to parody the state of California after the Happy Meal ban in San Francisco.