First They Come for McDonalds.......

"What kids see as a fun toy, I now realize is a sophisticated, high-tech marketing scheme that's designed to put McDonald's between me and my daughters, for the sake of other parents and their children, I want McDonald's to stop interfering with my family."

So says Monet Parham. She and her attorneys are hoping to start a class action lawsuit to force McDonalds to no longer include a toy in the happy meal. Apparently, they don't think the meal is all that happy. She has also been quoted as saying that there are only so many times she can say no to her daughters. Really?

This is just one more example of people expecting the government to do the work for you and when they can't they take it to a liberal leaning court somewhere to find an activist judge to do it instead. We have been overcome by so-called consumer advocate groups that are trying to push their own agenda onto the rest of us. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is working with Ms. Parham to file this suit. They are non-profit group that is privately funded by such people as the Heinz family foundation, the Streisand Foundation, and the Rockefeller foundation among many others.

"highly sophisticated scheme to use the bait of toys to exploit children's developmental immaturity and subvert parental authority."

This foundation has also worked on lawsuits to get Kentucky Fried Chicken to stop using oils that contain trans fats. My question is does that make KFC any healthier. I realize it cuts down on some fat, but the food is still not good for you.

This is a case being brought by a mother who by her own admission lets her children decide where she drives them to and what they are allowed to eat and an organization that in some ways is going more harm than good. There are people out there that will convince themselves that KFC is not bad for them. Removing the trans fat makes it slightly healthier, but certainly is not healthy. They are also continuing this silly notion that somehow parents are so incapable of disciplining their children that a five-year old that sees a commercial for a toy in a happy meal is capable of making the decisions of the family menu over the objections of the adults. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard.

Yes, children can ask for things over and over again, they sometimes whine and cry, but ultimately the parents are in charge. The reason that children whine and cry for things over and over again are twofold; one being they are allowed to get away with it or it gets them what they want. If you don't give in to them eventually they learn that whining and crying won't work and they stop doing it. Our overextended court system will now have to use money and resources to hear a case simply because a mother can't be bothered to be the grown up with her children. Those toys are only attractive to young children, once they hit five or six those toys no longer fun. Does she really think that a court needs to be involved to help parents control 3-6 year olds?


Cross posted at PotLuck

So Much For Keeping Your Health Care Plan - McDonald's May Be Forced to Drop It's Health Care Plan

 McDonald's health plan does not meet the new standards as required by Obamacare. The law requires that 80 to 85% be spent directly on healthcare costs. The vast majority of the workers on the plan spend less than $5,000 per year on medical costs.


While reading the specifics of the plan I can honestly say it stinks, but it is a plan that seems to work for the employees since they are not putting in claims for medical coverage. For $32.30 per week the employees get $10,000 per year in coverage. Now, if you have a serious illness you will burn through that amount in no time, but for someone that doesn't have any major problems $10,000 is a good sum. I certainly use much less than that per year normally.

The real problem becomes that the "exchanges" will not be set up for several years, 2014 I believe, so almost 30,000 people may be losing their insurance at the end of this year. If not, expect to pay a great deal more for your Big Mac, because that will be the only way they can afford it.

McDonald's may not be only company that will run into this same problem, as other corporations such as Disney, CVS, Blockbuster, Staples, and Home Depot also offer the same type of plan; called Mini-med. This list is only the companies that one major insurer (Aetna) sells these plans to. How many other corporations use these plans with other insurance companies?

While I think almost everyone in the country agrees that medical costs in this country have gotten out of control, but I don't see how any can continue to argue that this is the proper solution. People are paying more because of the services that they are required to purchase; such as infertility treatments. Yet, the law also makes it so insurers can't charge women more, which means that men are paying for the additional costs of infertility treatments. Why does a woman who has reached menopause or has had her tubes tied have to pay for infertility treatments? She certainly doesn't need them.  For those who are unaware, infertility treatments are very expensive; thousands upon thousands of dollars just to complete the testing to see what the problem is. 

This is yet one more obvious reason that democrats that voted for this monstrosity are not running on this for their re-election.

read article here. 

Come as You Are - McDonalds Foree into Political Correctness

This is playing on French TV.  Is there some sort of connection between Big Macs and Homosexuality that I am not aware of?  Or is this is just one more corporation that is jumping on the political correctness bandwagon?  I don't think I want some food chain giving me social commentary. 

Not Everyone Loves a Clown - Ronald McDonald Must Go!!!

People on the left have found their next target; Ronald McDonald.  That's right, the happy, redheaded clown from McDonalds.  Apparently, it is time for him to go.  Now, is it just the restaurant clown that needs to go?  Because I am thinking that we need charitable clown to hang around.  Ronald helps families have a free place to stay while their ill children are getting life saving treatments at the best medical facilities around the country.  Don't we want to keep that guy? 

“For nearly 50 years, Ronald McDonald has hooked kids on unhealthy foods spurring a deadly epidemic of diet-related diseases,”   How exactly can Ronald McDonald be at fault, when we didn't have the obesity problems 5 decades ago that we have today? 

Oh, no!!!  He is comforting a child. 

“Ultimately the report makes the case that it’s time that McDonald’s stop directing fast food to kids. Really, Ronald deserves a break and so do we.” 

Stop This Clown!!  He is reading to children. 

“vulnerable to manipulations to marketing” and turns them on to junk food at an age when childhood obesity rates have soared"  So, wait are they saying that five year olds take their own money and walk over the local McD's on their own? 
 
“We think of Ronald McDonald as a deep-fried Joe Camel for 21st century"  Really?  Smoking and eating a Bic Mac are the same thing? 

This is yet one more example of some organization saying that we need protection.  We don't need to take responsibility mind you, because they are on the case.  You see parents that are stopping through the drive thru on the way home from work will no longer do so if Ronnie just goes away, they will all of sudden have more time or more money.  Simply ridiculous. 

Ok, I just want people to leave me alone!  If I want a Angus Burger on occassion that is my business.  Where else can I buy large iced tea for buck? 

What's next?  Are they going to go after Barney because he is a wee bit on the tubby side?