CSPI is at it again

CSPI (yeah, you remember these nanny state buffoons, don’t you?) is at it again, this time going after Denny’s restaurants for supposedly having too much sodium in some of their meals.

So here’s wht our friends at the Center for Consumer Freedom have to say:

This just in: Eating is “dangerous.” At least, that’s what the Center for Science in the Public Interest is claiming in a new lawsuit against Denny’s restaurant. Time for an emergency reality check.

CSPI has a long history of filing media-stunt lawsuits. This time around, its activist leaders allege that the amount of sodium in Denny’s “Moons Over My Hammy” (and other menu items) violates New Jersey’s consumer protection statutes. The kicker? Even though CSPI claims that Denny’s is “misleading” consumers by not providing nutrition information on salt content, Denny’s readily provides the information not just online, but also in every one of its restaurants.

Here’s what we’re telling reporters today:

“Consumers, legislators, and others should take CSPI’s latest frivolous lawsuit with a grain of salt. Instead of clogging up our courts with baseless lawsuits, CSPI ought to focus on telling Americans where they can get useful information.”

More hot dog fear mongering

I’ve addressed this before, but since it refuses to die I thought I would repost an article from today’s Center for Consumer Freedom newsletter:

As if money-hungry trial lawyers and the Center for Science in the Public Interest weren’t enough. This morning, the phony Cancer Project filed a lawsuit asking the court to require a cancer-risk warning label on all hot dog packages sold in New Jersey. There’s no beef to its cancer claims, of course, as the Associated Press and other media outlets pointed out during last year’s hot dog scare campaign. But just in case, we’re offering reporters a little reminder today.

As we’re telling the media, the Cancer Project is a deceptive spinoff of the woefully misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – a group that is 96 percent free of actual doctors. And together they’re phonier than a tofu dog. 

From its creepy commercials to last year’s tasteless attempt to capitalize on the death of a former White House Press Secretary, PCRM and the Cancer Project will stop at nothing to scare Americans into a PETA-approved diet. Even if it means using our legal system as a tool for its fringe goals – and wasting taxpayers’ money in the process.

Why the global warming crowd is laughable

Hereis a perfect example of why global warming/climate change supporters are laughable and by and large aren’t taken seriously by anybody with an IQ that places them above zombie.

Apparently the laws of supply and demand caught up with a wind turbine parts plant in the UK. In response to the lack of demand, the plant is to be shuttered. Makes sense to me. After all, if an industry is failing because there is no demand for their product, they either a) switch to a new product that is in demand, or b) go out of business.

Of course, if you’re an environmental goon there is a third option… Protest and try to get the government to take things over.

And that is exactly what plant workers and global warming protesters who staged a sit-in at the plant are doing.

Now, I’m not entirely sure, but I’m fairly certain that these people fall into the top 10% of dumbest human beings on the planet right now. They join the ranks of other global warming and climate change supporters (zombies) who are too hung up on pop culture and the need to glom onto the cause du’jour to take even a fundamentally intelligent approach to environmentalism. Of course, I place them into the top 10% of the colossal morons because they are trying to force government to get involved in an issue that they perceive as being about global warming but, in fact, has exactly nothing to do with it other than being a failed component of the green industrial complex.

With the ranks of mindless zombies growing thanks to the numbing effect of media and pop culture eating away at the “me too” generation, I am starting to think that the only thing left to do is invest in a company that makes drool cups and try to ride out the wave of idiocy descending upon us.

God ‘hearts’ big government?

This is a new one. Apparently the Pope is calling for more government and a “world political authority” to manage the global economy.

Whoa! No thank you.

I’m at a loss. Religion and big government exist in strict contradiction from each other. If you choose to believe such things, God grants life and liberty. Government takes life and liberty.

So why is the Pope advocating for more government control over us? I can’t say for sure, but from my analysis of what he is saying it primarily comes down to an high interst in a global redistribution of wealth – something that cannot be accomplished via capitalism and free markets.

Now, I don’t want to offend too many Catholics here, but your Pope is full of shit.

Everything else aside, wasn’t the purpose of the church to take care of communities through voluntary giving and volunteerism? To call for a global authority to force the issue is very contrary to the basic fundamental building blocks of church and community. I’ve always been skeptical of the Catholic church, but this is absolutely beyond the pale.

I just don’t get it.

Michael Jackson Fever… My Thoughts

OK, to be certain I am as sick of the coverage as the next guy. But do I think things are going too far? Nope.

But but but!

But nothing, why in the hell should I care what the media is reporting? Of course, many of the other commentators out there have strong opinions on the amount of coverage that Jackson is getting and I have heard various bits and pieces about how this is a sign as to the state of our country ad nauseum… But is it really?

For as long as I can remember, the media has done nothing but report crap. Is the coverage of Micheal Jackson any different? If it is, I don’t see it. From my perspective, it’s just par for the course where the media is concerned. After all, the media just vomits into the baby bird’s mouth, and since we’re a nation of baby birds, we’re getting exactly what we demand.

OH! Did I just say that?

You bet I did. I don’t blame the media for this. Why would I? They provide a service to the people, and since the people get what the people want, that must be saying something about the people. Yes, I dare to say it. I blame the people for this.

So tomorrow, when the waves are flooded with the Michael Jackson memorial, I will sit back and enjoy it.  Not so much because I am a huge Micheal Jackson fan (I’m really just an average fan), but because it is drastically better than the usual tripe being broadcast over the airwaves and print media.

Let’s face it, the coverage and obsessing with Michael Jackson is exactly what we expect it to be… And as much as there are a handful of people jumping up and down hollaring that the media is ignoring real news in lieu of MJ, it’s all just lip service since the do in fact masses prefer it this way.