Chicago Dictates "No Goose For You!"
Goose Nazi's get their way in Chicago...
CHICAGO — These are dangerous times for ducks and geese in Chicago.
With the city's ban on foie gras — a delicacy made of duck or goose liver — just days away from going into effect, upscale restaurants in the city are serving it up like never before. They have put together special menus with names like "Foie Gras, Farewell To Our Good Friend" featuring that friend in course after course — searing it, chilling it, throwing it into salads and turning it into sauce.
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Oh, let's not stop with foie gras, let's ban smoking, trans fats, and cell phones while driving too...
CHICAGO — If you're a cell phone-using, goose liver-eating, cigarette-smoking, fast food-loving person, Chicago might not be your kind of town.
In this city that once winked at Prohibition, members of the City Council are trying to crack down on things they deem unhealthy, immoral or just plain annoying.
A proposal that would restrict fast-food chains from cooking with artery-clogging trans fat oils got a public airing last week, and in the past year alone aldermen have banned smoking in nearly all public places and the use of cell phones while driving.
In April, Chicago became the first U.S. city to outlaw the sale of foie gras, a goose liver delicacy that is decried by animal-rights activists because it is created by force-feeding birds to fatten up their livers.
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Ok, what is going on in Chicago? They also recently passed a law that would require the 'big box' stores, (i.e. Target, Wal-Mart) to pay a required "Living Wage" for all employees, prompting Target to pull out of a major development deal that would have brought one Chicago neighborhood loads of jobs and tax revenue. And now it's smoking, cell phones and goose liver?
I know this may seem like a silly story to care about. I don't know how many people actually eat this Foie Gras stuff, I don't think I'd like it. But I do have a question:
Have they completely forgotten what it means to be free?
CHICAGO — These are dangerous times for ducks and geese in Chicago.
With the city's ban on foie gras — a delicacy made of duck or goose liver — just days away from going into effect, upscale restaurants in the city are serving it up like never before. They have put together special menus with names like "Foie Gras, Farewell To Our Good Friend" featuring that friend in course after course — searing it, chilling it, throwing it into salads and turning it into sauce.
Continue reading here
Oh, let's not stop with foie gras, let's ban smoking, trans fats, and cell phones while driving too...
CHICAGO — If you're a cell phone-using, goose liver-eating, cigarette-smoking, fast food-loving person, Chicago might not be your kind of town.
In this city that once winked at Prohibition, members of the City Council are trying to crack down on things they deem unhealthy, immoral or just plain annoying.
A proposal that would restrict fast-food chains from cooking with artery-clogging trans fat oils got a public airing last week, and in the past year alone aldermen have banned smoking in nearly all public places and the use of cell phones while driving.
In April, Chicago became the first U.S. city to outlaw the sale of foie gras, a goose liver delicacy that is decried by animal-rights activists because it is created by force-feeding birds to fatten up their livers.
Continue reading here
Ok, what is going on in Chicago? They also recently passed a law that would require the 'big box' stores, (i.e. Target, Wal-Mart) to pay a required "Living Wage" for all employees, prompting Target to pull out of a major development deal that would have brought one Chicago neighborhood loads of jobs and tax revenue. And now it's smoking, cell phones and goose liver?
I know this may seem like a silly story to care about. I don't know how many people actually eat this Foie Gras stuff, I don't think I'd like it. But I do have a question:
Have they completely forgotten what it means to be free?
posted by Goose at 12:05
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Goose, in your profile "you say prove me wrong" I'm just the woman that can do that.
You write "Welcome to my Nightmare. "I'm a former Marine" but after reading some of your posts I still say that there only a few people that qualify for this status. Jack Murtha comes immediately to mind and there are a few others but breathe easy. You are a 100 percent Marine to me. That's an order!
signed Navy. (heehee)
PS I don't shop at Wal-mart because they sell utter junk made by commies. I do think though that the consumer ought to be choosing where they shop and what they buy and not the government.
PSS I wouldn't eat goose liver on a frickin bet after watching them nasty SOBs poop all over my lawn and street when they come to visit the pond across the road from me. Again it is none of the governments business what I eat as long as it is in season when it gets shot.
Well, thank you for the kind words. I only say "former" because I'm no longer serving in the Corps. I know, the old saying, once a Marine, always a Marine. But, I do believe there is a difference. Our Marines that are serving right now deserve to be distingueshed from old fat guys like me that are no longer fighting the battles with bullets. Nobody is shooting at me as I hack away on my laptop, so I think former Marine is more appropriate, if for no other reason than to show the proper respect for those that are dodging actual bullets, not political ones.
As for Wal-Mart, I love it. I save a ton of money on groceries there, that gets freed up to feed other businesses. That's good for everyone. And yes, it should be left up to the market to decide wages, not the government.
And no, I don't think I'd eat this stuff if you paid me. But if people like it, let 'em eat it.
Thanks for visiting my nightmare, come back any time.
Yeah Goose, I was just yanking your chain as us swabjockeys are apt to do to you grunts.
One of my closest friends held the rank of Lance Corporal. I spent 4 years active and 6 years active reserves in the Navy and was a Second Class Petty Officer so Gary says I was ranker than him, oooh-kay:-) Gary is my friend Gina's boyfriend and he spends a lot of time helping out with the Marine league in Delaware County PA.
I found your blog through Code Red, another group of nice people that I feel at home with.
I had some other friends out here in blogland but I got tired of being the only conservative on many of the post/comments. I do that to sharpen my debating skills but it wears on you and you have to go find people you can relate to.
I'll be back again. Check out my blog, I makle sure people pay the proper respect due to our service people especially Navy and Marines.
I have been to some places more restrictive than the US, but since I was only visiting it didn't bother me. When restrictions are imposed at home, you start to feel trapped!
Smoking is a good example of a tough call, I didn't use to care until I had to pick the butts up (2nd hand smoke doesn't really bother me personally) as a young Marine, then as a homeowner. In the last 10 years I have never in any way in any location. I would bet that 99.995% of smokers can not make that same claim.
mmm foie gras. It really tastes good on crispy toasted bread.
Maverick
sh*t, I should have previewed. "I have never littered in any way, in any location"
Hey Mav, Where you been? You haven't posted a comment on here in forever.
I gotta tell ya, I hated picking up them cigarette butts myself. But littering isn't really the issue. As I'm sure you realize.
I say if they're going to ban smoking, then just make them illegal and get it over with. You can't smoke in restaurants and bars, I posted a story in the last year or so that there was legislation in OH I think it was to ban smoking in your own car. I read a story a few years ago of a town in California, if a neighbor complains about your cigarette smoke, you can be banned from smoking in your own home. Why not just make cigarettes illegal? Could it be because of all the tax revenue they'd lose out on?
And if you can't talk on a cell phone and drive at the same time, then you can't talk to another person in the car and drive at the same time. So, all cars should now be one seaters. Learn to drive or stay home. That's what I say.
I know it sounds like I'm making a big deal out of little things, but it's the little things that make us free.
I used to smoke and I always noticed that when I was somewhere outside smoking in public that there would always been some smoking nazi coughing like I was bothering them even if they were a hundred feet from where I was smoking. Just move away if you don't like smoke.
It's been almost four years since I quit smoking and I don't go to places that have smoking and a lousy ventilation system or resturants that have bars in them. That's my choice. In Delaware there is no smoking in public buildings, bars and resturants.
They're trying to do the same thing in Philly but the overtly corrupt politicians are jockying around to see who can make money on the restriction somehow before they pass the law.
Cell phones? It's already a law that it's illegal to drive while distracted in PA. What is that supposed to mean? You can't switch radio channels or put mascara on while looking in the rear view mirror going 70 mph. What's this world coming too? There's just too many laws!
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