Exclusive: The new federal menu mandate meets the real world
posted at 10:12 am on April 1, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Yesterday, I spent a little time at a local pizzeria to find out more about the impact of the new federal menu mandate in the real world. Davanni’s has 21 locations throughout the Twin Cities, a smaller, local chain that suddenly must now comply with this federal requirement to publish the caloric content of each of its menu items on all of its printed presentations. However, these restaurants have a problem when they offer their customers a wide range and high number of options — as most pizzerias do. Ken Schelper, a Vice President of Davanni’s, sat down with me yesterday to explain just how costly this new mandate is, and how difficult compliance will be:
This is just a part of the long discussion I had with Ken about the problems faced in this law. We both speculated whether a calorie disclaimer amounted to advertising, and whether restaurants would have to put lawyers on retainers as consumers (and perhaps competitors) drag them into court to substantiate the claims. For that matter, how will restaurants calculate these calorie counts? Can they simply use the numbers from their suppliers to calculate the nutritional data for the end product, or will they have to get lab testing done? As the video notes, every time they have an ingredient change, or even just a supplier, they have to recalculate everything — and then reprint all of their menu boards and literature in every location.
The pressure of this law will eventually force restaurants like Davanni’s to reduce consumer choice as a way of managing the overwhelming burden of maintaining their disclosures. Smaller chains that succeed in satisfying their customers and managing their business used to be rewarded with growth, but this law will put an artificial cap on expansion at 19 locations. That means that fewer people will find jobs, and even in existing stores, money that may have funded more jobs will instead go to reprinting the same menu boards over and over again. And all of this comes because political elites think that people are too stupid to know that a pizza is fattening or how to access information that already exists in much more efficient formats than menu boards.
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And all of this comes because political elites think that people are too stupid to know that a pizza is fattening or how to access information that already exists in much more efficient formats than menu boards.>/i>
Those who were educated/indoctrinated in our leftist public school system probably are too stupid.
jjrakman on April 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Just for a pizza, we would need the FDA, OSHA, NLRB, CPSC, the HRC and probably more agencies than the ingredients in the pizza.
fourdeucer on April 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Communism is child’s play compared to the coercive, totalitarian beast that’s being bred and nurtured by the left in this country.
rplat on April 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Yeah but just wait till that beast is no longer under their control. They will be the first ones to cry uncle mark my words. The left thing sit will only impact the peasants. they got a whole lot of hurt coming when their politcal enimies grasp the throttle of that power and use it against them.
I got this idea from somewhere else not sure where but the GOP should run on a GUNS and Tobacco mandate.
Make every citizen buy a gun, take classes in self defense and buy 2 packs of cigs a week.
unseen on April 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Just for a pizza, we would need the FDA, OSHA, NLRB, CPSC, the HRC and probably more agencies than the ingredients in the pizza.
fourdeucer on April 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM
NC wants to put an 18% tax on pizza
unseen on April 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Here’s a bit of harsh reality:
The Waxmans and Boxers and Pelosis (and Obama) infest public offices and wield power because they were voted in, over and over again, by our friends and neighbors and teachers and business associates who function as enablers. These enablers face little or no direct, personal consequences for their destructive behavior, so they will not change it. Spontaneous enlightenment is not in their future.
And we others, by being “nice” and “understanding” and “tolerant” towards these enablers become ourselves enablers. Until this changes, until we can truly see the enablers for what they are and treat them accordingly, face to face, along the lines of interventionist “tough love,” there will be no lasting movement back toward permanent sanity for this great country.
OzzieMan on April 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Representation without taxation is unfair.
If people living at public expense were not allowed to vote, ALL of these problems would get taken care of overnight.
logis on April 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM
How many restaurants does the Federal Government run?
Amphipolis on April 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Snort, I’m now paying $20 more a carton to give rugrats free medical care.
katy the mean old lady on April 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM
This isn’t a pizza, it’s a pie. Now get out of here, G-Man.
Bishop on April 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM
OMG, If I knew Ed, was going to shoot a pix of my luscious butt, I would have worn my Lane Bryant sweats.
Thanks for the heads up Ed! ;(
katy on April 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Well then, the fn government had better do the same thing in every place it serves food, government hospitals, military chow halls , navy ships, school, all government subsidized colleges etc.
No wait. That would just form more gub’ment departments and cost us more.
TheSitRep on April 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM
I’m so glad I have the federal government telling me stuff. I am too stupid to know that a bacon cheeseburger and fried potatoes are fattening…
…but, dangit, that was a good supper I had last night.
ladyingray on April 1, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Fold it in half an it is now a calazone.
WashJeff on April 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Now? All of them.
logis on April 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Government is now bending the food curve down. They just saved a billion jobs. Hopenchange. yes we can. unprecedented.
search4truth on April 1, 2010 at 11:06 AM
The National Restaurant Association lobbied for this and won their prize.
This is one of the necessary evils of the free enterprise system. Big companies know that by forcing all restaurant chains to do this, they can put a burden on the smaller chains and hence gain a competitive advantage.
When big business figures out it can use the arm of government to increase profit, they will choose socialism.
What a paradox.
jeff_from_mpls on April 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Menus!? We don’t have no steenkin menus!
However, you may ask for your own custom off-menu creation and we’ll see if we can make it for you.
tomg51 on April 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM
do what the Liberals would do….CHEAT!
Close 2 locations and sell them to a shell corporation and re-open them and stay at the 19 or less location limit….
Tell me Charlie Rangel or Tim Geither would not do this!
SDarchitect on April 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM
And the liberals will moan about the homogenization of American where the same chain stores and restaurants are seen in every town and wonder why this is happening.
WashJeff on April 1, 2010 at 11:12 AM
That will be a violation of federal law, I’m sure.
Cicero43 on April 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM
The luxury hospitality industry never recovered from 9/11. In the past two years it’s been further hammered (note The Ritz-Carlton, Las Vegas will be shutting its doors in May ). If a restaurant wants to meet the Mobil Five Star Standards to achieve the highly coveted fifth star, then one of the requirements is to create a new menu daily. This foolish law is hurting everyone.
ocbrat on April 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM
We need to help the poor who become overweight because they eat out so much in this worst economy since the Great Depression.
Amphipolis on April 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM
They can have my pizza when they pry it from my …
PackerBronco on April 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Sure they call you crazy for saying it, but doesn’t everything they do move us towards everyone eating the same gray caloric-controlled cup of slime (like the matrix)? No vices whatsoever. No booze because it’s bad and costs money in healthcare. No smokes. No sex except if the gov deems you worthy through DNA testing. 1 kid per. No burgers. No shakes. No nothing except gov mandated items and gov controlled labor, economy, etc.
They call you a kook and say it can’t happen but by god, there’s yet another story of a slow march towards exactly that.
Thunderstorm129 on April 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM
OK, I am starting to get confused. They are going to eventually force everyone to eat a non-fat, non-salt, low calorie diet so that we are “healthier”. We’ll be starving skinny sickly little runts, but we’ll be “healthy”. The cost for this diet will be much higher because the food suppliers (restaurants, grocery stores, farmers markets, etc) will have to comply with arcane regulations so we can be “informed”. Then, they are going to ration health care for the supposedly healthier citizens, where we will wait 6 months to get a mammogram or a cat-scan while we are dying from malnutrition or the cancer is spreading. When we get to be 60 or 65, we will just get denied anything medical and told we need to hurry up and die and get out of the way for the next generation of skinny runts.
So, which is it? Do they want us to live or die?
What they really want is 45 years of forced service before offing us at 62 when our usefulness is deemed done. I firmly believe that is what the end goal is by these evil people.
JohnTheBuilder on April 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM
The Obama admin is making it harder and harder to do commerce. Pretty soon everyone will be working for the government, because private enterprise will be made impossible.
Paul-Cincy on April 1, 2010 at 11:21 AM
I wish that this kind of stuff would apply to things like the Food Network, then we would see a swift and angry reaction from the Lefties.
Can you picture Iron Chef Morimoto standing at the judging table, reciting the caloric contents of his latest creation?
Now THAT’s good television.
PJ Emeritus on April 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM
just list all pizzas as having 10,000 calories or more.
royzer on April 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM
1934 – Government must intervene because Americans were starving to death
2010 – Government must intervene because Americans are obese and can’t afford healthcare
Amphipolis on April 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Yeah it’s always the libs that hate suburbia, big box, and chain stores yet they don’t see how this will pretty much get rid of local city dives and mom and pop restaurants.
Libs really are stupid.
MobileVideoEngineer on April 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Wow! Big Government!
Is there anything it cannot do?
iconoclast on April 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM
These two laws, the calorie count inclusion and the private room for women employees to express breast milk, is going to affect every chain restaurant in the business. Sure the big ones like Mickey Ds and Pizza Hut, etc. will be able to absorb some of the cost but smaller chains will be hardest hit. And did these idiots in congress even consider that there are drive thrus? And what about the convenient store chains and truck stops?
And why do I get the feeling that there are going to be some high end restaurants leeting employees go to stay under the 50 number so they don’t have to do this? I mean who wants to know what the calorie count of creme brulee or quiche is?
Deanna on April 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM
MobileVideoEngineer on April 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM
Sort of like the movie Demolition Man:
“All restaurants are Taco Bell.”
PJ Emeritus on April 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Say goodbye to “Soup du Jour”, “Daily Specials”, and the “Chef’s Creations”.
As a foodie who spent 20 years in the restaurant biz, married to a woman who grew up in the biz, and whose family is still in it, this outrageous government stupidity is pissing me off to no end.
Where does it stop?
Raise the Minimum wage!
Kill jobs.
Mandate calorie counts on menus!
Kill jobs.
Mandate special rooms for new mothers!
Kill jobs.
Mandate heath insurance for all!
Kill jobs.
I can’t wait to hear Rush’s report today on where I can move to escape this INSANITY as an expatriate.
ornery_independent on April 1, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Sux going into restaurants and businesses where the owner may be servicing you or walking around monitoring his business. /sarc off
WashJeff on April 1, 2010 at 11:30 AM
There won’t be any government jobs created, will there?
And enforcement is by whom?
tomg51 on April 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM
I’ve posted in the past that if you want to see the liberal left utopia then just watch THX1138. Lucus was a true visionary with that one. Cradle to grave 100% controlled by the government. Genderless, drugged, monitored people working to maintain the government that controls every second of their lives.
RagTag on April 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM
ALso say goodbye to All-You-Can-Eat Buffets
grrrrrrr!
ornery_independent on April 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Great exclusive Ed. Good job on the video.
If the federal government’s business is “health” and obesity is a problem, they could mandate that businesses allow customers to purchase food items up to a maximum amount of calories (one that the govt determines). Where will they stop? (apologies if this has been said, I haven’t read through the thread).
conservative pilgrim on April 1, 2010 at 11:36 AM
The Restaurant Association lobbied in favor of this for two reasons:
One they are dominated by huge chains like Yum foods who can absorb the cost and pass it on to the consumers or reduce the number of employees wiht little consequence.
Two: They were trying to avoid a state by state mandate that would require different things, and be more costly. I think it was NY’s effort to pass such a bill that got them scared.
Deanna on April 1, 2010 at 11:36 AM
You know…
… it’s almost like a bunch of lawyers, bureaucrats, and politicians who never ran a business or worked in the private sector wrote this piece of sh%t.
Oh, wait!
Seven Percent Solution on April 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM
An easy and viable protest that should satisfy the requirements of the law would to list each menu item as having less than 100,000 calories.
Annar on April 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Next stop…
… The hay-days of East Germany, where you only had public cafeterias with gruel, stale bread, and maggots.
Rember to pass the bills so you know what is in them, folks. Works everytime!
Seven Percent Solution on April 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM
That is the single most accurate and insightful thing anyone has ever posted on HotAir. Thank you. There are now two of us who see things clearly. Let’s hope that grows geometrically.
JDPerren on April 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Obama has a crazy friend named Rezco. Rezco cheated GE credit and financed a group of pizzarias. He of course went broke but Obama has since handed GE credit bailout billions.
Would Chicago friends be required to comply?
seven on April 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Reminds me of Logan’s Run
Godefroi on April 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM
“All restuarants are Taco Bell now..”
(Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man)
paragon27x on April 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Hmmm.
This will also require extensive training of the cooks involved *and* expensive pre-portioning. Any significant deviation from the ingredients and portions of ingredients used will cause the calorie and nutrition numbers to be off.
memomachine on April 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Do they have to report both calories created and calories saved?
Amphipolis on April 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM
As this horrible legislation keeps hitting home more and more former BO supporters will become much less so–because when it affects YOUR personal bottom line, all of a sudden it doesn’t seem like such a good idea.
Bob's Kid on April 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM
A mandate that will cause every restaurant to reprint its menus every time there’s an addition that alters a calorie count sounds pretty anti-”green” to me.
Perhaps now they’ll lose the tree-hugger vote – another constituency they can’t afford to alienate but, in their wisdom, will.
PoodleSkirt on April 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Here’s an idea: Let’s repeal the most flawed piece of legislation ever, before it puts the quarters in the eyes of our dead economy.
hillbillyjim on April 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM
You have to look at this from the government’s point of view: If this bill means that 10,000 restaurant workers get fired, but 100 government inspectors get hired, that is a net INCREASE in “jobs saved or created.”
logis on April 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM
This is really stupid – but of course it came from the democrats so what do you expect.
I’m on Weight Watchers and I take control of my own food information. I don’t need the government holding my hand.
gophergirl on April 1, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Be very careful Henry Waxman will have this guy brought before his committee to be brow beat for telling the truth.
thmcbb on April 1, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Anyone else remember the “food” that used to be served on airlines? Little exact portions in plastic boxes?
katiejane on April 1, 2010 at 11:58 AM
It’s the Schechter brothers all over again, but his time the bad guys won.
The progressives have always been against the little guy. Imagine if these rules had been in place when Domino’s or Papa Johns had started, they never would have risen to be national competitors with Pizza Hut. And how about Chick Fil A – every kid prefers it to KFC… and it’s a good organization. It’s growth would have been stunted by the federal government.
This is insane, and it’s only one thing it that bill.
batterup on April 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM
No it’s only “evil” to kill trees for “evil” money making. Whatever the government does is good as long as the government is controlled by a fellow Marxist.
MobileVideoEngineer on April 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Please sir, may I have some more?
More?! You have reached your caloric intake for today, as indicated on your ankle bracelet!
If I paid more taxes, could I?
tomg51 on April 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Our new overbearing democrat overlords are a blessing from Xenu. These democrats will regulate every aspect of my useful life. I can only pray that on that day when I report to Carousel that the State will give me an atta boy for being such a good serf. Thank you democrats for the waking hour paternalistic behaviour control. I wouldn’t be a good society contributing citizen without it.
daesleeper on April 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM
just dump some nutrition pellets in my feedbowl and leave me alone.
DrW on April 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Does this also apply to all the ships in the Navy? Will all mess decks have to publish calorie counts?
Dhuka on April 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Is there any doubt these laws will be selectively enforced against only the businesses that are perceived to be against the Democrat leviathan?
Congresscritters do not care about your health or how many calories you consume. They care about controlling people.
lacerta on April 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM
And here I just use CalorieKing for free to find out the rough lowdown on stuff… and if someone has web access on their mobile phone you could use that to help make your decision. And if you are extremely A-R you would look it up before you went out.
That is if you CARE about what you eat when you go out.
If you can afford it.
If there are any non-national chains left to go to.
Soon we will no longer be able to afford anything but Marxist burgers full of soylent green. They never will tell you the protein source, however… but it is ‘all natural’ of the best sources they can starve. It’ll be served at the ‘Its For Your Own Good’ cafe with the best Postum they can scrape up.
ajacksonian on April 1, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Wagyu, frozen custard, and smokes for me, but not for thee!
Christien on April 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM
AH! Hamburgers ARE healthy.
Grass fed beef is HEALTHY!
Our hamburger from our critters has virtually NO fat in the pan left when you’re done cooking it.
In fact, in order to stop my hamburgers from sticking to my cast iron skillets, I have to spray them with a little Vegaline.
People, we are in a crisis. The intrusions will never end if this debacle stays in place.
Nullification, repeal-I don’t care how we get it done.
We just need to GET IT DONE!
(while eating beef!)
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Balanced with ‘healthy’ arugula, I’m sure.
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Ed, that was great work.
Now, to add a bit of polish to future productions, we’ll need to get Allahpundit to “read in” your reports as an announcer.
juanito on April 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM
That was my thought. Along with a general disclaimer stating “Warning! This food product may contain unhealthy levels of sodium, sugar, and other additives as determined by the Federal Government. But we sure think it is tasty.”
riverrat10k on April 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM
(while serving pizza to my customers)
Hey, look everyone, these two guys are here to tell me I can’t serve you pizza anymore!
(sounds of carnage while customers tear Feds into pizza toppings)
riverrat10k on April 1, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Time to start the In N Out Party.
Get in, serve up to a double-double maximum term, get out.
Christien on April 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Ed, these kind of reports are a bit embarrassing for the administration. You might be in need of some reeducation. (details of the “camps” can be found on page 1726)
TugboatPhil on April 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Y E S…. because over the last 25 years, calorie counts on packaged foods have been so successful at stopping obesity /s
phreshone on April 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM
New restaraunt name: Calories R Us.
Every item on our menu over 1000 calories! We don’t know how many are in each dish, but take our word for it, every item is fatteningly scrumptious!
riverrat10k on April 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM
(sign in rest. window)
AUTHORIZED SALT DEALER
riverrat10k on April 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Business will go guerrilla. Who’s to say they can’t use the ACORN money wash technique. 19 Mama’s pizzas and 2 Papa’s…get my point?
Osis on April 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM
& I heard a blurb on the news this morning about soda taxes-wherever they’ve been implemented (& I have no idea where this might be), they have noticed the taxes have not lessened the desire for people to purchase soda products.
Kinda like tobacco & alcohol.
People will always be fat-unless they are starving.
Then of course we will have an Ethiopian situation.
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM
In a similar vein, we recently passed a restaraunt smoking ban here in Va.
One rest. in town built a phone booth around a 4-topper and seperately ventilated it. This is their “non-smoking area.”
Others have just said “come get me.”
riverrat10k on April 1, 2010 at 12:42 PM
I would advocate that restaurant owners do a little civil disobedience, by following the state example (gasoline taxes). Imagine a large disclaimer at the bottom of the menu that read…
*** Cost of each pizza includes a $1 surcharge to cover mandated costs imposed on this business by Democratic Congressmen. Vote as you see fit.
dominigan on April 1, 2010 at 12:43 PM
LOL!
I’ve always thought the ‘All Natural” label on products was silly.
Everything ends up being natural bcs the atoms that things are made of are ‘naturally’ occurring.
Strichtnine (sp?) is natural.
So is asbestos & CO & CO2.
Dihrydrogen monoxide also causes death when ingested in large amount.
So I suppose banning water is next.
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM
NY wants to impose a soda tax of a penny an ounce, while another state wants two cents an ounce. Of course it’ll do nothing, except take more money from the people all in the name of ‘protecting’ the populace.
Liam on April 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Honestly, I think people will just quit eating out & eat at home more, which is not really a bad thing in itself.
But then again, more people will be staying at home more permanently bcs they lost their jobs in the rest. business.
Living in the country, we eat out maybe once every 3-4 months, if that & it’s a treat.
But then again, when I go to the city, I am absolutely amazed at how the restaraunts are seeimingly always full to capacity.
I just can’t believe how much city people eat out.
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM
God that’s awful.
I am really glad I live in ND.
I feel it is the last bastion of freedom out here.
Badger40 on April 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM
I don’t drink soda so the tax won’t affect me. But if Albany comes after my Arizona Green Tea with Honey and Ginseng, I’m going to stomp my foot REAL hard!
Liam on April 1, 2010 at 12:54 PM
solution? Register several different corporations with the sate and change Davanni to a dba. Once a legal entity (corporation) hits 19 outlets, then simply begin using a new corporate entity to begin building another 19 locations, and so forth.
John Smith Inc dba Davanni’s – 19 stores
John Smyth Inc dba Davanni’s – 19 stores
J Smith Inc dba Davanni’s – 19 stores
etc…. that would sure be less exopensive then submitting to this stupid mandate.
jbh45 on April 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM
I’m not surprised really. A lot of those may be business-related meetings, client appreciation, prospecting, etc., reimbursed by the payer’s employer :-)
Indeed, when you’re surrounded by asphalt and high-rises, there’s a restaurant for every taste: Mexican, Thai, Ethiopian, sushi, whatever. When it’s a short walk away, it’s easy for city-dwellers to not eat at home…in their condo which contains expensive stainless steel appliances and an 8-burner range. ;-)
I work with people who buy lunch EVERY day – they NEVER bring anything from home. That adds up after a while.
Tak_Bulgogi on April 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM
I used to eat out ALL the time and I mean ALL the time, but now that I’m married and have a stable day job my wife and I eat out for lunch on the weekends (usually just fast food after church) and we do fast food, Steak ‘N Shake, or Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner on Wednesday nights because my wife teaches 6th grade girls at church and the church is close to my office.
With all of the people that take their kids all over the place, part of the reason is just to save time.
MobileVideoEngineer on April 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Great questions, great visuals, great context Ed! All you need is a tripod for your camera and you’re ready for the MSM. :)
liberty0 on April 1, 2010 at 1:01 PM
Well, the Senate used to run several restaurants. They lost $18,000,000 in 15 years. After dropping over $2,000,000 in 2008 they voted to privatize them all.
What did they get for their money all those years?
The House cafeteria and restaurants have been privatized since 1980.
rcl on April 1, 2010 at 1:01 PM
As they say here, READ the WHOLE THING.
leftnomore on April 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM
And few read these calorie lists anyway, like the milk carton missing kids stories. It makes initial impact due to its newness, and then it’s ignored.
leftnomore on April 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM
You know, DJ from MA, I had a very similar reaction! All I could think was, “Damn, Ed . . . you got me!”
But please, DJ from MA, let’s be careful not give the feds any more ideas about warnings!
By doing so, we could inadvertently be playing right into their mindset!
For example, with the future passage of, say, the “Electronic Media Subsidization and Implementation of Fair Media Publication Standards for Non-MSM Media Outlets Control Act of 2011,” 42 USC §987(a)123(a)1(A)1 et seq., some brandy new federal bureaucrat might start thinking as follows:
See what I meanDJ from MA? What we say in jest and in good humor, they will take quite literally . . . and they will act on it!
Trochilus on April 1, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Fab. U. Lous.
juanito on April 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM
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