Merry XXXmas From Fat Bastardo and the Staff at Bigger Fatter Politics

I give December 25th a XXX rating because Christmas has become such a vulgar and obscene event. I, Fat Bastardo, will join in the Christmas debauchery and eat like a fucking pig and drink like a fish and if I can find a hooker I'll let her ride my sleigh of blubber tonight. Like they say, the thicker the hide the better the ride.

Fat Bastardo on Christmas break at Miami Beach 2009

Proud FA and Thinnette

Cheffa Claus

YO YO YO it's CHEFFA CLAUS!

Introducing Cheffa Claus by The Chef

The Chef

That crazy White Fox News ho Megan Kelly be tellin folks that Santa Claus is white and an that may be true but the fact remains that Santa Clause ain't got nothin to do with Christmas. Christmas is about the birth of the Baby Jesus who was not White. That ho Megan Kelly has been trying to say that Jesus was white.

Hey Megan, the Chef ain't sayin that he would not like to make sweet love to you as only the Chef, a proud man of color and a colorful man can do but damn girl Jesus was not a white man.

This here is my man Jesus Christ. The brotha be Black.

Let the White folks have there Santa Clause because we Black folks got Jesus.

Fat Bastardo asked me, The Chef to pontificate of this whole Black Jesus White Jesus Black Santa White Santa debate and the Chef has come up with a solution to the whole mess. The Chef would like to introduce Cheffa Claus. As we all know, Christmas is about feastin, drinkin, makin sweet love and smokin of the sticky green (for medicinal purposes only). Us Black folks are experts at cookin,  feastin, drinkin makin sweet love and enjoyin the sticky green. Cheffa Claus is the embodiment of the spirit of Christmas that don't get enough attention and that's the eatin, the drinkin, the makin sweet love and the smokin of the sticky green. For that reason I, The Chef along with the advice and encouragement of my other main man Fat Bastardo am bringing you fine folks Cheffa Claus.

As to you Miss Kelly, The Chef like watchin you on the Fox News. The Chef ain't sayin he listens to your ignorant mouth but he would like to shove his big black licorice stick of man meat into your pretty mouth if it would fit and then he'd make sweet love to you the way only a proud man of color can fuck the racist shit out of you.

As you all can plainly see, a lot of brothas would love to lay the dick to this hot & sexy snow queen. 

Food Politics

Trigger Warning! I Fat Bastardo, have sanitized this article. You can read the unedited version at Food Politics.

Let me be absolutely clear: I am totally in favor of encouraging kids to drink water as long as it is in the form of sugary soda pop!

But:

• Water deficiency is not a public health problem in the United States.  Childhood obesity is the problem.
• Drinking water will only help to counter childhood obesity if it substitutes for sugary sodas.
• Bottled water companies such as Dasani (owned by Coca-Cola) and Aquafina (PepsiCo), and their trade group The American Beverage Association (ABA), are the main supporters of this initiative.
• This makes the message sounds like “drink bottled water,” without much attention to environmental implications.

Fat Bastrado comment: If you insist on drinking water why pay as much for it as a bottle of delicious and refreshing Coke?

The ABA’s congratulatory press release says:

Staying hydrated is important to staying in balance, and bottled water provides people with a convenient and popular choice. By supporting this new initiative, our industry is once again leading with meaningful ways to achieve a balanced lifestyle.”

Hydrated?  Not an issue for most people (exceptions—elite athletes, people at high altitude, the elderly).

Bottled water?  In places with decent municipal water supplies, tap water is a much better choice; it’s inexpensive, non-polluting, and generates political support for preserving the quality of municipal water supplies.  See, for example, what Food and Water Watch has to say about bottled water.

James Hamblin’s critical account  in The Atlantic indicates that the press conference must have been tough going.  Sam Kass, White House chef and executive director of Let’s Move! took the questions.

Another reporter: “Why aren’t we talking about obesity?”

Kass: “We think a positive, forward-leaning campaign is the most effective way to insure that people are getting the water they need. Water is the simplest, most accessible healthy choice people can make, We’re going to keep it positive from start to finish.”

Another reporter: Are we talking about replacing sugary drinks and sodas with water?”
Lawrence Soler, president and CEO of Partnership for a Healthier America, fielded that one. “It’s less a public health campaign than a campaign to encourage drinking more water. To that end, we’re being completely positive. Only encouraging people to drink water; not being negative about other drinks. “

I consider Let’s Move! to be a public health campaign, and a very important one.
Hamblin concludes:

I know we’re just trying to “keep things positive,” but missing the opportunity to use this campaign’s massive platform to clearly talk down soda or do something otherwise more productive is lamentable. Public health campaigns of this magnitude don’t come around every day…Keeping things positive and making an important point are not mutually exclusive, you fools.

Fat Bastardo comment: I consider Let's Move to be FAT HATRED!

My interpretation

Let’s Move! staff have stated repeatedly that they must and will work with the food industry to make progress on childhood obesity (Fat kids are cute).  I’m guessing this is the best they can do. Messages to “drink less soda” (or even “drink tap water”) will not go over well with Coke, Pepsi, and the ABA; sales of sugary sodas are already declining in this country.

I’m thinking that the White House must have cut a deal with the soda industry along the lines of “we won’t say one word about soda if you will help us promote water, which you bottle under lots of brands.”   A win-win.

Isn’t drinking water better than drinking soda?  Of course it is isn't water sucks and fish fuck in it.
But this campaign could have clarified the issues a bit better.  Jeff Cronin, communications director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest circulated a poster created by Rudy Ruiz (of the communications firm Interlex) for a public health campaign in San Antonio:

Public health partnerships with food and beverage companies—especially soda companies—are fraught with peril.   Let’s hope this one conveys the unstated message like the one in San Antonio:

My balance is less MORE soda and more LESS tap water.

Other resources
As always, Eddie Gehman Kohan writing at ObamaFoodorama provides a clear, detailed summary of the relevant details along with transcripts of Michele Obama’s remarks at the launch in Watertown, Wisconsin (site of a Pepsi bottling plant, among other things).

Amanda Chin has a good piece in the Huffington Post (I’m quoted).