On chocolate milk, snakes and spendthrift *Captain Lightning in a Bottle

  Well, the FDA is really doing it. They're getting certain foods banned from schools, including chocolate milk. Althouse has an opinion about that. 
  A friend said the other day, "Yeah, but do you know how much sodium is in canned soup?" I said, "Yeah, but have you ever tried low sodium soup?"
  That shut THAT argument up.
  Bleh. Low sodium V8 is even worse.
  Althouse has another interesting perspective on banned the burka in France. Imagine if we did that here. Understanding that France is pretty close-minded about preserving their culture doesn't help much in understanding how a country can simply ban someone's clothing. 
  Now the CBO is saying there're only $348 million worth of spending cuts, as opposed to, oh, say, billions.
  Before you know it, it'll be down to $348. Period.
  Like I said, you knew I was a snake when you put me in your pocket.
  Speaking of debt failsafe trigger, oh, yeah, you know what I'm talkin' bout.
  In the speech today, Captain Lightning in a Bottle suggested that he and the gang be allowed to spend, spend, spend whatever they want and then we'd automatically have our taxes increased to cover whatever new patent leather pumps they decided the country needed.
  How much sense does THAT make, after all? That way they could spend whatever they wanted! On keeping us all dependent on, guess who? THEM?
  The Dear Lord only prevented him from having that idea when he had the House and Senate.
  Mark Steyn at NRO has more to say about Obama's speech today, deliciously worded, as usual:

There’s something sad about a man so carelessly revealing himself as entirely inadequate to the moment. Government spending is an existential threat to the United States. Whether or not anyone at the White Houseknows this, the viziers decided to shove the sultan out on stage with a pitifully unserious speech retreating to all his lamest tropes – the usual whiny, petty and unpresidential partisan snippiness, and the ponderous demolition of straw men even he barely bothered to pretend he believed in:

 Powerline deals with University of Toledo law professor David Harris's book about racial profiling and its, um, errors. Again, Toledo makes the news. 
  *Captain Lightning in a Bottle explained