You Tell 'Em, Granny

This story is great. The idiot health police in New York told senior citizens they couldn't have free doughnuts, which were being donated to senior centers, because the officials didn't want to "set a bad nutritional precedent." So the old people held a protest.

I think everyone that's not a kid should be able to eat whatever they want, whether it be trans fat or horse meat. This is especially true for old people. Having survived for as long as they have, I think they can eat all the doughnuts they want. I'm pretty much going to stop eating vegetables once I hit 80.

Look at some of these asinine quotes:

• "It was disgusting the way people went after them," said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. "I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away."

• "We don't tell them what to do, we don't force them to eat what's good for them. But we certainly don't give them anything that's bad for them," said center director Silvia Ponce."

• "They have choices, and we show them how to make good choices," she said.

It seems like seniors and kids are the canaries in the mine when it comes to government taking control of people's lives. Smoking bans are supported by appeals to "protect the children." The march towards government health care is starting with these two groups (via Medicare and SCHIP). And governmental diet control is also focused on these groups.

Today's senior citizens won World War II. They've been called the Greatest Generation. Can't we at least let them eat some doughnuts?