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‘Raymond Noodles’?

Posted on | February 19, 2011 | 38 Comments

I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced Rah-men noodles, but whatever. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) thinks it’s terrible that kids have to eat them because they don’t have Planned Parenthood:

I just want to tell you what it’s like not to have Planned Parenthood. You have to give your kids ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won’t cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fresh fruits and vegetables because they’re expensive. It subjects children to low educational attainment because of the ravages of poverty.

What’s shocking about this argument is not merely the astonishing assertion that poverty is worse than death — for that is the essence of Rep. Moore’s argument — nor is it her assertion that “low educational attainment” is a necessary corollary of “the ravages of poverty” (as if no poor child ever succeeded in school).

Rather, what is so shocking is that this argument is being made by Gwen Moore, who is herself the eighth of her parents’ nine children. If Rep. Moore believes that her own life has been of some benefit to humanity, shouldn’t that give her pause before making an argument on behalf of Planned Parenthood? 

Michelle Malkin suggests that Ramen noodles are now the official pro-life food. (My personal favorite recipe: Add a slice of cheese and imitation bacon bits.) Sister Toldjah says Rep. Moore demonstrates the bankruptcy of the abortion cause.

Rep. Moore engages in the emotional-personal-anecdote mode of arguing public policy that liberals love, especially when they can get a Designated Victim to tell the heart-wrenching “just so” story. (Ann Coulter wrote an entire book about this phenomenon.) And sometimes liberals tell heart-wrenching stories just for the sake of telling heart-wrenching stories.

During this week’s debate over Planned Parenthood funding, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told such a story about undergoing a D&E procedure after she suffered a miscarriage.

Speier’s story was a complete non sequitur. She wasn’t describing an elective abortion, and the procedure wasn’t performed by Planned Parenthood. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) had just described a second-trimester abortion, and Speier evidently decided to introduce her own obstetric history into the debate, without regard for its actual relevance to the issue at hand.

Liberals do this sort of thing all the time, of course: One minute you’re having a discussion about the Second Amendment, and next thing you know you’re being blamed for the death of some innocent bystander who got gunned down in a drive-by shooting: “If it weren’t for you right-wing gun nuts, little 8-year-old Juan would be alive today!”

As if you, personally, had supplied weapons to the MS-13 gangsters who shot little 8-year-old Juan. (And no fair, by the way, using this situation to talk about our nation’s broken immigration policy as a contributing factor to crime.)

Hijacking debates with heart-wrenching stories is so habitual with liberals that they apparently don’t even care whether the anecdote is germain to the argument. So we have Rep. Moore telling her Ramen noodle story and Rep. Speier telling her miscarriage story, and liberals expect us not to notice that their stories have no relevance to the legislation that was being debated.

Republicans weren’t trying to outlaw Planned Parenthood, nor did the bill have anything to do with obstetric services to women suffering miscarriages. This was a debate about whether Planned Parenthood should receive taxpayer money, period.

Liberals purposely sought to confuse the issue, just as they seek to confuse the issue when Republicans who propose cutting taxpayer funds to PBS are accused of hating the Muppets.

By the way, this blog is not federally subsidized, so if you don’t hit my tip jar, I might be forced to feed my six kids Ramen noodles.

Or maybe even “Raymond noodles.”

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  • Mht

    Now you can see why those of us in WI who live “out-state” (outside Milwaukee and Madison) vote for the “antidotes” like Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Rond Johnson, Sean Duffy, etc.

    I know there is probably some context behind this clip to consider, but what the hell does food have to do with Planned Parenthood funding? We have food stamps, something called “WIC”, and people are constantly collecting for food pantries.

    By the way, you ought to google “Gwen Moore tire slashing” – maybe that would make the case for more effective use of Planned Parenthood funding, at least for Gwen Moore.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Gwen Moore:

    It subjects children to low educational attainment because of the ravages of poverty.

    You know, school choice and school vouchers would go a long way to helping that.

    Just saying.

  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    I feed my kids ramen noodles all the time. Add some frozen veggies and boiled eggs and it’s a pretty balanced meal. My kids love them. Pretty sure if I asked them whether they prefer death or noodles for lunch, they’d take the noodles.

  • http://4simpsons.wordpress.com/ Neil

    My daughter eats tons of Ramen noodles, by choice.

    Great points about arguing by (irrelevant) anecdote and the “better dead than poor” argument (which, btw, would mean these pro-aborts think 90% of the world should be dead).

  • Anonymous

    Scratch a Dem, find a Eugenics advocate. Every. Single. Time.

    Ask one “For what purpose do you intend to improve humanity?”, and you’ll get nothing but a blank look followed by poorly thought out blather.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    She sounds uncannily like Wanda Sykes.

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  • http://www.singleissuezealot.com Loren Ibsen

    Raymond “Noodles” is alive and well and currently works in Wisconsi n as a bussed in public union thug. Gwen Moore should be grateful his Mom chose life.

    Governor Walker: Feed Raymond Noodles!

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  • Anonymous

    Considering that there’s about a 100% overlap between pro-aborts and envirowhacko’s who have explicitly argued for reducing the world’s human population by 90-100%, that isn’t much of a jump.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ Proof

    If the Republicans can’t find a decent candidate to run against this ditz when she is up for re-election, maybe we could start a write in campaign for Raymond Noodles?

  • Mht

    Milwaukee is pretty much locked-up Democratic. In 2008, Gwen Moore got 89% of the vote, Obama got 78%. At the state level, 2 of the State Senators got 99% (there were 3 races, all won by Democrats). For state Assembly reps, there were 17 races, and in 11 of them were won by Democrats who got 98-99% of the votes.

    Governor Walker was an “outlier” when he was elected to the Milwaukee County Executive position as a Republican. And that was because of taxpayer outrage at a pension scandal that nearly bankrupted Milwaukee County.

    It really doesn’t pay for a Republican to attempt a run in the City of Milwaukee.

  • Mht

    Note – I do like the idea of voting for “Raymond Noodles” – if I lived in her district, I would write that in.

  • TearDownTheRager

    If ever there were a good argument in favor of Eugenics (and there is NOT), Rager would be Exhibit One.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Is this cretin Congresswoman so dense that she does not see that abortion is cutting a swarth of destruction across the whole black population?

    Or is she such a Committed Leftist that she doesn’t care?

    Is this case, methinks it’s the former and that she’s a classic Useful Idiot / Dupe [being one of nine children, perhaps she was malnourished because Planned Parenthood wasn't there to help her mother abort her (bad luck, eh?) and consequently suffered brain damage?].

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ Proof

    I figured it was something like that. Many districts, such as those in San Fransisco, are bastions of ignorance and liberalism (but I repeat myself).

    Thus, for example, we end up with elected representatives that think islands will “tip over” if they have too many people on them!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    If I understand it correctly, Mht, this is one of those racially gerrymandered districts – a set aside to appease black activists.

  • The Wall Is Too Damn High

    Rager retorts: Always look at the silver lining, an old gen, needs someone to keep him on his toes, otherwise, the wrinkled noodles slide down, unnoticed, into inevitable idiocy. So, critics are not enemies, but helpful friends. Ridicule, and jerkdom are in the eye of the beholder. No one makes me write like a jerk, when I write like a jerk it is my choice. A woman doesn’t have a choice to abort a fetus, but we always have a choice about how we look online.

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  • oddlysensible

    being one of nine children, perhaps she was malnourished because Planned Parenthood wasn’t there to help her mother abort her (bad luck, eh?)

    Why don’t you ask your mom what happened to all your unborn siblings? Maybe appeal the govt. to throw her in jail for not being open and accepting to the miracles of fertilty as the nature/Creator/God had intended.

  • TearDownTheRager

    Is that you, Wombat, squelching my posts in real time? I was probing TWITDH’s nugget “A woman doesn’t have a choice to abort a fetus…” which I’m sure some of the crowd here would disagree with . . .

  • TearDownTheRager

    Is that you, Wombat, squelching my posts in real time? I was probing TWITDH’s nugget “A woman doesn’t have a choice to abort a fetus…” which I’m sure some of the crowd here would disagree with . . .

  • http://www.singleissuezealot.com Loren Ibsen

    Hi. I’m Gwen Moore. This is my unborn sibling Raymond and this is my other unborn sibling Raymond.”

  • http://www.singleissuezealot.com Loren Ibsen

    Ravaged by poverty? Tired of union fatcats and their Democratic stooges running this country/state into the ground? Sick of the government ordering you to eat your fruits and vegetables?

    My name is Raymond Noodles, and I’m no fatcat. I have low educational attainment and I spread mayonnaise on my sandwich one slice at a time. I am you.

    My opponent wants to put your unborn siblings on the voter rolls. Tell her we’ve had enough of business as usual.

    Use your Noodle. Vote Raymond Noodles!

  • oddlysensible

    Life itself is not at risk, but each instance thereof, cast forth with profligate abandon, is.

    Not at risk…doomed, totally doomed. Doomed like your last breath is doomed for the oxygen to be sucked right out of it and then blown back into the open air. Oh well, I was good while I lasted…well, not really, but just a good as that lizard on my window…well, maybe not quite that good but, you get the idea. (“Doomed” is right. And apparently only the human nervous system realizes this — another droll experiment of Life’s.)

    Not to mention immoral like procreation and mirrors that multiply humans ad(d) infinitum.

    How does one balance one’s perception of miscreation–the ills of the world–with the reality of the sanctity of ALL LIFE, procreated?

    Reminds me of the question of abortion. Fundamentalists say no, but religiously create hate, murder and mayhem in the separating of “us and them”.

    Procreation, multiplication, complexification are metaphors for the multiple impulses that want to possess, capture, control, destroy.

    For obvious reasons, the conditions leading to eventual birth aren’t addressed: the issue of sex now regards pleasure unlimited and procreation is often an unwanted side-effect, especially when poor, uneducated and living in a slum.

    It’s pointing the finger saying that you are as bad as I am. Which keeps any chance of a solution far far away. One could ask why does anyone want an abortion?

    The universal answers include issues of lack of love, lack of caring, or hate, murder and mayhem as self-centered competition rules the world.

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  • Anonymous

    Those set aside districts some times actually hurt the Bolsheviks overall.

  • Anonymous

    Obtuseness is not virtue.
    You need to send oddlysensible to bed now as she makes less sense with every new comment. What’s Apu up to?

  • Jackman

    LMAO. My 6 year old called down to me as I was reading this post “Dad, can i have something to eat?”

    I replied “How about some raymond noodles?”

    I wish I could accurately convey in type the “Good Lord, you’re stupid” tone of voice he used as he replied “It’s Rah-men, Dad, Rah. Men.”

    My son: Smarter than a Congresswoman at 6. Not that that’s a high bar or anything, but still, not bad for a kindergartner.

  • http://twitter.com/HollyBacon77 Holly Bacon

    So Moore’s solution to saving yourself 50 cents a month is to just nip it in the bud before it becomes a real problem? Wow!! if I get pregnant, my financial woes are solved. :/

  • Roxeanne de Luca

    My favourite Ramen noodle recipe:
    *1 bag of broccoli slaw (note: I hate broccoli but think that broccoli slaw is delicious)
    *a handful of slivered almonds & dried cranberries (or fresh ones – v. cheap in the fall!)
    *Chopped Ramen noodles (raw)

    Mix together in a bowl. Sauce:
    *Ramen sauce packet
    *about 2 tbsp. olive oil
    *about 2 tbsp. rice vinegar
    *a bit of sugar

    Mix together (to taste – I like a lot of vinegar), and cover the broccoli slaw with it. My co-blogger Tieki made it and said that she spent the next 10 minutes at the counter, eating directly from the bowl, because it was too tasty to stop to get a plate.

    Cost: $2.50, and gives a family of 4 veggies for dinner.

  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    That sounds sooooo good. Thanks for the recipe!

  • http://getalonghome.com/ GAHCindy

    That sounds sooooo good. Thanks for the recipe!

  • Anonymous

    Nope, not me.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    Whenever I think of “low educational attainment” from now on, I will have to think of Gwen Moore.

    Thanks for nothing! :-p

  • The Chinese

    We’re kicking your ass, America, and we eat ramen.

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