Foie Gras is Back, Baby!

Chicago City Council acknowledges its prior stupidity, repeals foie gras ban. Residents can now eat all the goose liver they want in smoke-free restaurants.

"THE SILLIEST LAW EVER WRITTEN" - Mayor Daley

By a vote of 37-6, the foie gras ban that Daley claims made Chicago an international laughingstock was repealed, thanks to a legislative end-run that set a new standard for violating protocol and rolling over the opposition. (here's more details about the Robert's Rules of Order and the committee side action that rammed the foie gras ban in the first place... it's funny if you're a big Robert's Rules of Order stickler.)

When Moore tried to debate the merits, Daley ruled that the measure was not debatable. He ordered the clerk to call the roll and to continue, even as Moore shouted for the right to be heard.

"If it can happen to me, tomorrow it could happen to you," Moore warned his colleagues.

"Thank you, Ald. Joe ‘Foie Gras’ Moore," Daley said.

Another funny note... Julie Janovsky, a spokesperson for the animal protection group Farm Sanctuary, argued that the foie gras ban had "massive public support" and that the City Council’s repeal "effectively endorsed animal cruelty."

"Chicagoans were proud to live in a city that took a stand for humanity. To reverse a compassionate and admirable decision under pressure from political bullies and special interests shows a cowardly brand of cynicism unlike any we have seen in our efforts to give voice to the most vulnerable beings in society -- animals raised for food," Janovsky said.

Dear Julie, What town do you live in again? Please read how Daley shot this thing down, probably not illegally - but he didn't exactly follow the Robert's Rules of Order correctly. Now Joe Moore is being laughed at for being shut down so humiliatingly.

1. Question one - why not shut Moore down when this crap got started?
2. Question two - any chance I can eat the AFLAC duck's liver - I'm sick of that fuggin' Duck!