Good Grief: CO Daycare Centers To Be Forced To Stock Dolls Of At Least Three Different Races

3 ways that a tyrannical government asserts control over people: confiscatory taxes, deficit spending, and excessive regulation. This one is of the excessive regulation variety. The central planners aren't content to tell you how much you should weight and what you should or should not eat. Nope. They want to control the pigmentation of dolls in daycare centers too. No item is too small or meaningless for some bureaucratic busybody to want to control. From Denver Westward Blogs: Colorado day-care center proposal: Dolls must represent at least three different races

...New rules proposed by the Colorado Department of Human Services include a requirement that all day-care centers in the state make available dolls representing three different races.

The 98-page document, obtained by 7News, features a slew of rule changes. Among them: children over age two must not be served whole milk without a note from a doctor, kids over age one can't drink more than six ounces of juice per day, TV and computer time will be capped at twenty minutes daily, and staffers must wear clothes that cover their lap and shoulders. But arguably the most unusual suggestion pops up on page 77: "Dolls shall represent three (3) races."

Excessive regulation by a bunch of bureauweenies. Folks - keep your kids at home. Public schools are doing less and less in terms of public education and are now more concerned with lifestyle management that isn't in their charter. When has that ever stopped a liberal though?

UPDATE: I'm assuming from the above list that chocolate milk is out. Via Instapundit: 

EXPERTS SAY CHOCOLATE MILK gets kids hooked on dairy. “Outraged nutritionists, cafeteria managers and parents are pleading with public health officials to keep chocolate milk in schools as the state prepares to issue tough new food regulations that could eliminate the flavored drink.”