Don't you just get tired of this crap?

[Curtis Baillie]

New York City proposes ban on sale on oversized sodas
By SAMANTHA GROSS Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity — an expansion of his administration's efforts to encourage healthy behavior by limiting residents' choices.


The proposal — expected to be announced formally on Thursday in a City Hall briefing — would take 20-ounce soda bottles off the shelves of the city's delis and eliminate super-sized sugary soft drinks from fast-food menus. It is the latest health effort by the administration to spark accusations that the city's officials are overstepping into matters that should be left in the hands of individual consumers.

Read the story.

Just leave me alone Bloomberg.

[Warren14]

New York City proposes ban on sale on oversized sodas
By SAMANTHA GROSS Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity — an expansion of his administration's efforts to encourage healthy behavior by limiting residents' choices.


The proposal — expected to be announced formally on Thursday in a City Hall briefing — would take 20-ounce soda bottles off the shelves of the city's delis and eliminate super-sized sugary soft drinks from fast-food menus. It is the latest health effort by the administration to spark accusations that the city's officials are overstepping into matters that should be left in the hands of individual consumers.

Read the story.


Just leave me alone Bloomberg.

Trying to address the problem & not the root cause of the problem is not going to work.
It is like polishing your car & hoping it will run better.

[copelandamuffy]

New York City proposes ban on sale on oversized sodas
By SAMANTHA GROSS Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity — an expansion of his administration's efforts to encourage healthy behavior by limiting residents' choices.


The proposal — expected to be announced formally on Thursday in a City Hall briefing — would take 20-ounce soda bottles off the shelves of the city's delis and eliminate super-sized sugary soft drinks from fast-food menus. It is the latest health effort by the administration to spark accusations that the city's officials are overstepping into matters that should be left in the hands of individual consumers.

Read the story.

Just leave me alone Bloomberg.

Curtis
Good people like Bloomberg know what's best for you. You, ST, me, are too stupid to know what's good
for us, and bad for us, so they will outlaw 20 Ounce Pepsi. Your so dumb eating Double Whoopers at
BK, that the good Mayor will say no no.

Didn't the good people in Washington, D.C outlaw booze in 1920? OMG along comes Bugs Moran. Al Capone,
Dion OBianion? What New York City needs is Scarface Al Capone selling 20 ounce Pepsi's in speakeasys from
Harlem to the Bronx. NUTS>

[SecTrainer]

This trend has become quite frightening in recent years - namely, acceptance of the notion that "social benefit" justifies governmental actions. The government can do anything it wants as long as it can make the case that it's "for our own good".

As lovely as it sounds, "our own good" is NOT the criterion for governmental power, at least in America. It's stinkin' thinkin' on too many levels to discuss here.

Hitler, of course, sold the Nazi party to the Germans on the basis of this false philosophy, and then proceeded to do what was "good for German society". (You're wrong if you don't think he truly believed that he was doing what was "best" for Germany.)

Other notables in this category include Napoleon, and not a few of the Roman emperors.

George Orwell wrote the book "1984" about precisely this very thing. He just missed it by a few years, that's all. We're even already installing the cameras everywhere that the state's health police will need to monitor what you do. (Mandatory daily calisthenics will be announced soon - "for your own good", of course.)

Bloomberg brings to the air of New York City more than a faint whiff of the stink that did not die with Adolph Hitler and other infamous dictators. And if that isn't ironic in a city with New York's demographics, I don't know what is.

Obama, too, seems more than a bit confused about the limits of his power. Mash that up with a belief in government as a tool designed for his own personal brand of social engineering, and you've got the monster on your hands such as you see now. You expected something else? And just wait until you find yourself dealing with an Obama who has no re-election concerns to hold him in check.

Incidentally, there is a distinct nexus between the rise of the nanny state and the intrusion of government into private behavior. When the government owns the population, the government can pretty much tell the population what to do.

If you listen closely, you can hear a faint whizzing sound, but fear not. The aliens haven't landed (yet). It's just our founding fathers, spinning in their graves. And what really cranks up the RPMs on these bony rotors isn't what our government has become, but what WE have become that we should tolerate such outrageous overreach of power everywhere we look.

It's not the soda ban, which is so petty as to be laughable if it weren't so sad (just buy 2 sodas - or 3 if you like). The soda ban is but a symbol of something far more worrisome. It's time to dust off the old slogan that best expressed the concept of the independent, free American: "Don't tread on me." This slogan was flown on a flag adorned with a rattlesnake. Over the generations that have passed since then, we seem to have shrunk from rattlesnakes to mere worms, slowly but surely being crushed under the heel of our good old Uncle Sam...for "our own good". Always, it's "for our own good".

P.S. On the soda thing, you might want to buy up shares in companies that make hydration "camel packs", and also those baseball caps with cupholders on the sides. I predict brisk sales. Or maybe this: Invent a pack that holds two 16-ounce (LEGAL!) soda bottles. It has replacement screw tops with tubes running through them and meeting in one drinking tube. Replace the tops, and laugh at Mayor Adolph while you chug your 32-ounce drink.

Which raises an interesting question: Just how is he going to enforce this ban, and how much will THAT cost? Will the police be stopping us to check for "open Slurpee" violations? Will there be a black market in larger soda products from other parts of the country? Will we be stopped at the border of NYC to check our cars for "contraband sodas"?

Bloomberg's probably going to spawn a whole new industry of ways to flaunt his ridiculous soda ban. If not, then I know the wormification of America is complete.

Well, I have to run. The DW wants me to pick up some things for the weekend, including a cake mix, and I do loves me some cake. You people in New York, especially, should wonder when that's going to disappear from the store shelves as well...along with about 90% of the other products you consume, because none of them are "good" for you. Instead, you'd better use your money to buy some workout clothes. The mandatory calisthenics are coming.

Does anyone know what the shelf life of cake mix might be? To heck with the stockpiles of dried rations. I'm thinking we have a different kind of catastrophe looming, so I'm stocking up on cake mix! Cake mix and Paydays and Butterfingers and...

[copelandamuffy]

In Liberal Massachusetts towns you can no longer buy bottled water in stores. Those Nestle 15 ounce bottled water are destroying the enviroment. If Mayberry bans bottled water, Aunt Bee and Clair Edwards will drive over to Mount Pilot. But if they drive back into Mayberry,they better not caught with bottled water by Barney Fife on patrol

And if Themla Lou packs a Milky Way candy bar in Opie's lunch, and Helen Crump checks Opie's lunch, Opie will be kicked out of schhool, and Andy Taylor will have to pick him up in the 1964 Ford Glaxie Squad Car.

The Nanny State. We know what's best for you. We will tell you what temperature in your home should be.
{ Jimmy Carted kind of did this in Private Business} We will stop by your home and check your food pantry.
Chocalate Cake Mixes will be banned, We wlll monitor where you drive. Copie you and your wife are not permitted to drive across town to see Curtis. Too much waste of gas and you could hurt the enviroment. Email one another
But we will monitor that as well Bad thoughts could harm all.
NUTS

[SecTrainer]

...Andy Taylor will have to pick him up in the 1964 Ford Glaxie Squad Car.

With the Galaxie's gas mileage? I don't think so.

Andy's driving this these days:

[copelandamuffy]

With the Galaxie's gas mileage? I don't think so.

Andy's driving this these days:Attachment 1773

In the 2008 election. Opie Taylor, Ron Howard voted for Obama
Mayberry gets what they deserve