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Permalink Reply by Liam S. on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pm

I think we already had a thread on this. I'm not a fan of this action. 

Good nutrition good. Legal bans on legal substances? not good. 

Permalink Reply by LShieldes on September 14, 2012 at 2:58pm

I'm going out and buying the biggest gdamned coke that is sold in a Texas convenience store and if it is too big to fit in my car, I'll just buy two of the f'ers and drink them there

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on September 14, 2012 at 3:01pm

I at least think that it's a good example of liberal pettiness. Maybe it should not be called micromanagement--management, after all, is serious stuff.

I read this book & some soldiers said that in the American Army they call this attitude chickenshit. It described officers who were sticklers for pointless details, but cowards in face of serious matters. Quick to punish defenseless subordinates, unable to decide anything in face of danger.

Permalink Reply by Josh on September 14, 2012 at 5:22pm

Does this guy just surround himself with and endless sea of yes-men? I know politicians love to keep their heads in either the sand or their asses, but it's like this guy is striving for a new record with this soda ban. Seriously, Bloomberg is making Fox News sound completely reasonable, and there's no way anything good can come from that.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on September 14, 2012 at 5:29pm

Surround himself? He'd have to swim a long mile to get away from these silly liberals.  I don't think you realize how silly they are. Have you ever heard of San Francisco?

Permalink Reply by Josh on September 14, 2012 at 6:25pm

I've heard hushed whispers in the night about it, yes. But that's a pretty long way from New York. I don't know what New York is like, but you should take comfort in the fact that even I'm not that liberal.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on September 15, 2012 at 2:32am

I do-

Permalink Reply by Native Son on September 16, 2012 at 3:31am

They ain't "silly liberals" in The City.  They're "Progressives".  Actually, the political power structure in San Francisco seems to be Progressives who seem to have lost most of their sense of proportion.  While some odd-ball seeming proposals, i.e., the ban on plastic grocery bags has actually had positive environmental effects and generated municipal cost savings (through reduced street litter and less non-biodegradable plastic showing up in the municipal trash and storm sewer systems).  OTOH, nobody seems to have fully though out what the general upside is to banning the inclusion of toys in children's meals at fast food joints.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on September 16, 2012 at 4:26am

Yeah, I remember the thing about happy meals--there were two discussions on the matter here on TGD, about a year apart, one when it was proposed, the other after enactment. In neither case did the liberals concede the point, if memory serves, although it was foiled upon enactment. I remember reading somewhere that some councilman or some such creature was talking about how annoying it was that their kids wanted these happy meals. Apparently, the liberal thought it was the toys that got kids hooked on fast-food & inability to say no meant the gov't should do it for them. I know they were progressives before they were liberals--they were racists before they became the saviors of races in need of saving--they were for abortion before, well, they're still for abortion, but they do not talk eugenics anymore, because that's not cool--but they're still silly.

Permalink Reply by Chuck Knight on September 14, 2012 at 6:14pm

The scariest part is that, by still allowing consumers to choose which drinks they want, and when, that Bloomberg is still representing a more conservative approach than I would expect, from New York.

 

Now, if he mandated we each purchase Starbuck's coffee in the morning, whether we wanted it or not, and something absurd like a kiwi-spirulina-yogurt smoothie at lunchtime (regardless of allergies or feelings towards animal products), and that only bottled water be available after 3pm, and only specifically branded bottled-water unless you have a government waiver...that would be the New york LIBERAL approach.

 

I heard an "on the street" radio interview with a number of New Yorkers, and they were all for this, confirming that they view government's job to be, in fact, to control what, when, and how much they are allowed to eat.  ALLOWED was the word they actually used.  ALL of them!

 

I almost ran off the road, when I heard it on the radio.  It was like listening to someone interview a bunch of Stepford wives.

Permalink Reply by Titus Techera on September 15, 2012 at 2:39am

Strictly implausible--liberals are creative creatures, each & every one carries Thoreau's book in his backpack--every damned one, dancing to the beat of his own drum, soon as he gets off his rocker.

Permalink Reply by Chuck Knight on September 15, 2012 at 12:57pm

:)

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