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Big sodas today; bagels with a schmeer tomorrow?
GOPUSA ^ | June 1, 2012 | Adam Geller (Associated Press)

Posted on 06/01/2012 9:06:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

NEW YORK (AP) - Just how far would a government go to protect us from ourselves?

In New York City - which already bans smoking in public parks in the name of public health and bars artificial trans fats from food served in restaurants - Mayor Michael Bloomberg now wants to stop sales of large sodas and other sugary drinks, in a bid to battle obesity. But in a country where fries have been equated with freedom, Bloomberg's proposal begs super-sized questions about government's role in shaping and restricting individual choices. What's next, a Twinkie purge?

(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bans; health; michaelbloomberg; nannystate
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What’s a guy going to do that is trying to gain weight??


21 posted on 06/01/2012 10:39:08 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why not ban gays sitting on a fattie and gettung AIDS????? It harms the financial prosperity of the rest of society.


22 posted on 06/01/2012 10:42:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber (To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bloomers is filthy rich and yet he still wants to take away everyone’s lunch. What a flippin’ bully.


23 posted on 06/01/2012 10:47:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

American “liberals” are not liberal.


24 posted on 06/01/2012 10:53:28 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It all started when America(generally) stopped teaching HISTORY and CIVICS in public schools..

Ignorance of the past dooms a society to repeat it..
Many important subjects are NOT taught in public schools anymore..
BUT history and civics is the worse mistake...

I think its on purpose!... yeah you heard it right... a conspiracy..
The “people” have become sheep generally . but many are pigs.. or Vampires(parasites)..

The “enemy” took over academia and the teachers schools and of course the Unions..
Without a STAMPEDE the sheep are screwed AND then EATEN...


25 posted on 06/01/2012 10:56:24 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: All

26 posted on 06/01/2012 11:43:10 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Good-bye a dozen donuts or bagels. No cake, brownies or sweetrolls.


27 posted on 06/02/2012 12:24:44 AM PDT by ChiMark (chewed up his body for a decade)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So it is okay to serve beer , wine and sangria by the pitcher but no pitcher of soda.
You need to sneak home and guzzle you 2 or 3 liter bottles, but “Nanny B” bans them from being sold.


28 posted on 06/02/2012 1:03:30 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m wondering when Bloomie is going to make his move against New Yorkers who like their corned beef piled high and cut from the fatty end of the brisket? Plenty of unhealthy (if delicious) fat/calories in the point cut, after all.

It’s scary what one can justify under the pretenses of “the common good”, truly scary.


29 posted on 06/02/2012 3:07:19 AM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sell the syrup/soda mix in the desired container. Sell sugar to anyone who wants it.


30 posted on 06/02/2012 4:52:00 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Unless you’re a queer.


31 posted on 06/02/2012 5:01:40 AM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither; GUN CONTROL= SLAVERY)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let’s face it, folks ... New York City is the perfect place for people who need someone else to run their lives. That place hasn’t been “American” in more than 150 years.


32 posted on 06/02/2012 5:34:45 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: BigEdLB; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

33 posted on 06/02/2012 5:39:54 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

FOX - Red Eye Show on Blooming-Idiot’s ban-fest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-qzEATFZg


34 posted on 06/02/2012 5:47:14 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: kevao

IMO, the schmucks in NYC should impeach him or whatever they do on the state level to rid themselves of Liberal vermin.


35 posted on 06/02/2012 6:24:26 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: CottShop
I think I got your message, but you really need to work on your typing skills.

FMCDH(BITS)

36 posted on 06/02/2012 7:53:55 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nothingnew

Gestalt, the hwole is greater than the sum of it’s parts


37 posted on 06/02/2012 10:26:54 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

To the nannies, the people are smart for electing them, but still not smart enough to act in their own best interests. Nannies are the epitome of hypocracy.


38 posted on 06/03/2012 5:18:06 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CottShop; All

The sad part is that some people here supported the “War on Smoking”..


39 posted on 06/03/2012 11:30:02 AM PDT by KevinDavis (The birther movement was started by a 9/11 truther..)
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To: Carthego delenda est
Why don’t you New Yawrkers come up with a new drink called the “Bloomie”?

Too hard to hit the glass cause you can't see the damn thing while you're trying to crap in it.

40 posted on 06/03/2012 8:47:58 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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