First, they came for the 32 oz. soda...

[billc]

Alright, raise your hand if you are surprised to find out that the same people who support the ban on Soda pop, now want to go after other things...

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/...e-should-extend-this-soda-ban-to-other-foods/

Like I said a few weeks ago, this was always the goal of the otherwise dumb soda regs. A restriction on portion sizes makes no sense when it’s limited to one kind of beverage and a select few types of vendors except as a way to inure the public to more draconian regulations down the line. Ban big sodas now, let people get used to it, and then if/when the city’s obesity rate dips — for whatever reason(s) — flog the hell out of those statistics as proof that dietary nannyism works and should be pursued more aggressively. No surprise, then, that the city health board might be thinking about bold new frontiers in keeping you from stuffing your face.
What is surprising is that they’re doing it so soon. This strategy depends on going very slowly at first so that initial worries about a slippery slope will ease. Instead, sounds like they’re ready to turn this into a slippery water slide. Bad move:

“The popcorn isn’t a whole lot better than the soda,” said Bruce Vladeck, a senior adviser at Nexera Consulting and one of the mayor’s appointees to the 11-member board.
The board yesterday agreed to put Bloomberg’s big-soda ban up for a public hearing July 24, but also talked about the merits of limiting other high-calorie treats.
A large tub of movie-theater popcorn has up to 1,650 calories.
“There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories . . . and I’m not so sure what the rationale is not to include those,” said member Dr. Joel Forman, a pediatrics professor at Mount Sinai.


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[Steve]

Yeah, but really, who is ACTUALLY supporting the soda pop ban? Not anyone I know.

 

[Gentle Fist]

I banned soda years ago...

From my own body of course... I can care less what everyone else does

 

[Makalakumu]

opcorn:

"You can pry it from my warm, buttery, salty hands," just doesn't have the same ring.

 

[bugatabugata]

Why do I have the sudden urge to drive over to NYC, plunk myself in front of City Hall and guzzle four eight oz. sodas, while snacking on a couple of "small" tubs of popcorn and smoking a cigarette?

 

[72ronin]

I can care less what everyone else does

i can/could care less = you care to some degree, you "could" care less about something meaning you currently have a level of care about it.
i cant/couldnt care less = you could not possibly care to any lesser degree than you currently do.

Unless ofcourse you were making a play on words which went straight over my head lol, in that case please excuse me

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The thing is, is that soda is crap! But there is also the fact that we are free to kill ourselves prematurely as we see fit
As always, the answer is education on the subject, not rules or regulations etc.

Smoking, hmm. Legalised drug addiction. The beauty of it is, is that the parents second hand smoke can predispose the child for example to addiction, the child and the chain is continued through the generations. And at 20 something dollars a packet a day for a kazillion smokers, do the math, how about we take that out of our "system", that one i would be happy for the "nanny" lol to do for us, yeah aint gonna happen.
Its not a matter of freedom of the individual when the subject harms others is it? like impeding on the freedoms of another, wheres the line?

And they are going on about soda, Sshhhh take in some poisons and watch the telly, work your **** off and die around 60 yrs of age.
We are treated like children because we act like children! we all know the difference in education now compared to a couple hundred years ago dont we, we are childish/stupid in comparison dont fool yourself.
Mathematics/geometry/history/astronomy where is it? we are "de-volving" in that manner! - That is, you and me the man on the street.
Yes its sometimes there at higher levels of education sure, but the expectations have dropped dramaticaly. Go for a walk, look around, how many adult "children" do you see. Be honest with yourself, the apparel the demeaner, their intention etc etc.

So you see, do you guide those that cannot guide themselves? what is the meaning of order out of chaos if it is not for the guidance of the human animal that is so easily persuaded?

The question is, what do you do when those that guide have led you astray?

Rant over, appologies in advance

 

[Gentle Fist]

i can/could care less = you care to some degree, you "could" care less about something meaning you currently have a level of care about it.
i cant/couldnt care less = you could not possibly care to any lesser degree than you currently do.

Unless ofcourse you were making a play on words which went straight over my head lol, in that case please excuse me

Me play with words? Never....

 

[Blade96]

grammar nazi