Thank heaven. And a big F-You to the worst of the worst, otherwise known as Mayor.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mayor_bloomberg_believes_themselves_enfmR96eplT88TyLQInuoI
From the link
Bloomberg said earlier today that the people who’ll get helped most by the city’s new soda restrictions will be the poor because they “don’t have the ability to take care of themselves as well” as the wealthy.
People should be insulted and rioting over this.
I don’t normally advocate riots but the silence over this proposed ban was deeply unsettling. All the high-profile restaurant and club owners, pizza venues that couldn’t deliver a 2 liter bottle, regular citizens…yet we saw nothing.
Bad, bad and also just plain bad. The judge was the one and only savior.
I wasn’t referring to the ban itself more so the mayors insulting rhetoric towards low income populations. But yea their should have been more outrage over the ban. But I would think a lot of companies were silently content with it since it would mean higher sales. Nobody was going only buy one smaller bottle of pop with their orders.
They won’t because it is targeted at Fat People. They are the last group that can truly be bullied without impunity. People associate fat=stupid.
As an addition the more we trend to socialism/group-idenity, the more the “government” can regulate your life.
If I want to be a fat gay hispanic mall ninja it is none of your business. Get off my lawn and get me a soda. Make it a BIG SODA (and some smokes–look at what they did to smokers. Fat people are next–then it will be high cholesteral folks, then red meat eaters…)
Elected royalty - they really DO think they are our betters. :rolleyes:
But they are. They know how best to take care of us. You’re ignorant to think otherwise. We should be bowing to and thanking them since they are so benevolent to we who are so unworthy and just plain too stupid to acknowledge their greatness.
Just ask them. They’ll set you straight. Not set you free, mind you. :rolleyes:
Starbucks told His Imperial Majesty to pound sand, they were not complying.
I just got back from Starbucks, after voting with my wallet.
True, but that would mean that they would need a voice, which I am sure “The Mayor” really doesn’t care about anyway.
Bloomberg said earlier today that the people who’ll get helped most by the city’s new soda restrictions will be the poor because they “don’t have the ability to take care of themselves as well” as the wealthy.
So he can just give us all HIS money, and anyone who supports the ban can obviously afford to give us all THEIR money and then we will be able to take care of ourselves just like them.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
. . . . such as, oh I don’t know, the right to eat whatever food I damn well want.
Am I the only one that instantly pictures that ‘super-sized’ obese jersey governor whenever I hear of New York trying to ban soft drinks, super sized fast-food etc…
That moron, Bloomberg, called the soda law “ground breaking”. 
I guess as in Ground breakingly fucking retarded and inappropriate?
Bloomberg is a POS. He’s not on the wrong side of every single issue, but enough of them that he makes me nauseous.
After seeing what his meddling has done in CO I would like to see everything that this POS attempts fail. I mean anything. Fund his enemies, counter him at every turn, and pray that he is found with a dead hooker in a sleaze bag motel. This douche nozzle has got to go.
I clearly don’t follow him enough, what is something he is on the “right” side of?
Education is the only one I can think of. He’s supportive of removing power from the teacher’s unions, adding local accountability, and merit based pay.
That’s just so he has more personal control over his fiefdom. Don’t mistake having a common cause as him being on the right side of anything. Ever. :mad:
Bloomturd makes about a million a day give or take. Money is power…
Forgive me if I am not as smart as a billionaire, but if you ban a 24 oz drink, couldn’t people just buy 2 12oz drinks???