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Bloomberg’s next targets: Sweet tea, energy drinks, fruit juices
The Washington Times ^ | June 4, 2013 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 06/06/2013 4:07:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Michael Bloomberg and his battle against bulging waistlines are targeting new villains: sweet tea, energy drinks and fruit juices.

New York City’s health department launched a series of TV and bus ads on Monday that warn people about the high sugar content in drinks that are seemingly healthy.

The ads cost about $1.4 million and are part of a “pouring on the pounds” campaign that dates back to 2009, The Daily Mail reports.

One of the television ads shows a young boy happily slurping on a juice box. The scene takes a dramatic turn when it flashes to what appears to be a patient being operated on with the words “amputation,” “heart attack,” “vision loss” and “kidney failure” appearing on the screen. The patient then flatlines…

“Fruit-flavored drinks are not a healthy choice,” a voiceover says after the cheerful music resumes, instead suggesting that parents should switch out their unhealthy drinks with water, seltzer, skim milk and fresh fruit.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; bloomingidiot; bloominidiotberg; bloomturd; bullystate; children; health; michaelbloomberg; nannystate; nutrition; nyc; obesity; sugar
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1 posted on 06/06/2013 4:07:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 06/06/2013 4:08:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s a wonder I haven’t flat lined years ago.

It’s nice to know New York has millions to waste on this BS.


3 posted on 06/06/2013 4:09:35 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sweet Tea?! That’s evil! New Yorkers seem to like it. They vote for him and don’t pitch his butt out.


4 posted on 06/06/2013 4:11:14 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

....does the mayor have an expiration date? ...tiresome little twit.


5 posted on 06/06/2013 4:11:45 PM PDT by ptsal (E)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bloomberg is turning NYC into one of those crappy, dreary prison camps described in Glenn Beck’s “Agenda 21” novel.


6 posted on 06/06/2013 4:11:56 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Fresh fruit that comes from every Country but ours. Tea means Rush is on list also.


7 posted on 06/06/2013 4:12:11 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would love to see him get run over by a bus, so some bystander can say, “Damn dude. You shoulda banned buses!”


8 posted on 06/06/2013 4:13:27 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Poor ole Bloomie—he really needs to get a life of his own, and leave the rest of us alone.


9 posted on 06/06/2013 4:13:59 PM PDT by basil (basil --Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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>>Sweet Tea?! That’s evil! New Yorkers seem to like it.

When I lived in that part of the country, I’d order sweet tea everywhere and get a blank look followed by some comment about the south (yes, i have a slight accent).


10 posted on 06/06/2013 4:16:20 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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11 posted on 06/06/2013 4:17:07 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Michael Bloomberg: Fascist.


12 posted on 06/06/2013 4:17:16 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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Thanks for the post, I just had to open a can of Guava Nectar upon reading it:


13 posted on 06/06/2013 4:18:06 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Talk about grotesque lies! Implication: drinking juice equals death. What brazen evil these commie bastards concoct!

It’s all about control of the people—period.


14 posted on 06/06/2013 4:18:13 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Bryanw92

My sentence was a mess, I am grammar challenged. :p

I was meaning New Yorkers liked Bloomberg.

Yeah, my first dinner at the in-laws I was asked what I would like to drink, I asked for iced tea...brother, you would have thought I farted really loud or something with the way they looked at me!

I talk a little funny, too :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPUJKk2_dg


15 posted on 06/06/2013 4:23:03 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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I agree


16 posted on 06/06/2013 4:23:57 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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Shame East Germany isn’t still around. This fool would have been a great dictator there.


17 posted on 06/06/2013 4:24:25 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Skim milk has the healthy fat removed but all the sugars in. Idiots.

Banning things doesn’t work — NYC is becoming a “dry” city. Soon there will be black market donuts. People baking cookies in their bathtubs. Speakeasies serving illicit chocolate milk and orange juice!!


18 posted on 06/06/2013 4:28:53 PM PDT by Yaelle
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I think Bloomberg is mentally ill. No sane person would seek to control others to such a degree...unless he thinks others are his cattle.


19 posted on 06/06/2013 4:29:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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I think Bloomberg is mentally ill. No sane person would seek to control others to such a degree...unless he thinks others are his cattle.”

I think every single democrat believes that we should be controlled like cattle. just look at how democrat congressmen attacked the tea party victims of the IRS in the hearings. look at how every democrat politician voted for Obamacare that is 15,000 pages of government control, lois Lerners in charge of our healtcare etc.

20 posted on 06/06/2013 4:34:43 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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