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"San Francisco bans Happy Meal" but wanted legal Weed and likes legal abortion? (Vanity)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/us_nm/us_mcdonalds_toys ^

Posted on 11/04/2010 8:14:26 AM PDT by connor_in

"San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals for children." I saw the attached article on Drudge and had been hearing it on the TV and radio reports and it just got me thinking. All these bations of liberalism want to do things like ban trans fats, tax sugary drinks, ban the Happy Meal because they believe in the Nanny State and they know what is best for you...HOWEVER, these same people want to legalize marijuana and want to keep abortion legal because the government can't interfere with the right of privacy and what a person can do with/to their own body. How does any of that make sense?

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: liberal; nanny; sanfranfreakshow; stupid
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To: samtheman

The thing is, who cares if it is good for you or bad for you? If I want to eat fatty foods or drink sugary drinks, isn’t that “my body, my choice”? They try to take away sugar, salt, eggs, etc and that is supposed to be OK?

PS: How many of you think the taste of McDonald’s fries fell off after they went transfat free. I miss the old days of them. On the ther hand, I LOVE that the last two summers PEPSI came out with PEPSI throwback “made with REAL sugar”


21 posted on 11/04/2010 8:41:36 AM PDT by connor_in (opus & bill 2012 (if possible Mr Breathed))
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To: melkor
is this not a bill of attainder?

I was wondering that as well. McDonald's in certainly the most prolific at the practice, but other fast food joints give trinkets away. Movie cups, loyalty games.

Why not make coupons illegal too? They are designed to influence buying behavior.

22 posted on 11/04/2010 8:42:12 AM PDT by IamConservative (Our collective common sense; the only thing a 1.5GPF toilet ever flushed on the first pull.)
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To: connor_in

I believe San Fran also has free drug needle programs,too.

It’s Bizzaro world there.


23 posted on 11/04/2010 8:44:39 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: melkor

Good call! This overlooked freedom has also been debated in the defunding of ACORN last year and again in the Terry Schiavo murder.


24 posted on 11/04/2010 8:46:28 AM PDT by namvolunteer (I can see November from my house.)
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To: connor_in

I remember when San Francisco banned fast-food chains. The City protected the many restaurants and their union waitresses. They banned McDonald’s and others until the early 1970s.


25 posted on 11/04/2010 8:47:56 AM PDT by namvolunteer (I can see November from my house.)
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To: connor_in

“My Body, My Choice” only applies when you are killing that unwanted ‘growth’. And for the “kids can’t choose, so we must protect them” folks, the unborn baby isn’t choosing, either.


26 posted on 11/04/2010 8:52:44 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: connor_in

I see this as a giant size plus. Any law that may keep innocent kids safe and out of that amoral,disease ridden city is ok in my book


27 posted on 11/04/2010 8:52:54 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: connor_in

And bathhouses.

They’ve got to have their bathhouses.


28 posted on 11/04/2010 8:55:41 AM PDT by Califreak (November 2008 proved that Idiocracy isn't just a movie anymore)
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To: oh8eleven
"Liberalism is truly a mental disease. "

It has now been proved that Liberalism is a genetic trait, which I contend must be inherited. That's why they are concentrated in the SF coastal and SF to Sacrament corridor - the are BREEDING there.

29 posted on 11/04/2010 9:03:15 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: connor_in

I’m guessing that the San Francisco Board of Overlords would be fine with McDonald’s replacing the toy with a HamBurgler Condom.


30 posted on 11/04/2010 9:25:49 AM PDT by CygnusTheSwan ("Me fail English? That's unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum)
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