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Banning large sugar sweetened drinks is a start [The nanny statist speaks.]
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| 6/15/12
| Mandy Huggins, MD
Posted on 06/16/2012 11:39:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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*facepalm*
The comments are interesting split between freedom-lovers and nanny-staters. John Stuart Mill is quoted.
To: Slings and Arrows
THIS BIG DRINK IS MAKING ME FAT! MAKE THEM STOP SELLING IT!
Or, you know, buy a smaller drink, or don’t drink it, or whatever you do, don’t get six refills while you’re at the restaurant. Or even better, how about firing each and every stupid idiot who thinks that this is a power that the city or ANYONE should have?
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posted on
06/17/2012 12:20:40 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kingu
It's For Your Own GoodTM.
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posted on
06/17/2012 12:38:06 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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Who appointed Dr Mandy-twit Dictator?
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posted on
06/17/2012 1:17:46 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: Slings and Arrows
The size of a bagel has increased three fold in the last 20 years.Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, a bagel at the local deli was only as big as a Cheerio.
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posted on
06/17/2012 1:33:18 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/17/2012 1:37:55 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/17/2012 1:50:39 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: BigEdLB
I like the song.
Dr Musso-Mandy is self-appointed, of course.
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posted on
06/17/2012 2:24:28 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Fresh Wind
Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, a bagel at the local deli was only as big as a Cheerio.And you had to five miles in a blizzard to get it. Uphill! BOTH WAYS!
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posted on
06/17/2012 2:32:44 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/17/2012 2:33:54 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; ...
Should we encourage personal freedoms that can, and do, exacerbate these conditions? Especially if our tax money is funding them?And that gets to the point of the matter, as Eric Blair 2084 has said. When the government is taking care of people's health, the taxpayers and government eventually see a duty to limit people's choices in order to save money.
Let's hope the Supremes overturn Obamacare.
Nanny State PING!
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posted on
06/17/2012 2:52:51 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Do these bans apply to all the amnestied illegals, too, or to just us lowly citizens?
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posted on
06/17/2012 3:04:05 AM PDT
by
kevao
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:10:19 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:17:50 AM PDT
by
Rocky
(Obama is pure evil)
To: Slings and Arrows
I don't think Dr. Stalin er Huggins goes far enough. I demand not only banning a lot of "comfort" foods, I think we should force grocery stores to sell only government approved foods and have "meal raids" where a newly created government agency to deal with these issues would have troops selecting homes at random to make sure people were eating properly.
Anyone found not eating government prescribed food stuffs would face lengthy imprisonment and fines. Children of the offending families would be given to government agencies. The sentences would be issued by a special court of food and meal officers, and there would be no appeals. Sounds like a democratic process to me. (smirk)
To: Slings and Arrows
John Stuart Mill is quoted And misunderstood. Mill goes to considerable length to point out that the argument of "harm to others" only applies if it is a specific quantifiable harm to identifiable individual(s) not a amorphous general society.
Also one quite pertinent statement
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people - JS Mill
Society reformers take note
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:34:17 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.- H. L. Mencken)
To: Slings and Arrows
I lost my taste for soda when I was in my 40’s, don’t drink coffee anymore and i just drink tea most of the time.
You’re either free or you are not. It is always the liberals that want to enslave you, and voting them in will always invite them to put chains on you.
However, I would severely limit what food stamp recipients could buy. I get disgusted watching overweight people buy crap on my dime.
Blessings, Bobo
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:37:07 AM PDT
by
bobo1
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:37:35 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Slings and Arrows
And the winner will be....the retailers selling soda in 15-ounce cups, or smaller, for the same, or higher, price.
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:42:52 AM PDT
by
radioone
To: Slings and Arrows
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog is.” —G. K. Chesterton
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posted on
06/17/2012 4:43:58 AM PDT
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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