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What will they Ban Next?
Townhall ^ | 12/20/06 | John Stossel

Posted on 12/20/2006 5:15:05 AM PST by Molly Pitcher

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To: Red Badger

"We should ban chocolate. It is a drug after all..."

Things at my house would definitely get ugly! (See tagline.)


41 posted on 12/20/2006 6:14:15 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: bws53

You forgot SALT. In the book, "The Death of Common Sense," OSHA actually fined a company for have a salt shaker in the employee lunch room that was NOT LABELED!!!


42 posted on 12/20/2006 6:14:59 AM PST by texaslil (and)
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To: Molly Pitcher

The food industry has turned us into a bunch of fat asses. Ooorah to NYC.


43 posted on 12/20/2006 6:14:59 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: Molly Pitcher; Gabz

This article has it all. A common sense argument, railing against the fascists at CSPI and a quote from Milton Friedman! Heaven! :)


44 posted on 12/20/2006 6:15:14 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Ben Chad

Thats a real conservative view-"Government please save me from that mean old food industry and myself."


45 posted on 12/20/2006 6:16:19 AM PST by John W
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To: knarf

The banned propellant was none other than the preeminent ozone depleter, R-12; it is non poisonous after all and we surely can't have that.


46 posted on 12/20/2006 6:17:02 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I really do despise CSPI.
47 posted on 12/20/2006 6:17:32 AM PST by Gabz (If we weren't crazy, we'd just all go insane.)
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To: Molly Pitcher

all of the smoking nazis that are so delighted to brand smokers as pariahs will be whistling a different tune when its their turn in the barrel.


48 posted on 12/20/2006 6:17:46 AM PST by Pietro
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To: SkiHatGuy
sounds like the movie "Demolition Man" and its depiction of future Los Angeles.

Be well, John Spartan.

Edgar Friendly: You see, according to Cocteau's plan I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

49 posted on 12/20/2006 6:19:10 AM PST by AFreeBird (If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
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To: Pietro

Alas, many of them are the same people.


50 posted on 12/20/2006 6:19:28 AM PST by Gabz (If we weren't crazy, we'd just all go insane.)
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To: Liberty Valance

Foldin' money?........First, the coins, then the paper..........


51 posted on 12/20/2006 6:19:29 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: unixfox

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52 posted on 12/20/2006 6:20:33 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Gabz
No wonder everything tastes like cardboard.
This is insane.
53 posted on 12/20/2006 6:20:45 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: SheLion

pssst!......Hey, buddy!.........Wanna buy some Hot Trans-Fats?....I can give you a good price!.............shhhh! Not so loud!..........


54 posted on 12/20/2006 6:20:53 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Molly Pitcher

trans fats, are a dangerous type of food put in our diets today not by choice. It is a manufactured fat, that is cheaper than butter, and other natural oils, that holds a certain consistency at room temperature.

When it gets into the body, the body does not know what to do with it. So it floats around in the blood stream until it ends up adhering to bloodstream walls, i.e. partially being responsible for arterosclerosis.

However in a free society, we should choose if we want those tasty snacks, other food items or not.

Have a nice day.


55 posted on 12/20/2006 6:23:30 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Gabz

When Crisco is outlawed, only outlaws (like us) will have Crisco, LOL!


56 posted on 12/20/2006 6:23:46 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Tell me about it!!!!

I still have more baking to do..........


57 posted on 12/20/2006 6:25:21 AM PST by Gabz (If we weren't crazy, we'd just all go insane.)
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To: Molly Pitcher
Gee, I'm all for good health, but shouldn't it be a matter of individual choice?

I like Stossel, but he is dead wrong. Transfats are poison. The health benefits from their elimination will be looked upon 20 years from now as a great step forward for the well-being of Americans.

58 posted on 12/20/2006 6:29:15 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

Maybe so. But, is this what the government of the City of New York should be working on?


59 posted on 12/20/2006 6:31:11 AM PST by John W
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To: misharu
There HAS to be a way to stop this insanity!!

Do what our forefathers did 399 years ago. Move

60 posted on 12/20/2006 6:31:17 AM PST by OBXWanderer
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