Posted on 11/16/2008 6:03:41 AM PST by jimbo123
The city has come up with a plan to help you shake your salt habit, according to New York magazine.
In a closed-door gathering at Gracie Mansion late last month, health experts and food-industry representatives were told about Mayor Bloomberg's next crusade - an effort to reduce the salt in processed food by 20 percent over the next five years, the magazine reports in this week's issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
He’s really good, ain’t he? Huge budget crisis that will be far worse than he claims it to be and all those brains leaving town. Including mine, if I can pull this current gig off.
Taxes have only one direction to go and that is up...
and up..
and up.
I realize this may be off-topic but this is a quote from Bloomberg this week regarding his efforts to make taxis in NYC ‘green’.
“I think it’s more deeply troubling that they’re trying to kill our kids,” the mayor replied, saying hybrids would generate less pollution.
King Bloomberg I going to make another decree?
I think I’ll just stockpile salt. If this takes hold, I might be able to start a blackmarket business in salt —LOL! I won’t even have to report any income, since I’ll be under the radar (Like drug dealers....?)
THX-1138
First they came after smoking and no one cared..
Can I pack my salt shaker????
I wonder how the pro smoking ban freepers feel now..
Every time Mayor Bloom-ing-idiot, "IMPOSES" his will on New Yorkers, it gives me great satisfaction in knowing that the moonbat, morons, got what they deserve by choosing this nanny-state, elitist, nutjob.
Problem is this stuff already has it's foot in the door with various agencies in the Federal Government. FDA,EPA,HUD,Interstate Commerce “Clause” etc... all have potential “good intention” policies already enacted or ready to ponce with the right government.
I will keep my statement brief because if I don’t I will write a novel of a reply:
I live in New York City.
I guess salt is NYC’s biggest problem right now!
On the bright side, one doesn't have to worry about being sent to the salt mines for showing anti-Bloomberg behavior.
If Emperor Bloomberg says so....
and 'wiki' note:
. . .from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, including sexual desire.
It was the first feature-length film directed by Lucas, and a more developed, feature-length version of his student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the University of Southern California, based on a one and a quarter page treatment of an idea by Matthew Robbins.
The film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's then-new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” CS Lewis
Indeed, there are. But that, by turn, does not diminish the need to address the 'confounding' of this frivolous, rediculous considertion by a Mayor, who considers himself 'Presidential material'.
It is of course, the very source and 'seeding' of such ideas, that makes this worrisome. . .and when these misguided ideas are expressed; they should be dismantled quickly - with great ferocity, if necessary - and engaged 'humorously' as well.
Cities and states cannot regulate interstate commerce in this manner. He is a pushy and stupid dumbass.
At a wedding last night, 90% of the attendees were seriously overweight, if not obese. What’s it going to take to get this country in better physical shape?
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