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Liberty from big soda (NY liberal nanny statism)
NY Daily News ^ | march 10, 2013 | marion nestle

Posted on 03/10/2013 1:00:22 PM PDT by lowbridge

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To: Iron Munro

Heh heh heh, I love you guys.


21 posted on 03/10/2013 2:46:20 PM PDT by Epsdude
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To: lowbridge
Where's Captain America when we need him?
22 posted on 03/10/2013 3:01:35 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: lowbridge
At the moment, it is up to you to make healthier choices

Great. So give me a 20-ounce option and let me choose not to buy it.

23 posted on 03/10/2013 3:03:18 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: GraceG
So-called "nanny-state" measures - like bans on driving while drunk, smoking in public places

Bans on driving while incapacitated aren't nannystatism. These acts cause real torts, but surprisingly many drunks make it home night after night accident free. They're only discovered during police sobriety check points. This proves that at the times where there is no check point in place that number of intoxicated drivers are passing through unnoticed.

So that nanny-statism isn't really that effective in the first place and we know the source is liquor stores and bars which generate too much revenue to be directly targeted. Government loves sin taxes and we know how prohibition turned out.

The second point she makes in her straw man argument is even sillier since second hand smoke isn't the killer the left claimed it to be. She's using the epitomy of liberal logic - false facts coupled with loose correlations amounting to the phrase, "I'm an elite and I'm here to help [control your life]."

24 posted on 03/10/2013 3:40:30 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: PubliusMM

The focus must be on definitions. Make the government define “healthy”. They can’t because nobody is certain what that is. My friend works out everyday, runs marathons and just had a heart attack.

Was he healthy? Is he now?

If the world of medicine isn’t certain what healthy is how can politicians know?

Medicine right now can define sick and they get that wrong often enought. There exists no definition for healthy.

When a definition doesn’t exist they flock to that because their entire agenda is undefined unless you understand that the goal is power.


25 posted on 03/10/2013 3:45:13 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Oh lord, that is funny. Thanks.


26 posted on 03/10/2013 4:49:38 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Epsdude
Heh heh heh, I love you guys.

We're all on O'Bozo's Bitter Clinger Drone List already so we might as well have a little fun while we can.


27 posted on 03/10/2013 6:30:48 PM PDT by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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To: lowbridge
Ash hole opinions like this is why I haven't read the Daily Snooze in fifteen years. Equating drinking 17oz sodas with “drunk driving” is beyond moronic.
28 posted on 03/11/2013 5:57:33 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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