[Massachusetts] Lawmakers may ban trans fats statewide

Concord Monitor ^ | 12/20/2006 | STEVE LeBLANC

[cripplecreek]

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".

[Vaquero]

Transfat Teddy with cone

[wbill]

We need more people like Dennis Leary in the world.

Not many more, but more nonetheless.

[D.P.Roberts]

Follow the money.

[SouthTexas]

My first thought!

[RexBeach]

You know what's really "killing people" in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? High taxes and slovenly legislators who get paid too much. You won't find a lot slim people in the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth. These sloppy solons should worry more about getting fat out of the Commonwealth's budget.

[cripplecreek]

The movie was surprisingly prophetic wasn't it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Sounds like a ringing endorsement for Romney.

[wbill]

Typically, I don't look to Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes Shoot-em-Ups for Enlightened Social Commentary.

But, yep, it was pretty much right on. I hope that Commercial Jingles don't become a form of pop music.

[AbeKrieger]

How about a ban on extramarital sex and drug use. Nah, let's hand out condoms and clean needles and look the other way.

[Just A Nobody]

And the beat goes on..............

[Gabz]

It sure does, doesn't it!!!

[sgtbono2002]

First they came for the cigarette smokers, but I didnt smoke. So I didnt speak out

Then they came for the gun owners, but I didnt own a gun ,so I didnt speak out.

Then they cancelled health insurance for the motorcycle riders, but I didnt ride a motorcycle,so I didnt speak out

Then they banned food and no one was left to speak out.

[Just A Nobody]

Time to bring out a couple of my favorite quotes.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.

"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal."
- Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU

All this nanny statism is not about what is best for us.

[sergeantdave]

This, of course, is fascism - government control of private property for the collective Marxist common good, as defined by the state. And the state will find more and more reasons to take control of private property. Regulation of your homes is next. America is about individual rights, not the rights of groups, the mob or the collective. The consitution is filled with dozens of examples of individual rights, but who reads documents written by dead white guys anymore?


People ought to read a bit of history to see how fascism turned out in Europe before this goes too far.

[tiger-one]

He had his chance..Ride into the sunset Mitt

[Gabz]

All this nanny statism is not about what is best for us.

But it is still shocking to see just how many actually do embrace it.

[007girl]

"You know not to eat hamburgers and cheeseburgers every day. That's just common sense."

[Just A Nobody]

But it is still shocking to see just how many actually do embrace it.

It is downright terrifying, IMO.