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Menino Bans Sugary Drink Sales On Boston City Property
http://boston.cbslocal.com ^ | 04/07/2011 | n/a

Posted on 04/07/2011 11:29:07 AM PDT by massmike

Mayor Tom Menino issued an executive order to ban the sale of sugary drinks on Boston city property on Thursday.

“I want to make this a healthier choice, the easier choice in people’s daily lives, whether it’s the schools, the work sites or other places in the community,” Menino said.

The mayor’s office, along with the Boston Public Health Commission, said Menino is issuing this order because of the link between sugary drinks and rising obesity rates and health care costs.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: mumblesmenino
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To: CodeToad

Appearantly alcohol is still available.””

Which the human body metabolizes to sugar in order to process it.


41 posted on 04/07/2011 2:19:18 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: massmike; Eric Blair 2084; paltz; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; ...

“I vant to make zis a healthier choice, ze easier choice in people’ss daily livess, vether it is ze shkools, ze vork sitess or other placess in ze community,” Herr Menino said.

Nanny State PING!


42 posted on 04/07/2011 2:57:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Follow me on Twitter @mpetrie98)
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To: chris_bdba

I can attest to what you’re saying. My Mom is a diabetic, but one time, her blood sugar crashed to around 25. If I hadn’t called the ambulance, she might have gone into a coma or died.


43 posted on 04/07/2011 3:04:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Follow me on Twitter @mpetrie98)
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To: libertarian27

Gawd, she looks horrible. That shoore is what I want to wake up to every morning!


44 posted on 04/07/2011 3:11:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Follow me on Twitter @mpetrie98)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In a way I’m glad these health Nazis are getting a taste of their own medicine. Wheee! Banning smoking in bars, yippee. We warned people what would happen. Someday they will get around to something you DO like.


45 posted on 04/07/2011 3:22:05 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of commies. Now take away fats, salt and alcohol from them.


46 posted on 04/07/2011 3:31:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It can also happen fast for me and I do go as low as your Mom has.Unfortuantely I can still be walking around though but be acting a little off.These days I wear a 24 BG monitor that has an alarm if it starts to drop too fast so I do get a few mintues warning before things get too bad but not everyone is as lucky as I am and have decent insurance that covers the very expensive supplies.First one will have a seizure then just pass out but if left too long the organs can begin to fail and once the brain has nothing to feed it you have a stroke.


47 posted on 04/07/2011 4:59:44 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He’s an ass———ever hear him speak?

Unbelievable.


48 posted on 04/07/2011 5:02:07 PM PDT by Mears
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To: DB

>>Nothing quite like the tyrant that knows what’s best for you...

The quote you are looking for is one of those on my FR profile page. The smug wench pictured is one of those omnipotent moral busybodies:

‘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


49 posted on 04/07/2011 6:08:33 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


50 posted on 04/07/2011 7:59:08 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: massmike

City politicians are some of the worst politicians on the entire planet Earth, and this isn’t an opinion!


51 posted on 04/07/2011 11:43:13 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: massmike
Mumbles is a low functioning moron who is a physical mess.....he has Crohn's Disease an auto-immune disorder where his own body is rejecting itself (self loathing?) and is always blowing out a knee or something sinces he's morbidly obese

He's surrounded himself with toads like Ms Ferrer so that comparatively he doesn'tlook that bad,

Unfortunately for Tom every time he opens his moutn a stream of malaprops tumbles out.

It seems that every screwball idea Bloomberg has is parroted by Mumbles crew

The recent record of the Red Sox makes me believe that The Fates having already cursed us with nonsense like this ban have ramped up their wrath with Boston for having relected this over-the-hill turd.

52 posted on 04/08/2011 2:00:09 AM PDT by ninonitti
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To: ninonitti
You are prejudice. Not a cipality in this county fun Spacific Lantic would not kill person lie you to have a munspal fishal a is Honor Momo.

He doesn' need no fat kids in trouble here. Ya Mayamomo say tallk nice kid have idea that areproductively counta to what he does fun poina view good for himdem.

53 posted on 04/08/2011 8:48:12 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Qadafi and Obama share a common advantage. No organized opposition.)
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To: ninonitti

Don’t “frost his nose”, or else, he might “attack yhews wit portapotties”.


54 posted on 04/09/2011 12:23:30 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yes, that is quote.

Thank you.


55 posted on 04/10/2011 7:48:45 PM PDT by DB
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