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Posted 13 September 2012 - 10:16 AM

America unites in contempt for loathsome nanny-state mayor

The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited

New York City Health Commissioner and Chief Busybody Thomas Farley’s announced today that he personally will ban soda pop sold in quantities the good doctor finds obscene.

The masses are unable to come to any decision without first referring to a government rule or to somebody holding a PhD.


Farley says: "Obesity "leads" to the deaths of nearly 6,000 New Yorkers a year"

Farley, who knows his Orwell, knew not to say, “Obesity causes 6,000 deaths” but merely that “Obesity is weakly correlated with 6,000 deaths.” But Farley forgot that something always causes death (or perhaps like many thin people he cannot imagine dying): every dead person died of something. He also forgot that there are many more fat people than thin people.

Oh, and Farley also forgot that there is some evidence that fat people, though perhaps not those who suffer from gluttony or who are grossly obese, tend to live longer lives than thin people.

So, fatties should lay aside their fudgesicles and soda pop and instead take up the New York Times or jogging and become a thin person—who will die of a different malady.

In other words, fat people can sacrifice that which makes them happy for that which makes them unhappy (i.e. the NYT). In doing this, they will still die, perhaps even sooner, but they will die as thin people, and thinness is its own reward.


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Posted 03 October 2012 - 12:37 PM

A Florida school district is considering a plan to install surveillance cameras on cafeteria trash cans to monitor what kids are throwing away – after they discovered that students were tossing out their federally-mandated fruits and vegetables.

The Lake County School Board said more than $75,000 worth of vegetables have been thrown in the garbage. The veggies and fresh fruit are part of the administration’s policy to force schools to provide healthy produce in lunch rooms.


http://radio.foxnews...ng-veggies.html


What could go wrong?"

We are going to be gifted with a health care plan that we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don't,

which reportedly covers 10 million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman doesn't understand it, passed by Congress, that didn't read it, but exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,

for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese

and financed by a country that is broke.


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Posted 14 September 2013 - 09:24 AM

Progressivism — is a worldview that seeks to use the state to support its preferred values and culture.

Which is why socially liberal bureaucrats in D.C. want to make you wait 24 hours to get a tattoo of a baby on your arm, but there’s no waiting to have an abortion.

Who else do people think are behind efforts to ban big sodas or sue hairdressers for charging women more than men? Who harasses little kids for making toy guns out of sticks, Pop Tarts, or their own fingers? Who wants to regulate the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the beverages you drink? Who wants to control your thermostat? Take your guns? Your cigarettes? Heck, your candy cigarettes?

Who’s in favor of speech codes on campuses and “hate crime” laws everywhere? Who’s in favor of free speech when it comes to taxpayer-subsidized “art” and pornography (so long as you use a condom, if liberals get their way) but then bang their spoons on their high chairs for strict regulations when it comes to political speech? Who loves meddling, finger-wagging billionaires like Michael Bloomberg when they use state power and taxpayer money to herd, bully, and nudge people but thinks billionaires like the Koch brothers who want to shrink government are the root of all tyranny?

At the national level, who bypassed Congress to empower the EPA to regulate the atmosphere? Oh, and who pushed Obamacare on a country that didn’t want it? Who defends bending the entire country — including religious institutions — into a national health-care scheme dedicated to the proposition of live and let live so long as you live the way the Department of Health and Human Services says you should?



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Posted 25 April 2014 - 07:59 AM

Comedienne refuses to apologize for telling jokes

In our hypersensitive, self-righteous, constantly offended society, an 80-year-old woman with cojones shall lead us.


Joan Rivers isn’t backing down from her latest controversial comments…

Forcing comedians to genuflect to whatever group doesn’t like their jokes is stupid. If comedians allow it to happen, it bodes poorly for the rest of us and our ability to say a darn thing without being hounded out of our livelihoods.



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