if you drink 32 ounces of Coca-Cola, you’ll rack up 388 calories. A 20 ounce Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks has 500. Both aren’t good for you, but the Mocha’s worse. The difference is that the kinds of people who want to use government to save ignorant Americans from the harms of soft drinks are the kinds of people prefer an Iced White Chocolate Mocha to a Coca-Cola.
As Jonah Goldberg says, when it comes to culture wars, the left is the aggressor.
So the next volley is sweeter Coke?
Obama can kill you at will with drones and most libertarians are concerned with Bloomberg trying to stop the denizens of his city from falling into the uncanny valley.
Are you nuts? The only people talking about drone strikes are libertarians, and the person to bring the most attention to the issue was Rand Paul, the most famous libertarian in politics. These issues are all connected: the same servile mind that is okay with Herr Bloomberg putting his little hands all over their food is the one that assumes Obama and his bureaucrats know what they’re doing with drone strikes. What business is it of Bloomberg to care one way or the other what New Yorkers decide to eat or drink?
*Ahem*
http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=6365
Code Pink appears to be one of the few leftie organizations that honorably kept up the fight, but what about all their brethren that disappeared once Bush left office? They could have actually done something about these issues after 2008, when they had control of both houses of congress and the presidency, but did nothing. How many of them have since taken Obama up on these issues?
“These issues are all connected: the same servile mind that is okay with Herr Bloomberg putting his little hands all over their food is the one that assumes Obama and his bureaucrats know what they’re doing with drone strikes.”
Citation?
“What business is it of Bloomberg to care one way or the other what New Yorkers decide to eat or drink?”
Absurd. He was elected to craft their laws. If people don’t like it, they can vote against him or move. America is one of the fattest, grossest countries on earth and any steps to change that are appreciated.
“Citation?”
The Servile Mind, enjoy. 🙂
“Absurd. He was elected to craft their laws. If people don’t like it, they can vote against him or move. America is one of the fattest, grossest countries on earth and any steps to change that are appreciated.”
Yes, so absurd, that the law was then barred from being enforced because they didn’t have the authority to “limit or ban a legal item under the guise of ‘controlling chronic disease'”, not to mention this law being “fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences:”
“it applies to some but not all food establishments in the City, it excludes other beverages that have significantly higher concentrations of sugar sweeteners and/or calories on suspect grounds, and the loopholes inherent in the Rule, including but not limited to no limitations on re-fills, defeat and/or serve to gut the purpose of the Rule.”
The only absurdity here is how you have no problem enforcing your aesthetic preferences on the fat populace yet seem to be worried about the theoretic possibility of getting killed by drones. While both are worthy of outrage, the former was actually on the verge of happening and if you are happy to give Bloomberg that power, well, what’s a few more drones?
Thanks for the link! This is one of my favorite blogs, so it’s super cool to see my post on it.