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Bloomberg To Appeal Halt Of "Arbitrary And Capricious" Decision, Will Fight Valiantly To Curb New York Obesity
It took the NY Mayor's office a few brief minutes to respond to Judge Tingling's order, and announce it would promptly appeal the decision. Because apparently nobody thought of the children.
We plan to appeal the sugary drinks decision as soon as possible, and we are confident the measure will ultimately be upheld.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) March 11, 2013
We believe @nychealthy has the legal authority and responsibility to tackle causes of the obesity epidemic, which kills 5,000 NYers a year.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) March 11, 2013
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Look...over there...a distraction!
What's next, 97% of all shit sold in a grocery store?
bloomberg would be fine with the 32 oz. drinks so long as it used toxic aspertame and other GMO goodness...
Rumors are circulating that Bloomberg is meeting with Obama adminstration and DEA officials to have sugar declared an illegal and addictive drug...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_addiction
I say let them eat morphine...
"the obesity epidemic, which kills 5,000 NYers a year"
Yeah, but only the fat ones, so....
</sarc>
More people than terrorism then...
This whole so called 'issue' is bullshit and its more likely for the purpose of drawing attention away from ongoing Wall Street frauds. Fuck me runnin', how 'bout a coke vs. pepsi debate... sheesh.
No mention of free markets, just a judge's opinion on another politician.
You don’t lose the noise from liberal socialists until you get rid of them.
"liberal socialist"? kidding, right?
A syphilitic, dog-fucking puke, sure, but socialist?
Well I beleive Bloomberg is an idiot and this was just about the worst example of government overstepping I've ever seen.
He's beyond socialist and leaning towards tyranical.
The mayor gets the news he's not an emperor.....that's got to be devastating news.
Will be interesting to see the public response to serious talk about restricting calories.
Same as the response to talk about banning auto weapons, I would think.
Cheescake Factory business will increase.
The Heart Attack Grill in Vegas will have a long line out the door.
Try to restrict calories and the pubic will do the opposite.
Right...
How many people are killed each year by NYPD?
If Mayor Mike wants to protect New Yorkers, perhaps he should learn from the Chinese and throw 1200 pigs into the river.
Its up to 3,000 pigs now...lol...and I do believe this eugenicist (Bloomberg) would do it if he had the power.
But back to Shanghai, I understand they're having a helluva time pushing the garbage aside (styrofoam cups, plastic bottles and what not) trying to lasso, net, cane pole and stick with pitchforks to get these bloated porkers to shore. I mean, no sense in showing individual initiative, the Party said to fish out the pigs, fish the pigs we will!!!
Our favorite Chi-Com agent shitizen citizen still cannot be reached for comment on this...but I'm sure he'd say these are consumpzinating American pigs eternally blobbing up that had to die!
OK, so we have one confirmed "sane" person left in New York (the judge). Who's next to perform a heroic act of simple common sense?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
The latest corporate sponsoring initiative says Bloomberg's gonna lose his appeal
http://content.animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/rajeevbasu_ianc1-600...
Moar Fat.....drink more fructose with horsemeat with a side of E coli....mmmmm...Good!
An interesting insight into the thinking of globalist-marxist scum like Bloomberg. That's not 5,000 human beings who made lifestyle choices while they were on this Earth. That's 5,000 human cattle that serve him as either bragging rights or potential embarassment at Bilderberg meetings.
Bloomberg's no Marxist, dude, get an education, you sound like an idiot.
Was Jacob Schiff a Marxist? Or just while opportune?
Don't know enough about him to render any judgment, but it doesn't really look like it. Most Marxists are not members of the aristocracy which communism was intended to destroy.
But 'round these parts, we don't pay much attention to those kinds of details, eh? May as well be calling Bloomberg an Islamist for the accuracy.
"Marxist" is just a synonym for "person I hate" among the mouth-breathing regulars here.
Okay WTF! Am going long Sugar stoxxxxxxxx
Someone out there sure hates sugar.
Not sure if serious, but if so, that's just bullshit.
Definitely not serious but given the fucktards sailing the Ship of State one never knows...
War on Obesity = larger police state + more private prisons with the goal of lower future spending on Healthcare. What's not to like?
Hey, if the EPA can make CO2 a pollutant, then everything is on the table...if its for our own good.
Nevermind that sugar, and refined carbs are recommended by the USDA approved food pyramid?
What is the next surreal development? Will NYC sue the USDA?
I'm OK for now, but if he bans short skirts and high heels, I may join a Political Action Committee!
Just the latest entry in the sweepstakes...
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IF IT'S JEWS ~ IT'S NEWS
Woot!
Good Ole Francis.
Never let a good chance to insult Jews pass you by....
Last time I checked ~ there is not a jew on the planet that I'm stealing money from [unless you want to account for the gold at the bottom of the lake that I capsized my boat last year in order to keep them from stealing it from me]... But THANKS for your interest...
francis how do you account for the millions of non jews that steal your money everyday?.............or do you just ignore them and focus only on the JOOS.............francis, i like you, but we need to work on this unhealthy obsession of yours..................perhaps i can introduce you to some JOOS who i promise wont steal your money....just go out, have a drink or two or three and discuss how global elitists...some JOOS, some NOT....are ruining the world..........
Killing of international peace activists in cold blood, passport & identity theft, organ trafficking, money laundering, espionage, land grabbing, occupation, apartheid, concentration camps, torture, massacres, cold-blooded murders, use of illegal weapons, baby killing, use of human shields, shelling of schools & hospitals, bulldozing of homes with civilians buried alive, purposeful destruction of ambulances full of wounded children – nearly every type of imaginable & unimaginable crime. just another day for a jew
Oddly, the soda from Mexico, with the real sugar in it, only come in 16 oz bottles
And it makes the best Jack n Coke!
Not in mi barrio, ese. Compro 1.5L Jarritos all the time.
Come to think of it, there's plenty of 'Merkin soda with sugar now, too. Sierra Mist was the last one I had that was using regular old "sucrose" sugar. It was even part of the advertising.
Perhaps he should saunter over to the NYFED and clean up the obese obscene fat asses there. Bloomie missed his calling. If he was born 90 years earlier, he could have been the only Jewish Gestapo officer in the Reich.
We plan to appeal the sugary drinks decision as soon as possible...
The "sugary drinks decision." This really is fucking Bizarroworld.
Kafka meets Monty Python.
Tell me about it. Hard to find anything lacking fucking HFCS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup
http://open.salon.com/blog/sarbonn/2011/03/17/its_amazing_how_many_products_have_high_fructose_corn_syrup_in_them
“With stunning insouciance, Americans have given up the rule of law that protected their liberty. The silence of law schools and bar associations indicates that the age of liberty has passed. In short, the American people support tyranny. And that’s where they are headed.”
- John Craig Roberts was the under-secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration
If you rely on the government to protect you, who will protect you from the government.
Mike Bloomberg is the ultimate John Galt. Self-made and self-assured, he strides the globe like a giant. He is morally superior to you because his wealth is tallied in the billions. He bought the mayoralty and he owns it. Welcome to the libertarian paradise of New York City.
I take it you never read the book.
John Galt swore by his own life and his love of it that he would not ask another man to live for his (Galt's own) sake.
I don't think you know much about John Galt.
Can you snort sugar?
Yes.
God no! Now I don't have any stupid and petty distractions to occupy my mind? Oh wait, the sequester...never mind.
NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/nypd_shoots_and_kills_third_young...
All Empire State Building Shooting Victims Were Wounded By Police
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/25/justice/new-york-empire-state-shooting
Mother Of Man Killed By NYPD Gets Billed For Dent in Police Car Caused Son's Body
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/mother-of-man-killed-by-nypd-gets.ht...
NYPD Officer Conspired To Cook and Eat Women
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/25/us/new-york-officer-cannibalism
Witness Claims NYPD Cruiser That Killed Japanese Student Did Not Have Lights and Sirens On
http://gothamist.com/2013/03/05/witness_says_cop_car_that_killed_ja.php
...but please Bloomy, protect me from obesity...
Also, my favorite is: if the po-po doesn't file a complaint about the crime, the crime never happened.
Lots of rapes in Brooklyn over the past decade weren't criminal because the cops just threw away the paperwork. That obviously has something to do with NYC's low crime-rate.
Hitler sent Von Stauffenberg's widow a bill for the execution of her husband.
which kills 5,000 NYers a year.
OMG that's like 1.5 9/11 every year!!
/Guiliani 9/11 9/11 9/11!
BLOOMBERG IS AFUKIN RETARD.
Good thats 250k in food stamps saved per year, nevermind welfare, obamaphone, electrical, heating, and rent subsidies....i say, let them eat soda!
Sorry hedgeless, this is not, at all, a distraction! This is the first organized attempt at holding the food industry hostage so as to eventually extort a "sin/fat/unhealthy tax on foods that may, or appear, to cause health issues. How else do you think the Dems plan to pay for their healthcare scheme?
Fuck you Bloomberg.
who the hell voted this guy in? the people of this country are losing there minds one big gulp at a time
I believe DIEbold got him into office.
Do you mean the company DIEbold that makes the ATM machines for banks, or the company DIEbold that makes the voting machines for banks?
Yes, that's the one.
"who the hell voted this guy in? the people of this country are losing there minds one big gulp at a time"
The same group of voters that elected the carpetbagging Hilary Clinton to be their Senator after living there for three months.
There aint a whole lotta common sense there.
coming soon: amount of time your tv can be on in a day. how many big macs you can eat in a year. mandatory exercise programs, etc, etc, etc....
Textbook Jewish tyranny, right out of the Torah and the Talmud.
I would like to expand upon your comment. Something more like: "Fuck you Bloomberg, you fucking dirt-eating bag of monkey shit. If you were to eat a bullet tonight, the whole world would instantly be a better place, you fucking petty, useless, pontificating tyrant."
They're now gonna make the judge an offer he can't refuse.
A horse head in his bed and a drone outside his window.
You never know what powerful allies the judge has. Maybe Batman.
The mob is coming for you right after Bernanke when it all hits the fan.
NYC Healthy probably all appointed at recess.
I'D LIKE TO ORDER 48 16OZ SUGARY BEVERAGES THANK YOU. NO, MAKE THAT 107, I'M PARCHED
..and Bloomberg wins the appeal.
I'm delighted Bloomberg has my back. Or should I say that Bloomberg has my fat ass?
/sarc
<Please mayor, stop helping me so much.>
Too bad there's no sugar in these drinks they are banning. There is only high fructose corn syrup.
I keep wondering why they are using that word.
Perhaps the corn syrup lobby is trying to use this as a way to villinize sugar and make people think all those sodas have sugar in them when its really that crappy HFCS?
Hmmm. 5000 people die from surgary drinks in a city of over 8 million. Just a bit higher than what Senator Graham said drone strikes killed.
soda drinkers, the new terrorists
But the soda drinkers have a choice.
Not if Comrade Bloomberg has his way....
Sounds like that is more than get killed by "assualt rifles"
If you believe his figures, then yes. It's well more than ten times the entire death toll from rifles, let alone "assault rifles" for the entire country.
Really puts that threat into perspective, doesn't it?
The battleground for idiotic gun control is in Colorado, Illinois, and to a lesser extent, Minnesota.
My mouse finger hurts today. Too many clicks in one day
If you wait a few months, Bloomberg's manditory exercise program will fix that little mouse finger for you.
LOL:
Yeah, but I'd rather die of drinking one-too-many sodas rather than 16 year old black males in NYC getting shot one-too-many (11!) times by NYPD.
But soda!
Yeah, just have the nyc police shoot anyone with an oversized soda.
2 straws, or more, in an oversized soda make them perfectly legal...
Only if the cup has a dividing wall built into it... hey... I think I just came up with a $1MM idea!...
Yeh, well, that idea sucks !!!
No wonder the death rate is at 5000 for large soda drinkers.
One side of the statistics... how many 16+ oz. sugary sodas are consumed ea. year without a fatality?
Fuck off Bloomberg and let people live their lives the way they want to.
Or an 89 year-old woman, in the case of the God-awful Warminster, PA po-po.
The Cops should be shooting a whole lot more 16 year old 'Trayvons', either that, or what passes for parents in the hood should start doing some actual parenting!
When you outlaw large sugary drinks, only outlaws have large sugary drinks.
"From my cold, dead, plump, syrupy hands..."
Outlawing Mentos in 5,4,3...
Funniest comment I've seen on ZH for a while..
P.S. Fuck you, Bloomberg - I'm a pretty healthy eater normally, but you don't get to tell me that I can't drink a certain measure of fizzy drink you fucking nanny state fascist. I'm a fucking grown adult. This has to stop!
If unhealthy lard-asses want to eat themselves into an early grave then that's their bag. I don't see a ban on horse riding, snowboarding, mountain climbing, driving...! How may NY'er die every year in car accidents? Does he propose to ban cars.... how many NYers die every year as a result of inactivity... does he plan to force people into the gym at gunpoint...
..get you fucking nose out of my life and look up the definition of 'liberty' you fucking prick
On your lead line use quotes with that type or you will get no comments registered. Milestones
Mayor's argument will be that the ban, while not valid as a ban, is valid if you call it a tax. U.S. Supreme Court will reverse lower court decision.
How about stopping the fascist "Stop-n-Frisk" policy under which 1800 people are stopped everyday in New York and frisked? That will never happen. Sheeple have no rights.
They hate us for our freedoms.
How about a citizen of NYC stopping and frisking Bloomberg?
Bloomy should go after all of the morbidly obese Obama voters who are too stupid to spend their foodstamp money on nutritional food FOR THEIR CHILDREN
"Dimme dat FILL IT MIG NONS"
To top it off, we have to give the kids a free lunch at school after the taxpayers already paid fo his breffus lunch an dinna.......
ROFL
"Dimme dat FILL IT MIG NONS"
Brahahahaha
Right... The prince is only looking out for the the good of the proles. Is there any way NYers can impeach this guy? I guess not since he already got the law change to let him have a 3rd term in the first place. Next step is getting the law change to "divine right of mayors"
So Bloomie thinks sugary drinks kill people?
Funny, I haven't seen any 22 oz. cups of soda walking the streets forcing themselves down people's gullets (?).
Neither have I seen any handguns or rifles floating by some mysterious force three feet off the ground spitting bullets out.
I once read a story about a Sten gun doing that during WWII--It started to run away on the person firing it so he threw it on the ground (bad move) and it spun itself around the ground, firing in all directions until empty. Kind of scary. But yes, it was initially triggered by a person. And who knows if the story is really true or not.
http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/personal-finance/mortgages-real-estate/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com/2013/03/11/canadian-house-prices-could-fall-44-with-severe-economic-shock-moodys
yah they will want to appeal this article too...
Canadian house prices could fall 44% with severe economic shock: Moody’s
but but but the canadian press tells canadians their banks are extra special and extra good because they're smart conservative canadian banks.
we have grace too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGiFqAyg188
Canada is a socialist paradise.
Socialist paradise? No...no way.
"...which kills 5,000 Matrix batteries a year."
"Mmm... Ignorance is bliss..." (cue harp)
People of the North Korean enclave Nju Yjawk, listen to yoh almighty leader! Comrades, I command you!
Signed: Philantropist Maximus Bloombehlg
Just use central bank logic.
Threaten to drone all the people who drink soda's in a large size cups.
Problem solved.
More "self-given" authority nonsense. You have to stand up for yourselves or roll over like a slave. This is no other possible choice, because "they" will make the choice for you.
I can see it happening in urban/suburban areas, I don't think they'll have the stomach to take the rural areas.
Charlie is giving in inch by inch house by house...to paraphrase Full Metal Jacket, Walter J Schneidovsky to Raptorman.
Bloomberg is not going to appeal, he is going to spend the public's tax money to appeal a ruling that the people don't want.
Just out of curiousity, what's the body count of the NYPD in an average year?
50K due to all causes in 2010 for NYC (last year stats available.) NYPD killed 9 people in 2011. 2012 report not yet available.
Give us MOAR!!!
Not high enough.
Maybe if they put as much effort into financial sector reform as they do meaningless soda pop bans we might just be better off.
When does NYC release it's officially sanctioned hairstyles?
This is such a waste of time I can hardly be bothered to
This gong show isn't even worthy of the tag "bread and circuses". They're not even trying any more.
I thought they hated us for our freedoms. I'm getting so confused.
More nonsense from sore loser, Boomberg. Cigarettes and alcohol kill more people than obesity. But Boomberg wants the tax from sales to pursue his vanity projects ... like defying a sensible judge ...at the expense of taxpayers, and the rising death toll from addictions.
What he is really angling for is 'behavioral conditioning', as a clever ZHer said on the other thread. Fascist Boomberg et al want everyone to submit to their one true authoritarian voice. FORWARD ... to the gulags, eventually.
He'll keep the lethal substances that earn tax for the state, and grandstand over the petty issue of sugary drinks. Prat. Fascist.
Dear Mayor,
please find something better to take a stand on, like....TAKING CARE OF THE 27,000 HOMELESS IN NYC!!! Now, go stand in the designated time-out corner and sip on your Big Gulp.
Fuck Bloomberg raw I hope a bunch of HIV infested superhung black men get hold of him. I'm not gay but id love to see the video of it. After a few beers id probably piss my self laughing. Then force him to drink a gallon of fucking pop at gun point.
Hey, mayor mike: put your might force on repealing the department of agriculture.
Then you will have my support even if am not NYC resident.
I'm not sure what percentage of N.Y city GDP> sales tax revenue is derived from the food services business, but I'll bet it's pretty substantial!
Way to go Bloomturd! <sarc> Challenge the judges decision and really confuse the fuck out of everyone in N.Y. so they don't want to spend money on anything outside of the local grocery store.
Mr. Mayor, haven't you heard? A man's got to know his limitations.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
Bloomberg should be made to pay all legal fees for the appeal. Not that the cost would mean anything to him. But the poor taxpayer is gonna have to pick up the tab (no pun intended)(do they still make Tab?) for both sides of this idiots war on soda pop.
"Sugary drinks decision."
Probably goes without saying but I'm gonna say it anyway - high fructose corn syrup isn't sugar, just as cigarettes aren't tobacco.
Are these people stupid or merely venal?
If the law ( which I haven't read) makes 'sugary" drinks illegal then HFCS drinks are good to go.
I believe the NYC Mayor's office has the authority to suck it.
5000/year less fatties around is good for the country. What is your problem Bloomberger?
Call me suspicious, but when the same people are telling me that there are way too many of us on this planet, that our healthcare system is broke and there is no money for Social Security and we are aborting millions of unborn babies and we are supplying an immense number of food stamps to be spent on god knows what, that maybe, just maybe, they don't have MY best interests at heart.
Avatar = + 1000
Cartoon Bloomberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCHD41I7ok
Well, I'm off to work to serve sugary soft drinks and BOOZE!
Ha Ha - fuck you Bloomberg - you cocksucker in miniature...
I was arbitrary and capricious once, but my wife told me to stop it. She said that was her job.
OT but... where's williambanzai7when you need him? Federal Reserve has a new flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/federalreserve
You think they'll ban Double Quarter Pounders, or Baconators? Nope.
A common sense overturning of Bloomberg's folley was just the beginning. In Utah they are trying to tax e-cigarettes the same as regular cigarettes and they are trying to make it illegal for someone 16-18 years old from using a cell phone while driving.
There is no shortage of ignorance in our elected leaders.
Progressives always believe they have the responsbility, and can always claim they have the legal authority, or simply ignore it and invoke a higher power like "the good of the people". And the people go along with it. Because the progressives know what the people want to hear and have no problem saying it, no matter how unbelievably stupid or false or wrong. People believe obesity is a bad thing, people want someone to swoop in and make it go away, people support sociopaths like Bloomberg who say the magic words. They appeal to the fact that no one believes their identified social ill (in this case, obesity) is a good thing, and then make the giant leap from there to the position that they have the right to do whatever it takes to make things better. And people care more about their problems than vague bourgeois notions like "law" and "justice" and "liberty", they will side with the progressives, who offer state-reliance and state-responsibility, over the libertarians, who offer self-reliance and self-responsibility, every single time. Because it feels good to go a' moral crusading and to abdicate personal responsibility and believe in a savior, and because our species has a predisposition toward sympathetic magic and a weak, myopic, hyperlocal concept of causality. If we just ban this one simple thing, this set of interrelated, complex economic, medical, social, cultural, and perhaps political problems will go away forever! This is magical "silver bullet" thinking.
Why is this so hard to understand? This same soap opera bullshit has been played out millions of times.
The MSM media constantly cries:
"The Children are hungery !"....NYC needs more money (higher taxes / fees, etc).
"There is an obesity crisis !" ....NYC needs Gov't telling them what to consume, how to exercise.
Are some people eating all of the children's food ?
This is all bulls*it.
Most people in NYC run / walk their asses off each and every day.
Something else is in play here.
Sooo, is Bloomberg raaaciiiist for disagreeing with a black judge? Where's Chris Matthews to interpret this code for us?