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Soft Drink Proposal Hard to Swallow

Nanny State on the march FORWARD.....

If I stayed awake day and night for one hundred years…I could never, ever have come up with a more fabulous blog issue than this one…honest!!! Referring to headlines….

“NYC proposes ban on large sodas at restaurants

Various size cups and sugar cubes are displayed at a news conference at New York's City Hall, Thursday, May 31, 2012. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in the city's restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity, an expansion of his administration's efforts to encourage healthy behavior by limiting residents' choices. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)”

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Note the term “expansion”…wonder if it has any relation to “forward”……

OK gang.  Let us sit back on this one…either have a great laugh or perhaps give it some serious thought.. another To Be or Not To Be issue no doubt.  Keep in mind, Mayor Bloomberg is serious as a heart attack.  So, so much control…makes one dizzy thinking about it.  And now, of all places in the world for such a deliberate in your face nanny state control effort…the Great City of New York that has suffered so much will now, no doubt, need to tighten their belts a bit every time they give any thought…what so ever…to having  a LARGE SODA or OTHER SUGARY DRINKS in the city’s restaurants, etc.  Wow!!  What a brilliant proposal…must have lost a lot of sleep coming up with this one.

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Now we may laugh or perhaps pause to look more closely at this proposal.  Perhaps folks might instead have an occupy moment rather than enter any of these businesses UNTIL the proposal itself is BANNED.  Just a thought honey child, just a thought.  Sometimes ya just gotta draw the line on  these darlings. Or, wait a minute, wait a minute…..they can always have “large soda drink speak easys” large cups being secreted over the State lines…ahhh yes, I can see it now.  We are losing it gang, definitely losing it!!!  If we go for this one, I can safely assume our elevators are no longer stopping at all floors!!!

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