BIDEN: Corn Syrup, Coal Power More Dangerous Than Terrorism

Mr. Peabody, set the Wayback Machine to 2007.

BILL MAHER: Senator Biden, forgetting about the upcoming Iowa Caucus for just a moment, which would you honestly say is more like to contribute to the death of your average American: a terrorist strike, high-fructose corn syrup, or air that has too much coal in it?


BIDEN: Air that has too much coal in it, corn syrup next, then a terrorist attack, but that is not to diminish in any way the fact that a terrorist attack is real. It is not an existential threat to bringing down the country, but it does have the capacity still to kill thousands of people. But hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are shortened because of coal plants, coal-fired plants, and because of corn syrup.

One. Heartbeat. Away. From. The. Presidency.

Stand up, Chuck!


Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

Judge tells scale-model, would-be dictator Napoleon Bloomberg to take his soda ban and stuff it

Major kudos are due Judge Milton Tingling, who metaphorically pimp-slapped the height-challenged mayor of New York.

A state judge on Monday stopped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration from banning the sale of large sugary drinks at New York City restaurants and other venues, a major defeat for a mayor who has made public-health initiatives a cornerstone of his tenure.

The city is "enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations," wrote New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling, blocking the rules one day before they would have taken effect. The city's chief counsel, Michael Cardozo, pledged to quickly appeal the ruling.

In halting the drink rules, Judge Tingling noted that the incoming sugary drink regulations were "fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences" that would be difficult to enforce with consistency "even within a particular city block, much less the city as a whole."

...In his ruling, Judge Tingling found the Board of Health's mission is to protect New Yorkers by providing regulations that protect against diseases. Those powers, he argued, don't include the authority to "limit or ban a legal item under the guise of 'controlling chronic disease.' "

...Across New York City, restaurants, bars and movie theaters had already started bracing for the change... Brother Jimmy's BBQ, a chain with five locations in the city, had already ordered 1,000 new glasses for soft drinks at their five New York City locations. The restaurants serve soda in 24-oz. glasses, CEO Josh Lebowitz said earlier this month—8 oz. more than city's new rules.

Bloomturd must have had an inkling this decision was going to come down. On Sunday, visiting the little-known and lesser-watched CBS Sunday show -- which I believe is called Sunday Morning With Some Really Old Dude, if memory serves -- Bloomberg denied his ban was a ban.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg assured Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer that his soft-drink size restriction that goes into effect this week is just “portion control,” and not a ban...

He said that ... government “is reminding you what’s in your interest” as opposed to companies motivated by profits. He also told New Yorkers that “it’s totally your choice” how much soda you want to have, as long as they are willing to make multiple purchases of 16-ounce sodas.

Unfortunately for many businesses, the expensive changes to their business mandated by Mayor Mussolini had already taken their toll:

Monday is the last day New Yorkers will be able to buy super-sized sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues and street carts in New York City.

The cola crackdown goes into effect on Tuesday. The new regulation puts a 16-ounce limit on sugary drinks and applies to both bottled and fountain drinks... establishments like Dunkin’ Donuts have posted colorful fliers explaining the complex rules surrounding coffee... For example, Lattes are exempt because they’re more than half milk and it’s OK for customers to fill their own cups of large coffee with all the sugar they want.

Starbucks announced it plans to continue offering 20 ounce venti-sized drinks because of the milk content. Like Dunkin’ Donuts, customers will also be able to add their own sugar to their coffee...

Worse still, Mini-Mayor had "plans to ambush stores with inspectors toting 17-ounce measuring cups":

Come Tuesday city inspectors will be armed with 17-ounce cups to police New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial new law banning large sodas and other sugary drinks.

The Health Department will begin implementing routine inspections to make sure eateries, including sit down restaurants and fast food chains, are not selling sugary beverages in servings larger than 16 ounces.

Those inspectors will have specially ordered measuring cups to help them enforce the new rule, Deputy Health Commissioner Daniel Kass said in an affidavit recently filed as part of the legal challenge to Bloomberg’s anti-big-soda policy.

Soft-drink size is the mayor's top priority at the same time that the public school system for which he is responsible has an unbelievable 80 percent illiteracy rate.

This man exhibits all the traits of a very sick individual and I sincerely hope he seeks professional help.

CRACKDOWN: Mayor Bloomberg Unveils NYPD Food Felonies Unit (FFU) to Persuade Citizens to Make Better Food Choices

Spackle News Network - Citing poor compliance with his regulations on salt, soft drinks and styrofoam, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg today unveiled the NYPD's Food Felonies Unit. FFU officials -- who will wear distinctive, knee-length black leather coats and all-black uniforms -- will help guide citizens' food and paper product choices.


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THE TAKEOUT SOFT DRINK MENACE: Michael Bloomberg bans 2-liter soda bottles and mixers in nightclubs

I would love to get a psychiatric workup of New York City's troubled mayor. It would be fascinating to know more about his bizarre, maniacal need to control people, whether it's banning salt, or painkillers in hospitals, or guns, or even his penchant for distributing abortifacients to schoolchildren without informing parents.

Now the mayor's infamous war on soda has expanded:

Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid’s birthday party and some bottle-service mixers at your favorite nightclub.

They’d violate Mayor Bloomberg’s new rules, which prohibit eateries from serving or selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces... Bloomberg’s soda smackdown follows his attacks on salt, sugar, trans fat, smoking and even baby formula.

...The city Health Department last week began sending brochures to businesses that would be affected by the latest ban, including restaurants, bars and any “food service” establishment subject to letter grades... And merchants were shocked to see the broad sweep of the new rules.

...Typically, a pizzeria charges $3 for a 2-liter bottle of Coke. But under the ban, customers would have to buy six 12-ounce cans at a total cost of $7.50 to get an equivalent amount of soda... It will also trash more plastic into the environment.

...And if you’re looking for a night of bottle service at a Manhattan hot spot, be warned: Spending $300 on a bottle of vodka no longer entitles you to a full complement of mixers... The carafes in which mixers are typically served hold 32 ounces, and the most common mixers — sodas, cranberry juice and tonic water — will be limited. Only water and 100 percent juice will be unlimited.

What's truly tragic about this brand of idiocy is how it distracts officials' attention from the city's real challenges.

• Its welfare funds are being spent in strip clubs, porn joints, and liquor stores

• It has $21 billion in pension obligations over the next 30 years

• Its recent spate of hate crime and violence

But don't worry: banning 20-ounce sodas is just the first step to fixing the city's problems.


Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.

PHOTO SEQUENCE: First Lady Rolls Her Eyes at John Boehner's Remarks to the President (But Can't Stop Eating)

But remember, folks: these are our respectful betters who want to tell us how many calories we should eat each day.

Judging by the appearance of FLOTUS, Lisa Jackson, Regina Benjamin (the Surgeon General), and Janet Napolitano -- to name but a few -- the calorie counting only extends to the rabble.

The Most Terrifying Photo You Will See This Fortnight

Your eyes are not deceiving you.

The topmost selection is a vending machine burrito that could very well be consumed this Christmas Eve.

STATISM TODAY: Maryland County Bans Soda

Robert asks, "What better way to fight obesity than to infringe upon people’s right to buy, sell or drink what they want?"

Howard County Bans Sale Of Sugary Drinks On Public Property

December 11, 2012 9:11 PM

HOWARD COUNTY, Md. (WJZ)—No more sugary drinks in Howard County vending machines.
As Mike Schuh reports, the county executive stopped the drinks from being sold on county property.

Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. Health experts pour the blame squarely on sugary drinks... “Sugary drinks are the largest single source of added sugar to our children’s diet,” said Nikki Highsmith Vernick, Horizon Foundation CEO.
Sugar, she says, turns into fat.

The student government at Burleigh Middle was brought out to demonstrate the problem.
At their call, 10 tons of fine sand was dumped to demonstrate the amount of sugar which would be consumed by their school in a year if every kid drank one sugar soda a day.

...Howard County Executive Ken Ulman used this backdrop to announce a ban on the sale of sugar drinks on county property. “Vending machines will look differently in our parks, libraries and any county buildings,” Ulman said.

The ban, he says, takes effect immediately.

Of course it does.

As Mark Levin is fond of saying, the circle of liberty surrounding each of us seems to grow smaller by the day.

Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has ruled that the government has the power to compel individuals to buy products of the central government's design, how much longer until the feds mandate the consumption of broccoli?

DO YOU EAT? These charts should make you nervous

You may remember the last time food prices spiked: the entire Middle East exploded in an inferno of Muslim Brotherhood-fueled unrest. Democrats and the media -- but I repeat myself -- called it the "Arab Spring".

Not to get you overly paranoid or anything, but the race to devalue global currencies -- spearheaded by one Ben Bernanke and his magical printing press -- is touching off more inflation in food prices as evidenced here and here:

Now that the Federal Reserve has monetized trillions in debt, it's safe to say that there is no viable exit strategy. Other than inflation and/or economic collapse, that is.