I don’t drink Coke, but I certainly had a smile when I read that Michael Bloomberg’s infantilizing sugary-drink ban had been smacked down by the Supreme Court of the State of New York. (Smacked down by the very researchers he quoted in support of it, too, but that’s another story.)
From the Times:
In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits “arbitrary and capricious,’ echoing the complaints of city business owners and consumers who had deemed the rules unworkable and unenforceable, with confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions.
“Arbitrary and capricious”. “Confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions.”
These are the hallmarks of tyranny, friends, and they are all the rage these days: confining, demeaning restrictions of liberty imposed and enforced — or not enforced — at the whim of the sovereign.
“I’ve got to defend my children, and yours, and do what’s right to save lives,’ the mayor said. “Obesity kills. There’s no question it kills.’
Yes, and so does sloth, and fondness for drink, and wearing socks on the stairs. Are they next?
— But — my children!
He couldn’t make it any clearer: gazing down from Olympus, benevolent and omnisapient, Michael Bloomberg sees us all as his children, even those of us who are not children.
No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Locking up hoodlums, plowing the streets when it snows, marching in parades, quelling riots, cutting ribbons, giving a proper New York welcome to visiting dignitaries, pushing back hard on greedy public-sector unions: these are the sort of thing we free citizens have hired a Mayor for. They should be more than enough to keep you busy.
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He’s the poster child for “pompous ass”.
Well, one of them, anyway. I suppose being of fairly diminutive stature, being the richest resident of the world’s greatest city, and being Mayor of that city, is a potent cocktail of psychological factors. But yes, his haughtiness is just astounding.
And, just to add some perspective: when he first spent a day with Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg commented that Mr. Obama was the most arrogant person he’d ever met!
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Pot. Kettle. Keynesian (pun intended).
Just curious, but will Justice Tingley be hearing New York’s “Midnight Massacre” too?
Re: Not So Fast, 3113.
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That was this post, from 3/1/13, I’m assuming. Perhaps JK is suggesting that if the soda ban can be interfered with, so can the new gun laws.
Rough night that where the reception was recognized as, “Hey JK, stay away until possessed of some sleep u’s obtained.”
I’ll say it again.
I thought JK was referencing this “3113“, but I didn’t get the “Not so fast” part of his comment.
I’m actually fit now, just been obtaining “some stuff & reinforcing” Malcolm.
I’d cut off my previous comment only ’cause somebody from a previous life’d gotten a quad bypass and then the phone ringed-dinged.
Being as I’d disagreed with Mitt, “Russia is the US’ primary threat” & I’d said, “No, Mexico is the US’ primary threat!”
I “can see” why you would type such an assertion. Sarah aside.
Under ‘ordinary’ circumstances what we have on our southern border would be called a “civil war” instead what is manifested in our media is (more or less) some facet of our “drug war” however the Mexican authorities portray it – it’s loopy.
“We’ve a South American Pope” and though as a North American Presbyterian {and you an atheist] I’m gonna judge, “Okay Mitt, perhaps you were right. Now we’ve some time.”
Henry – Malcolm’s birth was in April, mine March.
Recently I’ve been playing the Missouri lottery although none of the numbers I’ve typed match any I’ve heretofore marked [might be you’d win it TBH if you choose like I’ve chosed wives] in which case you’ll not be asking my advice –
Okay. Maybe I’m a weirdo.
But then, nobody is gonna ask me to run for Congress, nobody is gonna be asking me what fishing lures I use, my particular brand of beer is always in stock, and the worst I’m likely to expect is something like, “JK, take a nap.”
Looking at some of the retorts to you TheBigHenry, taking a nap doesn’t seem too bad.
Mine in February.
Regression to the mean?
“Regression to the mean?”
Genuises all – I suspect you mean Henry?
I ‘spect unless’n yore gonna include stuff like “Proper English” grammers and sech.
I mean, different peoples have wrote right to left, left to right, and what’s the bottommost of a gas tank.
I’m reckoning all that’s all on this post qualifies so far as such.
Despite Malcolm’s and you’s needing some blinks?
JK, bed.
“To sleep, perchance to dream.”
Sound advice. I’ll take it.