Busy Body Bloomberg Busting Big 'Bacco

[BaiHu]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/us-usa-newyork-smoking-idUSBRE92H0S820130318


Stores would still be allowed to advertise and display pricing information for the tobacco products they sell, but the actual products would have to be hidden from public view except during a sale or during restocking.

The legislation would also increase the penalties on stores that illegally resell cigarettes smuggled in from states with lower tobacco taxes and would prohibit retailers from redeeming discount coupons on tobacco sales.

Bloomberg expects to have the council's support, although a vote was not expected immediately, a spokeswoman for the mayor said.

New York City already bans smoking in most offices, restaurants, bars, parks and beaches. Bloomberg has also taken steps to curtail the use of trans fats and salt in the city's restaurants. Last week a court struck down his attempt to limit the size of sugary drinks.
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Tobacco specialty stores, already banned from admitting customers
under the age of 18, would be exempt from the requirement on the display
of cigarettes.

[RoyGBiv]

But war realism is ok for third graders.
Boggles the mind.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/18/new-york-approves-war-oriented-textbooks-for-third-graders/

Original article: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scary_lesson_for_children_bO5X9X3DL645bfAireDgnM


“The Librarian of Basra,” which contains drawings of fighter planes dropping bombs on a palm-tree-lined Middle Eastern town.

In another illustration, the protagonist looks worried, peering out a window at soldiers manning machine guns on a rooftop.

The terrified townsfolk wonder, “Who among us will die?” and “Will our families survive?”

[BaiHu]

Well, when you've come to kick ass and smoke some Camels and you're all out of Camels, then.....you...umm. Yeah, I got nothing to counter that stupidity :p

Ohhh, it's from the point of view of the 'victim' .....well now it all makes sense. Start the victim hood training early.

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[Drang]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s9v1vzDpWH4/UUD555JAWdI/AAAAAAAADpE/LkCib4jg5Uo/s640/motivator242b2b85f5937619ffc36211555369760187b72d. jpg

[Robert Mitchum]

Bloomberg


---k you and the horse you rode in on.

[hufnagel]

don't blame the horse. that poor creature was broken a thousand years ago and has been a slave ever since.

[Tamara]

Busy Body Bloomberg Busting Big 'Bacco

Basically, Bloomie's Bitter Because Bench Bitch-slapped Big Apple's Bubbly Big Gulp Ban.

[Drang]

Basically, Bloomie's Bitter Because Bench Bitch-slapped Big Apple's Bubbly Big Gulp Ban.
:D
I hear the Rumford Meteor is looking for a new headline writer.

[TCinVA]

There's some sage phrase about the propensity of a hopelessly broken government turning its leviathan powers on the minute details of life after its proven hopelessly incompetent at core functions.

[FNFAN]

Meanwhile back at the Ranch..... "80% of New York City high school graduates have trouble with basic skills like reading, writing and math. The vast majority do not have the basic skills you would expect of someone half their age."

If he wants to be the National Nanny he should have Skeeter make that a new cabinet level position. Let someone who wants to address the issues that the Mayor of New York City is actually responsible do the job.

[Robert Mitchum]

don't blame the horse. that poor creature was broken a thousand years ago and has been a slave ever since.


---k you and the horse you rode in on

Term used to tell someone to ---k off and get off there pedestal.

[G60]

Stores would still be allowed to advertise and display pricing information for the tobacco products they sell, but the actual products would have to be hidden from public view except during a sale or during restocking.



So, basically, they could construct the Cigarette cabinets with pictures of the packs of cigarettes they stock, but the actual packs themselves couldn't be visible.

[DanH]

Meanwhile back at the Ranch..... "80% of New York City high school graduates have trouble with basic skills like reading, writing and math. The vast majority do not have the basic skills you would expect of someone half their age."



and now we know how he got to be mayor...

[TCinVA]

So, basically, they could construct the Cigarette cabinets with pictures of the packs of cigarettes they stock, but the actual packs themselves couldn't be visible.

Liberalism can be fairly accurately summed up by the phrase: "It's the thought that counts."

Questioning the somewhat dubious idea that hiding packets of cigarettes from the eyesight of children will make them less likely to smoke, or asking how showing pictures of the tobacco products the children aren't supposed to see makes any sense is just....well...reactionary.

All we need be concerned about here is that it's an idea come up with by one of our betters, and most crucially, it's for the children.

[Tamara]

So, basically, they could construct the Cigarette cabinets with pictures of the packs of cigarettes they stock, but the actual packs themselves couldn't be visible.

It doesn't have to make sense, so long as:


It shows that you care, and
It requires compliance.

[bdcheung]

Liberalism can be fairly accurately summed up by the phrase: "It's the thought that counts."

Can we clarify this to say, "Liberal activism"? I know plenty of people who are "liberal" but disagree vehemently with the overreaching policies of Bloomberg (and even Feinstein).

I'd have the same response if someone said "conservatism can be fairly accurately summed up by the phrase, 'fuck you I'm rich'".


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[RoyGBiv]

Can we clarify this to say, "Liberal activism"? I know plenty of people who are "liberal" but disagree vehemently with the overreaching policies of Bloomberg (and even Feinstein).

I'd have the same response if someone said "conservatism can be fairly accurately summed up by the phrase, 'fuck you I'm rich'".


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The terms are used so many different ways and cover far too much ground to be truly meaningful.
I liked Rand Paul's comments the other day, when he referred to himself as a "Conservative Libertarian".
I might be fiscally conservative and socially libertarian. Very difficult to describe with one word.

Anyways... /OT

[John Ralston]

I think it's a great idea...I see grade school kids browsing the selection of tobacco all the time, shouting "oohhhh....look at that pretty one there, mommy, can I get it?"

[Tamara]

I'd have the same response if someone said "conservatism can be fairly accurately summed up by the phrase, 'fuck you I'm rich'".

No, conservatism can be summed up by the phrase "Fun is for commies and will make you go to hell."

[Drang]

No, conservatism can be summed up by the phrase "Fun is for commies and will make you go to hell."

I thought that was puritanism.

[Tamara]

I thought that was puritanism.

Take a look at the audience pans at CPAC. The place looks like an open casting call for a Little House on the Prairie reboot.

[Drang]

Take a look at the audience pans at CPAC. The place looks like an open casting call for a Little House on the Prairie reboot.

The same could be--and has been--said about the DNC. And MSNBC. And #Occupy.

[G60]

"Bloomberg, champion of choice." Not from The Onion: http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1293096

[BaiHu]

Well we know where all of NY's taxes are going to, the spin-meisters.....

[Tamara]

The same could be--and has been--said about the DNC. And MSNBC. And #Occupy.

LOLWUT?

Seriously, I think I'd notice the dreadlocks in amongst the gingham dresses.

[Drang]

LOLWUT?

Seriously, I think I'd notice the dreadlocks in amongst the gingham dresses.

I was referring to skin tone, not fashion sense, or lack of same.

[Kyle Reese]

I was referring to skin tone, not fashion sense, or lack of same.

Let's avoid categorizing people based on their skin tone in this context.

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