Submitted by George Washington on 10/16/2014 08:38 -0400
“Hey Bloomberg, here’s a big gulp of…..FREEDOM” by Anthony Freda
Bloomberg the Nanny, by William Banzai
Libertarians were outraged by New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s “Big Gulp” ban (which a state court ultimately struck down). They slammed it as a “Nanny State” measure.
But it was current Centers for Disease Control head Tom Frieden who was actually behind the ban.
The New York Times reported in 2004:
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner,
has turned out to be an active policy advocate among the city’s
department heads, the outspoken architect of some of the Bloomberg
administration’s more controversial policies.
Although Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is more closely associated with a
law that bans smoking citywide, the legislation was actually developed
by Dr. Frieden, who was also given responsibility for helping to push it
through the City Council.
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Even Mayor Bloomberg’s partnership with Snapple to sell juice in vending machines in schools has not gone without his notice.
“I would have preferred water,” he admitted, although he added that he liked the money that the agreement will raise.
He is almost certainly the only city agency head who keeps a bowl of condoms in the reception area of his office.
And the Daily Caller reported in 2010:
- In 2009, Frieden took to the pages of the New England Journal of
Medicine to sell the need for a soda tax. “It is difficult to imagine
producing behavior change of this magnitude through education alone,
even if government devoted massive resources to the task,” Frieden
wrote. “Only heftier taxes will significantly reduce consumption.”
- In 2010, after Obama tapped Frieden to head up the Centers for
Disease Control, Bloomberg announced his support for a soda tax. “The
soda tax is a fix that just makes sense,” he said in a March 2010 radio
address. “It would save lives. It would cut rising health care costs.
And it would keep thousands of teachers and nurses where they belong: in
the classrooms and clinics.” Three years earlier, Bloomberg said he was
opposed to a soda tax.
“I would have preferred water,” he admitted, ——– Frieden, from the article
Here’s the thing. He is absolutely correct. Soda SUCKS … especially Coke, “diabetes in a can”. His heart was in the right place.
Before you curs thumb down my fat ass …. his brain wasn’t.
His error was FORCING his beliefs down New Yorker’s throats. Which ultimately would fail — regardless of the court’s decision to reverse it — because even dumbfuk government-skool Noo Yorkers could figure out, –“Hey, I’ll just buy two large Cokes!”. Dumbfuk asshole.
Now we see why Obama “tapped” him (presumably not the Reggie Love kind of tapping, but who knows?). Because he’s a government control freak. Too bad they only want to control Americans, not Liberians trying to fly to the US.
Stuck,
I, cur, voted you down only because having ones heart in the right place shouldn’t really count for anything. They all have their heart in the right place – or so they think. The road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
Note To Self: Adding a fucking DISCLAIMER is no guarantee of avoiding thumbs down. Especially with dudes name Iska. (What the fuck is an “Iska” anyway??)
Fuckmedead.
A large part of the Nanny State is to condition people to the belief that authority knows what’s best for them.
Taking measures against smoking and corn syrup gives credence to their simple minded argument.
The drones of society eat that shit up.
I was at an ‘independent’ gas/convience store the other day. Fairly large store. The entire back wall of the store was a giant refrigeration case of soda / flavored water / energy drinks / ice tea. This stuff is like $2 a bottle. Yeah once in a while – but generally it’s CRAP.
Years ago during my grad program my wife snuck me into a benefit dinner so I could mooch off the free food.
At that benefit was some former doctor turned high ranking muckety muck who was railing against the dangers of poor diet and smoking. Thats find I thought, sounds great.
So he’s spieling his spiel and I’m half-way listening as I shove free food into my back-pack under the table where he gets to the third bullet point of this health speech.
“…obesity, smoking and gun violence are the three biggest challenges facing our healthcare industry right now!”
I couldn’t help but chuckle. Give a doctor a podium and he becomes a politician in short order.
The head of the CDC is a politician first and foremost, and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in his laughable advice to hospitals faced with Ebola.
Of course, that being said, any hospital head that isn’t taking appropriate precautions with Ebola deserves to be lynched. Ebola is the literal bogeyman of infectious diseases, there are undergrad biology students who would no the appropriate steps to take when dealing with this virus. That hospitals have failed to contain it is borderline murderous.
You wanna see a CLUSTERFUK of talking baboons and jackasses sticking their heads up their asses?
Yes? Turn on C-Span and watch the congressional ebola hearings.
You’ll quickly understand why the USA! is in a terminal tail spin.
Obama Mobilizes National Guard, Army Reserves To Fight Ebola
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/16/2014 16:30 -0400
With numerous counties and states having declared “States of Disaster” or “States of Emergency”, the looming civil rights destruction of martial law domestically draws ever closer.
However, President Obama has decided that, by Executive order:
*OBAMA ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR ARMED FORCES IN WEST AFRICA
*OBAMA TO ACTIVATE INDIVIDUAL READY RESERVE FOR EBOLA
What is The Individual Ready Reserve? (via Wikipedia)
The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR)is a category of the Ready Reserve of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces of the United States composed of former active duty or reserve military personnel and is authorized under 10 U.S.C. ch. 1005.
For soldiers in the National Guard of the United States, its counterpart is the Inactive National Guard (ING). As of 22 June 2004, the IRR had approximately 112,000 members (does not include all service IRR populations) composed of enlisted personnel and officers, with more than 200 Military Occupational Specialties are represented, including combat arms, combat support, and combat service support.
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In other words, we are sending Vets and reservists to Africa… where they are expected to do what? Shoot at viruses?
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BUT they will come into contact with Ebola:
Via Bloomberg Transcript,
KIRBY: Afternoon, everybody. I’m proud to welcome into the briefing room General David Rodriguez, commander of Africa Command. He’s here to give you an update on U.S. contributions to the effort against Ebola — U.S. military contributions to the effort against Ebola in West Africa. And with that, sir, I’ll turn it over to you.
QUESTION: Just a clarification on that, please. Will they be in contact with individuals or just specimens?
GENERAL DAVID M. RODRIGUEZ (USA), COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA COMMAND: They come in contact with the individuals and they do that. And they’re — like I said, it’s a — it’s a very, very high standard that these people have operated in all their lives, and this is their primary skill. This is not a — you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living.
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As USA Today reports,
President Obama has issued an executive order calling up ready reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa.
Obama notified Congress of his order Thursday. It reads: “I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.”
The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists to Africa, saying that the order simply allows the military to begin utilizing reserve/guard forces in our overall response in Northern Africa.
It “doesn’t mean that we are deploying these forces, but it gives us the option to do so if we need to,” said Air FOrcer Lt. Col. Thomas Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman.
The White House said it didn’t know exactly how many reserve troops would eventually be required
If Obama sends a large (how many?) number of troops into the heart of the infected area of Africa; what are the odds of some of them being infected? Certainly not 0% like it would be if they just stayed home. So what is the purpose of sending them? And I don’t care what the answer is, whether it to build hospitals or roads or to perform some policing function. I would ask one simple question. Aren’t there local people that can perform whatever function that need to be done? Whether it’s building hospitals or roads or whatever you can be sure there are local people that would be happy to have that job.
So the only real difference between having local people do whatever job, or sending American troops is the in sending our troops they stand the risk of becoming infected. In which case those infected will be rushed back to the United States.
So what was the purpose in sending them again??
Why is is that every man in this administration is outweighed by every woman in this administration?
To follow up on my post above the number of troops that Obama wants to send into the middle of the infected area in West Africa is 4000.
The only thing that move is highly likely to accomplish is the risk of infection of a large number of Americans.
Why does Obama rush into moves that increase the risk of getting Americans infected? Sending thousands of troops into the center of the infected area.
And drag his feet or refuse to make the move that the majority of the country is calling for to protect Americans from Ebola, the logical move of instituting a travel ban.
What is Obama’s goal when everything he does puts Americans at risk?