No Happy Meals for SanFran

[dmcowen674]

You can substitute the fries in a Happy Meal with sliced apples. You can also substitute the soft drink with milk, chocolate milk, orange juice or apple juice. These healthy choices have been available for years. Progressives get their panties in a bunch over the silliest things.

Too late

The Corporation had their chance for years to get healthier and chose not to so now they must suffer the consequences of their in-actions.

 

[zsdersw]

Too late

The Corporation had their chance for years to get healthier and chose not to so now they must suffer the consequences of their in-actions.

The Nanny State must die for mankind to live and be free.

 

[ElFenix]

That's not what they were worried about at all, they were worried that enumerating a set of righhts would lead people to believe the people held only those. The courts do not give preferential treatment to certain rights. They are either rights we are determined to be guaranteed, or they aren't.

they absolutely do. strict vs. regular scrutiny for constitutionality of laws (there's even a third level although its rarely used).

 

[Zebo]

You can substitute the fries in a Happy Meal with sliced apples. You can also substitute the soft drink with milk, chocolate milk, orange juice or apple juice. These healthy choices have been available for years. Progressives get their panties in a bunch over the silliest things.

Nothing healthy about pesticide infested fruits or hormone infested milk. Better yes but not healthy for you, animals who are abused, or environment in many cases.

All meat we eat I kill. aka game. I buy organic otherwise. I don't drink milk. My kids have only been to MDs twice that I know of. Basically when I failed to prepare, not on purpose.

 

[bamacre]

Awww... too bad we live in a democracy, eh? We don't let just anyone with a gun and the willingness to use it rule the world. The People can and do put limits on the power of others to balance power disparities.

Ahh yes, the wonderful democracy, where the majority rule the minority.

 

[Patranus]

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to fight childhood obesity by banning Happy Meal-style kids meals last week, the same week a nutrition professor announced that he had lost 27 pounds on a diet of Twinkies and other high-fat snack foods.

"This is a simple and modest policy that holds fast food accountable," said Supervisor Eric Mar, who proposed the ban. That's San Francisco for you. Never mind the parents or children; hold the food accountable.

If obesity were the fault of high-calorie, high-fat food, then Kansas State University Professor Mark Haub would have gained weight during his two-month junk food diet. Instead, he lost 27 pounds. He did it by consuming fewer calories. He went from around 2,600 calories a day to 1,800.

Haub proved what most people with common sense already know: it's not the food's fault if you get fat; it's yours. If you consume more calories than you burn, you'll gain weight. If you burn more than you consume, you'll lose weight.

Kids aren't getting fat because McDonald's offers Happy Meals. Kids are getting fat because their parents aren't controlling their food intake. Banning Happy Meals won't reverse that trend. It will only encourage parents to continue shifting the blame from their own behavior to the food.

The Board of Supervisors has enough anti-Happy Meal votes to override a veto by Mayor Gavin Newsome. What it doesn't have is a lot of sense.

http://unionleader.com/article.aspx...rticleId=d5ae18a7-6805-4143-bc16-cd7c90b5c3d9

GG SF!

 

[Amused]

Good. Who wants to be infested with hormones, pesticides, saturated fats, cruel treatments of gods creations, animals, to get you $1.99 happy meals?


Fuck y'all for being sheep. Fat, self-absorbed heart attack waiting to happen sheep. If you had a clue you would not vote for those who take you choices away anymore than you vote for death - as such you get what you deserve.

I've been eating fast food all my life. Wanna bet I'm in better shape than you?

I'll pick freedom ANYDAY over elitist pricks like you telling me what's best for me and forcing it upon me by threat of law. Fuck you and mind your own gawddamn business.

 

[Craig234]

The Nanny State must die for mankind to live and be free.

Like it does in Somalia.

 

[ShawnD1]

Too late

The Corporation had their chance for years to get healthier and chose not to so now they must suffer the consequences of their in-actions.

What do you mean they chose not to? Fast food places have had lots of healthy choices for at least a decade. McDonalds and Wendys both have salads. Jared's subway diet was a sub with no cheese and no sauce.

The subs I get at Subway are nothing like Jared's sub. I get the full foot long with cheese, mayo, and Italian dressing. Next some communazi will tell me I'm not allowed to have Italian dressing on my sub or that I'm not allowed to have cheese on my burger.

 

[Craig234]

What do you mean they chose not to? Fast food places have had lots of healthy choices for at least a decade. McDonalds and Wendys both have salads. Jared's subway diet was a sub with no cheese and no sauce.

The subs I get at Subway are nothing like Jared's sub. I get the full foot long with cheese, mayo, and Italian dressing. Next some communazi will tell me I'm not allowed to have Italian dressing on my sub or that I'm not allowed to have cheese on my burger.

"Communazi" - one thing you have proven is that Italian dressing improves brain function, as you rant against paranoid threats that there's no danger of.

Will you vote for my candidate who will kill all kittens, if I make up a phony communazi who wants to not let you go naked in your own house for you to fear and rant against?

Or my candidate who wants to eliminate all drug safety laws if I make up a phony communazi who wants to lower the speed limit on every road to 10 MPH and require 2-minute stops at all red lights for you to fear and rant against? Do you start to get you are a sucker battling these non-issues and falling for others' corrupt agendas? Oh, you don't.

 

[JSt0rm]

I've been eating fast food all my life. Wanna bet I'm in better shape than you?

Look at your brain. It's in horrible shape.

 

[ShawnD1]

"Communazi" - one thing you have proven is that Italian dressing improves brain function

It does. This is why Italy has the world's largest economy.

Will you vote for my candidate who will kill all kittens, if I make up a phony communazi who wants to not let you go naked in your own house for you to fear and rant against?

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use drugs even go want to do look more like?

 

[Amused]

Look at your brain. It's in horrible shape.

Ah yes, the only insult you can conjure up because you disagree with me.

 

[Amused]

Like it does in Somalia.

Oh bullshit, Craig. Anarchy is NOT freedom. Nor is nannystate protectionism.

So stop comparing anarchy to liberty. It's fucking ignorant.

 

[zsdersw]

Like it does in Somalia.

Yes, because the US will become just like Somalia.

Get a grip, Craig.

 

[Amused]

Intelligence defines elitism for many...

"think they're smarter than us real Americans"...

No no...

Elitism on the left is when they seek to control the lives of others because they know what's best for them.

 

[werepossum]

No no...

Elitism on the left is when they seek to control the lives of others because they know what's best for them.

Amusing to me that these "elitists", who consider themselves to be so much smarter than the rest of us that they deserve to run our lives too, are also the very people who cannot provide for their own health care, child care, education . . .

Brainiac is still janitor. But Brainiac is super-intelligent janitor!

 

[ShawnD1]

Amusing to me that these "elitists", who consider themselves to be so much smarter than the rest of us that they deserve to run our lives too, are also the very people who cannot provide for their own health care, child care, education . . .

Brainiac is still janitor. But Brainiac is super-intelligent janitor!

Oh man what is that from? I remember a skit like that where the world's smartest janitor talks about getting his hand stuck in the pickle jar

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

4 kids...all of which ate more than their fair share of Happy Meals. All are in great shape...not one is obese or even slightly overweight...imagine that.

This isn't really about Happy Meal toys...it's about deluded people who actually think they're much smarter than everyone else...who have the audacity to think their self-perceived "superior intelligence" gives them the right to control every aspect of our lives to make it somehow "better" in their minds without regard for what we may actually think is best for us. There is no room for tolerance or diversity...we must conform to their twisted view of what utopia should look like. Sick people....very sick people.

 

[werepossum]

Oh man what is that from? I remember a skit like that where the world's smartest janitor talks about getting his hand stuck in the pickle jar

Wish I could remember. The one I was referencing was (I think) an old SNL sketch - but it might have been Kids in the Hall or Fridays or Assaulted Nuts. A talk show host is interviewing the "smartest man in the world" or the "biggest brain in the world", something like that. When he comes out he has this huge, misshapen, pulsing, oozing bald head - due to his exposure to radiation which supposedly gave him super-intelligence. He presents his solution to radioactive waste: put all radioactive waste in a rocket and shoot in into the sun, complete with crayon drawing of the rocket. Then he presents his solution to racism: put all racism in a rocket and shoot in into the sun. Then he presents his solution to pollution: put all pollution in a rocket and shoot in into the sun. After a few of these the interviewer asks what he did before his exposure to radiation. "Brainiac was a janitor." "And what do you do now?" "Well - Brainiac is still a janitor. But Brainiac is now super-intelligent janitor." At that point blood squirts from his head and the interviewer suggests that Brainiac really needs to seek immediate medical attention.

Twenty or thirty years later that skit immediately comes to mind whenever someone is professing their own or another's super intelligence, whether it's a man in Florida saying "I've got an IQ of 168 and I couldn't figure out that ballot!" or someone saying Obama is the most intelligent President in our history.

 

[ShawnD1]

Wish I could remember. The one I was referencing was (I think) an old SNL sketch - but it might have been Kids in the Hall or Fridays or Assaulted Nuts. A talk show host is interviewing the "smartest man in the world" or the "biggest brain in the world", something like that. When he comes out he has this huge, misshapen, pulsing, oozing bald head - due to his exposure to radiation which supposedly gave him super-intelligence. He presents his solution to radioactive waste: put all radioactive waste in a rocket and shoot in into the sun, complete with crayon drawing of the rocket. Then he presents his solution to racism: put all racism in a rocket and shoot in into the sun. Then he presents his solution to pollution: put all pollution in a rocket and shoot in into the sun. After a few of these the interviewer asks what he did before his exposure to radiation. "Brainiac was a janitor." "And what do you do now?" "Well - Brainiac is still a janitor. But Brainiac is now super-intelligent janitor." At that point blood squirts from his head and the interviewer suggests that Brainiac really needs to seek immediate medical attention.

Yep that's the one. I'm thinking it probably was SNL.