Soda 'heavyweights' fight back with lawsuit against Health Department's big sugary drinks ban By DAREH GREGORIAN Last Updated: 5:58 AM, October 13, 2012 Posted: 12:58 AM, October 13, 2012
Big Soda is “supersizing” its fight against the city’s crackdown on big sodas.
The American Beverage Association, the soda workers union, movie theater owners and the National Restaurant Association joined forces yesterday with a lawsuit aimed at overturning the city Health Department’s ban on sugary sodas of more than 16 ounces.
“The ban at issue in this case burdens consumers and unfairly harms small businesses at a time when we can ill afford it,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says.
“The regulation should be struck down.”
The ban passed last month after Mayor Bloomberg’s handpicked Board of Health members approved it by a vote of 8-0.
Slated to take effect on March 12, the action will ban theaters, sporting venues, food carts and eateries subject to Health Department letter grades from selling sugar-laden drinks like soda, fruit punch and lemonade in cups larger than 16 ounces.
In affidavits attached to the suit, the coalition argued the ban could lead to a small-businesses “sodapocalypse.”
MAYOR BLOOMBERG: WE NEED AN ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN BECAUSE MASS SHOOTINGS ‘ONLY HAPPEN IN AMERICA’ Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:50pm by Mytheos Holt Print »Email » Comments (451) New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is known for his staunch support for stricter gun control, and his outspokenness in championing that cause.
After Friday’s shootings in Newtown, Conn., Bloomberg made a point of opining about the necessity for another assault weapons ban, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and claiming that the kind of mass shooting under discussion “only happens in America.”
National Review Online reports:
“What the president can do is number one, through executive action, he can order his agencies to enforce the laws more aggressively,” Bloomberg said. “I think there’s something like 77,000 people who have been accused of lying when they applied for a gun permit. We’ve only prosecuted 77 of them.” Bloomberg didn’t mention his source for those numbers during the program. “Nobody questions the second amendment’s right to bear arms,” the mayor continued, “but I don’t think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman, and child could carry an assault weapon.” Dismissing the idea that politicians had reason to fear going against the NRA, Bloomberg remarked, “The NRA’s number one objective this time was to defeat Obama for a second term. Last time I checked the election results, he won and he won comfortably. This myth that the NRA can destroy political careers is just not true.” Host David Gregory did push back on Bloomberg at one point in the broadcast, pointing out that the guns involved were all purchased legally, and that only one of them could have been prohibited under an assault weapons ban. Bloomberg admitted that his policy preferences couldn’t necessarily have stopped this particular incident, but still argued that there was a trend at work that could be mitigated by stricter gun laws.
Watch Bloomberg’s appearance below:
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Dr Raymond Cocteau is the sinister, smooth-talking leader of the new ultra-sterile society of ‘San Angeles’. He has created a meticulously safe and spotless ‘utopia’ where anything remotely dangerous is illegal, all needs are provided for, and rebellious thoughts are, well… unthinkable. As a result the inhabitants live a cowed life that is an impotent shadow of former times.
However, Cocteau has a problem: not everyone subscribes to his heavy handed vision of how things should be. The natives are restless, and however hard he tries to maintain the illusion of the sterile facade he has created, the growing reality of a disenfranchised and abandoned underclass threatens to break through and undermine it.
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Spartan and Huxley enter and see Cocteau’s face speaking to them from dozens of monitors:
Dr. Cocteau: Forgive my lack of bodily disposition, but I do have an entire city government to run. John Spartan: Yeah, well run this: you programmed Phoenix’s rehabilitation program to turn him into a terrorist, and I don’t think his escape was an accident either! Lenina Huxley: Very subtle. John Spartan: Thank you.
Dr. Cocteau: John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time! John Spartan: Yeah. But it worked. [John Spartan shoots out the monitors with Cocteau's face on them]
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Bloomberg's soda ban prohibits 2-liter bottles with your pizza and bottle-service mixers By BRAD HAMILTON and SUSAN EDELMAN Last Updated: 7:33 AM, February 24, 2013 Posted: 10:38 PM, February 23, 2013
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