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#OccupyWallStreet mini-roundup
A look at the Zuccotti Park zoo on Columbus Day: Millionaire celebrities Kayne West, Russell Simmons, Mark Ruffalo and Penn Badgley (never heard of Penn before) – and, what would a protest be without...
View ArticlePolice clear #OWS from Zuccotti park
Police Clear Zuccotti Park of Protesters; the protestors must have been adding transfats and too much salt to their food since Bloomberg finally got around to it, The mayor, at his news conference,...
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You didn’t get fat because of Paula Deen
The Daily has this headline, Paula’s big fat secret TV chef famous for Southern-fried decadence to reveal she has diabetes Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie, Southern cooking — is about to come...
View ArticleScent of the Nanny State
In today’s spam basket, George Dennison Prentice: “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” If only Nanny Bloomberg would read that....
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#NannyBloomberg: “No Big Gulp for you?” UPDATED
Just in time for summer heat, New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at...
View ArticleEat less salt, die sooner
Gary Taubes has an op-ed in the NYTimes, four years ago, Italian researchers began publishing the results from a series of clinical trials, all of which reported that, among patients with heart...
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OTOH, binkies have – 0 – calories
#NannyBloomberg’s appointees want your popcorn and your latte, too: Health panel talks about wider food ban The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large...
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There but for the grace of God…
Criminalizing fun, Bloomberg style Couple handcuffed, jailed for dancing on subway platform It was nearly midnight when Stern and Hess, a film-industry prop master, headed home last July from Jazz at...
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Bloomberg doesn’t want you to have a vibrator
No joy in bloombergville! Nanny Bloomberg shut down the free Trojan’s Vibrator giveaway. Mental Recession has video and plenty of puns, Hundreds of people lined up for their chance to receive a...
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Nanny Bloomberg: Feel the pain! UPDATED
Don’t get injured in New York City, because Nanny Bloomberg knows better than your doctor: New York City to Restrict Prescription Painkillers in Public Hospitals’ Emergency Rooms Under the new city...
View ArticleMexico: Bloomberg wants “sugary drinks” taxed
Nanny Bloomberg’s on the job, Mexico Proposes Tax on Sugary Beverages Bill Aims to Contain Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics (emphasis added) The sugar content of carbonated soda has received heaps of...
View ArticleMexico: El Bloombito lobbies against sugary sodas
Los #EBT cardos no can buyo el breado? Leto it buyo los cake! — Miguel Bloombito (@ElBloombito) October 13, 2013 Not busy enough with New York’s problems, Michael Bloomberg is expanding his nanny...
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The Winter Olympics week Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
While the Sochi accommodations are nowhere near as nice as those in the more modest hotels in our hemisphere, Mexico sent the most interesting skier in the world, Bermudans wore shorts, and the guys...
View ArticleMexico: The Bloomberg soda law is not working
In 2012, Bloomberg Philanthropies provided $10 million for a three year plan to decrease soda consumption in Mexico, following which, Mexico enacted a 10% tax. After an initial drop in purchases of...
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