Idiocy For Idiots
NBC Los Angeles (with annoying autoplay video at link):
California would become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks under a proposal a state lawmaker announced Thursday.SB1000 would require the warning on the front of all beverage containers with added sweeteners that have 75 or more calories in every 12 ounces. The label would read: "STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.''
Like we all confuse sugary drinks with broccoli!








What a racist!!!
So only English speakers matter!?!? What about Latinos and Chinese, Hmongsters and plain old illiterate people?!? Bigot says 'who cares', get fat and die!!
I propose that all drinks with suger have a big picture of a fat dead person on them. If people are so dumb that they don't know that too much surgery soda will make fat, then we should scare the shit out of them.
Tina at February 15, 2014 2:14 PM
Are they going to give the warning with Coffee and Tea as well ???
Keith Glass at February 15, 2014 2:24 PM
Obviously the California legislature has nothing better to do, like balancing a budget, or repealing the tons of over regulation that a;ready exists.
Jim P. at February 15, 2014 4:26 PM
So it's more of those cancer labels you see everywhere and ignore.
Ppen at February 15, 2014 5:33 PM
WARNING! Living leads to death!
Charles at February 15, 2014 7:13 PM
In the feverish throes of transforming Government into religion, they know not what they do.
Canvasback at February 15, 2014 8:09 PM
In New Haven, CT, the newly elected mayor (Toni Hart, an African American female) is trying to get a law passed to increase taxes by 2 cents on every bottle and can of "sugary drinks". She wants this to be a STATE-WIDE tax. As if we're not being taxed asshole to elbow already.
Sheesh.
Flynne at February 16, 2014 8:15 AM
It's Toni Harp, and her previous mission was free diapers for poor mothers. Or mothers with no money, not to be confused with bad mothers.
KateC at February 16, 2014 9:22 AM
If billions can be spent to tout the benefits of Pepsi, why can't we take steps to address negative consequences?
Think about the relationship between smoking rates and advertising before public awareness campaigns started...
Bs123 at February 16, 2014 11:01 AM
So somehow California declaring the fucking obvious needs to be observed in the rest of the country?
Right at the moment I generally don't care what CA thinks is good, outside of the 9th Circuit Decision.
California and common sense are not uusually found in the same sentence.
Jim P. at February 16, 2014 5:10 PM
If it were obvious, we wouldn't have a diabetes and obesity epidemic.
Bs123 at February 16, 2014 7:20 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/02/idiocy-for-idio.html#comment-4264480">comment from Bs123Actually, the obesity epidemic is due to the government and the AMA's promotion of a diet not based in science: the advice that we should eat a high-carb, low-fat diet, which is precisely the diet that makes us fat and diabetic.
Amy Alkon
at February 16, 2014 8:52 PM
If it were obvious, we wouldn't have a diabetes and obesity epidemic.
Posted by: Bs123 at February 16, 2014 7:20 PM
I think you should volunteer to put yourself in a little cage where any harmful choices you might make from riding in a car to getting a sunburn or consuming one calorie more than you should will be made for you.
Freedom,is highly overrated, and hazardous to your health.
Isab at February 16, 2014 9:13 PM
"Actually, the obesity epidemic is due to the government and the AMA's promotion of a diet not based in science: the advice that we should eat a high-carb, low-fat diet, which is precisely the diet that makes us fat and diabetic."
I think you're saying two things:
a) Obesity is caused by the government promoting a diet that is unhealthy. People still believe it because they don't know any better and can't think for themselves.
b) People don't need to be warned that soda is bad for you. They should know better than to drink soda because they can decide for themselves and because soda is not broccoli.
Sorry, you can't pick both.
(Have a good show btw!)
bs123 at February 16, 2014 9:41 PM
"I think you should volunteer to put yourself in a little cage where any harmful choices you might make from riding in a car to getting a sunburn or consuming one calorie more than you should will be made for you.
Freedom,is highly overrated, and hazardous to your health."
This is embarrassing 2 admit but I lock myself in a cage every single day. It's called a seatbelt.
They even make me put my TWO YEAR OLD NIECE in something called a "car seat". Apparently it's 4 safety but I know better. It's 2 condition the young 2 be mindless drones of the state.
But what other choice do I have?
2 be honest with u, sometimes I like to take her out of the carseat so she can ride ride shotgun with her head out the window while I'm doing 80 down I-5. Don't like it? Freedom can be dangerous to your health! I refuse to raise my niece as a communist.
bs123 at February 16, 2014 9:54 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/02/idiocy-for-idio.html#comment-4264752">comment from bs123The government ADVISED people to eat a diet that makes them fat and unhealthy. People believed them. There is no such thing as "healthy whole grain," for example (Dr. William Davis). Low-fat food is unhealthy. We were told otherwise, and since the AMA and government insisted this was the case, plenty of people believed it.
Anyone with an IQ over the speed limit knows soda is not health food.
And thanks on the show -- went great, loved Peg Streep. Smart cookie. Going to do another show on her book on mean mothers.
Amy Alkon
at February 16, 2014 10:50 PM
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