Speaking Truth to Power... about drink sizes?

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

And here's Sarah Palin at CPAC, demonstrating the childish reactionism that we've come to expect.

Bonus facts:
1) The NYC drink ban didn't include Big Gulps
2) It was struck down by a judge anyway
3) The lovely people of facebook have christened Sarah Palin as "Bible Spice"

Comments

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

This had nothing to do with telling you how much you had a right to purchase. The protest is not the part being misunderstood, the ban is.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

How is the ban being misunderstood, then?

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

I just said, it had nothing to do with telling people how much soda they had a right to buy. Nothing at all. You're protesting something this ban would never have done nor was intended to do.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So the ban did not regulate drink sizes from certain vendors?

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

Yes, it did. What it didn't do is tell consumers how much soda they could buy: not at a particular place, in one sitting, during the course of one day, or in any other way. It changed the size of available units to buy, not how many could legally be purchased.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It appears no one is confused, then.

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

Well, no offense, but you are if you describe that scenario as "a nanny state that believes it has the right to tell you how much of a legal food you can purchase." Come on man, you know what words mean and you're not particularly slow. Are you really not seeing the difference between that description and what this really is?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I see why you're trying to make that distinction, sure.

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

I didn't make that distinction; it was there when I got here.