ext_85238 ([identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] politicartoons2013-03-18 10:10 am

Speaking Truth to Power... about drink sizes?


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"

[identity profile] bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It appears no one is confused, then.

[identity profile] bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com 2013-03-18 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I see why you're trying to make that distinction, sure.

[identity profile] bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com 2013-03-19 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't make that distinction; it was there when I got here.