Carry (Nation) Bloomberg Rides Again


Posted by TobyToons (Diary)

Friday, January 13th at 11:00AM EST

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Carry Nation Bloomberg

It is a good thing that elected officials know so much about how to run our lives. First trans-fats, then salt, then sugary drinks, then Alcohol (well, almost). NY City Mayor Bloomberg may as well pick up the hatchet used by Carry Nation on her crusades in the 1920′s.

For more information on the topic, see Caleb Howe’s article here: The Great Bloomberg Booze Backlash of 2012.

Cross-Posted: TobyToons (Conservative Political Cartoons)


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What is it

DerKrieger (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:22AM EST (link)

…about people that makes them think that being elected to public office suddenly gives them the ability to direct our lives for us and causes them to think the rest of us are less intelligent or capable then they? I’m sick of all the darn nanny state legislation spewing forth from all levels f government.

What this gels me is that we don’t need any more laws and all legislative bodies should be part time.

Our AR legislature meets only a few months every other year and we are largely spared the intrusive nannyism of full time legislatures.

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690

 

NEW POLL FOR SC

michelle88 Friday, January 13th at 11:45AM EST (link)

NEW POLL http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/sc/

Is this an open thread?

jakeofalltrades (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:48AM EST (link)

?

kowalski

jakeofalltrades (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:49AM EST (link)

Nice poll though – has Perry ahead of Santorum and Huntsman combined.

9% for Perry

texashistorian (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:51AM EST (link)

Hmm, wonder if that will count for the second debate which I understand requires 7%?

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

- Paul Johnson

Doesn't count

jakeofalltrades (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:53AM EST (link)

American Research Group is not an approved polling outfit.

Perry is in the debate

znjs (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 11:57AM EST (link)

CNN fudged the rules a little to make sure he made it –

“When CBS published the results of its poll on January 9, it listed Rick Perry at 6 percent. However, the full release shows that Perry received 6 percent when those surveyed had an option to choose “Someone Else,” and received 7 percent when those surveyed did not have that option. Because Perry received 7 percent in the latter poll, he qualifies for the CNN debate in South Carolina”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/01/cnn-waives-rules-lets-perry-debate-110534.html

Actually, CBS used a nonstandard polling method.

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 12:02PM EST (link)

Under the standard polling method Perry made the cut, you can not like that result, but CNN isn’t to blame for letting him in.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


Thanks for the clarification

texashistorian (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 12:03PM EST (link)

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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

- Paul Johnson

 
 

I always knew he would be.

jakeofalltrades (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 12:07PM EST (link)

Once I found a Gallup poll that pegged him at 7%, I knew there’d be two more out there to confirm it.

 
 
 
 
 

Looks like it

DerKrieger (Diary) Friday, January 13th at 12:24PM EST (link)

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“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690

 
 
 

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