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May 6, 2009
New York Governor Tackles Menace of Bottled Water
In tough times, we require bold leaders, who will deal decisively with critical threats to our way of life. New York's unelected governor has risen to the call by restricting bottled water:
Gov. David Paterson is telling state agencies to cut spending and help the environment by switching from bottled to tap water, lending momentum to a national movement to wean Americans from their water bottles.
That ought to fix New York's $20 billion budget deficit, and save the polar bears too.

On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 6, 2009 11:04 AM
Comments
this man is the worse governor in our state's history.
Posted by: furballz at May 6, 2009 11:15 AM
Speaking of blind, PETA wants to ban Seeing-Eye dogs because the animals are "reduced to servant status."
WTF?
NY was better off with Eliot Spitzer...hookers and all.
Now NY'ers will have to hoard incandescent light bulbs AND bottled water. What's next??
Posted by: Stymie at May 6, 2009 11:21 AM
That guy even *looks* dopey. Why do these people all have that same dazed duh look on their faces? I don't mean to be cruel but it's true. The other standard look is the crazed maniacal one. It's always one or the other but the eyes are vacant in either case.
Posted by: sam at May 6, 2009 11:21 AM
Blind leading the blind is definitely appropro for the New York governor and the predominance of looters that squat in this state.
Posted by: Fiberal at May 6, 2009 11:27 AM
Great timing doofus...
Make people use water fountains as the Swine Flu threatens to spread. May you wake up with Miss Piggy naked and lying next to you, smiling and smoking a cigarette.
This is a cartoon comedy version of a Governor even Warner Brothers or Hal Roach couldn't dream up.
Posted by: Sylvia at May 6, 2009 11:31 AM
I'm all for it.
Why should tax dollars ("Gov. David Paterson is telling state agencies to cut spending and help the environment by switching from bottled to tap water.") be wasted on what is essentially tap water put into bottles and marked up 80,000% ?
Let the public employees bring their own bottled water from home; if it's on my dime, they can drink tap water.
Posted by: Henry at May 6, 2009 11:33 AM
Fiberal and Fullballz, hi neighbors! Do you guys have someone in mind to be the next guv? I like Rudy. Don't want Spitzer or Pataki to come back, and I sure as hell don't want Cuomo. Man oh man, is the blind man unpopular. Go check out comments on NYer boards.
Sam, you mean like Cynthia McKinney?
Posted by: Karin at May 6, 2009 11:35 AM
I realy cant stand those stupid ads from PUR and BRITTA i mean their so annoying but even more annoying are green moonbat stupidheads like DAVID PATERSON who thinks their states citizens need more stupid regulations and more stupid taxes
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at May 6, 2009 11:41 AM
@plover...BRITA/PUR
If you have too high pressure in your water lines, (and you use those spigot-attached filters), it will blow out all of the gunk that the filters are supposed to trap...right into your glass!
Yummy!
Posted by: Stymie at May 6, 2009 11:48 AM
"I'm all for it.
Why should tax dollars ("Gov. David Paterson is telling state agencies to cut spending and help the environment by switching from bottled to tap water.") be wasted on what is essentially tap water put into bottles and marked up 80,000% ?
Let the public employees bring their own bottled water from home; if it's on my dime, they can drink tap water."
I'll go one further: there should be a lot fewer public employees!
Posted by: LoneWolfArcher at May 6, 2009 11:58 AM
I'll drink to that, LWA!
Posted by: Henry at May 6, 2009 12:00 PM
As the government provides the drinking water in urbanized areas, there is no excuse for the same government to spend money to purchase water. Let the government employees drink the same water they provide, or as noted above, they can pay for bottled water themselves.
Posted by: Viking04 at May 6, 2009 1:01 PM
Oh, I got confused, because there was a ruckus to increase taxes on bottled water and breathing and sex and thinking and everything else.
This is a perk for office workers and such, like coffee? Oh please. Everyone bring your own damn beverages, and have a coffee fund like any other company. And Oh God Yes, less govt employees. Where I live is crawling with them. We're the "Mecca of Social Services." Even the wife of a democrat official told me that at a party. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting some troubled individual under the thumb of some state agency. They have a program for goddamned hangnails.
Posted by: Karin at May 6, 2009 1:58 PM
Hasn't SF already banned bottled water because people were throwing the bottles in the street?
On the golf course where I work, we used to have ten gallon water barrels at several tees with cups and ice. Some members complained that this wasn't "sanitary" so we put out water bottles in ice chests instead. Then they complained that people were TOUCHING the ice and we peons had to pick up all those God d**n bottles and caps, so now they have to get their OWN D**N water from the snack bar or from home.
Posted by: KHarn at May 6, 2009 1:59 PM
Belmont University in Nashville did this a few weeks ago...
http://twitter.com/DanCleary/statuses/1584850706
Posted by: Dan Cleary at May 6, 2009 2:12 PM
Every time I see that goon's picture, I think of Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles". I don't know why.
Posted by: man of few words at May 6, 2009 2:18 PM
Karin,
I would support Juliani. The redumblicans really blew it by ignoring Rudy and sucking up to RINOs in the primary.
Juliani was the only guy in the republican primary that made any substantial difference that affected large numbers of people.
Not only did he clean up Dinkin's sewerhole of a city against strong Democratic and media resistance, by doing so he restored America's faith in big city life. He stood up completely alone on the broken window policies, spitting on the sidewalk, going after squeegie men and he completely prevailed. He brought down Dinkin's hypertax rates which infused NYC with a huge influx of new businesses. I couldn't believe the incredible change in the city, the subways and the incredible drop in crime.
And of course his cool under pressure during 9-11 (Compare that with W's nervous, quivering deer-in-the-headlights stare on television when announcing the first massive TARP infusion.)
BTW Rudy also told a Sheik (Yerbooti..I don't know...memory fails) to take a hike when offering the city money after 9-11 (which Cynthia McKinney then disgracefully begged for in public). Rudy also kicked terrorist Yassir Arafat out of a diplomatic function.
Personally, I like this stuff in a politican.
The guy took on a very dangerous segment of the Mafia as a DA under Reagan. I imagine that that experience forged in him some uncompromising principles, not something you see in most republican politicians, (and never in a liberal) so given a wider platform of conservative support, which he did not have during his mayoral administration, I think he would probably get a lot tougher on immigration.
He's had a bit of difficulty in the romance dept so of course the milksop republicans immediately ran away. (Why does anyone with a room temp IQ give a fig about Rudy's marriages I don't know).
But on balance he might just pull the tax rates down here in NY and that alone would be worth seeing him as governor of this now totally debauched state.
And BTW the man will fire some people.
Posted by: Fiberal at May 6, 2009 2:46 PM
Every time I see that goon's picture, I think of Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles". I don't know why.
Posted by: man of few words at May 6, 2009 2:18 PM
LOL!!! You're right! Too funny!
Posted by: Kevin R at May 6, 2009 3:09 PM
"Make people use water fountains as the Swine Flu threatens to spread. May you wake up with Miss Piggy naked and lying next to you, smiling and smoking a cigarette."
SYLVIA!!! Beverage Alert next time, PLEASE!!!
That's a visual I just did NOT need! LOL
Posted by: TonyD95B at May 6, 2009 3:38 PM
>Sam, you mean like Cynthia McKinney?
Yeah, like that. She looks pretty crazy to me.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 6, 2009 5:38 PM
>Sam, you mean like Cynthia McKinney?
Yeah, like that. She does look pretty crazy to me.
Posted by: Sami at May 6, 2009 5:39 PM
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Posted by: NO MORE GOVERNMENT at May 6, 2009 6:20 PM
No liberal eco-wacko moonbat tells FLU-BIRD what to do
Posted by: Flu-Bird at May 6, 2009 8:57 PM
Fiberal, Rudy was my guy for the primaries. I even sent a few bucks. I just liked his leadership, and he knows how to manage something, unlike our current jackasses. I wouldn't trust any of them with my lemonade stand.
I don't really care that Rudy went in drag once. Guys do that on Halloween all the time. I also don't care about his romantic life. I've had ups and downs in my own, who hasn't?
Hey, we need to have another "separated at birth" with a picture of Mel Brooks in BS. What a gallery we're collecting here!
Posted by: Karin at May 7, 2009 5:44 AM

