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SAN FRANFREAKSHOW is full of some of the worse dreges around its a blight in america a sump hole a snake pit full of the all time worse and run by a jerk faced mayor and a city council of stupidheads BOYCOTT SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANFREAKSHOW is full of some of the worse dreges around its a blight in america a sump hole a snake pit full of the all time worse and run by a jerk faced mayor and a city council of stupidheads BOYCOTT SAN FRANCISCO

More proof that twisters hate freedom and business.

Since it would be an arbitrary tax on the retailer, that cost will not only get passed onto the consumer but it will cause EVERYTHING in that store to go up because I highly doubt that it would be a percentage of sugary sales...

And this is all under the guise of lowering healthcare costs by means of charging more for sugary items... yet, it's going to radically affect EVERYTHING.

It's like charging more for car parts to encourage people to use less gas... because that clearly makes sense.

What will be the next tax? How about a leather tax.

Tax bathhouses, poppers, feather boas, and AZT. Make a fortune in SF.

Seriously, though, is this the biggest public health problem they've got in SF?

I see a business opportunity for black market soda sales...

Wouldnt they be "better" for you if they actually had sugar in them instead of corn syrup ? Which has become the sweetener of choice due to govt tarrifs .

It seems to me that removing the carbonation would be a good thing too , since CO2 is a greenhouse gas .As I watch the corpulant soda slurpers lumbering around the grocery , I have to ponder the size of the carbon footprint solely from their soda consumption .

I ponder it , yes , but I dont give a fuck . No .

I really like the part about how they're ready to take on the lawsuits.

And when the lawsuits cost more than the funds generated from the new fees...?

"shows a clear link between soda consumption and an increased burden on the public health system."

Bullshit. I've been drinking 2-3 sodas a day for 40+ years, and rarely visit my doctor. None of my visits were cola-induced.
They want to tax soda because of the huge volume of sales; you'll never hear of a 'tofu tax'.

This is the same city of wackos that banned plascic grocery bags for some amount of green spupidy and have banned military recruters wanted to turn lumbard street into a stupid bike path and tried to ban guns ITS ONE CITY TO AVOID AT ALL COSTS and its home to the CHURCH OF SATAN

How about they tax homosexuals for the costs that their "lifestyle choices" impose on the health care industry? AIDS is not exactly inexpensive and it's clearly preventable. Oh, that's right, this is SanFranFuckedUp and they're occupied with this witch hunt instead.

Jim Lazarus ask where the left will draw the line. The answer is the left will never be satisfied.

OK I have to share this.

I posted this on Facebook last night, and here is a comment I received from an old girlfriend. I would like to see what others here at Moonbattery think and how they might reply.

I am torn here... as you know, my liberal roots run deep and FAR to the left... yet, the older I get, the more I distrust the choices the "general public" makes. It seems like these days 90% of "the people" are uneducated, uniformed, and unable to see through the attempts made by mass media, religious groups and MANY others to influence them to make BAD choices! Over the last 20 years I have switched from trying to educate and influence others (including strangers) in an effort to create MASS social change, to focusing on influencing individuals. I have found that many people are ready to admit that they don't have the critical logic skills or info required to make good decisions and are happy to allow me (or other trusted relations) to "help them to make the right choices" for them. Sometimes, "the people" DO need government to make the right choices for them... such as in the case of slavery, for one example. Right now, I trust Obama's logic MORE than the "general public"!!!

I really do want to know what the rest of you think.

I forgot to add that I referenced this quote from the article:

"It makes sense for the government to help people to make the right choices."

TAX HOT AIR make AL GORE and the greenpeace wackos as well as SAN FRANFKREAKSOWS stupid mayor pay for opening their fat blabbering gronla holes and producing all that HOT AIR

This isn't about sugar. If it were, they would be taxing fruit juices, most of which have more calories than a can of Coke. No, it's about punishing sin.

What do I think, Henry? I think that's absolutely frightening. It shows a arrogance, lack of judgment, no common sense, and absolute failure of knowledge of history.

She should try to get a post in the Obama administration.

"Henry at September 19, 2009 12:40 PM"

Tell her to go and beg the federal government to take care of her; it's obvious that she's finnished as a human being.

Honestly, I would LOVE to be there to hear her tell her sad story to Hopey. Or better yet, put her and others like her on TV:
"This is your brain on Obamunism. Any questions?"

Henry: It looks like she's been a complete moonbat for so long that instead of being able to grow out of it, she's putrifying. Obviously hopeless. If she tried to influence my child I would have to hurt her.

Henry, one word.

Hopeless.

Scratch that, two.

Elitist.

That sort of attitude is common among the left... the idea that "the masses" are idiots, "sheeple," and need to be led and helped by their betters for their own good. What's remarkable is that people like Henry's old girlfriend never think of themselves as among the ones needing to be led. No, they are always the leaders, always smarter, always better than the rabble. You see it in people like Al Gore, who lives a monstrously carbon-intensive lifestyle while telling us that we must do without. Michael Moore is another, someone who hates capitalism while he has grown fat... well, er, fatter on the free market.

They always think that they are the ones to create "Social change," and if the common peasants don't like it they should just shut up. After all, their leaders know what is best.

I suggest that they TAX GAY PORN and SEXUAL DEVICES.
Then you'll see the LIBERAL LEFT scream UNFAIR TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

You have to hit them back where they hold things dear. Next, their precious PRIUS's

@ Henry

That, to me, is typical lefty attitude and twisted thought.

This is type of infection permeates the left.

shows a clear link between soda consumption and an increased burden on the public health system

How about the even clearer link between homosexual practices and the increased burden on the public health system? You don't have to look very hard to find that.

Right now, I trust Obama's logic MORE than the "general public"!!!

I would trust my golden retriever's logic MORE than hers.

"It makes sense for the government to help people to make the right choices."

She needs a husband to "help" her make the right choices. I wouldn't let her order dinner on her own, much less make any more weighty decision.

Translated for Shunha:

"I'm so much smarter than you, you should let me run your life for you."

Sorry. That was Henry asking for a translation.

Posted by: Henry at September 19, 2009 12:40 PM- "I really do want to know what the rest of you think."

Henry, she is gone. The venom injected into her brain has destroyed her logic, free will, and self preservation. The chance to purge herself of the lavae laid within has passed. The pupae has consumed her from within, she is now a fully active, adult communist parasitoid in search of new hosts to perpetuate the species. It would be safer to be in close proximity with a funnel web spider, than this particular arthropod.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 19, 2009 5:21 PM

"I would trust my golden retriever's logic MORE than hers."

I do trust my dog has more logic than any lefty and that's a fact. I have watched my dog do things that make a lefty look like a lower species.

I firmly believe that comparison to be valid.

Aaaack!! Henry, she doesn't have the critical logic skills to admit she's an arrogant, condescending nitwit and needs your help to make the right choices for her!

She needs a husband to "help" her make the right choices. I wouldn't let her order dinner on her own, much less make any more weighty decision.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 19, 2009 5:21 PM

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She would take her husband to divorce court and claim domestic violence as the reason for the divorce and the government would giver her everything her husband ever had, made or will make. Big papapa government will make the right choice for her at the detriment of any man that marries her. That type of woman is best left as a short term whore for some F & C action and that's it. Women that far to the left and nitwitty make for crappy relationships.

The fascinating thing is her reasoning, if you'll pardon the exaggeration. She trusts Obama's logic more than the general public's. She thinks the government should help people make "the right choices."

Uh, missy, who exactly elected Obama, and government officials? Hmm? Who exercised its collective judgment to put Obama in office? Hmm? The very same people whose judgment you think is lousy, and who cannot be trusted to make decisions.

Thanks everyone for your input. You all pretty much covered my own thoughts about her comment. I am absolutely repulsed by the mindset which allows someone the arrogance displayed. I wasn't sure how, or if, I should respond. After pondering for a few days, I've decided it's useless to reply. Any response would most likely be met with the same arrogance, and I'd just be lumped in with those "uneducated, uniformed" people she feels superior to.

Thanks again.

Uh, missy, who exactly elected Obama, and government officials? Hmm? Who exercised its collective judgment to put Obama in office? Hmm? The very same people whose judgment you think is lousy, and who cannot be trusted to make decisions.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 20, 2009 10:21 AM

ACORN......

Henry, if I might make so bold as to put in my $0.02, I've found the best way to deal with barking moonbats among friends and such is the Socratic method, i.e., asking questions that lead them to a conclusion.

Another, extremely effective strategy is to parse issues between principle and practice. For example, re ACORN, say something like "Suppose for the moment that the tapes are 100% valid. Would you then still support ACORN?" If she says, "No," then ask her what evidence it would take to convince her that they were valid.

Leftists tend either by design, to misdirect discussion or by cognitive deficits to conflate issues (e.g., "the tapes came from Fox, and I don't trust Fox!"). This separates the conflated issues into their constituent parts (in this case, Fox, a bogus issue manufactured by the Reds as cover, from the real issue, ACORN's reprehensible conduct).

Try it. It works, it keeps friends, and it sometimes even changes minds.

Wow, there are some incredibly ignorant and hateful comments in here. Have all you SF bashers ever even lived here? It is a great place to be.

Not that I agree with this bullshit, because I don't. But some of you people need to stop being so ignorant.

JG, your $0.02 is appreciated. I've got a pretty good handle on dealing with moonbats encountered in my daily life. This is an old girlfriend from college (18 years ago). About 10 years ago, we got reacquainted when I moved to San Diego to take a job with a SCUBA equipment manufacturer. I literally hadn't seen or heard from her since I left SD in 2000, but she turned up on Facebook a few months ago.

It's all good; just stunning to see that kind of disdain for other human beings. I'm sure she thinks she's "enlightened". If that's enlightenment, I don't want any.

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I have two words for you, San Francisco.

Black market.

Think about it.

Wow, there are some incredibly ignorant and hateful comments in here. Have all you SF bashers ever even lived here? It is a great place to be.

Oh, yes. It's beautiful - the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, the TransAmerica building, Chinatown, to name a few.

But live there? "A great place to be?" Yes, if you like paying $1500/mo for a one bedroom apartment, dealing with fog year-round, wearing a hoodie in July, never being able to find a parking space, meeting all kinds of, ah, colorful characters on the bus, living under the constant threat of a devastating earthquake, dealing with some of the most horrible traffic known to man, rarely being able to find a parking space, driving up and down 45-degree-angle hills, having your city associated with all manner of perversion and moonbat politics...not to mention being governed by a mayor and city council that run the place like their own personal fiefdom.

Other than that, yeah, it's a great place to live.

Don't call me ignorant. I live only 2 hours from The Special City and visit several times a year. I've noticed that the rest of the Bay Area is "normal," it's only SF proper that seems to be in a parallel universe where the laws of physics (and of common sense) don't seem to apply.

Not that I agree with this bullshit, because I don't. But some of you people need to stop being so ignorant.

Oh, so you don't think that the city government has the right to tell law-abiding, tax-paying adults what they can and cannot drink? That's big of you.

Don't assume the city's critics are "ignorant." It's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the continental US. Plenty of us have been there and experienced firsthand what it has to offer - good and bad.

Did I mention being run off the road by cable cars and MUNI buses? Silly me, I forgot to mention those.

Oh, and the homeless. SF is a haven for them. They're here, they're aggressive, and darn it they want your dough.

Gosh, did I forget anything?